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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
5: ...ales]], [[Cornwall]], or the west of what would become [[England]], but controversy over the centre of ...
9: ...there seems to be little reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
21: ... than as a king. Two separate sources within this compilation list twelve battles that he fought, culmi...
29: ...enet.org/~almahu/hunt.htm]), and that he with his company of riders may be seen by moonlight in the for...
37: ...a prince who had triumphed over the Saxons, their common enemies. [Chapter 38, Footnote 138]</blockquot... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
3: ...ek theatre. Athenian [[tragedy]], [[Greek comedy|comedy]], and [[satyr play]]s were some of the earlie...
7: ... how fertility rituals developed into tragedy and comedy.
9: ...acted with the chorus, who acted as narrators and commentators. Thespis is therefore considered the fi...
13: ...de. The centerpiece of the annual Dionysia was a competition among three playwrights at the [[Theater ...
17: ...rd actor to his plays), and [[Euripides]] and the comic writer [[Aristophanes]]. Their plays, along wi... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
4: ...got all the advantage of the arrangement. By this compact, moreover, the chronically rebellious Jutish ...
6: ...Dalaborg]] Castle, in March 1388, the Swedes were compelled to accept all Margaret's conditions, electe...
10: ...lm to Margaret in September 1398, in exchange for commercial privileges.
12: ...itaries, as tending in her opinion to prevent the complete amalgamation of [[Scandinavia]]. But with he...
24: ...s day a special bell is being rung twice daily in commemoration of the Queen. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
24: ...[Riddlesworth Hall]] [http://www.riddlesworthhall.com/] in [[Norfolk]] and at West Heath School in [[Ke...
36: ... [[Prince Harry of Wales|Prince Henry of Wales]] (commonly called Prince Harry) on [[15 September]] [[1...
52: ...that people with AIDS deserved not isolation, but compassion. It helped change world opinion, helped gi...
56: ...ational Red Cross]] [[VIP]] [[volunteer]] [http://www.landmines.org.uk/100], she visited landmine survi...
60: ...[[Landmines Bill 1998]] to the [[British House of Commons]], the [[Foreign Secretary]], [[Robin Cook]],... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
18: ...ent domain|expropriation]] advocated by anarchist communists like [[Peter Kropotkin]].) She was charged...
21: ... for several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the othe...
25: ... the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."''
32: ... [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed (journalist)|J... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...eminism]] and [[Paul Gauguin]]'s grandmother. Her complete name was Flore-Celestine -Ther賥-Henriette ...
13: *[http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/Tristan.htm Complete Biography] - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
19: ...Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand's first name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had n...
26: ...ore finally being accepted by the [[Bobbs-Merrill Company]] publishing house. Despite these initial st...
28: ...[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any o...
30: ===Politics and House Committee on Un-American Activities testimony===
31: ...rong dislike for [[mysticism]], [[religion]], and compulsory [[charity]], all of which she believed hel... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
12: ...eory|theory of invariants]] and [[ring theory|non-commutative algebras]]. In physics, she arrived at a ...
14: ...ive ring]], and proved the existence of primary decompositions for such rings (a result known as the [[...
20: ...s, University of St Andrews, Scotland, "''[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/N... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
7: ...ulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
21: ...atism]], [[Bright's disease]] of the kidneys, and complications from [[influenza]], Madame Helena Petro...
56: ...ry of a pseudo-religion'', by Ren頇u鮯n [http://www.spiritusmundi.net/english/authors/guenon_rene.htm...
57: ...lavatsky and the SPR'' by Vernon Harrison [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-spr/hpbspr-h.htm]
58: ...e Theosophical Movement'' by Charles Ryan [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-tm/hpbtm-hp.htm] - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...4-6-0]] [[GWR 6800 Class|Grange class]] [[steam locomotive]], at [[Bristol Temple Meads]] station, Bris...
3: ...powered train, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space or are rare...
5: ...r service is [[push-pull]] operation, where the locomotives push the trains in one direction, and are c...
