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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...a]] to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in [[Latin America]] and the most...
10: native_name = Estados Unidos Mexicanos |
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
23: leader_names = [[Vicente Fox ]] | - 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. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ction machines for manufacturing in other industries.
3: ...ut [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-po...
5: ...[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
9: ==Causes==
10: ...on]] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ilizations, as a single [[state]] or multiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ..., the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...inese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
10: ...''Main article: [[Name of China in various languages]]''
14: ...r known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states. - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...ow host in the United States, and has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly...
8: ...to an undisclosed medical problem [http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.htm]. Limbaugh stated that ...
10: ...one". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Sh...
16: ...nto, California]]. After achieving some local success, he moved to [[New York City]] (and his current ...
18: ...States|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]] or even President George W. Bush. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...]] [[philosopher]] and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a promin...
5: ... which many an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...o her are among the most graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic...
10: ... he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
12: ...omable uncertainty of the philosophy which professes to be so high above both church and world. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ... United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
9: ...last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Sa...
12: ...ria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Princ...
14: ...r was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]]. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ... [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], wife of [[Louis XVI]] and mother o...
4: ... baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
6: ...erdinand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ...nsidered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
9: ...r in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
12: | '''Predecessor:'''
15: | '''Successor:'''
24: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
28: | [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
31: ...]]) leaders, the eight most industrialized countries in the world, after British Prime Minister [[Marg... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...ngton state]] and is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].
7: ...state legislator, and Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was...
9: ...se it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campaign to build a new library there.
11: ==In the Washington and United States Houses==
13: ... also worked on legislation regulating nursing homes. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...conservative political office. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of...
7: <caption><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
12: <tr><td>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>[[Patrick Hillery]]</td></tr>
13: <tr><td>'''Successor:'''</td><td>[[Mary McAleese]]</td></tr>
15: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>[[Barrister]], former Senator</... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
12: |'''PM Succesor:'''
27: ... of [[privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed th...
29: ... "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...vil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarqui...
6: ...ran a small inn. In the period of [[political repression]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Ts...
9: ...e emigrated with her elder sister, Helene, to Rochester, NY, to live with their sister Lena. Goldman ...
13: ...ick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him)...
18: ... the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing. - 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... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ...self imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.
7: ...her native England, she moved to the [[United States]] where she eventually became an [[evangelist]].
11: Christabel Pankhurst died in [[Los Angeles, California]] and was buried in the [[Woodlawn Me... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...ime that she began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
10: ...abitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be divorced, and so he remained ...
12: ...married a friend, [[John Cross]], an [[United States|American]] banker, who was 20 years her junior. T...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her: - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...74]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|femin...
13: ...rted by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
17: ...returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by t...
19: ...eight, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature ...
21: ...o "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn ... - 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... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...605;ريم''') is the mother of [[Jesus]] and the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph t...
6: Most, though not all, historians accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if th...
8: ... their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
13: ...ed to [[Bethlehem]] (Micah 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about 130 kilometers) from Nazareth; and while t...
15: ...ing these years only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ...2-Sistine Chapel.png|250px|thumb|right|''God creates Adam'', by [[Michelangelo]]. The mural on the cei...
2: ...esis 1.27) as Adam, depending on which part of Genesis is read and how it is interpreted. Depending on...
10: ==Adam in Genesis==
12: ...the Garden of Eden with many of the "lower creatures."]]
13: ..., and gave him dominion over all the lower creatures (Gen. 1:26; 2:7).
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