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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]]
15: ... century, the Portuguese crown began treating the village as strategic location for [[Atlantic]] trans...
19: ...clerc]], [[René „uguay-Trouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese ...
21: ...o arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ...osed a republic in [[1889]]. However, plans for moving the nation's seat city to the territorial cente... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
12: ...r, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement office...
15: ...ck Obama reelected president, Joe Biden reelected vice president.
18:
32: ...onald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president.
38: ...st person without prior military or government service to hold the office. - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
13: ... continued her advocacy. During the [[American Civil War]], she organized collection of supplies for ...
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ...ing research in [[astrophysics]], [[general relativity]], and [[free-electron laser physics]]. She lat...
7: In [[1987]], Ride left [[NASA]] to work at the [[Stanford University]] Center f...
11: She occasionally appears on television, in shows or commercials. She is the author o...
18: * [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut prof... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...acelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
7: ...he National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1987, she worked as a general practitioner in...
13: ...litical, cultural and economic context of the individual, especially for the developing world. Current...
15: ...rently a member of the Dartmouth faculty in the Environmental Studies Program and is Director of The J...
17: ... Channel. She is also in demand as a speaker to civic and government organizations, schools and corpor... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
6: ...ubduer," though it is often translated as "'''The Victorious'''." The origin of the name is said to co...
11: ..._Orbit_12013_20040617.jpg|thumb|left|200px|This Envisat ASAR Wide-Swath radar multicolour composite im...
12: ...d-color satellite image of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]]
16: ... eastern section of the city is very different: having grown up haphazardly over the centuries it is f...
20: ...ncluding the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] (last surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World). App... - Nile (13738 bytes)
14: ...m (4160 miles) long. Measuring instead from Lake Victoria gives a length of approximately 5584 km (34...
24: ...flows for 690 km (429 miles) before reaching Lake Victoria.
26: ...ga]], until it reaches [[Lake Albert]]. After leaving Lake Albert, the river is known as the [[Albert...
40: ... the [[International Space Station]], courtesy of NASA.]]
46: ...eline of the [[Ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] civilization, with most of the population and all of t... - Earth (30908 bytes)
14: ...iameter of approximately 12,742 km. The maximum deviations from this are the highest point on Earth (t...
17: ...)|mantle]], a liquid outer core that is much less viscous than the mantle, and a solid inner core. The...
55: ...iginally generated during its accretion (see [[gravitational binding energy]]), and since then additio...
70: The core is divided into two parts, a solid inner core with a [[ra...
72: Recent evidence has suggested that the inner core of Earth m... - Europe (23835 bytes)
13: ...' which means "sunset". From a [[Middle East]]ern viewpoint, the sun sets over Europe: the lands to th...
18: ...safeguarded and compiled knowledge accumulated previously. The [[Renaissance]] and the [[New Monarchs]...
22: ...through the end of the [[Cold War]], Europe was divided into two major political and economic blocks: ...
42: ...nland" Europe and [[Scandinavia]] to the north, divided from each other by the [[Baltic Sea]]. Three ...
44: ...n regions, however, are more mountainous, while moving north the terrain descends from the high [[Alps... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
36: | '''[[Victory Day (Bangladesh)|Victory Day]]'''<br>|| [[December 16]], [[1971]]
65: ...ocial structures from around [[1000 BC]]. Early civilizations had Buddhist and/or [[Hindu]] influences...
67: ...[[1947]], political motivations caused it to be divided into a predominantly Muslim [[Pakistan]] and a...
69: ...d the name of the province from [[East Bengal (province)|East Bengal]] to [[East Pakistan]].
71: ... [[Baluchistan]], and the [[Northwest Frontier Province]]). The frequent exploitation of the majority ... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...h it from the Republic of Congo, or Congo-[[Brazzaville]]) to [[Zaire]], until 1997. Since 1998, the c...
63: ...ar II]] the small Congolese army achieved several victories against the [[Italians]] in north Africa.
67: ...rned. Late in 1959, accused of instigating public violence, he was jailed by the Belgians but was rele...
72: ...it was announced that he had been killed by angry villagers (which was not believed by many). Riots of...
74: ...s pleased with the outcome, having viewed the [[Soviet]]-backed Lumumba as a [[CPSU|Communist]] puppet... - Anatolia (2665 bytes)
3: [[Image:Anatolia composite NASA.png|thumb|400px|right|Asia Minor lies east of the...
5: ...ope]], Anatolia has been a cradle for several [[civilization]]s since [[prehistoric]] ages, with [[neo...
7: Major civilizations and peoples that have settled in or conq... - California (63989 bytes)
15: PostalAbbreviation = CA |
16: TradAbbreviation = Calif. |
32: ...[[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]-8/[[Daylight saving time|-7]] |
101: ...ence in 1821, California was a remote northern province of the nation of Mexico. Huge cattle ranches, ...
107: ...ican portion, Baja (lower) California was later divided into the states of [[Baja California]] and [[B... - Florida (24937 bytes)
10: ... LargestCity = [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = FL |
25: ...ndard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] (western panhandle)|
36: ...ascua Florida'' in Spanish. The U.S. Postal abbreviation is '''FL'''.
43: ...ined area extending from about modern day [[Gainesville]] northward to the Carolinas, which they calle... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = HI |
25: ...rd Time Zone|Hawaii]]: [[UTC]]-10/ (no daylight saving time) |
41: ...s Michener]] and its [[Hawaii (1966 movie)|1966 movie adaptation]].
56: ...emic]] [[flora]] and [[fauna]]. The volcanic activity and subsequent [[erosion ]] created impressive ...
66: ...arious European explorers suggest that Hawaii was visited by foreigners well before the [[1778]] arriv... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = MD |
25: ...ndard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
36: ...ation is '''MD'''. Its [[Associated Press]] abbreviation is '''Md.''' Maryland was one of the [[13 co...
41: ...new royal charter for what was to become the [[Province of Maryland]]. George Calvert died in April 1...
43: ...y destinations of tens of thousands of British convicts, which carried on until independence. The [[Ma... - Texas (39610 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = TX |
25: ...dard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] <small>(part of west Texas)</small> |
36: ...5]]. It has the [[U.S. Postal Service|postal abbreviation]] '''TX'''.
66: ...tp://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/PP/bfp2.htm Handbook of Texas On Line].
70: ...tp://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/II/bzi4.html Handbook of Texas On Line]. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
14: ...A: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
45: * [[sledges]] - [[Scandinavia]]
145: ... [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]]
186: * [[1817]]: [[Kaleidoscope]]: [[David Brewster]]
213: * [[1837]]: [[Standard diving dress]]: [[Augustus Siebe]] - Solar system (21174 bytes)
5: ...hought. This encyclopedia employs the following divisions:
27: ...cant part of non-volatile minerals. They are subdivided into [[asteroid group]]s and [[:Category:Aster...
31: ...ces and have highly eccentric orbits, generally having a [[perihelion]] within the orbit of the inner ...
33: ...es]] lie beyond Neptune's. These are further subdivided:
36: ...bit extending from about 76 to 928 AU, does not obviously fit in either category, although its discove... - Sun (20830 bytes)
13: ! align="left" | [[Apparent magnitude|Visual brightness]] (''V'')
51: ! align="left" | Surface [[gravity]]
59: | 5780 [[kelvin|K]]
136: ...]] is 18 million times weaker than its surface gravity (at the equator). Tidal effects from the plane...
145: ...r]], which some physicists believe may one day provide power for human use, would use a similar proces...
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