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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
4: [[Image:Takht-jamshid.jpg|thumb|380px|After 2500 years, the ruins of Pe...
6: ... known as ''Takhti Jamshid'' ("the throne of Jamshid"). That they represent the Persepolis captured an...
8: ...s]], concerning whom [[Ctesias]] relates that his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reac...
12: ...domannus), who is one of those whose bodies are said to have been brought "to the Persians."
14: ...he Pulwar, a good hour's walk above ''Takhti Jamshid''. These formed a single building, which was stil... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...y]] of [[Great Britain]], where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. He is the ...
7: ... Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Ki...
9: ...ding the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little...
19: ...hur" and states "we went with Arthur in his splendid labours"; and the poem "Journey to Deganwy," whic...
21: ...n the battle of [[Mons Badonicus]], where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men. According... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...h are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of carbon...
8: ...gen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smel...
11: ... similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at ...
13: ...ery similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it require...
15: ...t metal in [[water]] or [[oil]], cooling it so rapidly that the transformation to ferrite or perlite d... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
17: ...th England. A marriage treaty was signed; it provided that the Princess Mary should marry either Fran...
19: ...with Catherine void and the marriage with Anne valid. Since the [[Pope Clement VII|Pope]] had previou...
21: ...s marriage to Catherine was officially null and void from the beginning. She lost the dignity of a Pr...
23: ...and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence.
26: ... household, and the Lady Mary was permitted to reside in royal palaces. Henry's sixth and last wife, ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
19: ...ngly opposed the marriage proposition, went into hiding in [[Stirling Castle]], where preparations wer...
24: ...ston in solemn procession to the Chapel Royal. Inside, Lord Livingston brought Mary forward to the alt...
26: Quickly, Cardinal [[David Beaton]] put the Coronation Oath to her, which Lo...
31: ...part soon after Mary's coronation. The betrothal did not sit well with the Scots, especially since Hen... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
22: ... that her death mask could be examined. While the grave was open, a team of scientists examined her bones...
36: ...7 counts, 46 barons and 428 lesser nobles; to provide these new peers with adequate appanages, she had...
39: ...mplated an alliance with Spain, a state quite outside the orbit of Sweden's influence, the first fruit...
48: ...d in the crypt of [[St. Peter's Basilica]], alongside the remains of the popes. A monument to her was...
66: | width="30%" align="center" | Preceded by:<br>'''[[Gus... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ... to circumnavigate the globe; [[Francis Bacon]] laid out his philosophical and political views; and En...
16: ...ges of treason (adultery against the King was considered treason), incest with her elder brother, and ...
18: ... relationship with Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appoin...
20: ...'s enormous weight. However, from her father she did inherit her red hair.
25: ...ly into London, her half-sister Elizabeth at her side. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
7: ...teen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures i...
9: ...d him what he would like as a reward, Mozart is said to have responded by saying he would like the han...
15: ...daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to ...
25: ...n their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the awkwardness betwe...
36: ...r knees in prayer, with Louis saying "Dear God, guide and protect us. We are too young to reign." Mari... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ... trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and wa...
10: ...of [[form of government|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
19: ...e wanted the Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s p...
21: ...a [[general strike]] to rouse the workers into solidarity and prevent war, but the party leadership re...
27: ...ts was the later leader of the SPD, the first president of the [[Weimar Republic]] [[Friedrich Ebert]]... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
10: ...n 1025 and 1031, when she would have been in her mid fifties, which was quite old by Heian standards.
20: ...ww.crock11.freeserve.co.uk/shikibu.htm Murasaki's Grave] - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...nd the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeis...
8: ...play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ... frequent and occasionally violent. There was considerable tension between Tsvetaeva's mother and Varv...
12: ...chool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during ...
16: ...nna Akhmatova]], although she never met Blok and did not meet Akhmatova until the 1940s. Describing th... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
16: ...ft safe and implored her not to fly it. Coleman did not put on her seatbelt, because she was planni...
18: ... performed the first yearly fly-by over Coleman's grave, in [[1977]], a group of African American women p... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...ny, a show that also included [[Ma Rainey]], who did not teach Bessie to sing but probably helped her ...
7: ... railroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accomp...
9: ...iness, and the advent of talking pictures, which did [[vaudeville]] in. Bessie, however, never stopped...
11: ... her old blues groove, but "Take Me For A Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popul...
13: ...ton]]'s uncle) Richard Morgan. They were in an accident and Smith was severely injured. A doctor soon ... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...or]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
11: ...ation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She ...
13: ...isters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls. After a few months training...
15: ..., becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep impressio...
24: .... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] cal... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
4: ... a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ...en again for prison sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her li...
9: ...rced in [[1945]], but remarried the same year, deciding to patch things up.
22: ... stay in Los Angeles. Sponsor [[Philip Morris]] didn't want to show kinescopes to the major markets o...
26: ... IV]]. The birth made the first cover of ''[[TV Guide]]'' the same year. However, these blessings coul... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
11: ...lieved to represent Hammurabi. The head has the wide open eyes, typical of the time period.
13: ...it can have four legs visible if viewed from the side. The piece was excavated at [[Nimrud]] (in nort...
18: ...e [[Great Sphinx of Giza]], located near the pyramids. It is about 60 feet high and 240 feet long, an...
27: ...yer and a harpist were found together in a single grave on [[Keros]], dating from 2700 - 2750 BC.
42: ...anti|Raphael]] also sculpted a statue called ''David''. Most sculptures during the Renaissance were on... - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ...well as many other developed religious systems besides that of [[Christianity]]. Relics are an import...
7: ...uding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Elisha; and as soon as the man touched the bon...
9: ...e tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages.
17: ...virtus'' inhabited images of the pagan gods, the "idols" of our museums and archaeology, and destroyin...
26: ...t are enshrined in churches and cathederals worldwide must be at least a finger or small bone, etc. - Angola (15614 bytes)
1: ...former [[Portugal|Portuguese]] colony, it has considerable natural resources, among which oil and diam...
11: ... = Virtus Unita Fortior ([[Latin]]: Unity Provides Strength) |
18: leader_titles = [[President of Angola|Head of State]] <br> [[Prime Ministe...
61: ...ortuguese administrative control of the interior didn't occur until the beginning of the 20th century....
68: ...nto a multiparty state, but after the current president [[José …duardo dos Santos]] of MPLA won UN sup... - Senet (1763 bytes)
7: ...Senet boards were often placed in the grave alongside other useful objects for the dangerous journey t... - Egyptian hieroglyph (6639 bytes)
1: ...mage:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg||thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
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8: ...y labels inscribed with proto-hieroglyphics. This grave has been dated to c. [[33rd century BC|3400 BC]].
12: ...ng was not, however, eclipsed, but existed along side the other forms. The [[Rosetta Stone]] contains ...
20: ...oleon]]'s troops during the Egyptian invasion provided the critical information which allowed Champoll...
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