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- Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: [[Image:Joni Mitchell-Both Sides Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the c...
5: ...singer Chuck Mitchell in [[1965]]. She performed frequently in coffee houses and [[folk clubs]] and b...
9: ...ms of its pressure and of the loss of privacy and freedom it entails.
11: ...inspired by stories told by her producer and then-friend [[David Geffen]]). It remains her best selli...
13: ...y diverse, with complex vocal harmonies set with African drumming (the [[Drum|Warrior Drums]] of [[Bur... - 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... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarilynMonroe.jpg|right|frame|Marilyn Monroe]]
12: ...e was declared a ward of the state. Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guard...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]...
23: ...yn and her unique connection with the [[camera]]. From this point on, audiences were spellbound and Mo...
36: [[Image:dmm.jpg|frame|right|Monroe and Joe DiMaggio on their wedding... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...e first president who had lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associa...
22: ...trust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favo...
24: ...began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state milit...
34: ...ackson's election represented a significant break from that past.
36: He was also the first President from a state west of the [[Appalachian Mountains]]. ... - 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...
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...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - East Timor (13677 bytes)
19: ...ETILIN]] party, which received some vocal support from the [[People's Republic of China]], was communi...
23: ...]], the East Timorese voted for full independence from Indonesia, but violent clashes, instigated prim...
34: ...to a five-year term. The number of seats can vary from a minimum of 52 to a maximum of 65, though it e...
59: ... the south the [[Timor Sea]] separates the island from [[Australia]], while to the west lies the Indon...
66: .... In late [[1999]], about 70% of the economic [[infrastructure]] of East Timor was laid waste by [[Ind... - Indiana (20194 bytes)
47: ...n]] as part of the settlement at the end of the [[French and Indian War]], given to the [[United State...
60: ... 475 mile long [[Wabash River]] bisects the state from northeast to southwest and has given Indiana tw...
71: A high percentage of Indiana's GDP comes from manufacturing, and much of this activity is hea...
75: ...bably best known for its decorative [[limestone]] fron the southern, hilly portion of the state. One o...
83: *8.4% [[African American|Black]] - West Virginia (24258 bytes)
38: ... Maryland and Virginia. West Virginia broke away from [[Virginia]] during the [[American Civil War]]....
40: .../www.wvbridgeday.com/bridge-day-BASE-jumping.php] from the bridge), as well as many national and state...
48: ...braham Lincoln]]. Upon the secession of Virginia from the union on [[April 27]], [[1861]], anti-seces...
76: ...n a near shore environment from sediments derived from mountains to the east, in a shallow inland sea ...
90: ...sup2;), most statistics in this section are taken from the 2002 US Census of Agriculture for West Virg... - Nebraska (13662 bytes)
36: ... of the [[United States]], Nebraska gets its name from a [[Native American]] ([[Otoe tribe|Oto]]) word...
44: ... Act|homesteader]]s poured into Nebraska to claim free land granted by the federal government.
47: ...Civil War]]. At that time, the capital was moved from [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]] to Lancaster, later r...
55: ...al flight"'' as it is called has led to offers of free land and tax breaks as enticements to newcomers...
59: <i>See: [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Nebraska|List of Congressmen]] and [[List of Go... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
41: ...]] (the land that would become New Jersey) to two friends who had been loyal through the [[English Civ...
43: ...lish Crown and gave sanctuary to the King. It was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that [[Charles I...
45: ...was in the Hudson River region and came primarily from New England. The first permanent English settl...
63: ... However, by the close of the Civil War, several African-Americans in New Jersey were still in bondage...
70: ... two [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]] are [[Frank R. Lautenberg]] (Democrat) and [[Jon Corzine]]... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Michigan (29427 bytes)
36: ...ake Michigan]], which in turn is believed to come from the [[Chippewa]] Indian word ''meicigama'', mea...
40: Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century. In [[1701]], ...
55: ...Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], [[France]], were probably the first white men to see [...
68: ...appointed by the U.S. President who selected them from eighteen persons chosen by the people. The Coun...
71: *[[1837]] Admitted as a free state into the union (the 26th state), it was a... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
37: ...ry]]. Its name was given by the state's [[France|French explorers]] after the indigenous [[Illiniwek]...
39: ...e its largest city is [[Chicago]], along the waterfront of [[Lake Michigan]]. Most of the state's pop...
48: ...lt of their exploration, Illinois was part of the French empire until [[1763]], when it passed to the ...
56: ...Illinois in the Civil War]]), which were numbered from the 7th IL to the 156th IL. Seventeen cavalry r...
60: ...ing from traditions cultivated during the state's frontier era. As codified in the state constitution... - Evolution (27661 bytes)
1: [[Image:Charles Darwin.jpg|right|frame|[[Charles Darwin]], father of the theory of ev...
3: ...e in the frequency of [[allele]]s in a population from one generation to the next.
6: ...dern synthesis, "evolution" means a change in the frequency of an [[allele]] within a [[gene pool]]. T...
14: # The [[common descent]] of all [[organism]]s from a single ancestor.
18: ...] is a model of the world (or some portion of it) from which [[falsifiability|falsifiable]] [[hypothes... - Auto racing (15302 bytes)
8: ...aged, from [[Paris]], [[France]] to [[Bordeaux]], France. First over the line was [[ɭile Levassor]] b...
12: ...go]], [[Illinois]] on [[November 2]], [[1895]], [[Frank Duryea]] winning in 10 h and 23 min, beating t...
16: ..., connecting with another major city in Europe or France.
18: ...he Paris-Madrid race. Eight fatalities caused the French government to stop the race in [[Bordeaux]] a...
23: ...to 450 kW with the aid of multiple superchargers. From [[1928]]-[[1930]] and again in [[1934]]-[[1936]... - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
1: {{MLB Reds franchise}}
6: ... Stockings in the [[19th century]]; the Redlegs, from 1954 to 1960, when the term "Red" carried conno...
17: == Franchise history ==
21: ...[[National League]] in [[1876]], but was expelled from the league later, in part for violating league ...
23: ...eague, began play in [[1882]], it included a team from Cincinnati, which was also called the Red Stock... - Tampa Bay Devil Rays (7282 bytes)
1: {{MLB Devil Rays franchise}}
17: ...ng two Florida teams, and faced with a strong bid from [[Denver]], the league bypassed the Bay Area an...
19: ..., this time admitting Naimoli's group and a group from [[Arizona Diamondbacks|Arizona]].
21: ... stay current, it needed more than $70 million US from the city in renovations. The Dome that had bui...
23: == Franchise history == - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...tury]] [[United States]] attempted to escape to [[free state]]s, or as far north as [[Canada]], with t...
4: ...mbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominently in [[African American history]].
10: ...y sects of mainstream denominations such as the [[Free Methodist]]s and [[American Baptist]]s. Books, ...
21: ...g short biographies of the people, that contained frequent railway metaphors. Still maintained corres...
23: ...t four adults and two children were sent by train from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. However, the addit... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...ud]]. The words 'lute' and 'oud' are both derived from [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''al‘ud'', "th...
7: ...wood, somewhat tapered, that are held in place by friction in holes through the ''peg box''. (There ar...
9: ... be replaced frequently. A few additional partial frets of wood are usually glued to the body of the i...
11: .... The courses are numbered sequentially, counting from the highest pitched, so that the ''chantrelle''...
15: ...s. (Some modern players use a simple loop of yarn from the tuning head around the player's neck and ba...
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