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- Totem pole (20143 bytes)
1: ...''Totem poles''' are monumental sculptures carved from great trees, typically [[Western Redcedar]], by...
2: [[Image:Totem_pole.jpg|thumb|Totem pole in Seattle Washington. Image provided by [ht...
6: ...aida]] people of the [[Queen Charlotte Islands]], from whence it spread outward to the [[Tsimshian]] a...
8: ...ast increased. Christian missionaries reviled the totem pole as an object of heathen worship—which ...
10: ... forth in many new and traditional media, ranging from tourist trinkets to masterful works in wood, st...
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- Washington (20186 bytes)
45: ...culture. Today, they are most notable for their [[totem pole]]s and their ornately carved canoes and mask...
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]].
59: ...forests and the ports along Puget Sound prospered from the manufacturing and shipping of lumber produc... - Australian Aboriginal art (4187 bytes)
7: Traditionally, paints were often made from water or [[saliva|spittle]] mixed with ochre an...
9: ... ''dot-painting'' where intricate [[pattern]]s, [[totem]]s and/or stories are created using dots; and ste...
13: ...free of knots and other blemishes. It is best cut from the tree in the wet season when the sap is risi...
21: ... mythological [[imp]]ish creatures. Mimihs are so frail that they never venture out on [[wind]]y days ...
34: Story telling and totem representation feature prominently in all forms o... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
1: ...ings related to human [[society]]. The term comes from the [[Latin]] ''civis'', meaning "citizen" or "...
5: ...their food from [[agriculture]], as distinguished from [[band society|band]] and [[tribe|tribal]] soci...
15: ...vilization is a complex society, as distinguished from simpler societies. Everyone lives in a society...
28: ...ial wealth, and advanced artwork (most famously [[totem pole]]s), all without the development of intensiv...
31: ...namely [[Mehrgarh]] and [[Harappa]]) and [[West Africa]], where ancient peoples grouped together to f... - Totem pole (20143 bytes)
1: ...''Totem poles''' are monumental sculptures carved from great trees, typically [[Western Redcedar]], by...
2: [[Image:Totem_pole.jpg|thumb|Totem pole in Seattle Washington. Image provided by [ht...
6: ...aida]] people of the [[Queen Charlotte Islands]], from whence it spread outward to the [[Tsimshian]] a...
8: ...ast increased. Christian missionaries reviled the totem pole as an object of heathen worship—which ...
10: ... forth in many new and traditional media, ranging from tourist trinkets to masterful works in wood, st... - Amulet (8206 bytes)
5: ...[[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''tilasm'', ultimately from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''telesma'') consists...
10: ... see people with more than one [[Buddha]] hanging from their necks; in [[Bolivia]] and some places in ...
18: ...drawings with [[kabbalah|cabbalistic]] signs), [[Afro-American]] syncretic religions, like [[Voodoo]],...
24: Deriving from the ancient [[Celts]], the [[clover]], if it ha...
31: ...urable to communicate with [[demon]]s and to show friendship towards them. - Rome (33048 bytes)
45: ...''*rum-'', "teat", with possible reference to the totem wolf (Latin ''lupa'', a word also meaning "prosti...
49: ...rounding hills]] approximately eighteen [[miles]] from the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the south side of the...
52: ...h [[Mediterranean]] people, perhaps from [[North Africa]]. In the [[8th century BC]] these Italic spea...
57: ... control of [[List of Kings of Rome|seven kings]] from [[753 BC|753]] to [[509 BC]] beginning with the...
59: ...cline. Around [[500 BC]] Rome gained independence from the Etruscans. - Wolf (22358 bytes)
15: ...ically reduced their [[range]]. The wolf is today frequently in the line of fire in conflicts between ...
17: ...s an [[apex predator]], the state of the wolf can frequently be seen as a state of the land where it l...
22: ... larger than the [[female]]s. The coloration runs from grey to grey brown but can vary through the can...
25: The wolf [[anatomy]] differs on several points from the [[dog]]. Most obvious is a [[pre-caudal gla...
41: .... The hierarchy affects all activity in the pack, from which wolf eats first to which is allowed to [[... - Long house (1056 bytes)
6: Many were built from timber and often represent the earliest form of...
8: ...ongitudinal axis. A totem is sometimes placed in front of the house.The longhouses were combined to f... - Red deer (16671 bytes)
26: ...atus and mating call of the elk is also different from that of the red deer, in that the elk "bugle" a...
28: ...]. The bulls may have as many as 50 cows to keep from other less fortunate males.
33: Apart from man, [[European Brown Bear|bears]], [[wolf|wolv...
50: ...eparation of [[Africa]]n [[lion]]s (Panthera leo) from various Asiatic [[tiger]]s (Panthera tigris), b...
61: The elk is an important [[totem]] animal to many [[American Indian]] tribes. Amon... - Civilizations (30128 bytes)
1: ...ings related to human [[society]]. The term comes from the [[Latin]] ''civis'', meaning "citizen" or "...
8: ...their food from [[agriculture]], as distinguished from [[band society|band]] and [[tribe|tribal]] soci...
25: ...vilization is a complex society, as distinguished from simpler societies. Everyone lives in a society...
38: ...ial wealth, and advanced artwork (most famously [[totem pole]]s), all without the development of intensiv...
41: ...namely [[Mehrgarh]] and [[Harappa]]) and [[West Africa]], where ancient peoples grouped together to f... - Taboo (2528 bytes)
1: ...r abhorrent by society. The [[term]] was borrowed from the [[Tongan language]] and appears in many [[P...
11: ...in his collections of essays ''Totem and Taboo'', Freud postulates a link between forbidden behaviours... - Mobile phone (30513 bytes)
12: ...st communication systems related to, but distinct from mobile phones, such as [[satellite phone]]s and...
18: ...ere (calls cost more to make to a mobile, but are free to receive) cannot be used, and as a result use...
36: ...on more than one [[GSM frequency ranges|GSM radio frequency]]. The multi-mode case occurs mostly in GS...
40: ...hones, the base band processing is very different from system to system. This leads to real difficulti...
42: ...iers in the area. This mode allows for safe inter-frequency handovers with channel measurements which ...
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