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- Religion in China (12456 bytes)
1: [[Image:China_temple.jpg|thumb|300px|Temple incense near Beijing China. Image provided by [h...
3: ...ginning of its [[history of China|history]]. [[Temple]]s of many different religions dot the landscape...
5: The study of '''religion in China''' is complicated by several issues. Because many Chinese bel...
7: ... living life according to [[Taoism|Taoist]] principles and participating in [[ancestor worship]] ritua...
11: ...ediated between the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dynastic cycle]] was that an unj... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: ...t the end of the 14th or commencement of the 15th century]]
2: ... his absence. This practice had been the norm for centuries rather than Pizan's invention.
4: ...du Castel died, and Pizan became a court writer employed by various ducal and Royal households, in ord...
11: ... she took the precaution to assure her readers (''Cent balades'', No. 50) that they were merely exercise...
21: ...fe in the France of the early 15th century not supplied by more formal historians. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...d [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Floren...
23: ...mily objections concerning the risks and social implications of such activity, and the [[Roman Cathol...
27: ... was during the [[Crimean War]], which became her central focus when reports began to filter back to Bri...
31: ...cial indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short supply, [[hygiene]] was being neglected, and mass [[inf...
33: ...ed mortality rates by 40 per cent to just two per cent. She sent many letters to Herbert, to facilitate ... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
9: ...entury BCE|14th]] – [[12th century BCE|12th centuries BCE]]) of Babylonian history, was found at N...
11: ...d the circumference of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
19: ...representing the curved surface of the earth on a plane. [[Eratosthenes]], [[Anaximander]], and [[Hipp...
21: ...not produce world maps because their cosmology supplied no dogma describing distant lands outside thei...
23: ...er-world.jpg|thumb|left|World map by [[Johannes Kepler]].]] - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...ed version of the [[guitar]]. In the early [[20th century]], the instrument's name was often rendered as...
7: ...ghbor. He sold Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...s very popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension and tone are a little brig...
17: ...[Image:UkuleleZiegfeldGal.jpg|thumb|Ukulele being played by a [[Ziegfeld Follies]] chorus girl, c. [[1...
18: Musicians and entertainers particularly known for playing the ukulele have included: - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
28: ...ly manifested at a later period—as, for example, during his term as president.
39: ...ore this question had been disposed of, Adams was placed at the head of the Board of War and Ordinance...
41: ....JPG|right|thumb|John Adams, as depicted on a two-cent American [[postage stamp]].]] - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]]
20: Many people consider Jefferson to be among the most brillian...
30: ...84]], Jefferson avoided the common practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. In...
32: ...Europe. However, it seems likely that he would be pleased with the quantity and quality of wine now be... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
7: ...not successful in passing much of his progressive platform through the state legislature, nor in raisi...
29: ...d, "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar." - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...n''' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the...
44: ...]][[Confederate States of America#International Diplomacy and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small... - Europe (23835 bytes)
18: ...d increase in scientific knowledge. In the [[15th century]] [[Portugal]] opened the age of discoveries, ...
22: ...] started in [[Great Britain]] in the late [[18th century]], leading to much greater general prosperity ...
29: ...ere is ongoing debate on where the [[geographical centre of Europe]] is.
44: ...heart lies the [[North German Plain]]. An arc of uplands also exists along the northwestern seaboard, ...
46: ... counted as part of Europe, while the latter are upland areas that were once joined to the mainland un... - Germany (46412 bytes)
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6: ...llspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:center;"
7: ...y flag large.png|125px|Flag of Germany]] || align=center width=130px| [[Image:Bundesadler.png|100px|Germ...
10: | align=center width=130px| ([[Federal Coat of Arms of Germany...
13: | align=center colspan=2 | National [[motto]]: ''Einigkeit und... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
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13: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Malaysia flag large.pn...
16: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Malaysia|Flag]])
17: | align="center" | ([[Emblem of Malaysia|Coat of Arms]])
20: | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small... - Utah (29154 bytes)
68: Song = ''[[Utah, This is the Place]]'' |
76: Utah is the center of the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day S...
89: ... trappers—including [[Jim Bridger]]—explored some regions of Utah in the early 1800s. The ...
92: ...gnated the capital. In [[1856]], Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital.
96: ...edition" to quell the supposed rebellion and to replace Brigham Young as territorial governor with [[A... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
38: ...[lilac|purple lilac]]. Its state bird is the [[purple finch]]. Its state tree is the [[Paper Birch|Ame...
49: ...eeded for the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]] that took place north of Boston a few months later.
53: In the [[20th Century]], NH gained political renown for its [[First ...
62: ...out to about one Representative for every 3090 people.
64: ...ves and state senators are paid just $100 a year, plus mileage, effectively meaning that state laws ar... - Geometry (3634 bytes)
1: ...n of [[Pi]], accurate to within less than one per cent. The [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]] also describe...
3: From experience, or possibly intuitively, people characterize space by certain fundamental qualit...
5: ...and points are represented as ordered pairs or triples of numbers. This sort of representation has si...
7: The central notion in geometry is that of ''congruence''. ...
9: ... have, the fewer invariants there are. As an example, in [[affine geometry]] any linear transformatio... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
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5: | align="center" colspan=2 | <small>'''[[Decades]]:'''</small> ...
7: ...[20th century]] - '''[[21st century]]''' - [[22nd century]] <hr>
25: * [[January 9]] - Planned launch date of [[New Horizons]]
42: ... [[Breakpoint (party)|Breakpoint]] 2006 will take place in [[Bingen]] - Beaver (4858 bytes)
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26: ...e extinct in [[Great Britain]] in the [[sixteenth century]], but there are proposals, and a great deal o...
28: ...a]]; in fact, it is depicted on the Canadian five-cent piece and was on the first Canadian postage stamp... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...en the [[26th century BC|2600 BC]] and the [[20th century BC|1900 BC]].
8: ... finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw ...
11: ...an Emperor [[Ashoka]], dating to the [[500 BC|5th century BC]], of the [[Chola]] dynasty that then ruled...
14: ...jayanagara Empire]], which declined with the 16th Century AD.
17: ... Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]] - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...tituted the bulk of the population from the [[8th century]] onwards and slowly assimilated both the Scan...
15: ... the [[10th century|10th]] to [[11th century|11th centuries]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the la...
17: ... of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Uk...
23: ... their territories. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less fu...
27: ... off the control of the invaders late in the 14th century. [[Ivan the Terrible]], the first leader desi... - French language (40201 bytes)
3: ...[[Senegal]], [[Rwanda]], [[Burundi]], [[Togo]], [[Central African Republic]], [[Republic of the Congo]],...
19: ...in the world, being spoken by about 77 million people (called [[Francophones]]) as a [[mother tongue]]...
25: ...bited largely by a [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] people that the Romans referred to as [[Gaul|Gauls]], a...
27: ...in Latin were imported into Latin — for example, clothing items such as ''les braies''. Latin q...
31: From the third century on, Western Europe was invaded by [[Germanic t...
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