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1. Historical capital of China (5927 bytes)
   1: Numerous cities have been the '''[[capital]] of [[China]]''' during the course of history.
   3: * [[Anyang]] was the capital during the Yin period of [[Shang Dynasty]]: calle...
   5: ...g'' and briefly ''Peiping'') was and has been the capital of various Chinese governments including (sorted ...
   8: ...lled Yanjing (燕京 Yānjīng "capital of Yan")
   10: ...ngdu (中都 Zhōngdū "central capital")
2. January 6th capital (4599 bytes)
   1: ...January 6th Capitol Incident: A Historical Overview==
   4: ...ly for students between the ages of 12 and 16. We will explore the incident's background, the events ...
   7: ...igations and court rulings finding no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
   10: ...es were overtaken by Joe Biden as mail-in ballots were tallied. President Trump and many of his suppo...
   13: ...s. It was the day when the United States Congress was scheduled to certify the Electoral College resu...

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1. Mexico (27255 bytes)
   2: ...panish language|Spanish]]-speaking country in the world.
   19: capital = [[Mexico City]] |
   20: latd=19|latm=03|latNS=N|longd=99|longm=22|longEW=W|
   28: percent_water = 2.5% |
   41: sovereignty_type = [[Mexican War of Independence|Independence]] |
2. Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
   1: ...n the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin America]]."
   5: ... border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #...
   10: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Costa rica flag large.png|1...
   11: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Costa Rica|Full Size]])
   12: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:CostaRica_coa.jpg]]
3. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
   2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
   5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
   35: | [[Delaware]]
   36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
   47: | [[Hawaii]]
4. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
   1: ...out the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]]....
   7: ...[Ipanema]], for the giant statue of [[Jesus]], known as [[Christ the Redeemer (statue)|Christ the Red...
   9: ... and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
   13: ...outh of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January River.
   15: ...st invaders - neighbor [[Niter󩝝, for instance, was founded by a native chief for supporting defens...
5. History of China (45919 bytes)
   2: ...ces from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to creat...
   7: ...d; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
   11: ...ite]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in ...
   14: ...d during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Sh...
   18: ...u Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
6. Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
   2: ...ritories bounded by the [[Arabian Desert]] to the west and south, the [[Persian Gulf]] to the immedia...
   6: ...ol [[Ctesiphon]], the capital of [[Iran|Persia]], was situated in Mesopotamia.
   8: ...arose from earlier settlements and cultures which were among the first to make use of [[agriculture]]...
   19: [[Image:Mesopotamia_2.jpg|thumb|350px|Writing|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
   21: *lower Mesopotamia / [[Sumer]]
7. Persepolis (15450 bytes)
   2: ...z]], not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur (Kyrus).
   6: ...e traced back to the [[13th century]], are now known as ''Takhti Jamshid'' ("the throne of Jamshid")....
   8: ...umber of Persian kings, either that their remains were brought "to the Persians," or that they died t...
   12: ...ia|Darius III]] (Codomannus), who is one of those whose bodies are said to have been brought "to the ...
   14: ...ilding, which was still intact 900 years ago, and was used as the [[mosque]] of the then existing cit...
8. Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
   2: ... covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, extending also to present-day [[India]], the...
   4: ...bdullah ibn Muhammed ibn Ibrahim Ibn Battuta al-Lawati al-Tanji'''.
   6: ...omplete an account as exists of some parts of the world in the [[14th century]].
   8: ...telling. The following account assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
   10: ==The Hajj (with detours)==
9. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
   1: ...elopment of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the ma...
   3: ... the development of [[Electric power|electrical power generation]].
   5: ...s often compared to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up ...
   7: The term industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-...
   10: ...] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine.
10. Ionic order (6526 bytes)
    2: ... the [[Corinthian order|Corinthian]]. (There are two lesser orders, the stocky [[Tuscan order]] and t...
    4: ...s]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]].
    5: ...fully at the base to meet the [[torus]] (enriched with interlaced guilloche) it stands upon.]]
    6: ... much the standard, that when a Greek Ionic order was eventually reintroduced, in the later [[18th ce...
    8: ...llow; Greek fluting runs out to a knife edge that was easily scarred.
11. China (38909 bytes)
    1: ...[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to ...
    3: ...e last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civi...
    5: ...cond Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
    7: ...itical disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
    14: ...oric position of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states.
12. Burundi (13403 bytes)
    1: ...western border is adjacent to [[Lake Tanganyika]] where it enjoys access to the Tanzanian ocean port ...
    3: ...aims of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the growing demands for political participation of the [[H...
    10: ...vail, Progr賠([[French language|French]]: Unity, Work, Progress) |
    12: national_anthem = [[Burundi bwacu]] |
    13: ...]] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
13. Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
    4: ...II of Egypt|Ptolemy XII Auletes]], and her mother was probably Auletes's sister, [[Cleopatra V of Egy...
    6: ...ese cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
    9: ...ir sisters in order to be qualified to rule. Following the deaths of her brothers she named her eldes...
    11: ...ed Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIV as new co-ruler.
    13: ...d to make the boy his heir, naming his grand-nephew [[Augustus Caesar|Octavian]] instead.
14. Boudicca (6973 bytes)
    1: ...f the emperor [[Nero]]. These events are told by two historians, [[Tacitus]] (in his ''[[Annals (Taci...
    3: ...ccastatue.jpg|thumb|300px|Statue of Boudicca near Westminster Pier]]
    7: ...de the [[Roman emperor]] co-heir, along with his two daughters, to his kingdom.
    9: ...ering the kingdom. According to Tacitus, Boudicca was flogged and her daughters raped. Dio Cassius ad...
    11: ...]], attempted to relieve the city, but his forces were routed.
15. Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
    2: ...¹|death=[[December 16]], [[705]]|family_name=Wu (武)|posthumous_name_full=Empress Zetian S...
    9: ...educted from the age at death given in the<br>[[New Book of Tang]]''
    10: ...;&#26360;), </big><small>''compiled in 1045-1060, which<br>is the year favored by modern historians. ...
    11: ...honorific name was used as her posthumous<br>name when she died ten months later.<br>8. Final version...
    14: ...rshly by [[Confucian]] historians but has been viewed under a different light after the 1950s.
16. Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
    7: ...eputed by her enemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] for many years.
    10: ...self as an autocratic ruler, using her popularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility.
    15: [[Image:Icehouse 1878.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''Wedding at the House of Ice'' (1878).]]
    17: ...se of ice, where the bride caught a cold and died within several days.
    19: ... foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and [[Burkhardt Mu...
17. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
    3:
    5: ...rets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon which many an article and sermon about consumer des...
    7: ...e among the most graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle...
    9: ==Early works==
    10:
18. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    2: | [[Image:bwvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|200px|'''Victoria''' <br>...
    7: ...nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empre...
    9: ...nover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].
    12: ...ningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]]...
    14: ...s the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
19. Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
    1: {| table width="285px" border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 ...
    9: ...0]]<br>in [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]], [[New Zealand]]
    12: |[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
    26: |Mt Albert, Owairaka
    32: |[[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour]]
20. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    27: ...owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union...
    29: ...d Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
    31: ... assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
    33: ...''; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of the Th...
    36: ...rts was not re-elected as an Alderman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.

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