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- 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 [[...
14: ...皇五帝). These rulers were legendary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them...
18: ...22799;朝) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeolog...
22: ...he last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC). - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
4: Rosa Parks was born in [[Tuskegee, Alabama]], daughter of James and Loeona McCauley. She grew up o...
10: ...re black community boycotted public buses for 381 days. Dozens of public buses stood idle for months u...
19: Standard accounts of Parks' act of [[civil disobedience]...
32: [[Image:Parkstoday.jpg|frame|Rosa Parks in the year 2000]]
35: ...m]], Parks was awarded the [[Congressional Gold Medal]] in [[1999]]. The Rosa Parks Library and Museu... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...le interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many...
7: ... to Henry V's heirs, disinheriting Charles, the [[Dauphin]] ([[crown prince]]), and making the infant ...
12: ...d they gave her male clothing to wear (as the standard disguise used in such circumstances) and brough...
14: ... small force she eventually led included the legendary soldiers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Coun...
16: ... said would verify her legitimacy as a visionary—gained her the support of prominent clergy such... - Pancreas (4781 bytes)
30: ... the potency of its enzyme contents, it is a very dangerous organ to injure and a puncture of the panc...
33: ...e islets contain three different types of cells — [[alpha cell]]s, [[beta cell]]s, and [[delta c...
36: ... and "kreas") which means 'all meat'. "Kreas" in Homer always meant edible animal flesh. An example of ...
45: ...ad, even though they were a delicacy in the olden days - Europe (23835 bytes)
11: ...Crete]], where she gave birth to [[Minos]]. For [[Homer]], '''Europa''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Ε...
18: ... entered a long period of stasis, known as the "[[Dark Ages]]" to [[Renaissance]] thinkers and as the ...
20: ...hese conquests Europe stabilised, but the old foundations were already beginning to crumble.
25: ...pg|right|250px|thumb|Political and geographic boundaries in Europe do not always match. This physical ...
29: ...separates Europe from [[Africa]]. The western boundary is the [[Atlantic Ocean]], but [[Iceland]], muc... - Saqqara (4142 bytes)
3: ...ramid]]. It is located some 30 km south of modern-day [[Cairo]] and covers an area of around 7 km by 1...
12: ...dynasty of Egypt|Third Dynasty]]. Still visible today, is the [[Pyramid of Djoser|Step Pyramid]] of th...
14: ... site, in various states of preservation or delapidation.
15: ...the earliest known example of the Pyramid Texts – inscriptions with instructions for the afterli...
18: ...g Djoser's pyramid was not uncovered until 1924 – many of these have been superbly preserved, wi... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
4: There are no fixed or universally agreed dates for the beginning or the end of the Ancient Gr...
6: ...e term back to about [[1000 BC]]. The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period is the ...
8: These dates are historians' conventions and some writers t...
10: ...ce is considered by most historians to be the foundational culture of [[Western world|Western Civiliza...
15: ...only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondary and tertiary texts such [[Herodotus]] "Historie... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...eorge Herman Ruth''', ([[February 6]], [[1895]] – [[August 16]], [[1948]]), better known as '''B...
6: ==Early days==
12: ...sition because he was involved in every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe started m...
14: ...s club, and took him to spring training in [[Florida]], where a strong performance with bat and ball s...
15: ...ue Orioles, and the competition hit Orioles' attendance significantly. To make ends meet, Dunn was ob... - Alaska (24727 bytes)
18: LandArea = 1,481,347 |
26: AdmittanceDate = [[January 3]], [[1959]] |
27: ...utian Standard Time Zone|Aleutian]]: [[UTC]]-10/[[Daylight saving time|-9]] (west of 169? 30') |
50: ... U.S. state insects|State insect]]'''||[[Libellulidae|Skimmer Dragonfly]]
66: ...Yukon Territory]] and [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]] to the east, the [[Gulf of Alaska]] and the [[P... - Washington (20186 bytes)
16: LandArea = 172,587 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[November 11]], [[1889]] |
25: ...Pacific Standard Time Zone|Pacific]]: [[UTC]]-8/[[Daylight saving time|-7]] |
45: ... American]]s, each with its own unique culture. Today, they are most notable for their [[totem pole]]s...
