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- 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: ... development of [[Electric power|electrical power generation]].
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: ... machine tools, and in his workshops he trained a generation of men to build on his work, such as [[Richard Ro... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
2: ...ingborg Castle]], the daughter of [[Waldemar Atterdag of Denmark|Valdemar IV of Denmark]] and Helvig o...
4: ...86), but under such stringent conditions that the Danish crown got all the advantage of the arrangemen...
6: At a conference held at [[Dalaborg]] Castle, in March 1388, the Swedes were co...
12: ... [[Kalmar]] in June [[1397]]; and on [[Trinity Sunday]], on [[June 17]], Eric was solemnly crowned kin...
16: ... and Norway were treated as integral parts of the Danish state, and national aspirations were frowned ... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...taine''' ([[Bordeaux]], [[France]], c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]], [[1204]] in [[Fontevrault]], [[A...
6: ...ad been arranged by his father and her mother, as Dangereuse was the long-time mistress of [[William I...
10: ...gs would not be merged with France until the next generation. She also gave him a wedding present that is sti...
12: ...] from V麥lay, the rumored location of [[Mary Magdalene]]'s burial, dramatically emphasized the role ...
16: ...tence on conquest, the crusade leaders targeted [[Damascus]], an ally until the attack. Failing in thi... - 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... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
15: |'''Date of Birth'''
29: ... a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ...s a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who preached on weekends; Rice's mot...
35: ...[http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabout_transcript090701.html]
41: ...://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Rice began classes with the goa... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...st accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the generation influenced by [[Michelangelo Merisi|Caravaggio]] ...
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]]. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
19: ...d [[Georges Braque]]. She coined the term "[[Lost Generation]]" for some of these expatriate American writers....
54: ...means value, in the sense of overall lightness or darkness of a painting, Stein using a high proportio...
58: ...ere gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday," of which he contends that the, "effect would b...
60: ...te in long hand, typically about half an hour per day. Alice B. Toklas would collect the pages, type t...
61: Today, most manuscripts are kept in the [[Beinecke Lib... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
5: ... [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography]].
15: ...r Advancing Technology in Developing Countries at Dartmouth College. The Institute was established as ...
19: ...rner Trumpet Award (1993); and Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth (1993); Kilby Science Award (1993); Induct...
21: ...episode "Second Chances" of [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]] as Lieutenant Palmer. - 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... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
2: '''Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench''', [[Companion of H...
4: ...8]], she was made a [[Order of the British Empire|Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] ...
9: In her native [[United Kingdom]], Dame Judi has developed her reputation as arguably t...
11: Dame Judi received her professional training at the ...
13: Dame Judi has also made numerous appearances in 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...
38: ...pecially those of the [[frontal lobes]], but redundant and complementary processes within the brain re...
44: ...ess so far eludes the best efforts of the current generation of researchers. But reasonable assumptions based ... - Eye (21834 bytes)
1: ... but detect whether the surroundings are light or dark. More complex eyes are used to provide the [[s...
15: ...lls. They can distinguish between light and dark (day and night), but no more. This enables snails to ...
24: ...tering the eye. Too much light being let in could damage the retina, too little light would be blindin...
31: ...e eye does not. The choroid gives the inner eye a dark colour, which prevents disruptive reflections w...
65: ...l acuity]] (a measure of detail). This is why the darker conditions become, the less colour objects se... - Bee (11175 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Arthropoda]]}}
12: [[Andrenidae]]<br />
13: [[Anthophoridae]]<br />
14: [[Apidae]]<br />
15: [[Colletidae]]<br /> - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
8: [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]] - Dicots<br>
9: [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]] - Monocots<br>
18: ...edons. This is the sense in which the term is nowadays received and in which it is used here.
22: ...etween these two extremes is every conceivable gradation, embracing aquatic and terrestrial herbs, cre...
27: ... and is available here [[Wikipedia Tree of Life/Update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group]]. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Adams
3: | image name=johnadamsvp.flipped.jpg
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1797]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1801]]
9: | date of birth=[[October 30]], [[1735]] - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: ...Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March 4]], [[1841]]</td></tr>
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</t...
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 24]], [[1862]]</td>...
15: <br>(daughter-in-law, widowed)</td></tr>
22: ...''Martin Van Buren''' ([[December 5]], [[1782]] – [[July 24]], [[1862]]), nicknamed '''Old Kinde... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1853]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1857]]
9: | date of birth=[[November 23]], [[1804]]
12: | date of death=[[October 8]], [[1869]]
18: ...ominated for president as a "[[dark horse]]" candidate on the 49th ballot at the [[1852 Democratic Nat... - Australia (39438 bytes)
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28: established_dates=From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 January...
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54: ...glish to use the word "Australia" was [[Alexander Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical Collection of Voy... - United States (58223 bytes)
1: The '''United States of America'''—also referred to as the '''United States''', ''...
2: ... as several territorial water boundaries with Canada, [[Russia]] and [[The Bahamas]]. It is otherwise ...
9: ...Many, One")<br>''[[In God We Trust]]'' ([[1956]]–present) |
36: established_dates = From [[Great Britain]]<br> [[July 4]], [[177...
52: ...riginal 13 states adopted the Constitution as the date on that state "entered the Union" (became part ...
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