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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
64: Latecomers to Mexico's central plateau, the Mexica, or Aztecs, as they were sometim...
76: ...city of [[Puebla, Puebla|Puebla]] on [[May 5]], [[1862]] (celebrated as ''[[Cinco de Mayo]]'' ever since...
87: ...the Congress. [[Congress of Mexico|Congress]] has played an increasingly important role since [[1997]]...
163: ...[Yucatᮝ]. The center of Mexico is a great, high plateau, open to the north, with mountain chains on ...
174: ...ding driver of growth, accompanied by increased employment and higher wages. Mexico still needs to ove... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ltiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ...ed outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes...
7: ...nese Civil War]] in [[1949]] established the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) in [[1949]] which ha...
21: ... or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
23: # The area now called the [[North China Plain]]. The ''[[Sanguo Zhi]]'' records the followin... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...f Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 M...
18: ...tch, but his objections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert...
20: ...merged the Royal House name and family surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding ...
29: ...wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly o...
37: ... the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...er many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skills. When Clara started school at age ...
21: ...al supplies to the battlefields. Finally, in July 1862, she obtained permission to travel behind the lin...
23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in charge of the search for the missing m...
35: ... less than a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Massachusetts.
43: ==Clara Barton's Birthplace House and Museum== - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: '''Jane Arminda Delano''', born [[March 12]], [[1862]] in [[Montour Falls, New York]], [[United States...
8: ...course of the War, more than 20,000 of her nurses played vital roles with the United States military.
12: ... York]] there is a Jane Delano Memorial with a display of personal items including a number of her awa... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
6: Her stage career started in [[1862]], largely in [[comic theatre]] and [[burlesque]]...
8: ...]]. She was also to publish a series of books and plays throughout her life. - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: '''May Irwin''' born [[June 27]], [[1862]] in [[Whitby, Ontario]], [[Canada]] ? died [[Oct...
12: ...ature-length adaptation of [[George V. Hobart]]'s play, ''[[Mrs. Black is Back]]''. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...ould be repealed because it excludes qualified people based on technicalities, and fails to appreciate...
16: ...George W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
19: ...President, while the individual who was in second place became Vice President.
25: ...ing across the country to explain their views and plans to the voters. Much of the modern electoral pr...
35: ... a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, including 1 million active-duty military person... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Kinderhook (village), N...
11: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 24]], [[1862]]</td></tr>
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Kinderhook (town), New ...
22: ... ([[December 5]], [[1782]] – [[July 24]], [[1862]]), nicknamed '''Old Kinderhook''', was the eight...
27: ...y. In [[1796]] he began the study of [[law]], completing his preparation in 1802 at [[New York City|N... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Greenway, Virginia]]</t...
11: ...td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[January 18]], [[1862]]</td></tr>
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Richmond, Virginia]]</t...
21: ...er''' ([[March 29]], [[1790]] - [[January 18]], [[1862]]) of [[Virginia]] was the tenth ([[1841]]) [[Vic...
29: ...ng President]], and as the Constitution was not explicit on that aspect of succession (until the [[196... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
21: | '''Place of birth:'''
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...n''' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the...
44: ...]][[Confederate States of America#International Diplomacy and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small...
46: ...gressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his many speeches and writings which helped... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
19: | '''Place of Birth:''' || [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee...
45: ..., Tennessee in [[1826]], where he continued his employment as a tailor. He never attended any type of ...
51: ...am Lincoln as Military Governor of Tennessee in [[1862]].
107: ... [[Edwin Stanton]] as Secretary of War, and was replacing him in the interim with Adjutant-General [[L... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Point Pleasant, Ohio]]</td></tr>
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Wilton, New York|Mount ...
24: ...ica's worst presidents, who led an administration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corruption]].
26: .... More recent treatments have emphasized the accomplishments of his administration, including his stru...
30: ... Ulysses Grant''' in [[Point Pleasant, Ohio|Point Pleasant]], [[Clermont County, Ohio|Clermont County]... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Fairfield, Vermont]]
13: | place of death=[[New York City, New York]]
27: ...merican public office. The truth, however, was simply that Arthur was born near the Canadian border. H...
31: ...the rank of brigadier general, and served until [[1862]]. He resumed the practice of law in New York Ci...
33: ... of the Customs House, but staffed it with more employees than it really needed, retaining some for th... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...[Western Australia]] – and astronomers' and planetologists' estimates of the age of the [[solar ...
4: ...ntists such as [[Martin Luther]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today co...
6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretched ...
9: ...ew [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scientific basi...
13: ... of the age of the Earth to creation tales, or simply assumed that the Earth always had been, always w... - Belize (11927 bytes)
63: ...rom the Maya word belix, meaning "muddy water", applied to the Belize River.
65: ...ritish Honduras, which became a Crown Colony in [[1862]]. British Honduras became a [[self-governing col...
96: ...onsists mostly of flat, swampy coastal plains, in places heavily forested. In the south is found the l...
103: ...he [[banana]] industry is the country's largest employer. [[Citrus production]] has become a major ind...
112: .... About half the population is of mixed [[Maya people|Maya]] and [[Europe]]an descent ([[Mestizo]]); 2... - Germany (46412 bytes)
73: ...to draw up a constitution for the new Germany, completed in [[1849]]. However, the Prussian king [[Fre...
75: In [[1862]], conflict between the Prussian King [[Wilhelm I...
93: ...ncentration camp]]s were set up for groups and people perceived as threats. Open persecution of [[Jew]...
97: ... million more [[Roma (people)|Roma]], [[Slavic people|Slavs]], [[homosexual]]s, [[communist]]s, [[Jeho...
101: ...ern forces [[Berlin Airlift|airlifted food and supplies]]. - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
60: Tuvaluans are a Polynesian people who are estimated to have settled the islands ar...
62: ...Tuvalu, and conversion to [[Christianity]] was complete by the [[1920s]]. Also in the late 1800s, Euro...
91: ...ita, was uninhabited until it was resettled by people from Niutao in 1949. Thus, the name Tuvalu means...
111: The Tuvalu dollar, the local [[currency]], is coupled to the [[Australian dollar]].
118: ...ribati_language|I-Kiribati]] is spoken by some people on Nui. English is also an official language, bu... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
7: ...> ([[Urdu]]: Faith (self confidence), Unity, Discipline) |
51: ...India]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Iran]] (Persia), [[People's Republic of China|China]] and the [[Arabian Se...
59: Pakistan is the birthplace of some of the most ancient civilizations and ...
72: ...to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Empire completely vulnerable. The British did not gain strong ...
74: ...ish Army, and their Heads were then put up for display at the Delhi Court.
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