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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 ... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...ing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
16: ==Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the civil rights movement==
19: ...[civil disobedience]] in [[1955]] refer to her simply as a "tired seamstress." Parks stated in her aut...
21: Also, some accounts downplay her prior involvement with the [[NAACP]] and th...
25: ... case is considered ''the'' landmark because it applied to all segregationist laws, not just those aff... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman ...
7: ...-Burgundian in loyalty. France at that time was split by a factional rivalry which would allow the En...
12: ...ns where preparations were being made to bring supplies to the city of [[Orl顮s]], which had been und...
24: ...Duke of Burgundy. Negotiations with Burgundian diplomats began at Reims shortly after the coronation,...
40: ..."...in a loud voice the holy name of Jesus, and implored and invoked without ceasing the aid of the sa... - Pancreas (4781 bytes)
11: ...[duodenum]] while the tail extends towards the [[spleen]]. The [[pancreatic duct]] runs the length of...
13: ...lenic vein]] behind the pancreas (in others it simply joins with the [[superior mesenteric vein]] inst...
36: ...n Homer always meant edible animal flesh. An example of one such food that can be made from the pancr... - Europe (23835 bytes)
11: ...Crete]], where she gave birth to [[Minos]]. For [[Homer]], '''Europa''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Ε...
18: ...hs]] marked the start of a period of discovery, exploration, and increase in scientific knowledge. In ...
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...
53: ...civilisations for millennia, Europe's animals and plants have been profoundly affected by the presence... - Saqqara (4142 bytes)
7: ...ebes, Egypt|Thebes]], it remained an important complex for minor burials and cult ceremonies for more ...
15: ...tepsekhemwi's tomb, houses the earliest known example of the Pyramid Texts – inscriptions with i...
18: ...wo millennia – even the sizable mortuary complex surrounding Djoser's pyramid was not uncovered ...
23: ...Mariette]] in 1851, the tombs had been opened and plundered in antiquity – with the exception of...
25: ...k]] ancestors, originally situated in a nearby temple. - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
15: ...e wars against Troy as narrated in the epics of [[Homer]]. The period from [[1100 BC|1100 BC]] to the 8th...
17: ...ntrate almost wholly on political, military and diplomatic history, and ignore economic and social his...
20: ...y Greek geography, where every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours by the sea or m...
24: ...Libya]]. Modern [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]], [[Naples]], [[Marseilles]] and [[Istanbul]] had their be...
28: As colonization was bound to exhaust the supply of desirable territory, first [[Crete]], then in... - 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 ... - Alaska (24727 bytes)
69: Alaska was probably first settled by people who came there across the [[Bering Land Bridge]]...
75: ...the Union on January 3, 1959. In [[1976]], the people of Alaska amended the state's constitution, esta...
77: ...ones was reduced to two, with the entire mainland plus the inner Aleutian Islands going to UTC −...
88: ... with towns, cities, and [[petroleum]] industrial plants;
93: ...[volcano]]es are found in the Aleutians. For example, Unimak Island is home to [[Mount Shishaldin]], ... - Washington (20186 bytes)
38: ...o avoid confusion, the capital is often called simply '''D.C.''', and the state often called '''Washin...
45: Prior to the arrival of explorers from [[Europe]], this region of the Pacific ...
49: ...ations of the straits were performed by Spanish explorers [[Manuel Quimper]] in [[1790]] and [[Francis...
51: ...] of [[1790]] opened the northwest territory to explorers and trappers from other nations, most notabl...
59: ...on the [[Yakima Valley]] became known for its [[apple]] orchards while the growth of wheat using dry-f... - West Virginia (24258 bytes)
46: ...ern part of Virginia and plantation owners in the plains and tidewater regions. Under the United Stat...
70: ...g|right|thumbnail|Shaded relief map of Cumberland Plateau and Ridge and Valley Appalachians on the Vir...
72: ...egion is extremely rugged in most areas. (The two plateaus are essentially the same, the difference be...
74: ...rdwood]] [[forest]] of [[oak]], [[chestnut]], [[maple]], [[beech]], and [[Eastern White Pine|white pin...
78: ...e for a long time. This process of rounding up people already spread around here and there results in ... - Alcidamas (1796 bytes)
8: ...'', ed. [[John Pentland Mahaffy|Mahaffy]], 1891, pl. xxv.) probably contains the actual remains of a ... - Lydia (2194 bytes)
2: ... an ancient kingdom of [[Asia Minor]], known to [[Homer]] as '''M毮ia'''. Its principal city was [[Sardi...
8: ...ii. 865, V. 43, 11. 431), and their city Hyde the place of the Lydian capital Sardis is taken by Hyde ...
10: ...st millennium BC]] (perhaps even after the age of Homer) in which the cult of Attis, the consort of [[Cyb...
12: ...ere a town called Maeonia existed, according to [[Pliny]] (''Natural History'' book v:30) and [[Hieroc... - Ptolemy IV of Egypt (2166 bytes)
3: ...ed his vices and conducted the government as they pleased. Self-interest led his ministers to make ser...
5: ...literary [[dilettantism]]. He built a temple to [[Homer]] and composed a tragedy, to which his vile favou...
10: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/7*.html Ptolemy Ph... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
556: *[[Winslow Homer]] ([[1836]]-[[1910]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - Classical antiquity (3940 bytes)
1: ...est recorded [[Greek language|Greek]] poetry of [[Homer]] ([[7th century BC]]), and continues through the...
3: ...pically refers to an idealized vision of later people, of what was, in [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s words,
13: ...h façades made out to look like [[Roman temple]]s, with columns constructed in the [[classical ...
15: ...edians]] such as [[Moli貥]] and [[Racine]] wrote plays on mythological or classical historical subjec...
19: ...re recent past. It remains a vision that many people in the [[twenty-first century]] continue to find... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
7: ... complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of [[Helios]] as the [[sun god]]. Artemi...
19: ...Slaves could ask for and receive asylum in her temples.
25: ...ratum beneath that of their conquerors. It seems plausible that the association of Diana worship with...
33: ...her chest. They were formerly believed to be multiple breasts but are now known to have represented bu...
37: ...was sometimes known as [[Cynthia]], from her birthplace on [[Mount Cynthus]] on [[Delos]]. She someti... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...hor and poet, the greatest of [[Petrarch]]'s disciples, an important [[Renaissance humanism|Renaissanc...
5: ...been largely depreciated as a romanticism and his place of birth is more likely to have been in [[Tusc...
7: ...hieri|Dante]]. Around 1327 Boccaccio moved to [[Naples]] when his father was appointed to head the Neo...
11: In Naples Boccaccio began what he considered his true voc...
13: ...s ''Ameto'') a mix of prose and poems in 1341, completing the fifty canto allegorical poem ''Amorosa v... - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
8: ...s that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. A...
12: ..., they joined Petrarch in [[Venice]], to flee the plague then ravaging parts of Europe. A second grand...
14: ... he passed his remaining years in religious contemplation. He died in [[Arqu? in the [[Euganean Hills]...
24: ...y Land"), a distant ancestor of Fodors and Lonely Planet; a number of invectives against opponents suc...
28: ...nded in classical example and philosophical contemplation. - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...he winner was determined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]...
3: ..., the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
5: The first two games of the series are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three i...
7: ... shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild car...
13: ...ympic tournament if the MLB agrees to freeing its players. According to the IBAF chairman, such a move...
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