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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...is a [[country]] located in [[North America]], bordered by the [[United States]] to the north, and [[B...
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' |
21: government_type = [[Federal Republic]] |
22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
23: leader_names = [[Vicente Fox ]] | - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He ...
2: ...Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ... time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get ...
5: ...first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of th... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...orer]], whose account documents his travels and side-excursions over a period of almost thirty years, ...
4: His name may alternatively be rendered '''ibn Batuta''', '''ibn Batuda''' or '''ibn B...
6: ...lated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling'', but ...
10: ==The Hajj (with detours)==
11: ...eadth of the Muslim world, and beyond (about 44 modern countries). - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
6: |'''Order'''
12: |'''Predecessor'''
27: ...[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
34: ...icle for the ''[[New Yorker]]'', Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at [[Colum...
35: ...d an administrative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] m... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...laywright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life ...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...sburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]...
9: ...by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ...klas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was support... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) tow...
9: ...the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in thi...
11: ...erimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives ...
13: ...nd visual impressions; Woolf is at her best in rendering self-soliloquizing existences whose perpetual...
15: ..., near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I am... - 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: ...e, and dogmatic Christians who demanded the final destruction of paganism on the other. Hypatia herse...
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. - Map (10223 bytes)
3: ...that space. Usually, a map is a [[2D geometric model|two-dimensional, geometrically accurate represen...
7: ...itten language by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving maps, painted on a wall of the [[Cat...
9: ...y in the works of J.B. Harley, Mark Monmonier and Denis Wood.
11: ... in [[English language|English]] as "[[On Exactitude in Science]]".
13: ... internationally renowned for its comprehensively detailed work). - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ...ducation, work, relationships and death. It also delves into the emotions of experiencing such events...
8: ...of some of the earliest biographies in existence, detailing the lives of [[chief]]s, [[kings]], [[trib...
12: ... The best known of the classical biographies include ''Memorabilia'' by [[Xenophon]], ''Parallel Lives...
16: ...]s used this historic period to write the first modern biographies. Their subjects were usually restr...
20: == Modern forms == - Writing system (16928 bytes)
4: ...end upon prior knowledge of a given language in order to extract associated meaning.
6: ...d in some language, which can be retrieved independently of the initial act of formulation.
9: :* a set of defined base elements or [[symbol]]s (termed charact...
10: ...assign [[meaning]]s to the base elements, their ordering, and relations to one another;
12: ...ally visually, but tactile systems have also been devised). - 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: - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
1: {| border="1" width="325" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" ...
10: ...outh Vietnam<br>• Reunification of Vietnam under communist rule<br>
15: ...n="top" style="text-align:center"|[[North Vietnam|Democratic Republic of Vietnam<br>(North Vietnam)]]<...
24: ...IA]]:''' ?<br>'''Total dead:''' 287,232<br>'''Wounded:''' 1,496,037
25: ...fficial Vietnamese estimate: 1,100,000 <br>'''Wounded:''' 600,000 - Plato (17363 bytes)
1: ...mb|Statue of a philosopher, presumely Plato, in [[Delphi]].]]
2: ...of [[Aristotle]], writer, and founder of the [[Academy]] in [[Athens]]. In countries speaking Arabic, ...
4: ...he ''[[Second Alcibiades (dialogue)|Second Alcibiades]]'').
12: ...s of the Athenian nobility.--> His family claimed descent from the ancient [[King of Athens| Athenian ...
14: ...derable number of manuscripts (see below). He was deeply affected by the city's treatment of Socrates ... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
2: ...-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...up called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is...
6: ...found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical mat...
8: ...ed a bachelor's degree in [[1656]] and a master's degree in [[1658]]. Although Locke never became a me...
10: ...n Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. - Christianity (47078 bytes)
2: ...e life and teachings of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]] as described in the [[New Testament]] of the [[Bible]]....
6: ... of the term "Christ" to describe Jesus, which is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] translatio...
8: ... encompasses numerous religious traditions that widely vary by culture, as well as thousands of divers...
9: #[[Roman Catholicism]] (the largest single denomination, with over one billion adherents),
11: #[[Protestantism]] (numerous denominations & schools of thought, including [[Angl... - Kangaroo Facts (16137 bytes)
18: ... The term ''kangaroo'' is sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to all members of the macropod fa...
21: ... mouth of the Endeavour River in the harbour of modern [[Cooktown]] for almost 7 weeks repairing their...
22: ....jpg|thumb|250px|left|Picture of a Kangaroo, provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
23: ...nd wallabies. The belief that it means "I don't understand" is a popular [[myth]] that is also applied...
29: ...iganteus'') is less well-known than the red (outside of Australia), but the most often seen, as its ra... - 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... - Cassowary (5017 bytes)
16: ...nown if these are natural or the result of the trade in young birds carried on by the peoples of New G...
18: ...are part of the [[ratite]] group, which also includes the [[Emu]], [[rhea (bird)|rhea]]s, [[Ostrich]],...
24: [[Image:Cassowary.jpg|thumb|150px|Detail of Cassowary head]]
26: ...rth [[Queensland]] [[rain forest]]s is not well understood.
28: ... [[Ostrich]] and [[Emu]] are larger). "Cassowary" derives from the [[Malay language|Malay]] name ''kes... - Dance (8662 bytes)
3: '''''Dance''''' is also used to describe methods of [[non-verbal communication]] bet...
5: Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on [[Society|social]], [[Culture|cultural]], [[...
10: ...traceable through [[archeology|archeological]] evidence from [[prehistory|prehistoric times]] to the f...
13: ...tial to the development of [[Modern dance]] and modern [[ballet]] through artists such as [[Marie Ramb...
15: ...que music]] and [[Baroque dance]] where as others developed separately: [[Classical music era|Classica... - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
1: ...a philosophical question that philosophers have understood and treated differently through the ages.
3: '''Philosophy''' can mean the academic exploration of various questions raised by phi...
5: ...assifed by time period (e.g. ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary, et al.), geography (e.g. Contine...
9: ...ature of these concepts--questions typically outside the scope of science. Several major works of pos...
11: *What is truth? How or why do we identify a statement as correct or false, and how do ...
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