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- Plateau (3062 bytes)
22: ...ded by [[creek]]s and [[river]]s to develop steep relief not immediately distinguishable from [[mountain]]... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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10: ...sissippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage.
12: ...uitted of all charges related to her death of her daughter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts o...
21: ...hootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ... first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, ''Les ruines plus beaux des monuments d...
6: ...sided Ionic capital, which became so much the standard, that when a Greek Ionic order was eventually r...
8: ...ollow flutes in the shaft settled at 24. This standardization kept the fluting in a familiar proportio...
12: ... projecting roof. Pictorial often narrative [[bas-relief]] frieze carving provides a characteristic featur... - China (38909 bytes)
34: ...low [[political divisions of China|provincial boundaries]]. In many contexts, "China" is commonly used...
38: ...hina]]" (中國大陸,''zhōngguó dàlù'' in Mandarin), especially when contrasting it with other, p...
45: ...hang]], who settled along the [[Huang He]] river, dating from the 18th to the 12th centuries BC. The S...
55: ...ist state]]—the People's Republic of China—that laid claim to be the successor state of th...
73: [[Nanjing]], [[Beijing]], [[Chang'an]] (today [[Xi'an]]), and [[Luoyang]] are the four cities ... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: '''Maria Theresa''' ([[May 13]], [[1717]] – [[November 29]], [[1780]]) was a [[Habsburg]] ...
6: ...of 1713|Pragmatic Sanction]] which guaranteed his daughter the right to succeed to the Austrian throne...
8: ...g Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him, with 6 daughters (all of whom were named "Marie _______") a...
39: ... labor payments in her lands, providing them some relief. - 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... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ... of [[Sweden]] from [[1632]] to [[1654]], was the daughter of King [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]]. As...
14: <tr valign=top><td>'''Date of Birth'''<td>[[December 18]], [[1626]]
16: <tr valign=top><td>'''Date of Death'''<td>[[April 19]], [[1689]]
31: ...tes (clergy, burgesses and peasants) in the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] of [[1650]] for the reduction o...
39: ...impossible, and it was with an intense feeling of relief that the Swedes saw her depart, in masculine atti... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...h. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than that of any other British monarch....
12: ...future King George IV), did marry, but had only a daughter, [[Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales]]. W...
14: ...French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
20: ...f the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Winds...
25: ...ugustus I of Hanover|Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]], who became King Ernest Augustus of Hanover. ... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...|1990 presidential election]] becoming, as a candidate of the [[Irish Labour Party|Labour Party]], the...
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD...
23: ...]], [[County Mayo]] in [[1944]], Robinson was the daughter of two medical doctors. The Hiberno-Norman ...
31: ...ich she was first elected, as an independent candidate, in 1969. From this body she campaigned on a wi...
32: *Joint Committee on EC Secondary Legislation (1973- 89) - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
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... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...she was born the day before Christmas, the 24th)–[[April 12]], [[1912]]) was a pioneer American ...
6: Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day 1821 to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Ma...
17: ...h all I had, even with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted [[Mason]], he bade me seek a...
35: Clara Barton continued to do relief work in the field until she was well into her 70s...
41: ...Imperial Russia and the International Red Cross Medal. Her final act was founding the National First A... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: '''Jane Arminda Delano''', born [[March 12]], [[1862]] in [[Monto...
4: ...res for the patients under her care. Leaving Florida, Jane Delano then spent three years nursing [[typ...
8: ...rgency response teams were organized for disaster relief and over 8,000 registered nurses were trained and...
10: ...ished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]] posthumously, the year following her death her...
12: ...onal items including a number of her awards and medals. In [[1990]], the National Nursing Advisory Com... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ...(born [[June 1]], [[1974]]) is a successful [[Canada|Canadian]] [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [...
10: ... 1]], [[1974]], in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette....
12: ... gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you."''
36: ...is" to avoid possible confusion with fellow [[Canada|Canadian]] singer [[Alannah Myles]]. The album we...
38: ...ed to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound. However, ''Now Is The Time'' sold l... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
37: ...e writings, [[Joan Mireven proposed that some day sculptures might be made of gases; see [[gas scu...
63: ...Angel Botello]] at ''La Ventana al Mar'', [[El Condado, Puerto Rico]]]]Some of the forms of sculpture ...
64: ...at ground in "High Relief" or "Low Relief" ([[bas relief]])
77: ..., through [[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and the [[Renaissance]] masters, to moder...
87: ...n body and develop skills that will provide a foundation for making clothed figurative work. - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...ing this time included basalt, diorite (a type of dark, coarse-grained stone), sandstone, and alabaste...
16: ...ch was used for mixing eye make-up, was carved in relief, and portrayed the victory of [[Upper Egypt]] ove...
27: ...re found together in a single grave on [[Keros]], dating from 2700 - 2750 BC.
35: ...orned their architecture with relief carvings. A relief is a design or scene that is carved into a flat a...
37: ...old cups from [[Vaphio]], with bulls portrayed in relief. - Engraving (3556 bytes)
1: ...glio]] plate, when [[copper]] is engraved, or a [[relief print]] block when [[wood]] is engraved.
33: * [[Relief engraving]] - Printing (4400 bytes)
6: ...hnique of [[offset printing]], and occasionally [[relief print]], (which is principally used for [[newspap...
11: ...d using the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [...
15: ...an imported press in Mexico City, Mexico. Stephen Day built the first printing press in North America ...
18: ...lder]] discovered [[lithography]]. [[Blake]] made relief etchings. Early in the [[nineteenth century]] [[C...
39: * [[Adam d'Ambergau]] - Woodcut (1909 bytes)
38: * [[Relief print]] - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
13: ...—such as flower pots, tables, altars, etc.—and also contains extensive instructions concer...
61: ...working to prevent cracking, splitting, and other damage due to drying
62: * shake: a crack or split in wood, caused by damage or drying
71: ...utting away from an edge to increase the sense of relief or thinness
82: *[[carpentry]] – Originally a carpenter was a wagon maker but c... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
6: | date1=[[April 30]], [[1789]]
7: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1797]]
9: | succeeded=[[John Adams]]
10: | date of birth=[[February 22]], [[1732]]
13: | date of death=[[December 14]], [[1799]]
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