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- Togo (15373 bytes)
14: ...n: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[List of state mottos|National motto]]: Travail, Liberté, Patrie...
46: | ''[[Salut à toi, pays de nos aïeux]]'' (Hail to thee, land of our forefat...
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61: ...om exile and was put in charge, but he too was deposed in [[January]] [[1967]] by then Lt Colonel (lat...
63: ...n]] attempt, Eyad魡 nationalised the country's phosphate mines and ordered all Togolese to take an Af... - Angola (15614 bytes)
1: ... resources, among which oil and diamonds are the most relevant. The country is nominally a [[democrac...
19: ... dos Santos|Fernando da Piedade <br> Dias dos Santos]]|
61: ...tch]] occupied Luanda from 1641-48, providing a boost for anti-Portuguese states. In 1648 Portugal ret...
68: ...fter the current president [[Jos項duardo dos Santos]] of MPLA won UN supervised elections, UNITA clai...
70: ...f people homeless. President Jos項duardo dos Santos suspended the regular functioning of democratic i... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
55: ...articipation in government and European fears of losing political control.
59: ...amibia]]). Zambia's sympathies lay with forces opposing colonial or white-dominated rule, particularly...
61: Conflicts with Rhodesia resulted in the closing of Zambia's borders with that country and seve...
63: ...h extended west through Angola, was essentially closed to traffic from Zambia by the late 1970s. Zambi...
69: ...roups. Kaunda tried to base government on his philosophy of "[[humanism]]," which condemned human expl... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
1: ...o]] (formerly [[Santa Isabel]]), is located. Its post-independence name is suggestive of its being sit...
36: ... ([http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ek.html July 2004])
42: | '''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]''' (PPP)
59: | ''[[Caminemos pisando la senda]]''
72: ...orces and minister of defense, and he maintains close supervision of the military activity. The Prime ... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
3: ...d|Scottish]] [[mathematician]] and [[engineer]] whose improvements to the [[steam engine]] were a key ...
22: ...pproximate straight-line motion (of which he was most proud) and the steam indicator to measure steam ...
26: Watt was opposed to the use of high-pressure steam and is held b...
33: ...ficiency]] and many applications. It was the foremost energy source in the emerging Industrial Revolut...
53: *[[Joseph Black]] - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...[Old World]] and the [[New World]]. The fiber is most often spun into [[yarn|thread]] and used to make...
4: ...er is made up of twenty to thirty layers of cellulose coiled in a neat series of natural springs. When...
13: ..., writing in [[1350]], stated as fact the now-preposterous belief: "There grew there India a wonderful...
28: ...cts are now available. Historically, one of the most economically destructive pests in cotton product...
30: ..., the plant will continue to grow. Cotton is a close relative of [[okra]] and [[hibiscus]]. - Egyptian hieroglyph (6639 bytes)
8: ...heological team excavating at [[Abydos, Egypt|Abydos]] (modern [[Umm el-Qa'ab]]) uncovered tomb U-j wh...
10: ..., and determinatives, which indicate the semantic category of a spelled-out word without indicating its prec...
12: ...d, but existed along side the other forms. The [[Rosetta Stone]] contains both hieroglyphic and demoti...
16: ...temples in [[391]] AD by the Roman Emperor [[Theodosius I]]; the last known inscription is from a temp...
20: ...nning the very early 1800s. The discovery of the Rosetta stone by some of [[Napoleon]]'s troops during... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
12: ..., George became the team's catcher. He liked the position because he was involved in every play. One d...
15: ...her players to [[Joseph Lannin]], owner of the [[Boston Red Sox]], for a sum rumored to be between $20...
18: ...osed to [[Helen Woodford]], a waitress he met in Boston, and they were married in [[Baltimore, Marylan...
20: ...he Red Sox to the pennant. Ruth won 18 games and lost 8 and helped himself with the bat, hitting .315 ...
23: ...d their 100 wins, missed out on a third straight postseason appearance. More importantly, however, Ru... - California (63989 bytes)
11: LargestCity = [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] |
15: PostalAbbreviation = CA |
64: Fossil = [[Smilodon|Saber-toothed cat]] |
89: ...ost populous state in the U.S.]], as well as the most physically diverse, with the highest and the low...
91: ...lifornia|San Diego]], [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = HI |
39: ... continues to grow due to active [[lava]] flows, most notably from [[Kilauea|Kīlauea]]. Ethnicall...
