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- Plateau (3062 bytes)
2: ...d when land has been uplifted by [[tectonic]] activity and then [[erosion|eroded]] by [[wind]] or [[wa...
19: A more complete [[:Category:Plateaus|list of plateaus]] is available.
24: ...cial till]] plain are removed by [[glacier]]s, leaving the plateau into which erosion by [[water]] inc... - List of elements by symbol (14812 bytes)
58: <tr><td>Md</td><td>[[mendelevium]]</td><td>101</td><td></td></tr>
148: <tr><td>Ku</td><td>[[kurchatovium]]</td><td>104</td><td>Proposed name for [[ruthe...
152: <tr><td>Md</td><td>[[mendelevium]]</td><td>97</td><td>Proposed name for [[berkel...
154: <tr><td>Mv</td><td>[[mendelevium]]</td><td>101</td><td>Current symbol is '''Md''...
176: ...><td>101</td><td>Temporary name given to [[mendelevium]] until the permanent name was chosen.</td></tr... - Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyt...
24: ...act is a strong [[antimicrobial]] with proven activity against [[bacterium|bacteria]] and [[fungi]]. I...
31: ...tibacterial agent: II. Mechanism of action and in vitro toxicity.'' [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entre...
32: ... of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Services]
33: .../learn/grapefruit-diet.html Grapefruit Diet]- Overview, permitted foods, diet plan, advantages and dis... - Pennsylvanian (1543 bytes)
10: [[Category:Carboniferous| ]]
14: Provides a picture of what the world at the time period... - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
160: | [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]]
172: | [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]
187: | [[Virginia]]
188: | [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]]
195: | [[West Virginia]] - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...ence for their existence. Some (circumstantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at ...
13: ...nging Gardens of Babylon: This hand-coloured engraving by the 16th-century Dutch artist Martin Heemske...
40: [[Category:Gardens]]
41: [[Category:Babylonia]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ... century, the Portuguese crown began treating the village as strategic location for [[Atlantic]] trans...
19: ...clerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese ...
21: ...o arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ...osed a republic in [[1889]]. However, plans for moving the nation's seat city to the territorial cente...
31: The city is commonly divided into the historic downtown (Centro); the touri... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: ...6th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...6th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
17: ...wegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
23: ...e [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American conti...
30: ...1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Cent... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
4: ...2500 years, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
14: ... group of ruins in the same style is found at the village of Hajjiäbäd, on the Pulwar, a good hour's...
20: ...castle built by Xerxes, bears evident traces of having been destroyed by fire. The locality described ...
26: ...their couches and passed the word along to form a victory procession [epinikion komon] in honour of Di...
30: ...ent, not indeed those whom it would be a crime to violate, but, to be sure, harlots who were accustome... - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
27: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]]
65: *[[Louis Antoine de Bougainville]]
76: *[[John Davis]]
91: *[[Vitus Bering]]
92: *[[Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern]] - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
7: ...philosophy]] has a long history. Conventionally divided into three large eras - the Ancient, Medieval ...
14: ...d from working in the fields or in productive activity, they were then free to engage in the assemblie...
20: ...ind of ignorance, that only knowledge can lead to virtue, that art should be subordinate to moral purp...
33: ...lication of [[Aristotelian logic]] proceeded by having the student memorize a rather large set of syll...
44: A broad overview would then have [[Erasmus]], [[Francis Bacon]],... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...at Frémont became the first European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited with deter...
9: ...e was re-appointed to a different post (in [[West Virginia]]), but lost several battles and resigned h...
15: ...horship in scientific names|botanical author abbreviation]] '''Frém.''' is applied to plants he descr...
22: ...[President of the United States|Presidential]] [[:Category:U.S. Republican Party presidential nominees|candi... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
8: ...wing account assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
15: ...ascus]] (then also controlled by the Mameluks), having encountered a holy man during his first trip wh...
17: ...eted the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim, and having graduated to the status of ''[[al-Hajji]]'' as ...
20: ...an he crossed the border into [[Mesopotamia]] and visited [[al-Najaf]], the burial place of the fourth...
27: ... settling down, he then immediately decided to go visit [[Oman]] and the [[Straits of Hormuz]]. This d... - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...hat smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron disso...
11: ...cementite]] to [[precipitate]] out of the mix, leaving behind iron that is pure enough to take the for...
44: ...o [[mold]]s, a method far less laborious than individually forging each piece of iron from a bloom.
46: ... tools and weapons. A mass grave in [[Hebei]] province, dated to the early third century BC, contains...
48: ... a series of large blast furnaces in [[Henan]] province, each capable of producing several tons of iro... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
12: ...r, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement office...
15: ...ck Obama reelected president, Joe Biden reelected vice president.
18:
32: ...onald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president.
38: ...st person without prior military or government service to hold the office. - Phaseolus (2770 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyt...
13: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = [[Speci...
