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- Religion in China (12456 bytes)
7: Secondly, unlike other countries, Chinese belief systems allow ...
11: ...ediated between the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dynastic cycle]] was that an unj...
28: ...y not have been a real person. The philosophy is centered on 'the way', an understanding of which can b...
33: ...duced into China via the [[Silk Road]] in the 7th century.
46: ... of [[Shangchuan]], without having reached the mainland. In [[1582]], Jesuits once again initiated mis... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: ...t the end of the 14th or commencement of the 15th century]]
2: ... his absence. This practice had been the norm for centuries rather than Pizan's invention.
11: ... she took the precaution to assure her readers (''Cent balades'', No. 50) that they were merely exercise...
21: ... of domestic life in the France of the early 15th century not supplied by more formal historians. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
27: ... was during the [[Crimean War]], which became her central focus when reports began to filter back to Bri...
33: ...ed mortality rates by 40 per cent to just two per cent. She sent many letters to Herbert, to facilitate ...
47: ...ment to her room, Florence Nightingale played the central role in the establishment of the [[Royal Commi...
71: ...father was an expert, and was a pioneer in the nascent field of [[epidemiology]]. Florence made extensiv...
75: ...liament]] and civil servants who would have been unlikely to read or understand traditional statistica... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
9: ...entury BCE|14th]] – [[12th century BCE|12th centuries BCE]]) of Babylonian history, was found at N...
11: ...d the circumference of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
17: *Some stars can only be seen from certain parts of the earth.
25: ...]. This would, in turn, eventually lead to [[the Enlightenment]] a concern for scientific accuracy and...
34: In the mid to late [[20th century]] advances in electronic technology have led t... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...ed version of the [[guitar]]. In the early [[20th century]], the instrument's name was often rendered as...
3: It is commonly associated with [[music]] from [[Hawaii]] where ...
7: ...ghbor. He sold Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
36: * [[Dan Scanlan]] ("Cool Hand Uke")
42: ...gh the middle. At the back, the bore is about 4 [[centimetre|cm]] in diameter; at the front it is about ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
41: ....JPG|right|thumb|John Adams, as depicted on a two-cent American [[postage stamp]].]]
52: Partly for this reason, Adams received only thirty-four out of sixty-nine votes in the [[U.S...
57: ...ers of opposing [[political party|parties]]. The only other time this would happen would be when [[Abr... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
39: ...es House of Representatives]]. Jefferson was the only Vice President elected to the Presidency to serv...
41: ... epitaph, written by him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, re...
141: ... had first submitted in [[1779]], and was one of only three accomplishments he put in his own epitaph....
143: ...nd material he considered preternatural, leaving only Jesus' moral philosophy, of which he approved. T...
149: ...s from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the induc... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
7: ...ty|Democratic Party]] politics, but was regarded only as a competent small-town lawyer when he was giv...
19: ...hat left him partially paralyzed and almost certainly incapacitated. Though Marshall was advised that...
29: ...d, "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar."
31: ...lect Woodrow Wilson a book, inscribed "From your only Vice." He was known to greet citizens walking b...
36: ...ndiana|Governor of Indiana]] |before=[[J. Frank Hanly]]|after=[[Samuel M. Ralston]]|years=1909-1913}} - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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48: ...uction and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the [[New Deal]] some 70 years later...
59: ...mpaign for the [[Illinois General Assembly]]. The centerpiece of his platform was the undertaking of nav...
63: ...d]] from [[1837]] to [[1841]] in Springfield. A recent biography has suggested the controversial theory ...
65: ... stories about Lincoln from those who knew him in central Illinois, eventually publishing a book, ''Hern... - Europe (23835 bytes)
6: ...uare miles), making it larger than [[Australia]] only. In terms of [[population]] it is the third lar...
11: ...phical designation. Later ''Europa'' stood for mainland Greece and by [[500 BC]] its meaning was exten...
18: ...d increase in scientific knowledge. In the [[15th century]] [[Portugal]] opened the age of discoveries, ...
22: ...] started in [[Great Britain]] in the late [[18th century]], leading to much greater general prosperity ...
