Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- 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... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ... enormous "museums of madness" that served as the deserving targets for later reformers’ zeal.
6: ...ide her heart "scope for its affections," she decided to go to the jail to see if she could be of help...
8: ...ood of [[abuse]] and [[neglect]], she became a student of the [[Unitarian]] reformer [[William Ellery ...
10: ...n her career, it is plausible to see her becoming depressed as she perceived the limited opportunities...
12: ...United states she brought an enthusiasm for this idea with her. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
2: <!-- FAIR USE of Mother-teresa-03.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima...
4: ...r]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
6: ...ward, the [[Bharat Ratna]] in [[1980]]. She was made an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [...
11: ...tion to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She w...
13: ...sa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...fore the [[Special Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and ...
7: ... at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at...
9: ... [[Germany|German]] occupiers would eventually murder her at one of their [[concentration camps]]. An...
11: ...Horthy|Miklorthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]...
13: ...pt]], it came as a shock to them that they were under suspicion due to Krystyna's contacts with a Poli... - Mosaic (6524 bytes)
3: ...thumb|150px|Detail of mosaic from [[Herculaneum]] depicting [[Amphitrite]]]]
7: ...ly 12th-century [[Kiev]]an mosaic depicting [[St. Demetrius]].]]
12: ...ve arts|decorative art]], an aspect of [[interior decoration]]. In mosaics, small [[tile]]s or fragme...
16: ...ed across the ancient world for domestic interior decoration. Mosaics of the [[4th century BC]] are fo...
18: ...co di Venezia|St Mark's]]. In Western Europe, the demanding techniques of fresco replaced the even mor... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
1: <table border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><t...
2: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>18th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Rutherford B. Hayes]]</td></tr>
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 23]], [[1885]]</td></tr> - Barbados (21887 bytes)
3: ...re also dotted with large sugarcane estates and wide [[pastures]] with many good views to the sea.
5: ...ntry in the world. The island is a major tourist destination.
9: ...]], and [[Mapp's Cave]]. According to accounts by descendants of the aboriginal Arawak tribes on other...
11: ...lly called the island '''Os Barbados''' ("The Bearded Ones"), upon seeing the appearance of the island...
13: ...]] until independence in [[1966]], Barbados was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Bar... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ... [[Azores Islands|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Isla...
5: ...After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal declined.
7: ...ocial and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
15: ...ver among some other tribes. {{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ'', page 9, "A...
17: ...atin Right]] in [[73|73 AD]].{{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ'', page 135, ... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
3: ...za de sangre]]'' ("cleanliness of blood") against descendants of converted Jews or Muslims. It was al...
6: ...a]], respectively. In the Crown of Aragon, a confederation of the Kingdom of [[Aragon]], [[Baleares]],...
8: ...e [[Jew]]ish populations centered in ''[[ghetto|Juder�]]''.
10: ...nent posts, both religious and political. [[Pedro de la Caballeria]], a ''[[Marrano]]'', played a majo...
14: ...se debts would be wiped if the noteholder were condemned in court. The Inquisitor whom Ferdinand insta... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...ed through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series ha...
7: ... it - is used to fund a Players' Pool, from which descending shares are distributed to the World Serie...
9: ...or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded.
11: ...ed sponsorship. (For details, see [http://roadsidephotos.com/baseball/name.htm Mr. Pappas's web page...
13: ... of money spent by the MLB for its current worldwide marketing. - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=William Jefferson Clinton
4: | order=42nd President
7: | preceded=[[George H. W. Bush]]
8: | succeeded=[[George W. Bush]]
11: | dead=alive - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (37869 bytes)
3: ...s 'Oak City,' but locals never use this name. Residents of outlying suburbs or rural areas often call ...
7: ...3 totaled 523,303 with more than 1.25 million residents in the metropolitan area.
9: ...or to the [[September 11th attacks]] and the most destructive act of domestic terrorism in American hi...
19: founded = |
29: density = 325.3| - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
2: ...xperience in this process. Russia's experience is detailed below.
7: ...infrastructure, and inefficient supply systems hinder efficient utilization of those resources.
9: ...r of legacies with which the Russian economy must deal in its transition to a market economy.
11: ... that if each unit met or exceeded its plan, then demand and supply would balance.
15: ...lance among the sectors throughout the economy. Under central planning, the state performed the alloca... - Wildfire (23185 bytes)
8: ...; the word got its present meaning by people misunderstanding the expression "spread like wildfire". [...
14: ...anization of wildlands, these fires often involve destruction of suburban homes located in the wildlan...
16: ...al [[butenolide]]. Most native animals, too, are adept at surviving wildfires.
18: ...ge communities, destroying many homes and causing deaths.
20: ...logging]]) has historically provided the fuel for devastating fires such as the fires in [[Michigan]] ... - Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
3: ...n to compromises marked by a passionate patriotic devotion to the Union.
7: ...him but also sent him to the [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] in [[Exeter, New Hampshire]].
9: ...in tears. The reason for his short stay at the academy is unknown but seems likely to be simply the in...
11: ...rtmouth he took a legal apprenticeship (firstly under Thomas W. Thompson and then Christopher Gore) an...
17: ...ted States Federalist Party|Federalist party]] leader. In [[1812]] he was elected to the [[United Stat... - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
2: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right...
4: <table align="center" border="0">
20: <td>[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] </td>...
32: <td>[[van der Waals radius]] </td><td>...
38: <td>[[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) </td><td>'''2''',3 (amphoteric... - Broccoli (4962 bytes)
18: ...d greens]] (Acephala Group), [[kohlrabi]] (Gongylodes Group), and [[Brussels sprout]]s (Gemmifera Grou...
22: ...e stalk. The large mass of flower heads is surrounded by leaves. Broccoli most closely resembles its c...
35: ...: the Roman natural history writer, [[Pliny the Elder]], wrote about a vegetable which might have been...
37: ...ns. In 1775, John Randolph, in ''A Treatise on Gardening by a Citizen of Virginia,'' felt he had to ex...
39: ...migrants from [[Messina, Italy]], whose company made some tentative plantings in [[San Jose, Californi... - Theater (structure) (5978 bytes)
1: ...es and organize the theater space as well as provide facilities for the [[actor|actors]] and the tech ...
4: ...ornate, [[cathedral]]-like structures to simple undecorated rooms or [[black box theater]]s. Some thea...
7: ...heater, common terminology has been developed to identify the different areas of a theater building:
9: *The area hidden from the audience where sets, furniture and prop...
11: ... entrance to the theater, with its box office and lobby areas, is called the ''front of house''. - Bicycle (44267 bytes)
5: ...ver one billion in the world today, bicycles provide the principal means of transportation in many reg...
7: The bicycle has impacted history considerably in both the cultural and industrial realms. ...
13: ...never existed, but were made up by [[Louis Baudry de Saunier]], a 19th century French bicycle historia...
14: ...|280px|Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two.]]
15: ...drive mechanism, in [[1840]], which enabled the rider to lift his feet off the ground while driving th... - Livestock (24677 bytes)
5: ...al husbandry]] and is an important component of modern [[agriculture]]. The raising of livestock can b...
7: ...s of the [[Bible]] and were used as forms of [[trade]] and given as [[gift]]s <sup>[[#1|1]]</sup>. In ...
9: ...products can include pizzles (animal penises) and deer horn, used in eastern medicine.
11: ...nd that they feel address most of the concerns of lobbyists.
17: ...ical cereal crops. Raising livestock is less dependent on good weather and is less labour intensive th...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).