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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
57: | [[1867]] — [[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
64: | [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]]
69: ...[[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1884]] — [[1906]] (center)
95: | [[Minnesota]]
96: | [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...t utility vehicle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For th...
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...fonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...tself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significa...
14: ...f the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) t...
18: ... [[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...nist Party of Germany]] and took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]...
6: ...then Russian-controlled [[Congress Poland]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - she gave her bi...
8: ...s managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
12: ...lly able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist membe... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...ndash; [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...urgh]], she was the daughter of a well-do-to businessman. Cassatt grew up in an environment that value...
6: ...llow male students, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old maste...
8: ...ishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled a...
16: ...] impressionist show. An active member of the impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friend... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ... reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ... star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and ...
13: ...plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with...
15: ...tress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a message saying simply, "By the clock." Upon hearing o... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ...sence. This practice had been the norm for centuries rather than Pizan's invention.
5: ..., and its companion, [[The Book of the Three Virtues]]. She also wrote about the victory of [[Joan of ...
9: ...istine married ɴienne du Castel, who became Charles's notary and secretary. After the king's death in...
11: ...ortant works, chiefly in prose, besides minor pieces.
13: ... (1405), valuable as a first-hand picture of Charles V and his court. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist p...
8: ...) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to...
10: ...ather was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still de...
12: ...ls she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...d critic [[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a L... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...n [[1904]], she and her sister, [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa]], moved to a home in [[Bloomsbury, London|Bloo...
9: ...ained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, i...
13: ...itation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation...
15: ...do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...|''Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...bed as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the [[American Red Cro...
6: ...s and sisters were kept busy answering her many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary s...
8: ...ne, including the "great, loathsome crawling leeches." This was an early indication of what would beco...
12: ...zed the community's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free publ... - Painting (4567 bytes)
1: ...erhaps the best-known artistic painting in the [[Western world]].]]
2: ...tes that humans have been painting for about 6 times as long as they have been using written language....
4: ...rocess of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
8: ...ros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples of [[cave painting]] all over the world.
12: == Painting techniques == - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...uly powerful woodwind instruments with very high tessituras. Pitched in F, a perfect fourth above the ...
3: ...rt in the last movement. In [[1915]], Strauss requested that a piccolo heckelphone in Eb be built for ...
7: ...easing altogether in [[1955]] due to lack of interest. Apparently, only one was ever sold.
9: ...strument museum. Of the rest, some may have been destroyed in the second world war, or may be in the h...
11: ...orary composers, providing an alternative to the less-than-satisfactory musette oboe in F or Eb. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ...x|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ...f]] of the [[United States armed forces|armed forces]].
5: ...During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a ...
7: ...emulated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] of government.
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
6: 22nd President<br>
7: 24th President</td></tr>
11: <tr><td>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>
12: [[Chester A. Arthur]] ([[1885]])<br>
14: <tr><td>'''Successor:'''</td><td> - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...r dm|31|12|N|29|15|E|}}, 208 km (129 miles) northwest of [[Cairo]]. The Canopic mouth of the [[Nile]]...
3: ...s of Egypt quickly became one of the greatest cities of the [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]] w...
5: ...right|Alexandria's state-of-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated i...
19: ...er's seers, and in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that the city w...
21: ...knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the mon... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ... used to arrive at the age of the Earth and outlines their history.
3: == Prescientific notions ==
4: ... earth creationism]] (see [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belief.asp Old-earth or you...
9: ...t the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thousands of ye...
11: ...hen measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that the Earth was about 75,000 years old. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...g the [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]]. It is the [[coldest place on earth]] and is almost entirely covered ...
6: ...tains a southern continent that bears a possible resemblance to the Antarctic coast. (See also [[Histo...
8: ...ty]] of any continent on Earth, as well as the lowest average temperature.
15: Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front...
24: ...idian]]. Western Antarctica is covered by the [[West Antarctic Ice Sheet]]. - Samoa (9435 bytes)
1: ...German Samoa''' from [[1900]] to [[1914]] and '''Western Samoa''' from [[1914]] to [[1997]].
8: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:westasmarms22.PNG]]
31: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 165th]] <br> 2944 [[square kilomet...
33: ...'[[Population]]'''<br> - Total <br>(Jul 2004 Est.)<br> - [[Population_density|Density]]
34: | [[List_of_countries_by_population|Ranked 173rd]]<br>177,714<br><br> 6... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ... (known also as the African World War), the deadliest conflict since [[World War II]].
16: official_languages = [[French language|French]] |
20: ...sidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|President]] |
21: leader_names = [[Joseph Kabila]] |
22: largest_city = [[Kinshasa]] | - Flag of Maryland (3908 bytes)
3: ...]. It was officially adopted by [[Maryland]] in [[1904]].
5: ==Design==
7: ...family, the family of Calvert's mother, and features a cross bottony. George Calvert adopted a coat o...
11: ...it of being red and white (which were seen as "secession colors").
13: ...(Chapter 48, Acts of 1904, effective [[March 9]], 1904). In [[1945]], the legislature made a gold cros...
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