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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
3: ...humb|150px|'''Anne''' <br><small>Queen of Great Britain and Ireland</small>]]
8: ...ceeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
10: ...] (which united England and Scotland into Great Britain) was a product of subsequent negotiations.
15: ...ta Maria|Queen Henrietta Maria]], and afterwards with her aunt, [[Henrietta Anne Stuart|Henrietta Anne...
22: ...hat is, one who believed that James II was the legitimate monarch), Mary II dismissed him from all his... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...dividual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self;...
19: ...present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...e United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her screenplay ''[[Red Pawn]]'' in [... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ...tion of the [[astrolabe]] and the [[hydrometer]]. It has been romanticized that she had Athene like be...
4: ...sius]] had published an edict which prohibited visiting pagan temples, and Christians in the entire Ro...
8: ... pagan, but was respected by many Christians, and exalted by some (though by no means all) later Christian ...
12: .... For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more."
14: ...[1] This indicates that books were rewritten to suit the prevailing Christian dogma, which may also re... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
1: {{christianity}}
2: ...1502;רים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[Greek language|Greek]] '''&...
4: ==Historicity==
8: ...x Christian churches, are based on [[faith]], traditions of the Church Fathers, and their interpretati...
13: ...1:18|Matt. 1:18]]-[[Matthew 1:25|25]]) of her condition, and took her to his own home. Soon after thi... - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
5: ...amed Mahabharata rulers, to unify such a vast territory under his empire, which in retrospect exceeds ...
7: ... 'Their Highnesses', 'Their Majesties' and 'Their Exalted Majesties' and so on. They shone for a brief mome...
10: ...w his sword away. Ashoka found the sword and kept it.
14: ...f Ashoka, but this time the uprising was crushed with an iron hand.)
16: .... There he met a fisherwoman named [[Kaurwaki]], with whom he fell in love; recently found inscription... - Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
2: ...n coast on the [[Caspian Sea]]. It has frontiers with [[Russia]] in the north, [[Georgia (country)|Geo...
4: ...y]], however with strong [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] rule.
25: | '''[[Capital]]''' || [[Baku]]
27: | '''Capital’s [[coordinate]]s''' || {{coor dm|40|22|N...
36: ... Total<br/> – [[Population density|Density]] - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...aic]], which are [[Semitic languages]], and [[Elamite]], which is an [[Elamo-Dravidian]] language.
16: ...y) in the 1880s, but Rawlinson's volumes contain little Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets...
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20: The University of Pennsylvania began excavating Sumerian [[Nipp...
24: Credit for being first to scientifically treat a bilingu... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...His life was described in [[Giorgio Vasari]]'s ''Vite''.
7: ...to him at an early date and which we find in use within thirty years after his death, but was not prop...
9: ...the [[convent]]s he lived in, but this did not limit his art, that very soon became famous. He had the...
13: ...hrist'' executed for the Church of the [[Holy Trinity]] in [[Florence]], paintings that Vasari indicat...
15: ...he painted in the convent of S. Domenico in this city; as a fresco-painter, he may have worked under, ... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
5: ...ms of Rome, as well as prompting an age of great literacy and culture.
7: ...e for over 400 years. His surname [[Caesar]] and title [[Augustus]] would be taken by all subsequent E...
12: ...e Tenth Legion stationed in the rear as reserves. It was Octavian’s quick thinking to engage the...
14: ...l about provincial administration, warfare and political manipulation while a part of his uncle’...
16: ...gain loyalty from the Macedonian legions, while waiting to accompany Caesar on a campaign against the ... - Tower of Babel (13111 bytes)
2: ... a different language, they couldn't communicate with one another and the work could not proceed. Afte...
8: ...ter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.</cite>
11: ...and they left off to build the city." The name of it was therefore called "[[Babel]]", because there [...
13: ...ian ''Bāb-ilu,'' which means, "Gate of God". Its [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] version however, "Bab...
15: ...ruptions. This has been the case with Hebrew and with [[Basque language|Basque]] (as proposed by [[Lar... - Crane bird (6009 bytes)
17: ...lar-looking but unrelated [[heron]]s, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back. Most have e...
19: ...s of North America inspired some of the first [[United States|US]] legislation to protect [[endangered...
21: ...er and autumn (the [[cranberry]] is so-named from its being extensively eaten by some northern species...
28: ...o would intercede with [[Allah]], were the "three exalted cranes" (''gharaniq'').
30: ...o a theater and hovered over him until, stricken with guilt, he confessed to the crime. - Axe (10109 bytes)
3: ...Image:Firefighter with axe.jpg|thumb|Firefighter with a fire-axe]]
5: ...past they have been used in [[war]], like the Neolithic and later battle-axe, the hurlbat, and throwin...
8: ...a wedge introduced into the slit and pounded in with a [[mallet]].
11: ...e:Axe cutting wood.jpg|thumb|300px|Splitting log with an axe]]
14: ...currently one of the least common in use in the United States at this time.
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