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- Dick Cheney (23685 bytes)
38: ...nd played [[halfback]] on the [[American football|football]] team. [http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.ph...
41: ...for the Humanities]] by Ronald Reagan, she served from 1986 to 1993. She is now a public speaker, auth...
43: ...e Perrys have four children. Elizabeth graduated from the [[University of Chicago]] Law School in [[1...
46: ...cided after three semesters to take some time off from Yale, on account of difficulty with his studies...
50: ... degree in [[political science]] in [[1966]] both from the University of Wyoming. - Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
47: ...e colonies of southern [[New England]] to recover from the effects of the war.
55: ...ing this period were [[Thomas Hutchinson]], [[Sir Francis Bernard]], and [[Thomas Gage]]. Gage was th...
60: ...ispus Attucks]], from [[Framingham, Massachusetts|Framingham]], was killed at an event that became kno...
67: ...tablish, the following Declaration of Rights, and Frame of Government, as the Constitution of the Comm...
77: ...5]], [[1820]] the area of [[Maine]] was separated from Massachusetts, of which it had been a non-conti... - New York (25691 bytes)
36: ...ork State''' when there is need to distinguish it from [[New York City]].
47: ...nate has long been controlled by the Republicans. From 1984 until 2005, no budget had been passed on t...
71: New York State's borders touch (clockwise from the northwest) two [[Great Lakes]] ([[Lake Erie...
77: ... urbanized area and ever more sophisticated links from one specialty to another. Several other groups ...
79: ...Ontario is a popular attraction; the best view is from the Canadian side. The [[Hudson River]] flows s... - Culture of Ireland (27885 bytes)
1: ...e:KellsFol027v4Evang.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A page from the [[Book of Kells]].]]
2: ...people living on the island of [[Ireland]] is far from monolithic. Many notable cultural divides exist...
8: As [[archaeology|archaeological]] evidence from sites such as the [[C�ide Fields]] in [[Count...
12: ...nce in the daily life of Irish communities. Apart from the religious significance of the parish, most ...
21: ...century]], [[Viking]] activity in Ireland shifted from raiding to permanent settlement and the first t... - Culture of Pakistan (6940 bytes)
1: ...tural practices and monuments have been inherited from the rule of Mughal emperors.
8: ...pecially where ''pre''-[[Islamic]] customs differ from [[Islamic]] practices.
10: ...phatic. Scuplture is dominated by Graeco-Buddhist friezes, and crafts by ceramics, jewellery, silk goo...
16: ...represented by a wide variety of forms. It ranges from traditional styles (such as Qawwali) to more mo...
23: ...ngdom, Germany and the Scandinavian nations comes from a rural background and belongs to the working c... - Culture of Spain (17671 bytes)
12: ...ommunity inside the two Castilles; the two north African autonomous cities of [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]...
41: ...the summer to an outdoor ''terrasa'' much farther from the center of town than their indoor winter loc...
44: ...specially since the [[1975]] death of [[Francisco Franco]], Spain has become increasingly European; Pr...
46: Franco's death ended a decades-long regime of censor...
55: ...m of the day in Spain remains relatively distinct from the European norm. Many shops and some museums ... - Culture of England (4178 bytes)
1: ...and''' is sometimes difficult to separate clearly from the [[culture of the United Kingdom]], so influ...
6: ... term referring to a vast body of art originating from the geographical region presently referred to a...
10: ...glish artists presently working range from Lucian Freud and Damien Hirst.
28: ...ted. England abounds with folklore, in all forms, from such obvious manifestations as the traditional ...
37: ...sed in English by writers who are not necessarily from England. Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns... - Culture of Northern Ireland (3146 bytes)
16: *[[Ulster fry]]
43: *[[Northern Ireland national football team]]
59: *[[Frank Ormsby]]
63: *[[Brian Friel]]
68: ...long to. Some groups, including the [[Irish Rugby Football Union]] have used the [[Flag of St. Patrick]] as ... - Culture of Scotland (11420 bytes)
3: ...the rest of the [[British Isles]]). It originates from various differences, some entrenched as part of...
7: ...h court for criminal cases. [[Scots Law]] differs from England's [[common law]] system.
9: ...] to the islands as part of a devolution of power from Edinburgh to Shetland and Orkney.
15: ...on Act of 1696 and became compulsory for children from the implementation of the Education Act of 1872...
23: ...also issue their own banknotes, and they are also freely accepted in the [[Channel Islands]]). In Scot... - Culture of New York City (6959 bytes)
9: ...where they can talk and shop and work with people from their country of origin. This phenomena is mor...
