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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and ... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...f Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 M...
18: ...tch, but his objections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert...
20: ...merged the Royal House name and family surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding ...
29: ...wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly o...
37: ... the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
11: ... a [[Parliament]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge...
19: ...an arranged marriage, May and George soon were deeply in love. George never took a mistress and wrote ...
21: ...], [[St. James's Palace]], in [[London]]. The couple had six children in total, listed below.
27: ... VIII, later Duke of Windsor]], <td>[[23 June]] [[1894]]<td>[[28 May]] [[1972]]<td> married [[Wallis Sim...
38: ...ty, but was a favourite of George, who liked a simple life. - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
9: ... legislator had served in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
11: ...ats' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader [[Tom Daschle]], who lost a re... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
17: * ''A Lemon Tree'' (1894)
28: * ''The Silver Christ'' (1894)
37: * http://www.indiana.edu/cgi-bin-ip/letrs/vwwplib.pl - This site contains some of Ouida's works. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ed personality, her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female...
8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to id...
10: ...and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get ...
12: ...t at that time in Nervi, and undoubtedly these people would have had some influence on the impressiona...
20: ...s, she came into contact with ordinary Russian people and was shocked by the mood of anger and violenc... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
20: - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: '''Bessie Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattan...
11: ... an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have Bessie b...
17: ...ax's perpetuation of the myth is all the more inexplicable when one considers a letter received by his...
19: ...eath without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit her. And...
25: A more recent play featuring 14 of the songs Smith made famous, ''... - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
2: ...et is called a ''trumpeter'' or simply, ''trumpet player''.
6: ...umpet fully [[chromatic]], allowing the player to play in all keys. The sound is projected outward by...
8: ...cupped "pea-shooter" mouthpieces are used to ease playing of extremely high register passages. Mouthp...
15: ...able. The C trumpet is most common in orchestral playing because it often does not need to transpose ...
19: ... usually but not always by a fourth, to allow the playing of lower notes which are otherwise hard to o... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
18: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Caldwell, New Jersey|Ca...
20: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Princeton, New Jersey|P...
46: ...lf admitted that, as President, his greatest accomplishment was blocking others' bad ideas. He vigoro...
56: ...ess failures, farm mortgage foreclosures, and unemployment. He obtained repeal of the mildly inflation...
62: ...d States]]). The lump was preserved and is on display at the [[M�tter Museum]] in [[Philadelphia, P... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
58: ...est. For the next seven centuries, the Turkmen people lived under various empires and fought constant ...
60: ...d by [[Russia]] between [[1865]] and [[1885]], by 1894 [[imperial Russia]] had taken control of Turkmeni...
62: ...ion|Communist]] leader, [[Saparmurat Niyazov]] in place.
66: ...n the dial-face. His 15 meter (50 feet) tall gold-plated giant statue stands on a rotating pedestral, ...
68: ...nthem-oath himself, including phrases that say people who defamate the motherland or the Turkmenbashi ... - Uganda (11554 bytes)
61: ...[[protectorate]] by the [[United Kingdom]] from [[1894]]. As several other territories and chiefdoms we...
78: ...nd [[Lake Edward]]. The country is located on a [[plateau]], averaging about 900 m above sea level. A...
80: ...f town'. The [[Kampala|city of Kampala]], for example, is in the [[Kampala (district)|district of Kamp...
85: ...]] is the most important sector of the economy, employing over 80% of the work force, with [[coffee]] ...
95: ...dopted Christianity. The remaining one-third is split about evenly between Muslims and members of tra... - Flag of Mississippi (1142 bytes)
2: ...ag|Confederate battle flag]]. It was adopted in [[1894]].
4: ...01]], the voters of the state opted to retain the 1894 flag, over a new flag that some considered less o...
6: ==Pledge to the Mississippi State Flag==
8: The pledge to the state flag (from Miss. Code Ann., Sect... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...umber One in its list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
4: ... he changed the nature of the game itself. His exploitation of the "power game" compelled other teams...
9: ... [[Roman Catholic]] priest, and the school's disciplinarian, became the major influence on his life, t...
12: ...ked the position because he was involved in every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe...
15: ...or cash, and sold Ruth's contract, with two other players to [[Joseph Lannin]], owner of the [[Boston ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...he [[Green Mountains]] in the west and [[Lake Champlain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts...
38: ...amous for its scenery, [[dairy]] products and [[maple syrup]], Vermont has long been known for its [[L...
44: ...iver itself is part of New Hampshire). [[Lake Champlain]], the major lake in Vermont, is the sixth-lar...
46: ...northwest off Lake Champlain is the fertile [[Champlain Valley]]. In the south of the valley is [[Bomo...
48: ... state is covered by forest, the rest in meadow, uplands, lakes, ponds and swampy wetlands. - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
46: ...ak savanah territory of the Cross Timbers, to the plains and semi-arid regions of Western Oklahoma and...
56: ... (Northwestern Oklahoma and The Panhandle), Great Plains Country (Southwestern Oklahoma), Frontier Cou...
60: ... plains, Southwestern Tablelands, Central [[Great Plains]],
111: ... [[Caddo]] and [[Osage]]. Descendants of these peoples still live in the state.
113: In the [[16th century]] [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers became the first Europeans to visit the area... - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
4: ...and for public office in [[South Australia]] in [[1894]], along with universal suffrage in that state.
17: ...to stand for parliament was South Australia, in [[1894]].
24: *[[Oman]] -- limited to 175,000 people chosen by the government, mostly male
31: ... Federal State after the [[American Revolution]], placed only one restriction on the general suffrage ...
43: ...h Amendment to the Constitution]] was now an accomplished fact and the Presidential election of Novemb... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
227: *[[Gustave Caillebotte]] ([[1848]]-[[1894]])
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
298: *[[Charles Crodel]] ([[1894]]-[[1974]])
321: *[[Stuart Davis (painter)|Stuart Davis]] ([[1894]]-[[1954]]) - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...n|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often applied to a small self-contained [[fortress]], usuall...
2: ...European castles were opened up and expanded into pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15...
10: ...re places of protection from an invading enemy, a place of retreat. This can be seen by many of the ty...
17: ... decline of the German kingdom, castle building exploded as local warlords staked claims to minor king...
19: ...ht|[[Craigievar Castle]] in [[Aberdeenshire]], completed in 1626.]] - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...l]] story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...s are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, su...
15: ...esign, with modern knowledge of aerodynamic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo also sketched desig...
17: ...d examples from nature that such flights can take place without danger, although when the first trials...
19: The first known human flight ever took place in [[Paris]] in [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre ...
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