7: ==Benefits of locomotives==
8: ...for trains has been traditionally isolated in a locomotive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. The... - Tooth (14790 bytes)
10: ... Tooth Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
32: ...Teeth, Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
42: ...f the molars include deep pits and fissures, then complete prevention of decay may require treatment wi...
53: ... molar of each quadrant (i.e. the third molar and commonly referred to as [[wisdom teeth]]) may or may ...
55: The teeth are numbered, in the most common American system, 1-16 and 17-32, with 1 being ... - Bee (11175 bytes)
25: ...x|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
31: ... may be solitary, or may live in various sorts of communities. The most advanced of these are [[eusocia...
39: ...|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
45: ...arely leaves the hive after the [[larva]]e have become full grown bees. The queen deposits each egg in ...
47: The larvae and [[pupa]]e in a frame of honeycomb are referred to as frames of [[brood (honeybee)|... - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
7: ...s one of the oldest human crafts. This art form encompasses the creation of anything from earthenware a...
46: ... are described in the article on [[pottery]]. A [[composite material]] of ceramic and [[metal]] is know...
57: ...h is used as a susceptor in microwave furnaces, a commonly used abrasive, and as a refractory material.
60: ...rms. It's high [[oxygen]] [[ion]] conductivity recommends it for use in [[fuel cell]]s. In another va...
71: ...er, and reducing the [[tensile strength]]. These combine to give [[catastrophic failure]]s, as opposed... - Mosaic (6524 bytes)
25: ... three main methods of creating mosaics. They are commonly referred to as the "direct method" of mosaic...
40: ...t will appear when installed. When the mosaic is complete, a similar medium is placed atop it. The pi...
42: ...ing extremely large projects such as murals to be completed off-site and transported to their ultimate ...
44: "Tilings" can lead to complicated mathematical problems; please refer to [[... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
87: ...e, openness or purity. Nude sculptures are still common. As in painting, they are often made as exerci... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
3: ... The General Assembly determines admission upon recommendation of the Security Council. The organizatio...
5: ...42]] [[Declaration by the United Nations]], which committed the Allies to the principles of the [[Atlan...
28: ...pg|left|thumb|UN offices occupy a portion of this complex in [[Vienna]]]]
30: ...old War, there were renewed calls for the UN to become the agency for achieving world peace and co-oper...
33: ...e Discovery of Atomic Energy" and called upon the commission to make specific proposals for "the elimin... - Society (6217 bytes)
2: ...teristic relationships, shared institutions and a common culture.
6: ...o a group of people living together in an ordered community.{{fn|1}}
8: ... is also sometimes defined as an interdependent [[community]].
10: ...embers share some mutual concern or interest in a common objective. As such, society is often used as s...
18: ...ickness, or disaster, like-minded members of that community will rally others in that society to render... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
3: ...Sax]] in the mid-[[1840s]]. The saxophone is most commonly associated with [[popular music]], [[big ban...
7: ...is great friendship with the influential Parisian composer [[Berlioz]].
14: ...traight soprano and sopranino saxophones are more common than curved ones, and straight alto saxophones...
16: ... simple fingering system, the modern saxophone is commonly considered an easy instrument to learn, espe...
20: ...phones made by the [[Grafton saxophone| Grafton]] company, and the rare wooden saxophones. - Didgeridoo (7516 bytes)
5: ... stating the didgeridoo's exact age, though it is commonly claimed to be the world's oldest wind instru...
7: ...stern invention, but it has been suggested[http://www.flinders.edu.au/news/articles/?fj09v13s02] that i...
9: ... Instruments shorter or longer than this are less common. Generally, the longer the instrument, the low...
15: ...al didgeridoos produced in traditionally-oriented communities in northern Australia are typically made ...
21: ...k or a segment of a branch is removed that will become the didgeridoo. The bark is taken off, the ends ... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
22: ...carry all his life. This [[anglophobia]] would be combined with a distrust and dislike of Eastern arist...
26: ...e him his nickname. The war, and particularly his command at the [[Battle of New Orleans]] on [[January...
