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  1. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    27: ... [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visit home, spent a year in Khios. It ...
    31: ...on. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors.
    33: ...] to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the P...
    39: ...ing posts and later colonies along the coast of [[Africa]]. Columbus had another idea. By the [[1480s]...
    43: ... landmass (for Europeans of the time, Eurasia and Africa) occupied 180 degrees of the terrestrial sphe...
  2. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
    5: ...estern Europe]] and [[North America]], eventually affecting the rest of the world. The impact of this ...
    10: ... by the end of [[feudalism]] in [[Great Britain]] after the [[English Civil War]] in the [[17th centur...
    53: ...rated. The manufacture of textile machines drew craftsmen from these trades and is the origin of the m...
    55: ... for making the wooden framing, and smith and the turner for the metal parts. Because of the difficulty of...
    57: Apart from workshop lathes used by craftsmen, the first large [[machine tool]] was the cy...
  3. Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
    5: ...d in science, she is well-versed in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance...
    7: ...icer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her me...
    11: ...illed the requirements for an A.B. in African and Afro-American Studies. She attended [[Weill Cornell ...
    13: ...mmunication system to improve health care in West Africa; and The Earth We Share, (TM) an internationa...
    19: ... 1992); Ebony's 50 Most Influential women (1993); Turner Trumpet Award (1993); and Montgomery Fellow, Dart...
  4. Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
    6: ...part after her female blues heroines, and in part after the [[beat poet]]s. She left Texas for [[San F...
    8: ...rly singles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success.
    14: After splitting from Big Brother, she formed a new b...
    18: Shortly thereafter, during the recording sessions for the ''[[Pea...
    20: ... Ocean]]. The album ''Pearl'', released six weeks after her death, included a version of [[Nick Graven...
  5. Chromosome (12667 bytes)
    1: ... One of the two identical parts of the chromosome after [[S phase]]. (2) <font color="#FF0000">Centrom...
    193: ...rd's syndrome]] is the second most common trisomy after Down's Syndrome. It is a trisomy of chromosom...
    197: ...stics are present but underdeveloped. People with Turner syndrome often have a short stature, low hairline...
  6. Woodworking (12397 bytes)
    13: ...Lu Ban"), although it was written some 1500 years after his death. This book is filled largely with de...
    84: ...s to create cabinets, shelving and furniture; a craftsman who specializes in the making of fine furnit...
    93: *[[bodger]] &ndash; Now archaic, a wood-turner specializing making furniture and [[treen]]. Also...
  7. Culture (23440 bytes)
    31: In addition to the aforementioned processes, migration on a major scale...
    43: ...chnological subsystem. [http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~aforsber/ccsf/culture_defined.html]
    57: ..., the legacy of Clifford Geertz (1973) and Victor Turner (1967), holds symbols to be both the practices of...
    65: ... many cultures. One sex might desire changes that affect the other, as happened in the second half of ...
    143: *[[Culture of South Africa|South Africa]]
  8. Samoa (9435 bytes)
    25: | [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]]
    57: ... became known as German Samoa, then Western Samoa after passing from [[Germany|German]] control to [[N...
    70: ...hold the office of head of state. [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]] has held this post alone since the death ...
    85: ...ima]], Nuutele, Nuulua, Namua, [[Fanuatapu]], Nuusafee and Nuulopa. The main island of Upolu is home t...
    97: ...alietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa|King Malietoa Tanumafili]], is a Baha'i.
  9. Hourglass (3146 bytes)
    5: Factors affecting the amount of time that the hourglass meas...
    21: ...Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Aladdin]]'', the evil wizard Jafar traps Princess Jasmine inside an enormous hourg...
    25: ...he movie with the same title). Spinned, this Time Turner is used to [[time travel]].
  10. Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
    38: ...riginally written about a woman of that name, but after Georgia native [[Ray Charles]] sang it, the st...
    74: ...reat Depression]]. [[Gwinnett County]] was named after [[Button Gwinnett]], one of the [[delegate]]s ...
