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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
43: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[1810]]...
64: ...g, feather-mosiac work, the invention of the calendar, were due to the former inhabitants of Tula, the...
68: ... Catholic priest in the small town of [[Dolores Hidalgo|Dolores]], causing a long [[Mexican War of Ind...
74: ...formed the modern states of [[California]], [[Nevada]], and [[Utah]], and most of [[Arizona]], [[New M...
78: ...d prosperity is known as the "Porfiriato". His mandate, however, was mostly undemocratic and benefited... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
17: ... 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... - 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...
14: ...r's walk above ''Takhti Jamshid''. These formed a single building, which was still intact 900 years ago, a...
16: [[Image:proskynesis.jpg|thumb|300px|Darius the Great]] - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...nderstanding]], [[knowledge]] or [[wisdom]] on fundamental matters as diverse as [[reality]], [[knowle...
16: ...ontinuous project - the one still being pursued today - is [[Socrates]], who studied under several Sop...
29: ...aused first cause, and this is God. Aquinas also adapted this argument to prove the goodness of God. E...
42: ...ntially one continuous evolution, and therefore a single period. Wikipedia's philosophy section therefore ...
48: ...nd in philosophers such as [[Adam Smith]], but fundamentally challenged established conceptions. - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ... United States]], and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform of opposi...
5: ...evada]]. During his expeditions in the Sierra Nevada, it is generally acknowledged that Frémont becam...
7: ...resident of the United States|presidential]] candidate, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election,...
13: ...ty, Colorado|Colorado]], [[Fremont County, Idaho|Idaho]], [[Fremont County, Iowa|Iowa]] and [[Fremont ...
15: ... discovery of the [[Single-leaf Pinyon]]. The standard [[Binomial nomenclature#Authorship in scientifi... - 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...
21: ...e of [[Mons Badonicus]], where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men. According to the ''[[Ann...
23: ...]] by [[Caradoc of Llancarfan]], Arthur killed Gildas' brother Hueil, a pirate on the [[Isle of Man]].... - 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... - Steel (28384 bytes)
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32: ...copper-smelting sites on the [[Sinai Peninsula]], dated to about 3000 BC. Some iron oxides are effect...
34: ...] died in [[1323 BC]] and was buried with an iron dagger with a golden hilt. An [[Ancient Egyptian]] [...
40: ...artifact is a knife found on [[Cyprus]] at a site dated to [[1100 BC]].
46: ...and weapons. A mass grave in [[Hebei]] province, dated to the early third century BC, contains severa... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...in the 17th century would be "[[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather th...
5: That said, the single theological movement most consistently self-descr...
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 ... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
1: ...|right|thumb|150px|A bagpipe performer in [[Amsterdam]].]]
18: ...drical or conical bore. The drone(s) usually have single tongue reeds but there are a number of important ...
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... - 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.
11: ... and injuring over 1,000, making it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the advent of modern weather f...
12: ...uitted of all charges related to her death of her daughter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts o... - 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... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
1: ...400px|Panoramic view of the Greek theater at [[Epidaurus]]]]
15: ...elf a theatre. The best-preserved one is in [[Epidaurus]]. Greek theatre in every city probably kept...
17: ...stophanes]]. Their plays, along with some [[secondary source]]s such as Aristotle, are the basis of w...
27: ...ormally took place in a single day, happened at a single location, and had one plot line without any [[sub...
33: ...ience. At the center was the [[orchestra]], or "dancing place." It was a large circular area about ... - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...s a single [[state]] or multiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
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... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
7: ...the [[Roman emperor]] co-heir, along with his two daughters, to his kingdom.
9: ...ir loans. Tacitus does not mention this, but does single out [[procurator]] [[Catus Decianus]] for critici...
11: ...esieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. The future governor [[Quintus P...
15: ...) but superior Roman tactics and training won the day at the [[battle of Watling Street]]. The Britons...
17: ...his is unlikely. [[Manduessedum]] near the modern day town of [[Atherstone]] in [[Warwickshire]] has b... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ... didn't allow Germans in the government and not a single person was executed during her reign.
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... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...1707]], when England and Scotland combined into a single [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Kingdom]], Anne became...
15: ...s II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]], ...
17: ...tant [[Prince George of Denmark]], brother of the Danish King [[Christian V of Denmark|Christian V]]. ...
19: ...m and Mary. They were to be followed by any descendants of William by a future marriage.
26: ...ver|Sophia, Electress of Hanover]], and her descendants, who descended from [[James I of England]] thr... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: '''Daw Aung San Suu Kyi''' (born [[June 19]], [[1945]] ...
6: She is the daughter of General [[Aung San]], who negotiated Bur...
12: Heavily influenced by [[Mohandas Gandhi]]'s philosophy of nonviolence, Aung San S...
18: ...t each other." Aung San Suu Kyi proclaimed "a new dawn for the country." However on [[May 30]], [[200...
21: ... embassies, in recognition of Suu Kyi's 60th birthday, which took place on June 19, 2005. The protests... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...nd remain unresolved. Her husband, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], has been implicated as well, and remained in...
6: The daughter of former [[Pakistan]]i premier [[Zulfikar ...
13: ... [[November 16]], [[1988]], Benazir's PPP won the single largest bloc of seats in the [[National Assembly]...
21: ...eed extremely corrupt. Her husband, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], served a seven-year prison term in Pakistan ...
44: ... {{Book reference | Author=Benazir Bhutto | Title=Daughter of the East | Publisher= Hamish Hamilton | ... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
12: |[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
47: Clark served in the Labour cabinets of [[David Lange]], [[Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Mike Moore]...
49: ...hich were combined with Defence in 1985 to form a single committee.
53: She married the [[sociology|sociologist]] Peter Davis, who had been her partner of five years at tha...
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