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- Columbus, Ohio (27104 bytes)
6: ...is the [[county seat]] of [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin County]]. It also extends into [[Delaware C...
20: county = [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin]], [[Delaware County, Ohio|Delaware]],<br> ...
35: ... in Delaware, [[Capital University]] in Bexley, [[Franklin University]], the [[Columbus College of Art...
48: ...wn that resembles jumbled blocks, or a train yard from overhead. The convention center was designed b...
53: ...entally), so house numbers increase with distance from downtown. This rigid street grid breaks down th... - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (37869 bytes)
3: ...es|United States of America]]. It is the [[county seat]] of [[Oklahoma County, Oklahoma|Oklahoma County]...
7: ...ity in the nation, according to a [[2003]] report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The city's population o...
61: ...rom [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 3.89% from two or more races. 16.15% of the population we...
67: ...utskirts of the city is quick and mostly gridlock-free because of the city's interstate system (Mayor ...
73: ...homa City to Edmond, and [[Interstate 235]] spurs from I-44 in North Central OKC into downtown Oklahom... - Cheyenne, Wyoming (8059 bytes)
3: ...t has a population of 53,011. It is the [[county seat]] of [[Laramie County, Wyoming|Laramie County]] a...
31: ...upply camp for all the northern army posts on the frontier.
35: ...nly city of any consequence, as well as being the seat of the stockyards where cattle were loaded on the...
37: ...team locomotives ever built, designed for hauling freight over the [[Rocky Mountains]].
48: ...rom [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 2.69% from two or more races. 12.54% of the population ar... - Olympia, Washington (7112 bytes)
1: ...1212.jpg|thumb|right|300px|State Capitol and waterfront, Olympia, Washington.]]
3: ...s a [[population]] of 42,514. It is the [[county seat]] of [[Thurston County, Washington|Thurston Count...
38: ...mpaign by settlers to create a separate territory from [[Oregon]] resulted in Congress creating the [[...
54: ... 1.68% from other cultural backgrounds, and 3.76% from two or more ethnicities. 4.38% of the populati...
58: ..., 11.9% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 22.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who are 65 years of age or ... - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
4: ...nearby [[Great Salt Lake]], the city is separated from the lake's shore by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]...
15: ...an isolated area to practice their religion, away from the persecution they had faced in the East. Upo...
22: ...Salt Lake]]. A railroad was connected to the city from the Transcontinental Railroad in [[1870]] makin...
24: ...bating inner-city decay. The city lost population from the [[1960s]] through the [[1980s]], but recove...
31: ...jor construction projects were initiated. Local [[freeway]]s were expanded and repaired and a [[light ... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
4: ...regions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Although the struggle between execu...
8: ...cs' constitutionally guaranteed "right" to secede from the union. Russia was the largest of the union ...
12: ...chev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected a...
14: ...go]], [[Gennady Yanayev]], and [[Oleg Baklanov]] (from left) go public with the formation of a State o...
18: ... and they quickly received diplomatic recognition from many nations. Gorbachev's rump government recog... - Latvia (12041 bytes)
25: | [[Vaira Vike-Freiberga|Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga]]
37: ...11 August]] [[1920]]<br />[[17 June]] [[1940]]<br>From [[Soviet Union]]<br>[[4 May]] [[1990]]<br>[[21 ...
57: ...ence of the [[Germany|German]] [[Sword Brethren]] from the [[13th century]] onward. However, in the [[...
59: ... parties, at any given time, holding at least one seat in the parliament, called the Saeima. Governments...
68: The 100-seat [[unicameral]] Latvian [[parliament]], the ''[[Sa... - Politics of Malta (9667 bytes)
4: ...nister the leader of the party with a majority of seats in the [[unicameral]] House of Representatives, ...
6: ...vernment departments. The [[Cabinet]] is selected from among the members of the House of Representativ...
8: ...court. The court of criminal appeal hears appeals from judgments of conviction by the criminal court. ...
12: ... 50% of the popular vote would have a majority of seats in parliament and would thereby form the governm...
14: ...98 by a majority of 13,000 votes and holds a five-seat majority in Parliament. Voter turnout was 95%. Th... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: The oldest surviving archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE,...
7: Other stone tools from the [[Middle Palaeolithic|Middle Paleolithic Er...
9: ... Pieštany. Numerous necklaces made of shells from Cypraca thermophile [[Gastropoda|gastropods]] o...
11: From an archeological standpoint, the discovery of d...
13: ... years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨ory. - Vatican City (21873 bytes)
1: ...tensive with the [[Holy See]], the ecclesiastical seat of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and its [[Easter...
