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- Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
3: ...], best known for her starring roles in the [[musical film]]s ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' ([[1964]]) and ''[[...
5: ...ws her American debut). During her run in the musical, she starred in [[Rodgers & Hammerstein]]'s tele...
7: ... her in a period musical: as [[Guenevere]] in ''[[Camelot]]'' opposite [[Richard Burton]] and newcomer...
9: ...e]]'' ([[1967]]), with [[Mary Tyler Moore]] and [[Carol Channing]].
11: ...f the Year]] by the [[Harvard University]] theatrical society. - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
2: ...th Games]] medals. In [[October]] [[1962]] she became the first woman to swim the 100 metres in less ...
4: ..., wore an old swimsuit (which angered sponsors) because it was more comfortable, and, it was alleged, ...
6: ...came a publican, swimming coach and in [[1988]] became a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for ...
15: ...[[1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games]]
22: *[[1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|1962 Perth Commonwealth Games]] - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
2: '''Jackie Joyner-Kersee''' (born [[March 3]], [[1962]]) is generally considered as the best all-around...
8: ... she saw a man get killed. A few years later, she called her grandmother to talk, only to find out her...
10: ...ercise-induced [[asthma]], and on more than one occasion had to be hospitalized following an event. - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
3: ...] and became a US citizen in [[1981]]. During her career she won 18 [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]]...
5: ...her mother Jana married Miroslav Navrátil, who became her first tennis coach. Martina then took the n...
7: ===Tennis career===
11: ...ruggled with her weight in the early years of her career (and was at one point unflatteringly labelled...
13: ...to defect. Within a month, she received a [[Green Card]]. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
22: ...d Style and New Style dates|Old Style]], [[Julian Calendar]]), 1735 in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]]. H...
24: ...nspired Adams with zeal for the cause of the American colonies. Years later, when he was an old man, A...
28: ...contentiousness to be a handicap in his political career. These qualities were particularly manifested...
31: ... in London in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law''), in which he argued that the... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[Democratic-Republican]]
18: ...dor]] to [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], [[revolutionary]], [[Agriculture|...
20: ...Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]], saying, "I think this is the most extraordinar...
22: ==Biographical information== - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...long plate boundaries (most notably around the so-called "[[Pacific Ring of Fire]]").
5: ... tectonic theory arose out of two separate geological observations: [[continental drift]], noticed in...
8: ...s division should not be confused with the ''chemical'' subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost ...
10: ...trench]]es. The majority of the world's active volcanoes occur along plate boundaries, with the Pacifi...
12: ... of this principle, which is essentially a large-scale version of [[Archimedes]]' Bath). - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...ca]], and the second largest country on the [[Africa]]n continent. It is bordered by [[Tunisia]] in th...
17: | align="center" colspan=2 | [[image:LocationAlgeria.png]]
23: | '''[[Capital]]'''<br><br> - Population:<br> - [...
38: | From [[France]]<br>[[July 5]], [[1962]]
53: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]''' - Samoa (9435 bytes)
14: | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National mot...
16: ...olspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationSamoa.png]]
21: | '''[[Capital]]'''
37: | From [[New Zealand]]<br>[[January 1]], [[1962]]
51: | '''[[List_of_country_calling_codes|Calling Code]]''' - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
1: ...t from the [[British Empire]]. [[Banjul]] is its capital.
16: | align=center colspan=2 | [[image:LocationGambia.png]]
21: | '''[[Capital]]'''
51: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
61: ...gland and France struggled continuously for political and commercial supremacy in the regions of the S... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...with some hills in the island's interior. It is located 13? north of the [[Equator]] and 59? west of t...
3: ...island's interior are also dotted with large sugarcane estates and wide [[pastures]] with many good vi...
9: ...lodoid-Barrancoid. For the next few centries, the Caribs—like the Arawak and the Salodoid-Barran...
11: ...[[Slavery|slave labor]] on [[plantation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere.
13: ...ess, Barbados always enjoyed a large measure of local autonomy. Its House of Assembly began meeting in... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
2: ...o the southwest the [[Cayman Islands]] and [[Jamaica]], and to the southeast [[Haiti]].
6: ...ing the [[19th century]] until the [[Spanish-American War]] of [[1898]]. The [[United States]] occupie...
8: ...an about 12%, one of the lowest in the latin american countries.
10: ...ised. Among other things, [[healthcare]] and [[education]] freely available were expanded to cover all...
12: ...lear Stand-off, between the United States of America and Russia. - Uganda (11554 bytes)
1: ...lic of Uganda''', a country in east-central [[Africa]], bordered in the east by [[Kenya]], in the nort...
3: ...ortion of the south of the country, including the capital [[Kampala]].
11: image_map = LocationUganda.png|
15: capital = [[Kampala]] |
35: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $245| - Rwanda (10946 bytes)
8: image_map = LocationRwanda.png |
11: capital = [[Kigali]] |
31: GDP_PPP_per_capita = 1,268 |
32: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 144 |
35: ...ished_dates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[July 1]], [[1962]] | - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
1: ...[Hispaniola]], on which [[Haiti]] and the [[Dominican Republic]] are situated.
3: |+<big><big>'''Jamaica'''</big></big>
7: ...[[Image:Jamaica flag large.png|125px|Flag of Jamaica]]
8: ...ht="135px" | [[Image:Jamaica_coat_medium.gif|Jamaica: Coat of Arms]]
10: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Jamaica|In Detail]]) - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
1: ...nes''' is an independent sovereign state of the [[Caribbean]], part of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]]...
14: | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National mot...
16: ...olspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationSaintVincentAndTheGrenadines.png]]
21: | '''[[Capital]]'''
43: | [[East Caribbean dollar]] - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...dal]] [[Second Congo War]] (known also as the African World War), the deadliest conflict since [[World...
14: image_map = LocationDRCongo.png |
17: capital = [[Kinshasa]] |
37: GDP_PPP_per_capita = 673 |
38: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 162 | - Malawi (22306 bytes)
1: ...f Malawi''' is a land-locked nation in [[East Africa]]. It is bordered by [[Tanzania]] to the north, [...
8: image_map = LocationMalawi.png |
11: capital = [[Lilongwe]] |
31: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $619 |
32: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 164 | - Zambia (24496 bytes)
1: ...ed country in [[southern Africa|south-central Africa]]. It borders the [[Democratic Republic of the C...
9: image_map = LocationZambia.png |
12: capital = [[Lusaka]] |
32: GDP_PPP_per_capita = 883 |
33: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 157 | - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
13: ... the roll's length were on one side, all the vertical fibres on the other. Greek texts were written on...
15: ...[[Mount Vesuvius]], but has only been partially excavated.
17: ...the codex form, and in the Gr棯-Roman world it became common to cut sheets from papyrus rolls in orde...
19: ...cularly in moist climates, and the fact that they can be manufactured anywhere. The latest certain da...
21: ...in Egypt for the tourist trade was developed in [[1962]] by the Egyptian engineer [[Hassan Ragab]] using...
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