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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). - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
9: ...little reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
15: ...ed the later legends, like the [[Scots]] king [[Aedan mac Gabran]], who had a son called Artuir and wh...
19: ... [[Taliesin]] are possibly from a similarly early date: ''The Chair of the Sovereign'', which refers t...
23: ...]] by [[Caradoc of Llancarfan]], Arthur killed Gildas' brother Hueil, a pirate on the [[Isle of Man]]....
27: ...ls the demands of Olwen's [[giant]] father [[Ysbaddaden]], which includes his hunt for the great [[boa... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
3: The dating of the Industrial Revolution is not exact, bu...
10: ... institutional changes wrought by the end of [[feudalism]] in [[Great Britain]] after the [[English Ci...
22: ...able as there was privilege and monopoly. The abundant supply of coal and iron ore made the making of ...
30: ...udy tour, gathering information where he could. Today this is called [[industrial espionage]], with mo...
59: ...ed about the need for stability and precision he adapted to the development of machine tools, and in h... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...in the 17th century would be "[[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather th...
16: ...e absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter became the...
20: ... of the Church he saw Puritanism as a potentially dangerous movement; he authorized the [[King James B...
36: ... [[United Church of Christ]]) is the direct descendant of New England Puritan congregations, although ...
59: ...and who were relatively tolerant of other faiths—at least in England; the popular image is sligh... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
1: ...|right|thumb|150px|A bagpipe performer in [[Amsterdam]].]]
23: ...ntinue to be quoted and referenced to the present day). For example, an oft-repeated claim is that th...
25: ...though Ireland has references going back to the [[Dark Ages]]. An explosion of popularity seems to ha...
38: ...d often Irish) emigrant populations, namely [[Canada]], [[United States|America]], [[Australia]], [[Ne...
47: ...s, hornpipes, and jigs), slow airs, and more. It dates largely from the last two centuries, being eit... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
10: She was the daughter of [[Thutmose I of Egypt|Thutmose I]] and [...
11: ...ed tremendous influence. Thutmose II had only two daughters with Hatshepsut, Nefrure and Meritre, but ...
22: ...sful military campaign in [[Nubia]] and in modern-day [[Israel]] and [[Syria]] early in her career.
24: ...here it was made, and where it still lies to this day.
28: ...ted as m3‘t-k3-r‘ ḥ3t-špswt–<u>h</u>nmt-ỉmn, meaning "[[Maഝ] is the... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...ll]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
34: ...VI&oldid=12528936 Wikipedia Article] (most likely dated [[April 19]][[2005]] at 2:52 PM EST). During h...
44: ... Ted Kennedy's ironic praise of presidential candidate John Kerry's wartime rescue of a fellow soldier...
65: ...]], and [[Walt Disney World]]. Presidential candidates [[Howard Dean]] and [[Wesley Clark]] joined in...
69: ...fort to the crew, which I regret. I love ''NFL Sunday Countdown'' and do not want to be a distraction ... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[1 July]], [[1961]] |
8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
11: ...ten-Windsor]], n饠Spencer) ([[1 July]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] ...
13: ...anthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[...
15: ...calls for her to be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw her life as a caution... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...ne Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]], [[1867]] – [[March 24|24 March]], [[1953]]) was the [[Que...
9: ...e of Cambridge]], the third child and the younger daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambr...
17: ...cess May's first cousin once removed; May was the daughter of HRH [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridg...
19: ...orge never took a mistress and wrote to May every day.
27: ...arried [[Wallis Simpson]] ([[19 June]] [[1896]] – [[24 April]] [[1986]]); no issue. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...tor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politicia...
4: ...]] was the wife and model of the artist [[Charles Dana Gibson]], creator of the [[Gibson Girl]]. One o...
8: ...Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] candidate in the required by-election. Elected on [[Novem...
10: ...Winston Churchill]] as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Obse...
12: ...i Marlene'' that they called "The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers". - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
8: ...nasium]] there from [[1880]]. Even in those early days she was a member of the "Proletariat", a left-w...
21: ... [[general strike]] to rouse the workers into solidarity and prevent war, but the party leadership ref...
25: ...part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladimir Lenin]]....
32: ...re declared war against [[Russia]]. The following day, the [[Reichstag]] unanimously agreed to finance...
36: ...a number of scores, and presciently warned of the danger that a [[dictatorship]] would develop under B... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
2: ...use in Chawton).jpg|thumb|House of Jane Austen (today it is a museum)]]
3: '''Jane Austen''' ([[December 16]], [[1775]]–[[July 18]], [[1817]]) was a prominent [[Englis...
5: ...ster, Hampshire|Winchester]] to seek medical attendance, but so rapid was the progress of her malady t...
12: ... view of life seems largely genial, with a strong dash of gentle but keen satire: she appeals rarely a...
39: Reference: David Cecil, ''A portrait of Jane Austen'' (1978) - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...Mary Stevenson Cassatt''' ([[May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|...
4: ...ittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]], she was the daughter of a well-do-to businessman. Cassatt grew u...
42: ...ortrait of Madame Sisley 1873.jpg|''Portrait of Madame Sisley'' (1873) - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...ileschi''' ([[July 8]], [[1593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[...
10: ...elden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Carava...
12: ..., so Orazio hired the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that ...
14: ...apped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularly cruel torture to a painter. Bot...
18: ... Virgin Mary with Baby"''), currently in the [[Spada Gallery]], [[Rome]]. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...'Suzanne Valadon''' ([[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]...
4: ...-sur-Gartempe]], [[Haute-Vienne]], [[France]] the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon ...
8: ...[[1883]], the same year that she posed for ''City Dance.'' In [[1885]] Renoir painted her portrait ag...
24: ...Roman Catholic Church|good Catholic]]" cats on Fridays.
28: - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to N...
12: ...nforming Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fin...
15: ...and Franklin illuminating their X-ray diffraction data published in the same issue of ''Nature'' suppo...
18: ...ell have been deliberately exacerbated by John Randall. Watson has stated that Franklin should have di...
32: *Maddox, Brenda ''Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA'', 2002. ISBN 0060184078. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...]], [[James Franck]] and [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward...
9: ...nterclockwise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, othe... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...co, Texas|Telico]] (just south of [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]]). He was the fifth of seven children in a p...
19: ...ring the evening of [[January 5]] [[1930]] in the Dallas neighborhood of [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]...
27: ...the [[Kaufman, Texas]] jail, Bonnie returned to [[Dallas]] in June of 1932, and was soon back on the r...
31: ...e and two associates happened to be drinking at a dance in Oklahoma (illegal under [[prohibition]]). W...
45: ...e}} Clyde was a machine behind the wheel, driving dangerous roads and searching for places where they ... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: '''Lucille Ball''' ([[August 6]], [[1911]] – [[April 26]], [[1989]]) was an [[United States...
5: ... shy girl was outshined by another pupil: [[Bette Davis]]. Lucille later went home in a few weeks when...
20: ...des in [[radio]], and in fact other TV sitcoms predated her show), and was among the first stars to fi...
24: ...que, and close choreography. Among other non-standard techniques used in filming the show, cans of pa...
28: ...est marriages had come to an end. Until his dying day in [[1986]], Arnaz and Ball would remain the bes...
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