    146: *28.7% [[African American|Black]]
    236: * [[Candler-McAfee, Georgia|Candler-McAfee]]
    359: ...Turner]], who founded [[TBS_Superstation|TBS]], [[Turner_Network_Television|TNT]], and [[CNN]], among othe...
  11. Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
    49: After the [[American Revolutionary War]], Wisconsin ...
    61: ...sconsinites although the nicknames "[[Badger]]s" (after the state's nickname and school mascot of the ...
    65: ...state Progressive Party]] establishment soon thereafter, Wisconsin and in particular, Madison, have of...
    125: *5.7% [[African American|Black]]
    136: The religious affiliations of the citizens of Wisconsin are:
  12. Montana (14119 bytes)
    49: ...ntana is the fourth largest in the United States (after [[Alaska]], [[Texas]], and [[California]]). Ma...
    55: ...ver) rises in the Rocky Mountains near Butte, and after flowing west turns north and forms portion of ...
    95: The religious affiliations of the people of Montana are:
    175: *[[Turner]] near [[Libby, Montana|Libby]]
  13. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
    394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
    487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]])
    502: *[[Olaf Gulbransson]] ([[1873]]-[[1958]])
    768: *[[Rafal Malczewski]] ([[1892]]-[[1965]])
  14. Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
    10: ...tion, depicted [[Camille Doncieux]]. Shortly thereafter Doncieux became pregnant and bore their first ...
    12: ...died the works of [[John Constable]] and [[J.M.W. Turner]].
  15. Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
    37: ...ietnam|NVA]] troops, not to have begun until 1965 after the [[Gulf of Tonkin incident]], when the US c...
    45: ...ontinued to serve as the official administrators. After the Japanese surrender, the Vietnamese had hop...
    47: ...inst the continuation of European [[imperialism]] after the armistice with Germany and Japan.
    56: After taking power in [[1953]], the [[Republican Par...
    59: ...nh a few days later. At the plenum, convened just after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...
  16. Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
    28: *[[1831]] - [[Nat Turner]]'s revolt
    36: *[[1832]] - [[Department of Indian Affairs]] established
    48: *[[1837]] - [[Caroline Affair]]
  17. Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
    19: + [[Nat Turner]] leads a [[slave revolt]] in [[Southampton Count...
    20: ...labor in the Southern [[cotton]] economy, the Nat Turner uprising, and the rise of [[abolitionism]], South...
    93: ...eracy. Yancey also calls for the reopening of the African slave trade at the Southern Commercial Conve...
  18. History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
    2: ...he civil rights laws that were passed immediately after the end of the war were quickly abandoned. In...
    7: ...ploitive economic policies in the defeated region after the war, caused lasting bitterness among South...
    9: ...enforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
    11: After solid [[United States Republican Party|Republi...
    13: ...and were widely perceived as being motivated by graft and corruption, while locals who participated in...
  19. January 1 (18244 bytes)
    73: ...bile phone call is made by [[Ernie Wise]] to [[Vodafone]].
    96: *[[2004]] - [[Pervez Musharraf]] receives a vote of confidence to continue as th...
    146: *[[1942]] - [[Gennadi Sarafanov]], [[astronaut|cosmonaut]]
    180: *[[1944]] - [[Charles Turner]], deadly Australian [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] ...
  20. Meditation (26064 bytes)
    65: ...972]], [[transcendental meditation]] was shown to affect the human [[metabolism]] by lowering the bioc...
    70: ...nson of the Mind-Body Medical Institute, which is affiliated with [[Harvard]] and several [[Boston, Ma...
    87: ...ly, but the complicated prefrontal cortex is more affected than the comparatively simple and robust am...
    89: ...on (thinking about thinking), and with ''positive affect'' (good feelings). There are similar studies ...
    107: ...enon of meditation-related problems (Lukoff, Lu & Turner, 1998; Perez-De-Albeniz & Holmes, 2000). Several ...

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