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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: ...tratus of Cnidus]] in the [[3rd century BC]], the project having been initiated by the first Hellenistic ru... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...east 3,500 years, and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of their civilization...
36: ...he [[Qin Dynasty|Qin]] (秦) Emperor lasted only twelve years, he managed to subdue great parts o...
80: ...rruptions of power, the 1st Sui Emperor sought to project the image of benevolence in his rule. He cut dow...
92: ...back rooms, so his father would not see them. He only kept the most old and ugly servants, and old fur...
146: ...ired by the Ming. The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned and cannon... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
14: ...e to the use of slavery there - the workforce, mainly slaves, performed the labour that otherwise woul...
16: ...ng Greek philosophy into a unified and continuous project - the one still being pursued today - is [[Socrat...
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]]. - China (38909 bytes)
7: ...f as ''[[Taiwan]]'', which is also the usage commonly adopted in the West (see [[political status of T...
16: ...ng the [[Spring and Autumn Period]], it was used only to describe the states politically descended fro...
27: The Republic of China as it controlled mainland China, and later, the People's Republic of Chi...
30: The most commonly accepted theory as to the origin of the [[Englis...
34: ...;中華地區) refers to [[Mainland China]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]], [[Taiwan]],... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
58: ...undian government issued arrest warrants for the FNL leaders Agathon Rwasa and Pasteur Habimana, and d...
60: ...otiations are now under way, amid fears that the FNL will demand a blanket amnesty in exchange for lay...
70: ...Ruzizi River]], north of Lake Tanganyika, is the only area below 3,000 ft: this area forms part of the...
74: ...s in Burundi. Although [[Lake Victoria]] is commonly considered to be the source of the Nile, the [[K...
89: ...second highest in [[Sub-Saharan Africa]], behind only Rwanda. The Twa are thought to be the original ... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
6: ...ll these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
21: ...this, when she ordered the second course — only a cup of strong vinegar. She then removed one of...
36: ...rian children's book by [[Jacob Abbott]], 1852, [[Project Gutenberg]] edition. - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
5: ...ne was sent to a convent to be educated; she was only fourteen when she was married (1533), at [[Marse...
7: ...[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]], was only too glad of the opportunity to strengthen his in...
17: ...olicy of peace and negotiation. She conceived the project of marrying her favourite son, the duke of Anjou,... - 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...
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25: ...nt; in 1750 an elaborate prospectus announced the project to a delighted public; and in 1751 the first volu... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...exorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Rastrel...
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... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
55: She was the only child of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first [[Prime...
69: ...banks had collapsed with depositors getting back only a fraction of their money. Moreover a large numb...
74: ...as a poor developing country. She initiated both "Project Tiger" (a tiger conservation effort) and regulati... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
1: [[Image:Susan Brownell Anthony - Age 28 - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan B...
2: [[Image:Susan Brownell Anthony - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan B...
27: *[http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/project.html Rutgers: Stanton and Anthony Archive]
28: ...ny] (Volume 1 of 2), by Ida Husted Harper, from [[Project Gutenberg]] - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: [[Image:Annie Besant - Project Gutenberg eText 13715.png|thumbnail|right|250px|'...
7: ...). Thereafter she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's...
36: *[http://www.theosophical.ca/OnLineDocs.htm Theosophical.ca On-Line Documents] Som... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...e coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project. - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: [[Image:Christine de Pisan - Project Gutenberg eBook 12254.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|C... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
46: ...eath of her husband in [[1979]]. One of her final projects was work on a television adaptation of ''Atlas S...
66: ...s. Many academic philosophers criticize Rand not only for her sweeping denouncements of academic philo...
68: ...d. 1975), Rand makes it clear that her goal is to project her vision of an ideal man: that is, not man as h...
105: ... vol 2, #2. [http://www.skeptic.com/02.2.shermer-unlikely-cult.html] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
23: ...he [[Spanish Civil War]]. She would later start a project of translating speeches by [[Vichy regime]] leade...
26: ...[[Ain]], in the [[Rh?Alpes]] region. Referred to only as "Americans" by their neighbors, the Jewish Ge...
71: ..., rooms]]'' (1914) [http://www.bartleby.com/140/ online version]
84: ...lish.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stein-atom-bomb.html online version]
102: ...or/Gertrude_Stein Works by Gertrude Stein] from [[Project Gutenberg]] - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
10: ...ke to fly the Atlantic?" She interviewed with the project coordinators, including book publisher and public... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...olshevik r駩me, and her literary rehabilitation only really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry ar...
10: ...daughter of the historian Dmitri Ilovaisky). Her only full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarre...
18: ...arried in [[1912]], the same year as her father's project, the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts was ceremoni...
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... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
25: ...gutenberg.org/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=70 Project Gutenberg e-texts by Millay] - Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
3: ...poet, with her first poem published when she was only 13.
23: ...l.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=409 Project Gutenberg Edition: ''Poems on Various Subjects, R...
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