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- Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
5: ...ere used to make soups and stews. Pies were made from gathered raspberries, strawberries, and cherrie...
7: ...ame from the roots of the madder herb; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts.
9: The average life expectancy on the frontier was 25 years old. Many children died of di...
11: ...y. The only book owned by many families was the [[Bible]] with which parents used to teach their children...
13: ...and dancing was popular among both women and men. From time to time, acrobats, tightrope walkers, and ... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...d unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eightee...
10: ...and "purifying" of church practice through [[Holy Bible|biblical]] supremacy, and they shared, to one deg...
20: ...English language Bible was paramount. The Geneva Bible, however, had peculiarly anti-royalist translatio...
22: ...ork was set for the eventual heirs of Puritanism, from the "low-church" Protestant and [[evangelicalis...
26: ...Dissenters]]. [[English Dissenters]] were barred from any profession that required official religious... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
11: *[[Aaron]], (ca. 1300 BC), [[Bible|Biblical]] figure - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: [[Image:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: ...iddle Ages]]. She was [[Queen consort]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
8: ...chest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as ...
10: ...|Louis VI]] had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
12: ... of women in the campaign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - 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...
7: ... effectively banning 'coercive' public prayer and Bible-reading at public schools in the [[United States]...
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: ...c attacks on its validity using quotes from the [[Bible]], was flawed and ultimately undermined efforts t... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
4: ... of the women's rights movement and was, with her friend [[Lucretia Mott]], the primary organizer of t...
6: ...t of three volumes of the ''[[History of Woman Suffrage]]'', an anthology of writings about the moveme...
12: ...e found, at least in part, in the elevation and enfranchisement of women. She was also a strong criti...
20: *''The Woman's Bible'' ISBN 1573926965
27: ...w.sacred-texts.com/wmn/wb/index.htm ''The Woman's Bible''] - Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
3: ...luding [[Latin]], [[Greek language|Greek]], and [[Bible|Biblical]] studies. She became a very accomplishe...
9: ... of John and Susannah Wheatley, Phillis married a free black grocer named John Peters. She herself did...
14: ...''Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave'' (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Lig...
19: * [[Slave narrative]], [[African-American literature]]
22: ...on/center/main_pages/madison_archives/era/african/free/wheatley/poems/poems.htm JMU site with her poem... - 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...
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...
25: ... Virgin Mary]]'' or ''Our Lady'' (this latter, in French, Spanish, and Italian, is rendered ''Notre Da... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...'ʾEstēr''') was a woman in the [[Hebrew Bible]], the queen of [[Ahasuerus]] (commonly identifie...
9: ...the [[Book of Esther]] attempt to derive the name from [[Ishtar]], the pagan goddess associated with t...
16: ...th and peace in their captivity, is also manifest from the Scripture account. - Ruth (361 bytes)
2: ...[Book of Ruth]], one of the books of the [[Hebrew Bible]].
5: * A name meaning ''friend'' or ''compassion. - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...ate, '''Eve''' (or '''Hawa''') was either created from his [[rib]] (Genesis 2.21-22), or created at th...
15: ... Garden of Eden to cultivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: "Of the tree of t...
17: ...r tradition made into Satan) to eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, for "the se...
20: ...[[Jesus]] was born, the flaming sword was removed from the Garden of Eden, making it possible for [[hu...
36: ...e of a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit sticking in the throat of Adam. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...mple, a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a...
19: After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious h...
25: ...join her on her religious travels, he soon became frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed...
35: ...square Crusader'' and a monthly magazine dubbed ''Bible Call''. She also began broadcasting on [[radio]]...
45: ...erce Department]] for deviating from its assigned frequency. Many broadcast histories claim McPherson... - 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)
70: * [[The Bible (film)|The Bible]] (1966) - Human skeleton (3903 bytes)
4: ...born with approximately 270. The difference comes from a number of small bones that fuse together duri...
31: ...e [[Bible]] which states that [[Eve]] was created from one of [[Adam]]'s ribs. However, both men and w...
35: ... can increase the likelihood of [[fracture (bone)|fracture]]s and broken bones, especially among [[men... - Rib (1848 bytes)
4: ...n reptiles, ribs sometimes occur in all vertebrae from the neck to the sacrum.
8: ...ck vertebra on one or both sides is replaced by a free extra rib called a ''cervical rib'', which can ...
10: ...cription of the creation of [[Adam and Eve|Eve]] (from the rib of [[Adam]]). - Stained glass (3937 bytes)
15: ...led the way, notable artists include [[Ludwig Shaffrath]], [[Johannes Shreiter]] and many others who t...
31: ...o depict various [[saint]]s and scenes from the [[Bible]]. This was especially important when the bulk of...
32: ...] and [[Cathedral of Chartres]], in [[Chartres]], France
33: ...of them rely on machine made patterned glass to refract the light rather than the more expensive hand-...
35: *** [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] - Iconography (7643 bytes)
6: ...ion]]. To distinguish the veneration of [[icon]]s from the worship of [[Idolatry in Christianity|idols...
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... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
1: ...play in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was hand written in Belgium, by Gerard Brils, for...
2: '''Calligraphy''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] καλ...
4: Calligraphy should be distinguished from the studies of [[epigraphy]] or [[palaeography]...
12: ...uan-shu and contained more than 3,000 characters. From that time to the present, there have been five ...
14: ... as a guide, hiragana and katakana were developed from simplified cursive versions of characters. In t... - Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
1: ... manuscript)|miniature]] of [[Christ in Majesty]] from the [[Aberdeen Bestiary]] (folio 4v), would be ...
3: ...s are the most common type of artifact to survive from the middle ages. They are also the best survi...
7: ...rogress right now please see http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/
10: ...play in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was hand written in Belgium, by Gerard Brils, for...
11: ...eup of the illuminated letter P in the Malmesbury Bible. The script is [[blackletter]], also known as Got...
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