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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
17: ...[[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the... - 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: ...the poem "Journey to Deganwy," which contains the passage "as at the battle of Badon with Arthur, chief giv...
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... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...ought of as one of the major discoverers of [[Canada]], or more specifically, the interior eastern reg...
9: ...g that Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing...
13: ...assage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cro...
17: ...pressive than the small and squalid village of Stadacona, more than a thousand Hurons came to the edge...
19: ...decision must have been made by his arrival in Stadacona as it was by then too late to return to Franc... - Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
1: ...salem]] from [[1186]] to 1190. She was the eldest daughter of [[Amalric I of Jerusalem]] and [[Agnes o...
11: ... them. The chronicler [[Ernoul]] wrote a romantic passage in which Baldwin was captured and imprisoned in 1...
17: ...Bohemund, her political rivals, from marrying her daughter into the rival court faction, led by the Ib...
19: Sibylla bore her new husband two daughters, Alice and Maria. Initially Baldwin IV ves...
27: ...wing the precedent of Melisende, and as the elder daughter of King Amalric, Sibylla had the best claim... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...f the [[University of Moscow]] and Shuvalov's foundation of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of ...
7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine I of...
9: ...e had a French governess, however, and at a later day picked up some Italian, German and Swedish, and ...
11: It was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but ...
13: ... of Peter the Great, practically banished Peter's daughter from court. Elizabeth had inherited her fat... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
18: | '''Date of Birth:'''
28: | [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
31: ...]]'s only female head of a national government to date. She was also the second woman in history to si...
39: ...on]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]].
41: ...mpbell automatically became Prime Minister of Canada. - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
13: ...omprehensive growth plans, and she negotiated its passage. She also worked on legislation regulating nursin...
33: ...ed up having three debates, during which the candidates harshly attacked each other. Senn attacked Rea...
37: [[Social security]], [[prescription drugs]], [[dams]], and [[campaign finance reform]] were among t...
41: ... of 2.5 million ballots cast, or about .08%. A mandatory recount increased her lead to 2,229 votes, or...
43: Republicans criticized Libertarian candidate [[Jeff Jared]] for acting as a spoiler. They sa... - 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...
20: She concluded that the passage from childhood to adulthood--the period of "adole...
28: ...had come to adopt the same puritanical sexual standards as the Americans who were once so shocked by M... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
17: ...e cross along with her sister Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other wom...
19: ...ople in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day of [[Pentecost]], she is one of the handful who ...
25: ...French, Spanish, and Italian, is rendered ''Notre Dame'', ''Nuestra Señora'', and ''Madonna'' r...
27: ...ome Orthodox and Catholic Christians, she was the daughter of [[Joachim]] and [[Saint Anne|Anna]]. Bef...
41: ...too much attention is focused on Mary, there is a danger of detracting from the worship due to God alo... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
6: ...x_classis_entry | taxon = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Orchidaceae'''}}
11: Over 800 <br/> See [[List of Orchidaceae genera]].
14: '''Orchids''' ('''Orchidaceae''' family) are among the largest and most div...
18: ...t, are considered by [[CITES]] as threatened or endangered. They are therefore protected. - Human skeleton (3903 bytes)
31: ...ch states that [[Eve]] was created from one of [[Adam]]'s ribs. However, both men and women have the s... - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
63: ...nd stomach, there is a ringlike valve closing the passage between the two organs. However, as the food appr...
69: ... into the colon, where they remain, usually for a day or two, until the feces are expelled by a bowel ...
86: ... it is recommended that 55 to 60 percent of total daily calories be from [[carbohydrate]]s. Some of ou...
126: ...ongue'' which is only present in the phylum [[Chordata]].
137: ...[[racquet|racquets]], such as for [[tennis]]. Today, synthetic strings are much more common, but the... - 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...
27: ...s rather soft, and it deforms somewhat during its passage through the birth canal, then recovers its shape....
38: ...pecially those of the [[frontal lobes]], but redundant and complementary processes within the brain re... - Bone (11388 bytes)
42: ...bones and certain parts of irregular bones. Secondary ossification occurs after birth, and forms the ...
46: ... and the repair of micro-damaged bones (from everyday stress). Repeated stress results in the bone thi...
113: |a long, tunnel-like '''Foramen''', usually a passage for notable nerves or blood vessels
128: |the end regions of the bone; regions of secondary ossification - Mandible (13717 bytes)
9: ...s of the body, is the [[mental foramen]], for the passage of the mental vessels and nerve. Running backward...
25: ...or border'' is concave and forms the anterior boundary of the mandibular notch. Its ''lateral surface'... - Radius (bone) (8551 bytes)
29: ...nsor pollicis longus. The third is broad, for the passage of the tendons of the Extensor indicis proprius a... - Tibia (10700 bytes)
19: ...ular facet, and bifurcates below, to form the boundaries of a triangular rough surface, for the attach...
45: ...osterior surface of the talus and serving for the passage of the tendon of the Flexor hallucis longus.
47: ...face is prolonged downward to form a strong pyramidal process, flattened from without inward - the med... - Salivary gland (1370 bytes)
1: ... It also helps break down food and lubricates the passage of food down from the oro-[[pharynx]] to the [[es... - Endothelium (1463 bytes)
8: ...mdash; and the transit of [[white blood cell]]s — into and out of the bloodstream. In some orga...
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