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- Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...taine''' ([[Bordeaux]], [[France]], c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]], [[1204]] in [[Fontevrault]], [[A...
6: ...ad been arranged by his father and her mother, as Dangereuse was the long-time mistress of [[William I...
10: ... [[Loire]] to the [[Pyrenees]]: most of what is today the southwest of France. However, there was a c...
12: ...] from V麥lay, the rumored location of [[Mary Magdalene]]'s burial, dramatically emphasized the role ...
16: ...tence on conquest, the crusade leaders targeted [[Damascus]], an ally until the attack. Failing in thi... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
54: ...means value, in the sense of overall lightness or darkness of a painting, Stein using a high proportio...
58: ...ere gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday," of which he contends that the, "effect would b...
60: ...te in long hand, typically about half an hour per day. Alice B. Toklas would collect the pages, type t...
61: Today, most manuscripts are kept in the [[Beinecke Lib...
63: ...ul of mundane tasks and Alice Toklas managed everyday affairs. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...'Suzanne Valadon''' ([[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]...
4: ...-sur-Gartempe]], [[Haute-Vienne]], [[France]] the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon ...
8: ...[[1883]], the same year that she posed for ''City Dance.'' In [[1885]] Renoir painted her portrait ag...
24: ...Roman Catholic Church|good Catholic]]" cats on Fridays.
28: - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: '''Maria Callas''' ([[December 2]], [[1923]] –[[September 16]], [[1977]]) was a [[Greece|Gree...
5: ...ian debut at the [[Verona Arena]] in ''[[La Gioconda]]'' under the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Togeth...
7: ...ra Garnier|Paris]], the [[Metropolitan Opera]], [[Dallas Opera]], [[Royal Opera House]], [[Mexico]]'s ...
15: ...t Callas' wishes in founding the Maria Callas Foundation, which provides international scholarships fo... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
1: ...humb|275px|'''Sarah Bernhardt''' (portrait by [[Nadar]])]]
2: '''Sarah Bernhardt''' ([[October 22]], [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]...
4: ...esan]] - at the time, the two were considered scandalous to a roughly equal degree. She was sponsored...
8: ...self, as well as modelling for [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of books an...
10: ...]], but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, was quickly collap... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...k]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λογος (''logos'', "wo...
14: ...cookers, transport of [[ore]]s, extraction of [[soda]], [[sulfur]] and [[alum]], and administrative is...
26: ...out the Earth's history and are still occurring today. In contrast, [[Catastrophism|catastrophism]] is...
29: ...ianism, which influenced the thought of [[Charles Darwin]].
44: ...ked in much the same way over geologic time. A fundamental principle of geology advanced by the 18th c... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...cult to define. This article describes the modern dating methods used to arrive at the age of the Eart...
4: ...s Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today continue to defend [[young earth creationism]] (...
25: ... seemed much too short to be plausible. [[Charles Darwin]], who had studied Lyell's work, had proposed...
27: In a lecture in [[1869]], Darwin's great advocate, [[Thomas Huxley|Thomas H. H...
31: ... friction]] to give the Earth its current 24-hour day, and concluded that Thomson was on the right tra... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
1: ...y]], [[list of countries by date of nationhood|by date of nationhood]] and by [[time zone]].
10: *[[Angola]] - [[Luanda]]
37: *[[Madagascar]] - [[Antananarivo]]
49: *[[Rwanda]] - [[Kigali]]
52: *[[Senegal]] - [[Dakar]] - Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
38: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date
59: ...ne Georges]] caused approximately $445 million in damages and limited [[Gross domestic product|GDP]] g... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
16: LandArea = 5,068 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 7]], [[1787]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
40: ... post at "Zwaanendael" (or "Swaanendael," present-day Lewes (pronounced "Lewis")) in [[1631]]. The are...
44: ...s [[The Twelve-Mile Circle]]. The north-south boundary between Delaware and Maryland is known as the [... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...nowledge]]. This change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-sci...
