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- Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
7: ...x was positioned a [[mirror]] which reflected [[sunlight]] during the day; a [[fire]] was lit at night...
9: ... they could reach shore. However, this is highly unlikely due to the lack of modern optics and reflect...
17: ...cape in the area was very flat and lacking in the kind of landmark used at the time for [[navigation]], ... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
8: ...t his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reached by means of an apparatus of ropes. Ct...
25: ...plied with furniture and wearing apparel of every kind….
27: ...he acropolis at Athens should have been repaid in kind after many years by one woman, a citizen of the l...
37: ...ersian tradition at a very remote period knew of only three architectural wonders in that region, whic... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...acks the multitudinous theories which aim at some kind of [[understanding]], [[knowledge]] or [[wisdom]]...
14: ...e to the use of slavery there - the workforce, mainly slaves, performed the labour that otherwise woul...
20: ... the idea that evil is a kind of ignorance, that only knowledge can lead to virtue, that art should be...
42: ... Reason" or "Early Modern Philosophers" and "The Enlightenment", another author might write from the p...
46: ...of the [[American Revolution]] are part of [[The Enlightenment]]. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
5: ...y over the centre of his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
9: ...cal career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him ...
29: ...t he with his company of riders may be seen by moonlight in the forests of Britain or Brittany or Savo...
37: ...o the [[Saxon]]s, and unknown to the rest of [[mankind]]. The pride and curiosity of the [[Norman people...
93: ...orth a read and the Authors notes at the end are enlightening. "There is a sword and there is a stone,... - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon q...
11: ... fairly soft metallic material that can dissolve only a small concentration of carbon (no more than 0....
21: ...osphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly found elements must be removed from the ore duri...
28: ... the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people of [[Greenland]] began making [[harpoon]]s and other edged to...
46: ...lized cast iron, and quench-hardened steel, with only a few, probably ornamental, bronze weapons. - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
16: ...ed either by a blowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] whi...
20: ...lown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a...
30: There are many kinds of bagpipes; the following is an overview of som...
33: ...l known are the [[Great Highland Bagpipe]]s (commonly abbreviated GHBs), which were developed in [[Sco... - May (3270 bytes)
9: ...[[Japan]], there is the so-called May sickness, a kind of sickness where new students or workers start t...
35: ...t of the United States has ever died in May (The only month with no presidential deaths) - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
11: ...the ''[[Haute Cour of Jerusalem|Haute Cour]]'', a kind of royal council comprising the nobility and cler...
21: ...his was reason enough for the queen's party to openly challenge Fulk, as Fulk's unfounded assertions o...
39: ...shared experiences may have engendered a kind of 'kindred spirit' friendship between them, though Eleano...
45: ...ion in the city streets wearing laurel wreaths, a kind of self-crowning. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[...
14: ...tionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
36: This seemed to Marie to be the only sensible solution to her troubles. In February [...
49: ...eith]] on [[August 19]], [[1561]]. She was still only 18 and, despite her talents, her upbringing had ...
57: ...English royal blood, any child Mary would bear Darnley would have an extremely strong claim to both Ma... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
34: ...al minutes of his show, calling it "… some kind of [[Left-wing politics|left wing]] [[Internet]] ...
92: ... sales" or "drug gangs." [http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2787 Timeline]
105: ....html Rush's Forced Conscripts]" appeared on the online news and opinion magazine [[Salon.com]]. The ...
109: ...bill with the intent being to get this program - only one hour of which is carried on Armed Forces Rad... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Lo...
3: ...t became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and was the editor-in-chief of the f...
46: ...as was Diderot's mental activity, it was not of a kind to bring him riches. He secured none of the posts... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
22: ...s-Auguste]] was shy, awkward and distant. He was only a year older than she was and had no sexual or r...
25: ... supposed to do on their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the ...
32: ...e Lamballe]]. Th鲨se de Lamballe was wealthy and kind-natured; she was also absolutely devoted to Marie...
36: ...-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette's life changed suddenly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774...
77: The building of these kinds of artificial villages was very popular among Fr... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...cted [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] in [[1988]], only to be deposed 20 months later by the [[President...
6: ...ed her father in [[New York City]] and acted as a kind of assistant to him. This seems to have been a fo...
24: ...lear. She and her government have said that they only provided moral support and nothing more. The Tal... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
21: ...ivacy policy] which she says was the first of its kind, and she claimed in [[2000]] that RealNetworks wa...
41: ...blicans frequently pointed out that Cantwell won only five counties. However, those counties were amon...
53: ...ions of the pro-choice movement. She was one of only 34 Senators to vote against the [[Partial-Birth ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
13: ...th]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but th...
16: ... and "''Most clearly I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that...
35: ...g it "the international [[Magna Carta]] of all mankind," and the Declaration was unanimously adopted by ...
37: ...her old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democra... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
9: ...le neighborhood of [[Brooklyn]], the first of its kind in the United States. It was raided by the police...
11: ...aldeman-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as ...
19: ...er died in 1966 in [[Tucson, Arizona]] at age 87 only a few months after the landmark [[Griswold v. Co...
29: ...ly, are never sensual." Sexuality, for her, was a kind of weakness, and surmounting it indicated strengt...
31: ...d of exhausting her system, with the results not unlike the effects of masturbation and debauchery. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
20: ... Pierantonio had four sons and one daughter. But only the daughter, Prudenzia, survived to adulthood &...
34: ... father Orazio departed for [[Genoa]]. It is commonly believed that Artemisia followed her father (and...
42: ...trait of Gonfaloniere"''), today in [[Bologna]] (only known example of her capacity as portrait painte...
46: ...st of her life. [[Naples]] was for Artemisia some kind of second homeland where she took care of her fam...
52: ...t, and it was not possible to refuse. Orazio suddenly died in [[1639]]. Charles I was a fanatical coll... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...olshevik r駩me, and her literary rehabilitation only really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry ar...
10: ...red Anastasia over Marina. Tsvetaeva's father was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant...
20: ...her journal: "In the air of the compartment hung only three axe-like words: ''bourgeois, Junkers, leec...
24: ...]], she placed Irina in a state orphanage, mistakenly believing that she would be better fed there. Tr...
26: ...k-up with Rozdevitch in [[1923]] was almost certainly the inspiration for her great '[[The Poem of the... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
10: ...ings and fine paintings, encouraged her efforts. Unlike many of her peers, Valadon received acclaim an...
18: ...ith Valadon would be the only relationship of the kind in his life, leaving him, he said, with "nothing ...
37: * [http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/index.htm?biography/p001790.htm Short Va... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
18: ...a|Los Angeles]], [[California]] motel room, aged only 27.
26: ...drug-related causes within weeks of Joplin. But unlike Hendrix, whose fame continued to grow after hi...
28: ...writer. By comparison, although Hendrix released only three official LPs in his lifetime, he was both ...
30: ...oys" image all combined to create an entirely new kind of female persona in rock.
34: ...singers of the period who could generate the same kind of power and excitement as black performers like ...
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