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- 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 ... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...metime '''Count Dohna''', was Queen of [[Sweden]] from [[1632]] to [[1654]], was the daughter of King ...
10: ...op of the realm''") <!-- Official English version from www.royalcourt.se -->
22: ...he was educated in the manner typical of men, and frequently wore men's clothes (such as dresses with ...
25: ...Maria Eleonora]] of [[Prussia|Brandenburg]], came from the [[Hohenzollern]] family. She was a woman of...
27: - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...) was the nineteenth [[Prime Minister of Canada]] from [[June 25]] to [[November 4]], [[1993]]. Though...
39: ...ship of the party. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federa...
45: Campbell's quick rise to fame from a relatively unknown [[Cabinet of Canada|cabine...
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72: ... and the number of cabinet committees was reduced from eleven to five. [[Jean Chré´Šen]] essentially ... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on ot...
19: ...to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...an aspiring young actor, [[Frank O'Connor (actor)|Frank O'Connor]], who caught her eye. The two were m...
24: ...]] by Scalara Films, [[Rome]], despite resistance from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito...
33: ... the infamous [[Red Scare]], Rand testified as a "friendly witness" before the [[House Committee on Un... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...s side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Po...
10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: [[Image:Joni Mitchell-Both Sides Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the c...
5: ...singer Chuck Mitchell in [[1965]]. She performed frequently in coffee houses and [[folk clubs]] and b...
9: ...ms of its pressure and of the loss of privacy and freedom it entails.
11: ...inspired by stories told by her producer and then-friend [[David Geffen]]). It remains her best selli...
13: ...y diverse, with complex vocal harmonies set with African drumming (the [[Drum|Warrior Drums]] of [[Bur... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
19: ...d the [[circle of Willis]]. Blood is then drained from the brain through a [[brain sinuses|network of ...
21: ...he dense fluid protects the brain and spinal cord from shock; a brain that weighs 1,500 g in air weigh...
23: ...tes the soft tissues of the brain and spinal cord from the hard surrounding bones (skull and vertebrae...
25: ...dicine, [[childbirth]] was a dangerous event that frequently resulted in the death of the mother. The...
31: ... processes related to perception, interpretation, imagination and memory, of which a person might or might not ... - Pottery (17136 bytes)
4: ...some decorative items. Similar types of ware made from [[porcelain]] clays are simply referred to as "...
16: ...e. Doing handwork enables the potter to use their imagination to create one-of-a-kind works of [[art]]. These m...
19: ... into a radial symmetry, so that it does not move from side to side as the wheel head rotates is refer...
25: ...are usually called "ceramics" to distinguish them from other pottery.
29: ...Pot1656.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Contemporary pottery from [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]], [[Japan]]]] - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
21: ...es]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr>
31: ... many politicians were neither, but he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic p...
42: ...Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis's instead of the French stuff I shall find."
44: ...dent to be married in the [[White House]] itself. Frances Cleveland was the youngest First Lady in the...
46: ...[[American Civil War]] veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When Congress, pressured by the [[Grand ... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
4: The name "volcano" has its origin from the name of [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]], a god of f...
18: ...'[[Volcanic cones]]''' or [[cinder cone]]s result from eruptions that throw out mostly small pieces of...
41: ...tive" volcano. The lifespan of a volcano can vary from months to several million years, making such a ...
43: ...to note that the span of recorded history differs from region to region; in the [[Mediterranean]], rec...
47: ...tone as extinct. In fact, because the caldera has frequent earthquakes, a very active geothermal syste... - Eurasia (4541 bytes)
2: [[Image:Eurasia.jpg|right|thumb|African-Eurasian aspect of [[the Blue Marble|Earth]]]...
3: ...[supercontinent]], part of a supercontinent of [[Africa-Eurasia]], or simply a continent. In [[plate t...
9: ...graphically separated from each other as they are from Europe.
11: ...d into [[West Eurasia]] (often including [[North Africa]]) and [[East Eurasia]], and they are further ...
13: ...asting imageries of the ''Asian'' in the cultural imagination of both countries. - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...ng with the return of young [[soldier]]s from the fronts of the [[Great War]] and emergence of a new a...
3: ... this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Y...
5: ...ge parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality, in [[arch...
8: ...es|economy of the USA]], took sometime to convert from [[War economy|a wartime economy]] to a peacetim...
19: ...f-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audience in any and every way. ... - Art (11479 bytes)
5: ...adest meaning, is the expression of creativity or imagination, or both.
11: ... some extent, and [[child art]] is created by all from about the first birthday.
52: The word ''art'' derives from the [[Latin]] ''ars'', which, loosely translate...
74: ... is often described as a lay critique and derives from the fact that in [[Western culture]] at least, ...
84: From one [[point of view|perspective]], art is a gen... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...rst time, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky was executed, and some of the century's...
6: ...democratic Islamic state, Turkey. Activity by the French and British forces in the eastern part of the...
8: ...nch defeat in the Franco-Prussian that would lead France to exploit a Balkan crisis as a precept for a...
10: ...attlefield, and nearly that many more on the home front due to food shortages, [[genocide]], and groun...
11: ...?E=0&O=03300083 French National Library] (Text in French language).]] - Plato (17363 bytes)
8: ...nsists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -- [[Alfred North Whitehead]], Process and Reality, 1929]]
12: ...es"; however, his [[nickname]], Plato, originated from wrestling. Since "Plato" means ''broad'', it pr...
18: ...s]]... some however say that it received its name from an ancient hero." (Robinson, Arch. Graec. I i 1...
29: ...hereas his later writing increasingly breaks away from the views of his former teacher. In the middle ...
31: ... dialogue distances both Plato and a given reader from the philosophy being discussed; one can choose ... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
6: ...rn in [[Wrington]], [[Somerset]], about ten miles from [[Bristol]], [[England]], in [[1632]]. His fat...
14: ...ter become Essay. Two extant Drafts still survive from this period.
16: ...x]], where he had lived in the household of [[Sir Francis Masham]] since [[1691]].
24: ...ing theological viewpoints. He recoiled, however, from what he saw as the divisive character of some n...
27: ... the bulk of the writing took place in the period from 1679-1682. It was therefore much more of a comm... - Evolution (27661 bytes)
1: [[Image:Charles Darwin.jpg|right|frame|[[Charles Darwin]], father of the theory of ev...
3: ...e in the frequency of [[allele]]s in a population from one generation to the next.
6: ...dern synthesis, "evolution" means a change in the frequency of an [[allele]] within a [[gene pool]]. T...
14: # The [[common descent]] of all [[organism]]s from a single ancestor.
18: ...] is a model of the world (or some portion of it) from which [[falsifiability|falsifiable]] [[hypothes... - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: '''Mars''' is the fourth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in the [[solar system]]. It is name...
6: ...#x2642; (a circle with a small arrow pointing out from behind it), is a stylized representation of the...
15: ...en summer and winter, giving rise to Earth-like [[frost]] and large [[cirrus cloud]]s [http://marsrove...
18: ...tic field would have helped to protect the planet from [[cosmic radiation]]. Other explanations have a...
22: Amongst the findings from the Opportunity rover is the presence of [[hema... - Religion (72319 bytes)
10: The word religion is thought to derive from one of two combinations of Latin roots. The fi...
25: ...sion, see [[approaches to distinguishing religion from non-religion]].
38: *An ethical framework, including a definition of activities whic...
53: ... Commandments]] of the [[Old Testament]], flowing from the beliefs rather than being defined by the be...
54: ...xt|texts they hold as sacred]] uniquely different from other writings, and which records or is the bas...
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