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- Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
3: ...tradition that flourished in [[ancient Greece]] between c. 600 and c. 200 BC. The [[polis]] of [[Athe...
9: ...renzied [[improvisation]]s. In the 600s BC, the poet [[Arion]] is credited with developing the dithyra...
13: ... The centerpiece of the annual Dionysia was a competition among three playwrights at the [[Theater of ...
17: Only four playwrights from this period have complete plays that survive extant. All are from Athens....
29: [[Tragedy]] and [[comedy]] were viewed as completely separate genres, and no plays ever merged aspe... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
1: ...nd 1403.png|frame|[[Seal (device)|Seal]] of Margaret I of Denmark 1381 and 1403]]
2: '''Margaret I''' Queen of Denmark and Norway, Regent of Swede...
4: ...always found in [[Schleswig-Holstein]], and Margaret, free from all fear of domestic sedition, could n...
6: ... prisoner at [[Aasle]] near [[Falk?g]], and Margaret was now the omnipotent mistress of three kingdoms...
8: ...argaret I of Denmark 1390.png|thumb|Seal of Margaret I of Denmark 1390]] - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...rt]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
8: ... modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
12: ...; the incident started a war and caused conflict between Eleanor and Louis. She insisted on taking par...
14: ...militaristic aims would jeopardize the tenuous safety of his empire. A particularly poor decision was ...
16: ... until the attack. Failing in this attempt, they retired to Jerusalem, and then home. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the r...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, ...
15: ...ut [[Duke of Albany]], a royal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died bef...
24: ...rd to the altar and put her gently in the throne set up there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep h...
28: ...child's head, where it rested on a circlet of velvet. The Cardinal steadied the crown and Lord Livings... - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
7: ...rtone Girl]], and then went on to appear in a variety of television series. She starred as Addie Pray ...
24: *''[[The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys]]'' (2002) (also producer)
68: *[http://jodie-online.net Jodie-Online.net] - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[A...
5: She was born '''Greta Lovisa Gustafsson''' in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]...
8: ...her. He cast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...Berling''). He also gave her the [[stage name]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] a... - Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
3: ...y illuminated manuscripts were rolls or single sheets. A very few illuminated manuscript fragments su...
10: ...bible.arp.jpg|thumb|250px|An illuminated capital letter P in a Bible of 1407AD, on display in Malmesbu...
11: ... P in the Malmesbury Bible. The script is [[blackletter]], also known as Gothic script.]]
13: ...d "[[book of hours|books of hours]]" made, which set down prayers appropriate for various times in the...
16: ...nuscript, the text was usually written first. Sheets of [[vellum parchment|vellum]], animal hides spe... - Vietnam (18265 bytes)
1: The '''Socialist Republic of Vietnam''' is a country in [[Southeast Asia]]. Situate...
2: {{Vietnam infobox}}
4: ''Main article: [[History of Vietnam|History of Vietnam]]''
6: ...ountries. Tensions quickly escalated into the [[Vietnam War]]. The war continued until the [[Paris Pe...
8: ...revented the United States from defending South Vietnam. [[Fall of Saigon|Saigon fell]] in April [[197... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...43_W.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 paintin...
2: ...f the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
4: ...asilica also holds a relic of the ''[[Cathedra]] Petri'', the episcopal throne of the basilica's names...
7: ...atican Council convened in the Basilica of Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by...
8: ...n this exact spot, which had previously been a cemetery for pagans as well as Christians. - Medieval architecture (3180 bytes)
6: ...sembling a plus sign), centering attention on the altar at the ''center'' of the church.
16: ...edrals to rise taller than ever, and it became something of an inter-regional contest to built a churc...
35: * [[jettying]], in which the faces of upper floors projec... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
3: ...she was known as [[Diana (goddess)|Diana]]. In [[Etruscan mythology]], she took the form of [[Artume]...
11: ...the [[Acts of the Apostles]], where the Ephesian metalsmiths who feel threatened by Paul's preaching o...
15: ...irginity (toys, dolls, locks of their hair) on an altar to Artemis.
