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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ... number of colossal buildings, all constructed of dark-grey marble from the adjacent mountain. The sto...
8: ...y declared in its inscription to be the tomb of [[Darius Hystaspis]], concerning whom [[Ctesias]] rela...
12: ..., if not his, then that of [[Darius III of Persia|Darius III]] (Codomannus), who is one of those whose...
16: [[Image:proskynesis.jpg|thumb|300px|Darius the Great]]
18: ...of Persepolis commenced with [[Darius I of Persia|Darius I]], it was probably under this king, with wh... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...[1729]] - [[November 6]], [[1796]] ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]])), born ''Sophie Augusta Fredericka'', kn...
5: ...osed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on current events in Russia and the rest of Eur...
9: ...eccaria-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine d...
25: ...ulminated in the [[Battle of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. T... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]], [[1784]]) was a [[France|French]]...
7: ...t graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...f Medicine'' (1746–1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ...
14: ...what interested the militant philosophers of that day was an episodic application of the principle of ...
29: ...angerous ideas they held were now made truly formidable by their open publication. In 1759 the ''Encyc... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
11: ...ten-Windsor]], né¥ Spencer) ([[1 July]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] ...
13: ...rriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adultery]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the worl...
15: ...calls for her to be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a caution... - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
3: ...n the province of [[Lorraine]] in [[France]], the daughter of [[Rene I of Naples]], Duke of [[Anjou]],...
12: ...ctober 13]], [[1453]], he had suffered a complete mental breakdown. Rumours were rife that he was incapab...
18: ...r the loss of his political influence. Warwick's daughter, [[Anne Neville]], was married to Margaret'...
20: By the time Margaret, her son and daughter-in-law were ready to follow Warwick back to... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...upport of the public and the courts and was instrumental in opening the way to universal access to birth c...
5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...on'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[...
13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded the Amer...
24: ...h venereal diseases (which she contrasted with mandatory registration of those with infectious disease... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
6: ...e devoted her life to pleasure, both physical and mental.
12: ...not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."
14: ...e devout Fran篩se d'Aubigne, better known as [[Madame de Maintenon]], the lady-in-waiting who would l...
16: ...parker/12603 ''Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday'']. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...łodowska-Curie''', [[November 7]] [[1867]] – [[July 4]] [[1934]]) was a [[Polish]] chemist ...
5: ...m high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown|mental breakdown]] for a year. Due to her gender, she wa...
17: ...Langevin's grandson Michel later married her granddaughter H鬨ne Langevin-Joliot.
19: ...d in her and her husband's [[gold]] Nobel Prize Medals for the war effort.
27: ... the year after Marie Curie's death. Her youngest daughter, [[Eve Curie]], wrote a biography on Curie ... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: '''Dorothea Lynde Dix''' ([[April 4]], [[1802]]–[[July 17]], [[1887]]) (not to be confused with...
6: She credited her interest in mental illness to a conversation she overheard in [[Bost...
8: ...story of how Dix came to take an interest in the mentally ill is more complex and more interesting than t...
12: ... family-like asylum removed from the pressures of daily life. When she returned to the United states s...
20: ...y letter more often than in person. The two dozen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] dem... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
11: ...nfirmary]] in [[London]] that became a public scandal, Nightingale became the leading advocate for imp...
19: ...became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Nightingale's pioneering work in ...
23: ...ctivity, and the [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] foundations of the hospital. While at Kaiserwerth, Flore...
31: ...arly in November [[1854]]. In [[Scutari]] (modern-day [[ܳk? in [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]]) Nightingale ... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the founder of [[Theosophy]].
5: ...aine]] (then part of the [[Russian Empire]]), the daughter of [[Colonel|Col.]] Peter Alexeivich von Ha...
9: ...er she claimed to be able to perform physical and mental psychic feats which included [[levitation]], [[cl...
15: ...inspiration from [[Hinduism]] and [[Buddhism]]. Madame Blavatsky claimed that all religions were both ...
21: ...by Theosophists, and it is called White [[Lotus]] Day. - 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... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...'s oldest noble families, and Stefania Goldfeder, daughter of a wealthy assimilated Jewish banker. Kr...
13: ...an Witkowski]], who would be killed in [[1942]] — it is unclear by whom or for what reason. Sev...
15: ...ngary]], to charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|Fren...
17: ...] — to be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polis...
19: ...ed Kowerski was working with our officials in [[Budapest]] on Polish affairs. He is now in Palestine ... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: '''Marilyn Monroe''' ([[June 1]], [[1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States...
6: ... her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Giff...
8: ...r cruelly, corrected her. After Marilyn's death, Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously consider...
10: ... Della had died; Gladys's father, Otis, died in a mental hospital near [[San Bernardino, California|San Be...
12: ...herty, who would become her first husband. The Goddard family was moving to the [[East Coast of the Un... - Brain (22060 bytes)
14: ... brain, is another major cause of death and brain damage.
16: ...d, but [[stem cell]] research may offer a cure. [[Mental illness]]es, such as [[clinical depression]], [[s...
30: ... generate artificial hearing and (crude and experimental) artificial vision for deaf and blind people, and...
34: ...y-controlled biological "ratbot" that could go in dangerous places.
41: ...avioral tests can measure symptoms of disease and mental performance, but only provide indirect measuremen... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
13: ..., which must be removed to prevent [[brain damage|damage]].
23: ... about 500 ml or more of cerebrospinal fluid each day, with only about 15 percent of the body's estima...
25: ...emale humans have large pelvic openings to accommodate the birth of large-headed children, but the lar...
33: ...e and stimulating, especially during early developmental years.
38: ...pecially those of the [[frontal lobes]], but redundant and complementary processes within the brain re... - Mandible (13717 bytes)
9: ... and nerve. Running backward and upward from each mental tubercle is a faint ridge, the oblique line, whic...
12: ...ine of union of the halves of the bone. Below the mental spines, on either side of the middle line, is an ...
24: ...or teeth, it turns back to communicate with the [[mental foramen]], giving off two small canals which run ...
25: ...or border'' is concave and forms the anterior boundary of the mandibular notch. Its ''lateral surface'...
31: ...rmed from a single center which appears, near the mental foramen, about the sixth week of fetal life. By t... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
19: ...rotubules pull the chromatids apart, so that each daughter cell inherits one set of chromatids. Once t...
190: ... have wide-set eyes, a small head and jaw and are mentally retarded.
191: ...is characterized by severe growth retardation and mental defect.
192: ...asymmetrical skull, slanting eyes and mental retardation.
193: ...osome 18. Symptoms include mental and motor retardation. - Geography (8541 bytes)
13: ...geographic detail, and more solid theoretical foundations. This period is also known as [[Great Geogra...
53: *[[environmental science]]
63: ... also includes [[landscape ecology]] and [[environmental geography]].
70: ... shape the human society. It examines how humans adapt themselves to the land and to other people, and...
92: ...jpg|thumb|250px|right|Desert, near Las Vegas, Nevada . Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com ... - Society (6217 bytes)
18: ...hether the aid is symbolic, linguistic, physical, mental, emotional, financial, medical, religious, etc.
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