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- Amusement park (17293 bytes)
1: ...ght|320px|[[Six Flags New England]], an amusement park in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]].]]
3: ...a simple city park or playground, as an amusement park is meant to cater to adults, [[teenager]]s and sm...
5: ... per year. The temporary (often annual) amusement park with mobile rides etc. is called a '''fun fair'''...
7: ...usement parks have largely been replaced by theme parks, and the two terms are often used interchangeabl...
9: For a remarkable example of a European park, dating from [[1843]] and still existing, see [[T... - Yellowstone National Park (23738 bytes)
7: <td>[[National Park]]</td></tr>
21: <td>[[National Park Service]]</td></tr>
23: <td>II (National Park)</td></tr>
25: ...[temperate zone]] [[ecosystems]] remaining on the planet.
29: ...he Yellowstone]] - a deep gash in the Yellowstone Plateau that was formed by floods during previous [[... - Sukhothai historical park (1059 bytes)
1: ... Sukhothai, Thailand]]The '''Sukhothai historical park''' covers the ruins of [[Sukhothai (city)|Sukhoth...
3: ...six temples, the largest being Wat Mahathat. The Park is maintained by the Fine Arts Department of Thai...
6: ...rk|Kampang Phet]] and [[Si Satchanalai historical park|Si Satchanalai]]. - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
1: ...ed to this harsh [[desert]] environment. Some examples include [[Creosote Bush]], [[Bighorn Sheep]], [...
3: ...e Monument was promoted to the status of National Park, as well as being substantially expanded.
5: ...a [[subduction zone]] formed off the coast. This uplifted the region out of the sea and created a line...
6: ...ighest and lowest points in Death Valley National Park.]]
9: Within the park there are two major valleys; [[Death Valley]] and...
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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: ...cause the Government had implemented a seven year plan of expansion in the high tech industry. They h...
125: ...m connecting the urban populations of the Central Plateau to the port of [[Limon]] on the Caribbean. - 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... - 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]]) - 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. [[... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
58: ...hat year, FRODEBU leader [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet the most extreme Hut...
70: ...est corner. The average elevation of the central plateau is 5,600 ft, with lower elevations at the bo...
72: ...gwe National Park]] in Rwanda), [[Rurubu National park]] to the north east (along the [[Rurubu River]], ...
89: ...alf of whom are aged 14 or less. This estimate explicitly takes into account the effects of [[AIDS]],... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...f Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 M...
18: ...tch, but his objections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert...
20: ...merged the Royal House name and family surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding ...
29: ...wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly o...
37: ... the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Sandringham]], [[Norfolk]], [[Engla...
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...having had the right to that title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] ra...
13: ...pic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adulte...
32: ...e [[engagement]] on [[24 February]] [[1981]]. Mrs Parker Bowles had been dismissed by Lord Mountbatten o... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth'''
35: ...sical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/s...
41: ...ary of State Madeleine Albright. This experience sparked her interest in the [[Soviet Union]] and [[inte...
77: ...ush named Rice's deputy, [[Stephen Hadley]], to replace her as National Security Advisor. On January 7...
83: ...ervice with the National Security Council. On the plane trip over, she related comments critical of Pu... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States|American]] [[human rights]] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wife of [[President of the Unite...
9: ...However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin D...
11: ...the [[Oyster Bay]] and [[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is de...
33: ...eful action based on sensitive discourse among people of diverse perspectives focusing on the varied n...
41: ...oca/Campobello Roosevelt Campobello International Park] on [[Campobello Island, New Brunswick]] in [[196... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...ing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: '''Rosa Louise Parks''' (born [[February 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Lou...
4: Rosa Parks was born in [[Tuskegee, Alabama]], daughter of J...
6: In the early [[1950s]], Parks became active in the [[American Civil Rights Mov...
8: On [[December 1]], [[1955]], in Montgomery, Parks refused to obey a public bus driver's orders to ... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
14: ... after their marriage, became an attorney. The couple were married in 1840 and had seven children. St...
29: ...Women's Rights National Historical Park (National Park Service)] - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
12: ...ers may find the world she describes, in which people's chief concern is obtaining socially prominent ...
14: The order in which she began and completed her novels is different from that of their pu...
18: * ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' (1814)
26: *The Watsons (incomplete novel)
27: *[[Sanditon]] (incomplete novel) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...r King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child...
7: ...ecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted...
9: ...r who made a million dollar deal was [[Charlie Chaplin]]), and one of the few stars who were successfu...
11: ... became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the rec...
13: ...r]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful busines... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
11: ...velace'''. She is widely known in modern times simply as '''Ada Lovelace'''.
15: ...nd scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."
23: ... some debate as to whether Lovelace understood deeply the concepts behind programming Babbage's engine... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Ma...
14: In the 1970s, she pioneered the implementation of [[standards]] testing of computers, ...
22: ...treet in Arlington, Virginia, is a small memorial park in front of her former residence and is now owned...
38: ... is famous for her ''nanoseconds'' visual aid. People (such as generals and admirals) used to ask her ... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...er many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skills. When Clara started school at age ...
21: ...] bureaucracy in vain to bring her own medical supplies to the battlefields. Finally, in July 1862, sh...
23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in charge of the search for the missing m...
35: ... less than a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Massachusetts.
43: ==Clara Barton's Birthplace House and Museum== - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...d [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Floren...
9: ...erienced in [[1837]] at the age of 17 at [[Embley Park]] and later throughout her life), Nightingale mad...
23: ...mily objections concerning the risks and social implications of such activity, and the [[Roman Cathol...
31: ...cial indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short supply, [[hygiene]] was being neglected, and mass [[inf...
35: ...ted to have escaped serious injury when it was toppled in an accident. Following this episode she used... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
20: ...econd husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child,...
22: ...] appearances. She is interred in the [[Inglewood Park Cemetery]] in [[Inglewood, California]].
68: *1965 ''[[Ella at Duke's Place]]''
111: ==Samples==
112: *[[Media:How High The Moon.ogg|Download sample]] of "How High the Moon" - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...e:Janis Joplin-In Concert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live ...
2: ...sional [[songwriter]] with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for ...
4: ... in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and ...
6: ...ovement was still in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues h...
10: ...together with the Monterey performance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of the la...
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