37: ...hplace on [[Mount Cynthus]] on [[Delos]]. She sometimes used the name [[Phoebe]], the feminine form o...
41: ...on the island of [[Ortygia]] and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birt... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
1: ....jpg|300px|right|thumb|Saint Peter, portrayed by Peter Paul Rubens in a papal chasuble and pallium hol...
2: ...]s do not use the title of saint in reference to Peter as a matter of doctrine against [[canonization]...
4: ... the grottoes underneath the [[Basilica of Saint Peter]] in [[Vatican City]]. He is often depicted in...
7: ...[Image:Stpeter statue.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Saint Peter is usually depicted in art holding the keys to ...
8: ... name Peter. When the Bible lists the Apostles, Peter is always listed first, and [[Judas Iscariot]] ... - Pope Eutychian (1004 bytes)
1: ...lixtus]] (see Kraus, ''Roma sotterranea'', p. 154 et seq.), but almost nothing more is known of him. E...
3: ...e allowed the blessing of grapes and beans on the altar and to have buried 324 martyrs with his own hands... - Pope Boniface IV (5099 bytes)
7: ...] and placed in a porphyry basin beneath the high altar.
9: ...he council now extant are spurious. The letter to Ethelbert (in [[William of Malmesbury]], De Gest. Po...
11: ...ombards|King]] of the [[Lombards]], to address a letter on the condemnation of the "[[Three-Chapter Co...
15: ...ncil and prove his orthodoxy. Despite Columban's letter, it seems not to have disturbed in the least h...
17: ...th]] under [[Boniface VIII]], and to the new St. Peter's on [[21 October]], [[1603]]. - Pope Theodore I (1731 bytes)
3: ...heodore was buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]. - Donatello (10376 bytes)
3: '''Donatello''' ('''Donato di Niccolo Betto Bardi''') ([[1386]] - [[December 13]], [[1466]]...
7: ...rti]]'s studio. He was too young to enter the competition for the North [[Baptistery (Florence)|Baptis...
10: ...bly conceived in relation to their architectural setting. In fact, so strong is this tendency that the...
14: ...its bald head), ''Jeremiah'', and an unknown prophet who is supposed to bear the features of the human...
16: ...o find its mature expression in the panels of the altar of [[San Antonio]] in [[Padua]] and of the pulpit... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
9: ...le, which owes nothing to Italian models; and he returned to [[Brussels]], where he died.
15: ... van Eyck's in its direct emotionality and his sometimes melodramatic composition. But his handling o...
19: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1443]]), Sint-Pieterskerk, [[Leuven]], [[Belgium]]
25: * the ''Altar-piece of St John'', Berlin Museum
35: ...al figures at least, though Memling may have completed the picture. - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
2: The '''Ancient Olympic Games''' were an athletic and religious celebration held in the [[Greece|...
10: ...ople from war in the [[9th century BC]]. The prophetess advised him to organise games in honour of the...
19: ...anctuary of Zeus in Olympia housed a [[1 E1 m|12 metre]]s high [[Statue of Zeus at Olympia|statue in i...
23: ...about [[1 E2 m|190 metre]]s, measured after the feet of Hercules.
25: ...ames, using the term ''Olympiad'' for the period between two Games. - Zeus (17267 bytes)
13: ...igion|religious]] beliefs and the [[archetype|archetypal]] Greek deity.
23: ...here featured the famous Games. There was also an altar to Zeus made not of stone, but of ash - from the ...
25: ...as well: sacrificing a white animal over a raised altar, for instance.
32: ====Cretan Zeus====
33: ...itary-athletic training and secret rites of the Cretan [[paideia]]. - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...[447 BC]] and the building was substantially completed by [[438 BC]], but work on the decorations cont...
11: ...e curves is to make the temple look even more symmetrical than it actually is.
13: ...etres on the east and west ends, and of 110 millimetres on the sides.
19: ...r possession of the land of [[Attica]]. [[Metope|Metopes]] ran along the outer frieze of all four side...
23: ...ient [[Greek temple]]s appeals to the modern aesthetic, the Parthenon, like all ancient buildings, was...
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