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  1. Finland (29511 bytes)
    12: | align=center colspan=2 | <small>''National [[motto]]: None''</small>
    24: ... Ministers of Finland|Prime minister]]''': || [[Matti Vanhanen]]
    51: ...t [[Mesolithic]] settlers. The arrival of the [[Battle-Axe]] Culture (or Cord-Ceramic Culture) in Sout...
    53: ...sia]] and the Baltic region. There is not much written information of Finnish history before the 13th ...
    59: ...c]], the [[Kalevala]], in [[1835]]; and Finnish getting a legally equal status with Swedish in [[1892]...
  2. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    7: national_motto = Yaqeen-e-muhkam, ittihād, nazm<br /> ([[Urdu]]: Faith (self confidenc...
    57: ...er of [[Indus Valley Civilization]], 2600 BCE – 1800 BCE]]
    62: ...nto the beginning of the [[1st century]] CE, as petty rulers (such as [[Theodamas]]) and as administra...
    81: ...kistan Wars|three all out wars]] due to these unsettled issues. Other inherited legacies of British ru...
    90: ...28]], [[1933]] in the pamphlet ''Now or Never'' [http://www.zyworld.com/slam33/non.htm]. He saw it as ...
  3. Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
    17: ... align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: None''</small>
    55: ...tive name for the [[Pashtuns]]: ''[[Afghan]]'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_name_ety...
    74: ...ion following the [[September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks]] forced the group's downfall. In late 2001, ...
    78: ...h 3]]) and Baghlan Province ([[March 25]]). The latter was the worse of the two, and incurred most of ...
    96: ...come of the poll. Karzai won 55.4% of the vote. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3977677.stm] He...
  4. Slovenia (19318 bytes)
    10: national_motto = None |
    59: ...c]] ancestors of the present-day [[Slovenians]] settled in the area in the [[6th century]]. The Slavic...
    61: ...ments in [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] script, were written around [[1000]]. During the [[14th century]], m...
    91: ...usually considered together as Primorska (the [[Littoral Region]]). [[White Carniola]] (Bela krajina) ...
    99: * Submediterranean ([[Littoral]]) Slovenia (submediteranska - primorska Slov...
  5. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    10: national_motto = [[Dieu et mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my righ...
    35: sovereignty_type = [[Act of Union 1800|Establishment]] |
    48: *<small>[[Scottish Gaelic language|Scottish Gaelic]]: ''An R쯧hachd Aonaichte na Breatain...
    52: ...nd in [[Scotland]]: [[Scottish Gaelic language|Scottish Gaelic]] since 2004 Act.<br><sup>5</sup> Forme...
    64: ...rth Atlantic'' (IONA) has been proposed, but is little used outside diplomatic circles.
  6. James Watt (5070 bytes)
    2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
    3: ...dash;[[August 19]], [[1819]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[mathematician]] and [[engineer]] whose imp...
    14: ...Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved [[Watt steam engine]].
    22: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ...
    24: ...ting engine, a counter, an indicator, and a [[throttle]] valve) made the steam engine his life's work.
  7. Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
    1: ...[332 BC]]. Although recent excavations reveal a cattle-[[herding]] society of peoples living in the re...
    7: ...mage:Giza_ph2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
    15: ...ge:Sakkara_02.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
    16: ...earliest known [[alphabet]], [[decimal system]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_an...
    22: ...E]] - world's earliest known [[decimal system]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_an...
  8. Alabama (10792 bytes)
    28: AdmittanceOrder = 22<sup>nd</sup> |
    29: AdmittanceDate = [[December 14]], [[1819]] |
    42: |'''[[List of U.S. state mottos|State motto]]'''||''We Dare Defend Our Rights''
    61: ...ment was set up in [[1865]] and Alabama was readmitted to the Union in June [[1868]].
    71: ... level]] at [[Mobile Bay]], to a little more than 1800 [[foot (unit)|feet]] or 550 [[metre|meters]] near...
  9. Connecticut (28543 bytes)
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 5<sup>th</sup> |
    24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 9]], [[1788]] |
    43: ... Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundamen...
    52: ...y [[New York State]], on the north by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The stat...
    65: ...egions of the state, considering themselves more attached to [[New York City]] and its suburbs in east...
  10. Louisiana (26375 bytes)
    26: AdmittanceOrder = 18<sup>th</sup> |
    27: AdmittanceDate = [[April 30]], [[1812]] |
    52: ...iana in the parishes of Vermilion, Cameron, Lafayette, Acadia, Jefferson Davis, and Calcasieu.