19: ''Phaseolus brevicalyx''<br/>
57: ...s'', whereas more modern sources classify it as ''Vigna radiata''.
60: [[Category:Faboideae]] - Treasury (1846 bytes)
3: ... the treasury]]. The [[U.S. Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] is the revenue agency of the [[US Departm...
27: *[[Provincial Treasurer]]
30: [[Category:Institutions of government]] - Burundi (13403 bytes)
3: Landlocked, facing population pressures and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest...
58: ...oration of democracy. After several more years of violence, a cease-fire was signed in 2003 between Bu...
64: ...ndi has been dominated in recent years by the [[civil war]] and a long [[peace process]] and move to [...
74: ...flows for 690 km (429 miles) before reaching Lake Victoria. The source of the [[Ruvyironza River]], a...
76: ... into 16 administrative [[Provinces of Burundi|provinces]]. The [[capital city]], [[Bujumbura]], has b... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
11: ...d execution, she was placed under house arrest. Having been allowed in 1984, to go back to the [[Unite...
21: ...tan's Foreign Policy which was strengthened and revitalized. Pakistan made new friends and maintained ...
24: ...he and her government have said that they only provided moral support and nothing more. The Taliban to...
32: ...n's constitution, banning Prime Ministers from serving more than two terms. This disqualifies Bhutto f...
34: ...e]] and from where she travels around the world giving lectures and keeping in touch with the Party fa... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
3: '''Virginia Woolf''' ([[January 25]], [[1882]] – ...
7: ...oolf was brought up and educated in a classically Victorian household at 22 Hyde Park Gate. In [[1895]...
9: ...ists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...he dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influential even today. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singi...
4: She was born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yo...
12: ...n]] (with [[Nelson Riddle]]'s [[orchestra]]), [[Irving Berlin]], [[Cole Porter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[J...
22: ...lifornia]], after having made some sad last [[Television|TV]] appearances. She is interred in the [[In...
46: *1958 ''[[Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...inging about with gut wrenching soul and sheer conviction. She is renowned for her soul and R&B record...
8: ...ad earned the nickname ''"The Queen of Soul"'', having become an internationally famous artist and a s...
12: ...ance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]].
18: ...ate life even more jealously and she gave no interviews for several years after that. She lives today ...
36: *[[1962]] ''[[The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin]]'' - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...d until her death. Later that year, she also met violinist [[Joseph Joachim]] who became one of her f...
9: ...urned to [[London]] in [[1865]] and continued her visits annually, with the exception of four seasons,...
14: ...o]] with violin and cello, and three Romances for violin and piano. Inspired by her husbands birthday,...
19: [[Category:1819 births|Schumann, Clara]] - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
4: Ava Lavinia Gardner was born in the small farming communit...
6: ...'' did she become known as a [[sex symbol]] and movie star. She married [[Mickey Rooney]] when she wa...
8: ... nominated, albeit in the best supporting actress category.
16: ...r is portrayed by [[Kate Beckinsale]] in ''[[The Aviator]]'' (2004), a film by [[Martin Scorsese]] abo...
71: * [[Vienna: The Years Remembered]] (1968) (short subject... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ...ter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Riccardo Scicolone and ...
7: ...kly ilustrated romantic stories) billed as "Sofia Villani" or "Sofia Lazzaro' and took part in regiona...
9: ...!]]''), her acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [...
11: ...on the [[Eugene O'Neill]] play), ''[[Houseboat (movie)|Houseboat]]'' (a romantic comedy again co-starr...
13: ...stinction of being the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-Englis... - Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
3: ...rn Virginia]] to finish her high school career, living with relatives until the rest of her family joi...
15: ...was strained by long absences (his as a military aviator, and hers in international soccer), and they ...
19: ...to the [[FIFA 100]], a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players selected by [[Pel靝 and commiss...
21: ...tional goal; she has long held the record in that category for any player, male or female. This match also m... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
10: ...d her autobiography, which was republished in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting ...
33: == Trivia ==
34: ...e was featured in the [[Jeopardy|Final Jeopardy]] category on [[June 15]], [[2005]] as ''In 1938, at age 25,... - Raspberry (2847 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyt...
33: [[Category:Fruit]]
34: [[Category:Rubus]] - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
8: ...urging of Professor Alan Schechter, her political views turned left, joining the [[Democratic_Party_%2...
10: ...Cambridge, Massachusetts. She joined the staff advising the [[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary|J...
12: ...ey General during the Clinton Administration, and Vince Foster, who worked in the Clinton Administrati...
20: ...rds of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, Legal Services, and the Children's Defense Fund. She also, fr...
25: ... was a good client. The firm was later fined for violating Chicago Mercantile Exchange rules governin... - Digestion (4206 bytes)
20: ...]. Secretion of gastrin is stimulated by food arriving in stomach. The secretion is inhibited by low [...
29: [[Category:Digestive system]]
30: [[Category:Metabolism]] - Immune system (14564 bytes)
3: It is often divided into the two sections of innate and adaptive i...
