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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. - 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.... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], ...
12: ... [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
17: ...ted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
24: ... there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep her from rolling off.
31: ...ted them to break their traditional alliance with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ...
38: ... [[Buenaventura Durruti]] in a piece of vibrant [[prose]] entitled ''[[Durruti is Dead, Yet Living]]'', w... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ... (circa [[1365]] - circa [[1430]]) was a [[France|French]] [[poet]] and was one of a number of female ...
9: ...d office as [[astrologer]] to King [[Charles V of France|Charles V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴi...
11: ...composed some fifteen important works, chiefly in prose, besides minor pieces.
13: ...ard II of England|Richard II]] with [[Isabella of France]] (1396), took her elder son, [[Jean du Caste...
15: ..., where she enjoyed the favour of [[Charles VI of France|Charles VI]], the dukes of Berry and Burgundy... - 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]]
11: ...s of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the ...
13: ...oper) create a wave-like atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and...
22: ...ayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
15: ... notes appended to the Menebrea translation. Her prose acknowledged some possibilities of the machine wh... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
49: ...phorus straits]] that separate [[Southwest Asia]] from [[Southeast Europe]]. [[Anatolia]] is situated ...
60: ...urkey was established on [[October 29]], [[1923]] from the remnants of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. The war...
72: ...must win at least 10% of the vote in the province from which they are running.
82: The freedom and independence of the Judicial System is p...
84: ...emeanors and petty crimes, with penalties ranging from small fines to brief prison sentences. Three-ju... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
23: ... even that was kept secret to protect the members from British reprisal.
27: ...ons, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore.
29: ...delphians heard the official news of independence from the Continental Congress, as opposed to rumors ...
34: ...dinner for their fellow Americans in [[Paris]], [[France]].
43: ...ngs some of the more powerful [[firecracker]]s in from less restrictive border states. - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
8: ...orn in [[Mantua]], [[Italy]] to an ancient family from [[Lombardy]] that had moved to [[Mantua]] at th...
13: ..., [[Cardinal Bibbiena]], Ottaviano and [[Federico Fregoso]], [[Cesare Gonzaga]] (a cousin of both Cast...
19: ...phael]] soon became a really close friend of him, frequently asking for his suggestions. Raphael grate...
23: ...co di Roma''), the Pope suspected him of "special friendship" for the Spanish emperor: effectively Cas...
25: ... both, the Pope and Valdes, in two famous letters from [[Burgos]]. Valdes received a very long and sev... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
7: ...-Florentine [[Niccolo Acciaiuoli]] and benefitted from his influence as lover of [[Catherine of Valois...
11: ...e''), ''Filocolo'' a prose version of an existing French romance, and ''La caccia di Diana'' a poem in...
13: ...ly the pastoral piece ''Ninfale fiesolano'' dates from this time. In 1343 time Boccaccio's father re-m...
15: ...ed maybe three-quarters of the city's population. From 1347 Boccaccio was spending much time in Ravenn...
17: ...ieta brigata'' of three men and seven women dates from this time. The work was largely complete by 135... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
3: ...her by Gregorio's removal to France as tutor of [[Francesco Sforza]]. Ariosto thus lost the opportunit...
6: ... wrote, however, about this time some comedies in prose and lyrical pieces. Some of these attracted the n...
10: ... of these hurried journeys brought on a complaint from which he never recovered, and on his second mis... - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
1: ...ycle of Famous Men and Women.'' c. 1450. Detached fresco. 247 x 153 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florenc...
3: '''Francesco Petrarca''' or '''Petrarch''' ([[July 20]]...
6: ...ence]]. His father, Ser Petracco, had been exiled from Florence in 1302 (along with [[Dante Alighieri|...
8: ...h their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their an...
10: ...ed considerably later as a letter to his friend [[Francesco Dionigi]]. At the time, it was unusual to ... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...to [[France]] to obtain terms from [[Louis XII of France|Louis XII]] for continuing the war against [[...
33: ...y, he was hoping that a strong ruler would emerge from the [[Medici]] family, uniting Italy by expelli...
35: ...man Titus Livy. Machiavelli comments on passages from Livy's history and analogizes them to situation...
48: *''Ritratti delle cose di Francia,'' [[1510]]
51: *''Andria,'' comedy translated from [[Terence]], 1513 (?) - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
1: {{MLB Cubs franchise}}
5: ...me ''Cubs'' was coined in [[1902]] when manager [[Frank Selee]] arrived and rebuilt the club with youn...
15: == Franchise history ==
26: ...f powerhouse pitchers in [[Larry Corcoran]] and [[Fred Goldsmith]]. Those two were fading by mid-deca...
28: ... and controversial Series action. That St. Louis franchise, which went on to join the National League... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
1: [[Image:AlfredNobel.jpg|thumb|200px|Alfred Nobel]]
3: '''Alfred Bernhard Nobel''' ([[October 21]], [[1833]], [[...
5: ...borg]], and a disastrous one in [[1864]] killed Alfred's younger brother [[Emil Nobel|Emil]] and sever...
7: ...His only play (''[[Nemesis (Nobel)|Nemesis]]'', a prose tragedy in four acts about [[Beatrice Cenci]], pa...
9: Alfred Nobel is interred in the [[Norra begravningspla... - Italy (17022 bytes)
2: ...], and shares its northern alpine boundary with [[France]], [[Switzerland]], [[Austria]] and [[Sloveni...
51: ...uistic minorities (for example, [[French language|French]] is spoken in the [[Aosta Valley]]) that are...
68: ...ek, but the Latin equivalent vitulus (young bull) from this root, does not.
70: ...wet. [[Varro]] wrote that the region got its name from the excellence and abundance of its cattle (ita...
74: ... appended to ''Italia'' in [[42 BC|42 B.C]]. From thence onwards, "Italia" gradually acquired its... - Drama (12658 bytes)
1: ... examples include the plays of [[Seneca]], ''[[Manfred]]'' by [[George Gordon Byron]], and ''[[Prometh...
3: Drama is a [[Greek]] word meaning `action', drawn from the Greek verb dran, `to do'. Greek tragedians...
13: ...articipants to not only learn facts as they would from a book or in a classroom, but to enter the worl...
17: ...o schools as an alternative to just reading facts from a book.
21: ...he origins of Athenian tragedy and comedy are far from clear. We must understand that drama began for ... - American comic book (14771 bytes)
13: ...]ous in nature, the name "comic book" was adapted from "comic strip". This has caused some confusion ...
15: ... printed an 8-page comic section that folded down from the large broadsheet to a smaller 9-inch by 12-...
21: The period from [[1930]] through about [[1951]] is known as the...
26: ...on, drug use, and poor grades. The psychiatrist [[Frederic Wertham]]'s book ''[[Seduction of the Innoc...
37: ...], and others complemented Lee's colorful, catchy prose. Their new style found an audience among childre...
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