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- Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ne of the very few "[[Old Bolshevik]]s" to escape death during the [[Great Purge]]s of the [[1930s]].
5: ...Vladimir Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislik...
7: ... known for founding the [[Zhenodtel]] or "Women's Department" in [[1919]]. This organization worked to...
11: ... Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
13: ... [[Sweden]]. She was also a member of the Soviet delegation to the [[League of Nations]]. She died i... - 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... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
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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. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...[Michigan]] declared her voice to be a natural wonder. She has won 16 competitive [[Grammys]] (includi...
6: ...s [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. She signed w...
8: ... internationally famous artist and a symbol of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin ...
10: ... Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it to number one in the UK pop charts - the best ...
12: ...or Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[19... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...ervatory, graduating in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nik...
7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group w...
11: ...). The two works together form a "diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work t...
15: ...f a bond...restoring the legato of life. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occ... - 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... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: ...fe of the historical Mary is a subject of ongoing debate.
6: ...her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to t...
12: ...he disciples ask questions of the risen Savior (a designation that dates the original no earlier than ...
14: ...r he prepared us and made us into men." She then delivers - at Peter's request - a vision of the Savi...
18: ...this. For certainly these teachings are of other ideas." - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
1: ...g|right|framed|A medieval illumination showing Hildegard von Bingen and the monk Volmar]]
3: ...|German]] [[abbess]], [[Monasticism|monastic]] leader, [[Mystics|mystic]], author, and composer of [[m...
6: ... up around her. Upon Jutta's death in [[1136]] Hildegard was chosen superior of the community, and eve...
8: ...ling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.
11: ... of the meaning of the religious texts, and commanded her to write down everything she would observe i... - 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]... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], AE II 2490).]]
2: ...[[20th century]]; currently being a focus of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[C...
7: ...e River|Meuse]] to [[Jacques D'Arc]] and Isabelle de Vouthon, a [[peasant]] family later granted [[nob...
11: ...mb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirion ([[1876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the ...
12: ...lies to the city of [[Orl顮s]], which had been under siege by the English since the previous October.... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
3: ...oren''' (born [[September 20]], [[1934]]) is considered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]] actres...
7: ...[Rome]]. Around this time, she also worked as a model in the ''fotoromanzi'' (weekly ilustrated romant...
9: ...er acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: ...ler in Pink Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).
13: ...eing the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English langua... - Rose (15436 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox_subfamilia_entry | taxon = [[Rosoideae]]}}
15: ...http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/260/Rosaceae/Slide17.html U. of Illinois] 2002-05-29</small>
20: == Description ==
23: ...ide of the stem. The vast majority of roses are [[deciduous]], but a few (particularly in southeast [[...
25: ...few species yellow or red. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals. - List of flowers (2544 bytes)
1: ...thers with spectacular blooms) whose pictures and descriptions are found at Wikipedia. You can also se...
3: ...ng to provide a bright display of color in the garden, and their bed then cleared out by late fall (au...
12: Included here are herbaceous (non-woody) plants of genera...
37: *[[Passion flower]]
52: *[[Spiderwort]] - Hathor (11883 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
4: ...athor was an ancient goddess, worshipped as a cow-deity from at least [[2700 BC]], during the 2nd dyna...
6: ...the fate of the newborn, and [[midwife|midwives]] delivering them.
8: ...aid she arose from from Ra's tears, and thus was identified as the ''[[Eye of Ra]]''.
10: ...n [[hippopotamus]], which the Egyptians also considered quite motherly creatures, and sometimes as an ... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
2: ...s4.jpg|thumb|200px|Medieval Musicians. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
9: ...implicity of chant, with unison voice and natural declamation, is most common.
11: ...multiple texts and instrumental accompaniment has developed by the end of the era.
14: ...musical notation|notation]] was a relatively late development, reconstruction of this music, especiall...
17: ...ic of the 13th century uses the rhythmic modes as defined by Garlandia. - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
2: ... touching all points in-between. Because of the wide range of time and place it is difficult to speak ...
5: ...tern Roman Empire]] and the [[Orthodox Church]] made [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Old Church Slavoni...
7: ...ve survived in the [[Breton lai|lais]] of [[Marie de France]], the ''[[Mabinogion]]'' and the [[King A...
10: ...sical]] writers and the [[Church Fathers]] and tended to re-tell and embellish stories they had heard ...
20: ...so frequently written, as an encouragement to the devout and a warning to others. - Flower (10503 bytes)
3: ...ross the landscape. After fertilization, a flower develops into a [[fruit]] containing the seed(s).
6: ...(starting from the base of the flower or lowest node and working upwards) are as follows:
12: ...4-08_07a.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Flower Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
13: ..."typical" structural plan, plant species show a wide variety of modifications from this plan. These m...
14: ...ps 043a.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Flower Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...fried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of differential [[calculus]]. While they...
4: ...a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in t...
6: ...ped a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]], describing the rate of cooling of objects when expos...
12: ...ief biography of Newton's early life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life a...
14: ... said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three months bef... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: ...osopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philosop...
8: ...dialogue ''[[Phaedrus (Plato)|Phaedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, thro...
10: ...can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[rationalism|rationalist]].
12: ...cs'', ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'', ''Politics'', ''De Anima (On the Soul)'' and ''[[Poetics]]''.
14: ...hology]], [[rhetoric]] and [[theology]]. He also dealt with [[education]], foreign customs, [[literat... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ... Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle International Airport]]''
4: ...; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 85%;"
5: |+ <big><big>'''Charles de Gaulle'''</big></big>
7: ...nd:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:DeGaullePortrait.jpg|180px]]
10: | [[President of France]]
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