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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...outh-southeast. Since the civil war of 1948 that brought [[List of Presidents of Costa Rica|President]...
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35: | '''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]''' ([[Purchasing_Power_Parity|PPP]])<br...
40: | From [[Spain]] - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
41: | [[1839]] — [[1845]]
76: | [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]
135: | [[North Carolina]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...lorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[Hi...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ex...
8: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]] - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...lly acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also ...
7: ... first pair of [[United States Senate|Senator]]s from [[California]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican P...
9: ...[Abraham Lincoln]] and led to Frémont's removal from command in the West on [[November 2]], [[1861]]....
11: ...ointed [[Governor]] of the [[Arizona Territory]] from [[1878]] to [[1881]]. He died of [[peritonitis]]...
21: ... Senators from California|United States Senators from California]]|before=''(none)''|after=[[John B. W... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...rior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
5: ...s part of a respectable family of mariners and improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherin...
7: ...it (see right) was painted by a Russian artist in 1839 for the city of Saint-Malo.
9: ...t Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing a sh...
13: ... the sons of Huron [[Chief Donnacona]], back to Europe. - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
11: *[[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad|Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam]] ([[1839]]-[[1908]]), founder of [[Ahmadi]] sect - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more ...
12: ...tranged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the...
14: ...oria's uncle, the Prince of Wales, inherited the Crown, becoming King George IV. Though she occupied a...
16: ...the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent ...
18: ...sons for marrying Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage. - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ..., August 20, 1881)]]'''Ouida''' ([[January 7]], [[1839]] – [[January 25]], [[1908]]) was the ''[[p...
3: ...lk nickname for "Louise". During her career, she wrote more than 40 [[novel]]s. For many years she li... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
6: ...king 1-month old Ada with her. On [[April 21]], Byron signed the Deed of Separation and left England f...
11: ...ber]] [[1837]] and Ralph Gordon born [[2 July]] [[1839]]. The family lived at Ockham Park, at [[Ockham, ...
13: ...scientific author of the [[19th century]], who introduced her in turn to [[Charles Babbage]] on [[June...
15: ...notes appended to the Menebrea translation. Her prose acknowledged some possibilities of the machine ...
21: ==Controversy over attribution== - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ... term is used especially if this is his or her [[profession]]. Evidence indicates that humans have be...
4: ...f making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
8: ...ochre]] and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples...
34: ...ide variety of artists' paints available for the professional or ameteur artist.]] Different types of...
52: ...s associated with. This can stem from an actual group that the artist was consciously involved with o... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...mbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europe.
3: ... woven in strips. In the real estate and home improvement industries a distinction is made between ca...
10: ...lain weave]], and [[tapestry weave]]. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[...
12: ... pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as burlap. ...
14: ...s alternate with a supplementary weft that rises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular angl... - Map (10223 bytes)
5: ==Introduction==
7: ...-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ...onal (or "Portolan") charts of the Mediterranean from the same period are remarkably accurate. Even t...
11: ...em useful. [[Lewis Carroll]] made this point humorously in ''Sylvie and Bruno'' with his mention of a...
13: ...d other local agencies. Many national surveying projects have been carried out by the military, such ... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...t]] in the [[woodwind]] family. The name derives from adding the suffix ''-et'' meaning ''little'' to ...
4: Clarinets are made from specially chosen varieties of [[wood]] or, in th...
11: ...nd band and orchestral writing. Additionally, improvements made to the fingering systems of the clari...
15: ...k" notes are the clarion register, and the range from high C (with two ledger lines) to the G above th...
20: ...d in the mouth by the player. Vibrating the reed produces the instrument's sound. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
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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... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...4]]) was a [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Pennsylvania]] and the eleventh [[Vice Preside...
5: ...e resignation of [[Isaac D. Barnard]] and served from [[December 13]], [[1831]] to [[March 3]], [[1833...
7: ...et in [[1844]] with [[James K. Polk]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1845]] to [[March 3]], [[1849]].
9: ...ngdom|Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philad...
16: ...d States Senators from Pennsylvania|U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania]]|before=[[Isaac D. Barnard]]|after... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hillsborough]], [[New Hampshire]]
18: ...14th [[President of the United States]], serving from [[1853]] to [[1857]]. Pierce was a [[United Stat...
20: ...[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
22: Kunhardt wrote in ''The American President'' what many histori...
25: ...ce had six older and two younger siblings, four brothers and three sisters. - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
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19: | '''Place of Birth:''' || [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]
42: ...ebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with the Congressiona...
45: Johnson was born in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], to Jacob Johnson and Mary McDonough on [[D...
48: ...f Representatives from [[1835]] to [[1837]] and [[1839]] to [[1841]]. He was elected to the State Senat... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...opus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ... of antiquity. However, upon the founding of [[Cairo]] by Egypt's mediæval Islamic rulers its st...
13: ...ding of the city and ends with the arrival of the Romans (blue).
14: * The Roman era from [[80 BC]] until the arrival of the Arabs in [[64...
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (ye... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. It is one of the [[Earth sci...
3: ...]] and [[coal]], as well as [[metals]] such as [[iron]], [[copper]], and [[uranium]]. Additional econo...
5: [[Astrogeology]] refers to the application of geologic pr...
7: ...used by Jean-Andreluc in the year [[1778]] and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bedict de Saussure...
10: ...ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by [[erosion]] of the [[mountain]]s and by [[Deposition (g... - Peru (12264 bytes)
2: ...cean]] to the west. Peru is rich in cultural anthropology, and is well-known as the ''cradle of the [...
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22: ... of Presidents of Peru|President]]''' || [[Alejandro Toledo Manrique]]
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