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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...age:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
9: ...city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its...
15: ...ilt and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - n...
17: ...ore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an...
19: ...ahia|Salvador]]. In [[1763]], the colonial administration in Portuguese America was moved to Rio. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
8: ...liest American natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina.
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32: - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
1: [[Image:Sojourner_Truth_01.jpg|thumb|Sojurner Truth]]
3: '''Sojourner Truth''' ([[circa|c.]] [[1797]]–[[1883]]) was ...
5: ...g [[Elijah Pierson]] in evangelical preaching on street-corners.
7: [[image:Sojourner_Truth.jpg|thumb|left|Sojurner Truth]]
10: ...ography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave''. - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
5: ...physics]], [[general relativity]], and [[free-electron laser physics]]. She later became the first Ame...
7: ...y]] Center for International Security and Arms Control. Currently she is a professor of physics at th...
18: ...www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut profile.]
19: * [http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html And ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...n = right><tr><td>[[image:mae-jemison.jpg]]</td></tr></table>'''Dr Mae C. Jemison''' blasted into orbi...
3: ...acelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ...n African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography]].
7: ...he National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1987, she worked as a general practitioner in...
11: ... into a commitment to effectively contribute. She traveled to [[Cuba]], rural [[Kenya]], and spent a m... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ... 31.21667). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html]
4: ...is typically called simply by the name of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) p...
6: ...attempts to invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ot...
11: ...y of Cairo, Egypt, seen as a large bright area centre left of the image, Credit-ESA 2004.]]
12: ...d-color satellite image of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]] - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ...y Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at the [[Atbara Rive...
14: If the remote headstream — the Ruvyironza — is taken as the...
24: ...es]] of Africa. In particular, the farthest headstream of the Nile is the [[Ruvyironza]] River in Bur...
32: [[Image:Nile_trans.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Composite image|Compos...
36: ...rtoum. The Nile is also unusual in that its last tributary (the Atbara) joins it approximately halfwa... - Earth (30908 bytes)
7: ... is the largest of the [[solar system]]'s [[terrestrial planet]]s, and the only planetary body that [[...
14: ...50 m) and the lowest (the bottom of the [[Mariana Trench]], at 10,911 m below sea level). Thus the Ear...
16: === Structure ===
17: ...magnetic field]] due to the convection of its electrically conductive material.
57: ====Structure==== - Europe (23835 bytes)
6: ...140,625 square miles), making it larger than [[Australia]] only. In terms of [[population]] it is the...
18: ...emocratic and individualistic culture are often attributed to [[Ancient Greece]]. The [[Roman Empire]]...
20: ... the ideas of [[democracy]] took hold in Europe. Struggles for independence arose, most notably in [[F...
22: ...astern Europe]] and [[Capitalism|capitalist]] countries in [[Western Europe]]. Around [[1990]], the [[...
29: ... is ongoing debate on where the [[geographical centre of Europe]] is. - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
1: ...engal]]. ''Bangladesh'' literally means "The Country of [[Bengal]]". Lying north of the [[Bay of Beng...
3: ...াদেশ<br>Gano Projātontrī Bānglādesh</big></big>
28: ...s by area|Ranked 91st]]<br>144,000 [[square kilometre|km²]]<br>7.0%
31: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 8th]]<br>141,340,476<br>1...
59: | '''[[List_of_country_calling_codes|Calling Code]]''' - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...]]) to [[Zaire]], until 1997. Since 1998, the country has suffered greatly from the devastating and [[...
8: {{Infobox Country |
19: government_type = transitional |
44: time_zone = [[Central European Time|CET]], [[Eastern European Time|EE...
50: ...e is based on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest International Comparison ... - Anatolia (2665 bytes)
3: [[Image:Anatolia composite NASA.png|thumb|400px|right|Asia Minor lies east of the...
5: ...ic A|PPN A]]) and [[Mersin]]. The settlement of [[Troy]] starts in the Neolithic, but continues up int...
7: ...hors have proposed an Anatolian origin for the [[Etruscans]] of ancient [[Italy]].
9: ...speakers of the [[Turkish language]], which was introduced with the conquest of Anatolia by [[Turkic p... - California (63989 bytes)
16: TradAbbreviation = Calif. |
45: ...waisgate?WAISdocID=06487414661+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
55: Fish = [[Golden Trout]]; marine - [[Garibaldi (fish)|Garibaldi]] |
60: Tree = [[Sequoia|California Redwood]] |
76: MusicalInstrument = none | - Florida (24937 bytes)
25: ...ing time|-4]]<br/>[[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] (weste...
43: ...lorida to the United States with the [[Adams-On�Treaty]] in [[1819]], in exchange for the US renounc...
49: ...residential election in Florida in [[2000]] was extremely close. As such, and because of its high pop...
51: In Miami, the liberal Democrats vie for control with wealthy [[Cuba|Cuban]] conservative Republ...
64: ...florida.750pix.jpg|right|thumb|Florida taken from NASA Shuttle Mission STS-95 on 31st October 1998.]] - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
39: ...ecies]] capital of the world and is the only industrial producer of [[coffee]], and [[chocolate]] in t...
44: ...er]], [[state gem]], [[state mammal]] and [[state tree]]. Included are the two statues representing H...
46: ...the [[Union Jack]] and features eight horizontal stripes representing the eight major Hawaiian Islands...
56: ... be found on high islands located in and near the tropics has resulted in a vast array of [[endemic]] ...
64: ...edatory rivals. Warfare was endemic. The general trend was towards chiefdoms of increasing size, even... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
45: ...d, and the [[William Penn|Penn family]], which controlled Pennsylvania, engaged two surveyors, [[Charl...
47: ...ed until 1658 when the Calvert family regained control and re-enacted the Toleration Act.
71: ...collectively as the Eastern Shore. A portion of extreme western Maryland in [[Garrett County, Maryland...
81: ...rs and colder winters, where snow often falls. Extreme western Maryland has a mountain climate with m...
87: Maryland's economic activity is strongly concentrated in the tertiary - Texas (39610 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]]<br />[...
44: * [[state tree]] — the [[pecan]]
52: ...th an area of [[1 E11 m?|690,000]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]], Texas forms the second-largest...
57: Texas lies in the south-central part of the United States of America. Depending...
70: ...a]] Tribes of Texas, the [[Kickapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ''Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - Solar system (21174 bytes)
7: ...Sun]] (☉) is a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] G2 [[star]] that contains 99.86% of the...
8: ...anet]]s of the Solar System are those nine bodies traditionally labelled as such:
18: ...lar system scale.jpg|thumb|center|550px|This illustration shows the approximate sizes of the planets r...
20: [[Image:Portrait de famille (1 px = 1000 km).jpg|thumb|center|5...
29: **[[Trojan asteroid]]s are located in either of Jupiter'... - Sun (20830 bytes)
11: | [[1 E11 m|149.6]]×10<sup>6</sup> [[kilometre|km]]<br>(92.95×10<sup>6</sup> [[mile|mi]])...
39: ...notation|×]] 10<sup>12</sup> [[square kilometre|km²]]<br>(11,900 Earths)
42: ...up3;|1.41]] × 10<sup>18</sup> [[cubic kilometre|km³]]<br>(1,300,000 Earths)
110: ! align="left" | [[Nitrogen]]
128: ... to 28,000 [[light-year]]s from the [[galactic centre]], completing one revolution in about [[1 E15 s|...
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