15: ...ay lifestyle of New Yorkers differs substantially from that of other Americans, and has in some ways b...
23: ...sunderstanding, and much on ignorance. A visitor from a small town can have trouble understanding the...
29: ...ees and the Mets is just as fierce. Outsiders are frequently unaware that few baseball fans in New Yor... - Monarch Butterflies (4460 bytes)
15: ... males have a spot in the center of each hindwing from which pheromones are released.
19: ...migration. They make massive southward migrations from August through October. A northward migration t...
29: ...narcas Morelia]] professional [[football (soccer)|football]] team. - Pigs (6100 bytes)
19: ...explorers, where escapees became feral and became freely used by [[Native Americans]] as food.
21: ...l areas. They are ''Sus scrofa scrofa'' (western Africa, Europe), ''Sus scrofa ussuricus'' (northern A...
33: ...nimals. Meat from pigs is called [[pork]] (coming from the Latin words "porcinus" and "porcus"). Thei...
47: ...a famous part human, part pig, literary character from the Chinese novel ''[[Journey to the West]]''.
49: ...his room is a pigsty"); the latter probably comes from their habit of wallowing in mud. The perenially... - Tasmanian Devils (12312 bytes)
41: ...omestic mammals like sheep, birds, fish, insects, frogs and reptiles, diet is largely varied depending...
43: .... Adult males are the most aggressive and scaring from fighting over food and mates is common.
46: ...enous Australian]]s{{mn|Johnson2003|7}}. In Dingo-free Tasmania, marsupial carnivores were still activ...
48: ...troduced as early as [[1830]] to remove the devil from rural properties as it was believed the devils ...
52: ...'s wild devils, and estimates of the impact range from 20% to as much as a 50% decline in the devil po... - Team sport (1930 bytes)
3: ... between them to achieve the objective, such as [[football]] (in its various forms), [[baseball]], [[handbal...
5: ...ttempting to score trying to propel the ball away from themselves while the players themselves attempt... - Handball (6138 bytes)
3: ...method of handling the ball which is inverse from football. It has been played internationally since the fir...
7: ...d near-semicircular line that is nine meters away from the goal.
11: The ball is smaller than a [[football (ball)|football]] in order for the players to be able to hold and...
15: ... as well, the tie-break is an individual shootout from the 7-meter line.
17: ...ayers is particularly rough (even if it is indeed frontal), the [[referee]]s may award a nine-meter pe... - List of sportspersons (1713 bytes)
12: *[[List of footballers|Football players]]
13: ...(soccer) players|Football players]] - Association Football (soccer)
14: ...an football players|Football players]] - American Football - September 23 (7397 bytes)
15: ...ams]]; verified by German astronomer [[Johann Gottfried Galle]]
29: ...] world heavyweight champion ever to come from [[Africa]] when he knocks out defending [[WBA]] champio...
38: ...AD [[1158]] - [[Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany|Geoffrey Plantagenet]], [[Duke of Brittany]]
43: *[[1819]] - [[Hippolyte Fizeau]], French physicist (d. [[1896]])
44: *[[1838]] - [[Victoria Woodhull]], suffragist (d. [[1927]]) - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
5: ...ody. The land forming the original District came from the states of Virginia and Maryland, but only t...
7: ...institutions. All of this has made Washington the frequent focal point of massive political demonstrat...
48: ...h their [[constituent]]s by distancing themselves from the negative image of an out-of-touch centraliz...
56: ...nce exempt from local property taxes, the city is frequently cash-strapped. Public services in the ci...
81: ... with work contributed by such noted figures as [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] and [[Daniel Burnham]]. Howe... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ...he first historical data we have from the city is from the middle of the IX Century, when [[Mohamed I]...
18: ...sh Indies]], but Madrid controlled Seville. Aside from a brief period, 1601 - 1606, when [[Philip III ...
20: ...have a lasting impact on French rule in Spain and France's image in Europe in general.
24: ...rero Blanco would continue the dictatorship after Franco's death--contribute to lead the country towar...
26: ...se of left-wing and republican ideology) accepted Franco's wishes of being succeedled by [[Juan Carlos... - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (32608 bytes)
5: ... political and social importance, with [[Benjamin Franklin]] playing an extraordinary role in Philadel...
34: ...apital of his new colony founded on principles of freedom and religious tolerance, would be a model of...
41: ...nited States|United States Government]] was moved from [[Federal Hall]] in [[New York, New York|New Yo...
47: ...sition]]. Memorial Hall and the expansive mall in front of it are remnants of this fair.
51: ...|800px|<center>Center City Philadelphia panorama, from [[1913]].</center>]]
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