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- Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...ting career. In [[1999]], the [[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all t...
5: ...her unabashedly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sense of adventure and independence...
7: ...ould later be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfal...
8: ...ormation about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
10: ...year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''. - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...variety of precious stones were used for high quality sculpture and inlays. [[Clay]] was used for pot...
8: ...hem are a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
11: ...urabi|code of law]]. A bearded head, made of diorite, is believed to represent Hammurabi. The head h...
13: ...mia]]), and was donated to the [[New York Metropolitan Museum of Art]] by [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]]...
18: ...eat Sphinx of Giza]], located near the pyramids. It is about 60 feet high and 240 feet long, and was ... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
5: ...C]]; it is possible that ''The Suppliants'' was written after this, making ''The Persians'' his earlie...
7: ...n his head (though some accounts differ, claiming it was a stone dropped by an [[eagle]] or [[vulture]...
9: ...e to commemorate his military achievements only. It read:
12: ...avery, and so will the longhaired Mede who learnt it well".
19: ...invention was only attributed to him by later tradition, however. - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
1: ... him a willing tool for the furtherance of his political designs; in this hope, however, Lysander was ...
3: ... following spring. He then came to an agreement with the satrap Pharnabazus and once more turned sout...
4: It was said that he was planning a campaign in the i...
13: ...[Corinthian War]], making several successful expeditions into Corinthian
14: territory and capturing [[Lechaeum]] and [[Piraeum]]. T... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...eneric term for [[star]]s and the objects that orbit around them.
8: ...]]s of the Solar System are those nine bodies traditionally labelled as such:
13: **[[Jupiter|Jupiter]] (♃)
20: ...the Solar System, accompanied by their main satellites, profiled against the limb of the Sun]]
22: ...ects that orbit these planets are [[Natural satellite|moon]]s. For a complete listing, see that articl... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...ss the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as 35 m across can be see...
3: == Definition ==
4: ...rman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1937), the egyptologist --->.
6: ...suggestion about the composition of the object or its general location in the solar system, and some a...
8: ...ify asteroids is in terms of size. A working definition is that asteroids are larger than 50 m in diam... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...]] The '''Crusades''' were a series of several military campaigns — usually sanctioned by the [[...
4: ...o have multiple meanings and connotations. For additional meanings see [[Crusade#Usage of the term "cr...
7: ...pulation. The Church tried to stem this violence with the [[Peace and Truce of God]] movements, forbid...
9: ... are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstinence]] with prayer or alms (except during [[Lent]]).
11: ...ort for the First Crusade, and the religious vitality of the 12th century. - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
5: <br/><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
15: !bgcolor="#a0ffa0" colspan="2"| [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] ...
18: ...[kilometre|km]]<br>39.481 686 77 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
20: !align="left"| Orbital [[circumference]]
23: !align="left"| [[Eccentricity (orbit)|Eccentricity]] - Artemis (11271 bytes)
7: ...oddess]] to complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of [[Helios]] as the [[sun god...
9: Her priestesses were addressed with the title [[Melissa]].
11: ...as passed to the person who was able to kill him with a bough, picked from a tree in the forest.
15: ... were asked to lay all the accoutrements of virginity (toys, dolls, locks of their hair) on an altar t...
19: ...n the [[Aventine Hill]] where mainly lower-class citizens and slaves worshipped her. Slaves could ask... - Horse (38916 bytes)
15: ...efield "[[cavalry]]" units, sometimes keeping traditional names ([[Lord Strathcona's Horse]], etc.)
19: ...ay Gould]] cited rare instances of modern horses with true extra toes as evidence that minor genetic m...
21: ...rgo careful introductions to strange objects and situations.
23: ...es them out of the herd to form "bachelor bands" with other young stallions. Usually not until a stall...
25: ...d wants to stop and eat, the whole herd follows suit. - Ernest William Brown (1403 bytes)
1: ...]] [[1866]] – [[July 22]] [[1938]]) was a British [[astronomer]].
3: ...lunar tables. He also calculated the orbits of [[Trojan asteroid]]s.
15: ===Obituaries===
23: [[Category:British astronomers|Brown, Ernest William]] - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
3: ...called the '''Temple of Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''π...
9: ...ad charge of the sculptural decoration. The [[architect]]s were [[Iktinos]] and [[Kallikrates]]. Const...
11: ...o make the temple look even more symmetrical than it actually is.
13: ...er. The stylobate has an upward curvature towards its centre of 60 millimetres on the east and west en...
19: ...northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]]. - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...C Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of [[Britain]], and his conquest of [[Gaul|Gallia Comata]] ...
4: ...lic. Caesar's friend [[Marcus Brutus]] conspired with others to assasinate Caesar in hopes of saving t...
6: ...aigns are known in detail from his own written [[Literary works of Julius Caesar|''Commentaries'' (''C...
9: ... its ancestry to [[Julus]], the son of the [[Troy|Trojan]] prince [[Aeneas]], who according to myth was th...
11: ...st men in Rome at the time and while he gained political clout, the Caesar family gained the wealth. - Troy (22846 bytes)
1: '''Troy''' is a legendary city, scene of the [[Trojan War]], part of which is described in [[Homer]]'s ...
2: ...ge:Troy 00.jpg|thumb|250px|"Trojan Horse" at the site of Troy|Image provided by [http://classroomclipa...
3: ...also the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, in [[Anatolia]], c...
5: ...] in [[Slovenia]]) has been referred to by some writers as ''Troia secunda'' ("the second Troy").
7: ...ith a [[digamma]]) is thought to be the Greek rendition of that name. - Antalya (20816 bytes)
3: ...because of the natural and historical beauties of it.
5: ...ine]], [[Roman Empire|Roman]] and [[Seljuks]] architecture and culture can still be seen. Also Antalya...
7: ... [[Perga]], [[Manavgat]] and [[Alanya]]. Ancient cities like [[Phaselis]], [[Olympos]], [[Adrasan]] an...
10: ...eaven' " and King Attalos founded the city giving it the name "Attaleia" ([[Greek language|Greek]]: ''...
14: ...h of Antalya city. Other finds dating back to Neolithic times and more recent periods show that the ar... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
1: ...assroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] '''Aphrodite''' (Αφροδίτ&#...
4: ...ra was a center of her cult. She was associated with [[Hesperia]] and frequently accompanied by the [...
6: ...sses was considered a method of worshipping Aphrodite.
8: ...dove]]s, [[swan]]s, [[pomegranate]]s and [[Lime (Citrus aurantifolia)|lime]] trees.
12: Venus was often referred to with epithet [[Venus Erycina]] ("of the heather") after [[M... - List of genres of reggae (4332 bytes)
1: ...rything under the Reggae name whether it warrants it or not.
5: ...rrick Morgan]], [[Prince Buster]] and [[The Skatalites]].
7: ...position in the mix. Rocksteady is also known for its [[The Impressions (American band)|Impressions]]-...
9: ...g of the bass and electronically doubled rhythm guitar stroke. Major artists include [[John Holt]] and...
11: ...electronic equipment on existing recorded tracks. Its sound (built around individual instrumental trac... - Padua (12961 bytes)
2: ...]] and [[Ugo Foscolo]]. The city is picturesque, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into ...
7: ... till the fire of [[1420]], when the Venetian architects who undertook the restoration removed them, t...
9: ...]], the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great door, the work of [[Falconetto of Verona]]...
10: ...Two Christians before the Judges'', hangs in the city's [[cathedral]].]]
11: ...irst full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiquity.
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