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- 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...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...d independent discovery. Such theories have grown from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples...
7: ...d with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period o...
14: ... fields or in productive activity, they were then free to engage in the assemblies of Athens, and spen...
25: ...edieval philosophy was greatly concerned with the nature of God, and the application of [[Aristotle]]'s [[...
31: ... has been used in different forms by philosophers from Descartes forward. - 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. - 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 ...
13: ...be translated "Christ-bearer, Dove". Columbus' signature reads ''[[Chi-Rho|Xpo]] ferens'' ("Bearing Christ...
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 ... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...itain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effic...
12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...d unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eightee...
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...
28: ...nwealth period, the Church of England was removed from Royal control and reorganized to grant greater ...
32: ...nd formed individual colonies, their numbers rose from 17,800 in 1640 to 106,000 in 1700. [http://www.... - 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: ...cal status of Taiwan]] for more information). The nature and extent of ''China'' is the subject of ongoing...
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... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam]] and [[Christianity]].
23: ...by emperors. Estimate of Buddhists in China range from 70 million to 150 million.
28: ...g of which can be likened to recognising the true nature of the universe.
44: In [[1289]], [[Franciscan]] friars from Europe initiated mission work in China. This mi...
46: ... attempt to reach China was made in [[1552]] by [[Francis Xavier]], but he died the same year on the C... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: ...ue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]]) - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
14: ...al]] native to [[the Americas]]. Its name derives from the [[Algonquian]] word ''aroughcoune'', "he wh...
16: ...recorded being over 28 kg (61 pounds) [http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/racoon.htm]. They have black...
18: ...ood before eating it (the term for the animal in French is ''raton laveur'', or "washing rat"; the Ge...
35: ...tablished itself in a small area of north-central France and in a considerable area of central Germany... - Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
4: ...rmation from this earliest part of her life comes from the ''Secret History'' of [[Procopius]], publis...
6: ... [[Christianity]], which claims Christ was of one nature, remaining their partisan throughout her life. O... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...yst]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
12: ...l years in [[music radio]], Limbaugh took a break from radio and accepted a position as director of pr...
16: ... or "E-I-B"; however, this is merely an on-air signature, as there is no organization with that name.
24: ...ded badly when on one show Limbaugh got into a confrontation with some [[ACT-UP]] hecklers and had to ...
26: ...e same topics as his radio show, and was taped in front of a live audience, which he facetiously claim... - 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 ... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
9: ... these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by h...
11: ...tention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but the pride of the [[Bou...
13: ...d her fathers sensual temperament and, being free from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites...
19: ... seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La Chetardie, who was plotting to...
23: ...the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few personal friends, including her physician, Armand Lestocq, he... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
12: ... later when the Duchess of Marlborough was banned from court during the [[War of the Spanish Successio...
15: ...nce of Sarah Jennings, who would become her close friend and one of her most influential advisors. Jen...
19: ...rth to a son ([[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Francis Edward]]) in [[1688]], for a Roman Catholic ...
22: ...ffices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed from the Royal Household, leading Princess Anne to a...
24: ...mplete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from making her his Regent during his military campa... - 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... - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
3: ...ed to join in the enterprise, she exclaimed that "nature had mistaken their sexes, for he ought to have be...
5: ...fective afterwards, as she was obviously isolated from her Palace sources.
13: ...nce, "[http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/PDFs/FRANCE2.PDF Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...r, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two y...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her br...
13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
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. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
9: ...icism Virginia Woolf received about the political nature of the book, she changed the novel and its title....
11: ...s of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the ...
13: ... Lily Briscoe; "The Waves" present a group of six friends whose reflections (closer to recitatives tha...
22: ...ayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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