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- Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...mbers of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ...list]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ...at "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practiti...
8: ...nacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), Protestan...
10: ...ble|biblical]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of a... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...], [[nurse]], and [[humanitarian]]. She has been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and ...
6: ...ed school at age 4, she she could already spell 3 syllable words, and surprised her teacher by spelling "art...
8: ...her became ill, for 2 years Clara stayed by his side and learned to administer all his medicine, inclu...
12: ...ized the community's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free pub... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ... developed in France in about 1650 from the ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and has been known as t...
6: ...sic)|harmonic series]], facilitated by its small, deep [[mouthpiece]], giving it its characteristic "m...
12: ... needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the pitch was ...
14: ...ype of horn, called the [[natural horn]] in the modern literature.
16: ...rmonic series, and there were then three valves added to it. Using these three valves, the player cou... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Chester Alan Arthur
4: | order=21st President
7: | preceded=[[James A. Garfield]]
8: | succeeded=[[Grover Cleveland]]
11: | dead=dead - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...ld|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich history duri...
2: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
5: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:...
11: ...Σ<br>''([[Greek language|Greek]]: Freedom or Death)''
21: | '''[[List of Presidents of Greece|President]]''' || [[Karolos Papoulias|KᲯlos Papo?]] - Washington (20186 bytes)
21: DensityRank = 25<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 34.20 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 42<sup>nd</sup> |
26: Longitude = 116?57' W to 124?48' W |
27: Latitude = 45?32' N to 49? N | - Nevada (17565 bytes)
21: DensityRank = 43<sup>rd</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 7.03 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 36th |
26: Longitude = 114?W to 120?W |
27: Latitude = 35?N to 42?N | - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...onomic boom|boom]] and accelerated [[consumer]] [[demand]] and aspirations, coupled with significant c...
3: ...the second half of this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also c...
5: ...s were cultivated in [[jazz]] and [[dancing]], in defiance of the horrors of the First World War, whic...
8: ... [[1920]]s were setting the stage for the [[Great Depression]] that would dominate the [[1930]]s.
10: ===Demobilization=== - Writing (6476 bytes)
6: ''For details, see the main [[Writing system]]s article.''
8: ...s for it. Most writing systems can be broadly divided into three categories: logographic, syllabic and...
10: ...relied heavily on oral tradition in order to be understood.
13: ''For details, see the main [[logogram]] article.''
15: ...nese one, whose characters are used, with varying degrees of modification, in Chinese, Japanese, Korea... - 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). - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
6: ==Development==
7: ...tating counter-clockwise all of the pictograms 90° in the process), and a new wedge-tipped stylus ...
9: ...iform tablets could be fired in [[kiln]]s to provide a permanent record, or they could be recycled if ...
11: ...ssyria]]ns to write their own languages and was widely used in [[Mesopotamia]] for about 3000 years, t...
13: ...nese]], written in a [[Chinese language|Chinese]] derived script; some of these Sinograms were used as... - 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: - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: ...onship with the universe. In the course of the [[development of religion]], it has taken a huge numbe...
2: ...is used to designate what should be more properly described as a "religious organization" – that...
5: ...ht|Fishers of men; Oil on panel by [[Adriaen van de Venne]] ([[1614]])]]
10: ...e. The second interpretation, favoured by more modern scholars such as [[Tom Harpur]], is ''re + ligi...
12: ===Defining "religion"=== - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...the convenience of the solver, although in many widely distributed American crosswords such as the ''[...
8: ...e traditionally limited to about one-sixth of the design. Crossword grids elsewhere, such as in [[Brit...
10: ...ttern appears the same if the paper is turned upside down. In addition, many weekday puzzles such as ...
12: ...ic circles. ''Free form'' crosswords have simple designs and are not symmetric.
16: ...cations are unspecified. A successful solver must deduce not only the answers to individual clues, but... - French language (40201 bytes)
3: ...]], [[U.S.]] state of [[Louisiana]], [[Haiti]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Madagascar]], ...
25: ...le]] and the [[Vascons]] on the Spanish/French border.
27: ...ch today (largely place and plant names and words dealing with rural life and the earth). In the reve...
31: ... number of new words: perhaps as much as 15% of modern French comes from Germanic words, including man...
35: ...he two major groups. It is comparable to the divide that once existed between "yes" in the south of E... - Quran (41479 bytes)
6: ... believe they were revealed) but in a different order, roughly by size, also believed by Muslims to be...
8: == The Qur'an as divided for reading and recitation ==
10: ...into four quarters. A different structure is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling ...
14: ...at time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Is...
16: ...ography soon became important sciences, and the model for the literary language remains to this day th... - Hinduism (49198 bytes)
6: ...th approximately 940 [[million]] followers worldwide, 96 percent of whom live in the [[Indian subconti...
15: ...not claim sole understanding of the one [[transcendental]] Truth.
17: ... the Hindu, this idea has been an active force in defining the 'Eternal Dharma.'[http://www.ramakrishn...
19: ...n [[Moksha]], the end of the cycle of rebirth and death.
23: ...nu]] (the Preserver of worlds) and [[Shiva]] (the Destroyer of worlds). - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
1: ...city dominated, which at its greatest extent included much of [[Mesoamerica]].
5: ...i'wakan''] in [[Nahuatl]], with the accent on the syllable ''wa'', and by normal Nahuatl orthographic conven...
9: There is archaeological evidence that Teotihuacán had been a multi-ethnic plac...
15: ...Mesoamerica|obsidian]] and there was extensive trade with other regions of Mesoamerica.
17: ...ity's broad central avenue, called "Avenue of the Dead" (a translation from its Nahuatl name ''Miccaoh... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...dubious, but it does not interfere with the above definition.
5: ...tion of the United States]], all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
9: ...re conservative interpreters of the concept would demand that the text have a physical form, usually o...
11: ...ience fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature".
15: ...gy|psychological]] insight in the delineation and development of character. - Aymara language (3573 bytes)
3: ... the language of the [[Aymara]] people of the [[Andes]]. It is one of only a handful of [[Native Ameri...
5: ...however, is disputed — although there are indeed similarities, critics say that these may simply...
7: ...[Subject Object Verb|subject-object-verb]] word order. <!-- It is based on a three value logic system...
11: ...[vowel]]s ({{IPA|/a i u/}}, which distinguish two degrees of length. The high vowels are lowered to mi...
15: Stress is usually on the penult (the syllable before the last one), but long vowels may shift i...
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