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- Bronze Age (9344 bytes)
2: ...oppings and [[alloys]] it to cast [[bronze]]. The Bronze Age is part of the [[three-age system]] for [[pre...
4: Most surviving bronze implements are [[tool]]s or [[weapon]]s, though s...
6: The date of the arrival of a Bronze Age varies from culture to culture.
8: ==Near East Bronze Age==
9: ...al lines (dynasties and kingdoms). The end of the Bronze Age in the Near East is normally associated with ...
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- Luwian language (1607 bytes)
3: ...|Aram Naharaim]], [[Canaan]] and the [[Hejaz]] (modern [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Israel]], [[Palestine...
8: ...s|C. Watkins]], 182–204. [[Berlin]]: Walter de Gruyter. - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
11: ...Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys wit...
5: ... [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ... been in use for at least 6000 years (since the [[Bronze Age]]). Since the oxidation rate itself increases...
11: ...similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at 1...
13: ...ry similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
7: ...[47]]). Hoping to preserve his line, Prasutagus made the [[Roman emperor]] co-heir, along with his two...
9: ... this, but does single out [[procurator]] [[Catus Decianus]] for criticism for his "rapacity".
11: ... the rebels destroyed it, besieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. The ...
13: ...us. [[Verulamium]] ([[St Albans]]) was next to be destroyed.
15: ... German king [[Ariovistus]] is reported to have made the same mistake in [[Julius Caesar]]'s [[Gallic ... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ...ire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American Red Cross Nursing Service]].
3: <table align=left><tr><td>[[Image:JaneADelano.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...endent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
6: ...o her profession resulted in her being named president of the American Nurses Association and chair of...
8: ...odern nursing profession, Delano almost single-handedly created [[American Red Cross]] [[Nursing]] whe... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...ur. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Academy Awards, the record for nominations until 2003, ...
5: ...d with giving her a sense of adventure and independence.
7: ...l for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shooting golf in the low eightie...
8: ...and information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
10: ...ay her degree was in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...hile 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on the far left.]]
7: ...by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
11: ...ar she was a sports talent, but she could not decide which sport to pick. A swimming coach advised her...
13: ... Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, although as a sprinter, not a mid...
17: ...y 2, 1940, a week before the Netherlands were invaded by German troops. - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
3: ... of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is considered by some to be one of the greatest athletes in ...
5: ... and Stefania-Alexandrina; she was named after "Nadezhda" ("Hope"), the heroine of a Russian film.
7: ...ela Karolyi]] and his wife Marta, who would later defect to the [[United States]] and become coaches o...
9: ...ven bars), a silver medal (team all-around) and a bronze (floor exercise). Back home, her success led her...
11: Comaneci successfully defended her European all-around title in 1977, but the R... - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...], she became the first player to achieve the "Golden Slam" – capturing all four Grand Slam titl...
6: ...e of three he began teaching Steffi to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room. She began pr...
8: ...nament at the age of 13 in October [[1982]] at Filderstadt, Germany, and lost her first professional m...
10: ...ctice courts. This narrow focus meant that Graf made few friends on the tour in her early years, but l...
12: ... [[1986]] at [[Hilton Head]], [[South Carolina]], defeating [[Chris Evert]] in the final. She followed... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
2: ...ete]]. She has won three gold, one silver and one bronze [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals. She was named a...
8: ...e she arrived, her mother was in a coma and brain dead. Since her father could not bring himself to ha... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...edals at 18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 4 bronze medals).
5: ...r choreographer moved out of town. At age 19, she debuted internationally at the [[1954]] Rome World C...
7: ...e vault, a silver medal in the uneven bars, and a bronze medal in the now discontinued team event with por...
9: ... beam and uneven bars event. Finally, she won the bronze in the horse vault competition.
11: ...eighteen - nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
8: ...r further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would lay down a handkerchi...
10: ...nal Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during the tournament. The outbreak...
18: ... (playing with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after their opponents withdrew.
22: == Failed American debut ==
24: ...ion funds for the regions of France that had been devastated by the battles of World War I, she went t... - Crocus (3680 bytes)
17: ...gions for the crocuses to bloom early, only to suddenly wither and die from a unseasonable "post-winte...
20: The name of the genus is derived from the Latin adjective ''crocatus'', meani...
24: ..., such as the cream-colored crocus feathered with bronze at the base of the bouquet, similar to varieties ... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
3: ...gh arrangement and juxtaposition or by the simple designation of an object or even an act as sculpture...
5: ...man hands or by nature. A figure or person can be described as ''sculpturesque'' if it shares qualitie...
21: ** [[jade]]
28: ** [[bronze]] - see [[bronze sculpture]]
37: ...even proposed that some day sculptures might be made of gases; see [[gas sculpture]]. - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...oric times. Most [[Stone Age]] statuettes were made of ivory or soft stone, however some clay human a...
6: ...aterials used for sculpture during this time included basalt, diorite (a type of dark, coarse-grained ...
8: ...ith gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
11: ...ieved to represent Hammurabi. The head has the wide open eyes, typical of the time period.
13: ...t can have four legs visible if viewed from the side. The piece was excavated at [[Nimrud]] (in north... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...]], now suggests that Neanderthal humans may have developed a sophisticated and more complicated artis...
9: ...ron]] and [[manganese]] and indicates that it was decorated by someone and used as a figurine, regardl...
12: ...objects, like the paddles from [[Tybrind Vig]], [[Denmark]], are known as well.
15: ... by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord and sticks with a growing sophistication. S...
20: ... style are to be classified as art is a matter of definition. - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ... materials. However, jewellery can and has been made out of almost every kind of material.
3: Examples include [[bracelet]]s, [[necklace]]s, rings, and [[earrin...
5: The word is derived from the word "jewel", which was [[anglicise...
7: ...s materials, is generally considered valuable and desirable. Some cultures have a practice of keeping ...
9: ...rsonal [[adornment]] seems to be a basic human tendency. - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Hinduism]]. In some [[religious denomination|denominations]] of Christianity, a '''relic''' is an...
7: ...cited is the veneration of Polycarp's relics recorded in the Martyrdom of Polycarp (written 150-160 AD...
9: ...[[Caesar of Heisterbach]]. These miracle tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages. ...
15: ... the mystic potency belong to spirits, in varying degrees to the faithful, and to inanimate objects. T...
17: ..., the "idols" of our museums and archaeology, and destroying it accounts for some of the righteous rag... - Weaving (6924 bytes)
1: ...rn), or it can be woven in decorative or artistic designs, including [[tapestry|tapestries]].
3: ...heir fabrics, regardless of the complexity of the design.
5: ...dye]]d before weaving is called [[ikat]]. Fabric decorated using a wax resist method is called [[bati...
9: .... The weft thread crosses the warp in some over/under sequence. The nature of that sequence gives rise...
11: ...rsely, if the warp is spread out, the weft can slide down and completely cover the warp, giving a ''we... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
1: ...right|thumb|Artists can use woodworking to create delicate [[sculpture]]s.]]
7: ...y tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.
9: ...f wooden animal statues from the [[Iron Age]]. Wooden [[idol]]s from the [[La Tene|La T讥]] period ar...
11: ... the Egyptians for woodworking tools was probably bronze or even copper, as ironworking was unknown until ...
13: ...after his death. This book is filled largely with descriptions of dimensions for use in building vario...
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