34: Jackson was the first U.S. President to come from outside the original Revolutionary circle. ...
51: ...the expansion of credits and speculation, and the commercial progress of the nation's economy was not n...
55: ... (the "[[Tariff of Abominations]]") on imports of common goods were seen by many in Southern states as ... - Africa (35389 bytes)
1: ...rica satellite orthographic.jpg|thumb|A satellite composite image of Africa]]
10: The origin of ''Afer'' may either come from:
16: ...1;ικε, meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix a-, so meaning a la...
28: ...n seen in the southern peninsulas. Africa is thus composed of two segments at right angles, the norther...
71: Border and territorial disputes have also been common, with the European-imposed borders of many nat... - Honey (11666 bytes)
2: [[Image:Bees_comb.jpg|thumb|honey comb]]
8: ...ic lysis]]. Natural airborne [[yeast]]s cannot become active in it because the moisture content is too...
12: ==Composition of honey==
14: ... sugars, water, and other compounds. The specific composition of any batch of honey will depend largely...
23: :<small>Source: [http://www.sugaralliance.org/desktopdefault.aspx?page_id=97 ... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
4: ... dry into flat, twisted, ribbon-like shapes and become kinked together and interlocked. This interlocke...
33: ... of the [[cotton module builder]], a machine that compresses harvested cotton into a large block, which...
61: ... price for their produce, or find it difficult to compete with developed countries. This has led to '[[...
71: ...n%20spray/cottonspray.htm Photo documentation and commentary on collateral damage to the environment fr...
74: *[http://www.cottoninc.com/ Cotton Incorporated] - a cotton industry trade g... - Aswan Dam (6375 bytes)
1: ...Lake Nasser, courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
10: ... construction of the first dam in 1899 and it was completed in 1902. A gravity dam, it was 1,900 m long...
15: ...n in 1960. The High Dam, ''El Saad al Aali'', was completed on [[July 21]], [[1970]], with the first st...
25: ...aterlogging and increased [[salinity]], a problem complicated by the reduced flow of the river, which a...
27: ...e resulting flood would effectively destroy Egypt completely. It has been rumoured that during the [[Y... - Cyperus papyrus (4281 bytes)
23: ... throughout the wetter parts of Africa, but has become rare in the [[Nile Delta]]. In deeper waters it ...
32: ...ish language|English]] is widely believed to have come from Egyptian, but this is likely a [[folk etymo... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...1948]]), better known as '''Babe Ruth''' and also commonly known by the nicknames ''The Bambino'' and '...
4: ...th was the focal point of the start of what has become statistically the greatest sports dynasty in his...
9: ...even, he was drinking, chewing tobacco, and had become difficult for his parents to control. Mary recal...
12: ...o teach him a lesson. But, instead of getting his comeuppance, Babe shut the other team down.
15: ...oss the street from minor league Orioles, and the competition hit Orioles' attendance significantly. T... - Aenesidemus (3613 bytes)
13: #our impressions become less deep by repetition and custom; and - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ...23 BC]]), was one of the most successful military commanders of the ancient world. He is known in some ...
9: ...fraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the company of snakes, but by [[Zeus]]. Plutarch (''Alexa...
14: ...dge against Philip because the king had ignored a complaint he had expressed. His murder was once thoug...
25: ... met and defeated the main Persian army under the command of Darius III Codomannus at the [[Battle of I...
27: ...He founded [[Alexandria]] in Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty ... - Pyrrho (3149 bytes)
5: ...itude to things (the third question), ought to be complete suspense of judgment. We can be certain of n... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
3: ...deep recession]] and many years of rebuilding and coming to terms with the vast human cost of the confl...
5: ...s like [[train]]s, [[automobile|car]]s and [[mass communication]] by [[radio]] spread the idea of moder...
8: ...ic boom|booming]]. The decade saw North America becoming the richest region on the earth, with industry...
17: ...ame one of the largest and a number of peripheral companies running gas stations, motels, and providing...
