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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
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41: sovereignty_type = [[Mexican War of Independence|Independence]] |
62: For more than 3,000 years, Mexico was the site of several [[Mesoamerica]]n civilizatio...
64: ... of [[Aztlan], the starting point of their tribes wanderings, never thought of themselves as anything ...
68: ...s]], causing a long [[Mexican War of Independence|war]] that eventually led to independence in [[1821]... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
131: ...lls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]...
134: *[[Sir Edmund Hillary]], with [[Tenzing Norgay]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes...
154: *[[Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov]] (1863-1935), Mongolia and Tibet
165: *[[Dragutin Lerman]], (1863-1918), [[Croatia]], ([[Congo]], [[Africa]]) - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...March 19]], [[1813]] – [[May 1]], [[1873]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[missionary]] and [[Lis...
6: Livingstone was born in the village of [[Blantyre, South Lanarks...
8: ... the protests of the Moffats – although she was pregnant – but returned to [[England]] wit...
12: ...the African continent. In particular, Livingstone was a proponent of trade and missions to be establis...
14: ...time he believed the key to achieving these goals was the navigation of the [[Zambesi River]]. He retu... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
107: *[[Albert Abrams|Abrams, Albert]], (1863-1924), fraudulent doctor - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empres...
9: ...hnological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; he...
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]].
16: ...ssed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[novelist]]. She is one...
5: ...ir own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as a writer of romances. An additional...
8: ...f Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', and it was at that time that she began to live with [[Georg...
10: ...ovelistic career. Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be ...
12: ...e of 61 in London of a [[kidney]] [[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ...y 7]], [[1839]] – [[January 25]], [[1908]]) was the ''[[pen name]]'' of the [[England|English]] ...
3: De la Ramé¥ was born in [[Bury St Edmunds]], [[England]], to an ...
16: * ''Held in Bondage'' (1863) (first published with the title ''Granville de V...
33: * ''Wanda'' (1883)
34: * ''The Waters of Edera'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/ete... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
1: ... Walker, ca 1870. She often wore mens clothes and was arrested for impersonating a man several times.]...
2: ...ibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]], [[Surgery|surgeon]] and the only woman to rec...
6: ...]], [[New York]], the daughter of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which ...
8: ... as a young woman to earn enough money to pay her way through Syracuse Medical College where she gradu...
10: ...n)" by the Army of the Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U.S. Army Surge... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
2: ...er 22]], [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]] stage actress.
4: ...idered scandalous to a roughly equal degree. She was sponsored into the ''Conservatoire de Musique et...
6: ...on the stages of [[Europe]] in the [[1870s]], and was soon in demand all over Europe and in the [[Unit...
8: ...l as modelling for [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of books and plays thro...
10: ...y endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, was quickly collapsed, largely due to the young acto... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
6: ...daa" meaning "subduer of the enemies". This title was given to the city as many armies were destroyed ...
11: ...0617.jpg|thumb|left|200px|This Envisat ASAR Wide-Swath radar multicolour composite image is focused ov...
18: Extensive water systems have also allowed the city to expand e...
20: ...ies were Cairo's ancient predecessors, when Cairo was still in this approximate geographical location.
26: ...], which was the capital of [[Ancient Egypt]] and was founded in around [[3100 BC]] by [[Menes]] of [[... - War (7002 bytes)
1: ...ace]], which is usually defined as the absence of war.
3: ==History of war==
6: ...anization and structure has since been central to warfare, as illustrated by the success of highly dis...
8: ...to an increase in the destructiveness and cost of warfare throughout human history.
10: The study of warfare is known as [[military history]]. - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...me for the Nile. Another Greek name for the Nile was ''Aigyptos'' (Αιγυπ&...
12: ...mark at the [[Atbara River]] in [[Sudan]] all the way to the [[Mediterranean Sea]].
26: ...he [[White Nile]], from the clay suspended in its waters. From there, the river flows to [[Khartoum]]...
30: ... White Nile join to form "the Nile." Most of the water carried by the Nile originates from Ethiopia, ...
36: ...tributary (the Atbara) joins it approximately halfway to the sea. From that point north, the Nile dim... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ...urned down several important positions. Later, he was nominated for president as a "[[dark horse]]" ca...
20: ...nfederacy]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
22: ...cope with a changing America. In addition, Pierce was hounded by guilt, temptation, and just plain bad...
25: ...wo-time [[governor of New Hampshire]]. His mother was Anna Kendrick. Pierce had six older and two you...
27: ... whom he formed a lasting friendship, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also met [[Calvin E. Stow... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...ail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President o...
44: ...es. These events soon led to the [[American Civil War]].
46: ... toward a common goal. He personally directed the war effort, which ultimately led the Union forces to...
48: ... the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] as a pragmatic war measure which would set the stage for the comple... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
22: ...rmy | Union]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and the 18th ([[1869]]–[[1877]]) [[Presi...
24: ...and is credited with winning the war. Although he was a successful general, he is considered by histor...
26: ...s agree that Grant was not personally corrupt; it was his subordinates in the executive branch who wer...
30: ...io]], where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17.
32: ...rant, and although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon gr... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...ch 23]], [[1823]]–[[January 13]], [[1885]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|Repre...
4: ...ith his parents to [[New Carlisle, Indiana]]. He was appointed deputy auditor of [[St. Joseph County,...
6: ...f the House of Representatives]] in [[1863]]. He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1868]], ha...
8: ... 4, 1869, served until March 3, [[1873]]. Colfax was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in [[...
10: He was a lecturer after leaving public office, and died... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
44: ...[[June 30]], [[1819]]–[[June 4]], [[1887]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|Repre...
46: ...utional conventions in [[1867]] and [[1868]], and was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succ...
48: ...ts because of ill health, and died in Malone. He was interred in Morningside Cemetery. - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...o]]. The Canopic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near th...
3: ...slamic rulers its status as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long decline, which by...
5: ... [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
19: ...ted). Alexander's chief architect for the project was [[Deinocrates of Rhodes]]. Ancient accounts are ...
21: ... beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away. - Australia (39438 bytes)
14: ...Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Michael Jeffery]]<br>[[John Howard]]|
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48: ...ion|federated]] and the Commonwealth of Australia was formed. Since [[federation]], Australia has had ...
50: ... allowing access for traditional uses of the waterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people an...
54: ...rst writer in English to use the word "Australia" was [[Alexander Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical C... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...o the north; and with [[Turkey]] to the east. The waters of the [[Aegean Sea]] border Greece to the ea...
25: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total<br> - % water || [[List of countries by area|Ranked 94th]]<b...
65: ...lago "like frogs around a pond"; their name has always been associated with the sea. After the interna...
68: ...ed the land ([[168 BC]] onwards), though, in many ways, Greek culture would in turn conquer Roman life...
70: ...Constantinople — the image of Christ on the walls of the upper southern gallery. Christ is flank...
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