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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...age:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
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. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
4: ...Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the...
8: ... the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American natural dis...
11:
23: ...istory burns nearly 16,000 acres and kills two people.
40: ...rain after the country tested missiles in various places. - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
13: ...rican Civil War]], she organized collection of supplies for the Union, and moved to [[Washington, D.C....
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
7: In [[1987]], Ride left [[NASA]] to work at the [[Stanford University]] Center f...
9: ...huttle accidents, the [[STS-51-L|''Challenger'' explosion]] and the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]...
11: ... author of several children's books about space exploration.
18: * [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut prof...
19: * [http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html And ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...acelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
7: ...d her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
11: ...hailand]] at a [[Cambodia]]n refugee camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Me...
13: ...in [[Houston, Texas]], to research, develop and implement advanced technologies suited to the social, ...
15: ... implementing advanced technologies that may be employed advantageously to the development of less ind... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...rea]] population of approximately 15.2 million people. Cairo is the [[List of metropolitan areas by po...
4: ...e city, in local speech it is typically called simply by the name of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabi...
6: ...Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
12: ...d-color satellite image of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]]
20: ...the ancient [[necropolis]] of Memphis on the Giza plateau, with its three large [[pyramid|pyramids]], ... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ...e lengths of rivers vary over time (especially in plains, where rivers often change course), and, seco...
30: ...ummer, when the great rains fall on the Ethiopian Plateau; the rest of the year the great rivers drain...
40: ... the [[International Space Station]], courtesy of NASA.]]
42: ...nean Sea]]; a side channel, the [[Bahr Yussef]], splits from the main channel downriver from the city ...
50: ...James Augustus Grant]] in 1860-1863 for further explorations around Lake Victoria and traced the Nile ... - 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...
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...
68: ... to sink towards the center in a process called [[planetary differentiation]], while less dense materi... - Europe (23835 bytes)
18: ...hs]] marked the start of a period of discovery, exploration, and increase in scientific knowledge. In ...
44: ...heart lies the [[North German Plain]]. An arc of uplands also exists along the northwestern seaboard, ...
46: ... counted as part of Europe, while the latter are upland areas that were once joined to the mainland un...
53: ...civilisations for millennia, Europe's animals and plants have been profoundly affected by the presence...
55: ...at caused incalculable disruption to the original plant and animal ecosystems. - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
1: The '''People's Republic of Bangladesh'''is a country in [[Sou...
40: | '''[[Unemployment Rate]]''' || 3.6%
49: | '''[[National Flower]]''' || Water lily|Shapla ([[Water lily]])
65: ...l sites of mass architecture, in the form of [[temple]]s and monasteries, bearing proofs of such influ...
69: ... major landmark in Bangladesh's movement to a "people's state". The [[Language Movement]] of [[1952]] ... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
59: ===European exploration and administration (1870–1960)===
61: ...]]'s novella ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' also takes place in Congo Free State. In 1908, the Belgian parl...
67: ... of the permanent committee of the All-African Peoples Conference (founded in [[Accra]], 1958) and pre...
72: ... was not believed by many). Riots of protest took place in many parts of the world. See his ''Congo: M...
74: The [[CIA]] had aided Mobutu and was pleased with the outcome, having viewed the [[Soviet... - Anatolia (2665 bytes)
3: [[Image:Anatolia composite NASA.png|thumb|400px|right|Asia Minor lies east of the...
7: ...Turks]] and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]]. These peoples belonged to many varied [[ethnic]] and [[lingui...
9: ...uced with the conquest of Anatolia by [[Turkic peoples]] and the rise of the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the... - California (63989 bytes)
44: <!-- before modifying these state symbols please verify your changes against official Californ...
57: Grass = [[Stipa|Purple Needlegrass]] |
81: ...Footnotes in this article use names, not numbers. Please see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for details.
82: ... 1) Assign your footnote a unique name, for example TheSun_Dec9.
86: 5) Multiple footnotes to the same reference: see [[Wikipedia... - Florida (24937 bytes)
36: ...owery". It was discovered by [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers during the [[Easter]] season, which is calle...
49: ...licans]], leaving the state approximately evenly split between the two parties. Despite this demograph...
64: ...florida.750pix.jpg|right|thumb|Florida taken from NASA Shuttle Mission STS-95 on 31st October 1998.]]
76: ...t as large as those in the [[Midwest]] or [[Great Plains]]. [[Hail]] is not an uncommon occurrence in ...
85: ...rt]] with four theme parks and over twenty hotels plus countless water parks, shopping centres and oth... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
37: ...00 U.S. Census]] had a population of 1,211,537 people. [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] is the largest ci...
39: ... United States, it is the only state that lies completely in the [[tropics]]. As one of two states out...
54: ...tationary, slowly creating new volcanoes. This explains why only volcanoes on the the southern half o...
56: ...ialeale|Mount Waiʻaleʻale]] the wettest place on earth; it averages 11.7 m (460 in) of rain ...
58: ...f Hawaii to Maui and subsequently to Oʻahu explains why certain population centers exist where th... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
41: [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] applied to [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] for a ne...
43: ...ion Act]] (1649) was one of the first laws that explicitly tolerated varieties of religion (as long as...
81: ...mate of hot summers and mild winters. Beyond the plain rise the foothills of the [[Appalachian Mounta...
103: ... research facilities are now the largest single employer in the Baltimore area. Altogether, white coll...
115: ...[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...] explorers mistakenly applied the word to the people and their location.
94: ...45, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|internationally recognized]] in...
114: ...Alonso Alvarez de Pineda]], a [[Spain|Spanish]] explorer, became probably the first [[Europe]]an to ma...
115: ...te;ñez Cabeza de Vaca]], another Spanish explorer, spent six years visiting Texas for trade.
121: ...nited States|United States of America]]. The example of the [[Centralista]] forces' suppression of di... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
31: * [[Plough]]s in [[Mesopotamia]]
35: * 3500 BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
80: * [[600]]: Mouldboard [[plough]] in [[Eastern Europe]]
162: * [[1797]]: [[Cast iron plow]]: [[Charles Newbold]]
201: * [[1831]]: [[Multiple coil magnet]]: [[Joseph Henry]] - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...th]] is the third planet of the Solar System. ''[[Planetary system]]s'' are a more generic term for [[...
3: ==Planets In the Solar System==
5: ... clear-cut than once thought. This encyclopedia employs the following divisions:
8: *The [[planet]]s of the Solar System are those nine bodies ...
9: **[[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] (☿) - Sun (20830 bytes)
76: ...ic]]) <br>67.23? <br>(to the [[Milky Way|galactic plane]])
122: ... as do innumerable other bodies including other [[planet]]s, [[asteroid]]s, [[meteoroid]]s, [[comet]]s...
124: ...bits is called ''its'' sun, and stars in a [[multiple star system]] are referred to as the "suns" of b...
128: ... [[light-year]]s from the [[galactic centre]], completing one revolution in about [[1 E15 s|226 Ma]] (...
136: ...un mostly because of the large mass of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]].
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