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- Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
17: ... stillbirth. She became popular with the Dutch people, but her husband neglected or even mistreated he...
22: ...tch army landed on [[5 November]]. The English people's confidence in James stood so low that they did...
24: ...during his wife's lifetime, and restrictions were placed on his power. William, however, demanded that...
31: ...ine of succession would be any children of the couple, to be followed by Mary's sister Anne and her ch...
33: ...uncle, [[Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon]], for plotting to restore James II to the Throne. In [[169... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
2: ...[[China|Chinese]] [[Taoists]] as an [[immortality|Immortal]]. The name Kuan Yin is short for '''Kuan Shih Y...
12: ...re masculine in appearance. Images which later displayed attributes of both genders are believed to be...
16: ...great demand, he became overwhelmed and his head split into thousands of pieces. Fortunately, a [[Budd...
32: | width="150" | [[Simplified Chinese character|Simplified Chinese]]
70: ... frustrated that he attempted to burn down the temple. Kuan Yin put out the [[fire]] with her bare han... - Anaxarchus (1184 bytes)
3: ...ot [[ichor]], such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods."
5: [[Plutarch]] tells a story that at [[Bactra]], in [[32...
9: ...epithet ''eudaimonikos'' ("fortunate"), usually applied to him, that he held the end of life to be ''[... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
9: ...of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leonardo" ("...
18: ...his relations with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love...
29: ... and permitted him to operate his own workshop complete with apprentices. It was here that seventy [[t...
45: ...s, and did not travel without it. Thousands of people see it each year in the Louvre, perhaps drawing ...
47: ...ration of the Magi]]". After extensive, ambitious plans and many drawings, the painting was left unfin... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
11: ... where his men raped the sacred virgins in the Temple of the Sun. With a group of fifty men, he discov...
15: ...his goods and equipped an expedition into the unexplored lands. His mission was to conquer, to settle,...
21: ...vana]] had, just shortly before his arrival, been plundered and burned down by French pirates. De Soto...
23: ...rida, in Bradenton (south of Tampa). He named the place ''Espiritu Santo'' after the Holy Ghost. De So...
26: ...isco Vá³±uez de Coronado]] into the territories explored by DeVaca to search for what came to be known... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
4: ... any state, in fact piracy has been the first example of universal jurisdiction. Nevertheless today th...
10: ...tances of piracy are the exploits of the [[Sea Peoples]] who threatened the [[Aegean civilization|Aege...
12: ...odecanese]] islet of [[Farmakos|Pharmacusa]].<ref>Plutarch, ''Caesar'' 1-2.</ref> He maintained an att...
16: ...ng some of the most famous ancient pirateering peoples were the [[Illyrians]], populating the western ...
24: ...he sea for their [[hit-and-run tactics]] - a safe place to retreat to if the battle turned against the... - Egyptian soul (5527 bytes)
5: ... placing it in large amounts of writings. For example, part of the [[History of Greek and Roman Egypt|...
8: ...as represented as a small human figure painted completely black.
20: ...d in human affairs, it was said that the ''bau'' (plural of ''Ba'') of the god where at work [Borghout...
23: ... that would join the gods in the underworld being immortal and unchangeable. - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
1: ...as come down to us. In contrast, those Celtic peoples who maintained either their political or lingui...
4: ...anything of religious significance [http://www.simplyscottish.com/readingroom/history/gaelic_druids.ht...
12: ... justified differently: many may be mere labels applied to key gods worshiped in extensive Pan-Celtic ...
47: ...]], [[Nemain]], [[Niamh]], [[Nuada]], [[Ogma]], [[Plor na mBan]], [[Sheila-na-gig]], [[Tailtiu]], [[Te...
74: ...c religion (although certain motifs—for example, the god [[Lugh]]—appear to have diffused ... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
4: ... {{Greek myth (Olympian)}}after her alleged birth-places in [[Cyprus]] and [[Cythera]], respectively. ...
16: ...s the original oracular goddess ("Dione" being simply "the goddess," etymologically an equivalent of "...
18: ...ntatively came ashore at [[Cytherea]], a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Pe...
20: ...respectively (homosexuality being more divine for Plato).
25: ...[[Troy]] to [[Paris]], but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time,... - Eros (mythology) (4590 bytes)
5: ...ccording to [[Aristophanes]]' play ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'', he burgeons forth from an egg l...
7: ...r "Fire." In some myths, he is portrayed as being playful, frequently causing trouble for gods and mor...
13: ...rshipped by a fertility cult in [[Thespiae]], and played an important role in the Eleusinian Mysteries...
19: ...Voluptas, whose name means "pleasure", and became immortal herself. Psyche's visit to and return from the un... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
6: ...y in which the wind may transfer objects from one place to another, and with the transition to the aft...
9: ...a]] and [[Arcadia]]. His origin on Mt. Cyllene explains the origin of an epithet for Hermēs: ''H...
18: Though temples to Hermēs existed throughout [[Greece]], a...
26: ...ndaries. In [[Athens, Greece|Athens]], they were placed outside houses for good luck. "That a monume...
34: ...an ancient one, one of the [[Pleiades (mythology)|Pleiades]] taking refuge in a cave of Arcadia. - Bismuth (9188 bytes)
153: ...and years, would lose mass more rapidly than a sample of bismuth decays.
155: == Applications ==
163: *Also used as a [[thermocouple]] material.
168: ... in free-machining [[brass]]es for [[plumbing]] applications and free-cutting steels for precision mac...
170: the metal is used as a thermocouple material (has highest negativity known), - Cell division (1579 bytes)
4: ... in multicellular organisms, fusing to form new diploid cells.
6: ...osome. [[Cancer]] cells, on the other hand, are "immortal." An [[enzyme]] called [[telomerase]] allows the... - Tigers (12435 bytes)
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15: ...iger numbers have decreased in size and have been placed on the endangered species list. The tiger is ...
25: ...e way as [[fingerprint]]s are used to identify people. This is not, however, a preferred method of ide...
39: ...harmacies and the tiger is seen by poor native people as a resource through which they can ease povert... - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
11: ...esented the first professionally-mounted American play, ''[[The Prince of Parthia]]'' by [[Thomas Godf...
13: ...than the loss of that most valuable treasure: the immortal soul.". However it is likely that these ordinance...
19: ...long runs" of a production, and in 1841, a single play was shown in New York for an unprecedented thre...
21: ...d existed, but are mostly forgotten now. American plays of the period are mostly [[melodrama]]s, often...
24: ...eatured white actors dressed in [[blackface]] and playing up [[racial stereotype]]s. These shows becam... - Extreme sports (3518 bytes)
3: ...ger involved or the adrenaline generated. For example, [[snowboarding]] has a more extreme image than ...
5: ... and the culture surrounding them has also led people to invent jokey parodies, such as [[Extreme iron...
9: ...]] and more recently [[Joe Simpson]]. Another example is [[Surfing]], which was originally invented ce... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...6/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] explorer and [[conquistador]] who, while leading the f...
5: ...ertainty is that he spent time as a child at both places, and he stipulated in his will that his body ...
7: ...ever schemes for the extortion of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|native villages]] for their cap...
12: ... the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's tents.<ref>MacQuarrie. Pp. 57-...
14: ...rom Atahualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy.
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