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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...a]] to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in [[Latin America]] and the most...
10: native_name = Estados Unidos Mexicanos |
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
23: leader_names = [[Vicente Fox ]] | - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...e of political stablity in the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin Ame...
21: ...[English language|English]] and indigenous languages on the Atlantic coast)
26: | '''[[President of Costa Rica|President]]'''
30: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 125th]] <br /> [[1 E10 m2|51,100 k...
32: ...'[[Population]]'''<br /> - Total ([[2004]] [[Estimation|E]]) <br /> - [[Population density|D... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: ... of the southwest of what is now the [[United States]].
7: ...n of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: ...thing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Z...
11: ...nt northwest, and heard of a great river further west (the [[Colorado River (U.S.)|Colorado]]). [[Garc...
12: ...his winter quarters in one of them, [[Tiguex]] (present-day [[Bernalillo]] near [[Albuquerque, New Mex... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...d that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...hout running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the...
5: ...s likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniv...
9: ...ficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...ution in the alloy controls the qualities of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content...
5: ...alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are ...
8: ...dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy containing too much carbon to be ...
11: ...ts [[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]]. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...der: Julien David LeRoy, ''Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]...
2: ... [[Corinthian order|Corinthian]]. (There are two lesser orders, the stocky [[Tuscan order]] and the ri...
4: ... Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]].
6: ...ek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vitality...
8: ... of the column was exaggerated. Roman fluting leaves a little of the column surface between each hollo... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
1: [[Image:Messalinde-Jerusalem.JPG|frame|A queen accepting feal...
5: ...f Tripoli]]; and [[Ioveta of Bethany|Ioveta]], abbess of St. Lazarus in [[Bethany (Israel)|Bethany]].
9: ...yre]] wrote "reseditque reginam regni potestas penes dominam Melisendem, Deo amabilem reginam, cui jur...
11: ...nce. Baldwin raised his daughter as a capable successor to himself and Melisende enjoyed the support o...
13: ...de sole queen and to strengthen her position, he designated Melisende as guardian for the young Baldwi... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...irgin Queen''', '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch ...
9: ...en saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VI...
11: ...ies, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baronies]] in the [[Peerage of England]], and one barony i...
13: ...ica]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen...
16: ... under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]]. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
12: |'''Predecessor'''
21: |'''[[Profession]]'''
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...inistration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[Afr... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ... 11]], [[1880]]) was the first major [[United States|American]] women's activist in the early [[1800s]...
5: ...She quickly became known for her persuasive speeches against [[slavery]]. Prior to her own involvement...
7: ... allows "conscientious objector" status to [[war resistors]].
9: ...olitionist advocates. In the [[1830s]] she helped establish two anti-slavery groups.
13: ...ook about restrictions on women in the United States. She became more widely known after this. When sl... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
8: ...the literary arts. In her early thirties she was responsible for encouraging the young [[Moli貥]], an...
10: ...eden|Christina]], former queen of [[Sweden]]. Impressed, Christina wrote to [[Cardinal Mazarin]] on Ni...
12: ...in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."
14: ...the salon of Ninon de l'Enclos despite other locales in the past. During this time she was a friend of... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...x|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria...
3: ...ligious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...o Gentileschi]], one of the greatest representatives of the school of [[Caravaggio]]. Artemisia was in...
12: ...promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ...the [[feminism|feminist]] view of Atermisia Gentileschi during the [[20th century]] - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ... reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ... star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and ...
13: ...plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with...
15: ...tress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a message saying simply, "By the clock." Upon hearing o... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ... image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist ph...
11: ...press goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on...
19: ...m Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...74]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|femin...
13: ...rted by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
17: ...returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by t...
19: ...eight, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature ...
21: ...o "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist p...
8: ...) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to...
10: ...ather was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still de...
12: ...ls she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...d critic [[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a L... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...r in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was assigned to work with [[Howard Aike...
7: ...[[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Mauchly|Mauchly]] Compu...
9: ...lish rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at the end of [[19... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...sh; [[October 4]], [[1970]]) was an American [[blues]]-influenced [[rock and roll|rock]], [[R&B]], and...
4: ...r completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...yled herself in part after her female blues heroines, and in part after the [[beat poet]]s. She left T...
8: ...m being withheld until after their subsequent success.
10: ...one of the leading musical stars of the late Sixties. - Violet (plant) (3474 bytes)
2: ...ion = 5-petaled purple, white,<br>and yellow pansies}}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Malpighiales]]}}
11: ...vision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = Species}}
19: '''[[List of viola species|List all species]]'''
22: ...of the family [[Violaceae]], with around 400 species throughout temperate areas of the world. Most vio... - Canna lily (3803 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Zingiberales]]}}
11: ...ivision | color = lightgreen| plural_taxon = Species}}
15: ...tion of the three in spots or variegated; the leaves are typically green but may be a deep maroon inst...
17: ...ed rich or sandy [[soil]] and is largely free of pests. In areas which go below about -15°C (5°...
19: ...eezing winter the leaf roller is not typically a pest.
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