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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
47: | [[Hawaii]]
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
63: | [[Iowa]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
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...
191: *[[Tenzing Norgay]], with [[Sir Edmund Hillary]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...akes]] region of [[Africa]]. It is bordered by [[Rwanda]] on the north, [[Tanzania]] on the south and ...
12: national_anthem = [[Burundi bwacu]] |
13: ...uage|Kirundi]] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
23: percent_water = 7.8% |
53: ...elgian administrative authority following [[World War II]]. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
49: *[[Edward Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Edward]] (1810-1887)
63: *[[Roy Acuff|Acuff, Roy]], (1903-1992), musician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minis...
41: ...s Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Rai...
45: ...ams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...lin]], who sent her abroad as a diplomat, and she was thus one of the very few "[[Old Bolshevik]]s" to...
5: ... the [[Bolshevik]]s under [[Vladimir Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. H...
7: ...d later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stalin]] in [[1930]].
11: ...ve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
13: ... as Ambassador to [[Mexico]] and [[Sweden]]. She was also a member of the Soviet delegation to the [[... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...eorgine Markiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalis...
6: ...simir Markiewicz. They settled in [[Dublin]] in [[1903]], where she became involved in radical politics ...
8: ...ntence was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...of [[Dᩬ ɩreann]], a new Irish Parliament. She was re-elected to the [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House...
12: ... record until 1979 when [[Mᩲe Geoghegan-Quinn]] was apointed to the then junior cabinet post of [[Ir... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
6: ...family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
10: ...store for a short time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ...e went to Denver, where her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign pai... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...women in the period immediately preceding [[World War I]].
5: ...tantial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
7: ...s a result. Her autobiography, ''My Own Story'', was published in [[1914]]. She died ten years after... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...[[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet...
7: ...hree. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Ra...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother L...
13: ...nd Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael'...
17: When England declared war on Germany in [[World War I]], Stein and Toklas were visiting with [[Alfre... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ..., [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hull]].
4: ...rk in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot...
8: She became well-known in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia...
12: ...own]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a ...
16: ... Rapide]] nonstop from [[Pendine Sands]], South [[Wales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The p... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...nstitute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ...al breakdown]] for a year. Due to her gender, she was not allowed admission into any Russian or Polish...
7: ...races of some unknown radioactive component which was far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[Dec...
9: ...ium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity....
11: ...nri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...solid is amorphous, not crystaline like the sugar was originally, which can be seen in its [[conchoida...
20: ...ission). Ordinary glass does not allow light at a wavelength of lower than 400 [[nanometre|nm]], also ...
22: ...lometres of glass are transparent at [[infrared]] wavelengths in [[fibre optic]] cables. Individual f...
30: ... about 1000 ?C. However, the soda makes the glass water-soluble, which is obviously undesirable, so li...
32: ...erium]] can be used for glass that absorbs [[UV]] wavelengths (biologically damaging ionizing radiatio... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he too...
18: ...pril 13]], [[1743]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the third ([[1801]]–[[1809]]) [[President ...
23: ...he [[College of William & Mary]] — where he was a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] —...
25: Jefferson was the primary author of the [[United States Declar...
27: ...nded from the sale of his collection (the Library was founded in [[1800]]; Jefferson sold his third li... - 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. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
4: ...on tales]]. The [[Han Chinese]] thought the Earth was created and destroyed in cycles of over 23 milli...
6: ...e future beyond the end of humankind. One who did was [[Aristotle]], who thought the Earth and [[unive...
9: ..., regarded as the founder of [[Russia]]n science, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, sug...
11: ... cooling. This led him to estimate that the Earth was about 75,000 years old.
13: ... simply assumed that the Earth always had been, always would be. However, there were many naturalists ... - Panama (10077 bytes)
28: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
35: | From [[Colombia]]<br>[[November 3]], [[1903]]
55: ...Panama an independent Republic. The new republic was immediately recognized by the United States, and...
59: ...Noriega was immediately taken to Florida where he was formally charged and arrested by United States f...
71: ... on [[May 2]], [[2004]]; the presidential contest was won by [[Mart�Torrijos]], son of the former st... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
6: ...ates]] occupied the island until its independence was granted in [[1902]], though limited by the [[Pla...
8: ...the point that by the late fifties the cuban peso was valued very close to the us dollar. Illiteracy ...
10: ...e delay, a [[Constitution]] of Soviet inspiration was adopted in [[1976]].
12: ...the invasion. The failed attempt to liberate Cuba was an international embarrasment to the newly elect...
16: ...his oil was consumed by Cuba, while the remainder was sold on the world market. Cuba supported communi... - Al Fayyum (5562 bytes)
5: ...ke, freshwater in prehistory, but now a large saltwater lake. The capital of Fayyum, [[Medinet-Al-Fayy...
7: ...ression. Another depression, entirely barren, the Wadi Rayan, covering 280 mile² (725 km&sup...
9: ...o be brought under cultivation in the three years 1903-1905. Three crops are obtained in twenty months. ...
11: ...e sacred [[crocodile]] kept in the Lake of Moeris was worshipped. Besides Medina there are several oth...
14: ...[geographer]]s and [[traveller]]s" ([http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05329b.htm ''CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDI... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
34: ...ntury BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
55: * [[Water clock]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]]
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