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- Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
1: ...it resided), was considered one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]].
3: ... BC and remained operational until it was largely destroyed by two [[earthquake]]s in the 14th century...
5: ...e Pharos of Alexandria, an ancient lighthouse, is depicted in this hand-coloured engraving by Martin H...
7: ...s built of blocks of white stone. The tower was made up of three stages, a lower square with a central...
9: ...ver, this is highly unlikely due to the lack of modern optics and reflective technology in the time pe... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...eyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
8: ...nd one of those at ''Nakshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to be the tomb of [[Dari...
12: ...ngs buried at ''Nakshi Rustam'' are probably, besides Darius, [[Xerxes I]], [[Artaxerxes I]] and [[Dar...
18: ...he city until it was taken and plundered by Alexander the Great.
20: ...es of having been destroyed by fire. The locality described by Diodorus after [[Cleitarchus]] correspo... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[logic]]), [[empiricism...
7: ...odern" is a word with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the sp...
10: ...ents were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[Anaximander]] ("All is air").
12: ... parts), the [[Eleatic School|Eleatics]] [[Parmenides]] and [[Zeno of Elea|Zeno]] (All is One and chan...
14: ... the subjects and methods of debate became highly developed. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...h [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
5: ...his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ...Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Kin...
9: ...ing the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little ...
11: ...eves that Arthur is a half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a suppos... - 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: ...l><sub>2</sub></small>— [[Pyrite]]. Iron oxide is a soft [[sandstone]]-like material with limite...
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... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
13: 7) Tuning Slide<br>
16: ...the bag by a stock, a small, usually wooden, cylinder which is tied into the bag and which the pipe it...
18: ...le chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound.
20: ...imes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a bagpipe.
23: ...bag and combining it with a chanter and inflation device seems to have originated with various ethnic ... - May (3270 bytes)
7: ...d with the Roman [[goddess]] of fertility, [[Bona Dea]], whose festival was held in May.
9: ...led May sickness, a kind of sickness where new students or workers start to be tired of their new scho...
21: ...n [[Kentucky]], [[United States]], the [[Kentucky Derby]] is held on the first Saturday in May.
23: ...it is known as Patriots' Day (''Journé¥ nationale des [[patriotes]]'').
27: * [[World Fair Trade Day]] is celebrated on the second [[Saturday]] in... - 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: ...the ''[[Haute Cour of Jerusalem|Haute Cour]]'', a kind of royal council comprising the nobility and cler... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]...
9: ...[[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: ...ames V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
15: ...es of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's father.
17: ...Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...''' (born [[January 12]], [[1951]] in [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri]]) is an [[United States|American]] [...
6: ... a [[judge]] whose wealth and power gave him considerable influence in Southeastern [[Missouri]], had ...
8: ...dropout|dropped out]]. This would have normally made him eligible for the [[draft]], but he was classi...
10: ... claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.)
18: ...tes|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]] or even President George W. Bush. - 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: - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ur of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but completely h...
6: ...f her closest sister, Maria-Carolina (two years older) and brother, Max, (one year younger.) Her other...
7: ...een years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in...
9: ...ld like as a reward, Mozart is said to have responded by saying he would like the hand of the Empress'...
11: ...d off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was married to the Regent of the [[Netherlands... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...t]]. Some of these scandals involve contracts awarded to Swiss companies during her regime and remain ...
6: ...]]. Her remaining years in the United States included active participation in various social causes.
8: ...sed her rival of illegal canvassing. Her entire undergraduate career was fuelled by controversy, comin...
11: ...her political presence felt in Pakistan until the death of General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]].
13: ...ad the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times. - 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]]. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...eled around the United States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [...
5: ...hts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady...
9: ...lorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...n afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: [[Image:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
5: ...ew York|Corning]], [[New York]]. Her mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] who ...
7: ...he dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...first of its kind in the United States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for violat...
11: ...ulius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[menstru... - 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... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ... the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccentricity and ...
8: ...lay on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...es and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never g...
12: ...hool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during t...
14: ...an Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshi... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
4: ... a circus acrobat at the age of 15 until a fall ended her career. In the [[Montmartre]] quarter of [[P...
8: ...c]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]] and [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], and she had affairs with all of them...
10: Degas impressed with her bold line drawings and fine...
12: Despite her achievements, she lived in the shadows o...
14: ... was, however, best known for her candid female nudes. - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
4: ...tin, Texas|Austin]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and [[folk mu...
6: ...olism|drinker]] throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ... with independent [[Mainstream Records]] and recorded an eponymously titled album in [[1967]]. Howeve...
10: ... and together with the Monterey performance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of t...
14: ...ry social commentary of the ''a capella'' "[[Mercedes-Benz]]", written by beat poet [[Michael McClure]...
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