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- Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: ...:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: '''Eleanor of Aquitaine''' ([[Bordeaux]], [[France]], c. [[1124]] &nd...
6: ...means ''other Aenor'' in the ''langue d'oc'', but it became ''El顮or'' in the northern ''langue d'oil...
8: ... hawking, and hunting. She became heiress to [[Aquitaine]], the largest and richest of the provinces t...
10: ...crystal vase]] that is on display at the Louvre. Within a month of their marriage, [[Louis VI of Franc... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...nd catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her love...
7: ...legheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and the...
9: ...image:Stein_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
11: ...o [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]]. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
8: ...[1889]] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in the portrait ''The Hangover''.
10: Degas impressed with her bold line drawings and fine paintings, encou...
12: ...ws of her artist son born in [[1883]] whose paternity she never divulged. Named Maurice Valadon at bir...
14: ... landscapes that are noted for their strong composition and vibrant colors. She was, however, best kno...
18: ...that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness." - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...Bolena.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La S...
3: ...e combined an impeccable [[bel canto]] technique with great dramatic gifts, making her the most famous...
5: ... under the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and perfor...
7: ...rdings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wo...
9: ...] tour with the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely ... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
1: ...adar.jpg|thumb|275px|'''Sarah Bernhardt''' (portrait by [[Nadar]])]]
4: ...t herself, she combined the career of an actress with that of a [[courtesan]] - at the time, the two w...
6: ...ation as a serious dramatic actress, earning the title, "The Divine Sarah"; arguably, she may have be...
8: ...the [[1880s]]. Multi-talented, she was involved with the [[visual art]]s as well as acting, painting ...
10: ...de Ligne, with whom she had her only child, the writer [[Maurice Bernhardt]], in [[1864]] (he married ... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...erties, history, and the processes that shape it. It is one of the [[Earth science]]s.
3: ...s]], [[perlite]], [[mica]], [[phosphates]], [[zeolites]], [[clay]], [[pumice]], [[quartz]], and [[sili...
7: ...rd was first used by [[Richard de Bury]]. He used it to distinguish between earthly and [[Theology|the...
10: ... [[mountain]]s and by [[Deposition (geology)|deposition]] of [[silt]].
12: ...turned until after the [[Scientific Revolution]]. It was translated into [[Latin]] and the other langu... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ation of the Ca-Al-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Since the accretion time of the Earth is not e...
6: ... the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
11: ...embled the Earth in composition and then measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that t...
13: ...at the Earth had been through many changes during its existence, however long that might be.
15: ...ffering locations contained similar fossils, then it was very plausible that the layers were the same ... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
1: ...countries by population density|by population density]], [[list of countries by date of nationhood|by ...
3: ...below list contains both states and dependent territories, see [[country]], [[state]], [[nation state]...
5: ...'Countries listed by [[continent]] and their [[capital]]s:'''
8: Africa is a continent in the systems with 5 or more continents.
26: *[[Eritrea]] - [[Asmara]] - Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
1: '''The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis''' is an island nation in the [[Carib...
3: |+<big><big>'''Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis'''</big></big>
7: ...tts and nevis flag large.png|125px|Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis]]
8: ...="2" height="135px" | [[Image:skitts22.PNG|Saint Kitts and Nevis: Coat of Arms]]
10: ... align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis|In Detail]]) - Delaware (15006 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]] |
21: DensityRank = 7<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 154.87 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 1<sup>st</sup> | - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...erifiable [[empirical knowledge]], a global community of [[scholar]]s, and a set of [[technique]]s for...
4: ...any place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of science.
6: ...conception). [[Technology]] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects a...
11: ...''is'', how it ''functions'', and whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. The [[sociology...
15: ...ommunity and those in the social sciences or humanities (for example, the "[[Science wars]]"). - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ...y]], and uses the standard color codes of the [[United States Geologic Survey]].
3: ... spans of time on the time scale are usually delimited by major [[geology|geologic]] or [[paleontology...
7: ...gnized faunal stages than defined geologic time units.
9: ...omian]] stages in [[East Asia]] and [[Siberia]]. It is a key aspect of the work of the International ...
13: ...d, distorted, tilted, or even inverted after deposition; 2) Strata laid down at the same time in diffe... - Caste (32815 bytes)
1: ...re|cultural]] context, is usually in conjunction with the [[social division]] in [[Hinduism|Hindu]] so...
3: ...ocial insect]]s like [[ant]]s, [[bee]]s and [[termite]]s have caste divisions of [[Queen bee|queen]] (...
5: ...s, [[Kshatriya]]s, [[Vaishya]]s, and [[Shudra]]s. It is believed that one is born into a caste dependi...
7: ...[[Agni]] or [[Ushas]]. In RV 3.34.5 and RV 9.71.2 it refers to the the lustrous colour of the sky at d...
13: ...indu]]s, particularly in [[India]] and [[Nepal]]. It is based on four ''varnas'', (meaning "colours"): - Zoology (5641 bytes)
25: ...on [[evolution]], [[population genetics]], [[heredity]], [[variation]], [[Mendelism]], [[reproduction]...
28: ...ines such as [[mammalogy]], [[herpetology]], [[ornithology]] study mechanisms that are specific to tho...
35: ...al structure, [[histology]] and [[embryology]] in its scope.
37: ...ge throughout the Middle Ages. It was Wotton's merit that he rejected the legendary and fantastic accr...
39: ...sificatory conceptions of successive naturalists with those which are to be found in the works of [[Ca... - Paleontology (5646 bytes)
1: ...s, cast off parts, fossilized [[feces]] ("[[coprolite]]s"), and chemical residues.
5: ..., [[zoology]], and [[ecology]], fields concerned with living creatures and how they interact. [[Palyno...
7: ...tebrate paleontology]], which deals with animals without backbones, or in
8: ... paleontology]], dealing with fossils of animals with backbones, including fossil hominids ([[paleoant...
12: ...study include the correlation of [[rock strata]] with their [[geologic ages]] and the study of [[evolu... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
7: ...lign="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:DeGaullePortrait.jpg|180px]]
40: ...Gaulle''''', was a [[Military of France|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de...
42: ...ch left a major influence in subsequent French politics.
47: ...uring the [[Dreyfus affair]] the family distanced itself from the more conservative natonalist circles...
49: ==1912–1940: Military career== - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...er of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
8: ...tive bodies, the conflicting interests of these initially allied groups would become the source of con...
12: * Resentment of royal [[political absolutism|absolutism]].
15: ... by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation.
16: * [[Food]] scarcity in the months immediately before the revolution. - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
2: ...es. ''As a rule, the best place to clarify complexities is in the article on the individual in questio...
12: ... Marie Barnave]] - [[Constitutional monarchy|constitutional monarchist]] / [[Feuillant]] (faction)
17: *[[Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne]] - on [[Committee of Public Safety]], more radical [[Maximilien ...
19: ...luable to his brother's success. Later fell out with Napoleon.
25: ...of France]]. Murdered by royalists during the [[White Terror]] - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...uch as the ''[[New York Times]]'' this is often omitted.
6: [[Image:British crossword.JPG|thumb|British-style grid]]
8: ...[Australia]], have a [[lattice]]-like structure, with a higher percentage of black squares, leaving up...
10: ...e same if the paper is turned upside down. In addition, many weekday puzzles such as the ''New York T...
12: ...''circular'' designs, with answers to be entered either radially or in concentric circles. ''Free for...
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