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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...tlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built...
17: ...lo'' (Castle Hill). Therefore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwa...
19: ...y French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jean-Fran篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Ni...
21: ...ed suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ... year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ... km northeast of [[Shiraz, Iran|Shiraz]], not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur...
4: ...s, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
6: ...al buildings, all constructed of dark-grey marble from the adjacent mountain. The stones were laid wit...
8: ...of these seven tombs were kings might be inferred from the sculptures, and one of those at ''Nakshi Ru...
18: ...remote place in a difficult alpine region was far from convenient, and the real capitals were [[Susa]]... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
1: [[image:JohnCFremont.jpg|frame|John C. Frémont]]
2: ...dash;[[July 13]], [[1890]]), born '''John Charles Fremon''', was an [[United States|American]] [[milit...
4: ...mb|left|200px|Modern marker for site where two of Frémont's men were lost in Colorado]]
5: ... Sierra Nevada, it is generally acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view ...
7: ...e first pair of [[United States Senate|Senator]]s from [[California]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican ... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
1: [[Image:Maria Cantwell.jpg|frame|Maria Cantwell]]
3: ...or [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member...
15: ...ted to the United States House of Representatives from Washington's first congressional district in 40...
21: ... claimed in [[2000]] that RealNetworks was at the frontier of Internet privacy. However, Internet pri...
41: ...29 votes, or .09%, on [[December 7]]. Republicans frequently pointed out that Cantwell won only five c... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
30: ...ther, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three years was a pol...
34: ...ore than 500 students. She received her [[LL.B.]] from Harvard three years later. Despite her Harvard ...
42: ...deral government as a threat to their fundamental freedoms.
50: * Reduce crime and violence by incarcerating serious, repeat off...
52: ... early intervention efforts to keep children away from gangs, drugs and violence and on the road to st... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...moting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[Firs...
5: ...tes of America|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that draf...
9: ...exual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information...
11: ...rom the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...f the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
20: ...k entrance and forced to wait in a dark room away from the audience before appearing on stage. Once be...
24: ...duced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and contemporaneous sources that she...
30: ...d [[Lester Young]]; both were less than two years from death.
34: ...s well [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/]. - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: Alanis's Surname "Morissette" is French in origin. Her [[1995]] international debut ...
12: ...er early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you o...
23: ...he would later write about in songs such as "UR" (from the album ''[[Supposed Former Infatuation Junki...
38: ...is''. The album attempted to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound. However, ''N...
42: ...to [[Nashville]] a few months later also proved unfruitful. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
11: ... Clyde" is a remarkably personal account of their crime spree and looming demise.
15: ...rested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he'd failed to return ...
19: ... most prevalent story is that it was through his friend Clarence Clay. Clarence's sister, Bonnie's si...
23: ...ts]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake."
25: ...s, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamilton]] and others. He r... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...mple, a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a...
19: After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious h...
25: ...join her on her religious travels, he soon became frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed...
43: ...y of several government officials and [[organized crime]] figures, as a result of the "naming names" whic...
45: ...erce Department]] for deviating from its assigned frequency. Many broadcast histories claim McPherson... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
5: ...istance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the care of...
9: ...mprisoned. Under torture by the [[Gestapo]] at [[Fresnes prison]] in [[Paris]], Odette stuck to her c...
11: ...ied against the prison guards at a [[1946]] [[war crime]]s trial.
15: Her third husband was Geoffrey Hallowes. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarilynMonroe.jpg|right|frame|Marilyn Monroe]]
12: ...e was declared a ward of the state. Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guard...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]...
23: ...yn and her unique connection with the [[camera]]. From this point on, audiences were spellbound and Mo...
36: [[Image:dmm.jpg|frame|right|Monroe and Joe DiMaggio on their wedding... - Science (19868 bytes)
15: ...ions, rules, practices, etc. and that transitions from one paradigm to another generally does not invo...
30: An especially fruitful theory that has withstood the test of time ...
39: ...ic method]] that can serve to distinguish science from non-science.
56: ...s to desire or which is 'best'. What one projects from the currently most reasonable scientific hypoth...
58: ...eme cases relativity allow us to predict anything from the effect one moving billiard ball will have o... - Social studies (4053 bytes)
3: ...[business]], [[economics|economy]], [[criminology|crime]], or [[mass media]]. It tends to ''exclude'' ce... - War (7002 bytes)
16: ...pe?" This attitude was embraced by many societies from [[Sparta]] in [[Ancient Greece]] and the [[Anci...
24: ...arter U.N. Charter], "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war."
31: * "[[crime against international peace]]".
43: ... restore order or prevent [[genocide]] or other [[crimes against humanity]], or to support a legally reco... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - United States (58223 bytes)
36: established_dates = From [[Great Britain]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[...
58: ...on of the Americas]], [[thirteen colonies]] split from Great Britain and formed the United States, the...
60: ... the [[Emancipation Proclamation]], mandating the freedom of all slaves in states in rebellion, though...
62: ...e U.S. acquired a number of overseas possessions, from [[Cuba]] to the [[Philippines]], though it gave...
70: ... American people. Americans enjoy [[universal suffrage]]. ''More information at the Main article: [[P... - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ...e of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[G...
10: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] populat...
17: ...ions]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism ...
18: * [[Canadian French|French]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and ...
46: ...t|[[New Brunswick]]||[[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]]
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