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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
60: | [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
1: {{History_of_China}}
2: ...lternated between periods of political union and disunion, and was occasionally conquered by external ...
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...c]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first vil...
13: == Ancient history == - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: '''Persepolis''' was an ancient capital of the [[Persian Empire...
4: ...500 years, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
6: ...oyed by [[Alexander of Macedon]] has been beyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Val...
8: ...spis]], concerning whom [[Ctesias]] relates that his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only b...
9: ...(L)]][[Image:Persepolis 1.JPG|thumb|300px|Persepolis (R)]]</center> - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...rs to a number of states and cultures that have existed and are viewed as having succeeded one another...
5: ...wever the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chi...
7: ...[[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...eans "middle (or centre) land," referring to the historic position of China at the centre of her known...
16: ...ly and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nations; a concept that co... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...o.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[Jul...
5: ...ilosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets o...
7: ...of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...losophiques'' (1746), and he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...toria Mary of Teck'''), (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]],...
5: ... Mary was known for setting the tone of the [[British Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality ...
9: ...ustria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once ...
11: ...[Italy]], for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]...
13: ... week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aun... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...sentative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ... Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: ...t Riot]] drew the young Emma Goldman to the anarchist movement, and at twenty she became a [[revolutio...
13: ...rkman]], who was an important figure of the anarchist movement in the United States at the time. Her d...
15: ...also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...he capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]].
6: ...ters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ...in [[1871]] when the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, ...
10: ...atured, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]].
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [[1872]]. The Salon critics claimed th... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...rovincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological perspicacity.
5: ...r works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted...
8: ...shed a translation of Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', and it was at that time that she began ...
10: ..." were well received and launched Evans on a novelistic career. Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a ...
15: ...g in love with her. Yes behold me in love with this great horse-faced bluestocking.</blockquote> - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: Pickford was born '''Gladys Louise Smith''' in [[Toronto, Ontario]], [[Canada]] (fo...
7: ...he play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name '''Mary Pickfor...
9: ...d from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public's inability to acc...
11: ...and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped.
15: ...g "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funeral. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ... the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ... sister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where s...
7: ...r 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...rating the radioactive components, and eventually isolated initially the chloride salts (refining radi...
11: ...heir joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She wa... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...Orleans, Louisiana]] and began singing in a [[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] ...
3: ...uccess came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for pop...
5: ...when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]''. J... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
3: ... a [[German people|German]] [[abbess]], [[Monasticism|monastic]] leader, [[Mystics|mystic]], author, a...
5: ==History==
6: ... of Count Meinhard of Sponheim) just outside the Disibodenberg monastery in Germany. Jutta was enormou...
8: ...e". At first she was hesitant about writing her visions, holding them inside. She was finally convinc...
11: ...o write down everything she would observe in her visions. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: ...:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~1989)]]
2: ...e of the best and most popular stars in American history.
4: ...oron, New York]] and after her father died, was raised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[19...
5: ... father was sued once for money, then again for prison sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she nee...
11: ... CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's [[Desilu]] production... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias''' ([[June 26]], [[1911]] in [[Port Arthur, Texas]] – [[September 2...
5: ...an Shiley]] in the high jump. The jury, however, disapproved of her style and declared Shiley the Olym...
9: ...6-47 U.S. Women's Amateur as well as the 1947 British Amateur and three [[Western Open (women's golf)|...
11: ...e Western Open, in addition to leading the money-list. She was the leading money-winner again in 1951 ...
13: ... was also the highest ranked woman on [[ESPN]]'s list of the 50 top athletes of the 20th century. - Retina (13061 bytes)
3: ...l of [[vertebrate]]s and some [[cephalopod]]s; it is the part of the eye which converts [[light]] into...
5: ...cts light, it also plays a significant part in [[visual perception]]. In [[embryonal development]], th...
12: ... sensitive area along the horizontal [[meridian]] is about 3.2 mm.
14: ...y may produce action potentials on their axons. This spatiotemporal pattern of spikes determines the r...
16: ... photoreceptive cells lie outermost. Because of this light must first pass through the thickness of th... - Cornet (3752 bytes)
1: The '''cornet''' is a [[brass instrument]] that closely resembles the...
3: ...ed Kingdom|UK]] and other countries that have British-style brass bands.
7: ...ually just one in a band, adds an extreme high register to the brass band sound and can be most effect...
9: ...rnet is often preferred for young beginners as it is easier to hold, with its centre of gravity much c...
11: ...s a public domain image from Webster's Dictionary 1911]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ...sh;[[1801]]) [[President of the United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth Preside...
22: ...gland]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...t, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: ...[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, Joh... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
2: ... the meridian at which longitude is 0 degrees. It is sometimes referred to as the Greenwich Meridian.
6: ...nce the following important principles were established:
7: ...eridian to replace the numerous ones already in existence.
9: ...des would be calculated both east and west from this meridian up to 180?.
13: ...d the application of the decimal system to the division of time and space would be supported.
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