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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...n from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[log...
7: ...ome and includes the Greek philosophers such as [[Plato]]. The Medieval period runs until roughly the ...
12: ...ruth was no more than opinion and for teaching people to argue fallaciously to prove whatever conclusi...
14: ...thens had a direct [[democracy]]. It's known from Plato's writings that many sophists maintained schoo...
16: ...d truth. He wrote nothing, but inspired many disciples. He was executed in [[399 BCE]] on the charge t... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...cia]] or [[Portugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic O...
3: ...etting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas,...
5: ...t]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472) of two, led by [[João Vaz C...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isle...
11: ...]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: .... The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes...
16: ...ch is tied into the bag and which the pipe itself plugs into. The bag usually consists of leather, but...
23: ...ions are thought to have marched to bagpipes. The idea of taking a leather bag and combining it with a c...
25: ...iti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [...
38: ...[pipe band]]s (civilian and military), and is now played in countries around the world, particularly c... - China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ltiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ...ed outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes...
7: ...nese Civil War]] in [[1949]] established the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) in [[1949]] which ha...
21: ... or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
23: # The area now called the [[North China Plain]]. The ''[[Sanguo Zhi]]'' records the followin... - 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: ...between the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dynastic cycle]] was that an unjust impe... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of St...
29: ...dging to devote her life to the service of the people of the Commonwealth and Empire.
33: ...s claim to the [[Greece|Greek]] throne and was simply referred to as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten bef...
55: ...ronation of the British monarch|coronation]] took place in [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[2 June]] [[1953]...
64: ... in some cases, such as [[South Africa]], she has played an important role in retaining or restoring g... - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
19: ...y their princess; Isabella herself encouraged the idea. King Richard preferred this marriage, despite Hu...
21: ...h her, something even more disgusting than the coupling of the flesh. I asked one of their courtiers t... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
13: ...ured to be her lover. The [[Dolgorukov]]s, who supplanted Menshikov and hated the memory of Peter the ...
19: ...ardie took a leading part in the revolution which placed the daughter of Peter the Great on the Russia...
23: ...ate as eight o'clock the next morning very few people in the city were aware of it.
25: ...r government. Her usually keen judgment and her diplomatic tact again and again recall Peter the Great...
31: ..., much as she disliked him personally, had wisely placed at the head of foreign affairs immediately af... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Sandringham]], [[Norfolk]], [[Engla...
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...having had the right to that title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] ra...
13: ...pic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adulte...
15: ...y]] of her generation: a [[fashion]] [[icon]], an ideal of feminine [[beauty]], admired and emulated for... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ficial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
11: ...arolina, was married to King Ferdinand of the [[Naples]].
17: ...y dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an angel...
24: ...en the king told him to eat less, Louis-Auguste replied "Why? I always sleep better when I have a full...
25: ...n their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the awkwardness between... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States|American]] [[human rights]] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wife of [[President of the Unite...
9: ...However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin D...
15: ...they would be close friends, Hickok suggested the idea for what would eventually become the Mrs. Rooseve...
33: ...eful action based on sensitive discourse among people of diverse perspectives focusing on the varied n...
43: ...), for many years graced the mantle above the fireplace in her husband Franklin's presidential library... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ...ontrary, stuck to her revolutionary Marxist principles. In [[1893]], along with [[Leo Jogiches]] and [...
19: ... Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s party leaders...
21: ...he party leadership refused, and in [[1910]] she split off from Kautsky.
32: ...l catastrophe which even led her to briefly contemplate suicide: [[Revisionism]], which she had fought...
42: ...e Social Democratic leader, [[Friedrich Ebert]] employed nationalist militia, the [[Freikorps]], to su... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
6: ...ontaigne]] in particular, she devoted her life to pleasure, both physical and mental.
12: ... care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."
14: ...n-Baptiste [[Racine]], another first-class French playwright. Later she would become a close friend w... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mod...
12: ...[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...er portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
17: ...ey returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored b...
23: ...liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values based in pragmatism; thu... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ... Letters to her by her pupil [[Synesius]] give an idea of her intellectual milieu. She was [[murder]]ed...
4: ... embarked on an intense campaign to destroy pagan places of worship.
12: ...ol of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom cam...
14: ...imple formula, that of calling God to witness, as Plato did, whenever they deny anything or whenever t...
22: ... body in pieces, they took her mangled limbs to a place called Cinaron, and there burnt them. This aff... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
8: ...blem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis ...
12: ...o similar research). Unfortunately, Randall had implied that Franklin alone would be working on DNA, a...
18: ... should have been working together. It has been implied by Wilkins himself that this situation may wel... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Ma...
9: ... IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language that...
14: In the 1970s, she pioneered the implementation of [[standards]] testing of computers, ...
38: ... is famous for her ''nanoseconds'' visual aid. People (such as generals and admirals) used to ask her ... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...rd Mayer]], the assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home cou...
7: ...f is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
19: She was an accomplished scientist. - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...War]], drew on the most advanced [[19th century]] ideas about [[psychiatric]] treatment to successfully ...
8: ... take an interest in the mentally ill is more complex and more interesting than this legend. Survivin...
10: ...us and having staked so much on her career, it is plausible to see her becoming depressed as she perce...
12: ... United states she brought an enthusiasm for this idea with her.
16: In [[Rhode Island]], in [[1843]], for example, she was invited by the [[humanitarian]] [[Thoma... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
12: ...as a spy (there appears to be some support to the idea that she may actually have been a spy). She was ...
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