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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
8: ...ttom of the valley. The modern Persians call this place ''[[Naksh-i Rustam]]'' ("the picture of Rustam...
12: ...he usurper [[Sogdianus]] (Secydianus). The two completed graves behind Takhti Jamshid would then belon...
18: ...t acquainted with the city until it was taken and plundered by Alexander the Great.
20: ...mportant particulars with Takhti Jamshid, for example, in being supported by the mountain on the east.
25: ...onged to the common people and were abundantly supplied with furniture and wearing apparel of every ki... - 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. [[... - 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... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
10: ...(1746), and he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural rel...
12: ...nces of Catholicism; second, to the vanity of the pleasures of that world which is the rival of the ch...
14: ...that day was an episodic application of the principle of relativism to the concept of [[God]]. What ma...
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25: ...al for a vaster enterprise than they had at first planned; [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] was persuaded 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... - 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: ... [[phimosis]]. Rather, it seems that no one had explained to either Louis or Antoinette what they were... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
25: ...ered to be a prestigious appointment made to accomplished lawyers. Subsequent holders of the title hav...
37: ...ucceed her to the Irish presidency, so Robinson replaced McAleese in the Campaign for Homosexual Law R...
41: ...st preserved Viking sites. Though Robinson and people who in the past might never had supported her ca...
55: ...eform (abolished censorship in the 1960s, for example), and he was seen as a near certainty to win the...
57: ==Lenihan campaign implodes== - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
13: ...r Nitya were brought up by Theosophists from that moment on, with a subsequent lawsuit filed by his father...
22: ...iage, As It Was, As It Is, And As It Should Be: A Plea For Reform (1878) - 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... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work...
54: *''The Moment and Other Essays'' ([[1948]])
55: *''Moments of Being'' - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
13: ...t as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...e, where he was found among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this perio...
17: ...ster Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other women (John 19:26). Mary cr...
19: Of the roughly 100 people in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day...
27: ...was conceived. They took her to live in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] when she was three years old, muc... - 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: ...erely had the effect of stalling the Royal army's momentum. Charles used this time to take the army on a ...
40: ...Spirit) which he said flew out of her body at the moment of death and headed toward French-held territory ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
10: ... to fine cuisine. She learned to cook in order to please him and entertain their large social circle. ...
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34: ...rs during a series of [[stroke]]s in 1989. The couple did not have children. - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...s silver medallist [[Maureen Gardner]], while 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on...
15: ...on the same day. In the high jump, she took sixth place (shared with two other jumpers) while the Dutc...
23: ...er name to Blankers-Koen. Blankers, a former [[triple jump]]er (participant in the [[1928 Summer Olymp...
25: ... athlete. Blankers-Koen and her husband had other plans, and she resumed training only weeks after her...
31: ...cities. Naturally, sport was the last thing on people's minds, and the Blankers family, living in [[Am... - Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
1: ...arge fan base in the [[United States]], where she played for 17 years as a member of the [[United Stat...
3: ...an All-American and [[Atlantic Coast Conference]] player of the year for the last three years of her c...
7: ...iven to her by [[ESPN]], one of them for ''soccer player of the year'' and the other two for ''Female ...
9: ...Hamm and the rest of the US women's national team played for the gold medal in the [[1996 Summer Olymp...
11: ... after the win became an instant legendary sports moment. The final match surpassed the Atlanta Olympic fi... - Artery (6875 bytes)
13: ... of the mean arterial blood pressure at any given moment. The pulse pressure, i.e. Systolic vs. Diastolic ...
19: ... down to the [[arteriole]]. The [[arteriole]]s supply [[capillaries]] which in turn empty into venules... - Eye (21834 bytes)
1: ...ular vision]]), as in [[human]]s; or on different planes producing two separate "images" ([[monocular ...
11: ...ple facets which give a pixelated image (not multiple images as is often believed). Each sensor has it...
15: Some of the simplest eyes, called [[ocelli]], can be found in anima...
16: Jumping spiders have simple eyes that are so large, supported by an array of...
22: The structure of the mammalian eye owes itself completely to the task of focusing [[light]] onto the [... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
7: ...ers and navigators, until the time of the great explorations. They were also adopted in the Arab world...
11: ...grand scheme. He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew, in a grid th...
13: ...:Ptolemys_system.jpg|thumb|300px|Ptolemy System Explained. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
16: ...300, after the text was rediscovered by [[Maximus Planudes]].
18: ...ugh copies containing many scribal errors, and people have always been adding or improving the topogra... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...a [[heliocentric model]] of the [[solar system]], placing the [[Sun]], not the [[Earth]], at the cente...
11: ...tly quite strong, as the following passage from [[Plutarch]] suggests (''On the Apparent Face in the O...
21: ...Moon, and Earth form a near right triangle at the moment of [[lunar phase|first or last quarter moon]]. He... - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
7: ...lted Majesties' and so on. They shone for a brief moment, and as quickly disappeared. But Ashoka shines an...
10: ... younger sibling, Vitthashoka. Because of his exemplary intellect and warrior skills, he is said to ha...
14: ...n of different militias causing unrest. Ashoka complied and left for the troubled area. As news of Ash...
20: ...e unborn heir to the throne spread, Prince Susima planned the execution of the unborn child; however, ...
30: ...: Ashoka's later edicts say that about 100,000 people were killed on the Kalinga side and 10,000 from ...
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