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- 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. [[... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
8: ...ng [[John I of Portugal]] and his wife [[Philippa Plantagenet|Philippa of Lancaster]], daughter of Joh...
10: ...ere King [[Henry III of Castile]] and [[Catherine Plantagenet]] of the [[House of Lancaster]], a half ...
18: The regime of [[Francisco Franco]] claimed the prestige of the Catholic Monarchs. - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
8: ...Melbourne]], the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, and then to the Philip Street Theatre...
13: ...]] of [[1990]] in [[Telluride, Colorado]]. The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and l...
19: ...n she co-starred with her husband as a married couple for the second time.
23: ...an injured her knee, so [[Jodie Foster]] had to replace her in ''[[Panic Room]]''. The following year ...
26: ...' character falls in love with a 10 year-old boy (played by [[Cameron Bright]]), who she believed to b... - Society (6217 bytes)
6: ...ing of ''society'' simply refers to a group of people living together in an ordered community.{{fn|1}}
8: ...]] use the term ''society'' to mean a group of people that form a semi-closed (or semi-open) [[social ...
10: ...iety is closely related to what is [[social]]. Implicit in the meaning of society is that its members...
15: ...ocieties, [[horticulture|horticulturalist]] or simple farming societies, and [[agriculture|intensive a...
18: ...ndividual in some community requires aid, for example at birth, death, sickness, or disaster, like-min... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
27: ...ng|fishers]] and [[hunter-gatherer|gathering]] peoples using [[stone tool]]s (see [[10th millennium BC...
29: ...y lakes that resulted from seasonal rains. The people who settled there must have realized the benefit...
31: The descendants of these people may well have begun Egyptian civilization in the...
39: ...t Egyptians considered themselves to be '''The People of Two Lands''', these lands being Lower and Upp...
41: ...the central government were typically open-air temples constructed of wood or sandstone. - 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: ... eventually inherited the estate, [[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]] in [[Fairfax County, Virg... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
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31: | '''Place of Death:'''
66: ...balance in his appointments and persuading the people to accept constitutional law as the Supreme Cour...
72: ...the territorial question. Buchanan threw the full prestige of his administration behind congressional approv...
74: Economic troubles also plagued Buchanan's administration with the outbreak ... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: .... It is the home of five percent of the world's [[plant]] and [[animal]] species, 80 percent of them u...
61: In [[1947]], with French prestige at low ebb, a [[Madagascar revolt|nationalist upr...
68: ...y and "Malgasization" of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a hig...
70: ...rong in [[Antananarivo]] and the surrounding high plateau.
72: ...ations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in [[August]] [[1991]] but... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Western world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich h...
52: ...n world|western civilization]] and being the birthplace of [[democracy]], [[philosophy]], the [[Olympi...
57:
65: ...nglish/greece/living/read_greek/alphabet.html]. [[Plato]] described how the Greeks live round the Aege...
68: ...he Byzantine Empire, centered around [[Constantinople]] (known in ancient times as [[Byzantium]]), rem... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...country, with a population of over 1.3 billion people, most of whom are classified as the [[Han Chines...
4: ...s those areas as parts of itself, an eternally complete and indivisible country. This claim is controv...
7: {{People's Republic of China infobox}}
10: ...ticles: [[History of China]], [[History of the People's Republic of China]], [[Timeline of Chinese his...
13: ...October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zedong]] declared the People's Republic of China, establishing a [[communist ... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
59: ===European exploration and administration (1870–1960)===
61: ...ional pressure in order to save their last bit of prestige in Europe, forcibly adopting the Free State as a ...
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... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
79: ...s]], has hills and low mountains, with the [[Buurgplaatz]] as the highest point at 559 m. The rest of ...
96: ...tures moderate growth, low inflation, and low unemployment. The industrial sector, until recently domi...
103: The plurilingualism of Luxembourg results from the coexi...
105: ...nings of the country, French enjoyed the greatest prestige, and therefore its preferential use as the offici...
113: ...ins the language of the legislation, due to the application of the [[Napoleonic code|Napoleonic civil ... - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
5: ...layers allowed to handle the ball in the field of play.
7: ...e from other sports known as "[[football]]". <!-- Please see above polite suggestions before changing ...
9: ...on television. A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level.
11: ...rica]] — football evokes great passions and plays an important role in the life of individual fa...
15: ...ll with their hands or arms during play. Although players mainly use their feet to move the ball aroun... - Memphis, Egypt (1908 bytes)
5: ...Persian]] satraps before falling into firm second place following the foundation of [[Alexandria, Egyp...
7: The remains of the temple of Ptah and of Apis have been uncovered at the s... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
19: ... consuls, initially patrician but later opened to plebeians, were elected officials who exercised exec...
21: The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, mostly related ''Ital...
25: ...e of the senators, however, and was murdered in a plot organised by [[Brutus]] and [[Gaius Cassius Lon...
27: ... any bloodshed (or even much resistance), thus completing Octavian's (now renamed [[Augustus]]) projec...
33: .... After [[395 AD]] the empire became permanently split into a western and an eastern part. - Alaska (24727 bytes)
69: Alaska was probably first settled by people who came there across the [[Bering Land Bridge]]...
75: ...the Union on January 3, 1959. In [[1976]], the people of Alaska amended the state's constitution, esta...
77: ...ones was reduced to two, with the entire mainland plus the inner Aleutian Islands going to UTC −...
88: ... with towns, cities, and [[petroleum]] industrial plants;
93: ...[volcano]]es are found in the Aleutians. For example, Unimak Island is home to [[Mount Shishaldin]], ... - 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...
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...
88: ...ata centers and the state's reputation as "a good place to do dirty business". [[Spammers]] are not t... - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
3: ...395 BC]]. [[Tithraustes]] was thereupon sent to replace Tissaphernes, who paid with his life for his c...
4: It was said that he was planning a campaign in the interior, or even an atta...
24: In [[370 BC]] Agesilaus tried to restore Spartan prestige by an
29: ... forth. The worst trait in his character is his implacable hatred of Thebes, which led directly to the... - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...t least the [[4th millennium BC]]. Sumerian was replaced by [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] as a spoken...
40: .... Some Sumerian logograms were written with multiple cuneiform signs. These logograms are called dir...
47: Sumerian is a [[split ergativity|split ergative]] language. In an ergative language th...
48: Example: ''lugal-e e2 mu-du3'' "the king built the house...
49: ...lit ergative]] languages (see more examples at [[split ergativity]]). - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...and [[army]] was built, with four masted ships displacing 1,500 tons and a standing army of one millio...
10: ... means "Vast Military" and reflects the increased prestige of the military.
14: ...or nearly a century under the Yuan dynasty were replaced by the Han Chinese. The traditional [[Imperia...
16: ...ve body under past dynasties, after suppressing a plot for which he had blamed his chief minister. Wh...
20: ...ommendations to the throne), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records.
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