46: ...ritten by [[Kalakaua|King Kalākaua]] and composed by [[Henri Berger]]. ''[[Hawaii Aloha|Hawaii A...
51: Nineteen islands and atolls extending across a distance of 2,400 km (1,500 mi) comprise the ...
56: ...ion ]] created impressive geological features. Those conditions created made [[Mount Waialeale|Mount ... - Idaho (13962 bytes)
6: Seal = Idahostateseal.jpg |
13: PostalAbbreviation = ID |
36: ...capital]] is [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]] and the U.S. postal abbreviation is '''ID'''.
50: ...o Falls, Idaho|Idaho Falls]]) to [[Moscow, Idaho|Moscow]] in northern Idaho. Idaho still operates und...
54: ... views, the [[Aryan Nations]]. These groups are most heavily concentrated in the northern part of th... - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
14: PostalAbbreviation = WI |
51: ...sidential candidate [[John Kerry]], both of whom lost the national election.
53: ...te capital. By the 1840s the easily-accessible deposits were worked out, and experienced miners were d...
65: ...was added by the state legislature as a protected category under existing anti-discrimination laws, a step i...
79: ... the [[Central Plain (Wisconsin)|Central Plain]] possesses some unique sandstone formations like the [... - West Virginia (24258 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = WV |
38: ...el a greater affinity for [[Pittsburgh]], while those in the [[Eastern Panhandle]] feel a greater conn...
46: ...a]]. Considerable disagreements existed between those in the western part of Virginia and plantation o...
48: .... Vote records for the remaining 9 counties were lost during the war.[http://www.ls.net/~newriver/va/v...
72: ... high, the plateau region is extremely rugged in most areas. (The two plateaus are essentially the sam... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = NJ |
36: ...he [[United States of America]] and has the U.S. postal abbreviation of '''NJ'''. It is also the fift...
41: ...] and [[Maryland]] as a proprietary colony (as opposed to a royal colony). James then granted the lan...
51: ...r for Independence, British and American armies crossed New Jersey several times.
53: ...anuel Gottlieb Leutze]]'s painting [[Washington Crossing the Delaware]]. - Aviation (1454 bytes)
13: * [[Aerospace]]
14: * [[Aerospace engineering]]
15: * [[Aerostation]]
24: * [[:Category:Aviation licenses and certifications]]
27: * [[:Category:Aviation]] - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ...acedon]] ([[336 BC]]-[[323 BC]]), was one of the most successful military commanders of the ancient wo...
9: ...ulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy.
14: ...ught to have been planned with the knowledge and possible involvement of Alexander or Olympias, but in...
23: ...wait the future "king of Asia." According to the most vivid story, Alexander proclaimed that it did no...
25: Alexander's army crossed the [[Cilician Gates]] and met and defeated th... - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ...omic burden in the form of health care costs and lost productivity. Major genetic changes in the virus...
12: The A type of influenza virus is the type most likely to cause [[epidemic|epidemics]] and [[pan...
14: ...dentified for influenza B virus. At present, the most common antigenic variants of influenza A virus a...
16: ...et al'' 2004) Examples of the nomenclature are A/Moscow/10/99 (H3N2) and B/Hong Kong/330/2001.
18: ..., is unusually [[virulent]], or is for which the host is unusually unresponsive to treatment. Thus, th... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...1920s]], which has been described as "one of the most colorful decades in [[American history]]." The d...
3: ...building and coming to terms with the vast human cost of the conflict. Unlike after [[World War II]], ...
5: ...ology, the limits [[ecology]] and sustainability pose to [[economic growth|economic]] and [[innovation...
8: ...raditionally viewed as an era of great economic prosperity driven by the introduction of a wide array ...
11: ..., the cessation of wartime production caused a [[Post-WWI recession|brief, but deep recession]]. Quick... - List of sports (7304 bytes)
1: ...tage because some sports may fit in more than one category. Here they are only listed in one.
76: * [[Cyclocross]]
94: * [[Motocross]]
129: * [[Foosball]]
207: * [[Cross country skiing]] (together with ski jumping and ... - Desert (21206 bytes)
4: ... wetter regions this may be true, although upon closer examination, deserts often harbor a wealth of l...
6: ...of [[sand]] and [[sand dunes]] may be present. Exposures of [[Rock (geology)|rocky]] terrain are typic...
8: ...y, they are ideal places for human artifacts and fossils to be preserved.
14: Most classifications rely on some combination of the ...
18: ...ic [[evaporation]], coupled with the evaporative loss of water through the life processes of plants. ...
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