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- Tawaret (3580 bytes)
1: ...'''Tawaret''' ("The Great One") – was a popular deity in ancient [[Egyptian mythology]]. She wa...
3: ...of a [[crocodile]], and the pendulous breasts and large stomach of a pregnant woman. She also had a wi...
5: ... the worship of Tawaret. At the height of her popularity, many Thebean children would be named for her...
9: ...lation]], the present-day [[Draco (constellation)|Draco]]. She was described as the "mistress of the hori...
11: ...ypt, this characteristic was regarded as partly balanced, making her more of a neutral figure overall. - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ...hrub]] for comparison). Compared with most other plant forms, trees are long-lived. A few species of t...
5: ... [[orchard]] crops (e.g. [[apple]]s). Trees also play an important role in many of the world's [[mytho...
7: ==Classifications==
9: ...y)|orders]] and [[family (biology)|families]] of plants. Trees thus show a wide variety of growth form...
11: ...many well known trees and how they are typically classified. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...ons in France in the popular imagination. It downplays the previous trend of absolutism and people as ...
8: ...d and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these in...
17: ...nce in public life by the ambitious professional classes.
21: ...onsistent resistance from the ''[[parlement]]s'' (law courts), dominated by the "Robe Nobility," which...
23: ...h finances, and allow further borrowing until the land tax began to make up the difference and allow t... - Ursa Major (6591 bytes)
1: ...phere. Its name means ''[[Great]] [[Bear]]'' in [[Latin]], and is associated with the legend of [[Call...
3: ...an be seen to follow the rough outline of a large ladle, or dipper; this is recognized as a grouping o...
10: ...n be found by measuring a line five times the angular distance between the two ''pointer'' stars Dubhe...
16: *ν and ξ Ursae Majoris, Alula Borealis and Australis, the "first leap";
17: *λ and μ Ursae Majoris, Tania Borealis and A... - Libra (2626 bytes)
1: ...s testify, it was at one point part of Scorpius' claws.
7: *α Librae, [[Zubenelgenubi]] ("southern claw"), a [[visual binary]];
8: *β Librae, Zubeneschamali ("northern claw");
9: *γ Librae, Zubenelakrab ("scorpion's claw");
12: α and β Librae are the scales' balance beam, and γ and σ are the weighing... - Ursa Minor (3030 bytes)
1: ...' in [[Latin]]. It is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 listed by [[Ptol...
4: .... The star at the end of the dipper handle is [[Polaris]], the "''North''" or "''Pole Star''".
6: ...Big Dipper, a nearby asterism found in the constellation [[Ursa Major]].
8: ...hern) in [[French language|French]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]], to go with adjectives for the ot...
11: *Polaris (α UMi): a yellow [[supergiant]] of spe...
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