5: The city takes its name from ''Mons Vaticanus'', also known as [[Vatican Hil...
60: ...supposed site of the tomb of [[Saint Peter]], and from then on the area started to become more populat...
71: The Pope appoints cardinals to seats in the Roman Curia with specific authority to ad...
75: ...rdinals (one being chosen by lot every three days from each order of cardinals), performs other functi... - Roller coaster (14862 bytes)
9: ... lower as some mechanical energy is lost due to [[friction]]. Then the train goes down again, and up, ...
15: ..., it uses whatever method is available to keep it from entering. This can cause a [[cascade]] effect w...
17: ...es regarding when to release a newly-loaded train from the station. One common pattern, used on rides...
21: ...first loop track was probably also built in Paris from an English design in 1846, with a single-person...
23: ...of the "lift hill." By [[1912]], the first [[underfriction]] coaster was developed by [[John Miller (e... - Rome (33048 bytes)
36: ...ty]], a sovereign [[enclave]] within Rome, is the seat of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the home of ...
42: ...ly 2,800 years, during which time it has been the seat of the [[ancient Rome]] (the [[Roman Kingdom]], [...
45: ...ulating in Antiquity; the least likely is derived from Greek ''Ρώμη'' meaning brav...
49: ...rounding hills]] approximately eighteen [[miles]] from the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the south side of the...
52: ...h [[Mediterranean]] people, perhaps from [[North Africa]]. In the [[8th century BC]] these Italic spea... - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
32: Hagia Sophia was the seat of the [[Patriarch of Constantinople|Orthodox pat...
36: ...ject. The Islamic calligraphic displays suspended from the main dome remain in place. The Christian [[... - Aspendos (1855 bytes)
2: ... for his best-preserved theater of antiquity with seating for 15000. Still used today, the theater's gal...
11: ... theaters to be found today. Allowing 0.50 m. per seat, the theater holds 7000 spectators, with an addit...
13: ...gh stage served to seemingly isolate the audience from the rest of the world. The very top section of ... - Politics of Switzerland (6055 bytes)
8: ...ice-President are elected by the Federal Assembly from among the members of the Federal Council for on...
10: ...esigned--this member was then replaced by someone from the same party (and preferably also the same la...
12: ... the share of the Christian Democratic party to 1 seat.
16: ...[[Swiss Council of States|Council of States]] (46 seats - members serve four-year terms) and
31: ... [[2004]], the Swiss People's Party took one seat from the Christian Democrats. - Scythia (22520 bytes)
1: ... location and extent of Scythia varied over time, from the [[Altai]] region where [[Mongolia]], [[Chin...
3: ...s as ''Ishkuzai'', who are reported as pouring in from the north some time around 700 BC, settling in ...
7: ...Indo-European word for ''archer'' in turn derives from the [[Proto-Indo-European]] root *'''skeud''', ...
9: ...riors, drawn after figures on an [[electrum]] cup from the Kul'Oba kurgan burial near [[Kerch]] ([[Her...
21: ...f scholars conjecture that they migrated westward from [[Central Asia]] between [[800 BC]] and [[600 B... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
11: ...[[Medes]], [[Niniveh]] was sacked in 612, and the seat of empire was again transferred to Babylonia.
13: ...the mistress of the civilized world. Only a small fragment of his annals has been discovered, relating...
15: ...tablished a camp in the desert, near the southern frontier of his kingdom, leaving his son [[Belshazza...
17: ... Babylon without fighting." Nabonidus was dragged from his hiding-place, and Kurdish guards were place...
19: ...abonidus in removing the images of the local gods from their ancestral shrines, to his capital Babylon... - Navajo Nation (14007 bytes)
7: ...an Reservation and the [[Shiprock]] landmark. The seat of government is located at the town of [[Window ...
9: ...Navaho''. Navajo call themselves ''Din駧, a term from the [[Navajo language]] that means ''people''. ...
17: ...n]]. Athapaskan peoples in North America fan out from west-central [[Canada]] where some Athapaskan-s...
19: ...veling on the plains east of the Pueblo region, [[Francisco Coronado]] wrote:
29: ...1640s, the term was applied to Athapaskan peoples from the Chama on the east to the San Juan on the we... - Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
5: ...e is known of pre-[[Christian]] [[Ireland]] comes from a few references in Roman writings, [[Irish poe...
7: ...centuries were to pass before the treeless [[permafrost]] was transformed into a densely forested fert...
9: ...eir food, and they are known to have built canoes from dug-out tree trunks.
14: ... revolution was a long and slow process resulting from trade and overseas contacts with agricultural c...
16: ...ket of peat. Consisting of small fields separated from one another by dry-stone walls, the C驤e Field... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin...
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