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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
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40: | From [[Spain]]
63: ...amics.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, Costa Rica]]
67: ...pital moved to [[San Jos鬠Costa Rica|San Jos靝. From the [[1840s]] on, Costa Rica was an independent...
107: ...ure, and electronics exports. The economy emerged from [[recession]] in 1997 and has since shown stron... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
9: ... these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by h...
11: ...tention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but the pride of the [[Bou...
13: ...d her fathers sensual temperament and, being free from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites...
19: ... seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La Chetardie, who was plotting to...
23: ...the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few personal friends, including her physician, Armand Lestocq, he... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...called one another by pet names, Sarah being "Mrs Freeman" and Anne "Mrs Morley". In [[1677]], Sarah ...
4: ...), the relationship between the queen and her old friend deteriorated greatly. In [[1711]], both Sara...
6: ...ederick, Prince of Wales]]. The Duchess remained friendly with the prince and his family, however, ev... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ...ary 19]], [[1966]] to [[March 24]], [[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassinat...
67: ...-aligned). India subsequently withdrew its forces from west Pakistan, but the independent [[Republic o...
69: ...had collapsed with depositors getting back only a fraction of their money. Moreover a large number of ...
80: ...be removed from her seat in Parliament and banned from running for an additional six years. Rather tha...
84: ... help of the parliament, thus protecting herself from legal prosecution once emergency rule was revok... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
7: ...r father ran for his and neighbors' children, and from the age of 17 to 32 she herself taught in vario...
9: ...he two sexes, and as a public speaker and writer. From [[1868]] to [[1870]] she was the proprietor of ...
15: ... [[National Woman's Suffrage Association]] (NWSA) from the date of its organization in [[1869]] until ...
19: ...te of women's rights and of [[alcohol]] abolition from [[Arizona]]. She died at Rochester, New York, ...
28: .... Anthony] (Volume 1 of 2), by Ida Husted Harper, from [[Project Gutenberg]] - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [...
14: ...atic Party of the United States|D]]-[[Michigan]]) from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to resid...
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat to a w...
29: ...', where characters discuss earlier instances of African-Americans refusing to give up their bus seats...
32: [[Image:Parkstoday.jpg|frame|Rosa Parks in the year 2000]] - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...efore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Hud...
9: ...aper advocating birth control. She also separated from William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family...
15: ...egate of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the In...
17: ...lable [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish ...
24: ...gh Sanger was greatly influenced by her father, a freethinker, her mother's death left her with a deep... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordings.
11: ...ing band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]]...
13: ...oned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she neve...
17: ...tention, but we were never able to rally her back from the shock.''
19: ...led to death without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit ... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
9: ...axhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emigrated from south Kosovar city of [[Prizren]], even though ...
11: ...counted that she felt a vocation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for mission...
15: ...946]], by her own account, she received a calling from [[God]] "to serve Him among the poorest of the ...
17: ...ntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the municipal authorit...
24: ...emple into the [[Kalighat Home for the Dying]], a free [[hospice]] for the poor. Soon after she opened... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...aw]] from 1945 to 1946, and to [[Frank Sinatra]] from 1951 to 1957. She was regarded as one of the m...
12: ...ich left her partially paralyzed and bedridden, [[Frank Sinatra]] paid all her medical expenses. She d...
28: * [[Reunion in France]] (1942) - Human brain (15406 bytes)
19: ...d the [[circle of Willis]]. Blood is then drained from the brain through a [[brain sinuses|network of ...
21: ...he dense fluid protects the brain and spinal cord from shock; a brain that weighs 1,500 g in air weigh...
23: ...tes the soft tissues of the brain and spinal cord from the hard surrounding bones (skull and vertebrae...
25: ...dicine, [[childbirth]] was a dangerous event that frequently resulted in the death of the mother. The...
33: ...e [[neocortex]] with incoming sensory information from the [[brain stem]]. Powerful emotional pathways... - Hip (767 bytes)
12: ..., an adjective meaning "fashionably current." [[African American]]s introduced this use of the word i... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...e [[French language|French]] translation, used by French historian [[Jules Michelet]], and expanded up...
12: ... concentrate on the Renaissance as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
21: ... the humanist method of learning. These new ideas from the past (called the "new learning" at the time...
49: ...cumstances which helped these geniuses to come to fruition.
51: ...Burckhardt|Burckhardt]]. This argues for a change from collective neutrality towards the ''lonely geni... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
1: ...German styling, in a 16th century engraved book [[frontispiece]]]]
11: ...midsummer day increases from 12h to 24h as you go from the equator to the polar circle). He put the m...
14: ...from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about onl...
16: ...pts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered by ...
18: ...on the ''Geography'' was on display in [[Autun]] (France) in late Roman times. In the 15th century Pto... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
9: ...rth. This is the common account as you have heard from astronomers. But Aristarchus has brought out a ...
11: ...apparently quite strong, as the following passage from [[Plutarch]] suggests (''On the Apparent Face i...
21: ...iameters must be in proportion to their distances from Earth. He thus concluded that the Sun was 20 ti... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
1: [[Image:Baritonesax.jpg|right|frame|Saxophones of different sizes play in differen...
7: ...legated to military bands--this despite his great friendship with the influential Parisian composer [[...
16: ...instrument to learn, especially when transferring from other woodwind instruments, though a great amou...
20: ... number of saxophones being commercially produced from materials other than brass. Silver, copper and ...
28: ...3, for example. Some players make their own reeds from 'blanks', but as this is time-consuming and usu... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
29: ...d grassy plains and temporary lakes that resulted from seasonal rains. The people who settled there mu...
31: ...xture of [[Europe]]an, [[Middle East]]ern, and [[Africa]]n''").
48: ...retation of the process. Poorly embalmed bodies (from the Late Period) are often black and very britt...
50: ...erent way to treat your Pharaoh. The answer came from the [[Nile]].
54: ...es. They became so good at this that one example from the [[Fifth dynasty of Egypt|5th Dynasty]] of a... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...e was initiated as a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] in Fredericksburg on [[4 February]] [[1752]]. On Lawren...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...nternational incident, and helped to ignite the [[French and Indian War]], which eventually became the...
33: ...ition]], which successfully drove the French away from [[Fort Duquesne]].
37: ...en. In that year, he was chosen as a [[delegate]] from Virginia to the First [[Continental Congress]] ...
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