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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...igration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ... store and redistribute crops, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civil...
14: ...inherited rulership was established during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in...
16: === Xia Dynasty ===
18: ... BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...ngdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...he first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
9: ...technological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]];...
12: ...l of Leiningen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensin...
14: ...ventually learned to speak [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[Fr... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...a Mary of Teck.jpg|thumb|250px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, ...
3: ...ingdom]]. Queen Mary was also the [[Empress of India]] and [[Queen of Ireland]]. Prior to her accessio...
5: ... the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the first Quee...
9: ...sburgs]], the once powerful ruling family of Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[He...
11: .... The Duchess of Teck was however granted a [[Parliament]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 ... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...U.S. Senate, and along with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent...
5: ...om [[1975]]-[[1978]]. She has also worked as a social worker, and a leadership training consultant. Sh...
7: ...trition and Forestry]], and the [[U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging]]. She introduced the [[Medic...
9: ... legislator had served in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died. - Ouida (1938 bytes)
5: ...ied in poverty on [[January 25]], [[1908]], in [[Viareggio]], [[Italy]].
15: * ''Helianthus '' (1908)
17: * ''A Lemon Tree'' (1894)
18: * ''Idalia'' (??)
28: * ''The Silver Christ'' (1894) - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...92]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...y schools of [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her ...
10: ...clination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
10: ...er peers, Valadon received acclaim and some financial success during her lifetime.
18: ... affair in [[1893]]. A smitten Satie proposed marriage after their first intimate night. For Satie, th...
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24: ...r studio to "eat up her bad drawings", and fed caviar to her "[[Roman Catholic Church|good Catholic]]"...
26: ...ter]]. She married Utter in [[1914]], but the marriage also did not last. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: '''Bessie Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattan...
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job wi...
7: ...d accompaniments included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Ja...
11: ...ccompanying band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny G...
17: ...ied as a consequence thereof. It was an unsubstantiated rumour that lingered for decades, fuelled by [... - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
8: ...sages. Mouthpieces also vary with regard to rim diameter and shape.
11: ...fused with the modern cornet), and the [[Scandinavia]]n [[lur]].
16: ...xtends from the written F♯ (concert E) immediately below [[middle C]], up to about three octaves...
37: ...ude much of the unmodified original text from the 1894 edition.
45: ...'. Almost all aspects of technique are controversial, since different people have different problems ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
16: [[William McKinley]] ([[1897]])</td></tr>
31: ...as scrupulously honest at a time when many politicians were neither, but he had little imagination and...
34: ...ne of nine children. His father was a [[Presbyterian]] minister. He was raised in upstate [[New York]...
40: ...mor, he did admit to paying child support to [[Maria Crofts Halpin]], the woman who claimed he fathere...
42: A [[bachelor]], Cleveland was initially ill-at-ease with all the comforts of the White... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
24: | '''[[Official language]]'''
48: ..., [[Uzbekistan]] and has a coastline on the [[Caspian Sea]].
54: ...as established as a major trading route between Asia and Europe.
58: ... [[Genghis Khan]] took control of the eastern Caspian Sea region on his march west. For the next seven...
60: ...nistan. The [[October Revolution]] of 1917 in Russia and subsequent political unrest led to the declar... - Uganda (11554 bytes)
1: ...thin which it shares borders with Kenya and Tanzania.
14: official_languages = [[English language|English]] |
47: ...lling_code = 256 (+006 from [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]]) |
59: ...s as part of Uganda today. [[Islam]] and [[Christianity]] were introduced to these kingdoms.
61: ...[[protectorate]] by the [[United Kingdom]] from [[1894]]. As several other territories and chiefdoms we... - Flag of Mississippi (1142 bytes)
2: ...ag|Confederate battle flag]]. It was adopted in [[1894]].
4: ...01]], the voters of the state opted to retain the 1894 flag, over a new flag that some considered less o... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
9: ...e respected above all others. It was Brother Matthias who taught him baseball, working with him for co...
12: ...abe started mocking his own pitcher. Brother Matthias promptly switched George from catcher to pitcher...
14: Brother Matthias brought Babe to the attention of [[Jack Dunn]], ...
18: ...ion was already stacked with lefties, so they initially made little use of him. With a 1-1 record, he...
23: ...he sale of [[Tris Speaker]] to the [[Cleveland Indians]]. After a slightly shaky spring, he would make... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = VT |
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
36: ..., [[New York]] to the west, and the [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Quebec]] to the north.
38: ...ire]], through their [[Green Mountain Boys]] militia, eventually prevailed. Vermont became the 14th st...
52: ...ot due so much to the presence of a particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of... - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
1: ....S. postal abbreviation is '''OK'''; others abbreviate the state's name '''Okla.''' As of [[2000]], th...
12: OfficialLang = None |
15: PostalAbbreviation = OK |
56: ...klahoma, including the Tulsa Metropolitan area), Kiamichi Country (Southeastern Oklahoma), and Lake & ...
58: Popular but "unofficial" regional designations include [[Green Country]]... - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ...ists (commonly called [[suffragette]]s), was a social, economic and political [[reform movement]] aime...
4: ...and for public office in [[South Australia]] in [[1894]], along with universal suffrage in that state.
13: ... nineteenth century, starting with [[South Australia]] in [[1861]].
15: ...age in terms of voting rights (women were not initially permitted to stand for election) in a major co...
17: ...to stand for parliament was South Australia, in [[1894]]. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...chelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
79: *[[Marcello Bacciarelli]] ([[1731]]-[[1818]]) - Castle (27805 bytes)
12: ...em. This can best be seen in castles such as [[Bodiam Castle]] in [[Kent]], whose defensive look was p...
14: ...ften built castles for offensive reasons: territorial expansion and control of a region. A castle was ...
15: ...ome as they had no refuge.(Hariulf, ''Gesta ecclesiae Centulensis'')
21: ...hen the Laird of the castle had considerable judicial powers over his [[Scottish clan]] and the main h...
46: ...est in the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], and was then familiar on the mainland of western [[Europe]]. - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
5: ... planes have advanced significantly as well. Initially planes were controlled by moving your entire b...
15: ...as constructed in the late 20th century from materials that would have been available to da Vinci. The...
17: ...e place without danger, although when the first trials are made you may have to pay for the experience...
27: ...derably more lift than expected by Cayley's Newtonian reasoning, with [[lift-to-drag ratio]]s of about...
29: ...ee names in particular remain well known in the aviation world; [[Otto Lilienthal]], [[Percy Pilcher]]...
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