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- Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ...nland, it had perhaps been inhabited by the [[Dorset people]]). Born in the Jaeder district of south-w...
4: ...nd. This event led him and a group of follwers to travel to the lands nearly 500 miles west of Iceland- la...
6: ...r conditions were more conducive to travel, each settlement would send a band of men to hunt in [[Disk...
8: ...Erik was both greatly respected and wealthy. The settlement venture involved twenty-five [[ship]]s, fo...
10: The settlement flourished, growing to over 3000 inhabitan... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ... third voyage). However, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: le...
21: ...ni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchinetta.
29: ...portunity to sail into the Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off th...
31: ...maker in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...rpassing that of his prior, near-contemporary and traveller [[Marco Polo]].
4: ...bn Batuda''' or '''ibn Battutah'''. He is also sometimes known by the appellation '''Shams ad-Din''', ...
6: ...onal in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the world ...
8: ...ful, but in many others there is no way to know whether he is reporting or story-telling. The followin...
10: ==The Hajj (with detours)== - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ... machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufacture of more prod...
3: ... [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[internal combust...
5: ... of the world. The impact of this change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Ne...
10: ...ernational [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capi...
12: ...ritain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often impo... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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21: ...illed in a shootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after.
37: *President Barack Obama meets with Donald Trump before his inauguration
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48: - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (né¥ [[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
6: ...rican Civil Rights Movement]] and worked as a secretary for the [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[...
14: ...965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
25: ...n [[interstate commerce]], such as interstate bus travel. The Rosa Parks case is considered ''the'' landma...
27: ...legal challenge to segregation laws (''see [[Claudette Colvin]] and [[Mary Louise Smith]]''). The sele... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...mother, Anne Laisney, a Frenchwoman. Her parents met in [[Bilbao, Spain]] during her father's stay the...
5: ...heritance that brought her there, Tristá® wrote a travel diary about her experiences in [[Peru]] during th...
13: ...ttp://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/Tristan.htm Complete Biography] - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...ment that valued education. Her parents believed travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years o...
8: ...int copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
16: She met [[Edgar Degas]] in [[1874]], and he invited her t...
21: ... portrayed in intimate relationship and domestic settings.
29: ...he stopped painting because of near blindness. Nonetheless, she took up the cause of [[women's suffrag... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: ...intings of desert flowers, which are often interpreted as [[Yoni|yonic]] symbols. Her mature style str...
8: ...z was especially impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
12: ...e and often in ill health, was uncomfortable with travel. Her trips west gave her the solitude she require...
19: * [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/okeeffe_g.html ''America... - Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq (1019 bytes)
3: ...nited States]]. After permission was granted, she travelled to [[Texas]], where she spent 10 months traini... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: '''Clarissa Harlowe Barton''' (better known as '''Clara Barton''') ([[December 25]],...
6: ...to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Massachusetts]]. Her father, Captain Stephen Barton, was a fa...
8: As a child, Clara was a shy and retiring little girl, but at the age of 11, when her ...
12: ...need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the st...
14: ...Clinton, New York, where she studied analytic geometry, calculus, astronomy, mathematics and natural s... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ...ave not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, "I am ascending to My Father...
8: ...New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem.
12: ... manuscripts were first discovered and published between [[1938]] and [[1983]], but as early as the [[...
14: ...s and made us into men." She then delivers - at Peter's request - a vision of the Savior she has had,...
16: Her vision does not meet with universal approval: - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...irst marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]]...
9: ...ions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was ...
11: ...r cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's aunt and of the a...
13: ...reason. Several versions exist as to why the Musketeers were viewed by the exile Poles and the Britis...
15: ...cusers might have understood, had they known her better — with which she had managed in [[Istanb... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
6: Hillary Rodham was raised in a [[Methodist]] family in [[Park Ridge, Illinois]]. Her ...
10: ... Nixon|Richard M. Nixon]]. It was then that she met Bernard Nussbaum, who would become the future Whi...
23: ... $1,000 investment generated $100,000 (a 10,000% return) [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politic...
27: ...nd losses were common in the volatile futures market.
31: ...ougals also operated a [[savings and loan]] that retained Hillary Clinton's legal services at Rose Law... - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
12: ...ately [[1 E0 m|7 and a half metres]] long (25 [[feet]]) and consists of the following components:
13: ...cludes [[salivary glands]], [[mucosa]], [[tooth|teeth]] and [[tongue]])
33: ...o the small intestine. Both these [[secretion|secretory]] organs aid in [[digestion]].
35: == The process of digestion and excretion ==
39: ...echanically broken down in the [[mouth]] by the teeth and tongue, and slightly chemically broken down ... - Eye (21834 bytes)
1: ...hich may be placed on the same plane to be interpreted as a single [[three-dimensional]] "image" ([[bi...
3: == Varieties of eyes ==
9: ...a light-sensitive [[retina]], where the light is detected and signals are transmitted to the [[brain]]...
11: ...[[arthropod]]s and are composed of many simple facets which give a pixelated image (not multiple image...
15: ... an image onto these cells. They can distinguish between light and dark (day and night), but no more. ... - Pituitary gland (3020 bytes)
3: ...gland secretes [[hormone]]s regulating a wide variety of bodily activities, including [[trophic hormon...
5: ... releases the hormones [[oxytocin]] and [[antidiuretic hormone]] (ADH).
7: ...us, including TRH, CRH, DA, GnRH, and GHRH, which travel to the anterior lobe by way of a special capillar...
9: ...In adult humans it is just a thin layer of cells between the anterior and posterior pituitary, nearly ...
19: * The conversion of food into [[energy]] ([[metabolism]]) - Back (949 bytes)
4: * '''Back''' can also refer to the direction of travel exactly opposite the current [[movement]].
10: ...''The Backs''' (in the plural and with a capital letter) means the area behind the main colleges, alon... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
6: ...stern Europe]], its territories were entered and settled by succeeding waves of "[[barbarian]]" tribal...
8: ...as often fast and dramatic as it became unsafe to travel or carry goods over any distance and there was a ...
12: ...hristian influences, produced a new model for society. The centralised administrative systems of the R...
14: ...ng, and a centralised administration through its network of [[bishop]]s. The Early Middle Ages are cha...
16: ...ntities, as strong rulers sought to eliminate competition (and potential threat to their rule) from po...
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