25: ...e new roads. Several [[road]]s were upgraded to become [[highway]]s, and a number of [[expressway]]s we... - Desert (21206 bytes)
1: ...Egypt. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...Egypt. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
4: ...ave a reputation for supporting very little life. Compared to wetter regions this may be true, although...
6: ...ave certain common features. Desert soil is often composed mostly of [[sand]] and [[sand dunes]] may be...
14: Most classifications rely on some combination of the number of days of [[rain]]fall, th... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...iffering slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s improved and with the expansion of t...
6: ...n]], [[United Kingdom]] [http://greenwichmeantime.com/]. For this reason the term [[Greenwich Mean Time...
39: ...rench Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all ships, both military and civilian,...
51: ...UTC − 11) [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html?sort=2].
488: *[[Comoros]] - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]] The '''Crusades''' were a se...
7: ... [[Carolingian Empire]] in the later 9th century, combined with the relative stabilization of local Eur...
9: ...Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]One later outlet was the ''[[...
13: ...ites or the security of monasteries and Christian communities in the Holy Land of Christendom, and west...
22: ...Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]] - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
3: ...nto North and South routes as it extends from the commercial centers of North China, the North route pa...
7: ...leted in [[1992]], when the international railway communication [[Almaty]] - [[Urumqi]] opened.
32: ..."[[Silk#Wild_Silks|wild silk]]," which might have come from the [[Mediterranean]] region or the [[Middl...
40: ... the [[Seres]] (China) and the Phryni"'' ([http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Strab.+11....
43: ... Han China|Wudi]] became interested in developing commercial relationship with the sophisticated urban ... - Classical antiquity (3940 bytes)
19: ... in the [[twenty-first century]] continue to find compelling. - Politics (7193 bytes)
18: ...ingle-family dominated the political affairs of a community. Monarchies have existed in one form or an...
25: ...ed the process of political progress would not be complete until after economic classes no longer exist...
29: ...the power to enforce laws, to exact obedience, to command, to determine, or to judge.
43: ...l-Rational authorities]] receive their ability to compel behavior by virtue of the office that they hol... - Food (24212 bytes)
12: ...les and substances used as an [[ingredient]] or [[component]] in the preparation of food.
15: *[http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/fdcact/fdcact1.htm US federal definition of ...
16: *[http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/Ukpga_19900...
23: ... primary means of food collection. This involves combining stationary plant and fungal food sources (s...
28: ...ent foods, possibly complementary, eaten together comprises a [[meal]]. People often choose to eat meal... - Seed (4968 bytes)
4: ...y, seeds of these species have no endosperm. Some common plant seeds that lack an endosperm are [[bean]...
12: ..." on the bracts of cones, although the seeds do become covered by the [[conifer cones|cone]] scales as ...
15: ...and resources than do spores, and the payoff must come in achieving similar or greater success with few...
21: * [[Seed company]]
24: * [http://www.seedlab.co.nz/NAMESEED.HTM List of Common Botanical Seed Names] - Plato (17363 bytes)
4: ...pigram]]s also survive, and some [[letter]]s have come down to us under his name. All the known dialog...
24: ...en up by postmodernists and their opponents, more commonly as the distinction between the 'objective' a...
29: ...rmer teacher. In the middle dialogues, Socrates becomes a mouthpiece for Plato's own philosophy, and th...
37: ... forms are unchangeable and perfect, and are only comprehensible by the use of the intellect or underst...
39: ...line]]. Taken together, these metaphors convey a complex and, in places, difficult theory: there is so... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
16: ...able. Practical considerations such as [[business|commercial enterprise]], [[over-population]] and the ...
27: ... individual wealth. A lack of social bonds in the community was further excabarated by the fact that al...
29: ... Smith]]. Smith made himself the benevolent, if uncompromising, autocrat of the colony. His motto was "...
35: ...at little social infrastructure developed for the commoners of Virginia society, in contrast with the h...
44: ...nted to reform it by setting an example of a holy community through the society they were to build in t... - Clock (10086 bytes)
9: ...]]. A small clock is often shown in a corner of [[computer display]]s or [[mobile phone]]s.
