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- Cuba (25106 bytes)
12: ...'s army, and fought valiantly for more than three days & nights, until they were forced to surrender, ...
18: ...], but has been rising steadily. Cuba's economy today is roughly split into three parts: [[agriculture...
24: ...visit Cuba by traveling through [[Mexico]], [[Canada]] or the [[Bahamas]]. American citizens can be li...
34: ...l party, but is forbidden by law to nominate candidates. However this is largely a moot point since no...
49: #[[Ciudad de La Habana Province|Ciudad de la Habana]] (''Havana City'') - Pyrrho (3149 bytes)
3: ...dia]] under the [[Gymnosophists]] and under the [[Magi]] in [[Persia]]. From the Oriental philosophy he ...
5: ... and emotion which belong to the contest of vain imaginings. This drastic skepticism is the first and th... - 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]]. - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ... ([[Vicchio di Mugello]], [[Florence]] [[1395]] – [[Rome]] [[1455]]), better known in the Englis...
7: ...datory term which was assigned to him at an early date and which we find in use within thirty years af...
33: ... the pediment illustrated the lives of Cosmas and Damian, but it has long been severed from the main s...
35: ...ready mentioned, [[Zanobi Strozzi]] and [[Gentile da Fabriano]] are named as pupils of Angelico. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpeg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci]]
2: '''Leonardo da Vinci''' ([[April 15]], [[1452]] – [[May 2]], [[1519]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] ...
7: ...an [[illegitimate child]]. His father, Ser Piero da Vinci was a young [[lawyer]] and his mother, Cate...
9: ...therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's n...
12: ... the greatest of all Andrea's pupils was Leonardo da Vinci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never ... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
30: * ''[[Adoration of the Magi]]'', [[Old Pinakothek]], [[Munich]]
39: ...[[1450]]-[[1529]]), to whom a brilliant ''Mary Magdalen'' in the National Gallery is attributed. - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
1: ...tticelli''' ([[Florence]] [[March 1]], [[1445]] – [[May 17]], [[1510]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]]...
5: ...ully competed as a pendant with [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]]'s Jerome on the other side "the head of the s...
18: ... at the Medici villa at Castello, as a kind of pendant to the ''Birth of Venus'']]
20: Sandro's commissioned ''Adoration of the Magi'' for Santa Maria Novella, ''ca'' 1476, with the ...
22: ...ous other ways, while the expressions of the attendants, both young and old, are greatly varied, displ... - Amulet (8206 bytes)
6: ...ndash; for example: ''vade retro, [[Satan]]as'' – ([[Latin]], "go back, Satan"), to repel [[evil...
10: ...n [[Argentina]] the god [[Ekeko]] furnishes a standard amulet, to whom one should offer at least one b...
18: ...possession of these items allegedly endowed their magical abilities upon their owners.
33: ...uareg]] still use them, as do the [[Haida]] [[Canada|Canadian]] [[aborigine]]s, who wear the [[totem]]...
39: War and other dangerous activities make the participants try to ge... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...ures around the world using the raw, astronomical data collected.
8: ...st "professional" astronomers were [[priest]]s ([[Magi]]), and that their understanding of the "[[heaven...
10: ...Julius Caesar]] instigated [[Julian calendar|calendar reform]] and created the [[leap year]].
14: ...ts that describe their designs are conservatively dated to the first millennium BC, but their contents...
18: A text on [[Vedic astrology]] that has been dated to [[1350 BC]], was written by [[Lagadha]]. - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
4: ...Empire|Persian]] [[Zoroastrian]] priests (the ''[[magi]]''). Recent studies of Babylonian records have s...
8: ...stronomers use [[telescope|telescopes]] or other imaging equipment to make such observations.
36: ...g the "[[Newton's laws of motion]]", which are fundamental to mechanical physics, and which explained ...
45: ...in other [[galaxy|galaxies]] such as the [[Andromeda galaxy]], the distance to those galaxies could th... - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
11: ...ke Urmia]] alongside another Aryan group, the ''Madai'' ([[Mede]]s). For the '''next two centuries''' ...
13: ...ion of [[Anshan (Persia)|Anshan]]. Teispes' descendants branched off into two lines, one line ruling i...
15: ...f [[Babylon]]. After this victory, he set the standard of the benevolent conqueror by declaring what h...
17: ...ed its greatest extent under [[Darius I of Persia|Darius I]]. He led conquering armies into the [[Indu...
19: ...e importantly, it was well managed and organized. Darius divided his realm into about twenty satrapies... - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
4: ...ed that the pagan Celts were not widely literate—although a written form of Gaulish using the [[...
6: ...ormerly (or presently) Celtic-speaking areas post-date the Roman conquest. And although early Gaels in...
12: ... restrictions, his short list is a helpful and fundamentally precise observation. In balancing his des...
43: ...is]], [[Contrebis]], [[Coventina]], [[Damara]], [[Damona]], [[Dea Matrona]], [[Dea Sequana]], [[Dis]],...
47: ...[Murigen]], [[Neit]], [[Nemain]], [[Niamh]], [[Nuada]], [[Ogma]], [[Plor na mBan]], [[Sheila-na-gig]],... - Christmas (35108 bytes)
2: ...hany, when the Magi visited baby Jesus. The exact date of his birth was determined centuries later.
10: ...h in Bethlehem of Judea, the home of the house of David from which Joseph was descended, fulfilled the...
12: ...hlehem suggests, of Bethlehem. The wise men, or [[Magi]], first arrived in Jerusalem and reported to the...
14: ...thlehem, and following it to the birthplace. The Magi, who Matthew reports seeing a giant star as well,...
18: ==Dates of celebration== - Christian mythology (4875 bytes)
1: ...body [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. The legendary details of the career of [[Pontius Pilate]] are...
13: ...l tales, such as the tales of [[Salom�]], the [[Magi|Three Wise Men]], or St. [[Dismas]].
16: ...hatology]] such as the ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' by [[Dante Alighieri]]
20: * Legendary history of the Christian [[church]]es, such as ...
23: ...eral-minded devot�s still seek to identify "Brendan's islands" in actual geography. - 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 ... - Norm (sociology) (4484 bytes)
33: ...orld, it is a custom to exchange gifts in the holiday seasons. It is so deeply imprinted in the minds ...
37: ...bles that in the short story of [[The Gift of the Magi]]. All the friends have to coordinate to change t...
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