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- Plateau (3062 bytes)
2: ...[[Guiana]], are formed when a section of land is uplifted that is topped with a layer of particularly ...
4: ...g Jaya Plateau]] of the western Pacific is an example of such.
6: == Examples of plateaus ==
7: ...is landform, but there are many other notable examples of it from around the world, including:
8: * [[Allegheny Plateau|Allegheny]]/[[Cumberland Plateau]] (a continuous landform with different loca... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
4: ...Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the...
8: ... the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American natural dis...
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23: ...istory burns nearly 16,000 acres and kills two people.
40: ...rain after the country tested missiles in various places. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...s beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
4: ...ger-lasting 6th century Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wond...
6: ...ers. This feature of the Ionic order made it more pliant and satisfactory than the Doric to critical e...
10: ...[Inigo Jones]] introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his [[Banqueting House at Whi...
12: ... projecting roof. Pictorial often narrative [[bas-relief]] frieze carving provides a characteristic featur... - 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... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
24: ...d I of the Two Sicilies|HM King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily]] (1751-1825); had issue
29: ...dditionally, the army was weak and the treasury depleted due to two wars near the end of her father's ...
37: ... years later and became more closeted from her people. Her focus changed from attempting to regain Si...
39: ... labor payments in her lands, providing them some relief. - 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...
23:
25: ...al for a vaster enterprise than they had at first planned; [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] was persuaded t... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
15: <tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Birth'''<td>[[Stockholm]]
17: <tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Death'''<td>[[Rome]]
18: <tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Burial'''<td>[[St. Peter's Basilica]], [[Ro...
27: ...a prince would be trained. Even as a child she displayed a precociousness that astonished the brillian...
39: ...impossible, and it was with an intense feeling of relief that the Swedes saw her depart, in masculine atti... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...f Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 M...
18: ...tch, but his objections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert...
20: ...merged the Royal House name and family surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding ...
29: ...wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly o...
37: ... the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King... - 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== - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ... years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. A...
9: ...m William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic in the Brownsville...
15: ...he time, the largest private international family planning organization.
19: ...ion, which legalized birth control for married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year st...
24: ...sence of regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she cont... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...er many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skills. When Clara started school at age ...
21: ...] bureaucracy in vain to bring her own medical supplies to the battlefields. Finally, in July 1862, sh...
23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in charge of the search for the missing m...
35: ... less than a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Massachusetts.
43: ==Clara Barton's Birthplace House and Museum== - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
8: ...course of the War, more than 20,000 of her nurses played vital roles with the United States military.
12: ... York]] there is a Jane Delano Memorial with a display of personal items including a number of her awa... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
29: ...'You said, "Yes, I'd like to know what kind of people''
36: ...sequent singles "Feel Your Love", "Walkaway" and "Plastic" were also modest hits.
50: ...ook of lyrics she was carrying in her bag. To her relief, the lyrics were untouched. They would eventually...
61: ...ics completely from personal experiences. For example, as Morissette began meeting with record labels,...
66: :''And then played golf for awhile'' - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
3: ...hrough arrangement and juxtaposition or by the simple designation of an object or even an act as sculp...
25: * [[plaster]]
33: * living [[plant]]s
64: ...at ground in "High Relief" or "Low Relief" ([[bas relief]])
81: ...sculpture. This seems contrary to some famous examples of sculpture, including [[Marcel Duchamp]]'s [[... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ... [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a well-known example.
16: ...ch was used for mixing eye make-up, was carved in relief, and portrayed the victory of [[Upper Egypt]] ove...
20: Another example of Egyptian sculpture are the statues of the Pha...
27: ...ated lyre player from 2000 BC. Statues of a lute player and a harpist were found together in a single...
35: ...s like a three dimensional picture. A famous example of this is the Lion Gate in the outer wall of th... - Engraving (3556 bytes)
1: ...glio]] plate, when [[copper]] is engraved, or a [[relief print]] block when [[wood]] is engraved.
5: ...orentine liners are flat-bottomed tools with multiple lines incised into them, used to do fill work on...
13: ...used to reproduce other forms of [[art]], for example [[painting]]s. Engravings continued to be commo...
18: [[Image:All32.jpg|thumb| An example of an ornately-engraved Conn tenor saxophone by ...
19: ... for commercial applications hand engraving was replaced with milling using [[CNC]] engraving/[[millin... - Printing (4400 bytes)
6: ...hnique of [[offset printing]], and occasionally [[relief print]], (which is principally used for [[newspap...
18: ...lder]] discovered [[lithography]]. [[Blake]] made relief etchings. Early in the [[nineteenth century]] [[C...
38: ===People=== - Woodcut (1909 bytes)
1: ...of the surface of the woodblock is printed. Multiple colors can be printed by keying the paper to a f...
9: == Examples ==
38: * [[Relief print]] - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
9: ...bach-Schmieden]] in Germany has provided fine examples of wooden animal statues from the [[Iron Age]]....
13: ...tumn Period]]. Lu Ban is said to have brought the plane, chalkline, and other tools to China. His teac...
19: ...ely and then applied, rather than being worked in place
22: * burl: wood with a convoluted, complex grain, usually taken from cancerous growths on ...
38: ...shtail chisel or gouge: a chisel or gouge with a splayed end - George Washington (29551 bytes)
11: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westm...
14: | place of death=[[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]], [[Virginia]]
21: ...[republic]]an [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
24: ...n his birth year. His birthplace was Pope's Creek Plantation, south of [[Colonial Beach, Virginia|Colo...
26: ... eventually inherited the estate, [[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]] in [[Fairfax County, Virg...
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