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- Juneau City and Borough, Alaska (8577 bytes)
4: '''Juneau City and Borough''' is a [[borough]] located on the [[Gastineau Channel]] in the [[Alexande...
6: ..., and [[Auke Bay]] just north of Juneau proper is called ''Aa<u>k</u>'w'' "little lake" in Tlingit. Th...
8: ...state capital in the [[United States|U.S.]] which cannot be accessed by road. The only way to reach th...
10: ...glas Island]], an airport, and dead-end roads. A car brought to Juneau must be put on a barge or ferr...
13: ...tures are rich with artistic traditions including carving, weaving, orating, singing and dancing. - List of festivals (6550 bytes)
1: ...als categorized by type (music, art, etc), see [[:Category:Festivals]].
18: *[[Cactus Festival]], [[Brugge]]
32: ===[[Canada]]===
33: ''Main Article [[Festivals in Canada]]''
37: * [[Barranquilla's Carnival]] - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
4: image_caption=''"[[Father of the Nation|Father of the nati...
13: ...', was the [[charisma]]tic leader who brought the cause of [[India|India's]] independence from [[Briti...
18: ...sects. He was born into the vaishya, or business, caste. At the age of 13 Gandhi married [[Kasturba Ga...
23: ...vegetarians he met were members of the [[Theosophical Society]], which had been founded in 1875 by [[H...
25: ... in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], [[South Africa]]. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...h (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Levi...
6: ...es|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
8: ==Early life and education==
10: ...e care of an older brother Francis. Hobbes was educated at Westport church from the age of four, passe...
12: ...William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire|William Cavendish]], Baron of Hardwick (and later [[Duke of ... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
13: ...me they were held. The Games were then mostly a local affair, and only one event was contested, the [[...
15: ... years, and the period between two celebrations became known as an [[Olympiad]]. The Greeks used Olymp...
17: ...] gained power in Greece. When [[Christianity]] became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the ...
24: ...[[Pierre de Coubertin]] wanted better physical education and foreign relations and so spurred the mode...
25: ...d in France and Greece, but these were all small-scale and certainly not international. The interest i... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
18: ...he forces of reform. His family and close friends called him Frank. To the public he was usually known...
22: ...re to advance [[civil rights]] for [[African Americans]]. Some conservatives such as [[Ronald Reagan]]...
26: ...lands]], arrived in New York (then called [[Nieuw Amsterdam]]) in about [[1650]]. In [[1788]] [[Isaac Rooseve...
28: ...lin Roosevelt's fifth cousin. Despite their political differences, the two branches remained friendly:... - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
3: ...tical]] boundaries, many often feature [[geopolitical]], [[social]], [[religious]] and [[economic]] [[...
7: ...not called by that name at the time of their publication.
9: ...]], a [[geographer]] working in [[Alexandria]] circa A.D. 150. The first edition was published in [[B...
11: ...atlas was not in use in 1544, these works are now called "IATO" atlases - (Italian, Assembled to Order...
13: ...maps to a uniform size. It was an immediate critical and commercial success. - Vincent van Gogh (11980 bytes)
4: ... The [[Van Gogh Museum]] in [[Amsterdam]] is dedicated to Van Gogh's work and that of his contemporar...
9: ...was born in [[Zundert]], the son of Anna Cornelia Carbentus and Theodorus van Gogh, a [[Protestantism|...
13: ...te]] in [[Kent]], [[England]], then returned to [[Amsterdam]] to study theology in [[1877]].
15: After dropping out in [[1878]], he became a lay minister in [[Belgium]] in a poor mining ...
22: ...''Aardappeleters'', now in The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam). - Bicycle (44267 bytes)
1: ...aluminum tubing and [[Graphite-reinforced plastic|carbon fiber]] stays and forks. It sports a drop ha...
13: ...of the bicycle. Its earliest known forebears were called ''[[velocipede]]s'', and included many types ...
17: ...peed. Shod with solid rubber tires, his machine became known as the ''ordinary''. British cyclists li...
23: ...ring these years, but were only slowly adopted by casual riders. By the turn of the century, bicyclin...
25: ...he founded his similarly successful company in Chicago in [[1895]]. [[Schwinn Bicycle Company|Schwinn]... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
17: | [[Geographic coordinate system|Location]]: || {{coor dm|59|56|N|30|20|E|region:RU_typ...
33: ..._spit.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[Neva]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
36: ...69;д, [[1914]]–[[1924]]), is a city located in [[Northwestern Russia]] on the delta of the...
38: ... "window to Europe", it served thenceforth as the capital of the country during the [[Russian Empire|i...
40: ...nd to honor it people call it often "the Northern Capital" (северн... - Jurisprudence (4866 bytes)
1: ... the [[philosophy]], [[science]], study, and application of [[law]].
5: ...aw)|sententiae]]'') on single concrete (judicial) cases.
7: ... Pontiffs were replaced in 3rd century BC by a laical body of ''prudentes''. Admission to this body wa...
9: ...created, and the activity constantly became more academic. In the age from the early [[Roman Empire]] ...
11: After the 3rd century, ''Juris prudentia'' became a more bureaucratic activity, with few notable ...
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