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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
81: ...— [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909]] — [[1911]] (wings added)
105: | [[1911]] — [[1917]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...yond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
8: ...[Darius Hystaspis]], concerning whom [[Ctesias]] relates that his grave was in the face of a rock, and...
12: ...ompleted graves behind Takhti Jamshid would then belong to [[Artaxerxes II]] and [[Artaxerxes III]]. T...
23: ...from ancient scholars on the subject are set out below:
25: ...undantly supplied with furniture and wearing apparel of every kind…. - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...nd fell behind, and was too weak militarily to repel [[Europe]]an interference or [[Empire of Japan|Ja...
7: ...ruler of China, and increasingly characterizes itself as ''[[Taiwan]]'', which is also the usage commo...
16: ...of surrounding nations; a concept that continued well into the [[Qing dynasty]], although being contin...
23: ...to oppose ''Zhongguo'', then we should break off relations with them soon." In this sense, the term is...
25: ...Dynasty|Song]]. The term ''Zhongguo'' came to be related to geographic, cultural and political identit... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
9: *[[Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist
17: ...e|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
24: ...[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...humb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
5: ...lso examining [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the au...
7: ...as educated by the [[Jesuits]], and became a bookseller in [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette...
10: ...plementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
14: ... of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any subject that he approached, th... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...of York|Duchess of York]]. In her own right she held the title of a [[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingd...
5: ...wels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ...ther was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the young...
11: ...velled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], for...
13: ... fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... However, Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughou...
9: ... Goldman left her marriage and her family and traveled to New Haven, CT, and then to [[New York City|N...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
18: ...ment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing.
21: ...ning in confinement for several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to conn... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ... that valued education. Her parents believed travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years o...
6: ...1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and the slow pace of her course...
8: ...copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
14: ...dow, though, she knew she was not alone in her rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten ...
18: ... painting to care for her mother and sister, who fell ill after moving to Paris in [[1877]]. Her siste... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
1: [[Image:george_eliot.jpg|thumb|right|George Eliot]]
3: ...e novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological pe...
5: ...c scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...he was brought up with a narrowly [[low church]] religion. Charles Bray, a [[Coventry]] manufacturer,...
10: ...rried to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...y Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Cana...
7: ...o in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage nam...
9: ...d her for a part in a one-reel thriller, ''The Lonely Villa'' in 1909. Pickford would go on to become ...
11: ... Pickford became secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Dou...
20: * [[1911]]: Majestic Film Corp. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ... early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Cur...
5: .... Eventually, with the monetary assistance of her elder sister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[c...
9: ...April 20]], [[1902]]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The first they named [[polonium]] after ...
11: ...l]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
13: ...dy of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element". In an unusual move, Curie intentionally di... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ... Brothers]], one of the earliest professional gospel groups.
3: ...e an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for popular acces...
5: ...]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]'...
7: ...ted into the [[Gospel Music Association]]'s [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]] in [[1978]]. - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ... in the service of the counts of Sponheim, close relatives of the [[Hohenstaufen]] emperors. Because s...
8: ...ed a prophetic call from God five years after her election as Mother Superior in 1141 demanding of her...
11: ... her instant understanding of the meaning of the religious texts, and commanded her to write down ever...
13: Yet Hildegard was also overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy and hesitated to act.
15: ...ility, until weighed down by a scourge of god, I fell onto a bed of sickness."'' - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: ...:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~1989)]]
2: '''Lucille Ball''' ([[August 6]], [[1911]] – [[April 26]], [[1989]]) was an [[United...
4: She was born in [[Celoron, New York]] and after her father died, was ra...
7: ...esigner [[Hattie Carnegie]] and as the [[Chesterfield cigarettes]] girl. She moved to [[Hollywood]] in...
9: ...tage version). The two hit it off immediately and eloped the same year to much press attention. Howeve... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
1: ...ramed|right|Babe Didrikson in the 1932 Olympic javelin competition]]
3: ...was an [[United States|American]] athlete, who excelled in many sports. She achieved her greatest succ...
5: ...vents she entered: she won a gold medal in the javelin and hurdles, and cleared the same height as her...
9: ...ar]] and won the 1946-47 U.S. Women's Amateur as well as the 1947 British Amateur and three [[Western ...
27: {{Footer Olympic Champions Javelin Throw Women}} - Retina (13061 bytes)
3: The '''retina''' is a thin layer of cells at the back of the [[eye]]ball of [[vertebrate]...
5: ... part in [[visual perception]]. In [[embryonal development]], the retina and the optic nerve originate...
7: ...ine]] and [[Ragnar Granit]] won the [[1967]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for their scien...
9: The unique structure of the [[blood vessel]]s in the retina have been used for [[biometric]]...
14: ...amacrine and ganglion cells. These neurons ultimately may produce action potentials on their axons. Th... - Cornet (3752 bytes)
1: ...e '''cornet''' is a [[brass instrument]] that closely resembles the [[trumpet]].
3: ...ch was derived from the bugle family. However, lately it has been gradually replaced by the trumpet in...
5: ==Relationship to trumpet==
7: ... seen only in the brass band, is an Eb soprano model (often shortened to just "sop"), pitched a fourth...
9: ...imarily responsible for its characteristic warm, mellow tone, which can be distinguished from the more... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events a...
28: ...of popular leadership of his second cousin, [[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through h...
31: ...ism and corporate authority; in December 1765 he delivered a speech before the governor and council in...
33: ...ular side in this case resulted in his subsequent election to the [[Massachusetts House of Representat...
44: ... first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] and Samuel Adams. - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
4: ...tates|U.S. President]] [[Chester A. Arthur]], 41 delegates from 25 nations met in [[Washington, D.C.]]...
15: ...ench did not adopt the Greenwich meridian until [[1911]].
21: The meridian through Greenwich was selected as the Prime Meridian because over two third...
23: * [[El Hierro|El Hierro (Ferro)]] (in the Canary Islands 17° 3...
29: * [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]]
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