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- 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... - 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]]''
91: *1971 ''[[Ella A Nice]]''
107: *1983 ''[[Nice Work If You Can Get It]]''
111: ==Samples== - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...]] stage, where she was to appear in over a dozen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress,...
14: ...her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...e also wonders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything appro...
18: ...h's career stalled in unmemorable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little ...
26: ...y of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further by [[emphysema]], in December 1968. - Eliska Junkova (2642 bytes)
8: ...the driving with her husband and had just changed places with him when he went off course and was kill...
10: ...orgotten by the motor racing world. Like [[Hellé Nice]], her great female counterpart from France, only... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ... donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...y]], [[1938]]) was a [[France|French]] [[tennis]] player who achieved much success in the French and [...
8: ...where he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to di...
10: ...our years after her first tennis strokes, Lenglen played in the final of the [[1914 in sports|1914]] F...
16: ...arms and cut just above the calf, while all other players competed in outfits covering nearly all of t... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ...se musical bows, and very similar instruments are played in the southern parts of Africa. The Berimbau...
4: A sample of an unaccompanied berimbau: [[Image:Sound-icon...
11: ...ping the two middle fingers around the verga, and placing the little finger under the caba硧s string ...
16: ...d to the lower portion of the Berimbau, used to amplify and resonate the sound.
21: Capoeiristas split berimbaus in three categories: - Tanzania (17411 bytes)
65: In [[January 2001]], at least 27 people were killed when police opened fire on [[peacefu...
67: ... surges along Tanzania's coastline in which 11 people were killed. An [[oil tanker]] also temporarily...
76: ...tives in Zanzibar, including 50 elected by the people, 10 appointed by the president of Zanzibar, 5 ex...
89: ...in output of minerals, led by gold. Natural gas exploration in the Rufiji Delta looks promising and pr...
96: ...shman and Hottentot peoples. Cushitic-speaking peoples, originally from the Ethiopian highlands, resid... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
37: ...ts name is from the [[Lakota#The_Dakota|Dakota people's]] name for the [[Minnesota River]], ''mini&nbs...
39: ...int Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]], along with multiple "rings" of [[suburb]]s. More than half of the s...
41: ...of [[natural resources]] that have been greatly exploited in the last two centuries.
49: ...s [[Europe]]ans settled in the area and further exploited the state's natural resources.
51: ...tories focus on the military settlement that took place farther west. [[Fort Snelling]], located at t... - Agathon (3124 bytes)
1: ... [[Aristotle]] (''Poetica,'' 9) tells us that the plot of his ''Antho'' was
4: He is introduced, by Plato, as a handsome young man, well dressed, of pol...
6: ...d flowing softly along, with harmonious words and nice construction, but lacking in the element of truly... - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
13: ...ssential organizing factor of this life: the disciples would sing hymns to [[Apollo]] together regular...
17: ...oo]]s, including the proper way to stir a fire or place one's shoes before going to sleep.
21: The idea that Pythagoras forbade his disciples to eat beans has been questioned by some recent...
25: ...ld [[shaman]]-figure. <!-- examples here might be nice --> The truth no doubt lies somewhere in between.
33: ...hat Pythagoras coined the term "cosmos", a term implying a universe with orderly movements and events. - 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... - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
11: ...f celebration include [[picnic]]s, [[fireworks display]]s, water activities, and public art events. Fa...
13: ...t white is not to be worn after Labour Day. The explanations for this tradition range from the fact t...
17: ...a rural [[festival]], but over time it has been replaced by the labour connotations of the [[holiday]]...
29: ... different provinces. This led to ship-owners complaining that seamen were taking excessive holidays ...
41: ..., one from socialist international) would also be nice'' - Pope Hilarius (5932 bytes)
6: ... hinder his going either to Rome or to Constantinople, he had great difficulty in making his escape in...
8: ...yclical]] were in the interests of increased discipline: A synod was to be convened yearly by the Bish...
10: ...rticularly in connection with the two Churches of Nice and Cimiez.
27: Successor=[[Pope Simplicius|Saint Simplicius]]|Dates=461–468}} - Cerebellum (7954 bytes)
2: ...conditioning]], demonstrate that the timing and amplitude of learned movements are encoded by the cere...
18: <!-- A diagram of this would be nice. There are a few on the net and in textbooks, if...
30: ...degree of organisation in the cerebellum: for example, alcohol abuse leads to degeneration of the ante...
33: ... mostly attributes [[motor learning]] to a single plasticity mechanism, [[long-term depression]] of [[...
38: ...al, sensory structures are produced from the alar plate suggesting that the cerebellum maybe in fact s... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: ...ed and rebuilt the club with young, inexperienced players. The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' tried to call ...
18: ... first openly professional team, led to a minor explosion of openly professional teams in [[1870]], ea...
20: ...ark, uniforms and other possessions. The club completed its schedule with borrowed uniforms, finishin...
22: ...the [[1875]] season, Chicago acquired several key players, including pitcher [[Albert Spalding|Al Spal...
26: ... Those two were fading by mid-decade, and were replaced by other strong pitchers, notably [[John Clar... - Photography (18493 bytes)
5: ...c paper, without the use of a camera. And one can place objects directly on the glass of a scanner to ...
17: ...-related, for example brightness is aperture multiplied by shutter speed, and varying the focal length...
20: ...nterested by this aspect but have also tried to explore other avenues than the photo-mechanical repres...
32: ...tor [[Nic鰨ore Ni鰣e]] on a polished [[pewter]] plate covered with a [[petroleum]] derivative called...
34: ...e had invented a process using silver on a copper plate called the [[Daguerreotype]]. A very similar ... - Monaco (12001 bytes)
53: ...#954;ος means single house or single temple).
78: ...ea|Mediterranean]] coast, 18 kilometres east of [[Nice]] and near the [[Italy|Italian]] border, and is s...
88: ...ach year many are attracted to its [[casino]] and pleasant climate. In [[2001]], a major new construct...
92: ...attention but the majority of them are businesspeople.
110: * [[List of famous Monegasque people]] - Apache (7848 bytes)
3: ...e. The Apache peoples migrated from the Northern Plains into the Southwest relatively recently. Note...
8: ...ical evidence suggests a recent entry of these people into the American Southwest, with substantial nu...
10: ...ssessions. In April 1541, while traveling on the plains east of the Pueblo region, [[Francisco Corona...
12: ...in the skins of the cattle, with which all the people in this land clothe themselves, and they have ve...
14: ... for hauling loads by modern northern Canadian peoples. Recent experiments show these dogs may have p... - Guitar (36953 bytes)
4: ...layed with the [[fingerpicking|fingers]], or a [[plectrum]] ([[guitar pick]]). The sound is produced ...
8: ...lectric guitar|electric]] (i.e. with electrical amplification) or both.
15: [[image:Elam-tar.jpg|thumb|left|Figurines playing the ancestor of the Guitar. Excavated in Sus...
16: ...a carvings and statues recovered from the Iranian Plateau. The name, guitar, is a combination of two w...
20: ... throughout the World. The guitar is a minute example of how Persian culture influenced the world. - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ... of America''') are those peoples [[indigenous people|indigenous]] to the [[Americas]], living there p...
5: ...ural and genetic commonality with other arctic peoples not native to the American continent, such as t...
7: ...First Peoples]]" and "Native Canadians". First Peoples are enshrined in the Canadian Constitution with...
9: ...trued to either include or exclude the [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] of [[Canada]] and the [[Mestizo...
11: Other indigenous peoples that are native to territorial possesions of Am...
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