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- Bronze Age (9344 bytes)
2: ...reas of the World. In most parts of subsaharan [[Africa]], the [[Neolithic]] is directly followed by t...
4: Most surviving bronze implements are [[tool]]s or [[weapon]]s, though s...
6: The date of the arrival of a Bronze Age varies from culture to culture.
8: ==Near East Bronze Age==
9: ...al lines (dynasties and kingdoms). The end of the Bronze Age in the Near East is normally associated with ...
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- Luwian language (1607 bytes)
3: ... modern [[Turkey]]), attested in the [[Bronze age|Bronze]] and early [[Iron age]]s. Luwian (and Hittite) g...
8: ...y of [[Warren Cowgill]] (1929–1985). Papers from the Fourth East Coast Indo-European Conference,... - 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...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
11: ...Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen... - Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ...s, which are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of...
8: ...rtant that smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iro...
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17: ...n this case, expansion occurs. Internal stresses from this expansion generally take the form of [[com... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
19: ...cianus led to an investigation headed by Nero's [[freedman]] Polyclitus, and Suetonius was removed as ...
31: ...y of the Roman conquest of Britain makes this far from certain.
37: The great bronze statue of Boudicca next to [[Westminster Bridge]... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American ...
4: ...]] ([[1602]]-[[1681]]), whose offspring include [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], Jane Delano attended Co...
10: ...p of the hill overlooking the nurses section is a bronze memorial to Jane Delano and the 296 nurses who lo... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
5: ... encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, including sex. "We w...
7: ... teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, sho...
10: ... check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got a degree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mis...
12: ...atonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn wa... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
3: ...ard of at a time where female athletes were still frowned upon by many. It earned her the nickname ''"...
7: ...and set or tied 12 [[world record]]s. She retired from athletics in 1955, after which she became leade...
17: ...European Championships in [[Vienna]], she won the bronze in both the 100 and 200 m, which were both w...
35: ...the high jump competition in fourth, with bruises from the fall. The second day was more successful, a...
43: ... indicates Shirley Strickland should have won the bronze. - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
1: [[Image:Nadia Comaneci.jpg|framed|Comaneci at the 1976 Montreal Olympics]]
9: ...ven bars), a silver medal (team all-around) and a bronze (floor exercise). Back home, her success led her...
11: ...howed up at the 1978 World Championships. A fall from uneven bars resulted in a 4th place finish, but...
13: ...ion for blood poisoning due to a cut in her wrist from her metal grip buckle. Against doctors' orders...
17: Comaneci retired from competition shortly after these Games. Her last... - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...) is a former World No. 1 woman [[tennis]] player from Germany. She is widely considered to be one of ...
10: ...ourts. This narrow focus meant that Graf made few friends on the tour in her early years, but led to a...
14: ...powerful forehand, which earned her the nickname "Fraulein Forehand"'. Over time, Graf also developed ...
18: ...n and did enough to claim the World No. 1 ranking from Navratilova in August 1987. She also helped Wes...
22: ...i – and picked up a women's doubles Olympic Bronze Medal. She was named the 1988 [[BBC Sports Person... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
1: [[image:jackie_joyner.jpg|frame|At World Championship 1987]]
2: ...ete]]. She has won three gold, one silver and one bronze [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals. She was named a...
8: ...ld not bring himself to have life support removed from his wife, it fell to Jackie and Al to authorize...
10: ...est challenge, however, was physical. She suffers from exercise-induced [[asthma]], and on more than o... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...edals at 18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 4 bronze medals).
7: ...e vault, a silver medal in the uneven bars, and a bronze medal in the now discontinued team event with por...
9: ... beam and uneven bars event. Finally, she won the bronze in the horse vault competition.
11: ...eighteen - nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...tars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...d her at a later age. Because his daughter was so frail and sickly, Charles Lenglen, the owner of a ca...
10: ... the [[French Open]], was only open to members of French clubs until 1925.) She lost to reigning champ...
14: The French championships were not held again until [[192...
