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- Netherlands (35958 bytes)
14: official_languages = [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Frisi...
49: ...on]] and [[Limburgish language|Limburgish]] are official [[regional language]]s<br><sup>2</sup> Prior ...
55: ...or most foreign embassies. The Netherlands ranked fifth on the [[2004]] [[UN Human Development Index]]...
66: ...1637, and, according to Murray Sayle, the world's first bear raider -- Isaac le Maire, who forced pric...
68: After briefly being incorporated in the [[First French Empire]] under [[Napoleon]], the Kingdo... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
25: | '''[[Official language]]s'''
28: | '''[[Official script]]'''
70: ...that is now Kazakhstan since the [[1st century BC|first century BC]]. From the [[4th century|fourth ce...
76: ...great resentment against colonial rule during the final years of tsarist Russia, with the most serious...
80: ...akh Soviet Socialist Republic]] (SSR) contributed five national divisions to the Soviet Union's World ... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
17: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[French language|French]], ...
57: ...f "Gallia". One of these peoples, the [[Franks]], finally installed a new kingdom under the rulers of ...
65: ...ruction in 1830 till 1935. It now serves as the office of the king.]]
67: ... After a period of alliance with France after the First World War, Belgium tried to return to neutrali...
71: ...any seeing Belgian decisions as contributing significantly to the troubles in Rwanda in the [[1990s]] ... - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
1: ...nt of [[North America]], bordering both the [[Pacific Ocean]] and the [[Caribbean Sea]].
19: | '''[[Official language]]'''
20: ...|Spanish]] (Official), (Indigenous languages of official status as well, particularly Maya)
62: ...ued until conquered by the [[Spain|Spanish]], who first arrived in [[1523]] and colonised the area. [[...
64: ...uatemala became independent of Spain in [[1821]], first as a part of the [[United Provinces of Central... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
14: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
42: ...], both ending in failure. [[Virginia Dare]], the first English child to be born stateside, was born i...
44: ...s later. In April [[1776]], the colony became the first to instruct its delegates to the Continental C...
46: On [[November 21]], [[1789]], North Carolina ratified the Constitution to become the twelfth state in...
48: ...obert E. Lee]]'s surrender at Appomattox, but the final surrender in North Carolina came at [[Waynesvi... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
14: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] and [[Span...
38: ...|English]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] are officially recognized languages in the state. In [[Sp...
46:
50: ... Spain]] to his remote colony. Oń”“„ was made the first governor of the new [[Province of New Mexico]]...
62: ...ssouri]], for Santa Fe early in [[1822]] with the first party of traders. Wagon caravans thereafter ma... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
3: ...g Territory]] in the [[United States]] became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extende...
4: ...en first achieved the right to stand for public office in [[South Australia]] in [[1894]], along with ...
13: ...rst women's suffrage (with the same property qualifications as for men) was granted in [[New Jersey]] ...
15: The first unrestricted women's suffrage in terms of voti...
17: The first to grant universal suffrage and allow women to... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
12: Colonial America was defined by ongoing battles with Native Americans, a se...
24: ...nies. Both sides permitted this trade when it benefitted them, but opposed it when it did not.
32: ...ronts. Crucially, the [[Treaty of Ghent]] which officially ended the war saw the end of the British al...
45: ... Confederate General [[Pierre Beauregard]] opened fire upon [[Fort Sumter]].
54: ...ade the United States a major military as well as financial power. - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...1E&db_key=AST&high=41e14f475d05983 scientific paper] to use the word in its title was publishe...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "mino...
8: ...assify asteroids is in terms of size. A working definition is that asteroids are larger than 50 m in d...
10: ...y objects that include asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate ma... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
4: ...moved to [[Le Havre]] in [[Normandy]] when he was five. His father wanted him to go into the family gr...
10: ...hereafter Doncieux became pregnant and bore their first child, Jean.
15: ...epicting a [[Le Havre]] landscape. It hung in the first [[impressionist]] exhibition in [[1874]] and i...
21: ... one subject in varying light and viewpoints. His first series is of [[Rouen]] Cathedral from differen... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]]
139: *[[Irving Langmuir]], (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding
156: *[[Montgolfier]] brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), [[Fran... - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
13: *[[1824]] - First presidential nominating [[political convention...
20: ...tion and Protest'' arguing that states can [[nullification|nullify]] certain federal laws
34: *[[1832]] - [[Ordinance of Nullification]] passed by [[South Carolina]]
50: ...[Oberlin College]] enrolls first female students, first [[coeducation]] in United States
63: *[[1844]] - [[Fifty-Four Forty or Fight]] - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
1: This is a timeline of significant events leading to the [[American Civil War]]....
12: ...ion and Protest]]'' outlines [[nullification|nullification doctrine]]. Calhoun demands that the North ...
23: | + The Compromise Tariff of 1833 ends the [[Nullification crisis]].<br>
61: | + [[George Fitzhugh]]'s ''The Pro-Slavery Argument'' is publish...
62: ...ry, the novel sells roughly 500,000 copies within five years. - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...[populism]] and the American [[labor movement]]. Finally, the era was capped by U.S. involvement in [...
7: ...]] to resist readmitting the rebel states without first imposing preconditions. A series of laws, pas...
11: ... under Abraham Lincoln's plan were abolished; the first Reconstruction Act stated that "no legal State...
15: ...he Union, they were required to accept it (or the fifteenth after passage of the fourteenth).
21: ...d blacks going their own ways, and with whites in firm political control. The North allowed white sup... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' |
46: ...of the automotive industry, with [[Henry Ford]]'s first plant in the [[Highland Park, Michigan|Highlan...
55: ... from [[Grenoble]], [[France]], were probably the first white men to see [[Lake Superior]].
56: ...] established [[Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan]], the first European settlement in Michigan
64: ...] appointed as governor. Detroit was destroyed by fire. - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...lennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in the population of native i...
5: ...agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppie...
13: When the first [[European colonization of the Americas|Europe...
21: ...nied expeditions in [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city. - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
3: ... protest was a success, and they are noted as the first organised workers in the world to achieve an e...
7: ...in [[Paris]] in [[1889]] appointed May 1 as the official International Labour Day.
9: Labor Day has been celebrated on the first [[Monday]] in [[September]] in the United Stat...
11: ...rare. Forms of celebration include [[picnic]]s, [[fireworks display]]s, water activities, and public a...
17: ... as [[May Day]]. In Europe the day had older significance as a rural [[festival]], but over time it ha... - Oceanography (3841 bytes)
1: ...or divisions within the science: Oceanography's definition is simple, it's the study of oceans.
11: ...aphy. Laying of North Atlantic telegraph cable confirmed the presence of a [[mid-ocean ridge]].
13: ...uropean and American nations soon sent out scientific expeditions (as did private individuals and inst...
15: ...o give grant money to people doing studies in the field of oceanography.
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