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- China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and v...
7: ... formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and ...
16: ...eir nation as culturally and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nati...
25: ... political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dyna... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ...
38: ...he [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]], known as the [[Spanish Civil... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...1892]] - [[April 30]], [[1926]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pi...
4: ...alk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and briefly attended college at Co...
6: ...n were better than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...oleman received financial backing from Binga, and from the Chicago Defender, who capitalized on her fl...
10: ...n. Coleman was the only non-white student at her French flight school, and she learned while using a ... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
5: ...]], the youngest of three children born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa ...
10: From [[1922]] to [[1924]], she studied at the presti...
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... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
5: ... encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, including sex. "We w...
7: ... teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, sho...
10: ... check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got a degree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mis...
12: ...atonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn wa... - Apple (20408 bytes)
16: ...]], and is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Table apples are of the species ''M. domesti...
27: ...ples, picked in late autumn and stored just above freezing have been an important food in [[Asia]] and...
32: ... allow [[pesticide]]s to penetrate the top of the fruit), and popular flavor.
34: ...around the world to preserve such local heirlooms from extinction.
39: ...e]]s are typically too tart and astringent to eat fresh, but they give the beverage a rich flavor that... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...ling them to be correctly called [[Gymnosperm]]s. From that time onwards, so long as these Gymnosperms...
18: ...d the position of Gymnosperms as a class distinct from Dicotyledons, and the term Angiosperm then grad...
22: ...ding system of trunk and branches, bearing on the ultimate twigs or branchlets innumerable leaves, while ben...
24: ... the angiosperms and the [[Gnetophyte]]s diverged from one another during the late [[Triassic]] (220-2...
47: ... regular periodical increase in thickness results from it by the development of xylem on the inside an... - Mosaic (6524 bytes)
3: ...mphitrite_mosaic.jpg|thumb|150px|Detail of mosaic from [[Herculaneum]] depicting [[Amphitrite]]]]
12: ...ior decoration]]. In mosaics, small [[tile]]s or fragments of pottery (known as ''[[tesserae]]'', dim...
16: ...istinguished luxurious Roman villas across north Africa. In Rome, Nero and his architects innovated th...
18: ...]. In Western Europe, the demanding techniques of fresco replaced the even more labor-intensive techni...
20: .... The process is known as [[zillij]] in [[North Africa]] and [[qashani]] further east. Some of the b... - New Kingdom (2574 bytes)
7: ...eud]]'s ''Moses and Monotheism'' to have been the ultimate origin of [[Jew]]ish monotheism). Akhenaten's re... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...e was initiated as a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] in Fredericksburg on [[4 February]] [[1752]]. On Lawren...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...nternational incident, and helped to ignite the [[French and Indian War]], which eventually became the...
33: ...ition]], which successfully drove the French away from [[Fort Duquesne]].
37: ...en. In that year, he was chosen as a [[delegate]] from Virginia to the First [[Continental Congress]] ... - 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...
46: ...oal. He personally directed the war effort, which ultimately led the Union forces to victory over the secedi...
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... - Earth (30908 bytes)
7: ...th''' or '''Terra''', is the third planet outward from the [[Sun]]. It is the largest of the [[solar s...
14: ...f approximately 12,742 km. The maximum deviations from this are the highest point on Earth (the summit...
55: ... is only 1/20,000 as great as the energy received from the Sun.
74: ...utaway-english.png|thumb|350px|left|Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. Partially to scale.]]
86: ...Peridotite|harzburgite]]s which has been observed from deep parts of the oceanic crust that have been ... - Jordan (20715 bytes)
48: | From the [[League of Nations]]<br>
73: ...he [[United States]] maintained the position that ultimate sovereignty was subject to future agreement.
77: ...ion -- 700,000 in 1966 -- grew by another 300,000 from the West Bank. The period following the 1967 wa...
79: ...ver the ''fedayeen'' in July 1971, expelling them from the country.
88: ...er Chamber of Deputies, elected by [[universal suffrage]] to a 4-year term, is subject to dissolution ... - 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... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
1: ...and]] of [[Borneo]], in [[southeast Asia]]. Apart from its coastline with the [[South China Sea]], it ...
50: | 673 ''('''080''' from Malaysia)''
55: ...was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[protectorate]] from [[1888]] to [[1984]].
60: ...e early 1960's and was put down by British troops from Singapore. A garrison of [[Gurkha]] soldiers ar...
84: ...ncome from overseas investment supplements income from domestic production. The government provides fo... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
40: established_dates = From [[United Kingdom|UK]] by treaty<br>[[21 January...
58: ... "Republic of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Re...
60: ...dence in [[1922]] it became known as the "[[Irish Free State]]", a name that was retained until [[1937...
67: ...ed to be ended by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For the prior reasons Redmond and his Ir...
69: ...of an independent Irish State whereby the [[Irish Free State]] (in the [[Gaelic|Irish language]] ''Sao... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
56: ...r, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The ...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: The [[British Isles]] is a term frequently used to refer to the [[archipelago]] whic...
71: ...nce]] of [[Ulster]], immediately opted out of the Free State and to remain in the UK. The nomenclature... - Flag of New Mexico (1805 bytes)
9: ...ol from the state's flag. It is unclear what the ultimate result of this effort will be. For now, at least... - Luxor (8772 bytes)
16: ...cians of [[Byblos]] and [[Tyre]], the [[Minoans]] from the island of [[Crete]], the [[Greece|Greek]]s ...
18: ... to match. [[Wenamun]], the priest of Amun, moved from Thebes to [[Byblos]], around [[1070s BC|1075 BC...
20: ... to attack and destroy Thebes. Doing so, he acted friendly to Egypt, kicking out the [[Kushite]] [[Tah...
23: Then, Thebes remained always the ultimate destination, although the intention was not polit...
25: ...Amun, where the statue of the god was transferred from [[Karnak]] during the holy days of the
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