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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
7: ...hilosophy]] has a long history. Conventionally divided into three large eras - the Ancient, Medieval a...
10: Western Philosophy is generally said to begin in the Greek cities of western Asia Mino...
12: ...g parts), the [[Eleatic School|Eleatics]] [[Parmenides]] and [[Zeno of Elea|Zeno]] (All is One and cha...
14: ...ere respected members of society, and were well paid by their students. It's also well known that orat...
16: ...rying to determine whether anyone had a very good idea what they were talking about, especially when t... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...humb|250px|Industrial Revolution Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
10: ...SIIM.jpg|thumb|300px|A Watt steam engine in [[Madrid]]. The development of the [[steam engine]] starte...
12: ...nce of a large domestic market should also be considered an important catalyst of the Industrial Revol...
16: ... made the greatest gain from overseas trade. The middle class in England became wealthy from overseas ...
20: The rapid growth of science and technology since the 17th c... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...h are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of carbon...
5: ...s in which carbon is replaced with other alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is undesired. A more re...
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... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democrati...
24: * [[1939]] - [[World War II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosev...
27: * [[1952]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1952]]: [[United States Republica...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin. - Burundi (13403 bytes)
3: ... Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict-ridden countries in Africa and in the world. Its smal...
13: ...] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
17: ...er_titles = [[President of Burundi|President]] |
54: ...at Ntare came from Buha, in the south-east, and laid foundation for his kingdom in Nkoma region.
58: ...der [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet the most extreme Hutu group, Palipehutu-F... - Reproduction (2286 bytes)
5: ...e fusion of haploid gametes. Then it forms a diploid zygote.
6: ...ebrate]]s of the [[Order (biology)|order]] ''Hydroidea'') and [[yeast]] are able to reproduce by [[bud...
8: There are a wide range of reproductive strategies employed by dif...
12: ...spring). Which strategy is favoured depends on a wide range of circumstances. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
15: ...d emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against ...
22: ...ustody of her children, but Lord Althorp's rank, aided by Lady Althorp's mother's testimony against he...
24: ... At age 16 she briefly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]...
30: ...urma|Lord Mountbatten of Burma]], any potential bride had to have an aristocratic background, could no...
32: ... the Young England [[kindergarten]] in [[Knightsbridge]]. [[Buckingham Palace]] announced the [[engage... - 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.
12: ...re on gaining further parliamentary rights and on material wealth.
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... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ... achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature...
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither...
14: ...k values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...Passion of Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand's first name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer wh...
31: ...er a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human happiness, flourishment, and success. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ... conducted experiments in [[life sciences]] and [[material sciences]], and was co-investigator in the [[Bone...
5: ...hysician]], teacher and [[astronaut]], she has a wide range of experience in technology, engineering, ...
13: ...itical, cultural and economic context of the individual, especially for the developing world. Current ...
15: ...ge. The Institute was established as an agent for identifying, assessing, researching and implementing...
23: She resides in [[Houston, Texas]] with her cats Sneeze and ... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
7: ...Pierre Curie]]. Together they studied radioactive materials, particularly the [[uranium]] ore [[uraninite|pi...
9: ...nitially the chloride salts (refining radium chloride on [[April 20]], [[1902]]) and then two new [[ch...
13: ...lement". In an unusual move, Curie intentionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, inst...
17: ...lic was all the more acute. It is a strange coincidence that Paul Langevin's grandson Michel later ma...
19: ...be identified as [[radon]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified.... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
8: ...or the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic,...
10: ...rfunkel]] ("[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[Th...
16: ... far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
37: *[[1963]] ''[[Laughing on the Outside]]''
59: *[[1973]] ''[[Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)]]'' - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
22: ... ''[[The Rose (movie)|The Rose]]'', with [[Bette Midler]] in the lead role, was loosely based on Janis...
26: ...se fame continued to grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interes...
28: ... studio worker, laying down many albums' worth of material, that has continued to be released in the decades...
30: ... sense of humour, her liberated stance and her strident, hard-living "one of the boys" image all combi...
34: ...d sing blues and R&B with total conviction. Alongside [[Grace Slick]] of [[Jefferson Airplane]] she pi... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ... Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ... with the burgeoning [[folk music]] scene of the mid-[[1960s]] in [[New York City]]. Through the [[197...
5: ...gs were strengthened by Mitchell's extraordinary wide-ranging voice (with a range in pitch at one time...
7: ...ed by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...tthews Southern Comfort]]. (Ironically, Mitchell did not even go to [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]], ... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
6: ...''Happy Woman Blues'', which consisted of her own material. Neither album received much attention.
8: ...around the country and gained fans among music insiders, including [[Tom Petty]], who would later cove...
10: ...was a melancholy album dealing with themes of suicide and death. Williams's biggest success during the...
12: ...ercial success was moderate. [[Emmylou Harris]] said of Williams, "She is an example of the best of wh...
16: ... ''[[The Horse Whisperer]]'', the album received wide critical notice and soon went gold. It received ... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...lic for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number one on the ...
10: ...arted working with other artists (including Stan Ridgway of [[Wall of Voodoo]], [[Sandra Bernhard]] an...
13: ... desolation of "Me and a Gun", which received considerable critical attention. When the album was rele...
16: ...he album included "More Pink", a collection of B-Sides including a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song...
20: ...t Plant]], contributed the song "Down by the Seaside" to the [[Led Zeppelin]] tribute album ''[[Encom... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...account of the childhood of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman C...
13: ...and while there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn wa...
15: ...]], and their return in the following year and residence at Nazareth ([[Matthew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary app...
25: ...sult of a [[virgin birth]]; denial of this is considered heretical by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox (...
27: ...]], contains biographical material about Mary considered plausible by some Orthodox and Catholic Chris... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
5: Ellen White was a prolific [[writer]]. She is said to be the most translated female writer in the hi...
9: ... and have moved the hearts of men and women. Considered by some to be the prophetess for the end-time...
11: ...ibute to the unity among Christians. She even considered Christian unity to be from Satan and one of t...
27: ...ers to more broadly share her visions, which she did by a mix of public speaking, magazine articles, a...
29: ...] and [[doctrine]], as well as for [[devotional]] material. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
5: ...and when she returned fascinated by them, she confidentially approached [[Arnold Fanck]], the director...
7: ...'', a [[documentary film]] glorifying Hitler and widely regarded as one of the most effective pieces o...
9: ...ics]] but decided to film the event instead. This material became ''[[Olympia_(film)|Olympia]]'', a film cel...
13: ...;a position which many of her critics dismiss as ridiculous.
19: ... Impressions]]''), an idealized movie <!-- it was idealized, not documentary --> of life in the oceans... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
5: ...]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insincere. So, she enrolled in [[John Murray ...
7: ...iversal Studios]], but they felt she was not star material, and in [[1932]], they let her sign with [[Warner...
9: ...]'' in [[1939]]. Davis was elected the ninth president of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc...
13: ...ted not as on-screen lovers, but rather with Henreid directing Davis in the [[camp]]y dual role as a m...
23: ...On her [[tomb stone|tombstone]] is written, "She did it the hard way."
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