6: ...me. While study of the bacterial immune system provides useful insights into immunology, higher organi...
8: ... foreign [[pathogen]]s (such as [[virus (biology)|viruses]], [[bacterium|bacteria]], [[parasite]]s), s...
15: ...body, it is destroyed by forced [[apoptosis]], leaving behind T cells that can be safely released into...
18: ...o pathogens changes during the lifetime of an individual, seem to have appeared somewhat abruptly in [... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
5: ==Overview==
9: ...us system to stimulus, that sense events in the environment and that monitor the condition of the body...
15: ...elencephalon, with only the [[medulla oblongata]] visible as it merges with the [[spinal cord]].
21: ...in air weighs only 50 g when suspended in CSF. (Livingston, 1965). Fluid movement within the brain is ...
25: ... the animal kingdom. Female humans have large pelvic openings to accommodate the birth of large-heade... - Pulmonary alveolus (8193 bytes)
1: ...tomical structure that has the form of a hollow cavity. In the lung, the alveoli are spherical outcro...
34: ...s the systemic venous blood which enter the lungs via the [[pulmonary arteries]].
58: ...ficult to prevent once started, due to the sensitivity of lung tissue to radiological exposure.
60: ... the patient cannot draw enough oxygen from his environment, then he may need supplemental oxygen.
62: [[Category:Respiratory system]] - Vegetable (2464 bytes)
3: [[Image:Rome_8341b.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip...
4: [[Image:DS0023aa.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip...
12: ...[Image:Bos3Mvc-017f.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip...
15: ... word was used as a noun refering directly to the category of plants. - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
50: Grass script is notorious for its economy of individual penstrokes. Quite often different characters ...
54: ... Chinese characters have been affected by seal carving, since simplification of characters has often b...
78: [[Category:Calligraphy]]
79: [[Category:Chinese language]]
80: [[Category:Japanese language]] - Relic (11473 bytes)
7: ...soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet." It is cited to estab...
13: ====Romano-Christian [[daemon]]s and the "virtue" of relics====
14: ... Gregory's constant usage of ''"sanctus"'' and ''"virtus"'', the first with its familiar meaning of "...
15: ...supernatural. In a practical way the second word [virtus] is the more important. It describes the unca...
17: ...ans, pagans and pagan gods, and heretics. False ''virtus'' inhabited images of the pagan gods, the "id... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...specially if this is his or her [[profession]]. Evidence indicates that humans have been painting for...
4: ...marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
14: [[:Category:Artistic techniques|Painting technique]]s include...
20: *[[Pointillism]] (aka divisionism, 'stippling')
34: ...l working characteristics of the paint, such as [[viscosity]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying... - List of dinosaur classifications (7586 bytes)
7: ...er;) is used to indicate taxa with [[extinct|no living members]].
17: *** †Division [[Carnosauria]]
18: **** †Subdivision [[Spinosauroidea]]
21: **** †Subdivision [[Allosauroidea]]
24: *** Division [[Coelurosauria]] - Cycling (1157 bytes)
26: * [[:Category:Cyclists|Category:Professional cyclists]]
35: [[Category:cycling]] - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
1: [[Image:Woodcarvings of cranes.jpg|right|thumb|Artists can use wood...
2: ...rking''' is the process of building, making or carving something using [[wood]].
3: [[Category:Skills]]
7: ...mitive human beings. Indeed, the development of civilization was closely tied to the development of in...
9: ...ite]] of [[Fellbach-Schmieden]] in Germany has provided fine examples of wooden animal statues from th... - Process (6114 bytes)
1: ...[process management]], [[process theory]], and [[:Category:Nature]].
8: ... the universe by God would be an example of a ''divine process''. (generally assumed to be a singular...
10: *[[civics|Civic]] [[governance]] and [[conflict resolution]]
38: ...process is defined as “a related set of activities conducted to the specific purpose of product ...
49: <td valign=top> C. Rolland. A Comprehensive View of Process Engineering. Proceedings of the 10th... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
8: ..., [[musica]] was part of the mathematical [[quadrivium]] - [[arithmetic]]s, [[geometry]], [[astronomy]...
12: ...ic thought]] - ranging from [[astrology]] to believing certain [[minerals]] have certain beneficiary e...
17: ...t they do have words for instrumental versus improvised forms (''kantun''), European and nonMapuche mu...
21: ...han]] is not considered music, but classical improvised song, classical instrumental metric compositio...
31: ...ined by the neutral and/or esthesic levels). This view is often used to argue that some kinds of organ... - Geography (8541 bytes)
1: [[Image:Environment_09.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip...
13: ...tury|16th]] and [[17th century|17th centuries]] revived a desire for both accurate geographic detail, ...
53: *[[environmental science]]
62: [[Image:Adriatic_sea.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip...
