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- Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...ct professor starting in 1954. Following the example of her instructor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concen...
14: ...d begun to discuss the problems faced by young people (especially women) as they pass through adolesce...
18: ...lived with, observed, and interviewed (through an interpreter) the sixty-eight young women between the ages of ...
28: ...the same ethnocentric sexual puritanism as the people Boas and Mead once shocked. In 1983, the [[Ameri...
33: ...e high-population density areas were not, for example, present in the same way in Oksapmin, West Sepik... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
8: ...Melbourne]], the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, and then to the Philip Street Theatre...
13: ...]] of [[1990]] in [[Telluride, Colorado]]. The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and l...
19: ...n she co-starred with her husband as a married couple for the second time.
23: ...an injured her knee, so [[Jodie Foster]] had to replace her in ''[[Panic Room]]''. The following year ...
26: ...' character falls in love with a 10 year-old boy (played by [[Cameron Bright]]), who she believed to b... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
1: ... pallium holding keys, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.]]
2: ...lean]] [[fisherman]] and one of the twelve [[disciple]]s or [[apostle]]s of [[Jesus]] whose life was p...
11: ...unts of his life or death. Before becoming a disciple of Jesus, Simon (''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherma...
15: ...ey would "fall away" from him that night. Peter replied, "Even if all desert you, I will never desert ...
17: ...ly to Paul. Peter takes the lead in selecting a replacement for [[Judas Iscariot|Judas]] (1:15); he is... - Pope Leo I (11553 bytes)
5: ...]] written at his request. But nothing shows more plainly the confidence felt in him than his being ch...
7: ...440]]), and Leo was unanimously elected by the people to succeed him. On [[September 29]] he entered u...
17: ...ome; since [[Mark the Evangelist|Mark]], the disciple of [[Saint Peter|Peter]] and founder of the Alex...
19: ...sively in regard to a number of questions of discipline.
21: ...recepts and those of his predecessors; and he sharply rebuked the bishops of [[Sicily]] ([[447]]) for ... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...hat perform simple well-defined functions. The complex interactions of these components endow computer...
4: ...iscipline which studies the theory, design, and application of computers is called '''[[computer scie...
6: ==General principles==
10: ... the physical phenomena being exploited. For example, electron flows might be used to model the flow ...
12: ... operations on that information are reduced to simple [[Boolean algebra]]. - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
2: ...' [[List of programmers]], [[List of computing people]], [[List of computer scientists]], [[computer s...
19: [[16-bit application]] --
34: [[32-bit application]] --
75: [[8514 (display standard)]] --
107: [[APL programming language]] -- - 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 Vᳱuez de Coronado]] into the territories explored by DeVaca to search for what came to be known... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...rtugal|Portuguese]] [[List of sea explorers|sea explorer]] who sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first ...
15: ...lso told Magellan that he would have no further employment in his country's service after [[May 15]], ...
17: ==Plans for [[circumnavigation]]==
22: ...h America, which he thought to be the [[Rio de la Plata]], to the Pacific Ocean, forming a large bay-l...
24: ... 22]], [[1518]], King Charles approved Magellan's plan and granted him generous funds. Under the contr... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ... after the expedition of [[Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)|Alexander Mackenzie]], the first European to...
14: The explorers started their journey home on [[March 23]], ...
16: ...f the United States. They had to act largely as diplomats for the President because when they met an I...
23: *Discovered and described 178 new plants and 122 species and subspecies of animals (se...
26: *Established a precedent for Army exploration of the West - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
1: ...]] - [[November 14]], [[1831]]) was a [[German people|German]] [[philosopher]] born in [[Stuttgart]], ...
9: ...ons inherent in the preceding movement''. For example, the French Revolution for Hegel constitutes the...
13: ...nciple of it and the other form is its specific application to the actual events in history. He contin...
19: ...vidual case. To do so would involve comparing examples of events of history with their archetypal form...
21: ...e called "deliberately confusing") his work is perplexing for modern audiences because he had an organ... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
3: ...s to humans. A lucky find was a ''hermaion''. An interpreter who bridges the boundaries with strangers is a ''...
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... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...He also used a native woman, [[Doña Marina]], as interpreter; she would later bear Cortés a son. When the Gov...
6: ...cal trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ...es in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
16: ... a pale, sickly child by his [[biographer]], [[chaplain]], and friend [[Francisco López de Gómara]]....
18: ...al career. However, those two years at Salamanca, plus his long period of training and experience as a... - 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. - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
7: ...Time magazine]] as one of the most influential people of the century.
14: ... displayed an inexhaustible desire to learn and explore art, literature, and life. This desire manifes...
23: ... of him as polite, courteous and helpful. For example, [[Otto Klemperer]], who knew [[Arnold Schoenber...
25: ... lived with Stravinsky until his death, acting as interpreter, chronicler, assistant conductor and factotum for...
35: ...ylistic periods. Most of his compositions can be placed in one of the three. - Global Positioning System (28209 bytes)
10: ...izing the satellites' onboard atomic clocks, and uploading data for transmission by the satellites.
11: ...S receivers used for both military and civilian applications.
12: ...eiver decodes time signal transmissions from multiple satellites and calculates its position by [[tril...
14: ... the current GPS constellation ''(Block II)'' was placed into orbit on [[February 14]], [[1989]]. The ...
18: ...llation" of at least 24 satellites in 6 [[orbital plane]]s.
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