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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
7: ...rthenware and porcelain to decorative tiles and modern sculptures, reflecting both functional and aest...
10: ...cement, leading to more uniform and sophisticated designs.
17: *Hand-Building: This includes pinching, coiling, and slab building. It's one o...
19: ...is popular for making bowls, vases, and other rounded forms.
21: ... making it easier to produce multiple copies of a design. - Pottery (17136 bytes)
2: ... vitrified is called "[[stoneware]]". Fine earthenware with a white tin glaze is known as [[faience]].
4: ...s of years old but also takes advantage of more modern innovations in the fields of chemistry and elec...
8: ... and date the stratum, by the formation style and decoration. The relative chronologies based on pott...
16: ...making precisely matched sets of items e.g. dinnerware. Doing handwork enables the potter to use their i...
19: ...symmetry, so that it does not move from side to side as the wheel head rotates is referred to as "cent... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: The materials definition of a '''glass''' is a uniform [[amorphous...
3: ...ed the word ''glaes'' to describe [[amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesu...
5: ...glasses in common use as a building, container or decorative material.
9: ...d with very smooth and impervious surfaces. These desirable properties lead to a great many uses of gl...
13: ...ommon glass''' is mostly amorphous [[silicon dioxide]] ([[Silicon|Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), which... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
1: ... iron from Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|thumb|200px|Iron Age Axe found on Gotland]]
3: ...eeminent. The adoption of this new material coincided with other changes in past societies often inclu...
5: ...an Iron Age]] are examples. The Iron Age was preceded by the [[Copper Age]] and later the [[Bronze Age...
7: ...areas is listed below, broadly in chronological order.
13: ... and a [[battle axe]] with an iron blade and gold-decorated bronze haft were both found in the excavat... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ... [[Meridian (geography)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? thus making neighbori...
6: ...'s atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly c...
8: ...00 UTC on the last Sunday in March. For the remainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in...
13: *[[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]: UTC + 1 (e.g. if it is 12:00 UTC, then it is ...
18: ...ment for time zones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the locati... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
8: ... [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surrenders.
15: ...an]] was announced at a meeting of the [[Acad魩e des Sciences]] in [[Paris]].
17: *[[1871]] - [[Amadeus I of Spain|Amadeus I]] becomes King of [[Spain]].
23: ... announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade with [[China]].
25: ...Russo-Japanese War]]: The [[Russia]]n fleet surrenders at [[L?ou|Port Arthur]], [[China]]. - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
93: [[Addressing mode]] --
119: [[Atlas Autocode]] --
133: [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] --
143: [[Blue screen of death]] --
165: [[Cocoa (software)]] -- - New Deal (82408 bytes)
2: ...ment of class conflict. The opponents of the New Deal, complaining of the cost and the shift of power...
5: The New Deal had three components: direct relief, economic r...
7: ...curity and unemployment insurance programs were added. Separate programs were set up for relief in ru...
9: ...forts to increase foreign trade. Much of the New Deal's efforts to help corporate America were channe...
11: ...erwise would have been. What pulled us out of the depression was the natural resilience of the economy... - Faience (4113 bytes)
1: ...nglish]] for fine tin-glazed [[earthenware]] on a delicate pale buff body.
4: ...omagna]] near [[Ravenna]], Italy, where a painted ware on a clean, opaque pure-white ground, called [[ma...
6: ...transshipping point for refined tin-glazed earthenwares shipped to [[Italy]] from the [[kingdom of Arago...
8: ...n3_v154/ai_21146424]). Egyptian faience was not made of [[clay]] but rather of a [[ceramic]] composed ...
11: ...[16th century|sixteenth century]], but it quickly developed its own recognisably Dutch d�cor. - Doric order (6699 bytes)
3: ...[Corinthian order|Corinthian]]. The Greek Doric order was the earliest of these, known from the [[7th ...
7: ...pg|thumb|right|250px|[[Temple of the Delians]], [[Delos]]; [[19th century]] pen-and-wash restoration]]
9: ...hat occupies the lower half of the entablature. Under each triglyph are peglike ''guttae'' that appear...
11: ...e:DoricParthenon.jpg|thumb|left|100px|The Doric order of the [[Parthenon]]]]
13: Early examples of the Doric order include the temples at [[Paestum]], in southern [[Italy]]... - Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
5: ...pulverizing rock and bone, and eradicating all evidence of early human settlements. Something similar ...
7: ...he treeless [[permafrost]] was transformed into a densely forested fertile land.
9: ...tructed by stretching animal skins over simple wooden frames. They had outdoor hearths for cooking the...
14: ...ion was a long and slow process resulting from trade and overseas contacts with agricultural communiti...
16: ...extensive Neolithic field system - arguably the oldest in the world - has been preserved beneath a bla... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
2: ... [[1876]]. However, subsequent discoveries have made it clear that Mycenae was not its chief center of...
7: ...s was shown to be untrue. The Aegean civilization developed three distinctive features.
11: ...ipt, but an earlier script [[Linear A]] remains undeciphered.
21: ...ater oblongs are entered from a long side and divided longitudinally by pillars.
23: ...ype see [[Crete]]. In spite of many comparisons made with [[Egyptian]], [[Babylonian]] and [[Hittite]]... - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
1: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
6: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - Mauryan (48769 bytes)
4: ...ting and conquering the [[satrap]]s left by Alexander.
6: ...ested regions near [[Kalinga (India)|Kalinga]] (modern [[Orissa]]).
8: ...s decline began fifty years after Ashoka's rule ended, and it dissolved in 185 BC with the foundation ...
10: ...ndia. Ashoka sponsored the spreading of Buddhist ideals into [[Sri Lanka]], Southeast Asia, West Asia ...
12: ... of the Mauryan times. The Mauryan empire is considered one of the most significant periods in Indian ... - First Lady of the United States (9641 bytes)
3: ...government jargon that often acronymizes the President of the United States as "POTUS" similarly appli...
5: ...zed as "America's First Lady", but did not gain wider recognition until 1877 when newspaper journalist...
7: ...ven a formal job in the Clinton administration to develop reforms to the health care system.
9: ...s formally referred to as, for example, "The President and Mrs. Washington."
11: The term is also used to describe the wife of other government officials, or ... - Beaker culture (3656 bytes)
1: ...or an [[archaeological culture]] representing a wide range of scattered peoples present in [[prehistor...
3: ... to be of [[Iberian peninsula|Iberian]] origin (modern day [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]]).
5: ...er Neolithic race of Europeans. [[Vere Gordon Childe]] wrote of the Beaker culture as:
7: :''Warlike invaders imbued with domineering habits and an appreciat...
9: ...hilst its assumption of a Beaker invasion is considered an attempt to attribute numerous different cul...
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