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- Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...itans''' were members of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [...
4: ...a particular church. The closest analogy in the present day to the meaning of "Puritan" in the 17th ce...
5: ...rs knew themselves as members of particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous ...
8: ... Geneva]] and [[Lutheranism|Lutheran Germany]]. These contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth...
10: ...d, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of all believers]]. However, in church poli... - 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: ...ed school at age 4, she she could already spell 3 syllable words, and surprised her teacher by spelling "art...
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... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
4: In other languages, the instrument is named ''Horn'' ([[German langu...
6: ... The typical [[playing range]] of a French horn goes from the written F at the bottom of the staff in ...
12: ...p the horn on the piping near the mouthpiece and rest the body of the horn across his arm so that only...
14: ... instrument, not simply limited to a harmonic series, and some of the great composers started to write...
16: ...se three valves, the player could play all the notes reachable in the horn's range. - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Chester Alan Arthur
3: | image name=chester a arthur illustration.3.jpg
4: | order=21st President
7: | preceded=[[James A. Garfield]]
15: | party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ... rich history during which its culture has proven especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [...
19: | '''Largest city''' || [[Athens]]
21: | '''[[List of Presidents of Greece|President]]''' || [[Karolos Papoulias|KᲯlos Papo?]]
25: ...sp;- Total<br> - % water || [[List of countries by area|Ranked 94th]]<br/>[[1 E11 m2|131,940 km&s...
27: ...[Population density|Density]] || [[List of countries by population|Ranked 70th]]<br/>10,665,989<br/>82... - Washington (20186 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] |
30: HighestElev = 4,392 |
32: LowestElev = 0 |
34: Website = access.wa.gov
36: ...nians" (emphasis on the third syllable, which rhymes with ''bone''). - Nevada (17565 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]] |
25: ...Reservation, Jackpot, Mountain City, Owyhee, and West Wendover) are in Pacific</small> |
30: HighestElev = 4,005 |
32: LowestElev = 146 |
37: ... census]] figure of 1,998,257. Nevada is the fastest growing state in the country. Between 2000 and 2... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...gnificant changes in the [[lifestyle]]; and a series of events, [[national]] as well as the [[internat...
3: ... were also called the "Crazy Years" (''ann饳 folles'').
5: ...First World War, which were still present in peoples minds.
8: ...920]]s were setting the stage for the [[Great Depression]] that would dominate the [[1930]]s.
11: ...rning soldiers entered the labor force and factories were retooled to produce consumer goods. - Writing (6476 bytes)
1: ...one may write while doing only one of the activities.
8: ...systems can be broadly divided into three categories: logographic, syllabic and alphabetic.
10: ...ave paintings and petroglyphs of prehistoric peoples can be considered the precursor of writing system...
15: ..., Korean, Vietnamese, and other east Asian languages.
20: ...erican languages such as Cherokee. Several languages of the Ancient Near East used forms of cuneiform,... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
1: ...]]'' used to represent elements or statements expressible in some spoken [[language]], for the purpose...
3: ==General properties==
4: ...], [[map]]s, and [[mathematics]], which do not necessarily depend upon prior knowledge of a given lang...
6: ...o maintain a persistent record of information expressed in some language, which can be retrieved indep...
10: :* a set of rules and conventions understood and shared by a commun... - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
1: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
2: ...raphy|pictographs]]. Over time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract.
4: ...e|Hittite]] and [[Luwian language|Luwian]] languages, and it inspired the [[Old Persian]] and [[Ugarit...
7: ... could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions.
9: ...served because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
3: |states=Formerly spoken in Mesopotamia, currently extinct
4: |region=Southern Mesopotamia
8: |nation=Ancient [[Mesopotamia]]
12: ...ic language|Aramaic]], which are [[Semitic languages]], and [[Elamite]], which is an [[Elamo-Dravidian...
15: ...ury BC]] document listing gifts to the high priestess of [[Adab]] on the occasion of her election]] - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: ...has taken a huge number of forms in various cultures and individuals.
2: ...s used to designate what should be more properly described as a "religious organization" – that ...
10: ...-reading," a meaning attributed by [[Cicero]] to describe the repetition of scripture. The second int...
15: ...ngs for the word "religion." Some of the approaches are as follows:
17: ... Divine (if any). This broad definition encompasses all systems of belief, including those that affi... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...d American crosswords such as the ''[[New York Times]]'' this is often omitted.
3: ==Types of Grid==
8: ...structure, with a higher percentage of black squares, leaving up to half the letters in an answer unch...
10: ...' crossword are 15ױ5 squares, while weekend puzzles may be 21ײ1, 23ײ3 or 25ײ5.
12: ...c circles. ''Free form'' crosswords have simple designs and are not symmetric. - French language (40201 bytes)
3: ...Comoros]], [[Djibouti]], [[Mauritius]], [[Seychelles]].
6: |family=[[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]]<br>
7: [[Italic languages|Italic]]<br>
8: [[Romance languages|Romance]]<br>
9: ...nbsp; [[Italo-Western languages|Italo-Western]]<br> - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...ransliterated]] as '''Quran''', '''Koran''', and less commonly '''Alcoran''') is the [[Sacred text|hol...
6: ...gest sura, and closes with some of the shortest ones.
10: ...is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling paragraphs and comprising roughly ten ayat...
14: ...uspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Islamic Arabic; others say that they were ...
16: ...emains to this day the speech used in Qur'anic times, rather than the current spoken dialects. - Hinduism (49198 bytes)
3: ...b|140px|[[Aum|OM]], a sacred syllablle and a quintessential symbol of Hinduism. Its meanings are many....
6: ...lmanac "the oldest religion." It is the third largest religion with approximately 940 [[million]] foll...
8: ...erhaps the Hindu spirit of unity in diversity is best captured in a line from the ancient [[Rig Veda]]...
12: :English: "Truth is One, though the Sages know it as Many."
15: ... self-realization. Thus, Hindu thought distinguishes itself by strongly encouraging tolerance for diff... - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
1: ... which at its greatest extent included much of [[Mesoamerica]].
3: ...], approximately 40 [[kilometre|km]] (about 25 miles) northeast of [[Mexico City]], which covers a tot...
5: ...i'wakan''] in [[Nahuatl]], with the accent on the syllable ''wa'', and by normal Nahuatl orthographic conven...
7: ... the city is unknown. Recently the glyph that represents the city has been translated as "The place of...
9: ...red to as ''[[Tollan]]'', a name also used centuries later for the [[Toltec]] capital of [[Tula, Hidal... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...tive and often controversial or dubious, but it does not interfere with the above definition.
5: ...ssey]]'' and the [[Constitution of the United States]], all fall within this definition of a kind of l...
7: ...ationalistic]] implications. The [[Western canon|Western Canon]] forms one such literature.
9: ...posed of letters, or other narrowly defined examples of symbolic written language ([[hieroglyph]]s, fo...
11: ... all literate people perceive the works of [[Charles Dickens]] as "literature", whereas many tend to l... - Aymara language (3573 bytes)
1: ...er> <small>Help wikipedia by translating [[http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lengua_aymara Spanish article]...
3: ...one of only a handful of [[Native American languages]] with over a million speakers, and it is one of ...
5: ...t of prolonged interaction between the two languages or an [[areal feature (linguistics)|areal feature...
11: ...l]]s ({{IPA|/a i u/}}, which distinguish two degrees of length. The high vowels are lowered to mid hei...
15: Stress is usually on the penult (the syllable before the last one), but long vowels may shift i...
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