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- 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.... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...ed school at age 4, she she could already spell 3 syllable words, and surprised her teacher by spelling "art...
12: ..., and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...y, mathematics and natural science in addition to French, German, ancient history, philosophy and reli...
21: ...Butler]] "lady in charge" of the hospitals at the front of the [[Army of the James]].
23: ...age]] movement. She also became acquainted with [[Frederick Douglass]] and became an activist for blac... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
1: [[Image:French-horn.png|right|]]
2: ...e'' or hunting horn, and has been known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this us...
4: ...alian language|It.]]), ''cor'' ([[French language|Fr.]]), etc.
6: ...e typical [[playing range]] of a French horn goes from the written F at the bottom of the staff in [[b...
12: ...ne hand was needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
20: ...dle name, Alan, with the stress on the ''second'' syllable -- "Al-AN."
22: Arthur suffered from [[Bright's Disease]] and died of a [[cerebral h...
27: ...Vermont|Fairfield]] in [[Franklin County, Vermont|Franklin County]], [[Vermont]] on October 5, 1829 (a...
29: He attended the public schools and was graduated from [[Union College]], [[Schenectady, New York]], i...
33: ...ystem even as it was coming under vehement attack from reformers. He insisted upon honest administrati... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...cially influential in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[Africa]].
11: ...#932;ΟΣ<br>''([[Greek language|Greek]]: Freedom or Death)''
29: ...]'''<br> - Declared<br> - Recognised || From the [[Ottoman Empire]]<br/>[[25 March]] [[1821]...
42: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || [[Hymn to Freedom]]
52: ...especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Northern Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Greece is a ... - Washington (20186 bytes)
36: ...re called "Washingtonians" (emphasis on the third syllable, which rhymes with ''bone'').
45: Prior to the arrival of explorers from [[Europe]], this region of the Pacific Coast ha...
49: ...sh explorers [[Manuel Quimper]] in [[1790]] and [[Francisco Eliza]] in [[1791]], then by British Capta...
51: ...the northwest territory to explorers and trappers from other nations, most notably Britain and then th...
55: ...hat same year [[Washington Territory]] was formed from part of [[Oregon Territory]]. - Nevada (17565 bytes)
37: ...04]] was estimated to be 2,334,771, up nearly 17% from the [[United States 2000 Census|2000 census]] f...
41: ...f the state's name is not "Ne-vah-da"; the middle syllable has a short ''a'' sound as in ''cat'' or ''hat''....
49: ...territory and adopted its current name, shortened from ''Sierra Nevada'' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]...
55: ...ush Rebels") maintain that it was due to pressure from mining interests to keep land out of the hands ...
81: ...n Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno attract visitors from around the world. - 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. ... - Writing (6476 bytes)
20: ...e best suited to languages with relatively simple syllable structure, such as Japanese. Other languages that...
25: ...rrespond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a singl...
36: ...e word meant [[quill]]. A '''quill pen''' is made from a flight feather (preferably a primary) of a la...
41: ...t Roman stylus. Indeed, the word ''pencil'' comes from the Latin word penicillus which means "little t...
51: ... viewable or printed material. They are descended from early text formatting tools. Word processing wa... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
4: Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems i...
31: <tr><td>Syllabic</td><td>syllable</td><td>Katakana</td></tr>
43: ...ent languages. However, they are different enough from Chinese that a Chinese text is not easily under...
49: ...gographic systems, although they have since faded from use.
56: ...s consistent manner to represent the vowel in the syllable). - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
7: ...process quicker and easier: People began to write from left to right in horizontal rows (rotating coun...
13: ...aphically distinguishes the logograms ([[kanji]]) from syllabary characters ([[kana]]) but otherwise r...
15: ...ngress.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|Cuneiform tablet from the Kirkor Minassian collection in the [[Librar...
16: ...an used, together with a handful of logograms for frequently occurring words like "god" and "king." T...
27: ... them a copy of a recently discovered inscription from the reign of the Assyrian emperor [[Tiglath-Pil... - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...the [[19th century]]. Sumerian is distinguished from other languages of the area such as [[Hebrew la...
16: ...le Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets from [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]-speaking [[Ninev...
26: ...r a dozen years, starting in 1885, even the great Friedrich Delitzsch accepted Halevy's arguments, not...
30: ...ranslating Sumerian can be illustrated by a quote from Miguel Civil of the University of Chicago's [[O...
34: ... to scholars as many literary tablets as possible from the collections in Philadelphia, Istanbul, and ... - 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... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
12: ...ered either radially or in concentric circles. ''Free form'' crosswords have simple designs and are n...
18: [[French language]] crosswords are smaller and not nec...
20: ...apitalizable letter in the intersecting clue. In French-language puzzles, [[diacritic]]s are omitted ...
27: ...o in a foreign language. For example, '''ETE''' (French for "summer") might be clued as '''"Summer, i...
86: ...words'']created by David Andersen, uses headlines from newspapers as a part of the clue. This enables ... - French language (40201 bytes)
1:
3: ...]], [[Rwanda]], [[Burundi]], [[Togo]], [[Central African Republic]], [[Republic of the Congo]], [[Gabo...
4: |region=[[Africa]], [[Europe]], [[Americas]]
15: ...nbsp; '''French'''<br></td></tr>
16: |nation=[[France]] and 24 other countries - Quran (41479 bytes)
6: ...umbers, but by an Arabic name derived in some way from the sura. (See [[sura|List of sura names]].) Th...
14: ...1; Arabic. There are few other examples of Arabic from that time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspen...
24: ...e, exhortation, and legal prescription. The suras frequently combine all these modes, not always in wa...
46: ...-final consonants. Some suras also include a [[refrain]] repeated every few verses, for instance [[ar...
52: ...ndness. And it is not lawful for you that ye take from women aught of that which ye have given them; e... - Hinduism (49198 bytes)
8: ... of unity in diversity is best captured in a line from the ancient [[Rig Veda]]:
17: ...d it. In general, Hindu views are broad and range from [[monism]], [[dualism]], [[vishistadvaita|quali...
21: ...s the quest for enlightenment and to free oneself from the cycle of rebirth. Another major concept is ...
27: In Hinduism views are broad and range from monism, dualism, pantheism, panentheism, altern...
33: ...For example, a well-known Rig Vedic hymn stemming from Hinduism states that "Truth is One, though the ... - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
5: ...i'wakan''] in [[Nahuatl]], with the accent on the syllable ''wa'', and by normal Nahuatl orthographic conven...
17: ...venue, called "Avenue of the Dead" (a translation from its Nahuatl name ''Miccaohtli''), is still flan...
22: ...t we infer about the culture at Teotihuacan comes from the murals that adorn the site and others, like...
24: ...to have been destroyed in a methodical way, their fragments dispersed. - 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 ...
21: ... rather than to their meaning. Metre depends on [[syllable]]s and on [[rhythm]]s of speech; rhyme and [[alli... - Aymara language (3573 bytes)
15: Stress is usually on the penult (the syllable before the last one), but long vowels may shift i...
19: Some believe that the Aymara language descends from the language spoken in [[Tiwanaku]]. This can't...
25: ...[[Puno]] in Peru. While understood by Aymaristas from other regions, the Aymara spoken in Huancane an...
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