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- Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...], helped to found the organization that became [[Planned Parenthood]]. Hepburn's father was a staunc...
7: ...nging Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
12: ...ed. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong ...
17: Hepburn cut her acting teeth in plays staged at Bryn Mawr and later in revues staged...
19: ... almost incomprehensible. She was fired from the play, but continued to work in small stock company r... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ... [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a well-known example.
16: One of the earliest examples of Egyptian sculpture is the [[Narmer Palette|P...
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...
33: ...ycenae under [[King Agamemnon]] that fought the [[Trojan War]]. - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
1: ...;χυλος''') was a [[playwright]] of [[ancient Greece]].
5: ...s, making ''The Persians'' his earliest surviving play.
7: ...(or more likely a [[Lammergeier]]), mistaking the playwright's bald crown for a stone, dropped a [[tor...
19: ...actor to his scenes. Previously, the action took place between a single actor and the [[Greek chorus]...
21: Aeschylus is known to have written over 70 plays, only six of which remain extant: - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
3: ...395 BC]]. [[Tithraustes]] was thereupon sent to replace Tissaphernes, who paid with his life for his c...
4: It was said that he was planning a campaign in the interior, or even an atta...
29: ... forth. The worst trait in his character is his implacable hatred of Thebes, which led directly to the... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...th]] is the third planet of the Solar System. ''[[Planetary system]]s'' are a more generic term for [[...
3: ==Planets In the Solar System==
5: ... clear-cut than once thought. This encyclopedia employs the following divisions:
8: *The [[planet]]s of the Solar System are those nine bodies ...
9: **[[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] (☿) - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...ipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|...
4: ... term to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-...
6: ...solar system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
10: ...em, and [[minor planet]] for a taxonomy of the subplanetary objects that include asteroids. The term '...
14: ...360) 1981 VA]]; the last numbered and named minor planet was [[99905 Jeffgrossman]] [http://cfa-www.ha... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...ch as the [[Fourth Crusade]] against [[Constantinople]], the [[Albigensian Crusade]] against the [[Cat...
4: ...events, the word crusade has evolved to have multiple meanings and connotations. For additional meanin...
7: ...ors always sought an outlet for their violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I...
11: ...ried to marshal public opinion in their favor, people became personally engaged in a dramatic religiou...
15: ...lims toward Christian pilgrims; these rumors then played an important role in the development of the c... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
2: |+ <big>'''Pluto'''</big>
4: ...lspan="2" align="center"| [[image:Pluto.jpg|250px|Pluto in True Color]]
5: .../><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
120: ...regarding whether Pluto should be classified as a planet (see below for details). Its symbol is a comb...
124: ...d orbit of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]]. It is [[#Planet X?|now known]] these discrepancies were an ar... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
7: ... complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of [[Helios]] as the [[sun god]]. Artemi...
19: ...Slaves could ask for and receive asylum in her temples.
25: ...ratum beneath that of their conquerors. It seems plausible that the association of Diana worship with...
33: ...her chest. They were formerly believed to be multiple breasts but are now known to have represented bu...
37: ...was sometimes known as [[Cynthia]], from her birthplace on [[Mount Cynthus]] on [[Delos]]. She someti... - Horse (38916 bytes)
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15: ...ill call the groups of machines that now take the place of the horse on the battlefield "[[cavalry]]" ...
19: ...and sheep.) Vestiges of other toes remain as the splint bones, the callus-like "chestnuts" on the inne... - Ernest William Brown (1403 bytes)
3: ...lunar tables. He also calculated the orbits of [[Trojan asteroid]]s. - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
3: ...s]]. The building was officially called the '''Temple of Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name de...
5: ...d by the [[Iran|Persians]]. As well as being a temple, the Parthenon was used as a treasury, and was t...
9: ... [[447 BC]] and the building was substantially completed by [[438 BC]], but work on the decorations co...
11: ...e effect of these subtle curves is to make the temple look even more symmetrical than it actually is.
19: ...northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]]. - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...e into what has become modern [[France]], an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible to t...
6: ...rded by later historians such as [[Suetonius]], [[Plutarch]], and [[Dio Cassius|Cassius Dio]].
9: ... its ancestry to [[Julus]], the son of the [[Troy|Trojan]] prince [[Aeneas]], who according to myth was th...
17: ...Roman Senate]], people were forced to stand and applaud his presence.
28: ...n asked why he would have such a reaction, his simple response was: "Do you think I have not just... - Troy (22846 bytes)
1: '''Troy''' is a legendary city, scene of the [[Trojan War]], part of which is described in [[Homer]]'s ...
2: [[Image:Troy 00.jpg|thumb|250px|"Trojan Horse" at the site of Troy|Image provided by [htt...
5: ...lourished until the establishment of [[Constantinople]], and declined gradually during [[Byzantine Em...
10: ...d the sea monster snatches away the people of the plain.
12: ... the men of Troy, according to [[Herodotus]]. The Trojan ships transformed into [[naiad]]s, who rejoiced t... - Antalya (20816 bytes)
5: ... the rustic old town, where historic [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[ethnic Greek|Greek]] houses are ...
7: ...[Yivli Minare]] and Kulliye, Karaalioglu park are places where [[Ottoman architecture]] can be seen. [...
18: ...igration of the Akha clan to the area after the [[Trojan war]].
24: ...ssed under the sovereignty of Byzantines. Antalya played a considerable part in the medieval history o...
31: :"The people of the city are living in separate neighborhoods... - 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,... - List of genres of reggae (4332 bytes)
5: ...ing horns and boogie-style stand-up bass. Many people associate the term mainly with 1980s British [[T...
11: ...ring, all while various effects and filters are applied to them) has proven very influential on modern...
15: ...m contemporary western music. Although largely supplanted in the popular imagination by [[Dancehall]] ...
19: ... and the inclusion of dub-style effects, often coupled with bawdy 'slackness' lyrics. The genre spawne...
21: ...Ranks]] and [[Charlie Chaplin (Reggae)|Charlie Chaplin]] are some of the well-known artists of the eig... - Padua (12961 bytes)
2: ... setting is the ''Pianura Padovana'', the "Paduan plain," edged by the [[Euganaean Hills]] praised by ...
4: ...e]]'s play, ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', took place.
11: ...basilica was begun about the year [[1230]] and completed in the following century; tradition says that...
17: ... the history of art is nearly as important as its place in the history of learning. The presence of th...
22: ... the historian [[Livy]], and Padua was the native place of [[Valerius Flaccus]], [[Asconius Pedianus]]...
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