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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
74: ...s of Tejas, calling themselves Texians and led mainly by relatively recently-arrived [[English languag...
139: ...e than the nation's "free and sovereign states": only since 1997 have its citizens been able to elect ...
161: Situated in the southwestern part of mainland North America and roughly triangular in shape,...
194: ... expatriate communities; Mexico's Muslims number only a few thousand or less. - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]]
252: *[[Henry Morton Stanley]], (1841-1904), successfully searched for [[Dav... - 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...
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...
148: ...the Ming economic system emphasized agriculture, unlike that of Song, which had preceded the Mongolian... - 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...
37: ...ersian tradition at a very remote period knew of only three architectural wonders in that region, whic... - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
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]]. - 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...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...red because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise to the popular quotation, "''...
25: ...onstituent of the present [[Tanzania]]), until Stanley left the next year.
27: Despite Stanley's urgings, Livingstone was determined not to le... - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
4: ... of the great Ionic temples, though it stood for only a decade before an earthquake levelled it, was t...
6: Unlike the Greek Doric order, Ionic [[column]]s norma...
10: ...tect [[John Russell Pope]] wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of [[Theodore Ro...
14: ...k his hints, to interpret the Ionic Order as matronly in comparison to the Doric Order, though not as ...
16: The [[Parthenon]], although it conforms mainly to the Doric order, also has some Ionic elements... - 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]],... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
7: Secondly, unlike other countries, Chinese belief systems allow ...
46: ... of [[Shangchuan]], without having reached the mainland. In [[1582]], Jesuits once again initiated mis...
54: ...s call to preach the gospel across China and the enlargement of the house church movement.
80: ==Mainland China== - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
- Boudicca (6973 bytes)
15: ...most eighty thousand Britons fell" compared with only four hundred Romans. Boudicca, according to Taci...
17: ...r ten as her supposed resting place) but this is unlikely. [[Manduessedum]] near the modern day town o...
23: ...ne]] under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudicca's... - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
11: ...e a temple name. In China, empresses<br>consort, unlike ruling emperors, are not given a temple name.<...
14: ...l name '''Wu Zhao''' (武曌), was the only female emperor in the [[history of China]], foun...
24: ...r of China [[Qin Shi Huang]]. Indeed she was the only woman in the 2100 years of imperial China ever t...
26: ...erial name was definitely set as Emperor Tiance Jinlun Shengshen (天冊金輪 ...
69: ... Dynasty]] was restored that same day, but the Shenlong era continued to be used until [[707]]) - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
2: ...[[Haakon VI of Norway]], who was the younger and only surviving son to [[Magnus VII of Norway]], [[Mag...
12: ...[[Trinity Sunday]], on [[June 17]], Eric was solemnly crowned king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The ...
16: ...l maintained; the licence of the nobility was sternly repressed; the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway wer...
24: Margaret died suddenly on board her ship in [[Flensburg]] harbour on [[... - 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... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
- 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... - 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... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
10: ...ish military, believing that war would most certainly bring defeat. Her promotion of entente with Germ...
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