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- Angel Shark (6012 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Angel sharks}}
14: The '''angel sharks''' are an unusual group of [[shark]]s, wit...
16: ... a length of 1.5 meters (5 ft), with the Japanese angel shark ''Squatina japonica'' known to reach 2 mete...
18: ... and various types of [[mollusk]]s. The [[Pacific angel shark]] ''Squatina californica'' is also known to...
20: Angel sharks are [[ovoviviparous]], with litters known ...
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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ...f]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...people that they can say that I have sent them an angel." - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...lyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never practi...
16: ...y of only $500,000. No further communication came from any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray f...
18: ...violent crimes (along with one for stealing funds from the organisation). Police concluded he and acco...
21: ...ded specific attacks on its validity using quotes from the [[Bible]], was flawed and ultimately underm...
24: ..., still warning about a threat to ''Touched by An Angel'' months after the program's last episode had bee... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...itive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the g...
6: ... jazz singer, the results never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovativ...
8: ... of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went t...
10: ... double LP of live gospel music recorded in a Los Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
20: ...k entrance and forced to wait in a dark room away from the audience before appearing on stage. Once be...
24: ...duced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and contemporaneous sources that she...
26: ...ues]]''. In [[1987]] [[U2 (band)|U2]] released "[[Angel of Harlem]]", a tribute to her.
30: ...d [[Lester Young]]; both were less than two years from death. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chu...
11: ...nciation.jpg|right|250px|thumbnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mar...
13: ... 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about 130 kilometers) from Nazareth; and while there they found shelter in...
15: ...|Matt. 1:21]]), because he was to save his people from their sins. This was followed by the presentat...
19: ...Acts 1:14). From this time she wholly disappears from the historical biblical accounts, although it i... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
9: ...axhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emigrated from south Kosovar city of [[Prizren]], even though ...
11: ...counted that she felt a vocation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for mission...
15: ...946]], by her own account, she received a calling from [[God]] "to serve Him among the poorest of the ...
17: ...ntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the municipal authorit...
24: ...emple into the [[Kalighat Home for the Dying]], a free [[hospice]] for the poor. Soon after she opened... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...aw]] from 1945 to 1946, and to [[Frank Sinatra]] from 1951 to 1957. She was regarded as one of the m...
12: ...ich left her partially paralyzed and bedridden, [[Frank Sinatra]] paid all her medical expenses. She d...
28: * [[Reunion in France]] (1942)
35: * [[Lost Angel]] (1943)
65: * [[The Angel Wore Red]] (1960) - Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
3: ...rican]] [[actor|actress]]. She was born in [[Los Angeles, California]], the daughter of an acting coach.
41: *''[[The Frog Prince]]'' (1988)
43: *''[[Miles from Home]]'' (1988)
57: *''[[Angel Dusted]]'' (Made for TV) (1981) - Laura Serrano (2835 bytes)
7: ...men's championship bouts to take place within its frontiers. Mexico had also proclaimed equallity betw...
13: ...O 3), followed. The Jeffries fight resulted in Jeffries' first defeat.
19: ...et to marry her fiancee very soon. Her trainer is from [[Puerto Rico]]. - Oil painting (1776 bytes)
1: ...th Red Dress'''", Oil on wood panel painting by [[Angel Botello]] (1983) ]]'''Oil painting''' is done on ... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
41: ...stol, England. This was sculpted with a chain saw from a standing tree, which was diseased and due to ...
55: * frozen [[blood]], dead [[animal]]s
63: ...'''Reclining Woman'''", [[Bronze sculpture]] by [[Angel Botello]] at ''La Ventana al Mar'', [[El Condado,...
64: ...ture still attached to a background, standing out from that ground in "High Relief" or "Low Relief" ([...
65: ...the round": designed by the sculptor to be viewed from any angle. - Iconography (7643 bytes)
4: ...irgin Mary]] to have been painted by [[Luke the Evangelist|St Luke]], who probably knew them. In the case...
6: ...ion]]. To distinguish the veneration of [[icon]]s from the worship of [[Idolatry in Christianity|idols...
11: ...ripping the [[devil]] by his hair. The wings of [[angel]]s (a symbol for messenger), the wheel on which [...
13: ... the heads of holy individuals while it is absent from those who are not [[Christian]]s. This nimbus i...
15: ...nded to show their seriousness, and their freedom from the vicissitudes of emotion. Figures are almost... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
5: Pipe organs range in size from portable instruments having only a few dozen pi...
11: <!--This section is the target of a link from the "organ pipe" article. If you update the tex...
15: ...ue organ]], the [[English romantic organ]], the [[French classical organ]], the [[symphonic organ]] an...
27: The word ''organ'' originates from the [[Latin]] word "[[organum (musical instrume...
29: ...tolo]]'s ''Madonna of Humility'', Siena 1433, the angel on the right plays a ''portatif'' with a hand-pum... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
36: | From [[United Kingdom|the British]]<br>[[1919]]
55: ...Afghanistan. The remainder of the name originates from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''stā...
64: ...ans. The Mohammadzay furnished the Saddozay kings frequently with top counsellors, who served occasion...
72: ...an were able to capture 90% of the country, aside from [[Northern Alliance]] strongholds primarily in ...
74: ...the group's downfall. In late 2001, major leaders from the Afghan opposition groups and diaspora met i... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... the country's early history, stemming as it does from the Roman name ''Portus Cale'', a possibly mixe...
15: ...C]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local ...
17: ...Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the [[Conii]]. Over decades, the R...
25: ...s. From there they aimed to reconquer their lands from the [[Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Ar...
27: ...r of the Iberian Peninsula, faced new competition from other regions. The lords of the cities of [[Coi... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
61: ...fornians (or outsiders in general). State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political ...
68: ... that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the ...
69: ...m the word ''oolighan'', referring to grease made from fish, which the [[Native American]]s of the reg...
70: ... is likely to have heard the terms because of his frequent encounters with [[Mohegan]]s in the late [[... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]] - Macau (16856 bytes)
26: |Handover from [[Portugal]] to the [[People's Republic of Chin...
40: ...It is 70 km southwest of [[Hong Kong]] and 145 km from [[Guangzhou]]. It was the oldest [[Europe]]an [...
42: ...efers to an [[ethnic group]] in Macau originating from Portuguese descent, usually mixed with Chinese ...
44: ...a game played with [[Chinese dominoes]]. Gamblers from [[Hong Kong]] often take a one-day excursion to...
47: ...[Jyutping]]: maa3 gaau1) is thought to be derived from "'Templo de A-Mᦱuot; (媽閣廟... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...en the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 [[Northern United States|northern states...
53: ...mter]], South Carolina, Lincoln called for troops from all remaining states to recover the forts, resu...
58: ...estern counties of Virginia organized a secession from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for...
62: ...California_and_the_Civil_War|California]] was a [[free state]] and a part of the Union. Lincoln had wo... - Shark (14021 bytes)
17: ...dermal denticles covering the [[body]] to protect from [[parasite]]s, and rows of replaceable [[tooth|...
22: ... in that it can swim in both salt water ocean and fresh water rivers (and in [[lake Nicaragua]]). A fe...
24: ...resting shark sinks to the sea bed.<!--unsourced; from editor's memory.-->
31: ...harks in general. The name may have been derived from the [[Maya language|Mayan]] word for shark, ''x...
40: ... below in roughly their evolutionary relationship from more primitive to more modern species:
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