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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...itain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effic...
12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
1: [[Image:MaryPicford.jpg|right|frame|Mary Pickford]]
9: ...Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disap...
15: ...f his death, Pickford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling...
26: ...oor Little Rich Girl]]'', among other films. She tours the U.S. with Fairbanks and others, supporting U....
27: ...,000 and complete control over her films, ranging from script to the final cut. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
7: ...as adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it ...
9: ...e [[United States|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the ...
13: ...isoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the w...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never really able to obtain the same... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...iolinist [[Joseph Joachim]] who became one of her frequent performance partners. Schumann is credited...
9: ... of the piano at the [[Hoch Conservatorium]] at [[Frankfurt am Main]], a post which she held until [[1... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
7: ... schedule during the winter months and doing tent tours for the rest of the year (traveling in her own ra...
9: ...a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordings.
11: ...ing band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]]...
13: ...oned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she neve...
17: ...tention, but we were never able to rally her back from the shock.'' - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...os’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to that of [[Kate Bush]], [...
7: ... she adopted the name "Tori," after a friend of a friend told her that she looked more like a Tori tha...
10: ...by ear at Peabody and her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] ...
16: ...onsidered it a step sideways rather than forwards from ''Little Earthquakes''. In February, she began ...
20: ...buse and Incest National Network. RAINN is a toll-free help line in the US which connects callers with... - 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,... - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: The word '''relic''' comes from the Latin ''reliquiae'' ('remains') and there a...
7: ... folded papers on the left and right contain bone fragments of saint [[Benedict of Nursia]] and [[Bern...
11: ...nable. The [[abbey]] church of [[Coulombs]] in [[France]], among several others, claims to possess th...
14: In his introduction to [[Gregory of Tours]] Ernest Brehaut analyzed the Romano-Christian co...
15: ...describes the uncanny, mysterious power emanating from the supernatural and affecting the natural. The... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
1: ...e [[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Luxembourg]], [[France]], and the [[North Sea]].
3: ...lemish]]), mainly in the north, [[French language|French]] speakers, mainly in the south (the [[Walloo...
13: ...emish]]: Eendracht maakt macht; [[French language|French]]: L'union fait la force; [[German language|G...
17: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[French language|French]], [[Flemish language|Flemish]], [[German lan...
50: ...l><sup>1</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[franc|Belgian franc]].</small> - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br /...
62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]]...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India...
69: ... by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entir...
72: ... the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Em... - Peru (12264 bytes)
30: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Declared || From [[Spain]]<br/>[[July 28]], [[1821]]
36: ...' || "[[Somos libres, seá¯slo siempre]]" "We are free, may we always be so"
48: ...sident, however, was not in power until [[1827]]. From [[1836]] to [[1839]] Peru and [[Bolivia]] were ...
99: The western coastal plains (costa) are separated from the eastern lowland jungle of the Amazon Basin ...
123: ...ak Quechua and Aymara and are ethnically distinct from the diverse indigenous groups who live on the e... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... the country's early history, stemming as it does from the Roman name ''Portus Cale'', a possibly mixe...
15: ...C]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local ...
17: ...Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the [[Conii]]. Over decades, the R...
25: ...s. From there they aimed to reconquer their lands from the [[Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Ar...
27: ...r of the Iberian Peninsula, faced new competition from other regions. The lords of the cities of [[Coi... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
1: ...vilization]] that existed in [[Europe]], [[North Africa]], and the [[Middle East]] between [[753 BC]] ...
9: [[Image:Lupaegemelli.jpg|framed|right|The female wolf, feeding the baby twins...
11: ...Palatine Hill]], approximately eighteen [[mile]]s from the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the river [[Tiber]]. ...
25: ... each other for power. Caesar emerged victorious from the resulting Civil War, and was made dictator ...
27: ...ements ([[27 BC]] and [[23 BC]]) transformed Rome from a Republic to an Empire. His designated success... - Kentucky (15076 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]] |
41: ...h the [[Cumberland Gap]], and was the first major frontier developed west of the [[Appalachian Mountai...
45: ...to the state. A different version of the name is from the Indian word meaning "dark and bloody huntin...
48: ... [[capital]] of Kentucky is [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]] and its governor is [[Ernie Fletcher]] (...
63: ...blage of smaller cities across the [[Ohio River]] from [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], also has a large metropol... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ... Vietnam]]<br><br>[[Viet Cong|National Liberation Front<br>(Viet Cong)]]<br><br />[[Image:Viet cong fl...
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationa...
37: ...y experts consider the Vietnam War to just be one frontline in the larger [[Cold War]].
41: ...for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]], a South Vietnamese opposition movement with...
43: ...ort to maintain control of her former colony of [[French Indochina]]. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1700]] to [[1759]]'''.
18: *[[1735]] - [[John Peter Zenger]] trial on freedom of the press issues.
19: *[[1739]] - [[George Whitefield]] tours the colonies ([[1739]]-[[1741]]) to preach the Gr...
26: *[[1752]] - [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s kite experiment - Pope Fabian (2703 bytes)
6: ...ach the Gospel: [[Gatianus of Tours|Gatien]] to [[Tours]], [[Trophimus of Arles|Trophimus]] to [[Arles]],... - Pope Silvester I (1917 bytes)
3: ... while it is certainly alluded to by [[Gregory of Tours]] and [[Bede]]. The so-called ''[[Donation of Co... - Golf (35905 bytes)
4: ...'Rules of Golf'' as ''"playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or ...
6: ...ghteen. A hole of golf consists of hitting a ball from a tee on the ''[[teeing ground]]'' (a marked ar...
12: ...t so low that most balls can be easily played) or from the ''rough'' (uncut grass or ground not prepar...
16: ...rom which the ball is more difficult to play than from grass, and ''water hazards'' (lakes, ponds, riv...
18: ...y be seen from some distance (but not necessarily from the tee). It is also termed "the pin". - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
5: ...eometry]] at [[Oxford]]. In the family and to his friends he was known as Stephe (rhymes with Livy). H...
11: ...dia]]. In [[1895]] he held special service in [[Africa]] and returned to India in [[1897]] to command...
13: ...oon transferred to the British secret service. He frequently travelled disguised as a butterfly collec...
15: ...ful campaign in [[Ashanti Confederacy|Ashanti]], Africa, and at the age of 40 was promoted to lead the...
17: ...as responsible for the organisation of a force of frontiersmen to assist the regular army. Whilst arra...
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