16: ...d Brits also were in shock at the boldness of the French woman who also casually sipped [[brandy]] bet... - Crocus (3680 bytes)
15: ...crocuses appear in [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] frescos at [[Santorini]]), across Central Asia.
17: ... wither and die from a unseasonable "post-winter" frost or snowfall.
19: The spice [[saffron]] is obtained from the stamens of ''Crocus sativus'', a fall-bloom...
20: ...from the Latin adjective ''crocatus'', meaning saffron yellow.
24: ...arieties still in the market. Bosschaert, working from a preparatory drawing to paint his composed pie... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
28: ** [[bronze]] - see [[bronze sculpture]]
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: ....jpg|Right|thumb|270px|"'''Reclining Woman'''", [[Bronze sculpture]] by [[Angel Botello]] at ''La Ventana ...
64: ...ture still attached to a background, standing out from that ground in "High Relief" or "Low Relief" ([... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...The [[Venus of Willendorf]] (30,000 - 25,000 BC), from the area of [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a w...
6: ... Stone was generally rare and had to be imported from other locations.
8: ...on the men. Votive stone sculptures of this type from 2700 BC were discovered at [[Tell Asmar]]. Man...
13: ..., so that it can have four legs visible if viewed from the side. The piece was excavated at [[Nimrud]...
16: ...is the [[Narmer Palette|Palette]] of King Narmer, from 3100 BC. The palette, which was used for mixin... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...recent find, [[the Mask of La Roche-Cotard]] in [[France]], now suggests that Neanderthal humans may h...
9: The earliest [[figurine]] yet discovered come from between 500,000 and 300,000 BC, during the Midd...
12: ...Patterns on utilitarian objects, like the paddles from [[Tybrind Vig]], [[Denmark]], are known as well...
17: ...pomorphic figurines, often embellished by animals from the very beginning of the Neolithic discovered ...
22: ...Western and Northern Europe, notably at Carnac, [[France]], at [[Skara Brae]] in the [[Orkney Islands]... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...s. [[Costume jewelry|Costume jewellery]] is made from less valuable materials. However, jewellery can...
5: ...rd "jewel", which was [[anglicise]]d from the Old French "jouel" in around the [[13th century]]. Furt...
14: This is a jewellery [[timeline]] from the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to t...
35: * [[1000 BC]] - [[Iran|Persian]] sheet [[bronze]] work 0.05mm thick.
42: ...50 BC]] - Use of combined punches and [[die]]s of bronze. - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: The word '''relic''' comes from the Latin ''reliquiae'' ('remains') and there a...
7: ... folded papers on the left and right contain bone fragments of saint [[Benedict of Nursia]] and [[Bern...
11: ...nable. The [[abbey]] church of [[Coulombs]] in [[France]], among several others, claims to possess th...
15: ...describes the uncanny, mysterious power emanating from the supernatural and affecting the natural. The...
17: ...ue" was also a false mystic potency that emanated from inhabiting [[daemon]]s who were conceived of as... - Weaving (6924 bytes)
9: ...ence gives rise to many possible weave structures from the simplest plain weave, through [[twill]]s an...
14: ...st]], [[wool]] has only been attested since the [[Bronze Age]]. Plain weaves and tabbies predominate.
20: ...lace taking the home-based [[artisan]]'s activity from a labour intensive; man-powered undertaking to ...
24: ...n and flax to Britain and buy finished cloth back from England. Nonetheless, many people wove cloth i...
28: ...om touching anything so it would not try to break free. They would try to cut the wool off the sheep ... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
9: ...m a sanctuary at the source of the [[Seine]] in [[France]].
11: ... the Egyptians for woodworking tools was probably bronze or even copper, as ironworking was unknown until ...
13: ...u Ban]] (魯班) and his wife Lady Yun, from the [[Spring and Autumn Period]]. Lu Ban is sai...
22: ...d with a convoluted, complex grain, usually taken from cancerous growths on trees
28: ...tch: the section of a tree where a branch divides from the trunk, or the trunk divides in two; typical...
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