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- Bronze Age (9344 bytes)
2: ...oppings and [[alloys]] it to cast [[bronze]]. The Bronze Age is part of the [[three-age system]] for [[pre...
4: Most surviving bronze implements are [[tool]]s or [[weapon]]s, though s...
6: The date of the arrival of a Bronze Age varies from culture to culture.
8: ==Near East Bronze Age==
9: ...al lines (dynasties and kingdoms). The end of the Bronze Age in the Near East is normally associated with ...
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- Luwian language (1607 bytes)
3: ...[Israel]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], [[Jordan]] and northern [[Saudi Arabia]]) after ca. the 1...
8: ... 1985'', ed. [[Calvert Watkins|C. Watkins]], 182–204. [[Berlin]]: Walter de Gruyter. - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...he familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...addy]] agriculture is [[Radiocarbon dating|carbon-dated]] to about 6000 BC, and associated with the [[...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
11: ...Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...皇五帝). These rulers were legendary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them... - Steel (28384 bytes)
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32: ...ct of copper and bronze production throughout the bronze age.
34: ...attle axe]] with an iron blade and gold-decorated bronze haft were both found in the excavation of [[Ugari...
36: ...hough Egyptian smiths did produce iron artifacts, bronze remained in widespread use there until after Egyp...
40: ...artifact is a knife found on [[Cyprus]] at a site dated to [[1100 BC]]. - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
7: ...the [[Roman emperor]] co-heir, along with his two daughters, to his kingdom.
9: ...ccording to Tacitus, Boudicca was flogged and her daughters raped. Dio Cassius adds that Roman financi...
11: ...esieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. The future governor [[Quintus P...
15: ...) but superior Roman tactics and training won the day at the [[battle of Watling Street]]. The Britons...
17: ...his is unlikely. [[Manduessedum]] near the modern day town of [[Atherstone]] in [[Warwickshire]] has b... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: '''Jane Arminda Delano''', born [[March 12]], [[1862]] in [[Monto...
4: ...res for the patients under her care. Leaving Florida, Jane Delano then spent three years nursing [[typ...
10: ...p of the hill overlooking the nurses section is a bronze memorial to Jane Delano and the 296 nurses who lo...
12: ...onal items including a number of her awards and medals. In [[1990]], the National Nursing Advisory Com... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...d her 13th nomination for ''[[Adaptation (movie)|Adaptation]]''. Hepburn won an [[Emmy Award]] in [[1...
5: ...father was a staunch proponent of publicizing the dangers of [[venereal disease]] in a time when such ...
7: ...ater be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in ...
12: ...n and Smith's marriage was rocky from the start — she insisted he change his name to S. Ogden Lu...
21: ...zon]] princess in [[The Warrior's Husband]] (an update of ''[[Lysistrata]]''), which debuted to excell... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...[[1948 Summer Olympics]]. Left of her is silver medallist [[Maureen Gardner]], while 3rd place finishe...
3: ...ete]]. She is most famous for winning four gold medals at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]]. ...
15: ...e 4 נ100 m [[relay]], both held on the same day. In the high jump, she took sixth place (shared ...
17: ...European Championships in [[Vienna]], she won the bronze in both the 100 and 200 m, which were both w...
23: ...ally thought women should not compete in sports – not an unusual opinion at the time. However, h... - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
3: ...ast]], winner of five [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of...
5: ... Stefania-Alexandrina; she was named after "Nadezhda" ("Hope"), the heroine of a Russian film.
7: ...nships in [[Skien]], Norway, winning three gold medals and one silver. At the Pre-Olympics competitio...
9: ...ven bars), a silver medal (team all-around) and a bronze (floor exercise). Back home, her success led her...
13: ...e helped give the Romanians its first team gold medal. - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...m titles and the [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] Gold Medal in the same year. She was ranked the World No. 1...
10: ..., Graf typically practiced for up to four hours a day, often heading straight from airports to practic...
22: ... and picked up a women's doubles Olympic Bronze Medal. She was named the 1988 [[BBC Sports Personality...
32: ... Capriati]] in the final and claimed the Silver Medal. However she did win her second Fed Cup with Ger...