14: ...ng CPUs based on [[asynchronous circuit]]s). Some computers also maintain time and date for all manner ...
111: * [http://www.awi-net.org/ American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Ins...
112: * [http://www.bhi.co.uk/oldindex.htm British Horological Instit...
113: * [http://homepage.mac.com/pete.boardman/24hourclock/history.html 24 hour an... - Rhodes (9349 bytes)
3: ...' Photograph provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
5: ...n the [[Rhodes, Greece|city of Rhodes]], the main commercial and population center. Rhodes is the capit...
10: ... commercial harbor. The main air gateway ([http://www.hcaa-eleng.gr/rhod.htm Diagoras International Air...
14: ...ard [[tourism]], the island's primary source of income.
17: ...y]] that the island started to flourish, with the coming of the [[Dorians]]. It was the Dorians who lat... - Microbiology (4238 bytes)
2: ...Virus. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
18: ... [[two-hybrid screening|yeast two-hybrid system]] combines bacterial genes with genes from the organism...
38: * [http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Microtextbook Online Microbiology t...
39: * [http://www.GIDEONonline.com/tutorial/microbiology.htm GIDEON Microbiology tut...
40: * [http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/ Text Book of Bacterio... - Garlic (12167 bytes)
1: ...family (biology)|family]] [[Alliaceae]]. The word comes to us from Old English ''gārlēac'', m...
3: ...arlic. Photo courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]The bulb has a strong and cha...
8: ...ates of the Caucasus and eaten as an appetizer. A common error of beginning cooks is to misinterpret th...
12: ...fficientish.com/garlic.htm#grow Selfsufficientish.com] provides the following growing instructions:
20: ...howing indiviual cloves. [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]] - Scrotum (2019 bytes)
10: ...lem of the scrotum is the development of masses. Common scrotal masses include - Horse (38916 bytes)
15: ...een used for [[Taboo meat#Horses|food]]. The most common date of [[domestication of the horse]] and its...
19: ...l toe which forms the hoof of the modern equine. (Compare animals with 'cloven' hooves (2 toes), like c...
23: ...nd a real chance of acquiring mares, eventually becoming, if successful in the attempt, a "band stallio...
28: ...d dates to about [[30th century BCE|3,000 BCE]]. Competing theories exist about the time and place of ...
35: .... Wild populations exist in Mongolia; see: http://www.treemail.nl/takh/. - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...he two masters, each in his own sphere, were to become two of the leading spirits of the Early Renaissa...
10: ...e enlisted. In service of this project, Donatello completed three sculptures between [[1412]] and [[141...
14: ...He may have also partially worked on a ''Joshua'' commenced by Ciuffagni in [[1415]]. All these statues...
18: ... ''The Ascension''. The Baptistery tomb shows how completely Donatello had mastered the forms of Renais...
20: ...d it in its niche at the [[Orsanmichele]] and the commissioners were awestruck with what he had done wi... - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
5: ...nti, with a Saint [[Augustine]] that successfully competed as a pendant with [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]]'s...
16: This is a common misconception based on a mistake by Vasari. Th...
19: Though comparatively few of Botticelli's mythological painti...
20: Sandro's commissioned ''Adoration of the Magi'' for Santa Mari...
22: ...gs. It is a marvellous work in colour, design and composition, and the wonder and admiration of all art... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
10: ...ntative offices for the court; for instance, he accompanied his marquis for the arrival in Milan of Lou...
13: ...rs. Notably, guests used to organise intellectual competitions which resulted in an interesting, stimul...
25: ...ed hard terms to define the ''Sacco'' and Valdes' comments. - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
5: ...terbury]], who declared that young Thomas would become a "marvellous man". Thomas attended the [[Unive...
7: ...mplated abandoning his legal career in order to become a [[monk]]. For about four years he lodged at a...
12: ...me increasingly influential in the government, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the u...
19: ...o described More as a model man of letters in his communications with other European humanists. The hu...
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