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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...r the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema b...
5: ...thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...Portuguese]]) is the name of both a [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|state]] and a city in southeastern [[Braz...
9: ...area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 mi... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...Maria Theresa), ruler of the [[Habsburg Empire]] from [[1740]]-[[1780]]. Also see [[Maria Theresa of S...
3: ...MariaTheresa.JPG|frame|H.I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduc...
4: ... women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
6: ...erit his united lands on his death. While many European monarchs agreed to the Pragmatic Sanction whe...
8: ...ir apparent to the king of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. She h... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...ars later, she managed to get some lecture notes from several courses at [[ɣole Polytechnique]], a sc...
9: ... Gauss since he had never heard of her. She then wrote to him admitting she was female, to which he re...
12: ...alents and superior genius. Indeed nothing could prove to me in so flattering and less equivocal manne...
15: ..., in [[1808]] Gauss was appointed professor of astronomy at the [[University of Gottingen|University o...
19: ...''z'' has to be [[divisible]] by [[five]]. This proof, which she first described in a letter to Gauss... - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: ...44]] first became known as a [[China|Chinese]] [[prostitute]] called Shih Yang. She married in [[1801...
6: ...was cut off and he was shown off through the squadron as an example.
8: ...h died at the age of 60 in [[1844]], running a [[brothel]] and gambling house in [[Guangzhou]]. - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...te, '''Eve''' (or '''Hawa''') was either created from his [[rib]] (Genesis 2.21-22), or created at the...
11: ...t]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[William Blake]] ([[1808]]).]]
15: ...ivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: "Of the tree of the knowledge of good an...
17: ...he eyes of them both were opened" and they made aprons of [[fig]] leaves to cover themselves.
20: ...[Jesus]] was born, the flaming sword was removed from the Garden of Eden, making it possible for [[hum... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
16: | vicepresident=[[Aaron Burr]]; [[George Clinton (politician)|George Cli...
18: ...ulturalist]], [[Horticulture|horticulturist]], [[Property|land owner]], [[architect]], [[Archaeology|a...
23: ...]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from families who had settled in [[Virginia]] for sev...
25: ..., [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unani...
27: The [[Library of Congress]] was founded from the sale of his collection (the Library was foun... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[James Monroe]]
21: ...Thomas Jefferson]]. In this capacity he became a prominent figure in [[Virginia]] state politics, help...
23: ...ted in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state representation depending ...
25: ...the political thought of [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu]].
27: Madison wrote thirty of the eighty-five essays that comprise ... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[James Monroe]]
22: ...]] at the [[University of Leiden]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was elec...
24: ...]], the daughter of an American merchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having ...
26: ...having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist Party.
28: ...14]], and Minister to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] from [[1815]] to [[1817]]. During this time, Adams an... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
4: <tr><td style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2>[[Image:Mar...
25: ...[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
27: ...1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawyer and later [[Aaron Burr]]'s second in the duel with [[Alexander Ham...
29: ...e a member of the [[Court for the Correction of Errors]], the highest [[Court (judicial)|court]] in Ne...
33: ...a Federalist. He had already, in [[1808]], moved from Kinderhook to [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]], and i... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
4: <tr><td style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2><div style=...
25: ...y by Jackson's aggressive handling of the South Carolina [[nullification]] issue.
36: *Robert Tyler ([[September 9]], [[1816]] - [[December...
51: *Robert Fitzwalter Tyler ([[March 12]], [[1856]] - [[...
58: ... office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one exceptio... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
6: | style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2 | [[image:A...
17: | '''Date of Birth''' || [[December 29]], [[1808]]
19: | '''Place of Birth:''' || [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]
40: '''Andrew Johnson''' ([[December 29]], [[1808]] – [[July 31]], [[1875]]) was the sixteenth...
42: ...ebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with the Congressiona... - Brazil (12581 bytes)
8: ...til the next emperor, [[Pedro II of Brazil|Dom Pedro II]] was deposed and a [[federation|federal]] [[...
10: Brazil attracted over 5 million [[Europe]]an and [[Japanese people|Japanese]] immigrants...
15: The [[1988]] [[constitution]] grants broad powers to the federal government, of which the ...
17: ...s'' of 513 seats, whose members are elected by [[proportional representation]] to serve four-year term...
22: * [[Coronelismo]] (reference to machine politics in the fi... - Sierra Leone (10596 bytes)
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16: | align=center colspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationSierraLeone.png]]
54: ...anded and named the country "Lion Mountains". [[Europe]]ans used the land as a source for [[slave|slav...
56: ...l halfway through the [[20th century]], when the process of de-colonisation was commenced. This culmin... - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...[Gulf of Bothnia]] to the west. Finland has land frontiers with [[Sweden]], [[Norway]] and [[Russia]] ...
3: ...cing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-co...
6: ... border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:center;"
14: | align=center colspan=2 style="background:#f9f9f9;" | [[image:LocationFinland.png|Locati...
33: | style="vertical-align: top;" | From [[Russia]]<br/>[[6 December]] [[1917]]<br/>[[22 ... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ... the [[Islas Chafarinas|Chafarine]] islands, the "rocks" (es: ''pes'') of [[Pede V鬥z de la G...
20: ...s頌uis Rodr�ez Zapatero|Jos頌uis Rguez. Zapatero]] |
40: currency = [[Euro]] (€)<sup>2</sup> |
42: time_zone = [[Central European Time|CET]]<sup>3</sup> |
44: time_zone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...ctical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where the...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
10: * 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
1: [[Image:Map of Territorial Growth 1790 sm.jpg|right|thumb|U.S. territorial exten...
3: ...eline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1790]] to [[1819]]'''.
19: ...[1796]] - [[Tennessee]], formerly part of North Carolina, becomes a state
41: *[[1804]] - [[Aaron Burr]]/[[Alexander Hamilton]] duel
45: *[[1806]] - [[Cumberland Road]] passed - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...n about 1450 and 1600. The Gregorian calendar as promulgated in [[1582]] did ''not'' specify that Janu...
7: ...404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
9: *[[1438]] - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] is crowned King of [[Hungary]].
11: *[[1651]] - [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] crowned King of [[Scotland]]
14: *[[1707]] - [[John V of Portugal|John V]] is crowned King of [[Portugal]] - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's empire u...
5: ...ctively, the nearly continuous period of warfare from [[April 20]], [[1792]], until [[November 20]], 1...
9: ...ars brought some great changes upon the face of Europe:
11: * France was no longer a dominant power in Europe, as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV ...
12: ...oyal Navy]] held unquestioned naval superiority throughout the world, and the United Kingdom's industr...
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