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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]], or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a [[Qadi]] or judge. ...
6: ...f this intial manuscript may be translated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities an...
45: ... to carry on to China, with a detour near the beginning of the journey to the [[Maldives]]. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, Lord of Mann, has two-->; she has reigned in these positions s...
42: ...s Royal|HRH The Princess Anne, Princess Royal]] (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise) (born [[15 August]] [[19...
80: ... Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]], marking the 50th anniversary of her accession to the Throne. The year ...
87: ...tional travel. The subsequent, perhaps pointed, announcements that they would be visiting Canada, Mal...
89: ...nd in [[Normandy|Normandy, France]] for the 60th anniversary of [[D-Day]], where, for the first time, ... - Theodora (11th century) (2075 bytes)
2: ...#959;δώρα, literally meaning "Gift of God", lived [[981]] - [[August 31]], [[1056]])...
8: ...ede her on behalf of the general [[Nicephorus Bryennius]]. By her firm administration she controlled t... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
4: ...eration, and who now received it back indeed as a gift (by the compact of Nyborg 1386), but under such s... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...r brother, [[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A cour...
13: ...red to speak German. However, when her sister Johanna-Gabriella died of smallpox in [[1762]], Maria-An...
15: ... of Austria|Maria Theresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antoni...
17: ...osses for all shoulders." Maria-Antonia left [[Vienna]] in [[April]] [[1770]], when she was fourteen. ...
19: Two and half weeks after leaving [[Vienna]], Maria-Antonia was handed over to messengers f... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: '''Anna Eleanor Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] &n...
9: ...oosevelt]]. Following her parents deaths, young Anna Eleanor was raised by her maternal grandmother, ...
11: ...osevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacob...
16: ...earns Goodwin]], who wrote a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, d...
22: ...crats (notorious for their racism), she was the connection to the African-American population and help... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...national Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: Born into a wealthy and well-connected [[Britain|British]] family at the 'Villa Col...
9: ...re for the legions of the poor and indigent. She announced her decision to her family in [[1845]], evo...
25: ...il October [[1854]]. Her father had given her an annual income of [[Pound Sterling|?]]500 (roughly $50...
71: Nightingale had exhibited a gift for [[mathematics]] from an early age, and excell... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
1: [[Image:Daienin_Kannon.JPG|thumb|right|Kannon statue in Daienin, Mt. Koya, Japan]]
4: ...r more formally '''Kanzeon'''; the spelling '''Kwannon''', resulting from an obsolete system of romani...
16: ...t and sides, Avalokiteshvara possesses the unique gift to see everywhere at once and reach out to the ne...
44: | width="150" | Kannon, Kanzeon
78: ...uan Yin and a baby that resembles the typical Madonna and Child painting. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]" had arrived.
27: * [[On the Sunny Side]] (1936)
58: * [[The Inn of the Sixth Happiness]] (1958) - Apple (20408 bytes)
27: ...mportant food in [[Asia]] and [[Europe]] for millennia, as well as in the [[United States]] since the ...
39: ... the beverage a rich flavor that dessert apples cannot.
55: *'[[Granny Smith]]': Australia (1868), [[California]])
56: *'[[Haralson (apple)]]': [[Minnesota]] (1923)
57: *'[[Honeycrisp]]': Minnesota (1960) - Relic (11473 bytes)
7: [[image:Reliekschrijnbinnen.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A view inside the shrine ...
9: ...s and other marvels were attributed to relics beginning in the early centuries of the church; many of ...
15: ...rtus] is the more important. It describes the uncanny, mysterious power emanating from the supernatura...
44: ...figy of Kanishka and an inscription recording his gift. They were removed to [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]] by ... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
10: ...able absolute date for a span of about three millennia. There is a recommended revision of the chronol...
27: ...ates to the [[7th millennium BC]] (see [[7th millennium BC]]).
58: ...apparent upside-down naming is that Egypt is the 'Gift of the Nile' and as such everything is measured i...
60: ...lly believed that their pharaoh could assure the annual flooding of the Nile for their crops. They als...
86: ... This breakdown of central control marks the beginning of the [[Second Intermediate Period of Egypt|S... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...[[John F. Kennedy]] welcomed 49 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]], saying, "I...
125: There was grace, nevertheless, in his manners; and his frank and earnest address, his quick ...
141: ...n — [[Rhode Island]], [[Delaware]], and [[Pennsylvania]] never having had established religion.
145: ...First Amendment]] (see Letter to the [[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]] [[Baptist]] Association, [[1802]...
161: ...en I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever" (''Notes on the State of Virgini... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]])
46: ...ic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressio...
61: ...[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], beginning in [[1834]]. In [[1837]] he made his first pro...
85: ... the ground that it had changed its originally planned route. Lincoln argued that as a matter of [[law...
95: ...hich he stated, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." (This statement is spoken by [[Jesus]] ... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]]...
33: ... spread across the world were chronically under manned and ill-equipped. They could not compete with ...
35: ...bay]] was given away to the British as a marriage gift. The colonies where the Portuguese presence was e...
45: ...he Age of Exploration was unprecedented. For millennia it had been the Mediterranean economy that had ...
61: **[[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Port...
42: ... it. At the end of the [[1200s|13th]] and the beginning of the [[1300s|14th]] centuries, those who tri...
47: ...no son and heir to the throne, decided to go personnaly into battle, where he was slain. Because [[Phi...
57: ...is㯠Constitucional, preamble}}India invaded and annexed [[Portuguese India]] in [[1961]]. Independenc...
61: ...rica. In the same year [[Indonesia]] invaded and annexed the Portuguese province of [[Portuguese Timor... - Aswan Dam (6375 bytes)
13: ... a third of the cost of the dam was paid for as a gift. They also provided technicians and heavy machine...
18: ...duction (about 15% by 1998) and allowed for the connection of most Egyptian villages to electricity fo... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
29: ...resent tribute. The Chinese armies reconquered [[Annam]] and blocked [[Mongol]] expansionism, while th...
49: ...laimed 30,000 heads. Si Lun-fa was subsequently dunned for all the costs of the military expedition ag...
51: ...Dian, all under separate rulers. This was the beginning of a policy which was to be pursued throughout...
53: ...ative office? in 1384. Here, then, we see the beginnings of the process by which formerly Southeast As...
55: ... in lieu of labour) were levied on Lu-chuan. The annual amount of 6,900 liang of silver was initially ... - Flower (10503 bytes)
34: ...gies, of which it is innocent, since its pollen cannot be airborne. Instead the [[allergen]] is usuall...
66: * As a corsage or boutonniere to be worn at social functions or for holiday...
69: ...ties, welcome home parties, and "thinking of you" gifts
80: * [[Daisy|Daisies]] are a symbol of innocence. - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
10: ...e generations of Edison's took up farming near Vienna, Ontario. Among them was Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr...
27: ...ific purpose of producing constant technological innovation and improvement. Edison was the inventor o...
48: ...nts, as this picture from the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition shows.]]
58: ...er, Sprague, who later developed many electrical innovations, always credited Edison for their work to...
64: ...picture camera, but it is argued that [[William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]] actually invented it while wo...
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