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- 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 - Zenobia (1693 bytes)
4: ...hus]], she reigned as Queen of [[Tadmor|Palmyra]] from [[267]] to [[272]] as regent for her infant son...
6: ...self Queen of Egypt. She claimed to be descended from [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt]] and [[Mark Antony]] ... - Zoe (empress) (1927 bytes)
1: ...Zoe.jpg|thumb|Empress Zoe as depicted in a mosaic from the Hagia Sophia]]
3: ...r 15]], [[1028]] - [[1050]], and reigning Empress from [[April 19]] to [[June 11]], [[1042]].
7: ...arried, even before his body was removed from the bath. Zoe's second husband was [[Michael IV]] "the [[P... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ...[Queen consort]] of King [[Edward IV of England]] from [[1464]] until his death in [[1483]].
6: ... claimant to the throne.) Elizabeth had two sons from the marriage, [[Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Do...
10: ...ick]], was negotiating a marriage alliance with [[France]]. When the marriage to Elizabeth Woodville ...
16: ...(believed to be [[Robert Stillington]], Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...l-health. It is now thought she may have suffered from [[Addison's disease]], the cause of which was t...
12: ...ents in the life of the middle and upper classes, from which her subjects are generally taken. Her cha...
14: ...h she began and completed her novels is different from that of their publication. They are:
33: *Love and Freindship [sic] - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ...ath.jpg|thumb|right|225px|''The Child's Bath (The Bath)''. [[Mary Cassatt]]. ([[1893]]). Oil on canvas. ...
8: ...rning to the United States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, bu...
14: ...nd absorb all I could of his art," she wrote to a friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wan...
16: ...impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]].
21: Her style evolved, and she moved away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward app... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
4: ...at [[Bessines-sur-Gartempe]], [[Haute-Vienne]], [[France]] the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suz...
8: ...f Valadon would be Renoir's ''Dance at Bougival'' from [[1883]], the same year that she posed for ''Ci...
12: ...rth her son later took the family name of a close friend and as [[Maurice Utrillo]], he became one of ...
16: ...aladonSuzanne TheBath.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''The Bath''. ([[1908]]). [[Suzanne Valadon]]. Pastel. 60x49... - Lavender (3889 bytes)
14: ... across the [[Canary Islands]], North and East [[Africa]], south [[Europe]] and the Mediterranean, [[A...
20: ...n commercially for extraction of [[lavender oil]] from the flowers. This oil is used as an [[antisepti...
27: ... was known by the ancient Greeks as Nardus, taken from Naarda a city of Syria; it was also commonly ca...
29: ...e local barber. The Romans used lavender in their bath water and along with many other herbs, they indro...
31: ... with lavender oil and many seemed to stay plague free. This story could have some validity as the pla... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...iginally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: The word ''glass'' comes from [[Latin]] ''glacies'' (ice) and corresponds to ...
18: ...nto other shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]]
22: ...plify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself.
26: Glass is sometimes created naturally from volcanic [[magma]]. This glass is called [[obs... - 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: ...ntially a large-scale version of [[Archimedes]]' Bath).
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... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
1: ...vilization]] that existed in [[Europe]], [[North Africa]], and the [[Middle East]] between [[753 BC]] ...
9: [[Image:Lupaegemelli.jpg|framed|right|The female wolf, feeding the baby twins...
11: ...Palatine Hill]], approximately eighteen [[mile]]s from the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the river [[Tiber]]. ...
25: ... each other for power. Caesar emerged victorious from the resulting Civil War, and was made dictator ...
27: ...ements ([[27 BC]] and [[23 BC]]) transformed Rome from a Republic to an Empire. His designated success... - Maine (17312 bytes)
36: ...[France|French]] province of [[Maine (province of France)|Maine]]. Another possibility for the name 'M...
38: ... the union kept the balance between [[slave]] and free states. Maine's original capital was [[Portland...
43: ...al election, 1936|1936 presidential election]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] received the Electoral Votes...
47: ...ey]] from [[1975]] to [[1979]] and [[Angus King]] from [[1995]] to [[2003]]). The [[United States Refo...
53: Famous politicians from Maine include [[James Blaine]], [[Edmund Muskie... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ..., or "YOOR-ə-nus") is the seventh [[planet]] from the [[Sun]]. It is a [[gas giant]], the third l...
157: ... regions of Uranus receive a greater energy input from the Sun than its equatorial regions. Uranus is ...
170: ...el, F. R. S.; Communicated by Dr. Watson, Jun. of Bath, F. R. S.'', Philosophical Transactions of the Ro...
172: ...rgium Sidus'' or "the Georgian" were still used infrequently (by the British alone) thereafter. The fi...
179: ...nditions. It can be easily found with binoculars. From Earth it has a diameter of 4". Even in large te... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
10: ...shared some similarity with lightning. [[Benjamin Franklin]] endeavored to test this theory by using a...
12: ... to a post with a [[silk]] thread. As time passed Franklin noticed the loose fibers on the string stre...
14: ... had conducted similar experiments in [[France]], Franklin had suggested the original high-object-with...
16: ...clothes singed, the engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the door itself torn of...
18: Franklin also invented the [[lightning rod]], likely... - Pope Silvester I (1917 bytes)
3: ...details of Constantine's leprosy and the proposed bath of blood, cannot have been composed later than th... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
1: [[image:copernicus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus]]
8: ...cus' father. His brother Andrew became canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictin...
14: ...of Warmia and Copernicus was named a canon in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for t...
16: ...o complete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastoro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where i...
18: ...e end of his studies, he came to live and work in Frombork. Some time before his return to [[Warmia]],... - Carthage (20744 bytes)
1: [[Image:Carthage_location.png|right|frame|A map of the central [[Mediterranean Sea]], sh...
3: ...ted on the eastern side of [[Lake Tunis]], across from the center of modern [[Tunis]] in [[Tunisia]]. ...
6: ... was founded by [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]] settlers from the city of [[Tyre]], bringing with them the ci...
8: ...the city began a systematic conquest of both the African interior and the coastal lands.
10: ...reading its control along the North African coast from modern [[Morocco]] to the borders of [[Egypt]].... - Badminton (12494 bytes)
5: ... of the court, and aim to prevent their opponents from doing the same. Unlike a [[tennis ball]], the s...
7: ...important to being a successful badminton player. From a fitness perspective a close comparison can be...
13: ...high. The short service lines go away 1.98 meters from the net. Left service court and right service c...
31: ... a rally the serve switches to the opposing team. From then on, both players on a team take turns serv...
44: ...urt. If it?s an uneven score, the let will follow from the left service court. - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
15: ... out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend.
19: ...e was an instructor at Somersetshire College at [[Bath, England]]. While still in Scotland he is said to...
23: ...ical notes, but articulate speech. With financing from his American father-in-law, on [[March 7]], [[1...
27: ...e]] bestowed on him the [[Volta Prize]] of 50,000 francs, the [[Royal Society of Arts]] in London awar...
41: ... in circuit with the line. As the current passed from the probe through the liquid to the line a grea... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...ong with possibly [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]], and [[Leonhard Euler|Euler]...
4: ...nown as [[Archimedes' principle]], while taking a bath (thereupon taking to the streets naked calling "[...
12: ...ns the length of the segment parallel to the axis from the vertex to the base. The vertex must be so ...
26: Apart from general physics, he was an [[astronomer]], and ...
51: ...nd the distance between various celestial bodies. From the introductory letter, we also learn that Arc...
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