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  1. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    9: ...'s capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
    13: ...Rio de Janeiro is now was reached by Portuguese explorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Ve...
    17: ...an strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Morro do Castelo'' (Ca...
    21: ...en who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
    25: ...hy]] and imposed a republic in [[1889]]. However, plans for moving the nation's seat city to the terri...
  2. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    20: ...econd husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child,...
    68: *1965 ''[[Ella at Duke's Place]]''
    69: *1965 ''[[Ella in Hamburg]]''
    111: ==Samples==
    112: *[[Media:How High The Moon.ogg|Download sample]] of "How High the Moon"
  3. Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
    3: Born in [[Hamburg]], Fanny benefited from the same [[music]]al educ...
    5: ...her composing. Subsequently, her works were often played alongside her brother's at the family home in...
    7: ... public debut at the piano came in 1838, when she played Felix's piano [[concerto]] No. 1.
    11: ...ndelssohn-Hensel died in [[Berlin]] in 1847 of complications of a [[stroke]] suffered while rehearsing...
  4. Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
    2: ... 1 player for a record 377 weeks, and is the only player to have won all four of the Grand Slam titles...
    6: ...egan practising on a court at the age of four and played in her first tournament aged five. She soon b...
    8: Graf played in her first professional tournament at the a...
    10: ...rly years, but led to a steady improvement in her play.
    14: ...st and athletic, chasing down balls that seemed unplayable. Though she chose tennis as her career, she...
  5. Germany (46412 bytes)
    73: ...to draw up a constitution for the new Germany, completed in [[1849]]. However, the Prussian king [[Fre...
    93: ...ncentration camp]]s were set up for groups and people perceived as threats. Open persecution of [[Jew]...
    97: ... million more [[Roma (people)|Roma]], [[Slavic people|Slavs]], [[homosexual]]s, [[communist]]s, [[Jeho...
    101: ...ern forces [[Berlin Airlift|airlifted food and supplies]].
    103: ...t Germany benefitted from the American [[Marshall Plan]] for the reconstruction of Europe after the wa...
  6. World War II (58065 bytes)
    1: ...umb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 mi...
    8: Approximately 57 million people [[List of World War II casualties by country|die...
    10: ..., and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic of China]] and the Nationalist [[Repu...
    18: ...s powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies.
    24: ...ests in seeing a particular side prevail. For example, neutral [[Switzerland]] was generally considere...
  7. Morse code (33777 bytes)
    2: ...e is now largely obsolete, although it is still employed for a few specialized purposes, including nav...
    11: ...t to automated communication, so it was largely replaced by more regular formats, including the [[Baud...
    19: ...ecial characters, so it could be used for more complete messages. The shorter marks were called "...
    23: ... short and long tones. It was later found that people become more proficient at receiving Morse code w...
    27: ...letter groups that were sent as single words. Examples: BYOXO ("Are you trying to crawl out of it...
  8. Pope Formosus (4107 bytes)
    2: ...al-Bishop of [[Porto]] in [[864]]. He undertook diplomatic missions to [[Bulgaria]] ([[866]]) and [[Fr...
    4: ...didate for the papal see. But due to political complications he left Rome and the court of [[Pope John...
    8: ...ween [[Odo, Count of Paris]] and [[Charles the Simple]] for the [[France|French]] crown, the pope side...
  9. Pope Benedict V (659 bytes)
    1: ...nly a month, and the ex-pope was carried off to [[Hamburg]] where he became a [[deacon]], dying in July 965...
  10. Tsunami (29462 bytes)
    2: ...ted when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landsl...
    4: ... deep [[ocean]]; it simply has a much smaller [[amplitude]] (wave heights) offshore, and a very long [...
    6: ...rmed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people are more familiar). However, since they are not ...
    10: ...by any disturbance that rapidly [[displacement|displaces]] a large mass of [[water]], such as an [[ear...
    12: ...here denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as subduction.
  11. July 24 (8660 bytes)
    5: ...f Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]] is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son [[King James I|King Jam...
    19: ...eople in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] kills 48 people.
    22: ...f explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
    25: ...sile]]s in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other th...
    27: *[[1969]] - [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 11]] splashes down safely in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
  12. River (12397 bytes)
    7: ...nder]]: start to form loops and snake through the plain by [[erosion|eroding]] the river banks. Loops ...
    9: ...of energy, via [[watermill]]s and [[hydroelectric plant]]s.
    11: ...as a [[lake]], or simply from damp, [[bog|boggy]] places where the [[soil]] is [[waterlogged]]. They e...
    25: ...mes]]. Heated water dumped into rivers by [[power plant]]s and [[factory|factories]] also affects rive...
    28: ... of a river are great, [[dam]]s for hydroelectric plants and other purposes are often built. This disr...
  13. Phosphorus (11557 bytes)
    22: {{Elementbox_oxistates | &plusmn;3, '''5''', 4<br />(mildly [[acid]]ic oxide) ...
    41: ... It is also widely used in [[explosive material|explosive]]s, friction [[match]]es, [[firework]]s, [[p...
    51: == Applications ==
    54: ...a]] and to make mono-calcium phosphate which is employed in [[baking powder]].
    57: *White phosphorus is used in [[military]] applications as [[Incendiary_bomb|incendiary bombs]], ...
  14. Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
    5: ...uenced by that philosopher. Yet Baader is no disciple of Schelling, and, probably gave out more than h...
    7:
    11: ...e not to be conceived as successive, or as taking place in time; they are to be looked at sub specie a...
    15: ...uled by a universal or Catholic church, the principles of which are equally distinct from mere passive...
  15. Holocaust (53541 bytes)
    4: ...blished by [[Hitler]] that killed some 200,000 people.
    6: ...he total death toll rises considerably. Estimates place the total number of Holocaust victims at up to...
    10: ...e|Greek]] word ''[[holokauston]]'', meaning "a completely (''holos'') burnt (''kaustos'') sacrificial ...
    12: ...o used. Many [[Roma people|Roma]] (or 'Gypsy') people, who were also targeted during the Holocaust, us...
    14: ...umber of [[Christianity|Christians]] and other people due to the [[theologically]] offensive nature of...

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