63: .... It also includes [[landscape ecology]] and [[environmental geography]]. - United Nations (29685 bytes)
3: UN membership is open to all "peace-loving states" that accept the obligations of the [[UN...
5: ...as transferred to the UN as it was founded by the victorious powers in the war as a condition of the [...
20: ...ted Kingdom]], the [[United States]], and the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] met to elaborate the plans at the ...
24: ...mdash; [[Republic of China]], [[France]], the [[Soviet Union]], [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United S...
26: ... agencies located in [[Geneva]], [[The Hague]], [[Vienna]], and elsewhere. - Euphonium (3735 bytes)
1: [[Category:Brass instruments]] - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
11: ...elow the B). This tuning was very popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension...
65: [[Category:String instruments]]
66: [[Category:Hawaiian music]] - Egypt (18830 bytes)
62: Egypt is famous for its [[Ancient Egypt|ancient civilization]] and some of the world's most stunning a...
67: ... country' or 'a state'. The name '''Egypt''' came via the Latin word ''Aegyptus'' derived from the anc...
69: ...for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa [[3...
73: ...sportation hub; however, the country also fell heavily into debt. Ostensibly to protect its investment...
77: ... Pyramids of Giza are at the heart of Egypt's thriving tourism industry.]] - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
13: | place of death= [[The Hermitage]], [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]
16: | vicepresident= [[John C. Calhoun]] (1829-1832) [[Mar...
18: ...he [[War of 1812]] and the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].
22: ...er, the irate redcoat slashed him with a sword, giving Jackson the scars (and intense hatred for the B...
26: His service in the [[War of 1812]] was conspicuous for its ... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
10: ...r><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Kinderhook (village), New York|Kinderhook, New York]]</td></tr>
18: <tr><td>'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>[[Richard M. Johnson]]<...
25: ...y 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
29: ...f his nephew, [[De Witt Clinton]]), [[Robert R. Livingston]] and Aaron Burr. Federalist control after ...
41: ... [[Vice President of the United States of America|vice-president]]; but he shrewdly kept out of the ac... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ... [[politician]] who served as the twenty-eighth [[Vice President of the United States of America]] und...
9: == Vice Presidency ==
11: ...[[1912]], was reelected in [[1916]] and served as Vice President until [[1921]]. It is said that Mars...
13: ...re this, Presidents had made a habit of using the Vice President (who serves as President of the Senat...
15: ...ilson and Marshall became the first President and Vice President team to be re-elected since [[James M... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...ninth [[Vice President of the United States]], serving in the administration of [[Martin Van Buren]].
5: ...r the present site of [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], and attended [[Transylvania University]]. ...
9: ...ship with an African-American woman. He served as vice President from March 4, 1837, to March 3, [[184...
29: ... Presidential]] [[:Category:U.S._Democratic_Party_vice_presidential_nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Mart...
30: {{succession box|title=[[Vice President of the United States]]|before=[[Marti... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...esident of the United States|Vice President]], serving under [[James K. Polk]].
7: ... was recalled at his own request. He was elected Vice President of the United States on the Democrati...
19: ... Presidential]] [[:Category:U.S._Democratic_Party_vice_presidential_nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Rich...
20: {{succession box|title=[[Vice President of the United States]]|before=[[John ...
23: {{US Vice Presidents}} - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
16: | vicepresident=[[William R. King]]
18: ...d the 14th [[President of the United States]], serving from [[1853]] to [[1857]]. Pierce was a [[Unite...
20: ...a|Confederacy]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
27: ... [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also met [[Calvin E. Stowe]], [[Sargent S. Prentiss]], and his fut...
29: ...], [[Massachusetts]], studying under Governor [[Levi Woodbury]] and later Judges Samuel Howe and Edmun... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
46: | '''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''
50: ... [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American Civil War]] and as a result, he is widely considered t...
53: ...99]], was privately tutored and then attended the village academy and was graduated from [[Dickinson C...
55: ...ived by historians, but there isn't any decisive evidence one way or the other.
78: ...d its own candidate for the presidency, incumbent vice-president [[John C. Breckinridge]], whom Buchan... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
36: | '''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''
44: ...daries. These events soon led to the [[American Civil War]].
46: ...ica|Confederacy]]. His leadership qualities were evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slav...
48: ...d national banking and banks, and admitted [[West Virginia]] and [[Nevada]] as states. He also encoura...
50: ...[[assassination]], shortly after the end of the Civil War, made him a [[martyr]] to millions of Americ... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
35: | '''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''
40: ...e sixteenth [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] ([[1865]]) and the seventeenth [[Pr...
42: ...towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute...
45: ...as apprenticed to a tailor, but ran away to Greeneville, Tennessee in [[1826]], where he continued his...
48: ...ee]] from [[1828]] to [[1830]] and mayor of Greeneville from [[1834]] to [[1838]]. He was a member of... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
16: <tr><td>'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>
22: ...on army | Union]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and the 18th ([[1869]]–[[1877]]) [[P...
