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- Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: The word ''Puritan'' is now applied unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churche...
5: ...rticular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan."
12: ...cclesiastical courts. They refused to endorse completely all of the ritual directions and formulas of...
26: ...connect between the [[House of Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the attempt to introduce a [[Div...
28: ...en their movement became the status quo; it was replaced by the broader term [[Nonconformist]], which ... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...ed school at age 4, she she could already spell 3 syllable words, and surprised her teacher by spelling "art...
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== - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...least 1750, although this usage is uncommon among players of the instrument.
4: ...ed ''Horn'' ([[German language|Gr.]]), ''corno'' (plural ''corni'') ([[Italian language|It.]]), ''cor'...
6: ... its characteristic "mellow" tone. The typical [[playing range]] of a French horn goes from the writt...
12: ...cross his arm so that only one hand was needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed....
14: ...nstrument. The [[Mozart Horn Concerti]], for example, were written for this type of horn, called the ... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Fairfield, Vermont]]
13: | place of death=[[New York City, New York]]
20: ...dle name, Alan, with the stress on the ''second'' syllable -- "Al-AN."
27: ...merican public office. The truth, however, was simply that Arthur was born near the Canadian border. H...
33: ... of the Customs House, but staffed it with more employees than it really needed, retaining some for th... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Western world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich h...
52: ...n world|western civilization]] and being the birthplace of [[democracy]], [[philosophy]], the [[Olympi...
57: ...note: IPA accent is written *before* the accented syllable, not after the accented vowel-->. This name is a...
65: ...nglish/greece/living/read_greek/alphabet.html]. [[Plato]] described how the Greeks live round the Aege...
68: ...he Byzantine Empire, centered around [[Constantinople]] (known in ancient times as [[Byzantium]]), rem... - Washington (20186 bytes)
36: ...re called "Washingtonians" (emphasis on the third syllable, which rhymes with ''bone'').
38: ...o avoid confusion, the capital is often called simply '''D.C.''', and the state often called '''Washin...
45: Prior to the arrival of explorers from [[Europe]], this region of the Pacific ...
49: ...ations of the straits were performed by Spanish explorers [[Manuel Quimper]] in [[1790]] and [[Francis...
51: ...] of [[1790]] opened the northwest territory to explorers and trappers from other nations, most notabl... - Nevada (17565 bytes)
41: ...f the state's name is not "Ne-vah-da"; the middle syllable has a short ''a'' sound as in ''cat'' or ''hat''....
55: ...). The deficiencies in the [[Homestead Act]] as applied to Nevada were probably due to a lack of under...
66: ...uard" trying to rule as an [[oligarchy]]. Most people outside the state are not familiar with this riv...
84: :''See: [[Richest places in Nevada]]''
141: ===25 richest places in Nevada=== - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...rated [[consumer]] [[demand]] and aspirations, coupled with significant changes in the [[lifestyle]]; ...
3: ...on accelerated as [[Great Britain]] was wholly supplanted as Canada's main economic partner. At the mi...
5: ...e First World War, which were still present in peoples minds.
17: ...technology. Most of the devices that became commonplace in this decade had been developed before the w...
19: ...odern day. Without the self-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audie... - Writing (6476 bytes)
10: ... cave paintings and petroglyphs of prehistoric peoples can be considered the precursor of writing syst...
15: ...some logograms, Arabic numerals being a prime example. The most important (and, to a degree, the only ...
20: ...e best suited to languages with relatively simple syllable structure, such as Japanese. Other languages that...
36: A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to some surface. Pens come in a variety of...
51: ... tools. Word processing was one of the earliest applications for the personal computer in office produ... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
12: ...means of distinctly representing its symbols by application to a permanent or semi-permanent medium, s...
19: ...ey refer. Writing systems may be regarded as ''complete'' according to the extent to which they are ab...
26: ...t to categorise a system uniquely. The term '''complex system''' is sometimes used to describe those w...
29: ...m</th><th>What each symbol represents</th><th>Example</th></tr>
31: <tr><td>Syllabic</td><td>syllable</td><td>Katakana</td></tr> - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
1: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
2: ...ver time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract.
7: ...elopments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write from left to right in horizontal ...
13: ...ords conventionally written by logograms. The complexity of the system bears a resemblance to classic...
