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- Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ... Initially working in [[Toronto]] and western Canada, she was associated with the burgeoning [[folk mu...
5: A painter who had also dabbled in [[piano]], [[guitar]] and [[ukulele]] sin...
11: ...n]]). It remains her best selling single to this day.
13: ...|Warrior Drums]] of [[Burundi]] making up the foundation of "The Jungle Line"). During 1975 Mitchell ...
15: ...had given its predecessor. ''Don Juan's Reckless Daughter'' (1977) was a further move away from pop t... - Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
13: ...ate for various times in the [[liturgy|liturgical day]].
18: ... tastes. The sturdy Roman letters of the early [[Dark Ages]] gradually gave way to cursive scripts su...
41: ...alt]]; plant-based substances such as [[woad]], [[indigo]], and folium or turnsole - Dye (6033 bytes)
1: ...s an [[aqueous solution]], and may require a [[mordant]] to improve the fastness of the dye on the fib...
17: ...pecially useful for black and navy shades. The mordant, [[potassium dichromate]], is applied as an aft...
19: ...n affinity for the textile fibre. Subsequent [[oxidation]] reforms the original insoluble dye.
29: ...ple]] (vat dye), [[kermes]] and [[cochineal]] (mordant dyes) and [[techelet]].
32: ...igo plant|indigo]] and [[woad]] are vat dyes. Mordant dyes include [[alizarin]] (madder), [[broom (sh... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
59: ...nce|French]] settlers cultivated coffee, tobacco, indigo, cotton, and sugar on plantations worked by Afric...
67: ...s, with hurricane Lenny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island.
83: ...h]]es: Charlotte, Grenadines, Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint George, Saint Patrick
96: ... on plantations. There also are a few white descendants of English colonists, as well as some East Ind...
100: ...rbados. It has a new SHF radiotelephone to [[Grenada]] and to [[Saint Lucia]]; access to [[Intelsat]] ... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
9: ...r interwoven with [[feather]]s and [[fur]]) which dated back to approximately 7,000 years ago. There i...
11: ...usand years, and it is referred to in the [[Rig-Veda]], written in 1500 BC. A thousand years later the...
19: ...]], growing the three crops, cotton, [[indigo dye|indigo]] and [[tobacco]] historically were the leading o...
26: Today cotton is produced in many parts of the world, i...
30: ...ine that removes the cotton from the boll without damaging the cotton plant or by a [[cotton stripper]... - Nuit (1845 bytes)
2: ..., which usually have a [[sky father]]. Nuit is a daughter of [[Shu (Egyptian deity)|Shu]], god of the...
4: Originally she was the goddess of the daytime sky, but in later times became the sky in ge...
6: ...hieroglyph]] for ''nuit''), and with the colour [[indigo]], representative of the night sky. Sometimes she... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
28: ... of food. Also, luxury type goods such as cotton, indigo, and sugar were not as widely avaliable.
30: ... well as British aid to Native Americans in [[Canada]] and west of the Mississippi. Westerners and Sou...
34: ...n, president at the time, in favor of his own agenda.
38: ...go]] in 1848 ceded Texas (with the Rio Grande boundary), California, and New Mexico to the United Stat...
43: ...and pro slave sentiments that still exist to this day. - Macaw (5144 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Psittacidae]]}}
18: ...rot]]s, classified into six of the many [[Psittacidae]] [[genus|genera]]: '''''Ara''''', '''''Anodorhy...
20: ...ike [[woodpecker]]s, having 4 toes on each foot – two front and two back.
25: The majority of macaws are now endangered in the wild. Five species of macaw are alre... - Ziggurat (6043 bytes)
1: ...viving ziggurat]], however, is in [[Kashan]] Iran dating back to the 5th millenia BC. Ziggurat designs...
9: ... thought to have been painted and maintained an [[indigo]] color, matching the tops of the tiers. It is k...
11: ...[[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and means "The Foundation of Heaven and Earth." Most likely being buil...
15: ...end of the third [[millennium]] BC and the latest date from the 6th century BC. Built in receding tier...
23: ...of architecture continues to be used and copied today in many places of the world. Perhaps one example... - Indium (8657 bytes)
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5: ...ign="center" | [[cadmium]] – '''indium''' – [[tin]]
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113: ! [[natural abundance|NA]] - Sugar Act (1439 bytes)
4: ...posed new duties on [[wine]], sugar, [[indigo dye|indigo]], [[coffee]], and naval stores; it eliminated dr... - Roman clothing (10346 bytes)
17: ...ns]]. There were far fewer colours than we have today.
28: ... rather from the soldier's wives and family{{Fact|date=May 2008}} before the soldiers left for a campa...
30: ...s primary use{{Fact|date=May 2008}} was as a secondary, or less expensive armor. Roman belts, wristban...
34: ...mans rarely used goatskin for their leather{{Fact|date=May 2008}}, preferring pig or sheepskin, althou...
46: ...ulum|subligaria]]'' was revealed by the [[Vindolanda tablets]]. - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
2: {{Refimprove|date=November 2007}}
10: ...nland China]], [[December 25]] is not a legal holiday. The small percentage of Chinese citizens who co...
12: ...and [[Macau]] designate Christmas as a public holiday on December 25. Both are former [[colony|colonie...
20: ...ons play holiday music on Christmas Day and a few days before, while television stations are known to ...
22: ...ial services on [[Christmas Eve]] and [[Christmas Day]]. Young people especially enjoy the fellowship ... - Color (30968 bytes)
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147: ...r ''apparition'' by [[Isaac Newton]] in [[1671]]—contains all those colors that consist of visib...
152: ...seven colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, [[indigo]], and violet, remembered by many school children...
172: ... with different mixes of wavelengths differently—and we have [[language]] to describe that diffe...
186: ...eenish red), any more than you could experience a dark brightness or a hot coldness. The four "polar" ...
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