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  1. North America (12844 bytes)
    1: ...g|thumb|250px|World map showing location of North America]]
    2: ...|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of North America]]
    4: ...], who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the [[East Indies]], but a previously u...
    6: ...ed States, but not Mexico or any of the [[Central America]]n countries, which in some contexts may cause co...
    7: ...rica is only a subcontinent composed by Canada, United States and Mexico.
  2. South America (5078 bytes)
    1: ...[Image:LocationSouthAmerica.png|thumb|250px|South America]]
    2: ...|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of South America]]
    3: ...erica.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Physical map of South America]]
    5: ... million years ago, which resulted in the [[Great American Interchange]]. The [[Andes]], likewise a compara...
    7: ...ation]], after [[Eurasia]], [[Africa]], and North America.
  3. Colonial America (32872 bytes)
    2: ...[[social]], [[religion|religious]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
    4: ...re, at odds with the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] government on issues of [[taxation]] and [[r...
    9: ...terest in [[geography]] and an intellectual curiosity about the world that had subsided during the Mid...
    11: ...p lucrative [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]].
    13: ...ly close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans w...

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  1. Mexico (27255 bytes)
    2: ...e northernmost and westernmost country in [[Latin America]] and the most populous [[Spanish language|Spanis...
    17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' |
    19: capital = [[Mexico City]] |
    22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
    24: largest_city = [[Mexico City]] |
  2. Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
    1: ...mes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin America]]."
    3: ''See also: [[Military of Costa Rica]]''
    23: | '''[[Capital]]'''
    32: ...ation|E]]) <br />&nbsp;- [[Population density|Density]]
    35: ... Domestic Product|GDP]]''' ([[Purchasing_Power_Parity|PPP]])<br />&nbsp;- Total ([[2003]]):<br />&nbsp...
  3. Plateau (3062 bytes)
    2: ...hen a section of land is uplifted that is topped with a layer of particularly resistant rock, and unde...
    4: ...asalt|flood basalts]], and were never associated with continents; the vast [[Ontong Jaya Plateau]] of ...
    7: ...orm, but there are many other notable examples of it from around the world, including:
    8: ...]]/[[Cumberland Plateau]] (a continuous landform with different local names)
    16: ...lateau]]/[[Highland Rim]] (a continuous landform with different local names)
  4. Pennsylvanian (1543 bytes)
    1: ...rk City|New York]] to [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]].''
    3: ...ore the present (BP) to 286 million years BP. As with most other geologic periods, the [[Rock (geology...
    5: ...l.jpg|thumb|Generalized geographic map of the [[United States]] in Middle [[Pennsylvanian]] time.]]
    6: ...s continuous sequence of lowland continental deposits and are lumped together as the Carboniferous per...
    16: Information on stratigraphies, localities, tectonics, and life.
  5. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    1: ...ut the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
    5: ...aneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
    7: ...arly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban regio...
    9: ...ntry's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
    13: ...ra was actually the mouth of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January River.
  6. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
    21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
    22: ...16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]])
    23: ...oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
    30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
  7. Bjarni Herjulfsson (982 bytes)
    1: ...somewhere to the west. Though the land looked hospitable, he was eager to reach his destination and sp...
    3: ...t known attempt at settlement by Europeans in the Americas (if not counting the Greenland settlements).
  8. Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
    2: ...ad been named Greenland, it had perhaps been inhabited by the [[Dorset people]]). Born in the Jaeder d...
    4: ...ght out an explaination. Embarrassed by Erik's visit, Throgest began a fight, during which Erik killed...
    6: ...n [[Disko Bay]] for food and other valuable commodities such as seal (used for rope), ivory from tusks...
    8: ...ear what is now [[Narsarsuaq]], for himself. His title was that of [[paramount chieftain]] of Greenlan...
    10: ...rvived until the [[Little Ice Age]] finally wiped it out in the [[15th century]], shortly before [[Chr...
  9. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    1: ... crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[C...
    3: ... his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the ...
    5: ...se: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe...
    7: ...h America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], ...
    9: ...and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans.
  10. Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
    3: ... region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
    5: ...ppearance in baptismal registers as godfather or witness.
    7: ... was painted by a Russian artist in 1839 for the city of Saint-Malo.
    9: ...ed and departed some fifty undiscovered harbours without serious mishap and that the only sailors he l...
    13: ...ec]] where he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagay...
  11. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
    1: ...and machine manufacture. It began in [[England]] with the introduction of [[steam engine|steam power]]...
    3: ...hnological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered [[ship]]s, and ...
    5: ...hen mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
    10: ...tion of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is the [[scientific revolution]]...
    12: ...ther nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often imposed tolls an...
  12. Steel (28384 bytes)
    3: ...up to 5.1 percent [[carbon]]; ironically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[c...
    5: ...steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled,...
    8: ...ke copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy co...
    11: ...pearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]].
    13: ...cal composition. As such, it requires extremely little thermal [[activation energy]] to form.
  13. Puritan (15882 bytes)
    1: The '''Puritans''' were members of a group of radical [[Protes...
    4: ...would be "[[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
    5: ...ents, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan."
    8: ...utheran Germany]]. These contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (m...
    10: ...sthood of all believers]]. However, in church polity (organization of church power), they differed.
  14. Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
    16: ...and the Balkans, a whole goatskin is used, cured with salt and alum.
    18: ... very mellow [[oboe]]-like sound, while chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighte...
    23: ...er and inflation device seems to have originated with various ethnic groups in the Roman empire.
    25: ...or "[[Scots Wha Hae]]", "Hey Tutti Taiti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Rob...
    27: ... of bagpipes has become a common tradition for military funerals and memorials in the [[anglophone]] w...
  15. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    2: ...n [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
    7: ...[[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
    8: ...nder command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
    10: ...dinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
    11: ...attle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
  16. Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
    1: :''For the Italian ship named after Vespucci, see [[Amerigo Ves...
    4: ...y journeys along the eastern coastline of [[South America]] convinced him that a new continent had been dis...
    8: Amerigo Vespucci was born in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], as the third child of a respected family. H...
    10: ...ad proposed that the two letters were forgeries written by others of the same period.
    12: ... [[Naming of America]].) ''Amerigo'' itself is an Italian form of ''[[Haimirich]]'' (in English, Henry...
  17. Raccoon (4751 bytes)
    14: ...h his hands". Raccoons are intelligent omnivores with a reputation for slyness and mischief.
    16: ...gs make the animal look like it is wearing a "bandit's mask".
    18: ...n food; some studies find that raccoons engage in it when water is not available.
    20: ...o part in raising the young. By late summer, the litter will be weaned and will begin to fend for them...
    27: ...ping during the night and being awake in the day with training.
  18. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    2: ...umb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[...
    5: {{British Royal Family}}
    7: ...nd the [[United Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
    9: ...gest serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the sec...
    11: ...d is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
  19. Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
    2: ...nited States, and has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
    8: ...e had an "inoperable [[pilonidal cyst]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [...
    10: ... a "golden microphone". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''Th...
    12: ...tion as director of promotions with the [[Kansas City Royals]] [[baseball]] team.
    16: ...an on-air signature, as there is no organization with that name.
  20. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><sma...
    7: ...]] &ndash; [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[King of Irel...
    9: ...[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
    11: ...m|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baroni...
    13: ...orth America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Vir...

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