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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain...
10: ... crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland would co-opera...
12: Anne's reign was marked by the development of the two-party system. Anne personally...
15: ...rom France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who would bec...
17: ...nued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
5: dead=dead |
8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ... values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase...
14: ... values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force. - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ... Her contributions to science are reputed to include the invention of the [[astrolabe]] and the [[hydr...
4: ...man Empire had embarked on an intense campaign to destroy pagan places of worship.
8: ... pagan, but was respected by many Christians, and exalted by some (though by no means all) later Christian ...
12: ...ll the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explain...
14: ...contemporary information about Hypatia's life and death. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ... figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Chris...
11: ...t|250px|thumbnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by...
13: ... strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...rs only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years...
17: ... and other women (John 19:26). Mary cradling the dead body of her son is a common motif in art, calle... - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
5: ...abharata rulers, to unify such a vast territory under his empire, which in retrospect exceeds the boun...
7: ... 'Their Highnesses', 'Their Majesties' and 'Their Exalted Majesties' and so on. They shone for a brief mome...
10: ...anked Queen known as Dharma. Ashoka had several elder siblings and just one younger sibling, Vitthasho...
14: ...omed by the revolting militias and the uprising ended without a fight. (The province revolted once mor...
16: Ashoka's success made his step-brothers more wary of his intentions of ... - Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
2: ...mous Republic]] (an [[exclave]] of Azerbaijan) borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the sout...
4: ...[[Azeris]]. The country is formally an emerging [[democracy]], however with strong [[Authoritarianism|...
6: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
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15: ...n=center width="140px" | ([[Flag of Azerbaijan|In Detail]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
14: ==Decipherment==
16: [[Henry Rawlinson]] (1810-1895) deciphered the [[cuneiform]] writing of Mesopotamia,...
18: Ernest de Sarzec (1832-1901) began excavating the Sumerian ...
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26: - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...e town where he first took the vows. His life was described in [[Giorgio Vasari]]'s ''Vite''.
7: ...hich we find in use within thirty years after his death, but was not properly [[beatification|beatifie...
9: ...n became famous. He had the patronage of [[Cosimo de' Medici]]. According to Vasari, the first paintin...
13: ...the Virgin'' in the convent of Fiesole, and the ''Deposition of Christ'' executed for the Church of th...
15: ...s city; as a fresco-painter, he may have worked under, or as a follower of, [[Gherardo Starnina]]. Fro... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ... years of civil war that followed, Octavian would defeat such enemies as [[Marcus Brutus]], [[Gaius Ca...
5: ...[police force]] and the world's first [[fire brigade]]. He finished, repaired or rebuilt almost every ...
7: ...borders he established to become the [[natural borders]] for the Empire for over 400 years. His surnam...
10: ...ble but undistinguished family of the equestian order on [[September 23]], [[63 BC]]. His father was t...
12: ...y against Caesar’s orders that turned the tide of the battle and granted Caesar his last victory... - Tower of Babel (13111 bytes)
1: ...x|"The Tower of Babel" by [[Pieter Brueghel the Elder]]]]
2: ...s a [[tower]] built by a united [[human]]ity in order to reach the [[heaven]]s. To prevent the project...
8: ...here confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered...
10: === Judeo-Christian analysis ===
11: ...called "[[Babel]]", because there [[YHWH]] confounded the one language of Earth. - Crane bird (6009 bytes)
12: ''[[Anthropoides]]''<br>
17: ...ng-legged and long-necked [[Aves|bird]]s of the order [[Gruiformes]], and family '''Gruidae'''. Unlike...
21: ...n. They eat suitably sized prey such as small [[rodent]]s, [[fish]] and [[amphibian]]s, but will eat [...
26: ...lic birds from earliest times. Crane myth is as widely separated and universal as the [[Aegean]], Sout...
28: ...o would intercede with [[Allah]], were the "three exalted cranes" (''gharaniq''). - Axe (10109 bytes)
5: ...le]] to a handle, usually of [[wood]], while a blade fastened horizontally is called an [[adze]]. The ...
8: ...ight by a wedge introduced into the slit and pounded in with a [[mallet]].
16: ...may vary greatly from one to the next. The main, identifiable, feature of this axe is that the eye is ...
17: *Bearded Axe;
18: *Flathead axe - Wide, narrow blade with flat on opposite face.
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