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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
10: ...the opaque dictum, "All is water." His most noted students were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[Anaximander...
14: ... fills in the blanks by saying that the Sophists' students wanted to acquire the skills of an orator in ord...
20: ... the idea that evil is a kind of ignorance, that only knowledge can lead to virtue, that art should be...
22: Plato's most outstanding student was [[Aristotle]], perhaps the first truly system...
33: ... with the first letter of each word reminding the student of the names of the syllogisms. - 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...
33: ...l known are the [[Great Highland Bagpipe]]s (commonly abbreviated GHBs), which were developed in [[Sco...
50: ...a goose, has a bag but lacks drones, and allows a student to practice "winding" the pipe with the proper mi... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
22: ...tess Spencer|Raine, Countess of Dartmouth]], the only daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartl...
24: ...she was regarded as an academically below-average student, having failed all of her [[O-level]] examination...
36: ...ince Harry of Wales|Prince Henry of Wales]] (commonly called Prince Harry) on [[15 September]] [[1984]...
38: ... suicide attempts did take place, there was certainly a significant risk she would [[miscarriage|misca...
85: ...o needle as it was [[digital]]. The car was certainly travelling much faster than the legal [[speed li... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
76: ...assumed power in [[1948]]. The Wellesley College student became a citizen in [[1957]]. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
34: Rice was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], the only child of [[Angelena Rice]] and the [[Reverend]] ...
37: ...non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm].
47: ... student associations, such as the [[Venezuela]]n Student Organization. After departing to enter government...
93: ...t Palo Alto]] and East [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]], and was Vice President of the [[Boys and...
102: ...e is interested in a run for the presidency, but only in [[draft (politics)|draft]] form. [http://www.... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
25: ...and once a [[Protestant]], [[Unionist]] bastion, unless they had the permission of a bishop. In her tw...
27: ...ch of Ireland]], her marriage to a [[Protestant]] student caused a rift with her parents, although the rift...
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: ...resident Hillery back in 1982, became known, suddenly was taken very seriously again. (As was Hillery,... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
39: ...here in [[1951]] she met the young [[psychology]] student [[Nathaniel Branden]] [http://www.nathanielbrande...
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] - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ...ld War I]]. In 1919 she enrolled as a pre-medical student at [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] b... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
10: ...hat had failed many times. Once, she saw a fellow student die during practice. However, she learned quickly... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
8: ...ber of women students was kept to 500 (10% of the student body) and women were not entitled to a degree fro...
15: Franklin together with her Ph.D. student Ray Gosling obtained some excellent X-ray diffrac...
25: ...er ineligible. (Posthumous prizes are permitted only if the recipient dies after the award is announc... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
7: ...r the [[pseudonym]] "Monsieur Le Blanc", a former student of Lagrange's. Lagrange was so impressed by the p...
12: ...enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...891]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[1881]... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
7: ...]), based on research she conducted as a graduate student, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist-...
28: ...ested that such women, in this new context, were unlikely to speak frankly about their adolescent beha...
37: ...Margaret Mead described her own researches to her students at Columbia University, she put succinctly what ...
54: ...d people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
61: * "I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accur... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ..., [[London]], she was refused admission as a full student both there and at many other medical schools to w...
9: ...he schools (in Hunter Street, WC) having over 200 students, most of them preparing for the medical degree o... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
8: ...ldhood of [[abuse]] and [[neglect]], she became a student of the [[Unitarian]] reformer [[William Ellery Ch...
18: ...his image to shame the powerful into action. Not only did she visit alms houses and write reports, but...
22: Dix lived, however, not only to see mental hospitals grow in number but also ... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...[[prisoner of war]], [[Surgery|surgeon]] and the only woman to receive the [[Medal of Honor]].
8: ...in [[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practice ...
10: ...[[Union Army]] as a civilian. At first, she was only allowed to practice as a nurse, as the Army had ...
22: ...tandards for award of the medal so that it could only be given to those who had been involved in "actu... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...hens Conservatory]]. After a few appearances as a student and in secondary roles, she made her professional...
15: ...ional scholarships for young singers, this seems unlikely. A more likely explanation is Callas' overus... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...ned ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
11: ...ry 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a par...
28: ...ah L'Kesariyah'' ("A Walk Through Cesarea"), commonly known as ''Eili, Eili'' ("My God, My God") many ... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
16: ...ntarum" (The natural history of plants). He was a student of [[Aristotle]] and is considered the father of ...
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),... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
8: ...e staunchly conservative and during her time as a student at Wellesley College she served as President of t...
15: ... a total of 12 years. In [[1980]] the Clintons' only daughter, [[Chelsea Clinton|Chelsea]], was born....
31: ..., Hillary Clinton made history -- she became the only First Lady ever called to testify before a Grand...
41: ...to reforming the America health care system, commonly known as the Clinton health care plan, which was...
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