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- Visual arts (2572 bytes)
1: ...rtistic disciplines involve aspects of the visual arts as well other types.
3: ...th [[modernists]] who sought to withhold the high arts from the masses by keeping them esoteric.
5: ... arts" is suitably independent of these older, loaded concepts and as such is the preferred term for w...
7: ...set, but certainly can produce "high art" if considered to be a "visual artist", nomatter the medium.
13: * [[Design]] - Performing arts (1198 bytes)
1: ...ss band]]s, etc. Artists who participate in these arts are called performers, including [[actor]]s, [[co...
5: ...n referred to as a ''plastic art'' during the [[Modern dance]] era.
9: ...ture_and_the_Arts/Performing_Arts.html Performing Arts]
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...is a [[country]] located in [[North America]], bordered by the [[United States]] to the north, and [[B...
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' |
21: government_type = [[Federal Republic]] |
22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
23: leader_names = [[Vicente Fox ]] | - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...hese cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigratio...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...t of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufactur...
3: ...wth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power gen...
5: ...red to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|no...
10: ...he accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumula...
12: ...h often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...avid LeRoy, ''Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
2: ...variant of Corinthian, the [[Composite order]], added by 16th century Italian architectural theory and...
4: ...le of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]].
6: ...e so much the standard, that when a Greek Ionic order was eventually reintroduced, in the later [[18th...
8: Below the volutes, the Ionic column may have a wide collar or banding separating the capital from the... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...e [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...nding on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or multiple c...
5: ...of China]] in [[1912]]; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Jap...
7: ...utes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states. - Clip art (7441 bytes)
23: ...m/image/category/cheerleading-clipart.htm Cheerleader Clipart]
78: ...such, although some magazines, particularly those dealing with [[hobby|hobbies]] will publish images e... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...den Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
9: ...f state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
14: ...eft|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
15: ... of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of Denmark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary...
17: ...t the time of her birth, she was third in the [[Order of succession to the British throne|line of succ... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
1: ...al, possibly Melisende herself, from the [[Melisende Psalter]]]]
3: '''Melisende''' ([[1105]] - [[September 11]], [[1161]]) was [[...
5: ... was named after her paternal grandmother, Melisende of Montlhery, wife of Hugh I, [[Count of Rethel]]...
9: ...reginam, cui jure hereditario competebat." Melisende was no mere regent-queen (for her son Baldwin III...
11: ...hter as a capable successor to himself and Melisende enjoyed the support of the ''[[Haute Cour of Jeru... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
1: ...humb|250px|right|style=margin-left:1em|Marguerite de Valois]]
2: '''Marguerite de Valois''' ([[May 14]], [[1553]] – [[May 27]...
4: ...f [[Henry II of France|Henri II]] and [[Catherine de' Medici]]. Three of her brothers became kings of...
6: ...eanne d'Albret died before the marriage was concluded.
8: ... It was reported that during the ceremony, the bride and groom stared straight ahead, never looking at... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absol...
5: ... the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[J...
9: ...ated to make this document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly h...
11: ... freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status hereditary; and gave the nobles full...
13: ...ncouraged foreign investment in economically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censor... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...age:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]...
5: ...n which many an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...s]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the w...
10: - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]. She als...
7: ...[[Kolomenskoye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married a...
9: ...luency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and ...
11: ...hat on the death of her mother (May 1727) and the departure to [[Holstein]] of her beloved sister Anne...
15: ...banishment to [[Siberia]], minus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of Russia|Anne]], consoled... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
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12: | '''Predecessor:'''
31: ...able of the [[G7|Group of Seven]] (now [[G8]]) leaders, the eight most industrialized countries in the...
39: ...n in the [[Canadian federal election, 1988|1988 federal election]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Par...
41: ...ervative leadership convention]] that June. As leader of the Conservatives Campbell automatically beca... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ... a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].
7: ... predominantly Irish neighbourhood on the south side of Indianapolis. Her father, Paul, served as coun...
9: ...e, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campai...
13: ...anagement Act of 1990]], which required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiat...
15: ...e to narrowly defeat her in the Republican landslide year of [[1994]]. - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
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6: ...olspan=2 bgcolor=#DDDDDD align=center|'''Personal Details'''
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28: |'''Order:'''
36: |'''Predecessor:''' - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
6: |'''Order'''
12: |'''Predecessor'''
27: ...[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
34: ...icle for the ''[[New Yorker]]'', Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at [[Colum...
35: ...d an administrative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] m... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
1: [[Image:Debbie Stabenow.jpg|right|Debbie Stabenow]]
3: ...hington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...nate|U.S. Senate]]. Stabenow was considered the underdog for much of the Senate race, but rallied in t...
11: ...bin]], D-Ill., was elected [[Minority Whip]], the Democrats' second-ranking spot.
15: ...=[[Spencer Abraham]] | title=[[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Michigan|U.S Senator (Class 1) from... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...udents, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old masters]] on her ...
8: ...she lived with her family, but art supplies and models were difficult to find in the small town. Her f...
14: Upon seeing pastels by [[Edgar Degas]] in an art dealer's window, though, she knew she was not alone ...
16: ... circle until [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]].
20: ...[[Mary Cassatt]]. Oil on canvas. [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].]] - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ninon de Lenclos.jpg|right|300px|Ninon de Lenclos]]
2: ...705]]) was a French [[author]], and patron of the arts.
4: Born Anne de Lenclos in [[Paris]], [[France]], she was nicknam...
6: ...ichel de Montaigne|Montaigne]] in particular, she devoted her life to pleasure, both physical and ment...
8: ...or the discussion and consumption of the literary arts. In her early thirties she was responsible for en... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ...ings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...more talent than her brothers, who worked along side her. She learned drawing, how to mix color and ho...
9: ...anna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the rea...
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