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- Holocaust (53541 bytes)
2: ...ion camps|Concentration camp]] inmates during the Holocaust]]
4: ...blished by [[Hitler]] that killed some 200,000 people.
6: ...considerably. Estimates place the total number of Holocaust victims at up to 26 million men, women, and child...
10: ...s, which were offered by night and burnt in full. Holocaust was later used to refer to a sacrifice Jews were ...
12: ...Gypsy') people, who were also targeted during the Holocaust, use the word '''''[[Porajmos]]''''', meaning "De...
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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...
35: ...e ethnic groups|minority groups]] as the [[Hui people|Hui]], the [[Uyghur]]s, and the [[Kazakh]]s. The... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
21: | '''Place of Birth:'''
28: | [[Diplomat]]
35: ...[[Czech Republic]]), [[United States|American]] diplomat, served as the 64th [[United States Secretary...
51: ...olitics, and was responsible for developing and implementing programs designed to enhance women's prof...
56: ...t was appointed ambassador to the UN, her first diplomatic post, shortly after Clinton was inaugurated... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
7: ...d. From [[1984]] to [[1990]], Streep won six [[People's Choice Award]]s for Favorite Motion Picture Ac...
9: ...ence. In the [[1990s]], therefore, Streep took to playing roles with greater variety, including farce ...
11: ...[Music of the Heart]]'', for which she learned to play the [[violin]].
13: ...nd in [[2004]] took on two largely comedic roles, playing the character originated by [[Angela Lansbur...
21: ...s in a mini-series, in ''[[Holocaust (miniseries)|Holocaust]]'' - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...nd became a mere province of the Kingdom and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. There...
72: ...]] (gypsies), gay and lesbian individuals, and people with mental retardation and other disabilites. A...
77: People from other parts of The Netherlands sometimes ob...
79: ...g the [[Eighty Years' War]] but only after the people had turned solidly [[Roman Catholic]] as a resul...
81: ...h originally meant "(Language) of the (common) people" in contrast with the medieval elite who spoke L... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Western world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich h...
52: ...n world|western civilization]] and being the birthplace of [[democracy]], [[philosophy]], the [[Olympi...
57:
65: ...nglish/greece/living/read_greek/alphabet.html]. [[Plato]] described how the Greeks live round the Aege...
68: ...he Byzantine Empire, centered around [[Constantinople]] (known in ancient times as [[Byzantium]]), rem... - Germany (46412 bytes)
73: ...to draw up a constitution for the new Germany, completed in [[1849]]. However, the Prussian king [[Fre...
93: ...ncentration camp]]s were set up for groups and people perceived as threats. Open persecution of [[Jew]...
97: ... million more [[Roma (people)|Roma]], [[Slavic people|Slavs]], [[homosexual]]s, [[communist]]s, [[Jeho...
101: ...ern forces [[Berlin Airlift|airlifted food and supplies]].
103: ...t Germany benefitted from the American [[Marshall Plan]] for the reconstruction of Europe after the wa... - Hungary (18459 bytes)
57: ...e development of a great Slavonic power, and Swatopluk, ruler of Great Moravia, sought to establish a ...
59:
61: ...e]]. Hungarian culture influenced others, for example the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. Together...
69: ...rces were defeated and the Soviet Republic was toppled on [[August 6]], 1919. Rightist military forces...
71: ...Jew]]s and several tens of thousands of [[Roma people|Roma]] perished in Hungary, but the Jewish popul... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...and it is a [[Jewish state]]. Israel was the birthplace of [[Judaism]] in the [[17th century BCE]] and...
60: ... Israel is not limited to Judaism, it is also the place where [[Christianity]] was born, and contains ...
73: ...ewish people in the [[Shoah]], or [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]], in which about six million Jews were murdered,...
78: ...d even when refugees who survived [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]] were fleeing from Nazi persecution. (See [[Stru...
83: ...bly, the Palestinian Arab leadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and l... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: ...s lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which he app...
9: ...eeping in the company of snakes, but by [[Zeus]]. Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.2-3) relates that both Phi...
11: ...er was [[Zeus]], rather than Philip. According to Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.1), his father descended f...
14: ...omannus]], the recently crowned King of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander t...
16: ...ad pledged allegiance to Philip were not quick to pledge it to a 20-year-old boy. He immediately order... - Holiday (7753 bytes)
3: ... a [[nation]] or [[culture]] (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for [[celebratio...
17: ...idered a good chance to take short trips, for example. In late [[1990s]], the [[Japan]]ese government ...
