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- Plateau (3062 bytes)
4: .... Some, like the Seychelles, have peaks that rise from the sea as islands; others rest entirely below ...
7: ..., but there are many other notable examples of it from around the world, including:
22: ... [[Cumberland Plateau]], which are at the western edge of the [[Appalachian Mountains]] of eastern [[Nor... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly tho...
5: ... His good name in Saint-Malo is recognized by its frequent appearance in baptismal registers as godfat...
13: ... he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagaya]] and [[...
17: ...Hurons came to the edge of the river to greet the Frenchmen. The site of their arrival has been confi...
19: ...Stadacona as it was by then too late to return to France. Cartier and his men prepared for winter by ... - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
6: ... [[Greek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vi...
8: ...en each hollow; Greek fluting runs out to a knife edge that was easily scarred.
12: ...the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominent.
14: ...ary" approach, it must be in traditions passed on from [[Hellenistic]] architects, such as [[Hermogene... - 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: ...eir nation as culturally and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nati...
25: ... political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dyna... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
15: ...hom they had stationed in a ring of wagons at the edge of the battlefield, and were slaughtered. (The Ge...
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. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
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: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
9: ...posed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quart...
35: *''Garten von freuden und traurigkeiten'' for flute, viola, harp a...
69: *''The Canticle of the Sun of St Francis of Assisi'' for cello, chamber choir, and or...
78: *''On the Edge of Abyss'' for seven violoncelli and two [[waterp... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ...er work in [[movies]] and [[television]] and who, from the [[1980s]] to the present day, has been rega...
5: ...Vassar College]] and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the [[Yale]] School of Drama. She appeared in ...
7: ...tiated in court) that a [[dingo]] took the child. From [[1984]] to [[1990]], Streep won six [[People's...
18: ...e]] (link below). Summarized below are her awards from the best recognized institutions.
24: ... Actress, Drama|best actress, drama]], in ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
16: ... language|Greek]] ''orchis'', meaning 'testicle', from the appearance of subterranean tuberoids in som...
23: ...restrial]] [[plant]]s, retrieving their nutrients from the soil. This group includes all [[Europe]]an ...
40: ...ctive mottle of the leaves of [[Lady's Slipper]]s from temperate zones (''[[Paphiopedilum]]'') is caus...
47: ..."one-footed") growth. The new shoots grow upwards from a single stem, originating in the end bud of th...
48: ...the rhizome may start its growth again, this time from an 'eye', or undeveloped bud, thereby causing t... - Abdomen (6929 bytes)
2: ...in]], [[fat]], [[muscle]], and lining in the very front of the abdomen. Some consider the pelvis a sep...
7: ...e underlying transversalis fascia. It originates from Poupart's ligament, the inner lip of the ilium,...
9: ...hick sheath formed, as described above, by fibers from each of the three muscles of the lateral abdomi...
11: ...triangular. It is located in the lower abdomen in front of the rectus abdominis. It originates at the ...
19: In the mid-line a slight furrow extends from the ensiform cartilage/[[xiphoid process]] abov... - Breast (4630 bytes)
5: ... or eighth ribs below and from the midline to the edge of the [[latissimus dorsi]] posteriorly.
7: ...de [[mammary gland]]s, the axillary tail (tumours frequently occur here), the lobules, [[Cooper's liga...
18: About 75% of [[lymph]] from the breast travels to the ipsilateral (same sid...
24: ...eve that the shape of female breasts evolved as a frontal counterpart to that of the buttocks, the rea...
26: ... human breast evolved in order to prevent infants from suffocating while feeding. Since human infants ... - Ear (6659 bytes)
10: ...nning to the [[middle ear]]. This tube amplifies frequencies in the range 3 [[Kilohertz|kHz]] to...
13: ...ing fused and "lobeless". The helix is the outer edge of the outer ear[http://www.bartleby.com/61/31/H0...
17: ...three ear bones. The incus and stapes are derived from bones of the jaw, and allow finer detection of ...
21: ...and middle ear gives humans a peak sensitivity to frequencies between 1 kHz and 3 kHz. The ...
28: ...um that receives the sound vibrations transmitted from the air to the oval window through the ear drum... - Retina (13061 bytes)
1: ...room Clip Art]]] Many animals have eyes different from the human eye.]]
12: ...ina is defined by the [[ora serrata]]. The length from one ora to the other (or macula), the most sens...
14: ...e raw input from the eyes to the brain. (Modified from a drawing by [[Santiago Ram Cajal| Ram ...
18: ...e [[white blood cell]]s in the [[capillaries]] in front of the photoreceptors can be perceived as tiny...
22: ... the retina. The macula has a yellow pigmentation from screening pigments and is known to ophthalmolog... - Arm (7276 bytes)
15: ...of the pectoralis major runs downward and outward from the inner half of the [[clavicle]]. The clavicu...
17: ...ocess]] is situated just under cover of the inner edge of the deltoid, one inch below the junction betwe...
21: ...e traced into its [[tendon]] of insertion, in the front of the elbow joint.
29: ... perform most daily tasks with a range of flexion from 30 degrees to 70 degrees. Secondly, the head of...
33: ...ce of these two the median vein comes up from the front of the [[forearm]], while the two vertical lim... - Chest (3592 bytes)
15: ...ion between the [[neck]] and [[diaphragm]] in the front of the body. The corresponding area in an anim...
19: ...h left intercostal space, three and a half inches from the mid-line. - 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 ... - 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... - Bookbinding (7761 bytes)
6: ...s were bound between hard covers, with pages made from [[paper]], or [[parchment]], but were still cre...
8: With the arrival (from the East) of rag paper manufacturing through Eu...
16: ...gid covers and is stitched in the spine. Looking from the top of the spine, the book can be seen to c...
26: ... each with a line of slits punched near the bound edge. A curled plastic "comb" is fed through the slits...
43: * A ''leaf'' is a single complete page, front and back, in a finished book.
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