11: ...dge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
40: ... long period that followed is also known as the [[Dark Ages]]. While the [[Byzantine Empire]] still he...
43: ...[Image:Vitruvian.jpg|right|thumb|140px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the bl...
46: ...vitalization of Europe. This provided a solid foundation for all future scientific work. Contact with ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ...al Commission on Stratigraphy]], and uses the standard color codes of the [[United States Geologic Sur...
3: ...ch as [[mass extinction]]s. For example, the boundary between the [[Cretaceous]] period and the [[Pal...
9: ...he same timespan is split into [[Tommotian]], [[Atdabanian]] and [[Botomian]] stages in [[East Asia]] ...
15: ... the Earth's crust into four types: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary. Each type of rock, ...
17: ..., the sequence of geological periods still used today. - Caste (32815 bytes)
5: ...books," (2-7). Only the Purusha Sukta hymn (Rig Veda 10:90) mentions the castes and compares them to t...
7: ...t refers to the the lustrous colour of the sky at dawn.
20: ...e with the Brahman the privilege of reading the Veda, but only so far as it is taught and explained to...
27: ...ociety, and must endure 12 years studying the [[Vedas]].
31: ... the [[Iran|Persia]]ns and the [[levites]] of [[Judaism]]. - Zoology (5641 bytes)
5: [[History of zoology (before Darwin)]]</td></tr>
7: [[History of zoology (since Darwin)]]</td></tr>
14: ...gy (before Darwin)]], [[History of zoology (since Darwin)]]
35: ...lf with the more superficial morphography until today no one considers a study of animal form of any v...
37: .... It was Wotton's merit that he rejected the legendary and fantastic accretions, and returned to Arist... - Paleontology (5646 bytes)
5: ...n, and how these mutual responses have affected today's patterns of [[biodiversity]]. So paleontology ...
17: ...t lifeforms. The organized study of paleontology dates from the late 18th century.
24: ...lude [[Steven Stanley]], [[Stephen Jay Gould]], [[David Raup]], [[Geerat Vermeij]], and [[Jack Sepkosk...
29: ...tory processing, identification of taxa and other data collection, systematic description of new speci... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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40: ...h Marie de Gaulle''' ([[November 22]], [[1890]] – [[November 9]], [[1970]]), in [[France]] commo...
42: ...d head of the provisional government in [[1944]]–[[1946]]. Called to form a government in [[1958...
44: ==1890–1912: Formative years== - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
21: ...cques Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the Fr...
25: ...e French treasury depended to maintain its day to day operations to withdraw their loans, leading to a...
27: ... to convene the Estates-General in May [[1789]] — for the first time since [[1614]]. Brienne re...
31: ...ription of the events of [[August 8]], [[1788]] – [[June 17]], [[1789]], see [[Estates-General o...
35: ...and ''[[bailliage]]s'' rather than by provinces — need be determined by the precedent of 1614. ... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
25: ...ical journalist, [[Jacobin]], friend of [[Georges Danton]]. Went directly from civilian life to being ...
42: *[[Charlotte Corday]] - assassin of [[Marat]]
47: *[[Georges Danton]] - writer, [[Jacobin]] but neither a [[Giron...
48: *[[Pierre Claude François Daunou]] - historian, loosely associated with the [[...
49: *[[Jacques Louis David]] - painter, [[The Mountain|''Montagnard'']] (... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...referring to clues by both number and direction – for example, "1-Across" or "17-Down"); at the ...
10: ...per is turned upside down. In addition, many weekday puzzles such as the ''New York Times'' crossword...
18: ...sually 8–13 rows and columns, totalling 81–130 squares. They need not be symmetric and tw...
30: ...in the puzzle grid that try to replicate our everyday colloquial language. In such a puzzle, one might...
33: ...es (generally 3-5 in a standard 15x15-square "weekday"-size puzzle) that share some relationship, type...
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