29: ...ere is ongoing debate on where the [[geographical centre of Europe]] is. - Germany (46412 bytes)
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6: ...llspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:center;"
7: ...y flag large.png|125px|Flag of Germany]] || align=center width=130px| [[Image:Bundesadler.png|100px|Germ...
10: | align=center width=130px| ([[Federal Coat of Arms of Germany...
13: | align=center colspan=2 | National [[motto]]: ''Einigkeit und... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
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13: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Malaysia flag large.pn...
16: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Malaysia|Flag]])
17: | align="center" | ([[Emblem of Malaysia|Coat of Arms]])
20: | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small... - Utah (29154 bytes)
76: Utah is the center of the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day S...
128: ...2]], [[2004]], Amendment 3 was approved by 66 per cent of Utah's citizens.
135: ...s is the variety of its terrain. Running down the center of the state is the [[Wasatch Range]], which ri...
139: ...he [[Great Salt Lake]] and [[Utah Lake]] are the only two significant remains of this ancient freshwat...
141: ...ixie (Utah)|Dixie]] because early settlers mistakenly believed that cotton could grow there. [[Beaverd... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
38: ... although that industry has declined greatly in recent decades. The nickname has also been embraced for ...
42: ...d international attention for having the first openly [[gay]] bishop, [[Gene Robinson]], within the [[...
53: In the [[20th Century]], NH gained political renown for its [[First ...
60: Unlike most states, New Hampshire does not have a [[L...
62: ...ative body in the English-speaking world, behind only the United States House of Representatives and t... - Geometry (3634 bytes)
1: ...n of [[Pi]], accurate to within less than one per cent. The [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]] also describe...
7: The central notion in geometry is that of ''congruence''. ...
26: ...d.edu/entries/geometry-19th/ Geometry in the 19th Century] - 2006 (7939 bytes)
3: | align="center" colspan=2 | <small>'''Years:'''</small><br> [...
5: | align="center" colspan=2 | <small>'''[[Decades]]:'''</small> ...
7: ...[20th century]] - '''[[21st century]]''' - [[22nd century]] <hr>
26: * [[January 15]] - First round of the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 200...
27: ...anuary 29]] - Second round (if needed) of the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 200... - Beaver (4858 bytes)
17: ... [[North America]] and [[Europe]]. They are the only members of the [[family (biology)|family]] '''Ca...
18: ...stinct [[species]] and that [[hybrid]]ization is unlikely.
26: ...e extinct in [[Great Britain]] in the [[sixteenth century]], but there are proposals, and a great deal o...
28: ...a]]; in fact, it is depicted on the Canadian five-cent piece and was on the first Canadian postage stamp...
31: ... a protection against predators ([[bear]] is the only natural predator) and to provide easy access to ... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...en the [[26th century BC|2600 BC]] and the [[20th century BC|1900 BC]].
8: ... finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw ...
11: ...an Emperor [[Ashoka]], dating to the [[500 BC|5th century BC]], of the [[Chola]] dynasty that then ruled...
14: ...jayanagara Empire]], which declined with the 16th Century AD.
17: ... Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]] - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...tituted the bulk of the population from the [[8th century]] onwards and slowly assimilated both the Scan...
15: ... the [[10th century|10th]] to [[11th century|11th centuries]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the la...
17: ...wn as the [[Tatars]], they ruled the southern and central expanses of present-day Russia, while its west...
23: ...ll of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less functional Christian state on the E...
27: ... off the control of the invaders late in the 14th century. [[Ivan the Terrible]], the first leader desi... - French language (40201 bytes)
3: ...[[Senegal]], [[Rwanda]], [[Burundi]], [[Togo]], [[Central African Republic]], [[Republic of the Congo]],...
27:
31: From the third century on, Western Europe was invaded by [[Germanic t...
46: ...he [[5th century|5th]] to the [[8th century|8th]] centuries, [[Celtic languages|Celtic]]-speaking people...
48: ...he [[6th century|6th]] to the [[7th century|7th]] centuries, the [[Vascon]]s crossed over the [[Pyrenees...
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