57: ...n]] (Descent of the [[Holy Spirit]] upon the disciples of Jesus Christ)
62: ...ronal|fiestas patronales]] are celebrated in each place's patron saint's day, according to the [[Calen...
103: *[[Yom Ha'Shoah]] (Holocaust remembrance day) - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...umb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 mi...
8: ...e war]], including acts of genocide such as [[the Holocaust]], the [[Rape of Nanking]], and General [[Ishii S...
10: ..., and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic of China]] and the Nationalist [[Repu...
18: ...s powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies.
24: ...ests in seeing a particular side prevail. For example, neutral [[Switzerland]] was generally considere... - Evolution (27661 bytes)
18: ...]], it has completely replaced earlier accepted explanations for the origin of species, including [[cr...
31: ...irmed by the science of [[DNA]] genetics. For example, every living thing makes use of [[nucleic acid]...
35: ...process is exceedingly slow, the diversity and complexity of modern life requires that the Earth be ve...
37: ...e includes input from the fields of geology and [[planetary science]]. These sciences provide informat...
44: ...nd [[Vermiform appendix|appendix]] are common examples. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
15: *[[1860]] - The discovery of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [...
30: ...- [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] agree on a plan to preserve [[Niagara Falls]].
41: ...ard]] performs the second successful [[heart transplant]].
49: ...ring factions in [[Bosnia]] meet to discuss peace plans.
51: ...7mm) at [[Chicago]]. In [[Chicago]], temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C), and 68 deaths are r... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
8: ...enerally grouped into three main branches, which split from one another in disputes over doctrine:
23: ...1), but was rejected as an [[apostate]] by the people generally considered to be the [[Jew]]ish author...
27: ...f Jesus as recorded in the [[New Testament]]. Examples include the book of [[Isaiah]] that alludes to ...
29: ...early traditions of the church name numerous disciples (as many as [[Seventy Apostles|70]], including ...
34: ...on shared the faith, he would draw another arc completing this [[ichthys]], a symbol of Christianity.]... - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: ...defined it as the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. I...
2: ...anization" – that is, an organization of people that supports the exercise of some religion, oft...
19: ...rience with the Divine. This narrower definition places "religion" in contradistinction with [[ration...
21: ...us, who see metaphysical claims as necessary to explain natural phenomena at a fundamental level.
23: ...or, institutionalized religions. This definition places "religion" in contradistinction to "spiritual... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[...
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
18: ...and privilege, he overcame a crippling illness to place himself at the head of the forces of reform. H...
22: ... conservatives. Today opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the i...
32: ...lege. He learned to ride, to shoot, to row and to play [[polo]] and [[lawn tennis]]. Frequent trips to... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
6: place_of_birth = [[Braunau am Inn]], [[Austria-Hunga...
9: place_of_death = [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]
13: ...on [[Jew]]s, in a [[genocide]] now known as [[the Holocaust]].
20: ...on more strictly than was usual for that time and place.
22: ...ng a Hitler, but a Schicklgruber. This was also exploited in Allied propaganda during the Second World... - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
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33: ...rs could reliably find a way across the river and plenty of whiskey but little else.
35: ...wly-established Fort Riley. In [[1854]], after completion of the first cabin, six men established the ...
44: Topeka was the home of Linda Brown, the named plaintiff in [[Brown v. Board of Education]] which w...
58: ...minent Hungarian psychiatrist and [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]] survivor [[Karl Targownik]] made his home in To... - Judaism (54799 bytes)
2: ...he [[religious]] [[culture]] of the [[Jew]]ish people. It is one of the first recorded [[monotheistic]...
9: ...aism. It was used in the [[Temple in Jerusalem|Temple in ancient Jerusalem]].]]
19: ...fice. The Children of Israel similarly had a [[Temple in Jerusalem]], [[Kohen|priests]], and made [[Ko...
21: ...vate everyday life to the level of the ancient Temples' worship by worshipping God through the spectru...
26: ...descendants were in charge of worship in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]]. - Inquisition (9274 bytes)
28: ...''[[De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium]]'' to be placed on the [[Index Librorum Prohibitorum|Index of...
38: ...ded authors, believe the [[Nazi]] [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]] was an Inquisition against the Jews undertaken ...
40: ...pproval of the investigators. For example some people call the Second [[Red Scare]] an inquisition.
42: ...uisition'' (ISBN 1561840025) is critical of the application of the [[Scientific Method]] in the 20th c...
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