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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
7: ...verything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period of the early [[20th century]].
12: ...g the most important were [[Heraclitus]] ("All is fire", all is [[chao]]tic and transitory), [[Anaxago...
14: ...ssing popular philosophical questions. The theory fills in the blanks by saying that the Sophists' stu...
16: ...terchangeably, was destroying the piety and moral fiber of the city.
20: ...hilosopher kings. In the later dialogues Socrates figures less prominently, and the Theory of Forms is... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
23: ...ions are thought to have marched to bagpipes. The idea of taking a leather bag and combining it with a c...
25: Where they were first introduced to [[Britain]] and [[Ireland]] is d...
27: ...at the funerals of high-ranking civilian public officials as well.
42: ... was often termed the [[Irish Warpipes]]. This configuration can also be found having been played in S...
45: ... birls. These are used for emphasis on, say, the first beat of a bar, or just as a more musical way t... - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...tory characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war ...
7: ...t of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
16: ... [[Qing dynasty]], although being continually redefined while the central political influence expanded...
21: ...he ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
22: ...empire. Three are with the Man and Yi barbarians. Five are in ''Zhongguo''." - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
11: ...between the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dynastic cycle]] was that an unjust impe...
42: Some consider the first entry of [[Christianity]] into China was the i...
46: The first [[Jesuit]] attempt to reach China was made in ...
50: ...s to China. The book ''[[The Small Woman]]'' and film ''[[Inn of the Sixth Happiness]]'' tell the sto...
52: ...[[Cultural Revolution]], and there remains some official harassment in the form of arrests and interro... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the...
29: Elizabeth made her first official visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompan... - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
11: ...usalem|Baldwin V]], Sibylla's infant son from her first marriage, and if Baldwin V should die, the que...
19: ...y their princess; Isabella herself encouraged the idea. King Richard preferred this marriage, despite Hu...
21: ...' wife on the same night, maintaining that he had first right to the dead man's wife. She was pregnant... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...tion of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]. ...
19: ... existing government. The idea seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La ...
25: ...this may be added that she was ever ready to sacrifice the prejudices of the woman to the duty of the ...
29: ...Sweden ceded to Russia all the southern part of [[Finland]] east of the river Kymmene, which thus beca...
39: ...lness of the empress, which began with a fainting-fit at [[Tsarskoe Selo]] (September 19, 1757), nor t... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ...]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] of [[Charles, Prince of Wales|HRH The...
15: ... [[beauty]], admired and emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the internat...
22: ...encer|Edward Spencer, Viscount Althorp]], and his first wife, [[Frances Shand Kydd|Frances Spencer, Vi...
24: ...efly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[Switzerland]]...
30: ...nd Protestant. Diana fulfilled all of these qualifications. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but compl...
6: ...d]], and Ferdinand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ...as considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
15: ...eing going on intermittently since [[1494]] would finally end. [[Louis XV]]'s heir was his grandson, L...
22: ...ing, Marie-Antoinette was presented with the magnificent jewels which traditionally belonged to a Fren... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active sup...
5: ...]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive...
9: ...marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost...
11: Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed. They descended from [[C...
15: ...ok returned and lived in the White House with the first family in [[1940]]. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ..., in which case she was born in 1870. She was the fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber tra...
10: ...[[Zurich University]], along with other socialist figures such as [[Anatoli Lunacharsky]] and [[Leo Jo...
19: ...tic Party of Germany]] (SPD), where she sharply defined the border between her faction and the [[Revis...
25: ...]] she took part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladi...
27: ...her students was the later leader of the SPD, the first president of the [[Weimar Republic]] [[Friedri... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
6: ...ng, but it was really only an aspect of the clear idea that drove her actions: she was determined to rem...
8: Returning to Paris, she became a popular figure in the [[salon]]s, and her own drawing room b...
14: ...was a friend of Jean-Baptiste [[Racine]], another first-class French playwright. Later she would beco...
16: Ninon de l'Enclos is a relatively obscure figure in the English-speaking world, but is much be... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
21: ...as four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
50: ... in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any...
52: ...Using the idea of everything belonging to a whole field and mattering equally, as well as each being h... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ... Letters to her by her pupil [[Synesius]] give an idea of her intellectual milieu. She was [[murder]]ed...
8: ...ne side, and dogmatic Christians who demanded the final destruction of paganism on the other. Hypatia...
14: ...dogma, which may also relate to the difficulty of finding accurate contemporary information about Hypa...
18: Theories, without sufficient data, (in the ancient world it is common for...
22: ... of Christianity than the allowance of massacres, fights, and transactions of that sort. This happened... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...portant contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]]...
5: ...], as [[Home Secretary]] in 1916. He was also the first High Commissioner (effectively governor) for t...
8: ...ork helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in p...
12: ...iday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been taken over b...
15: ...mented that 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or so ye... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...he [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming langua...
3: ...o subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her d...
5: ...Aiken]] on the [[Mark I Calculator]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end ...
7: ... The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were rele...
9: ... IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language that... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
5: ...was a woman she was not allowed to work on scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in ...
7: ...f is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
9: ...nother. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go cloc... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...War]], drew on the most advanced [[19th century]] ideas about [[psychiatric]] treatment to successfully ...
4: ...st, beginning her career as a reformer before the first woman graduated from a U.S. [[medical school]]...
6: ... the [[Massachusetts]] legislature to obtain an official inspection commission.
10: ...quite [[clinical depression|depressed]]. It is difficult to speculate about the reasons for her declin...
12: ... United states she brought an enthusiasm for this idea with her. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
6: ...[corsets]], were not healthy and advocated looser fitting clothing.
10: ...e Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U.S. Army Surgeon.
12: ...r the medal, specifically for her services at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas).
16: ...eal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own hea...
18: ...ereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary ...
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