30: ...ania]]. In the fall of [[1823]] they moved to the village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brow...
39: ...54]], he resigned from the army. Seven years of civilian life followed, in which he was a farmer, a re...
43: ...ture the river fortress of [[Vicksburg Campaign | Vicksburg, Mississippi]], in [[1863]] is considered ... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...|Representative]] from [[Indiana]] and the 17th [[Vice President of the United States]].
6: ...[1868]], having become the Republican nominee for Vice President.
8: In [[1868]] he was elected Vice President of the United States on the Republica...
10: He was a lecturer after leaving public office, and died in [[Mankato, Minnesota...
14: ... Presidential]] [[:Category:U.S. Republican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]] | before=[[An... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ...tor]] from [[Massachusetts]] and the eighteenth [[Vice President of the United States]].
7: ...[[March 3]], [[1873]], when he resigned to become Vice President. He was Chairman of the Committee on...
9: Wilson was elected Vice President of the United States on the Republica...
12: ... Presidential]] [[:Category:U.S. Republican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Schu...
13: {{succession box|title=[[Vice President of the United States]]|before=[[Schuy... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
10: | 19th Vice President
44: ...entative]] from [[New York]] and the nineteenth [[Vice President of the United States]].
48: ...nated in [[1876]] as the Republican candidate for Vice President. He was elected on the Republican ti...
51: ... Presidential]] [[:Category:U.S. Republican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Henr...
52: {{succession box|title=[[Vice President of the United States]]|before=[[Henry... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
16: | vicepresident=None
18: ... [[President of the United States|President]], serving until [[1885]].
20: ...ements in office as President included [[civil service]] reform and the passage of the [[Pendleton Act...
27: ...an border. His parents were William Arthur and Malvina Stone.
31: ...ate in [[1861]] and was widely praised for his service. He was later commissioned as inspector genera... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
24: <tr><td>'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>
29: ...n]] political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in ...
40: ...] of [[Maine]]. The campaign was one of the most vicious and negative up to that time. The Republican...
46: ...nsions for disabilities not caused by military service, Cleveland vetoed that, too. Cleveland used th...
54: ...sidential election, 2000|2000 election]]. Upon leaving the White House in 1889, Frances Cleveland told... - Basalt (2961 bytes)
4: ...or amounts of accessory [[mineral]]s such as [[olivine]]. Basaltic cinders are often red. [[Glass]] ma...
8: ...ing been artificially constructed. The dark areas visible on Earth's moon, the [[lunar mare]]s, are pl...
12: ...ilica]] and poor in [[sodium]]. Included in this category are most basalts of the [[ocean]] floor, most lar...
14: ...ten rich in the minerals [[plagioclase]] and [[olivine]]. - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...t of the continent, as the [[Africa (province)|province of Africa]] with its capital [[Carthage]], cor...
37: ...the earliest nation states ever formed. Other [[civilization]]s include [[Ethiopia]], the [[Nubian kin...
41: ...eating many [[colony|colonial]] nation states, leaving only two independent nations ([[Liberia]] and [...
51: ...other similarity who resided on both sides. The division of the land between [[Belgium]] and [[France]...
55: ... thumb, and one could move from Hutu to Tutsi and vice versa. - United States (58223 bytes)
15: ...sident]]<br>[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] |
60: ...Constitution|13th Amendment]] took effect. The Civil War effectively ended the question of a state's ...
64: ...nvolved in improving are the [[telephone]], [[television]], [[computer]], the [[Internet]], [[nuclear ...
66: ...o "[[superpower]]s". With the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]], the U.S. emerged as the world's leadin...
80: ...osts are elected, as running mates, by the people via the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral college]]... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
65: ...; all emirates have secular and Islamic law for civil, criminal, and high courts.
71: ...e foreign policy stance have allowed it to play a vital role in the affairs of the region. In recent y...
88: ...approaches to the [[Strait of Hormuz]] makes it a vital transit point for world crude oil. The UAE is ...
97: ...lly allowed to provide long distance telephone services.
103: ...g traditional forms of art and culture, including via the [[Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation]]. Change is... - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
69: ...t Mohammed]] to power, who promised a return to civilian rule. However, he was killed in an abortive c...
71: ... won the turbulent elections of 2003. Although having won the election, Obasanjo has had a love-hate ...
82: [[Nigeria]] is divided into 36 [[state]]s and 1 [[territory]].
137: Nigeria is divided roughly in three by the rivers [[Niger River|N...
197: ...nce on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 20% of GDP, 95% of foreign exchange earnings, ... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
51: ...oordinated Universal Time|UTC]], no ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST]])
67: Upon achieving independence from the [[United Kingdom]], the n...
85: ...ies in [[West Africa]]. Even so, Ghana remains heavily dependent on international financial and techni...
