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- Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...ngland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Somet...
9: ...th impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fa...
11: ...the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...as addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wive...
18: ...th Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appointed to Elizabeth... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
15: ...ied in schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onwards.
17: ... known world, it was spoken from [[Egypt]] to the fringes of [[India]]. After the [[Roman]] conquest o...
21: *'''[[Modern Greek]]''': Steaming directly from [[Koine Greek]], '''Modern Greek''' can be trac...
32: ... this is found in the [[Linear B]] tablets dating from [[1500 BC]]. The [[alphabet]] normally used, wa...
44: ...Austria]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Canada]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Germany]]... - Europe (23835 bytes)
6: ...the third largest continent after [[Asia]] and [[Africa]]. The population of Europe is roughly 705,500...
13: ...which means "sunrise" and is the land to the east from a [[Mesopotamian]] perspective.
18: ...g large colonial empires with vast holdings in [[Africa]], [[the Americas]], and [[Asia]].
20: ...to power and set out on a conquest, forming a new French empire that soon collapsed. After these conqu...
22: ...Economic Consequences|aftermath of World War I]]. From the end of [[World War II]] through the end of ... - East Timor (13677 bytes)
16: The process of decolonisation in the then [[Portuguese Timor]] began in [[1974]...
17: ...cal instability and more pressing concerns with decolonisation in [[Angola]] and [[Mozambique]], Lisbon effectiv...
19: ...ETILIN]] party, which received some vocal support from the [[People's Republic of China]], was communi...
23: ...]], the East Timorese voted for full independence from Indonesia, but violent clashes, instigated prim...
34: ...to a five-year term. The number of seats can vary from a minimum of 52 to a maximum of 65, though it e... - Sierra Leone (10596 bytes)
1: ...public of Sierra Leone''' is a country in [[West Africa]], on the coast of the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. The...
14: ...'[[List of state mottos|National motto]]: Unity - Freedom - Justice''</small>
22: | [[Freetown]]
43: | ''[[High We Exalt Thee, Realm of the Free]]''
54: ... a source for [[slave|slaves]], but in [[1787]] [[Freetown]] was established as a city for former slav... - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...[[Gulf of Bothnia]] to the west. Finland has land frontiers with [[Sweden]], [[Norway]] and [[Russia]]...
33: | style="vertical-align: top;" | From [[Russia]]<br/>[[6 December]] [[1917]]<br/>[[22...
51: ..., [[chisel]]s from [[Lake Onega]], and spearheads from North Scandinavia. Currently it is considered p...
57: ...e and in Russian propaganda promising "liberation from Swedish oppression".
63: ...and industrial workers who despite [[universal suffrage]] in [[1906]] had found themselves without pol... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...ted territories|disputed]]). Due to the [[Spanish colonisation of the Americas]], the Spanish language remains w...
58: ...in the sense that they are not known to have come from elsewhere), consisting of a number of separate ...
70: ...s present languages, religion, and laws originate from this Roman period.
73: ...frica. Much of Spain's distinctive art originates from this seven-hundred-year period, and many Arabic...
81: ...om [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish colonisation of the Americas]] resulted in rampant [[inflation... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...t are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Libya]], [[Romania]], [[Spain]], and [[U...
4: ...izations, while Greek-speaking, were so different from later Greek cultures that they should be classe...
14: [[Image:vcycladic.jpg|thumb|left|Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC]]
15: ...th century BC is a "[[Greek Dark Ages|dark age]]" from which no primary texts, and only scant archaeol...
20: ..., where every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours by the sea or mountain ranges. - Australian Aboriginal art (4187 bytes)
1: ...re-dates [[Europe]]an [[colonisation of Australia|colonisation]] as well as [[contemporary art]] by Aborigines b...
7: Traditionally, paints were often made from water or [[saliva|spittle]] mixed with ochre an...
13: ...free of knots and other blemishes. It is best cut from the tree in the wet season when the sap is risi...
21: ... mythological [[imp]]ish creatures. Mimihs are so frail that they never venture out on [[wind]]y days ... - Numbat (6437 bytes)
19: ...nd always with a conspicuous black stripe running from the tip of the muzzle through the eye to the ba...