16: ...simplified cuneiform characters, that formed a simple, semi-alphabetic syllabary, using far fewer wedg... - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...t least the [[4th millennium BC]]. Sumerian was replaced by [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] as a spoken...
40: .... Some Sumerian logograms were written with multiple cuneiform signs. These logograms are called dir...
47: Sumerian is a [[split ergativity|split ergative]] language. In an ergative language th...
48: Example: ''lugal-e e2 mu-du3'' "the king built the house...
49: ...lit ergative]] languages (see more examples at [[split ergativity]]). - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: ...defined it as the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. I...
2: ...anization" – that is, an organization of people that supports the exercise of some religion, oft...
19: ...rience with the Divine. This narrower definition places "religion" in contradistinction with [[ration...
21: ...us, who see metaphysical claims as necessary to explain natural phenomena at a fundamental level.
23: ...or, institutionalized religions. This definition places "religion" in contradistinction to "spiritual... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...lues by both number and direction – for example, "1-Across" or "17-Down"); at the end of the clu...
12: ...entric circles. ''Free form'' crosswords have simple designs and are not symmetric.
23: ...' (since the latter is singular while the clue is plural).
24: Some clue examples:
26: ...n", where XXX and YYY are two placenames. For example, '''SSE''' might be clued as '''"New York to Was... - French language (40201 bytes)
19: ...in the world, being spoken by about 77 million people (called [[Francophones]]) as a [[mother tongue]]...
25: ...bited largely by a [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] people that the Romans referred to as [[Gaul|Gauls]], a...
27: ...in Latin were imported into Latin — for example, clothing items such as ''les braies''. Latin q...
46: ...enturies, [[Celtic languages|Celtic]]-speaking peoples from southwestern Britain ([[Wales]], [[Cornwal...
54: The [[Arab]] peoples also supplied many words to French around this time period, ... - Quran (41479 bytes)
14: ...'Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Islamic Arabic; others say that they wer...
16: ...r. Partly in response to the religious need to explain the Qur'an to poorer speakers, [[Arabic gramma...
18: ...that when the book is published, it must never simply be entitled "The Qur'an." The title must always...
26: ...e story of Adam) in the Qur'an. Muslim scholars explain these repetitions as emphasizing and pointing ...
38: or, to give a less loose example, the whole of surat [[al-Fil]]: - Hinduism (49198 bytes)
6: ...ian subcontinent]]. In the US alone, 3 million people follow some form of Hinduism.
27: ...[[Advaita]] philsophy, are monists, and view multiple manifestations of the one God or source of being...
30: ...ultimate aim for mankind, [[moksha]]. See for example, [http://www.dvaita.org/docs/srv_faq.html#hell t...
33: ... in Hinduism, regardless of denomination. For example, a well-known Rig Vedic hymn stemming from Hindu...
36: ....jpg|thumb|left|275px|10th-century ''mandir'' (temple) in [[Khajuraho]], Madhya Pradesh]] - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
5: ...i'wakan''] in [[Nahuatl]], with the accent on the syllable ''wa'', and by normal Nahuatl orthographic conven...
7: ...t represents the city has been translated as "The place of the precious sacrifice".
9: ... and what seems to be [[Nahua]] quarters, for example. The [[Totonac]]s have always maintained that th...
13: ...rding to legend it was where the Gods gathered to plan the creation of man.
15: ...d probably housed a population of over 150,000 people, possibly as many as 200,000. Teotihuacán was ... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...in "literature" (plural) but not in "Literature" (plural). What is intellectual and meaningful is subj...
5: ...olds that the literature of a [[nation]], for example, comprises the collection of texts which make it...
7: ...y or may not have [[nationalism|nationalistic]] implications. The [[Western canon|Western Canon]] form...
9: ...mbolic written language ([[hieroglyph]]s, for example). Even more conservative interpreters of the con...
11: ...ization|characters]]. [[Genre fiction]] (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also be... - Aymara language (3573 bytes)
3: '''Aymara''' is the language of the [[Aymara]] people of the [[Andes]]. It is one of only a handful of...
5: ...ndeed similarities, critics say that these may simply be the result of prolonged interaction between t...
13: ... and {{IPA|[b]}}), but each stop has three forms: plain (unaspirated), glottalized, and aspirated. Aym...
15: Stress is usually on the penult (the syllable before the last one), but long vowels may shift i...
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