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  1. Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
    1: ...antos_dumont.jpg|250px|Alberto Santos-Dumont]]<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the a...
    2: '''Alberto Santos-Dumont''' ([[July 20]], [[1873]] - [[July 23]], [...
    9: ...operty. So successful were these innovations that Santos-Dumont's father gathered a large fortune and beca...
    11: Santos-Dumont was fascinated by machinery, and while sti...
    14: ...with his wife and his youngest son. At seventeen, Santos-Dumont left the prestigious [[Ouro Preto School o...

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  1. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    19: ...tuguese found gold and diamonds in the neighbor captaincy of [[Minas Gerais]], Rio de Janeiro became m...
    80: *[[Santos Dumont Regional Airport]]
    123: [[pt:Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro)]]
  2. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
    13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
    43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for...
    46: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that th...
    54: ... of lobbying at the Spanish court, where he was kept on a salary to prevent him from taking his ideas ...
  3. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
    8: ...hard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
    14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
    58: *[[Santos Acosta|Acosta, Santos]] (1828-1901)
  4. Portugal (61755 bytes)
    31: ...nding loss of independence to Castile was not accepted by the majority of the Portuguese people, which...
    40: In [[1418]] two captains of Prince Henry the Navigator, were driven by...
    85: ...l Europe during Napoleon's era. The alliance is kept through [[NATO]], a military organisation in whic...
    93: ... mainland Portugal. Download an [http://www.igeoe.pt/downloads/500mil/500mil_24bits2.zip official map]...
    127: ...and rises 14 m bellow the sea surface. It last erupted in 1720 and formed an island, it remained above...
  5. Angola (15614 bytes)
    19: ...Dias dos Santos|Fernando da Piedade <br> Dias dos Santos]]|
    68: ...ut after the current president [[Jos項duardo dos Santos]] of MPLA won UN supervised elections, UNITA clai...
    70: ...ds of people homeless. President Jos項duardo dos Santos suspended the regular functioning of democratic i...
    72: ...he country seems to be normalizing, president dos Santos still hasn't allowed regular democratic processes...
    79: ...inister (currently [[Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos]]) and Council of Ministers. The Council of Minis...
  6. Aviation (1454 bytes)
    1: ...ixed wing ([[airplane]]) and rotary wing ([[helicopter]]) types, as well as lighter-than-air craft suc...
    47: * [[Alberto_Santos-Dumont|Santos-Dumont]]
  7. Aviation history (39698 bytes)
    3: ...d was designed to be a cautionary tale about attempting to reach heaven, similar to the [[Tower of Bab...
    9: ...eonardo1.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter body ]]
    11: ...eonardo2.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter wings ]]
    13: There were many early attempts to fly, covering the full range of legend to fac...
    15: ... made. Leonardo also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design would not have flown.
  8. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    190: *[[Alberto Santos-Dumont]], (1873-1932) &mdash; [[airship|non-rigid...
    211: ...provided an influential formalisation of the concept of [[algorithm]] and computation: the [[Turing ma...
    242: ...&#8211;1995) was the inventor of the Bell [[helicopter]]
  9. Milwaukee Brewers (8926 bytes)
    11: :'''Logo design:''' The word "Brewers" in script superimposed over a baseball which itself is insi...
    27: ...etained a New York firm to handle the deal. In September of 2004, it was announced that the Brewers h...
    53: ...Dominican_republic_flag_large.png|20px]] [[V�or Santos]]
  10. Surfing (15219 bytes)
    7: ...unks or board shorts. In cold water surfers can opt to wear wetsuits, booties, hoods, and gloves to m...
    46: ... Sur; Several great breaks, the island of [[Todos Santos]] being the most famous.
    83: ...gative social connotations, despite the best attempts of various commercial marketing strategies.
    85: ...elled "Surf's up!" the office would suddenly be empty.
  11. Aviator (3951 bytes)
    6: ...t in Command'' is derived from that of a ship?s captain.
    57: *[[Alberto Santos-Dumont]]
  12. Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
    33: ... known outside of Ohio, and was often met with skepticism. The [[Paris, France|Paris]] edition of the ...
