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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...panish language|Spanish]]-speaking country in the world.
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]] |
62: For more than 3,000 years, Mexico was the site of several [[Mesoamerica]]n civilizati... - 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]] - Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...periodic table''', is a tabular display of the known [[chemical element]]s. First created by [[Dmitri...
6: ...figurations of their [[valence shell]] electrons, which gives them similar properties.
9: ...and Applied Chemistry]] (IUPAC). The IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral s...
16: ...ertical table]] for improved readablity in web browsers
19: *A table with an [[Periodic table (wide)|inline F-block]] inserts the [[Lanthanide]]s ... - Pennsylvanian (1543 bytes)
1: ...mtrak]] train that travels from [[New York City|New York]] to [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]]...
3: ...ct date of the start and end are uncertain by a few million years.
6: ...ian are one more-or-less continuous sequence of lowland continental deposits and are lumped together ...
13: *http://www.scotese.com/late.htm
14: Provides a picture of what the world at the time period. - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
75: *[[William Dampier]]
85: *[[Willem Schouten]]
95: *[[Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel]]
99: *[[Samuel Wallis]] - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...] bellorum'' ("war leader") and High [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[empero...
2: ...g Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield]]
5: ... of his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ...rs are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
9: ...itain may have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the historical ... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...re specifically, the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of t...
5: ...appearance in baptismal registers as godfather or witness.
7: ... found and the most familiar portrait (see right) was painted by a Russian artist in 1839 for the cit...
9: ... serious mishap and that the only sailors he lost were victims of an epidemic ashore, he may be consi...
13: ...rst time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cross and claimed the territory ... - 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)== - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
5: ==Overview==
10: 4) Blowstick or blowpipe<br>
16: ... and the Balkans, a whole goatskin is used, cured with salt and alum.
18: ...]]-like sound, while chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound.
20: ...ter is overblown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound ... - 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. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...lee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
7: ...renada]], [[Jamaica]], [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guinea]], [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]], [[Saint Luci...
9: ...cond-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailan...
11: ...ent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
15: ...hmore. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-gra... - 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. - Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
2: ...] and the wife of Emperor [[Justinian I]]. Along with her husband, she is a [[saint]] in the [[Easte...
4: Theodora was born into the lowest class of Byzantine society, the daughter of a ...
6: ...lcedonian herself, she was pastorally favorable toward the non-Chalcedonians.
8: ...be a wise decision. A strong-willed woman, she showed a notable talent for governance. In the [[Nika...
10: ...so something of a voice for prostitutes and the downtrodden. She also helped to mitigate the breach i... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
8: ...'Bloody Mary'''. Her religious policies, however, were in many cases reversed by her successor, [[Eli...
10: ...ed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary I, Queen of Scots]], who lived at approximately the same time.
13: ...e a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
15: ...scholar [[Juan Lu�Vives]] upon the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in La... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...[[Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened ab...
5: ...ok the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on ...
9: ...[[serf]]s was created to make this document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took ...
11: ... In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the gentry to petition the throne as a legal bo...
13: ... areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middl... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...nce estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
6: ...rn [[Missouri]], had once owned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
8: ...m/military/limbaugh.htm]. Limbaugh stated that he was not drafted because a physical found that he ha...
10: ...use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.)
12: ...and accepted a position as director of promotions with the [[Kansas City Royals]] [[baseball]] team. - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...rn the realm when her husband was abroad fighting wars.
11: ...gland|Charles II]]; her maternal grandfather, [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]], served for a le...
13: ...ond wife the Catholic [[Mary of Modena]], also known as Mary Beatrice d'Este.
15: ...y amongst Protestants. The first cousins Mary and William married in London on [[4 November]] [[1677]...
17: ...h [[Elizabeth Villiers]], one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marriage in [[1770]]]]
2: ...f [[Louis XVI]] and mother of [[Louis XVII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revol...
4: ... the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduch...
6: ...inand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ... for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political ... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
13: |[[Colin Powell]]
27: ...American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in th...
29: ...d her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
31: ...erm. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed t...
34: ...21014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is married to Colin Powell.) - 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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