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- Mount Kenya (2621 bytes)
1: <!-- BEGIN WikiProject Mountains infobox (scroll down to edit main article tex...
3: !bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2|Mount Kenya
8: |width=215|{{coor dm|0|9|S|37|18|E|type:mountain}}
12: |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|[[List of mountain types|Type]]:||[[Stratovolcano]] (extinct)
16: |bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Easiest [[mountaineering|route]]:||rock climb
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...constructed of dark-grey marble from the adjacent mountain. The stones were laid without mortar, and many...
8: ...ttom of the valley. The modern Persians call this place ''[[Naksh-i Rustam]]'' ("the picture of Rustam...
12: ...he usurper [[Sogdianus]] (Secydianus). The two completed graves behind Takhti Jamshid would then belon...
18: ...t acquainted with the city until it was taken and plundered by Alexander the Great.
20: ...i Jamshid, for example, in being supported by the mountain on the east. - 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.
22: ...es. The ''[[Historical Records]]'' states: "Eight mountains are famed in the empire. Three are with the M... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
58: ...hat year, FRODEBU leader [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet the most extreme Hut...
70: ...r elevations at the borders. The highest peak, [[Mount Karonje]], at 2,685 m (8,809 ft), lies to the sou...
74: ...r]], an upper branch of the Kagera River, is at [[Mount Kikizi]] in Burundi.
84: ...urope and other parts of the world. In 2000 this amount reached [[US$]]92.7 million. 68% of the populatio...
89: ...alf of whom are aged 14 or less. This estimate explicitly takes into account the effects of [[AIDS]],... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
10: ...ort time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
16: ...]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The couple and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in ...
20: ...nity. Her duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the...
28: ...pendence]], I couldn't imagine these were real people doing something real. And there I was sitting do...
46: ...da Meir died in [[Jerusalem]] and was buried on [[Mount Herzl]] located in Jerusalem. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
5: ...o work with [[Annie Jump Cannon]] and [[Harlow Shapley]]. on star clusters. She received her doctorat...
22: ...0001497.000.html BAAS '''25''' (1993) 1497] (a simple reference to JRASC obituary) --> - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
9: ...words are inscribed on her statue in St. Martin's Place, near [[Trafalgar Square]] in [[London]].
13: In [[1916]], [[Mount Edith Cavell]] in the [[Canadian Rockies]] was na... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
7: ...gary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She con...
15: ...th other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to k...
17: ...[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on [[Mount Herzl]], [[Jerusalem]]. - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ...ome sort of landscape), and then it describes the placement and tinctures of the different charges (ob...
5: ...still being the same letter.<sup>1</sup> For example, almost always the shape of the shield is immate...
9: ...rly useful when there is insufficient space to display the entire coat-of-arms, and this practice may ...
12: ...artouche (an [[oval]]-shaped vehicle for their display). For more detail on the use of the lozenge (s...
16: ... instances the shield may be blazoned as being displayed on a ''cartouche'', the tincture of which is ... - Shofar (6586 bytes)
5: ...xceeding loud," issuing from the thick cloud on [[Mount Sinai]] that made all the [[Israelites]] tremble ...
7: ...ally in this connection. In earlier days it was employed also in other religious ceremonials, as proce...
11: ...s conducted with the shofar, which instrument was placed in the center with a trumpet on either side; ...
17: ...ve no carved [[mouthpiece]], the player instead applying his lips directly to the irregular hole drill...
19: ...f irregular bore, the [[harmonic]]s obtained when playing the instrument can vary: rather than a pure ... - Banjo (6143 bytes)
2: [[Image:BanjTony.JPG|right|200px|Musician playing the banjo]]
6: ...ted right hand, although there are many different playing styles.
8: ... side of the neck, although some English versions mount the fifth string tuner on the tuning head with th...
10: ...n]] and gut used on simple fretless banjos and by players of the classical banjo style. The two most c...
12: ...ideas. He worked with a New York drum maker to replace the banjar's skin-covered gourd with the moder... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...ould be repealed because it excludes qualified people based on technicalities, and fails to appreciate...
16: ...George W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
19: ...President, while the individual who was in second place became Vice President.
25: ...ing across the country to explain their views and plans to the voters. Much of the modern electoral pr...
35: ... a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, including 1 million active-duty military person... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
11: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westm...
14: | place of death=[[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]], [[Virginia]]
21: ...[republic]]an [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
24: ...n his birth year. His birthplace was Pope's Creek Plantation, south of [[Colonial Beach, Virginia|Colo...
26: ...inherited the estate, [[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]] in [[Fairfax County, Virginia]] (near [[... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
24: ...rn wife, Adams wed Louisa Johnson in 1797. The couple named one of their sons after George Washington....
37: ...latter's quest for re-election, was sworn in to replace him.
80: ...turned to [[Spain]], but returned home as free people. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
21: | '''Place of birth:'''
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...n''' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the...
44: ...]][[Confederate States of America#International Diplomacy and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small...
46: ...]. His leadership qualities were evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the ... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Point Pleasant, Ohio]]</td></tr>
12: ...>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Wilton, New York|Mount McGregor, New York]]</td></tr>
24: ...ica's worst presidents, who led an administration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corruption]].
26: .... More recent treatments have emphasized the accomplishments of his administration, including his stru...
30: ... Ulysses Grant''' in [[Point Pleasant, Ohio|Point Pleasant]], [[Clermont County, Ohio|Clermont County]... - Earth (30908 bytes)
1: {{Planet Infobox/Earth}}
7: ...ern science]] confirms as harboring [[life]]. The planet [[Age of the Earth|formed]] around 4.57 [[bil...
14: ...s are the highest point on Earth (the summit of [[Mount Everest]], which is only 8,850 m) and the lowest ...
17: ...or of Earth, like that of the other [[terrestrial planets]], is chemically divided into an outer [[sil...
55: ...rth reaches temperatures of 5270 [[kelvin]]s. The planet's internal heat was originally generated duri... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
2: ...e boundaries of the [[plate tectonics|continental plates]]. However, important exceptions exist in '''...
10:
12: ...capable of flowing for long distances. A good example of a mafic lava flow is the Great ުrhraun (...
15: ...olcano on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], and the tallest mountain in the known solar system.
20: ...n the northwestern United States are tall conical mountains composed of both lava flows and ejected mater... - Mountain (4538 bytes)
1: ...epends on local custom. Some authorities define a mountain as a peak with a [[topographic prominence]] ov...
3: ...e tectonic forces – block mountains or fold mountains.
5: Some isolated mountains were produced by [[volcano]]es, including man...
7: ...ical displacements. The uplifted blocks are block mountains or ''[[horst]]s''. The intervening dropped b...
9: ...d overturned folds. The Jura mountains are an example of folding. Over time, erosion can bring about a... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...arth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
15: Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s ...
24: ...ean]]. Physically Antarctica is divided in two by mountains close to the neck between the [[Ross Sea]] an...
53: ... that at a given time there are at least 1,000 people living in Antarctica. This varies considerably w...
97: * [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]'' ([[1936]])
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