92: Ghana is divided into 10 [[region]]s:
123: ...treams. A tropical rain forest belt, broken by heavily forested hills and many streams and rivers, ext... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
40: ...rom the [[United Kingdom|British]]) [http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/ethiopia/pankhurst/history...
67: ...ned independent. Italy and Ethiopia signed a [[provisional treaty]] of peace on [[October 26]], 1896.
69: ... a coalition of rebel forces. In [[1993]], the Province of [[Eritrea]] became independent from Ethiopi...
77: ... to boycott these elections, ensuring a landslide victory for the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary D...
79: ... has promoted a policy of ethnic federalism, devolving significant powers to regional, ethnically-base... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
62: ... [[Arabization]] of the countryside. The [[Almoravid]]s and [[Almohad]]s, Berber dynasties from the w...
68: ...00 ''[[harki]]s'' (pro-French Muslim Algerians serving in the French Army), together forming about 10%...
72: ...e were killed, often in unprovoked massacres of civilians by guerrilla groups such as the [[Armed Isla...
83: == Administrative Divisions ==
84: ''Main article: [[Provinces of Algeria]]'' - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
59: ...ter France fell to the [[Germany|Germans]], the [[Vichy]] government administered Madagascar. British ...
61: ...state within the French Community. A period of provisional government ended with the adoption of a con...
66: ...ndrava]], who was assassinated 6 days later. A provisional military directorate then ruled until a new...
68: ... of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a highly centralized econo...
76: ...t the forum in protest of draft constitutional provisions preventing the incumbent president from runn... - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
53: ...as an extensive coastline with the [[Red Sea]]. Having achieved independence on May 24, [[1993]] from ...
62: ...exed by [[Ethiopia]], starting a 30-year long [[civil war]].
76: Eritrea is divided into 6 regions:
100: ...on [[infrastructure]], asphalting new roads, improving its ports, and repairing war damaged roads and ...
173: ===Overviews=== - Iraq (19222 bytes)
49: ..., replacing it with an interim American-backed Provisional Authority, and then an [[Iraqi Interim Gove...
56: ... [[November 2003]], the US-managed [[Coalition Provisional Authority]] announced plans to turn over so...
59: ...idency Council, consisting of a President and two Vice Presidents. (By unanimous agreement, the Presid...
64: ...the former Interim President and a Sunni Arab, as Vice Presidents. [[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]] a Shiite, wh...
70: Iraq is divided into 18 [[governorate]]s or [[province]]s (Arabic: ''muhafazat'', singular - ''muhafa... - Mali (7755 bytes)
64: Mali's constitution provides for a multi-party democracy, with the only res...
69: Mali is divided into nine [[region]]s, including the [[capital...
91: ...trated on processing farm commodities. Mali is heavily dependent on foreign aid and vulnerable to fluc...
120: ===Overviews===
125: ...0065674/us559933/ LookSmart - ''Mali''] directory category - Central African Republic (6564 bytes)
2: ...e in [[1960]], by military governments. While a civilian government was installed in [[1993]], the cou...
62: ... ridiculed by much of the world. His human rights violations (which are said to have included [[cannib...
105: ===Overviews===
110: ...okSmart - ''Central African Republic''] directory category
111: ...Project - ''Central African Republic''] directory category - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
67: ...stability of the Jawara era was first broken by a violent, unsuccessful coup attempt in [[1981]].
71: In July 1994, the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) seized power in a mi...
73: ... return to democratic civilian government. The Provisional Independent Electoral Commission (PIEC) was...
84: ...by referendum in August 1996. The constitution provides for a strong presidential government, a [[unic...
88: == Subdivisions == - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...], [[Pakistan]], [[Russia]], [[Tajikistan]] and [[Vietnam]]. Although it officially remains a [[commun...
4: ...as parts of itself, an eternally complete and indivisible country. This claim is controversial with th...
13: After [[World War II]], the [[Chinese Civil War]] between the [[Communist Party of China]] a...
15: ...stry, healthcare, and education, which raised [[living standard]]s of average Chinese. They also belie...
21: ...ought and purging the moderate leadership, but is viewed by his supporters as an experiment in direct ... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
51: ...Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] +2 ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST +3]])
73: ...[French Mandate of Lebanon|mandated]] the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [[France]...
80: === Civil War, (1975-1990) ===
81: {{seemain|Lebanese Civil War}}
83: ...le East]] before the outbreak of the [[Lebanese Civil War]]. - Guinea-Bissau (9517 bytes)
65: ...the president's ousting and the [[Guinea-Bissau Civil War]]. Elections were held in [[2000]] and [[Kum...
69: ... President of the country. Former President Nino Vieira, deposed in the 1998 coup, also has returned ...
80: Guinea-Bissau is divided into nine regions (''regiões''):
99: ...hing economy was badly disrupted by the 1998-99 civil war. It has a foreign [[debt]] of $US 921 millio...
