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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
1: ...usands of years, involves the creation of objects from clay and other ceramic materials. This article ...
7: ... encompasses the creation of anything from earthenware and porcelain to decorative tiles and modern scul...
30: ...ds, and social status. For example, Japanese raku ware, known for its simplistic beauty, is deeply inter...
34: ...porary art, ceramics have moved beyond functional ware to include large-scale sculptures and mixed media...
39: ... the longevity of ceramic products make it an eco-friendly choice in an age of disposable products and... - Pottery (17136 bytes)
2: ... vitrified is called "[[stoneware]]". Fine earthenware with a white tin glaze is known as [[faience]].
4: ...some decorative items. Similar types of ware made from [[porcelain]] clays are simply referred to as "...
16: ...making precisely matched sets of items e.g. dinnerware. Doing handwork enables the potter to use their i...
19: ... into a radial symmetry, so that it does not move from side to side as the wheel head rotates is refer...
25: ...are usually called "ceramics" to distinguish them from other pottery. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...iginally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: The word ''glass'' comes from [[Latin]] ''glacies'' (ice) and corresponds to ...
18: ...nto other shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]]
22: ...plify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself.
26: Glass is sometimes created naturally from volcanic [[magma]]. This glass is called [[obs... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
1: [[image:Axe of iron from Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|...
10: ...[smelting|smelted]] iron objects (distinguishable from meteoric iron by the lack of nickel in the prod...
12: == The Iron Age in Africa and India ==
13: ...[East Africa]] ([http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/IRONAGE.HTM ''Washington State University'']) w...
15: ...ologically superior Bantu spread across southern Africa and became rich and powerful, producing iron f... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ... for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ... time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even thoug...
37: ...ime that is not offset by a number of whole hours from Greenwich Mean Time. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: *[[366]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman ...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [...
28: ... - [[DeYoung Museum]] in [[Golden Gate Park]] San Francisco opens.
33: ...ship]] program with a stated goal of building 200 freighters. Over 2,700 ships will eventually be con...
39: *[[1957]] - [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angele... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
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201: [[Context-free grammar]] -- - New Deal (82408 bytes)
2: ...ams implemented between 1933-37 under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] with the goal of relief, rec...
7: ...nses to the critical situation."<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, ''Two Lucky People'' (1998) p. 59.</ref>
11: ... Milton. [http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/friedman.php ''Interview with John Hawkins''. Right ...
13: ...y, big city machines, labor unions, European and African-American minorities (now called "ethnics"), s...
18: ... 1929–1933, unemployment in the U.S. soared from 4% of the workforce to 25%, while manufacturing... - Faience (4113 bytes)
1: ...h language|English]] for fine tin-glazed [[earthenware]] on a delicate pale buff body.
4: ...omagna]] near [[Ravenna]], Italy, where a painted ware on a clean, opaque pure-white ground, called [[ma...
6: ...ined tin-glazed earthenwares shipped to [[Italy]] from the [[kingdom of Aragon]] in Spain at the close...
8: However the tin-glazed [[earthenware]] of the European [[15th century]] is in fact inf...
11: ...he blue-and-white [[porcelain]] that was imported from [[China]] in the early [[16th century|sixteenth... - Doric order (6699 bytes)
3: ...reek Doric order was the earliest of these, known from the [[7th century BC]] and reaching its mature ...
5: ...th [[capital (architecture)|capital]] that flared from the column to meet a square [[abacus (architect...
9: ...'guttae'' that appear as if they were hammered in from below to stabilize the post-and-beam ("[[trabea...
15: ... the columns are centered under a triglyph in the frieze, except for the corner columns. The plain, un...
19: ...art of the basic vocabulary of trained architects from the later [[18th century]] onwards, shows how t... - Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
5: ...e is known of pre-[[Christian]] [[Ireland]] comes from a few references in Roman writings, [[Irish poe...
7: ...centuries were to pass before the treeless [[permafrost]] was transformed into a densely forested fert...
9: ...eir food, and they are known to have built canoes from dug-out tree trunks.
14: ... revolution was a long and slow process resulting from trade and overseas contacts with agricultural c...
16: ...ket of peat. Consisting of small fields separated from one another by dry-stone walls, the C驤e Field... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
15: ...t. The fresco-paintings, ceramic motifs, reliefs, free sculpture and toreutic handiwork of [[Crete]] h...
21: ...e complexity, and the greater oblongs are entered from a long side and divided longitudinally by pilla...
23: ...rom the rest of the plan by corridors, is entered from a vestibule on a short side, and has a central ...
29: ...en records, only a summary history can be derived from monuments and archaeological remains. But the d...
33: ...s, showing a progressive development in technique from bottom to top. - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
1: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
6: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - Mauryan (48769 bytes)
2: ...ia|India]]''', ruled by the '''Mauryan dynasty''' from 321 to 185 BC.
4: Originating from the kingdom of [[Magadha]] in the [[Indo-Ganget...
10: ...[Seleucus I Nicator|Seleucus I]], a Greek general from Alexander's army. Under Chandragupta and his su...
12: ...a falls into the era of [[Northern Black Polished Ware]] (NBPW). The ''Arthashastra'' and the [[Edicts o...
20: ...[Babylon]], soon after in [[323 BCE]], his empire fragmented, and local kings declared their independe... - First Lady of the United States (9641 bytes)
3: ... position was then filled by a female relative or friend of the President. Less commonly, the First L...
7: ...or in place of the President. The first lady also frequently participates in [[humanitarian]] and char...
15: ...s her own First Lady, select a female relative or friend to occupy the role, or have her husband act a...
25: ! From
44: | friend of widower [[Thomas Jefferson]] - Beaker culture (3656 bytes)
3: ...r cultures such as the [[Battle-axe_people|corded ware culture]]. Other scholars believe it to be of [[I...
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