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- Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: '''Margaret Mead''' ([[December 16]], [[1901]] – [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United Sta...
13: ...ot universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
14: ...women) as they pass through adolescence as "unavoidable periods of adjustment." Boas felt that a stud...
26: ...ual sex as young women, and claimed that they had lied to Mead.
28: ...had come to adopt the same puritanical sexual standards as the Americans who were once so shocked by M... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...ks are [[documentary film|documentary]] [[propaganda film]]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out o...
5: ...nce]]r; in a [[2002]] interview she recalled that dancing was what made her truly happy. After injurin...
7: ...ased in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]'' (''[[Day of Freedom]]'') and is now available on [[DVD]]....
13: ...ically naﶥ and ignorant about their atrocities—a position which many of her critics dismiss as...
17: ...6]]. She survived a [[helicopter]] crash in the Sudan in [[2000]]. - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ... known as one of the world's greatest explorers — some skeptics see him as the world's greatest ...
7: ... from the island of [[Korcula|Korčula]] in today's [[Croatia]] (then known as ''Curzola'') in the...
18: ...ranslations. The book became an instant success — quite an achievement in a time when printing w...
21: ...bed, a priest begged Marco to confess that he had lied in his stories. Marco refused, insisting, "I have...
23: ...served as a special emissary for [[Kublai Khan]]—which is puzzling, given the careful record-kee... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...the period were [[Christopher Columbus]], [[Vasco da Gama]], [[Pedro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], ...
11: ...e route to the east became far more difficult and dangerous. The [[Black Death]] of the fourteenth cen...
18: ...[Indian Ocean]] was possible. In [[1498]] [[Vasco da Gama]] made good on this promise by reaching Indi...
26: ...found the wealth it had sought in the form of abundant gold. In the Americas the Spanish found a numbe...
31: ...overed in [[1500]] by [[Pedro ?vares Cabral]] and lied partly on the Portuguese side of the global "divi... - Germany (46412 bytes)
15: ...List of national anthems|National anthem]]: [[Das Lied der Deutschen]]<br>3rd stanza (''Einigkeit und Re...
51: <sup>1</sup> [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Low German language|Low German]], [[Sorb...
61: ...lector]]s of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. From ''Bildatlas der Deutschen Geschichte'' by Dr Paul Kn? (18...
66: ... the [[Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation]] – stemmed from a division of the [[Franks|Caroli...
78: [[Image:Reichsgruendung2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Foundation of modern Germany, Versailles, 1871. Bismarck... - 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... - Old wives' tale (4347 bytes)
1: ...ssed down by old wives to a younger generation. Today old wives' tales are also common among children'...
10: ..., concealing the truth about the invention of [[radar]].
35: *A pimple on your tongue means that you have lied.
39: *If you smell [[dandelion]]s, you'll wet your bed. - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
33: |[[Antigua and Barbuda]]||[[Fair Antigua, We Salute Thee]]
59: ...ous community)|Basque Country]]''||<i>[[Eusko Abendaren Ereserkia]] (Anthem of the Basque Homeland)</i...
71: ...[[Benin]]||[[L'Aube Nouvelle]] (The Dawn of a New Day)
103: |[[Canada]]||[[O Canada]] Royal Anthem: [[God Save the Queen]]
105: |[[Cape Verde]]||[[C⮴ico da Liberdade]] - Literature (25676 bytes)
11: ...ature", for example, on the grounds of a poor standard of [[grammar]] and [[syntax]], of an [[verisimi...
13: ...]s have all at one time or another pushed the boundaries of "literature".
15: ...works often had an overt or covert religious or didactic purpose. Moralising or prescriptive literatur...
21: ... the ''formal'' properties of the words it uses — the properties attached to the [[Writing|writt...
23: ...e [[Sumeria|Sumerian]] ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' (dated from around [[4th millennium BC|3000 B.C.]]), ... - Domitian (8530 bytes)
3: ...us Flavius Domitianus''' ([[24 October]] [[51]] – [[18 September]] [[96]]), commonly known as ''...
13: ...a honoured politician. They had a son in 71 and a daughter in 74, but both died young. The marriage wa...
21: ...veloped a passion for his niece [[Julia Flavia]] (daughter of Titus) and, like in his first marriage, ...
25: ...especially in the [[Danube]] frontier against the Dacians. Domitian also founded [[Legio I Minervia|Le...
29: ...was several times. The boy, included in the plot, lied, saying that it was much later. More at ease, the... - Al Gore (43430 bytes)
10: | [[January 20]], [[1993]] –<br/>[[January 20]], [[2001]]
13: | [[Dan Quayle]]
18: ! Date of Birth
36: ...t. Because the close vote in the state of [[Florida]] was disputed in court, many Americans believe G...
46: ...ton, where he attended the [[Sheridan school|Sheridan School]], and later the elite [[St. Albans Schoo... - European-influenced classical music (18917 bytes)
17: ...composed in the late 20th century through present day
20: ...Some authorities subdivide the periods further by date or style. However, it should be noted that thes...
35: ...her lyrical content -- in the classical song or ''Lied'', the music is an equal partner to the text -- o...
51: ...sidered by many a serious composer) or Billie Holiday's 'facile'." (light?) (Middleton, 1990)
57: ...tion not analyzable by the traditional methods applied to common practice music.
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