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- Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: A wide variety of [[religion]]s have been practiced in [[China]...
5: ...ncepts of a sacred and sometimes spiritual world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a...
7: ...ountries, Chinese belief systems allow for [[syncretism]] and it is common to profess a belief in mult...
11: ... be a [[deity]], but rather someone who mediated between the forces of heaven and earth. A central ide...
35: ... of Chinese, predominantly such [[list of Chinese ethnic groups|minority groups]] as the [[Hui people|... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
6: ...d it, and the marriage was arranged. Jeanne d'Albret died before the marriage was concluded.
12: ...iculties, Queen Marguerite master-minded a coup d'etat and seized power over [[Agen]], one of her appe...
16: ...ond wife, [[Marie de' Medici]], Queen Marguerite returned to Paris and established herself as a mentor... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...thods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]].
8: ... Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious in...
14: ...f science brought him to the conclusion that the methods (and thus the results) were erroneous. His re...
16: ... Paris. The disturbed state of government and society in [[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry ... - New Year (5703 bytes)
9: ...013]]. After the year [[2089]], the differences between the Hebrew Calendar and the Gregorian Calenda...
11: ... the [[winter]]. The exact date can fall anytime between [[January 21]] and [[February 21]], inclusive...
20: *The [[Vietnam]]ese New Year is the [[T괝] Nguyen Dan. It is...
22: *The [[Ethiopia|Ethiopian]] New Year, Timkat, is celebrated on [[Sep...
35: ...e introduction of the [[Gregorian calendar]] in [[1582]]. Annunciation Style continued to be used in [[E... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...[[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [[1752]], January 1 ...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
15: ...nce|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
18: ...reat Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
4: ...have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes...
6: ...taly]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus...
21: ...wspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint Peter</small>
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...]] ([[New Style|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[poet]] and [[playwright]], has a reputation as the gre...
4: ...hievement is not confined to his mastery of the poetic and dramatic form; his ability to capture and c...
6: Shakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dat...
12: ...Shakespeare{{fn|1}}—actor, playwright and poet—was one individual whose life can be clearl...
14: ...3]] as his birthday. It provides a convenient symmetry: he died on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps ... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...er]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause ...
9: ...may have been disguised [[Hermes Trismegistus|Hermetic]] tracts. The writings attributed to [[Hermes T...
17: ...re jointly known as his "Italian dialogues." In [[1582]], Bruno penned a play summarizing some of his co...
19: In [[1583]], he went to [[England]] with letters of recommendation from Henry III. He sought a...
21: ... whose reports to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spy master, have been found in surviving recor... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...device, but '''every''' multi-[[conductor]] [[geometry]] has '''capacitance'''.
18: ...plate and inversely proportional to the distance between the plates. It is also proportional to the [[...
45: ...and the higher the cost. [[Tolerance]]s for discrete capacitors are usually specified such as 5 or 10...
47: ...d into two broad categories: bulk insulators and metal-oxide films (so-called ''electrolytic capacitor...
52: *Ceramic:The main differences between ceramic dielectric types are the temperature ... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
4: ... [[Ides of March]] was the catalyst for a second set of civil wars, which marked the end of the [[Roma...
6: ...life are recorded by later historians such as [[Suetonius]], [[Plutarch]], and [[Dio Cassius|Cassius D...
15: ...he dangers of letting Caesar live. According to Suetonius, the dictator in relenting on Caesar’s...
17: ...us, he played a pivotal role in the siege of [[Miletus]]. During the course of the battle Caesar showe...
19: ...ability to speak better than Caesar?" Aiming at rhetorical perfection, Caesar traveled to [[Rhodes]] i... - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
11: mayor = [[Bart Peterson]] |
12: area = 966.3 [[square kilometre|km²]] (373.1 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
17: metro pop = 1.5 million |
22: west_coord = 86.1582 |
29: ...ny|German]] architect [[Bruno Schmitz]], was completed on the site in [[1901]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
29: ...(mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
59: *[[John Bainbridge]] ([[Britain]], [[1582]] – [[1643]])
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – ) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Ballet (9155 bytes)
3: ...g extensions. Many [[Glossary_of_ballet_terms|Ballet techniques]] bear a striking similarity to [[fenc...
5: ...d to establish [[Italy]] as a major centre of ballet development.
7: == History of ballet ==
9: ...ry of the Louvre. (folio, Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1582.)]]
11: ...y dances. Lully soon branched out into op鲡-ballet, and a school to train professional dancers was a... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ... capital was [[Tenochtitlan]], built on raised islets in [[Lake Texcoco]] – the site of modern-d...
9: ...mselves as Mexica ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: {{IPA|[meˈʃihkah]}}) or ''Tenochca'' and...
17: ...]], is a term of uncertain origin. Very different etymologies are proposed: the old [[Nahuatl]] word f...
19: ...an "navel of the [[maguey]]" using the Nahuatl ''metl'' and the locative "co".
22: ...opean history. Like most European empires, it was ethnically very diverse, but unlike most European em... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...goal of alchemy is the [[transmutation]] of any metal into either [[gold]] or [[silver]].
2: ...try prior to the formulation of the [[scientific method]].
7: ==Etymology==
8: ...cient Egypt through what linguists term a "[[folk etymology]]."
13: ...t would have been as partial and incomplete as a metaphysics devoid of physical manifestation. So the ... - April Fool's Day (15510 bytes)
4: ... It is (unreliably) said that being fooled by a pretty girl will be compensated by marriage to, or at ...
6: ...rience good luck in most matters, but will only meet with disaster when it comes to gambling.
9: ...nd last for a week, hence ending on 1 April. In [[1582]], King [[Charles IX of France]] brought in the n...
12: ...pril Fool's Day custom may be vulnerable to Internet hoaxes.
15: ...come an annual pastime. The advent of the [[Internet]] as a worldwide communications medium has also a... - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
20: | [[periodic table series|Series]] || [[metalloid]]s
26: | 5727 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], 3.5
29: | align="center" | metallic grey<br />[[Image:As,33.jpg|125px|]]
35: | [[Atomic radius]] (calc.) || 115 (114) [[picometre|pm]]
61: ...ntific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre per mole|m<sup>3</sup>/mol]]
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