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- Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...01-01). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy [[lagoon]] along the [[Adriatic S...
10: ...re, the Republic acquired control of most of the islands in the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]], including [[Cyp...
14: ...tal structure was a mix of Byzantine and [[Islam|Islamic]] systems, but the social order was entirely ...
29: ... the [[Venice Arsenal|Arsenal]]. Galley [[slavery|slaves]] did not exist in medieval Venice, the oarsm...
41: ...s built on an [[archipelago]] of more than 100 [[island]]s in a shallow [[lagoon]]. In the old center,... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
20: ...guing that Roosevelt's economic policies actually slowed recovery. In the build up to the [[Second Wor...
34: ... at a [[White House]] reception. (They had previously met as children, but this was their first seriou...
44: ... Republican [[William Howard Taft]]. Franklin's dislike of Taft's administration drove him into politi...
50: ...make future wars impossible. He campaigned tirelessly across the country in support of the League of N...
60: ...e the Roosevelts were holidaying at [[Campobello Island, New Brunswick]], Roosevelt was stricken with ... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...n Edward Mansfield's expedition which seized the island of [[New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and wh...
6: ...ing ten ships with 500 men, Morgan landed on the island and captured and sacked Puerto Principe, then ...
8: ...st spied, and afterwards spent a few weeks at the Venezuelan settlement of Gibraltar on [[Lake Maracaibo]], t...
10: ...ed on an expedition to Panama. He recaptured the island of Santa Catalina on [[December 15]], [[1670]]...
12: ... were complex, however, and despite having previously received royal support for his actions against S... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
30: ...crashes into the side of the mountains near the [[Venezuela]]n border killing 143.
63: *[[1936]] - [[Ladislav Kupkovic]], composer
77: *[[1954]] - [[Lesley-Anne Down]], actress - July 24 (8660 bytes)
28: ...al]]: The [[United States Supreme Court]] unanimously rule that President [[Richard Nixon]] did not ha...
97: - Harp (23216 bytes)
76: ...nd lighter tension than other harps, and so has a slightly (four to five notes) lower pitch. It does ...
107: ...s packing materials with the door open a crack to slowly accommodate the harp to the temperature and h... - Ocelot (4489 bytes)
17: ...t occurrence is [[Texas]]. It also occurs on the island of [[Trinidad]] in the West Indies. It is up t...
33: *''Leopardus pardalis maripensis'', [[Venezuela]], [[Guyana]], [[Trinidad]] - List of female tennis players (8364 bytes)
40: * [[Ludmila Cervanova]] (Slovakia)
93: * [[Daniela Hantuchov (Slovakia)
103: * [[Janette Husarova]] (Slovakia)
108: * [[Mima Jausovec|Mima Jausovec]] (Slovenia)
126: * [[Lubomira Kurhajcova]] (Slovakia) - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
109: |''[[Cayman Islands]]''||''[[Beloved Isles Cayman]]''
127: ...|[[Udzima wa ya Masiwa]] (The Union of the Great Islands)
133: |''[[Cook Islands]]''||''[[God Defend New Zealand]]''
159: |[[Dominica]]||[[Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour]]
192: ...oe Islands]]''||''[[T?agra land m�]] (O Faeroe Islands, My Dearest Treasure)'' - Mexican-American War (9503 bytes)
58: ... the United States. Santa Anna fled to exile in [[Venezuela]]. General [[Porfirio D�]], [[President of Mexi...
62: ...e war as an attempt by the slave-owners to expand slavery and assure their continued influence in the ...
64: ... state in the Union geographically) into multiple slave states, but this did not come to pass.
66: ... Southerners on both sides of the congressional aisle. To Southerners, it looked as if the north was ...
68: ...anized that year by opponents of the expansion of slavery. - Tar pit (729 bytes)
3: ...es, California|Los Angeles]], and a tar lake in [[Venezuela]]. - Waterfall (3889 bytes)
27: ...s]], the world's highest at 979 m (3230 ft), in [[Venezuela]] ; - River (12397 bytes)
9: Where a river descends quickly over sloped topography, [[rapid]]s with [[whitewater]] or...
52: *[[sluice|Sluice gates]] provide a means of controlling flow a...
57: ...ifications made by man. Dredged channels silt up, sluice mechanisms deteriorate with age, levees and d...
117: * [[Orinoco]] - principal river of [[Venezuela]] - Lake Titicaca (3147 bytes)
2: ...r [[lake]]. The partly-salt [[Lake Maracaibo]] in Venezuela is bigger, at about 13,000 square kilometers, but...
6: ...iver]]s empty into Titicaca, and the lake has 41 islands – some of which are densely populated.
8: ...side city of [[Puno]]. Another island, [[Taquile Island|Taquile]], is another tourist attraction featu...
12: ... of the name Titicaca is unknown. It has been translated as "Rock Puma", allegedly because of its rese... - Andes (13210 bytes)
6: ...hile]], [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Peru]] and [[Venezuela]], some of which are known as [[Andean States]]. ...
13: ...Plate]] and a part of the [[Antarctic Plate]] are sliding beneath the [[South American Plate]] continu...
17: ..., which lie in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela, represent the submerged peaks of the extreme nor...
20: ...800 m in the tropical Ecuadorian, Colombian, Venezuelan, and northern Peruvian Andes, rising to 4,800&nd...
29: ...|thumb|200px|[[Santiago]] de Chile on the western slopes of a snowcapped [[Andes]]]] - Bobby Abreu (5113 bytes)
31: | '''Place of Birth'''|| [[Aragua]], [[Venezuela]]
43: ...74]] in [[Aragua State|Maracay, Aragua State]], [[Venezuela]]) is a [[Major League Baseball]] [[right fielder...
46: ...nsion draft when Houston decided to keep fellow [[Venezuela]]n [[outfielder]] [[Richard Hidalgo]], Abreu was ...
52: ...lso posted the league's tenth best [[On-base plus slugging|OPS]] (.971) and eight highest in [[total b...
58: * [[Silver Slugger|Silver Slugger Award]] (2004) - Amazon Rainforest (4064 bytes)
2: ...60% of the rainforest), [[Colombia]], [[Peru]], [[Venezuela]], [[Ecuador]], [[Bolivia]], [[Guyana]], [[Surina... - Slavery (26455 bytes)
1: ...n concerned. A specific form, known as '''chattel slavery''', implies the [[property|legal ownership]]...
4: ... right of ownership are exercised..." Therefore a slave is someone who cannot leave an owner or employ...
6: ... '''[[serfdom]]''' is not usually synonymous with slavery, because serfs are considered to have had so...
8: ... ambiguities which may be attached to words like "slavery".
10: ...ing]] thinkers have discussed the idea of "[[wage slavery]]", although it is generally accepted that p... - Edgardo Alfonzo (2983 bytes)
1: ...h the [[San Francisco Giants]] since 2003. Previously, Alfonzo played for the [[New York Mets]] (1995-...
18: ...f_NL_Silver_Slugger_Winners_at_Second_Base|Silver Slugger Award]] (1999)
23: ...m Venezuela in Major League Baseball|Players from Venezuela in MLB]] - New Year's Eve (4555 bytes)
8: ...ilippines]], [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]] and [[Venezuela]].
43: ...t resources is certainly what is known as the [[Wesley Covenant Prayer]], an adaptation of a [[pietist...
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