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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ngside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of political stablity in the region, and sometim...
65: The native people of the [[Mayans]] and [[Aztecs]] were conquered ...
69: ...ta Rica has avoided much of the violence that has plagued Central America. Since the late [[19th centu...
109: ...With their high level of educated residents, they make an attractive investing location. Several global...
125: ...m connecting the urban populations of the Central Plateau to the port of [[Limon]] on the Caribbean. - Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...e '''Mendeleev periodic table''', is a tabular display of the known [[chemical element]]s. First creat...
3: ...laying the chemical elements|other methods for displaying the chemical elements]] for more details or ...
9: ...ry]] (IUPAC). The IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral systems as they confu...
14: ==Other methods for displaying the chemical elements==
17: ...iodic table (big)|big table]] provides the basics plus full element names. - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...a]]. More commonly, the term includes these river plains in totality as well as the surrounding lowlan...
5: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
6: ...ssyria|Assyrians]] and the [[Persian Empire]]. Peoples who threatened or invaded these lands include t...
8: ...ements and cultures which were among the first to make use of [[agriculture]].
52: ==Lesson Plans, Resources and Activites== - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...cia]] or [[Portugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic O...
3: ...etting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas,...
5: ...t]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472) of two, led by [[João Vaz C...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isle...
11: ...]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...ottish]] [[missionary]] and [[List of explorers|explorer]] of the [[Victorian era]], now best remember...
6: ...ing in [[London]], he became attracted by the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter h...
8: ...huanaland]] (now [[Botswana]]), but was unable to make inroads into [[South Africa]] because of [[Boer]]...
12: ...). Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey across Africa. The pur...
17: ...racts and rapids that Livingstone had failed to explore on his earlier travels. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...s an extensive '''traveller''' or [[exploration|explorer]], whose account documents his travels and si...
6: ...tional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the worl...
8: ... – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn Juzayy). In places the things he claims he saw or did are probab...
15: ...bron]], [[Jerusalem]], and [[Bethlehem]], for example – and the Mameluke authorities put special...
17: ... days, he then journeyed on to Mecca. There he completed the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim, and ha... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
3: ...their homes. Many streets were paved, and many people had their shops and homes in the same building. ...
5: ... mixed with spices, milk, and sugar which many people thought improved the taste.
7: ...ets, and moccasins. Forest products were used to make a dye. Yellow came from butternut tree bark; red ...
9: ... and many other professions. A number of other people worked at industries related to [[metal]]: [[bl...
11: ...w schools in the frontier. By adulthood, most people on the frontier had received less schooling than... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labor to one...
10: ...the surplus population who could no longer find employment in [[agriculture]] into the cities to seek ...
12: ... other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often imposed tolls ...
14: ...to produce more goods to meet the needs of the people.
16: From 1430, people in Europe discovered sea routes to Asia and Amer... - Steel (28384 bytes)
5: ...n-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8:
11: Even in the narrow range of concentrations that make up steel, mixtures of carbon and iron can form in...
15: ... to ferrite or perlite does not have time to take place. The transformation into martensite, by contr...
21: ...hand [[sulfur]], [[nitrogen]], and [[phosphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly found eleme... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: .... The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes...
16: ...ch is tied into the bag and which the pipe itself plugs into. The bag usually consists of leather, but...
23: ...s. [[Nero]] is generally accepted to have been a player; there are Greek depictions of pipers, and th...
25: ...iti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [...
38: ...[pipe band]]s (civilian and military), and is now played in countries around the world, particularly c... - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ltiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ...ed outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes...
7: ...nese Civil War]] in [[1949]] established the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) in [[1949]] which ha...
21: ... or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
23: # The area now called the [[North China Plain]]. The ''[[Sanguo Zhi]]'' records the followin... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
1: [[Image:China_temple.jpg|thumb|300px|Temple incense near Beijing China. Image provided by [h...
3: ...ginning of its [[history of China|history]]. [[Temple]]s of many different religions dot the landscape...
5: The study of '''religion in China''' is complicated by several issues. Because many Chinese bel...
7: ... living life according to [[Taoism|Taoist]] principles and participating in [[ancestor worship]] ritua...
35: ...ui]], the [[Uyghur]]s, and the [[Kazakh]]s. These make up majorities in [[Ningxia]] and [[Xinjiang]] [[A... - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
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16: ...s may be albino. The characteristic eye colorings make the animal look like it is wearing a "bandit's ma...
24: ...coons were aggressively trapped for their fur. People such as [[Daniel Boone]] and [[Davy Crockett]] a...
27: ...al problems like biting and destructive and messy play. Raccoons are [[nocturnal]] but most adapt to s... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
6: ...ncient Egypt's rulers, and is usually known as simply '''Cleopatra''', all of her similarly-named pred...
13: ...ion]], little Caesar). However, Caesar refused to make the boy his heir, naming his grand-nephew [[Augus...
19: ...Antony visited Alexandria again while en route to make war with the [[Parthians]]. He renewed his relati...
21: ...of the lavish dinners she shared with Antony, she playfully bet him that she could spend ten million [...
35: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html Cleopatra... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
11: ...f fiefdoms and other forms of patronage, and in diplomatic correspondence. Baldwin raised his daughter...
13: ...]. As an indication of Baldwin II's intentions to make Melisende sole queen and to strengthen her positi...
25: Melisende's victory was complete. Again she is seen in the historical record gr...
29: ... the Holy Sepulchre, our Lady of Josaphat, the Templum Domini, the order of the Hospital, the leper ho...
37: ...dessa. Damascus and Jerusalem were on very good diplomatic terms and held a peace treaty between them.... - Agnes of Courtenay (6051 bytes)
5: ...lors believed he could make a more advantageous diplomatic marriage. Despite the annulment, their two...
7: ...her marriage with Amalric. Meanwhile, Amalric did make a more advantagous marriage to [[Maria Comnena]],...
15: ...ernment. Agnes advanced the compromise that would place her grandson Baldwin V above Sibylla in the or... - Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
1: ...f Jerusalem|Queen Melisende]] had provided an example of successful rule by a queen regnant earlier in...
13: All these plans were wrecked however, when on [[Easter]], [[11...
17: ...Baldwin of Ibelin was himself still in Constantinople. With pressure mounting to have to have the [[He...
21: ...ernment. Agnes advanced the compromise that would place Baldwin V above Sibylla in the order of succes...
27: ...lla was undisputed sovereign, as Isabella did not make an overt claim. - Yolanda of Flanders (2422 bytes)
1: ...219]]) ruled the [[Latin Empire]] in [[Constantinople]] for her husband [[Peter of Courtenay]] from [[...
3: ...rious Byzantine successor states, and was able to make peace with [[Theodore I Lascaris]] of the [[Empir...
7: ...her eldest son Philip when she went to Constantinople in 1216.
13: * [[Baldwin II of Constantinople]] (d. 1273) - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
13: ... created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his wife had again failed to p...
21: ...ignity of a Princess, becoming a mere "Lady". Her place in the line of succession was transferred to t...
23: ...ex, Richmond and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence.
39: ...il|Privy Counsellors]] had been implicated in the plot to put the Lady Jane Grey on the Throne. She c... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
26: ...[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heav...
28: ... the prelates and peers who knelt before her and, placing their hands on her crown, swore allegiance t...
31: ...nce with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treat...
40: ...omising childhood. With her marriage agreement in place, she was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at th...
42: ...[[Scots Language|Scots]]. She also learned how to play two instruments and learned prose, horsemanship...
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