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- Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
4: ...victed of these murders and was forced into exile from Iceland. This event led him and a group of foll...
6: ...e commodities such as seal (used for rope), ivory from tusks, and beached whales if they happened to b...
12: ...ren. He had a daughter, [[Freydís Eiríksdóttir|Freydís]], as well as three sons, the [[List of exp... - 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. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
5: ...]], the youngest of three children born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa ...
10: ...que and cast her in a major role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story o...
14: [[Image:Temptress1.jpg|frame|Greta Garbo in 1926]]
23: ... "I think I'll go back to [[Sweden]]!" This would frighten the [[movie studio]] heads, who gave in to ...
35: ...]," but this never came to fruition. She withdrew from the entertainment world completely and moved to... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
3: ...he [[shawm]]. The word "oboe" is derived from the French word ''hautbois'', meaning "high wood". It is...
11: The oboe first appeared in French courts around [[1650]]. In the [[17th century...
13: ... The commonly accepted range for the oboe extends from B♭3 to A6, nearly three octaves. In the ...
17: ...anesby]]. The range for the Baroque oboe extends from C4 to E♭6.
19: [[Image:Oboe.png|left|framed|border width=0|Classical Oboe]] - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
2: ...erature, it is a complex and rich field of study, from the utterly [[sacred]] to the exuberantly [[pro...
7: ...survived in the [[Breton lai|lais]] of [[Marie de France]], the ''[[Mabinogion]]'' and the [[King Arth...
10: ...anding down something from an [[auctor]] instead. From this point of view, the names of the individual...
20: ...iographies]], or "lives of the saints", were also frequently written, as an encouragement to the devou...
22: ...a prolific poet, and his [[Franciscan]] followers frequently wrote poetry themselves as an expression ... - Leif Ericson (4502 bytes)
4: ...icson''' ([[Old Norse language|Old Norse]]: '''Leifr Eiríksson'''; modern [[Icelandic language|Icelan...
6: ...einn]], and one sister, [[Freydís Eiríksdóttir|Freydís]]. Leif married a woman by the name of Þó...
10: ...crew members, but in the opposite direction.{{ref|saga-of-eric-the-red}} The first land he met was cover...
12: ... They remained at this place over the winter. The sagas mention that one of Leif's men, Tyrkir, possibly...
14: ...he [[nickname]] 'Leif the Lucky' (Old Norse: ''Leifr hinn heppni''). - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...valuate the potential interference of British and French-Canadian hunters and trappers who were alread...
5: ...ieutenant]] at the time, but Lewis concealed this from the men and shared the leadership of the expedi...
7: ...rd. [[Sacagawea]] and her [[Shoshone]] tribe came from further west. Not only did Lewis and Clark feel...
10: ...he men prepared for the trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife. Most...
16: .... Without these calm meetings, the white settlers from the East would have stormed the Indian Country ... - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
3: ... a name for non-Germanic peoples, ''*[[walha]]'', from which the local names [[Wales|Welsh]], [[Valais...
5: ...peoples of [[Italy]], the various tribes remained free, led by their own hereditary or chosen leaders.
10: ...s called the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] and had spread from southern Scandinavia into northern Germany. The...
12: Linguists, working backwards from historically-known [[Germanic languages]], sugg...
16: ...bogs]]. Their technology for gaining [[iron ore]] from local sources may have helped them expand into ... - Annapolis, Maryland (7226 bytes)
28: ... soon afterwards. It was only in 1695 when Sir [[Francis Nicholson]] moved the [[capital]] of the roy...
34: ...state house housed the workings of the government from [[November 26]] [[1783]] to [[August 13]] [[178...
52: ...rom [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 1.67% from two or more races. 6.42% of the population are...
56: ...8, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 33.4% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who are 65 years of age or ...
65: ...rials to [[Alex Haley]], author of ''[[Roots: The Saga of an American Family|Roots]]'', and his ancestor... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...sense given in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (from the [[Latin]] ''littera'' meaning "an individua...
11: ...ime, or science fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature".
13: Frequently, the texts that make up literature crosse...
15: ... nature of [[romance (genre)|romance]] flourished from the [[Middle ages]] onwards, whereas the [[Age ...
23: ...meria|Sumerian]] ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' (dated from around [[4th millennium BC|3000 B.C.]]), parts ... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...r been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the [[classical Greek]] philosopher [[Plato]], ...
7: ...dfather of [[Critias]]. And Critias learned of it from his grandfather also named Critias, son of Drop...
17: ...us]], to where proud and warlike men used to come from the continent beyond the islands, in order to o...
20: ...s]] recorded that the Atlanteans did not know the fruits of [[Ceres (mythology)|Ceres]]. In fact, Old...
21: ...scribes it as having a climate that is very mild; fruits and vegetables grow ripe throughout the year.... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ... he drove the western emperor [[Valentinian III]] from his capital at [[Ravenna]] in [[452]].
5: ...e king, and he plays major roles in three [[Norse saga]]s.
9: ...n or proto-[[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] nomad tribes from north-eastern [[China]] and [[Central Asia]]. T...
14: ... steppes of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the Danube river to the Baltic Sea]]
15: ...ns. The Huns, satisfied with the treaty, decamped from the empire and departed into the interior of th... - Viking (18085 bytes)
4: ... [[British Isles]], and other parts of [[Europe]] from the late [[8th century]] to the [[11th century]...
12: ...1231.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A composite image made from several sides of the [[Ledberg Runestone]] havi...
13: ...the ''[[Anglo Saxon Chronicle]]'', a group of men from Norway sailed to [[Isle of Portland|Portland]],...
15: ...e [[Danelaw]]). They travelled up the rivers of [[France]] and [[Spain]], and gained control of areas ...
33: ...nts. The following example is in [[fornyr𩳬ag]] from the [[H? Runestone]] in Sweden, raised by a man... - Thor Heyerdahl (6085 bytes)
1: ...Expedition in which he sailed by raft 4,300 miles from [[South America]] to the [[Tuamotu Islands]].
5: ...settled from west to east, migration having begun from the [[Asia]]n mainland.
7: ...nications equipment. For food, they lived off the fruit of the ocean. The documentary of the expeditio...
9: ... denied the possibility. At that time, I suffered from fear of the water," Heyerdahl once said.
11: ...ology. On [[May 17]], [[1970]] Heyerdahl set sail from [[Morocco]] on the [[papyrus]] boat ''[[Ra II]]... - Cane Toads (5279 bytes)
14: ... (''Bufo marinus'') is native to the [[Americas]] from southern [[Texas]] to northern [[Argentina]]. ...
18: ...f humans after consumption of toads. Ill-effects from contact with toads have also been reported and ...
20: ...y are active primarily at night, ranging far away from water.
22: Females lay from 4,000 to 36,000 eggs per clutch, and breed at l...
26: ...ad was introduced into [[Hawaii|Hawai'i]] in 1932 from [[Puerto Rico]] to control injurious insects in...
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