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- 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. - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and v...
7: ... formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and ...
16: ...d as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nations; a concept that continued well into the [[Qing dynasty]], al...
25: ... political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dyna... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
5: ...and sometimes spiritual world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a Chinese belief system a...
7: ... [[Bodhisattva]] and incorporating some Christian concepts into Buddhism while the reverse is not necessari...
9: ...[shamanism]], and [[Taoism]]. Most Chinese have a conception of [[heaven]] and [[yin and yang]]. The Chines...
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam]] and [[Christianity]].
18: ...h included ancestor worship and drew heavily upon concepts and beings within [[Chinese mythology]]. - 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 ... - 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... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
7: ...land Commission]], developing the broad political concept of [[sustainable development]] in the course of e...
9: ...om May 9, [[1986]] until October 16, [[1989]] and from November 3, [[1990]] until October 25, [[1996]]...
11: ...n on Macroeconomics and Health] - chaired by [[Jeffrey Sachs]] - and addressing [[violence]] as a majo... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ted Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]], from [[1997]] to [[2002]]. She first rose to promine...
25: ...the time Catholics were forbidden by church rules from studying in Trinity, founded by [[Elizabeth I o...
31: ...n requirement that all women upon marriage resign from the civil service and to the right to the legal...
43: ...n Rogers]]. Shortly afterwards, Robinson resigned from the party in protest at the [[Anglo-Irish Agree...
51: ...eating a favourable impression with a thought out concept of how the office of president might be revitalis... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
5: ...s a first cousin four times removed of [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s. She taught in a Quaker school in [[Ne...
7: ... [[Conscientious Objector]] status was a radical concept for that time and remains so, and the United Stat...
19: ....edu/slavery_mott1.html Lucretia Mott's biography from the Smithsonian] - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mattehistorie germain.jpg|frame|Sophie Germain]]
3: ...6]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
5: ...ears later, she managed to get some lecture notes from several courses at [[ɣole Polytechnique]], a s...
9: ...edes]], Germain requested that General Pernety, a friend of hers, personally ensure Gauss's safety. Th...
17: ...became the first female to attend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
12: ..., and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...y, mathematics and natural science in addition to French, German, ancient history, philosophy and reli...
21: ...Butler]] "lady in charge" of the hospitals at the front of the [[Army of the James]].
23: ...age]] movement. She also became acquainted with [[Frederick Douglass]] and became an activist for blac...
27: ...nd its humanitarian work during the war between [[France]] and [[Prussia]]. Created in [[1864]], the I... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...on]] (in [[German language|German]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Mei...
7: ...manifestos that the group produced, including the concept of the [[urban guerrilla]], decrying what she cal...
9: ... dead in her cell on [[May 9]], [[1976]], hanging from the ceiling. The [[Germany|German]] government ... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
12: ...and dismissed by the early church fathers. In the fragmentary text, the disciples ask questions of the...
22: ...[Harvard Divinity School]], has observed, "The confrontation of Mary with Peter, a scenario also found...
31: ...:10); although the Roman Catholic Church withdrew from this linkage at the [[Second Vatican Council]] ...
33: ...ose critical scholars who are drawing conclusions from the canonic texts alone believe that the woman ...
36: ...rance]]. Though her bones were scattered at the [[French Revolution]], her head is said to remain in h... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
22: All circulatory systems frequently employ [[countercurrent exchange]] system...
25: ...ll the cells of the flat worm. Oxygen can diffuse from water into the cells of the flatworm. Thus ever...
30: ...eries are [[blood vessel]]s that carry blood away from the heart. Veins are blood vessels that return...
35: ...se of [[carbon dioxide]] and the uptake of oxygen from the air. The now oxygenated blood returns to t...
38: Oxygenated blood from the lungs returns to the heart via the pulmonar... - Hair (11457 bytes)
4: ...ulation]] from cold weather and, in some species, from particularly hot weather. Because hair is often...
6: ...aces, arms, chests and legs, but the hair growing from the top of the head is generally kept short, re...
13: ...a new hair pushes the old one out of the follicle from beneath. Head hair, by comparison, grows for a ...
19: ...edal locomotion possibly predates hominids moving from a forest environment to a savanna environment. ...
23: ...example, virtually intact hair has been recovered from ancient Egyptian tombs. Different parts of the ... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
4: ...ve.jpg|thumb|Traditional manufacture of ''skeps'' from [[straw]] in [[England]]]]
5: ... box hives of varying dimensions, with or without frames, and finally replaced by Langstroth equipment...
7: Honey from traditional hives was typically extracted by ''...
9: ''Skeps'' and other fixed-frame hives are no longer in wide use (and are illeg...
20: ... They were called "gums" because they often were from red gum trees. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ... Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the [[Western Roman Empire]] ([[5th ...
6: ...ern European historians. That term has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotyp...
8: ... lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise o...
12: ...oon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction between the cult...
14: ...ying cultural influence, preserving its selection from Latin learning, maintaining the art of writing,... - Iconography (7643 bytes)
6: ... the [[icon]]. A more modern illustration of this concept might be that the [[photograph]]s a person keeps ...
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... - Statue (1162 bytes)
3: ... this definition of the [[concept]] Statue is far from exhaustive and can be/needs to be expanded.'' - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...m Classroom Clipart]]]The word '''''culture''''', from the [[Latin]] <i>colere</i>, with its root mea...
6: ...tually tried to eliminate popular or mass culture from the definition of culture.
10: ...this [[worldview]], people with different customs from those who regard themselves as cultured do not ...
12: From the 18th century onwards, some social critics h...
14: ...day most social scientists reject the [[monadic]] conception of culture, and the opposition of culture to [...
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