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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...to the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as su...
7: ...es were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
11: [[Archaeological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] ...
14: ...20195;; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...orated. Some archaeologists connect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in central [[Henan]] provin... - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...s. Depending on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or mul...
5: ...c of China]] in [[1912]]; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-J...
7: ...of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: The Chinese call their country ''Zhongguo'', which is usually tr...
16: ...ing continually redefined while the central political influence expanded territorially, and its cultur... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...ce]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlight...
5: ...tent, while also examining [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also kn...
7: ... married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the writer Madame Pu...
12: ...allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, to the vanity of the pleasures ...
14: ...ant philosophers of that day was an episodic application of the principle of relativism to the concept... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
9: ...a period of great social, economic, and technological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the l...
14: ...[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her gove...
16: ...king was childless, the young Princess Victoria became [[heir presumptive|heiress-presumptive]] to the...
20: ... ''Wettin'' (or ''von Wettin''). Queen Victoria's papers record her dislike of the name. Though rarely p...
25: ...anover|Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]], who became King Ernest Augustus of Hanover. As the young q... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant women the ri...
7: ...1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]].
9: ...rietor of a weekly paper, ''[[The Revolution (newspaper)|The Revolution]]'', published in [[New York City...
13: ...s health and lives, opposed [[abortion]] on practical and moral grounds and hoped that greater equalit...
15: ...ganization in [[1869]] until [[1892]], when she became president. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...tember 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting ...
5: ...mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] who had 11 children before dying of [[tub...
7: ...ation'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the...
9: ...es Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
13: ...dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 192... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...ith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Flore...
3: ...irst female painter to become a member of the [[Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She wa...
7: ...er father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style was just ...
10: ...e of the [[Bologna]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...iosi Palace]] in [[Rome]], so Orazio hired the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unf... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ... fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristo...
10: ...Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasionally violent. There was considerable tension b...
12: ...Tsvetaeva's mother contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Because it was believed that a change in climate could...
14: ...g Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor.
16: ...ribed in the essay 'A Captive Spirit.' She also became enamoured of the work of [[Aleksandr Blok]] and... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] who made impo...
5: ...lped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ... and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...ision to leave and refused to put his name on the papers she was writing, even though he had been equally... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
7: ...tly considered her a talented mathematician and became her mentor.
9: ...er reading his famous ''[[Disquisitiones Arithmeticae]]'' ([[1801]]). He eventually learned her true i...
12: ...nriched my life with so many joys, are not chimerical, the predilection with which you have honored it...
17: ...he first female to attend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives of othe...
19: ...scribed in a letter to Gauss, became quite significant as it restricted the possible solutions of [[Fe... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ...l [[Canada|Canadian]] [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [[actor|actress]].
6: ...e of "You Oughta Know" is readily seen almost a decade later in the songwriting, singing, and attitude...
10: ...June 1]], [[1974]], in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morisse...
21: ...tawa, her hometown. Morissette became a recurring cast member, but left after one season.
26: :''And your fake identification'' - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...]] [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] charts. Classically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-b...
7: ...timore Orioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for ...
10: ... band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
13: ..., it was released in America to breakthrough critical success. The accompanying singles were "Me and a...
16: ...ncluding a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song "A Case of You". - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...76]], [[Stuttgart]]) was a [[Germany|German]] radical leftist militant who started out as a journalist...
5: ...movement]] and was an editor for the radical left paper ''konkret''. She married [[Klaus Rainer R?], a [[...
7: ...ommon man and the imperialism of the [[capitalism|capitalist]] system.
9: Captured in [[1972]] in [[Langenhagen]], she was, du... - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
2: ...vember 19]], [[1962]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[Actor|actress]] and [[Film director|director...
4: ==Life and career==
5: ...orn in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[California]] where she attended an exclusive prep sc...
7: ...the age of 14, she earned a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]] for her r...
9: ...den Globe]] and [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Academy Awards]] as Best Actress for her role as a ga... - Botany (8977 bytes)
9: ...ls a botanist might be concerned with the classification ([[taxonomy]]), structure ([[anatomy]]), or f...
11: Historically, botanists studied all organisms that were not...
13: ...exist. While doing all this, plants also absorb [[carbon dioxide]], an important [[greenhouse gas]], t...
20: ...of nearly all [[food chain]]s, or what ecologists call the first [[trophic level]]. Understanding how ...
25: ...evance to the understanding of fundamental biological processes. - Wasp (3838 bytes)
3: ...Aleiodes indiscretus''<br>parasitizing gypsy moth caterpillar.}}
17: ... some species, just the wasp queen and male wasps can mate, whilst the majority of the colony is made ...
21: ... these social wasps, such as yellow jackets, may scavenge for dead insects to provide for their young....
24: [[Image:Wasp_04.jpg|thumb|right|Wasp, Southern California. Image provided by [http://classroomclipa...
28: ...nger (organ)|stinger]] (only present in females because it derives from the [[ovipositor]]) - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
2: ...age | image = [[Image:Haw2_242_rose.jpg|250px]] | caption = Magnolia [[flower]]}}
12: ...carpel is enclosed. The other [[seed plant]]s are called [[gymnosperm]]s; here the ovule is not enclos...
16: ... term Angiosperm was used antithetically by botanical writers, but with varying limitation, as a group...
18: ...otyledons, and the term Angiosperm then gradually came to be accepted as the suitable designation for ...
19: [[Image:Fmarket7_012A_carnations.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Image provided by [... - Mosaic (6524 bytes)
7: |[[Image:Michael_of_salonica.jpg|thumb|150px|Early 12th-century [[Kiev]]an mos...
12: ...in a culture's most important settings, as in the cathedral of [[Monreale]] (''below''), or it may be ...
16: ...inguished luxurious Roman villas across north Africa. In Rome, Nero and his architects innovated the e...
18: When Christian [[basilica]]s began to be purpose-built in the late [[4th ce...
20: ...The process is known as [[zillij]] in [[North Africa]] and [[qashani]] further east. Some of the best... - Pottery (17136 bytes)
1: ...0px|A man shapes pottery as it turns on a wheel. (Cappadocia, Turkey)]]
2: ...her temperatures, which is partially vitrified is called "[[stoneware]]". Fine earthenware with a whit...
8: Broken pottery in archaeological sites, called [[potsherd]]s, help identify the resident cul...
14: ...e, as that negates one of the prime advantages of casting.
19: ...l of clay is placed in the center of a turntable, called the wheel head, which is turned chiefly using... - Iconography (7643 bytes)
2: ...raying figures in pigment that [[symbolism|symbolically]] mean more than a simple depiction of the per...
4: ...ngelist|St Luke]], who probably knew them. In the case of the various [[Hindu deities|Hindu gods]], ho...
6: ...n loves) have nothing to do with the photographic paper or film but rather the persons and events depicte...
8: ... over to the [[archetype]], [[icon]]s are kissed, carried in procession, and venerated.
11: ..., the wheel on which [[Catherine of Alexandria|St Catherine]] was tortured, and the axe, laid close to...
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