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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: [[Image:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of ...
9: ...n area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 ...
15: ...s formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neighbor [[Niter, f...
17: The exact place of Rio's foundation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (P㯭de-A...
23: ...Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his new empire, yet the city region was losing importance - economic ... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ... third voyage). However, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: le...
21: ...ni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchinetta.
29: ...portunity to sail into the Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off th...
31: ...maker in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
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58: ...mitien Ndayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet the most extreme Hutu group, Palipehutu-FNL (comm...
60: ...r way, amid fears that the FNL will demand a blanket amnesty in exchange for laying down their armss. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet
110: *[[Pete Abrams|Abrams, Pete]], cartoonist - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
18: Raccoons are nocturnal and eat a large variety of things, including berries, insects, eggs and ...
24: .... People such as [[Daniel Boone]] and [[Davy Crockett]] are well known for wearing coonskin hats. Pop...
26: ==Raccoons as pets==
27: ...phan raccoons raised by humans may make suitable pets; however, raccoons are not [[domesticated animal...
29: ...l diet and lack of exercise; furthermore, many [[veterinarian]]s will not treat raccoons. Raccoons rai... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
62: *[[Milivi Adams|Adams, Milivi]], (1997-2002), young cancer patient
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...den Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
6: ...dio as a teenager in the late [[1960s]] in his hometown of [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri]], using the nam...
16: ...refers on-air to the "Excellence In Broadcasting Network", or "E-I-B"; however, this is merely an on-a...
18: ...in the United States. The show is usually split between call-in segments and monologues by Limbaugh; ...
26: ... it was aired too late in the evening in many markets. (In many places it was aired at 1:30 AM or eve...
30: ...e all listeners, some of whom noted a long delay between a caller ending his point and Limbaugh respon... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ..._(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</sm...
7: ..., '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor...
9: ...I of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous...
11: ...ouncil|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
13: ...r of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...oria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) (...
18: Princess Victoria met her future husband, [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobur...
20: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[...
25: ...t Augustus of Hanover. As the young queen was as yet unmarried and childless, Ernest Augustus was also...
29: ...y resigned his commission, allowing Melbourne to return to office. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
13: ...y]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], spawning b...
15: ...be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale.
22: ...er Lady Althorp's adultery with wallpaper heir [[Peter Shand Kydd]], Diana's mother sued for custody o...
24: ...e 16 she briefly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[S...
28: ...dy Fermoy, was a longtime friend of [[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]] . [[Charles, Prince of Wales|... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...oria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
5: ...mily]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the ...
13: ...g [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany...
19: Despite this setback, Queen Victoria still favoured Princess May a...
28: ...n]] ([[4 August]] [[1900]] – [[30 March]] [[2002]]); and had issue. - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
8: ...married [[Michael Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They had two sons, Alexander and Ki...
10: She returned to Myanmar in [[1988]] to care for her ailin...
16: ...an entry visa. Aung remained in Burma, and never met her husband again. He died in March [[1999]]. She...
18: ...use arrest. On [[May 6]], [[2002]], following secret confidence-building negotiations led by the [[Uni... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ... Pakistan [[Farooq Leghari]] again using his discretionary powers under the [[8th Amendment]]. Some of...
6: ...s elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. She temporarily left Radcliffe fo...
11: After graduating, she returned to [[Pakistan]], but in the course of her fa...
15: ...e held which were won by the PPP coalition, thus returning Bhutto back into office till [[1996]] when ...
21: ...alized. Pakistan made new friends and maintained better relations with many countries. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...n the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ...A., LL.B.) and studied towards a doctorate in Soviet Government at the [[London School of Economics]].
45: ...rom a relatively unknown [[Cabinet of Canada|cabinet member]] to [[Prime Minister of Canada]] came as ...
47: ...h the same attitudes and positions of her widely detested predecessor epitomised in the activist chant...
49: ...da|Liberal]] leader [[Jean Chr鴩en]]'s [[1993 Chretien ad|facial paralysis was mocked]] was largely r... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
6: ...lspan=2 bgcolor=#DDDDDD align=center|'''Personal Details'''
12: |[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
23: ...span=2 bgcolor=#DDDDDD align=center|'''Political Details'''
43: The Right Honourable '''Helen Elizabeth Clark''' (born [[February 26]], [[1950]]) has se...
45: ...h [[Jim Anderton]]'s Progressive Coalition Party (2002, with parliamentary supply and confidence from [[... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
2: ...+ style="font-size:larger; margin-left:1em"|'''Janet Reno'''
4: ...ter;" colspan="2"| [[Image:janetreno.jpg|180px|Janet Reno]]
27: '''Janet Reno''' (born [[July 21]], [[1938]]) was the 78th...
30: ... an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings.
38: ...e of State Attorney in November [[1978]] and was returned to office by the voters four more times. She...
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