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  1. Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
    7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and poli...
    9: ...Black America of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston...
    15: ...ritings, Hurston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Other popular...
    17: ...ing: She was among the first academics to study [[Voodoo]], even travelling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and pres...
    36: *''[[Mule Bone]]'' (A play written with [[Langston Hughes]]) ([[1996]])
  2. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    7: ...gan studying at [[Montgomery College]] and began playing at piano bars, many of them gay, chaperoned ...
    10: ...ther artists (including Stan Ridgway of [[Wall of Voodoo]], [[Sandra Bernhard]] and [[Al Stewart]]) as a b...
    20: ...center. In [[1995]], Amos, duetting with [[Robert Plant]], contributed the song "Down by the Seaside"...
    30: ..., Amos' first with a full band, was known as the "Plugged '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, th...
    33: Next, Amos planned to release a live album. She decided to writ...
  3. Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
    10: ...]]. Not only did she film many hours of [[Vodoun|voodoo]] [[ritual]], but also participated in them. Her...
    12: ...lated that her death was the result of a [[Vodoun|voodoo]] curse.
    14: ...ndover]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
  4. Louisiana (26375 bytes)
    53: ...St. Charles, Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines.
    60: ...ce|French]]. Louisiana was named by the French explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]] in honour of ...
    86: ...to note that the "Civilian" tradition is still deeply rooted in all aspects of Louisiana law. Property...
    88: ...election|primary]] on Election Day, in which multiple candidates from the same party may be on the bal...
    97: ... feet at the prairie and alluvial lands. In the uplands and hills the elevations rise to Mount Drisko...
  5. History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
    6: ...m mentality in this growing region conflicted sharply with the concerns of the so-called [[Rust Belt]]...
    8: ...d departed. In the nation's major urban areas unemployment increased, expanding demand for social serv...
    14: ...ban areas, housing prices have been driven up, displacing poor residents. The processes of gentrificat...
    18: ...rol international affairs. The energy crisis, unemployment, and inflation, derided as [[stagflation]],...
    20: ...ing large quantities of consumer goods and home appliances. Soviet industrial output increased by 75%,...
  6. List of religions (13836 bytes)
    1: ...ategory allow. Even if multiple definitions are applicable a religion will only be listed once. The de...
    144: ...The orally transmitted canon of [[indigenous]] peoples, many involving some variant of [[animism]] and...
    266: **[[Temple of Set]]
    326: * [[Jesus People]]
    328: * [[People's Temple]]
  7. Amulet (8206 bytes)
    6: ...word]]s said in certain occasions – for example: ''vade retro, [[Satan]]as'' – ([[Latin]],...
    9: ...ets vary considerably according to their time and place of origin.
    10: ...hanging from their necks; in [[Bolivia]] and some places in [[Argentina]] the god [[Ekeko]] furnishes ...
    16: ...cactus]] can cause controversy, for while some people consider them beneficial, others think they dela...
    18: ...s), [[Afro-American]] syncretic religions, like [[Voodoo]], [[Umbanda]] and [[Santer�] use other drawing...
  8. Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
    10: | place of birth=[[Tampico, Illinois]]
    13: | place of death=[[Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California | ...
    25: ...n was [[baptism|baptized]] in his mother's [[Disciples of Christ]] church in Dixon, and in [[1924]] he...
    29: ...for the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none...
    31: ...d. Reagan smoothly improvised a fictional play-by-play (in which hitters on both teams fouled off pitc...
  9. Bahamas (7935 bytes)
    78: ... subsequent ethnic cleansing of the [[Arawak]] peoples is believed to have been greatly facilitated by...
    97: ...mestic Product|GDP]] and directly or indirectly employs almost half of the archipelago's labour force....
    106: A heavily religious country, there are more places of worship per person in the Bahamas than any...
    108: ...t the Bahamas, obeah is shunned by many people. [[Voodoo]] is practiced, but almost exclusively by immigra...
  10. Ancient Indian science and technology (21581 bytes)
    9: *Mathematics � [[Vedic]] literature is replete with concepts of [[0 (number)|zero]], the tech...
    11: ...s of [[atom]] and [[theory of relativity]] were explicitely stated by an Indian Philosopher around [[6...
    12: *Chemistry � Principles of chemistry did not remained abstract but also...
    13: ..., first compendium on medicine and surgery was complied in ancient India.
    18: ...ce of [[chess]], [[ludo]], snakes and ladders and playing cards.

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