34: ...ars. Graf visited Seles in hospital the following day. She reached the final of the German Open that w... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
2: ...silver and one bronze [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals. She was named after [[Jackie Kennedy]]. She li...
6: ...brother, [[Al Joyner]], is also an Olympic gold medalist, having won the Olympic [[triple jump]] in [[... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 4 bronze medals).
7: ...nt with portable apparatus. Keleti also won six medals, but won four golds and two silvers.
9: ... beam and uneven bars event. Finally, she won the bronze in the horse vault competition.
11: ...eighteen - nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...ne Rachel Flore Lenglen''' ([[24 May]] [[1899]] – [[4 July]], [[1938]]) was a [[France|French]] ...
8: ...hief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ... fought three-set match: 5–7, 6–4, 6–3. That same year she won the International Cla...
14: ...h points and winning in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory.
18: ... with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after their opponents withdrew. - Crocus (3680 bytes)
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8: {{Taxobox familia entry | taxon = [[Iridaceae]]}}
24: ..., such as the cream-colored crocus feathered with bronze at the base of the bouquet, similar to varieties ...
26: ...'' is placed botanically in the iris family ([[Iridaceae]]). These are hardy perennial plants, which h... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
28: ** [[bronze]] - see [[bronze sculpture]]
37: ...e writings, [[Joan Mireven proposed that some day sculptures might be made of gases; see [[gas scu...
63: ...Angel Botello]] at ''La Ventana al Mar'', [[El Condado, Puerto Rico]]]]Some of the forms of sculpture ...
77: ..., through [[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and the [[Renaissance]] masters, to moder...
87: ...n body and develop skills that will provide a foundation for making clothed figurative work. - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...ing this time included basalt, diorite (a type of dark, coarse-grained stone), sandstone, and alabaste...
25: ...ers the time period of 3000-1200 BC, during the [[Bronze Age]], in the area of the Aegean Sea. The Aegean...
27: ...re found together in a single grave on [[Keros]], dating from 2700 - 2750 BC.
33: The Mycenaen culture flourished in the late Bronze Age, on the mainland of Greece. According to leg...
42: ...o Santi|Raphael]] also sculpted a statue called ''David''. Most sculptures during the Renaissance were... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
15: ... [[Japan]] were the first to develop [[pottery]], dating to the [[11th millennium BC]]. The Jōmon...
17: ...G?li Tepe]] near [[Urfa]] in eastern [[Turkey]], dating to ca. [[10th millennium BC]].
18: ... at the [[Iron Gorge]], [[Serbia and Montenegro]] date to the [[7th millennium BC]] and represent eith...
22: ...e]], were the main structures date from the early Bronze age, such monuments have been found throughout mo...
24: ===Bronze age=== - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
35: * [[1000 BC]] - [[Iran|Persian]] sheet [[bronze]] work 0.05mm thick.
42: ...50 BC]] - Use of combined punches and [[die]]s of bronze. - Relic (11473 bytes)
13: ====Romano-Christian [[daemon]]s and the "virtue" of relics====
17: ...se mystic potency that emanated from inhabiting [[daemon]]s who were conceived of as alien and hostile...
36: ...ce. The bones or ashes of [[Aesculapius]] at [[Epidaurus]], and of [[Perdiccas I]] at Macedon were tre...
42: ...Kanishka's stupa in Peshawar, Pakistan, now in Mandalay, Burma. Teresa Merrigan, 2005]]
44: ...e gold stupa in which they were transported to Mandalay may be seen in the photo to the left of the mo... - Weaving (6924 bytes)
3: ...n other [[dobby loom]]s and the Jacquard harness adaptation was reserved for more complex patterns. T...
14: ...st]], [[wool]] has only been attested since the [[Bronze Age]]. Plain weaves and tabbies predominate. - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
9: ...well]]s at [[K?en]] and [[Eythra]]. Examples of [[Bronze Age]] wood-carving include trees worked into [[co...
11: ... the Egyptians for woodworking tools was probably bronze or even copper, as ironworking was unknown until ...
13: ...—such as flower pots, tables, altars, etc.—and also contains extensive instructions concer...
61: ...working to prevent cracking, splitting, and other damage due to drying
62: * shake: a crack or split in wood, caused by damage or drying
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