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- Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
10: ...ge]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc when she first heard her call; [[Michael (archangel)|Saint Mi...
12: ...ks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a success...
14: ...esus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of t...
16: ...April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from [[May 4]]–[[May 7]],... - Iconography (7643 bytes)
2: ...onography''' is the traditional art of portraying figures in pigment that [[symbolism|symbolically]] m...
4: ...(the drums of change, the flower of new life, the fire of destruction, etc.). The many heads, eyes, fe...
6: ...have nothing to do with the photographic paper or film but rather the persons and events depicted. It ...
8: ...mbolism]], [[Eastern Orthodox]] theologians often find it useful to refer to a particular [[icon]] whe...
11: ...y his hair. The wings of [[angel]]s (a symbol for messenger), the wheel on which [[Catherine of Alexandria|St... - Horus (19927 bytes)
8: ... [[Nekhen]] (city of the hawk), that became identified as Horus very early on.
10: ...d to be the father of these four ''children'', deifications of the jars, known as the [[Four sons of H...
12: ...ba'' (i.e. ''lord of the perch'' or ''lord of the finger''), a form in which he was especially worship...
21: ... Horus of the two horizons''. However, this identification proved to be awkward, for it made Ra the so...
23: ...casionaly shown in [[art]] as a naked boy, with a finger in his mouth, sitting on a [[lotus]] with his... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...4 to 5.5 in [[apparent magnitude]]; Mercury is sufficiently "close" to the Sun that [[telescope]]s rar...
5: ... the planet as the ''Water Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
16: ...d earlier terrain. In addition, Mercury has "significant" [[tidal bulge]]s, raised by the [[Sun]] (the...
18: Mercury's terrain features are officially listed as the following:
28: ...2% of the planetary [[volume]] (Earth's core only fills 17%). Surrounding the core is a 600 km [[mantl... - Cell (biology) (28190 bytes)
3: The [[cell theory]], first developed in the [[19th century]], states that...
18: *[[traffic (locational)|Traffic]] of [[vesicle (biology)|vesicle]]s.
21: ...he cells of eukaryotes and prokaryotes.''' - This figure illustrates a typical human cell (''eukaryote...
25: Cells can also be classified into two categories based on their internal str...
27: ...the [[three-domain system]] of [[scientific classification]], prokaryotic cells are placed in the doma... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aristotle]]. In additio...
7: ...rsity of Pisa]], but was forced to "drop out" for financial reasons. However, he was offered a positio...
10: ...losophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science....
18: ...ise entitled ''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]'' (''Sidereal Messenger'').
20: ...humb|200px|right|It was on this page that Galileo first noted an observation of the [[natural satellit... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
9: ... the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
14: ...se atmosphere, the temperature does not vary significantly between the night and day sides of Venus de...
18: ...se clouds is approximately −45°C. The official mean surface temperature of Venus, as given b...
27: ...nundate its surface with fresh lava. Other recent findings suggest that Venus is still volcanically ac...
29: .... This may be due to its slow rotation being insufficient to drive an internal [[dynamo]] of liquid ir... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
12: ... ''International Year of [[Deserts]] and [[Desertification]]''
26: ...y 15]] - First round of the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 2006|presidential ele...
27: ...nd round (if needed) of the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 2006|presidential ele...
28: ...uary 5]] - [[Super Bowl XL]] to be held at [[Ford Field]] in [[Detroit, Michigan]]
39: ...[April 1]] to [[April 3]] - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the [[RCA Dome]] in [[India... - DNA (29095 bytes)
1: ...:DNAhelixSpaceFilling.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule]]
14: ... field you don't master ''only'' contained scientific data -- that would be frustrating, wouldn't it?
35: ... by English geneticist [[Alec Jeffries]], and was first used in [[1986]] in the [[Enderby murders]] ca...
45: ...ssociate through the [[hydrophobic effect]]. Specificity of which strands stay associated is determine...
53: filename = DNA rotating animation.gif | - Pope Liberius (2335 bytes)
1: ... affairs of [[Athanasius of Alexandria]]; but his messenger [[Vincentius of Capua]] was compelled by the empe...
5: ...emperor recalled him; but, as the Roman See was officially occupied by Antipope Felix, a year passed b... - Pope Gregory III (1999 bytes)
1: ...pe Gregory II|Gregory II]] in March 731. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed ...
