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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...
31: ... has been used in different forms by philosophers from Descartes forward.
33: ...rge set of syllogisms. The memorization proceeded from diagrams, or learning a key sentence, with the ... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: The '''Puritans''' were members of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] af...
4: ...d unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eightee...
8: ...rope, where they came into close contact with the radical reformers in [[Calvinism|Calvinist Geneva]] and [...
12: ...re simply the informed, committed, and relatively radical Protestants. As a group, they wanted the Church ...
18: ... were given the name "Puritan", in mockery of the radicals' apparent obsession with "purifying" the Church. - 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...
51:
72: ... and the number of cabinet committees was reduced from eleven to five. [[Jean Chr鴩en]] essentially ... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...ere close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by...
6: ...ame involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist mov...
10: ... policy, she declined to take her seat on release from prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleag...
12: ...ird Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Iris... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
1: [[Image:MillicentFawcett.jpg|frame|Millicent Fawcett]]
3: ...as a British [[suffragist]] (as opposed to a [[suffragette]], who were usually militantly violent) and...
5: ...ge Societies (the [[NUWSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]]. - 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: ...efforts. [[Conscientious Objector]] status was a radical concept for that time and remains so, and the Uni...
19: ....edu/slavery_mott1.html Lucretia Mott's biography from the Smithsonian] - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attendi...
8: ...m]] and was the leading journal for philosophical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a translation of Fe...
12: ...mooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal on the...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her:
21: ...'', Eliot's sales were falling off, and she faded from public view to some degree. - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...on]] (in [[German language|German]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Mei...
5: ...anti-nuclear movement]] and was an editor for the radical left paper ''konkret''. She married [[Klaus Raine...
7: ...the same, she helped [[Andreas Baader]] to escape from prison and then took part in bank robberies and...
9: ... dead in her cell on [[May 9]], [[1976]], hanging from the ceiling. The [[Germany|German]] government ... - Anemone (3447 bytes)
17: ...nvolucre of three leaflets below each flower. The fruits often bear long hairy styles which aid their ...
21: ... and large showy poppy-like blossoms on stalks of from 15-20 cm high; the flowers are of various colou...
23: ...y room till planting time. They are easily raised from the seed, and a bed of the single varieties is ... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ...1]]. She was [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1993]] to [[2001]], as the wife of [[Presiden...
8: ...s%29|Democratic Party]] and writing her thesis on radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
20: ...vices, and the Children's Defense Fund. She also, from 1986 to 1992, served on the Board of Directors ...
23: ...ecords indicated that $40,000 of her profits came from larger trades ordered by someone else and shift...
25: ...r her activity. He reportedly did so because her friend Blair was a good client. The firm was later ... - Human skeleton (3903 bytes)
4: ...born with approximately 270. The difference comes from a number of small bones that fuse together duri...
31: ...e [[Bible]] which states that [[Eve]] was created from one of [[Adam]]'s ribs. However, both men and w...
35: ... can increase the likelihood of [[fracture (bone)|fracture]]s and broken bones, especially among [[men... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
3: ..., the kidneys filter wastes (especially [[urea]]) from the [[blood]] and excrete them, along with [[wa...
13: ...idneys_from_behind.jpg|thumb|250px|Kidneys viewed from behind with spine removed]]
22: ...corpuscle]]), and a [[renal tubule]] that extends from the renal corpuscle.
26: ...space called "Bowman's space", which is separated from blood in the glomerulus by three layers:
37: ...sule. The segment that drains glomerular filtrate from the Bowman's capsule is the [[proximal convolut... - 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,... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...nst one another), divergent (two plates move away from each other), and transform (two plates slide pa...
8: ...h the ''chemical'' subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost to outermost) [[Earth#The core|core]]...
12: ...crust|oceanic]] lithospheres; for example, the [[African Plate]] includes the continent and parts of t...
18: ...oundaries]]''' occur where two plates slide apart from each other.
24: ...use highly visible surface effects. Because of [[friction]], the plates cannot simply glide past each... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...the [[Indian Ocean]], off the eastern coast of [[Africa]]. Madagascar is the [[List of islands by siz...
13: ...[[Malagasy language|Malagasy]], [[French language|French]] |
38: established_dates = From [[France]] <br> [[26 June]], [[1960]] |
53: ...] established trading posts along the east coast. From about [[1774]] to [[1824]], it was a favorite h...
57: ...ion of spheres of influence in the area. Absolute French control over Madagascar was established by mi... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
1: ...state in [[Europe]], which borders [[Germany]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Austria]] and [[Liechtenstein...
13: ... = [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Romansh]]|
30: currency = [[Swiss franc]]|currency_code=CHF|
46: ...e]] in [[1499]] amounted to de facto independence from the [[Holy Roman Empire]].
54: ...en régime''). In [[1798]], armies of the [[French Revolution]] conquered Switzerland and in [[1... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
56: ...vs. Federal Republic of Germany or [[France]] vs. French Republic.
63: ...tained a chain of outposts around the [[Danube]]. From 20 to 50 AD, the Kingdom of [[Vannius]], a barb...
67: ...hs]] (from the 14th century), and [[Hungarians]] (from the late Middle Ages).
69: A huge population loss resulted from the invasion of the [[Mongols]] in 1241 and the...
71: ...especially in rural areas. As the Turks retreated from Hungary in the 18th century, Slovakia's influen...
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