101: ... that a [[locust]] [[swarm]] was threatening this vital crop, and that the country did not have the re... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
19: ...ish. The reigning trend in all areas of public services, including educational institutions, seems to ...
24: ... the [[Fish River]], in today's [[Eastern Cape Province]]. These [[Iron Age]] populations displaced ea...
26: ...ercent of the population in the [[Western Cape Province]].
32: ...y themselves with German [[South West Africa]] provided the British with yet another excuse to take co...
34: ... by the Afrikaner governments. One of the main provisions of the treaty ending the war was that blacks... - Republic of the Congo (9324 bytes)
11: capital = [[Brazzaville]] |
16: largest_city = [[Brazzaville]] |
47: ... [[Denis Sassou-Nguesso]]. The capital is [[Brazzaville]].
76: ... ''r駩on'') and 1 commune*; [[Bouenza]], [[Brazzaville]]*, [[Cuvette Region|Cuvette]], [[Cuvette-Oues...
83: Its capital, [[Brazzaville]], is located on the Congo River,in the south ... - Tanzania (17411 bytes)
78: ...al court was established in September 1999 as a division of the High Court.
80: For administrative purposes, Tanzania is divided into 26 regions--21 on the mainland, 3 on Zanz...
89: ...ional Monetary Fund, and bilateral donors have provided funds to rehabilitate Tanzania's deteriorated ...
105: Tanzania is divided into 26 [[region]]s: [[Arusha]], [[Dar es Sala...
119: The Tanzanian artistes have devised a new style going by the name of "[[Bongo Flav... - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
66: A civil war led by [[Afar]] rebels in the early [[1990s]...
80: == Subdivisions ==
81: Djibouti is divided into six [[district]]s (cercles, singular - ce...
102: ...be imported. There are few natural resources and virtually no industries.
104: ...he last seven years because of [[recession]], [[civil war]], and a high [[population growth rate]] (in... - Qatar (10610 bytes)
59: ...d on the coasts within small fishing and pearling villages. The clans battled each other for lucrativ...
61: ...val force to Wakrah. Bahraini aggression however violated an 1820 Anglo-Bahraini Treaty and the diplo...
65: ...ersial [[Arabic language|Arabic]] [[satellite television]] news channel.
69: ... high [[standard of living]], with many social services offered to its citizens and all the amenities ...
71: ...m³). Qataris' [[wealth]] and [[standard of living]] are comparable to those of [[Western Europe]]... - Sierra Leone (10596 bytes)
54: ...n]] was established as a city for former slaves living in [[London]].
58: ...he early [[1980s]]—became involved in a [[civil war]] in [[1991]], with the [[Revolutionary Unit...
62: ... the catalyst for a ceasefire and ending of the civil war.
64: ...age of the war in Sierra Leone, a comprehensive review of the conflict based on extensive field resear...
71: == Provinces == - Botswana (22276 bytes)
58: ...Cape Colony]] and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa; the majority of [[Setswana]]-...
60: ...ized tribal rule and powers. A European-African advisory council was formed in 1951, and the 1961 [[co...
62: ...ice in 1998. The presidency passed to the sitting vice president, [[Festus Mogae]], who was elected in...
67: ...[[Botswana Congress Party]] (BCP) won 1 seat. Individuals elected by the National Assembly hold an add...
69: ...dent from the National Assembly; it consists of a vice president and a flexible number of ministers an... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
64: ... work the sugar plantations. This ethnocultural divide has persisted and has on occasion led to turbul...
78: ...cised by the [[president]], who appoints and supervises the [[prime minister]] and other ministers. Th...
105: The Guyanese landscape can be roughly divided into three regions: a narrow, marshy plain alo...
137: [[Category:Guyana]]
160: ...Guyana People's Militia (GPM), Guyana National Service (GNS), Guyana Police Force - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
28: ...- Declared<br/> - Recognised|| [[Rhodesian Civil War]]<br>''(as Rhodesia)'' [[November 11|Nov. 11...
32: ...Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] +2 ([[Daylight Savings Time|DST, yes or not]])
46: ...state, attest the existence of a medieval Bantu civilization in the region. Linked to the establishmen...
58: === Civil War ===
60: As [[guerrilla]] activities fighting minority rule intensified, the Smith... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
36: HDI_category = <font color="#FFCC00">medium</font> |
54: ...istory of Pakistan]]''' (Including pre-history, civilizations of the region, and modern events to date...
57: ...est of [[Sukkur]], was center of [[Indus Valley Civilization]], 2600 BCE – 1800 BCE]]
59: ...ry. Pakistan was the site of the [[Indus Valley civilization]] and was subsequently conquered by many ...
62: ... in Afghanistan) and extended to the Pakistani province of [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] with diffuse tr... - Israel (51605 bytes)
60: ...]] renamed ''Provincia [[Judea|Judaea]]'' to ''Provincia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived ...
62: ... composed in Palestine during this period. The province became an important center of Christian pilgri...