4: ..., and excommunicating destroyers of icons. When a messenger carrying the decrees reached the Emperor the latt...
6: ...ne]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]. He also beautified Rome and supported [[monasticism]]. - Pope Paul I (2040 bytes)
1: ...rom [[May 29]], [[757]]- [[June 28]], [[767]]. He first appears as a [[Rome|Roman]] deacon and was fre...
5: ...er of exactly opposite tenor was sent by the same messenger. Pepin found it advisable to maintain good relati... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
3: ...ther to study the law--a pursuit in which he lost five of the best years of his life. Allowed at last ...
6: ...e just compensation for the poet's running like a messenger, with the work of his life yet to accomplish, at ...
12: ...er. Yet it is said that Ariosto's government satisfied both the sovereign and the people given over to...
16: In [[1516]], the first version of the [[Orlando Furioso]] in thirty c...
18: The third and final version of the ''Orlando Furioso'', in forty-s... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
15: ...he [[Allies]] ultimately defeated Germany. In the final days of the war, [[Hitler's death|Hitler died]...
20: ...s Hitler]] ([[1837]]–[[1903]]), a customs official, and [[Klara P?]], Alois' niece and third wif...
24: ...h ancestors. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitler they were reason enough to concea...
25: ...d; however, in sixth grade (1900–1901), his first year of high school (''Realschule'') in Linz, ...
27: ... the boy to follow him in a career as a customs official, although Adolf wanted to become a painter. T... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
12: ...xpedition, but Cortés' brother-in-law killed the messenger and told him what the letter said. Thus warned, C...
15: ...he king. Cortés applies the classical rhetorical figure of evidentia as he crafts a powerful narrativ...
18: ...[La Malinche]]," later made legendary in book and film (even if she was not, as conquistador Bernal Di...
22: ...tory, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico''.) Finally, some assert that the myth was a fabrication...
27: ...s, broadswords, battle axes, horses, war dogs and firearms quickly won the battle. Cortés said that i... - Islam (36809 bytes)
10: ...h they believe to be flawless, immutable, and the final revelation of [[God]]. Muslims believe that p...
12: ...efinitive text of the Muslim faith) codifying the final revelation of God. Islamic teaching sees [[Ju...
14: ...although Sunnis further regard this as one of the five [[pillars of Islam]].
22: #Belief in all the Prophets and Messengers (sent by God).
29: ...His Scriptures; and in His Messengers; and in The Final Day; and in Fate, that Good and Evil are from ... - Siachen glacier (3348 bytes)
7: ...ration [[Meghdoot]] (named after the divine cloud messenger in a [[Sanskrit]] play) was launched on 13 April ...
10: ...s are killed because of severe weather than enemy firing. Both the sides have lost close to 4,000 pers...
12: ...[President of India]], [[Abdul Kalam]] became the first head of state to visit the area. - Aztec mythology (10599 bytes)
6: *[[Amimitl]] - god of lakes and fishermen
13: *[[Camaxtli]] - god of hunting, war, fate and fire
19: ...] - a god of the underworld, [[Mictlan]] and sacrifices
21: *[[Chantico]] - the goddess of hearth fires, personal treasure, and volcanoes
37: ...utechuhtli'') - an ancient god of the hearth, the fire of life. Associated with the pole star and the ... - Hyksos (23575 bytes)
2: ...is]], and formed the [[Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt|Fifteenth]] and [[Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt|Sixteen...
4: Traditionally, only the six Fifteenth Dynasty rulers are called "Hyksos". The [[...
6: ... to support their new overlords. The names of the Fifteenth Dynasty Hyksos are known from Egyptian mon...
9: ...hey bear Egyptian royal titles, but they are specifically called Hyksos by Manetho. It is generally a...
11: ...is period. However, today the Hurrian hypothesis finds few if any supporters, and the Hyksos are wide... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
3: ...d the messenger from the gods to humans. A lucky find was a ''hermaion''. An interpreter who bridges ...
13: Hermēs or Mercury was commonly identified by Roman observers with the Germanic god Wotan/...
15: The modern post office in [[Greece]] uses Hermēs as its symbol.
23: Hermes as an inventor of fire is a parallel of the titan [[Prometheus]]. In a...
36: ...cattle of [[Apollo]]. For the first Olympian sacrifice, the taboos surrounding the sacred kine of Apol...
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