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- Plateau (3062 bytes)
- 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... - 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... - 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... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
28: ...ltar of the church in [[1170]]. This aroused not only Eleanor's horror and contempt, but most of Europ... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...ingen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Pala...
14: ...n in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language o...
35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not...
39: ...tween Victoria and Prince Albert. Albert was not only the Queen's companion, but also an important pol...
43: ... to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was loaded only with paper and tobacco, his crime was still puni... - 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... - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
- Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
- Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
66: ...s. Many academic philosophers criticize Rand not only for her sweeping denouncements of academic philo...
105: ... vol 2, #2. [http://www.skeptic.com/02.2.shermer-unlikely-cult.html] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
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]
114: ...l. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true." - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
8: ... Cross]] First Class during world War 2, and the only woman awarded the Luftwaffe Combined Pilot and O...
16: ...world gliding championship in Spain (and was the only woman who competed). - Pansy (10101 bytes)
34: ... have two-year life cycles. The first year they only produce greenery; they bear flowers and seeds in...
44: The plant is probably a total loss unless tufted. - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
31: *the seeds can, under natural circumstances, only germinate in [[symbiosis]] with specialized fung...
36: ...p in atmospheric humidity or exposure to direct sunlight. Between these two extremes, there is a whole...
67: ...ile Asian orchids are multicolored. Some orchids only grow one flower, others sometimes more than a hu...
71: ... whorl. The medial petal is usually modified and enlarged (then called the '''[[labellum]]''' or lip),...
94: ...fungus is very small. Of all the seeds released, only a minute fraction grows into a new orchid. This ... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
28: ...rden soil, the smaller and more delicate species only needing the aid of turfy ingredients, either pea...
41: ...acking out of the flower it will come in contact only with the non-receptive lower face of the stigma.... - Abdomen (6929 bytes)
- Vertebral column (7072 bytes)
- Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...]. Its use with any approach to its modern scope only became possible after [[Robert Brown]] had estab...
27: ... how the flowering plants should be arranged has only recently begun to emerge, through the work of th...
29: ...dicots and monocots for short). This is based mainly on the number of [[cotyledon]]s or embryonic lea...
44: In the list above (showing only the 8 largest families), the Orchidaceae, Poacea...
47: ...m and the stem once formed increases in diameter only in exceptional cases. - Glass (26176 bytes)
22: ...sub>/{{Germanium}}O<sub>2</sub> glass, which has only slightly different optical properties (the germa...
52: ...loped, which led to its becoming a much more commonly used material. The invention of the glass pressi...
85: ...ere rarely optically parallel giving rise to commonly seen distortions.
87: ...hieved by grinding and mechanical polishing, but only at considerable expense.
137: ...this belief is that when panes of glass were commonly made by [[glassblowing|glassblowers]], the techn... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
9: The word "[[Crest (heraldry)|crest]]" is commonly used to refer to a coat-of-arms. However, in her...
22: ...of arms''</td><td>''A shield, traditionally used only by a man''</td></tr>
28: ...her rare tinctures. The names of the tinctures mainly come to us from French. The first rule of herald...
69: ...redundancy by referring to a particular tincture only once in the blazon, but the College of Arms has ...
92: ...sual, like wild men or [[Saracen]]s. If you show only the head of an animal, cut off at the neck, it i...
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