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- Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ... culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ... public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ...onstitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is in...
22: ...expected, this book upset many Westerners when it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt s... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she la...
5: ... it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...o make a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freihei...
9: ...technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the st...
13: ...f her using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in c... - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ...ogether with his father and uncle, was one of the first Westerners to travel the [[Silk Road]] to [[Ch...
3: ==The first voyage==
5: ...arco. His father and his uncle Maffeo (also ''Maffio'') were prosperous merchants in the East trade. ...
16: ...ion and attracted crowds of listeners, who had difficulties in believing their reports of distant Chin...
21: ...bed, a priest begged Marco to confess that he had lied in his stories. Marco refused, insisting, "I have... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the relatively passive ...
7: ... [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Car...
11: ... East was always be too long and difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic ...
15: ...cient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time giving European sailors some idea of the ... - Germany (46412 bytes)
15: ...List of national anthems|National anthem]]: [[Das Lied der Deutschen]]<br>3rd stanza (''Einigkeit und Re...
19: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[German language|German]]<s...
35: |'''Formation<br>Unification/reunification<br><br><br>'''
51: ...e|Romany]] and [[Frisian language|Frisian]] are officially recognised and protected as minority langua...
62: ...sand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in [[1871]], when... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...d to the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] and he was the first player to hit over 30, 40 and 50 home runs in ...
4: ...oaring Twenties]]'' as the fan base expanded significantly and triggered major expansion of nearly all...
9: ... working with him for countless hours on hitting, fielding and later, pitching.
10: ...ng front, holding up bat, in baseball uniform, on field]]
14: ... On [[April 22]], [[1914]] "The Babe" pitched his first professional game, a six-hit, 6-0 victory over... - Old wives' tale (4347 bytes)
10: ..., but they do not contain enough to make any significant difference. This tale started in the [[Second...
25: ...this old wives' tale, in its modern, pseudoscientific version, is still prevalent.
30: ...ture of the wound. Any deep wound that heals over first at the surface can result in an infection prot...
35: *A pimple on your tongue means that you have lied.
45: ...your [[eyelids]] keep on blinking, something significant (either good or bad) is going to happen to yo... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
3: ...re not independent states but nevertheless have official anthems, are ''italicized''.
117: ...Republic of]]||[[The March of the Volunteers]] (official)
184: |[[Ethiopia]]||[[Whedefit Gesgeshi Woude Henate Ethiopia]] (March Forward,...
194: |[[Fiji]]||[[God Bless Fiji]]
196: |[[Finland]]||[[Maamme|Maamme/V岴 land]] (Our Land) - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...bious, but it does not interfere with the above definition.
5: ...on of the United States]], all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
9: ... of text composed of letters, or other narrowly defined examples of symbolic written language ([[hiero...
11: ...iction]] (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also become excluded from consideration...
21: ...h, poetry as a form of literature makes some significant use of the ''formal'' properties of the words... - Domitian (8530 bytes)
15: ... [[consul]]ships and several priesthoods but no office with ''[[imperium]]''. During the reign of his ...
19: ...e of Rome]] in 64 and the civil war of 69. Around fifty new buildings were erected and restored, inclu...
21: ...a died in [[91]] during an [[abortion]], being deified afterwards. After this, Domitia Longina was rec...
23: ...rtant innovations like female and dwarf gladiator fights.
25: ...o I Minervia|Legio I ''Minervia'']] in [[82]], to fight against Chatti. - Al Gore (43430 bytes)
9: ! Term of Office:
50: ...lizabeth Aitcheson ([[Tipper Gore]]), whom he had first met many years before at his high school senio...
61: ...'s mother was a member of Vanderbilt Law School's first class to accept women.
65: ...px|Gore served as a field reporter in Vietnam for five months.]]
68: ...listed at the [[Newark, New Jersey]] recruiting office. - European-influenced classical music (18917 bytes)
14: ...ic music|Romantic]], 1815-1910 a period which codified practice, expanded the role of music in cultura...
18: ...r modern. So for example, [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]'s ''Classical Symphony'' is considered a Neo-...
20: ...period, and by [[Brahms]], who is generally classified as Romantic.
35: ...her lyrical content -- in the classical song or ''Lied'', the music is an equal partner to the text -- o...
49: ... draws a distinction between classics and popular fiction that is not always easy to maintain.
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