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- Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
1: [[Image:AlfredNobel.jpg|thumb|200px|Alfred Nobel]]
3: '''Alfred Bernhard Nobel''' ([[October 21]], [[1833]], [[...
5: ...borg]], and a disastrous one in [[1864]] killed Alfred's younger brother [[Emil Nobel|Emil]] and sever...
7: Less well-known is the fact that Alfred Nobel was also a playwright. His only play (''[...
9: Alfred Nobel is interred in the [[Norra begravningspla...
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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: [[Image:Arthur3487.jpg|right|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate...
7: Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identif...
19: ..., chief giver of feasts, with his tall blades red from the battle which all men remember."
25: ...r's soldiers; Arthur was awarded a herd of cattle from Cadoc as [[wergeld]] for his men; Cadoc deliver...
29: ...tury]] at Cadbury Castle, and in several parts of France. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
37: ...ms, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
40: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son o...
41: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War ...
42: *[[Charles Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
14: *[[Alfred Aho|Aho, Alfred V.]], computer scientist - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
8: ...aphy|photographer]] and [[art gallery]] owner [[Alfred Stieglitz]]. Impressed by the drawings, Stiegli... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...r, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two y...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her br...
13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business. - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
1: [[Image:Julia_child.jpg|frame|right|Julia Child holds up a [[Monkfish]].]]
2: ...rench Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiered in 1963.
6: ...ood prepared by the family maid. After graduating from [[Smith College]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] d...
10: ...formation Agency | U.S. Information Agency]] in [[France]].
12: == Post-war France == - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
20: In 1944, [[Alfred Hitchcock]] cast her as journalist and cynic Co...
24: ...falling star in the Sixties. Bankhead never faded from the public eye, but was increasingly a caricatu...
26: ...ad died in New York City of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further by [[emphyse...
28: ...he was married only once, to actor [[John Emery]] from 1937-1941. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
5: ...]], the youngest of three children born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa ...
10: From [[1922]] to [[1924]], she studied at the presti...
14: [[Image:Temptress1.jpg|frame|Greta Garbo in 1926]]
23: ... "I think I'll go back to [[Sweden]]!" This would frighten the [[movie studio]] heads, who gave in to ...
35: ...]," but this never came to fruition. She withdrew from the entertainment world completely and moved to... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
9: ... to Eternity]]''. Kelly made three films with [[Alfred Hitchcock]]: ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'', ''[[Rea...
15: ...e Aumont]]. She reportedly was surprised to learn from Rainier that she was expected to give up her fi...
17: ...tle actual danger that [[Monaco]] would revert to France since, in [[1882]], a childless prince of Mon...
19: Before Grace Kelly drew Rainier's attention, French film star [[Gis謥 Pascal]] had been his love...
28: ...n an independent nation, rather than reverting to France. Due to Prince Albert's enduring bachelorhood... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ... Archie]]'') and to the production of ''[[The Boy Friend]]'' in [[1953]] (which transferred to [[Broad...
7: In [[1956]], composers [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] cast Andre...
9: ...]]'', co-starring with [[Max von Sydow]], and [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Torn Curtain]]'' with [[Paul ...
11: ....jpg|left|frame|With [[Dick van Dyke]] in a scene from the film ''Mary Poppins'']]''[[Star!]]'', a [[1...
15: ...reed to direct a [[Toronto]] revival of ''The Boy Friend'', the Broadway musical in which she made her... - Process (6114 bytes)
29: ...is a [[meta-process]] that defines rigid goals up front, and emphasizes [[scientific management]]. Som...
66: ...m known as [[process philosophy]], created by [[Alfred North Whitehead]]; related to this is [[process... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...nt]] in the [[woodwind]] family. The name derives from adding the suffix ''-et'' meaning ''little'' to...
4: Clarinets are made from specially chosen varieties of [[wood]] or, in t...
15: ...ak" notes are the clarion register, and the range from high C (with two ledger lines) to the G above t...
20: ...e major manufacturer makes professional clarinets from a composite mixture of plastic resin and wood c...
22: ...d with a complicated set of seven tone holes (six front, one back) and 17 keys which allow the full mu... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...neration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in...
24: ...1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing ...
35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis...
37: ... "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of ...
39: ...a committee with [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Robert R. Livingston]] and [[Roger She... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: '''Geology''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] γη- (''ge-''...
3: ... which includes the [[Crust (geology)|crust]], is fragmented into [[tectonic plates]] that move over a...
10: ...gical [[stratum]] in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed...
12: ...her languages of Europe such as [[French language|French]]. [[Georg Bauer]] (Georg Agricola), a physic...
16: ... the [[Volcano|volcanic]] origins of this part of France. [[James Hutton]] recorded his ''Theory of th... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...nst one another), divergent (two plates move away from each other), and transform (two plates slide pa...
8: ...h the ''chemical'' subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost to outermost) [[Earth#The core|core]]...
12: ...crust|oceanic]] lithospheres; for example, the [[African Plate]] includes the continent and parts of t...
18: ...oundaries]]''' occur where two plates slide apart from each other.
24: ...use highly visible surface effects. Because of [[friction]], the plates cannot simply glide past each... - Continental drift (4518 bytes)
3: ...frican geologist [[Alexander Du Toit]] as well as from [[Arthur Holmes]]. The idea of continental drif...
9: South America and Africa are moving apart at [[Centimetre|3 cm]] per ye...
14: ...r [[earthworm]] found in South America and South Africa.
16: ... It was this temporary feature which inspired [[Alfred Wegener]] to study what he defined as continent...
22: ... of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] as well as the [[East Africa Rift]]. Confirmation of this hypothesis would...
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