    37: ... first person killed in a powered airplane on [[September 17]], [[1908]] when a propeller failure caus...
    55: ...ts, and lay claim by discounting the Wrights attempt either on the basis of its authenticity (that it'...
    59: Many earlier attempts featured powerful powerplants or very light powe...
    69: ...rtant advancement would have to wait till Alberto Santos-Dumont and the flight of the 14-Bis to be impleme...
  13. Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
    1: ...antos_dumont.jpg|250px|Alberto Santos-Dumont]]<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the a...
    2: '''Alberto Santos-Dumont''' ([[July 20]], [[1873]] - [[July 23]], [...
    9: ...operty. So successful were these innovations that Santos-Dumont's father gathered a large fortune and beca...
    11: Santos-Dumont was fascinated by machinery, and while sti...
    14: ...with his wife and his youngest son. At seventeen, Santos-Dumont left the prestigious [[Ouro Preto School o...
  14. Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
    11: ...[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship east...
    24: ... the contract, Magellan and Faleiro, as joint [[captain]]s-general, would receive one-twentieth of all...
    28: ...agellan's [[flagship]], and besides Faleiro the captains for the other four were Juan de Cartegena, Go...
    34: ...lmost prevented Magellan from sailing, but on [[September 20]], Magellan set sail from Sanl?de Barrame...
    41: ...lian. A mutiny involving three of the five ship captains broke out. It was unsuccessful, mainly becaus...
  15. March 22 (9294 bytes)
    20: ...nded when a charter is adopted in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]].
    46: *[[1907]] - [[Lucia dos Santos]], [[Fatima]] witness (d. [[2005]])
    96: *[[1687]] - [[Jean Baptiste Lully]], French [[composer]] (b. [[1632]])
  16. Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
    2: ...[Image:Phxdowntown.jpg|thumb|right|475px|Phoenix Uptown (northern skyline) in 2004, looking north ]]
    61: The first public school in Phoenix opened on [[September 5]], [[1872]], in the courtroom of the count...
    99: ...t is typical to see the riverbed entirely dry except when unexpected runoff forces the release of wate...
    107: ... June through early September. In every year except 1911, the temperature has soared to 110 &deg;F (4...
    111: ...mmon during the monsoon season from July to mid-September as humid air surges in from the [[Gulf of Ca...
  17. Atlantis (41399 bytes)
    7: ... origins of the story of Atlantis date back to Egyptian priests who transfered it to [[Solon]]. Solon ...
    12: ... legendary event. Sonchis, priest of [[Thebes (Egypt)|Thebes]], is purported to have translated it int...
    17: ...ypt|Saite]] priest showed him its history in [[Egyptian hieroglyph|hieroglyphic]] characters. Some ot...
    23: ...by an outer ring-shaped continent, with the inscription, "The earth beyond the Ocean, where men lived ...
    27: ...of Ocean."'' &mdash;Jordanes, ''[[Getica]]'', chapter 1:4.
  18. Right Whales (11436 bytes)
    2: ...ge = [[image:southern_right_whale.jpg|300px]] | caption = Southern Right Whale, Hermanus, South Africa...
    18: ..._Whale.PNG|300px|Northern Right Whale range]] | caption = Northern Right Whale range}}
    19: ..._Whale.PNG|300px|Southern Right Whale range]] | caption= Southern Right Whale range}}
    44: ==Physical description==
    50: ...s in Brazil in 1602, along the shores of Todos os Santos Bay (nowadays in Bahia State). From there, coasta...
  19. Amazonsaurus (1892 bytes)
    22: ...opoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) of Brazil. ''Cretaceous Research 24'...
  20. Flight (3194 bytes)
    9: [[Pterosaur]]s were a group of flying [[vertebrate]]s ...
    15: ...odo]]s, while the non-flying [[penguin]]s have adapted their wings for use under water. Most small fli...
    26: ...|Mechanical '''flight''': Robinson R22 Beta helicopter]]
    29: ...e [[aircraft]], including [[aeroplane]]s, [[helicopter]]s, [[airship]]s and [[balloon]]s, and spacecr...
    41: * [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]]

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