57: Washington became the [[List of U.S. states by date of statehood|42<sup>nd</sup>]] state in the Uni... - West Virginia (24258 bytes)
16: LandArea = 62,436 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 20]], [[1863]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
40: ...BASE jumping]] [http://www.wvbridgeday.com/bridge-day-BASE-jumping.php] from the bridge), as well as m...
46: ... Under the United States constitution, state boundaries could not be redrawn without the consent of t... - Alcidamas (1796 bytes)
1: '''Alcidamas''', of Elaea, in [[Aeolis]], [[ancient Greece|...
3: ...her speech against Isocrates is probably of later date); ''Odusseus'', in which [[Odysseus]] accuses [...
5: According to Alcidamas, the highest aim of the orator was the power o...
8: ...ntains the actual remains of a description by Alcidamas. - Lydia (2194 bytes)
2: ... an ancient kingdom of [[Asia Minor]], known to [[Homer]] as '''M毮ia'''. Its principal city was [[Sardi...
4: ...the [[Maeander]] was regarded as its southern boundary, and under Rome, Lydia comprised the country be...
8: Homer speaks only of Maeonians (''Iliad'' ii. 865, V. 4...
10: ...st millennium BC]] (perhaps even after the age of Homer) in which the cult of Attis, the consort of [[Cyb... - Ptolemy IV of Egypt (2166 bytes)
5: ...literary [[dilettantism]]. He built a temple to [[Homer]] and composed a tragedy, to which his vile favou...
11: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_iv.htm Ptolem... - 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]]-) - Classical antiquity (3940 bytes)
1: ...est recorded [[Greek language|Greek]] poetry of [[Homer]] ([[7th century BC]]), and continues through the...
7: ...n Europe]] and the [[United States]] than it is today. Respect for the "ancients" of Greece and Rome ...
9: ...peror]] is a [[monarch]] who outranks a mere king dates from this period. In this political ideal, th...
15: ...Aristotle. The desire to [[dance]] like a latter-day vision of how the ancient Greeks did it moved [[... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
3: ...8;ρτεμις''') is the daughter of [[Zeus]] and [[Leto]] and the twin siste...
37: ...a Theron]], she was the patron of wild animals; [[Homer]] used this title. As [[Kourotrophos]], she was ...
41: ...t she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.
61: ...nvinced Orion to walk out into the water and then dared Artemis to try to hit the barely visible speck...
78: ...pease Artemis was to sacrifice [[Iphigenia]], his daughter. According to some versions, he did so, bu... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: '''Giovanni Boccaccio''' ([[June 16]], [[1313]] – [[December 21]], [[1375]]) was a [[Italy|Itali...
7: ...ly introduction to the works of [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]. Around 1327 Boccaccio moved to [[Naples]] w...
9: ... and Giovanni Barrili, and the theologian Dionigi da San Sepolcro. In the 1330s Boccaccio also became ...
11: ...Chaucer]]'s ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]''), ''Teseida'' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ''Filocolo'' a p...
13: ...probably the pastoral piece ''Ninfale fiesolano'' dates from this time. In 1343 time Boccaccio's fathe... - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
3: ...arly [[humanist]]. Petrarch and [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] are considered the fathers of the [[Renaissa...
6: ...om Florence in 1302 (along with [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]) by the [[Black Guelph]]s. Petrarch spent mu...
8: ...ch is credited with creating the concept of the [[Dark Ages]] which was later adopted, and greatly emb...
10: ...refore, April 26th, 1336 is regarded as the "birthday of [[alpinism]]", and Petrarch ('''Petrarca alpi...
12: ...was born in 1366, but died before his second birthday. - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ...g their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], c...
7: ...f the leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in thei...
9: ...hat only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] participate. While some would contend that the...
13: ...he Olympics until now. The US team won the gold medal in [[2000]], suggesting that a major-league team...
93: ...]] hurled three of these, over a span of just six days, in one of the most dominant pitching performan...
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