73: ...n River, was administered as "Palestine" under provisions that called for the establishment of a Jewis...
78: ...f [[WW2]], and enforced even when refugees who survived [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]] were fleeing from ...
83: ...ted territory into two states, Jewish and Arab, giving about half the land area to each state. Under t... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
70: ...ears later in [[1989]]. For more details, see [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]].
72: ...The Taliban gave safe haven and assistance to individuals and organizations that engaged in terrorism,...
76: In addition to occasionally violent political jockeying and ongoing military act...
78: ...at Samangan Province ([[March 3]]) and Baghlan Province ([[March 25]]). The latter was the worse of th...
96: ... charging fraud; an independent commission found evidence of fraud, but ruled that it did not affect t... - Uganda (11554 bytes)
1: ... country includes a substantial portion of [[Lake Victoria]], within which it shares borders with Keny...
67: ...has been in power since [[1986]] and in generally viewed as being part of a new generation of African ...
78: ...ortant cities are located in the south, near Lake Victoria, including the capital [[Kampala]] and the ...
80: ... districts]], spread across four administrative divisions: North, East, South and West. The districts ...
85: ...ening [[inflation]], boosting production and improving the [[balance of payments]]. - Nepal (22444 bytes)
58: ...ced by resurgent Hindu fiefdoms such as the Licchavi dynasty.
60: ...h century]]. In [[1768]], the Gorkha king, [[Prithvi Narayan Shah]], captured Kathmandu. In [[1814]], ...
64: ...s [[People's war]]. This has since grown to a [[civil war]] and resulted in the deaths of 10,000 peopl...
66: ... went on a killing spree in the royal palace in a violent response to his parents' refusal to accept h...
68: ...dra deployed Nepal's military in the grinding [[civil war]], the [[Nepalese People's War]], with the M... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
12: ... = Al-Nasr Lana ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: Victory is Ours) |
62: ...General Gordon]] was killed. The Mahdist state survived until being overwhelmed by an Anglo-Egyptian f...
64: ... sparked 17 years of [[First Sudanese Civil War|civil war]] from [[1955]] to [[1972]].
68: ...de, re-igniting the [[Second Sudanese Civil War|civil war]].
70: ...b]] restored a civilian government. However the civil war intensified in lethality and the economy con... - Rwanda (10946 bytes)
52: In 1895 Rwanda, like Burundi, became a German province. The Germans, however, were at first completel...
54: ... Rwanda's independence in [[1962]], the Hutu held virtually all power.
60: ...o]], and have become involved in that country's civil war.
65: After its military victory in July [[1994]], the [[Rwandese Patriotic F...
69: == Provinces == - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...h it from the Republic of Congo, or Congo-[[Brazzaville]]) to [[Zaire]], until 1997. Since 1998, the c...
63: ...ar II]] the small Congolese army achieved several victories against the [[Italians]] in north Africa.
67: ...rned. Late in 1959, accused of instigating public violence, he was jailed by the Belgians but was rele...
72: ...it was announced that he had been killed by angry villagers (which was not believed by many). Riots of...
74: ...s pleased with the outcome, having viewed the [[Soviet]]-backed Lumumba as a [[CPSU|Communist]] puppet... - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
66: ... was incorporated within the [[Ottoman Empire]], evidenced by Sheik Mubarak's flying the Ottoman flag ...
68: ...rs who were rarely granted citizenship. Kuwait, having amassed great wealth, was the first of the Pers...
70: ...ge that Kuwaiti territory was in fact an Iraqi province, and that annexation was retaliation for "econ...
86: Kuwait is divided into 6 governorates (''muhafazat''):
99: ...converted into a military base and currently no civilians are allowed in). - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
2: The '''Republic of Bolivia''' is a [[landlocked]] [[country]] in central [[...
8: native_name = República de Bolivia |
9: common_name = Bolivia |
10: image_flag = Bolivia flag large.png |
11: image_coat = BoliviaArms.gif | - Gabon (7342 bytes)
22: | [[Libreville]]
54: ...Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] +1 ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST, yes or not]])
68: ...[French Equatorial Africa]], a federation that survived until [[1959]]. These territories became indep...
70: ...]], with [[El Hadj Omar Bongo|Omar Bongo]] as his vice president. When M'Ba died in 1967, Bongo replac...
75: ...he guarantee of those rights and a governmental advisory board which deals with economic and social is... - Malawi (22306 bytes)
49: ...how physical characteristics similar to peoples living today in the [[Horn of Africa]]. At another sit...
51: ... [[African Lakes Company]] to supply goods and services to the [[missionary|missionaries]]. Other miss...
55: ...as sent to [[Gwelo Prison]] for his political activities but was released in [[1960]] to participate i...
57: ...April 15]], [[1961]], the MCP won an overwhelming victory in elections for a new Legislative Council. ...
59: ...nstitution took effect in May 1963, providing for virtually complete internal self-government. The Fed...
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