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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
81: ...— [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909]] — [[1911]] (wings added)
105: | [[1911]] — [[1917]]
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
169: | [[1905]] — [[1911]]
181: | [[1911]] — [[1916]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...s of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people toda...
7: ...l center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was fo...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
14: ...三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ...far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur (Kyrus).
4: ...:Takht-jamshid.jpg|thumb|380px|After 2500 years, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from f...
6: ...Macedon]] has been beyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
8: ...ere brought "to the Persians," or that they died there.
12: ...e whose bodies are said to have been brought "to the Persians." - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...d beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...one another in [[continent]]al [[East Asia]] for the last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view...
5: ...arlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...ormation). The nature and extent of ''China'' is the subject of ongoing political disputes on [[Chines...
14: ...o the historic position of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary stat... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
18: ...die, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
24: ...[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter
36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3:
5: ...[[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing G...
7: ...l the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...tly added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]]. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...[[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...ary's valuable collection of jewels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ...ary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younger daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Du...
11: ... for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [...
13: ...he Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]]. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ...which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: ... remained legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
13: ...pular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him) was jailed for fourteen y...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at t... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ...e_bath.jpg|thumb|right|225px|''The Child's Bath (The Bath)''. [[Mary Cassatt]]. ([[1893]]). Oil on can...
4: ...before she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris...
6: ...Masters|old masters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ... paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
10: ...ropean museums, her style matured, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]]. - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...ly set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological perspicacity.
5: ...scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...at that time that she began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
10: ...so he remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
12: ...heir [[wedding night]]; he survived. She died at the age of 61 in London of a [[kidney]] [[ailment]] a... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ... and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
5: ...n of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became...
7: ... [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name '''Mary Pickford'''.
9: ...s that reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ...s was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]]...
5: ...[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ... thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...olonium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactiv...
11: ...ered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...e she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], one of the earliest professional gospel groups.
3: ...from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility.
5: ...es on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]''. Jackson died the following year.
7: She was posthumously inducted into the [[Gospel Music Association]]'s [[Gospel Music Hal... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
1: ...al illumination showing Hildegard von Bingen and the monk Volmar]]
6: ...ew [[monastery]] on the Rupertsberg at Bingen on the [[Rhine]].
8: ...order after falling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.
10: ==The Awakening==
11: ...her to write down everything she would observe in her visions. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: ...:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~1989)]]
2: ...movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history. ...
4: ...ocal bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ... decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ...r with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king". - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
1: ...BabeDidrikson.png|framed|right|Babe Didrikson in the 1932 Olympic javelin competition]]
3: ... her nickname "Babe" (after [[Babe Ruth]]) after she hit five [[home run]]s in a single [[baseball]] g...
5: ...ion. After the Games, Shiley and Didrikson split their medals.
9: ...[U.S. Women's Open (golf)|U.S. Women's Open]] for her fourth and fifth [[women's majors|major champion...
11: ...ts toll and Zaharias died in 1956 while still in the top rank of female American golfers. - Retina (13061 bytes)
1: ...lip Art]]] Many animals have eyes different from the human eye.]]
3: ...e]]s and some [[cephalopod]]s; it is the part of the eye which converts [[light]] into nervous signals...
5: ...a and the optic nerve originate as outgrowths of the [[brain]].
7: ...y or Medicine]] for their scientific research on the retina.
9: The unique structure of the [[blood vessel]]s in the retina have been used for [[biometric]] identific... - Cornet (3752 bytes)
1: ...is a [[brass instrument]] that closely resembles the [[trumpet]].
3: ...[[Brass band]] in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and other countries that have British-style brass bands.
7: ...nd can be most effective in cutting through even the biggest climax.
9: ... hold, with its centre of gravity much closer to the player.
11: ...s a public domain image from Webster's Dictionary 1911]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
18: ...[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]).
22: ...], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...ions of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: ...ional]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]].
28: ...usness to be a handicap in his political career. These qualities were particularly manifested at a lat... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
1: ...[Image:Prime_meridian_2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<i>The Prime Meridian, Greenwich</i>]]
2: ...ude is 0 degrees. It is sometimes referred to as the Greenwich Meridian.
4: ... 25 nations met in [[Washington, D.C.]], USA for the International Meridian Conference.
6: ...e the following important principles were established:
7: ...able to adopt a single world meridian to replace the numerous ones already in existence.
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