25: ...ich is temperature dependent: in winter they feed from mid-morning to mid-afternoon; in summer they ri...
27: ...ividuals, concentrated in two small areas not far from [[Perth, Australia|Perth]], Dryandra and Perup.
29: ...h areas have many hollow logs to serve as refuges from predators. Being diurnal, the Numbat is much mo...
31: ...ulation substantially, and reintroductions to fox-free areas have begun. Despite the encouraging degre... - Bilby (4570 bytes)
16: ... family]]. Before [[History of Australia|European colonisation]] of [[Australia]] there were two species. One be...
18: ... insects and their larvae, seeds, spiders, bulbs, fruit, fungi and very small animals. Most food is fo...
20: ...d moves between them, using them for shelter both from predators and the heat of the day.
24: ... [[fox (ecology)|fox]] predation, and competition from [[rabbit (ecology)|rabbit]]s. The last confirme... - Ireland (33828 bytes)
2: [[Image:LocationIslandIreland.png|frame|right|Ireland is located west of the European ...
10: [[Image:Ireland_physical_small.png|frame|Some physical features of [[Ireland]] are show...
13: ...ush vegetation, a product of its mild climate and frequent but soft rainfall, earns it the [[sobriquet...
44: ...e after [[8000 BC]], with the culture progressing from [[Mesolithic]] to high [[Neolithic]] over the c...
47: ...cultural diffusion from overseas over significant colonisation. - History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...ble. Yet, humans had colonized nearly all the ice-free parts of the globe by the end of the Ice Age, s...
12: ...of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did not use agriculture until relatively mode...
14: ...y. However, these civilisations were so different from one another that they almost certainly must hav...
29: ...their territory through conquest and colonisation from the beginning of the [[5th century BCE]]. By th...
31: ...ed control. The pressure of [[barbarians]] on the frontiers hastened the process of internal dissoluti... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led ...
5: ...e commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery an...
6: ... an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeat...
11: ...arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
13: - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...] kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta d...
11: Southern India suffered little or no incursion from foreign lands, which facilitated the establishm...
14: ...ed south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century AD, fol...
20: ... the European powers. Initial rivalry between the French and the English companies finally ended with ...
23: ...modern state, followed. India gained independence from British rule on [[August 15]] [[1947]], later b... - Leif Ericson (4502 bytes)
2: ...ic Viking recreation.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Viking colonisation site at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland]]
4: ...icson''' ([[Old Norse language|Old Norse]]: '''Leifr Eiríksson'''; modern [[Icelandic language|Icelan...
6: ...einn]], and one sister, [[Freydís Eiríksdóttir|Freydís]]. Leif married a woman by the name of Þó...
12: ... the river, and the climate was mild, with little frost in the winter, and green grass year-round. The...
14: ...he [[nickname]] 'Leif the Lucky' (Old Norse: ''Leifr hinn heppni''). - 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... - Troy (22846 bytes)
10: ... [[Turkey]]). Troy is known for its riches gained from port trade with east and west, fancy clothes, i...
12: ...est Libyan tribe who said that they are descended from the men of Troy, according to [[Herodotus]]. Th...
18: ...s law was adopted by King [[Dunvallo Molmutius]] (from [[Brutus]]) in his code and is still in effect ...
20: ..., where the Greek gods watched the [[Trojan War]] from, where [[Hera]] distracted [[Zeus]] with her se...
24: ...e of the ancient city today is some 15 kilometers from the coast, but the ancient mouths of Scamander,... - Squirrel (6648 bytes)
15: ...imal with the tail that casts a shadow." It comes from Greek, the syllables ''skia'' meaning shadow an...
19: ...f squirrel is the gathering and storing of [[nut (fruit)|nuts]] for the [[winter]]. These squirrels a...
23: ...irrel trapping]] is also practiced to remove them from residential areas.
25: ...e, they often have a hard time telling fingertips from food, and bites are painful.
27: ...refer. The recent colonisation of mainland Europe from Italy by Gray Squirrels is expected to result u...
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