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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...oresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
13: ... Portuguese explorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since t...
15: ...nies, and Europe. Fortresses were built and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend...
19: ...lvador da Bahia|Salvador]]. In [[1763]], the colonial administration in Portuguese America was moved t...
21: The city remained mostly a colonial capital until [[1808]], when the Portuguese Roya... - Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
1: '''Mia Hamm''' (born '''Mariel Margaret Hamm''' on [[Mar...
3: ...er ever to play for the national team at age 15, Mia later attended the [[University of North Carolina...
5: ...91]], when the US women's national team won the [[FIFA Women's World Cup]] for the first time with Hamm ...
7: ...was elected number 14 among soccer's most influential people by [[Soccer Business International]] maga...
9: ...] in front of 80,000 spectators in [[Athens, Georgia]], then an all-time record for any women's sporti... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
17: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[French language|French]], [[F...
23: |'''[[King of the Belgians|King]]''' || [[Albert II of Belgium|Albert II]]
50: ...small><sup>1</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[franc|Belgian franc]].</small>
55: ...etherlands|Dutch]], [[Spain|Spanish]], and [[Austria]]n influences. During most of its history, Belgi...
57: ...ingians were rather short-lived, as the [[Carolingian Dynasty]] soon took over. After [[Charles Martel... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...ated on the west and southwest parts of the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in southwestern [[Europe]], and is t...
5: ...ed across the world. After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal declined.
7: ...nion]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequent decades,...
12: ===Lusitania===
13: ...an|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitania|Roman Lusitania]]''''' - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom|No...
46: ...rity Languages]]. In each of these, the UK's official name is as follows:
52: ... Northern Ireland'' in 1927.<br><sup>6</sup> Official estimate provided by the UK [[Office for Nationa...
62: ... noted that the practice by some, the informal media in particular, of using "(Great) Britain" as shor...
64: ...], etc. The term is, however, often avoided, especially in [[Ireland]], by those who are conscious tha... - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
7: ...]-speaking world, usually '''soccer''' or '''association football'''. These names are also used to dis...
11:
28: ...cussion of the history of games ancestral to association football and the parallel development of othe...
32: ...ulminated in the formation of [[The Football Association]] (FA) in [[1863]] which first met on the eve...
34: ...representative from each of the four British associations. - Aztec (38742 bytes)
14: ...plied. The Museo Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, for example, refers to these people as Mexica.
22: ...and Civilization'' draws an analogy to the [[Assyria]]n Empire in this respect.
25: ...ec rule seem to have paid heavy [[tribute]]s immediately after they were conquered. Tributes were ext...
29: ...en could travel alone, a fact that amazed the Spaniards since that was not possible in Europe at that ...
34: ...tl, the title of Emperor had become a more appropriate analogy for this office, although as in the [[H... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
1: ...the [[Olympic Flame]] from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] to the opening ceremony.]]
3: ...e late [[19th century]]. The '''Games of the Olympiad''', better known as the [[Summer Olympics]], hav...
5: ...Greece for the [[2004 Summer Olympics|XXVIII Olympiad]]. The next games, the [[2006 Winter Olympics]]...
7: ...in between, two years after the Games of the Olympiad.
10: ...pia.jpg|thumb|right|Athletes trained in this Olympia facility in its heyday.]] - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ...the city in their quarter, still called the "Moreria" until they were expelled and every mosque and sy...
18: ...ourt to Madrid in 1561. Although he made no official declaration, the seat of the Court was the ''de ...
24: ...f [[Francisco Franco]], Madrid became very industrialized and there were massive [[migration]]s into t...
28: ...ducational, and technological center on the [[Iberian]] peninsula.
34: ...stage. Within Spain, reaction against the dictatorial bureaucracy centered in Madrid and a history of ...
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