    60: ...e|Louis XIV]] in [[1682]]. The first permanent settlement was founded by [[Pierre Le Moyne d'Ibervill...
    62: ...r north as [[Peoria, Illinois]] and a number of settlements in the area around near present-day [[Sain...
  11. Maryland (22654 bytes)
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 7<sup>th</sup> |
    24: AdmittanceDate = [[April 28]], [[1788]] |
    41: ...]. The new colony was named in honour of [[Henrietta Maria]], Queen Consort of Charles I.
    43: ...e]] who on [[March 25]], [[1634]] led the first settlers into this area which would soon become one of...
    47: ...Virginia to Maryland, and were given land for a settlement called Providence (now called Annapolis). ...
  12. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    10: ...60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
    15: * 12 KYA: [[Pottery]] by [[Jomon]] in [[Japan]]
    123: * [[1645]]: [[Vacuum pump]]: [[Otto von Guericke]]
    136: ...1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle)]]
    143: * [[1769]]: [[Steam engine]]: [[James Watt]]
  13. History of biology (3053 bytes)
    3: ...ly by [[Karl Friedrich Burdach]] in [[1800]], [[Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus]] (''Biologie oder Philo...
    5: ...e world around him, which he devote considerable attention to [[categorization|categorizing]].
    13: ...l]]s were attempted, with some success, but with attendant [[ethics|ethical questions]]. In particular...
    18: ...-crick/ James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick. "Letters to ''Nature'': Molecular structure of Nucleic ...
  14. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    3: {{compactTOC5}}
    38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
    102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
    130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
    183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]])
  15. Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
    15: ...th century. The most influential of those early attempts (championed by [[Abraham Werner]], among oth...
    23: ...ct of considerable debate until advances in the latter part of the 20th century allowed [[radioactive ...
    81: ...3" | Gymnosperms (especially [[conifer]]s, [[Bennettitales]] and [[cycad]]s) and [[fern]]s common. Ma...
    212: | style="background:#B3B25E" | 1800 <sup>6</sup>
    262: ... The stage nomenclature is quite complex. See [http://flatpebble.nceas.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?ac...
  16. Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
    10: ...tavern keeper who would marry Nancy Matthews Elliott.
    12: ...to [[England]] in the 1700's. Ironically, in the 1800's, his grandson, Sam, would become a rebel joinin...
    18: ...d prevented Edison from hearing the telegrapher sitting next to him. Some of his earliest inventions r...
    24: ...e sound recording was first achieved by [[Leon Scott de Martinville]] (France, 1857), and others at th...
    38: ...he [[United Kingdom]].--> After losing a court battle with Joseph Swan, they formed a joint company (...
  17. Human (48024 bytes)
    27: ...Philosophy]], especially [[philosophy of mind]], attempts to fathom the depths of each of these perspe...
    45: ...n". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a [[rational agent]]: see, for exampl...
    54: ...given their sharing a recent ancestor with man. [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0520_...
    66: ...of complex social organization and culture, are matters of ongoing debate.
    68: ... and Peter Underhill of [[Stanford University]] [http://www.duerinck.com/migrate.html]; and the Americ...
  18. Agriculture (19147 bytes)
    15: ..., [[alcohol]]s and [[plastic]]s), [[fiber]]s ([[cotton]], [[wool]], [[hemp]], and [[flax]]), fuels ([[...
    17: ... of [[genetic modification|gene manipulation]], better management of soil nutrients, and improved [[we...
    32: ...l]]s), a single farmer can feed over 130 people [http://www.greatachievements.org/greatachievements/ga...
    36: ...n cause [[Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy]] in cattle.
    46: ...rops occur more or less simultaneously on [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic B|PPNB]] sites in this region, altho...
  19. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
    21: ... himself seriously to the study of law, until admitted as an [[outer barrister]] in 1582. In 1584 he t...
    25: ...ty at Twickenham, which he subsequently sold for ?1800, equivalent to a much larger sum now.
    29: ...th Essex, a fortunate move considering that the latter would be executed for treason in 1601; and Baco...
    31: ...e Barnham]], the daughter of a London merchant. Little or nothing is known of their married life: mode...
    35: ...d to stay, but a law was passed that forbade the attorney-general to sit in parliament -- and to the v...
  20. Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
    11: *[[1793]] - [[Eli Whitney]] invents [[cotton gin]]
    15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]]
    30: === [[1800s]] ===
    31: ...as-1970-1800.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1800]]
    32: *[[1800]] - [[Convention of 1800]]

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