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- 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...
31: ...trumpet had given her opinion on a matter of such moment, one or two, themselves also loaded with wine, ag...
37: ...ersian tradition at a very remote period knew of only three architectural wonders in that region, whic... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
74: ...was received as a hero in Spain, and this was his moment in the sun. He displayed several kidnapped native... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
27: ... at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the royal family to actually s...
55: ...f Union]] in 1801 to be out of the country at the moment of succession. [[Treetops Hotel]] where she went ...
66: .... This is one reason why it is considered highly unlikely that she will ever [[abdicate]]. Like her mo...
70: The only public issue on which Elizabeth makes her views ...
98: ... II]] these proceedings were deemed to have been unlawful. - 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...
31: ... alarms of a descent from the police. At the last moment, when his immense work was just drawing to an end... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
11: ... to [[Holstein]] of her beloved sister Anne, her only remaining near relation, the princess found hers...
23: ...e Preobrazhensky [[Leib Guard|Guards]] regiment, enlisted their sympathies by a stirring speech, and l...
25: ...ttle knowledge and no experience of affairs, suddenly found herself at the head of a great empire at o...
29: ...eden ceded to Russia all the southern part of [[Finland]] east of the river Kymmene, which thus became...
31: This triumphant issue was mainly due to the diplomatic ability of the new vice ch... - 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 ...
36: ...-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette's life changed suddenly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774...
85: ...me impatient with the jeweller and snapped, "Not only have I never commissioned you to make a jewel &h...
117: ...ds were massacred. She and her ladies-in-waiting only narrowly escaped with their lives before the cro... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
25: ...and once a [[Protestant]], [[Unionist]] bastion, unless they had the permission of a bishop. In her tw...
45: ...idency and the first woman candidate in what was only the second presidential election to be contested...
55: ...n as a near certainty to win the presidency. The only question asked was whether Robinson would beat C...
65: ...siting Britain and in one particular epoch-making moment, became the first Irish president to visit [[Eliz...
69: ... she sought it. In the previous fifty-two years, only one address to the Oireachtas (parliament) had t... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
7: ...). Thereafter she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's...
13: ...r Nitya were brought up by Theosophists from that moment on, with a subsequent lawsuit filed by his father...
36: *[http://www.theosophical.ca/OnLineDocs.htm Theosophical.ca On-Line Documents] Som... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ...emburg believed that an independent Poland could only come about through revolutions in [[Germany]], [...
19: ...apital]] and [[labour (economics)|labour]] could only be countered if the proletariat took over power ...
45: ...ble or even separate things, but rather different moments of the same process, so that one cannot exist wi...
48: ...and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggl...
53: ..., especially the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]]. Unlike the social democratic orthodoxy of the [[Secon... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... later indicated in an autobiographical account, "Moments of Being," that she and her sister [[Vanessa Bel...
13: ...is probably not among the greatest, but she certainly is in the category of the 20th century great ima...
54: *''The Moment and Other Essays'' ([[1948]])
55: *''Moments of Being''
60: ...ature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read her literature at online-literature.com] - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
13: ...ksgiving (Luke 1:46-56; comp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three mo...
15: ... for thirty uneventful years. During these years only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: h...
19: ...hristians that she is again portrayed as the heavenly Woman of Revelation (Revelation 12.1).
43: ...the divinity or humanity of Jesus Christ. So not only would one side affirm that Jesus was indeed God,...
45: ...n but do not accept a sort of "hyper"-veneration only for the [[Theotokos]]. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
18: ...]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed...
24: ...erely had the effect of stalling the Royal army's momentum. Charles used this time to take the army on a ...
33: ...nfirmed that this was based on a distortion: she only objected to being tried by pro-English clergy wh...
38: ...] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a confession and agreed to wear a d...
40: ...Spirit) which he said flew out of her body at the moment of death and headed toward French-held territory ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
14: ...ike [[Max Bugnard]]. She noted that she was the only female in most of the classes that she attended ...
28: Mrs. Child was a favorite of audiences from the moment of her television debut on public television in 1... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
13: ...ot a middle distance runner. The following year, only eighteen years old, she was nominated for the [[...
25: ...usband had other plans, and she resumed training only weeks after her son's birth.
39: ...in 11.9, easily beating her opponents [[Dorothy Manley]] and [[Shirley Strickland]], who take second a...
67: Fanny Blankers-Koen's last moment of glory came in 1999. At a gala in [[Monaco]], o...
79: * [http://www.fbk-games.nl/ Site of the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games] - Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
11: ... after the win became an instant legendary sports moment. The final match surpassed the Atlanta Olympic fi...
19: ...ichelle Akers]] were the only two women, and the only two Americans, named to the [[FIFA 100]], a list...
21: ...9th [[cap (football)|international appearance]]; only her teammate [[Kristine Lilly]] has played in mo...
23: ...female), and 276 [[Cap (football)|caps]], second only to Lilly. - Artery (6875 bytes)
3: ...lled the ''intima''. This layer is made up of mainly [[endothelial cell]]s. Just deep to this layer ...
13: ... of the mean arterial blood pressure at any given moment. The pulse pressure, i.e. Systolic vs. Diastolic ...
17: ...[[hemoglobin]] molecules have typically given up only 1 of the 4 oxygen molecules, a venous saturation... - Eye (21834 bytes)
13: ...such an eye varies, however: some trilobites had only one, and some had thousands of lenses in one eye...
15: ...more. This enables snails to keep out of direct sunlight.
65: ...which allow humans and other animals to see by moonlight, or with very little available light (as in a...
79: ...plate striking the head will not damage the eye, unless it breaks the skull.
110: ...the eyes can focus on a 'moving' tree for a short moment (through smooth pursuit), until the tree moves ou... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...Arabic manuscripts (hence its familiar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard...
7: ...tral to the modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole...
9: ...]] in the Roman empire at his time. He relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of...
14: ...frica; Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe.
16: ...scripts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
7: The only work of Aristarchus which has survived to the pr...
11: ... ancient times, which is why stellar parallax is only detectable with [[telescope]]s. But the [[geocen...
21: ...Moon, and Earth form a near right triangle at the moment of [[lunar phase|first or last quarter moon]]. He... - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
7: ...lted Majesties' and so on. They shone for a brief moment, and as quickly disappeared. But Ashoka shines an...
36: ...evious form of the Buddha), the tree under which enlightenment happened, and the burial mound where th...
62: ... stars [[Shahrukh Khan]] as Ashoka and focuses mainly on his warring period.
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