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- Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
6: ...he empire at her own discretion for ten years, displaying great firmness and sagacity in her governmen...
8: ... former of these, held in [[786]] at [[Constantinople]], was frustrated by the opposition of the soldi...
12: ...were attributed by the common superstition to the horror of heaven.
14: ...ges and [[monastery|monasteries]] has given her a place among the [[saint]]s of the Eastern Orthodox c... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
8: ...in one of Europe's most cultured courts, the birthplace of [[courtly love]]. She was highly educated f...
10: ... existence, a [[rock crystal vase]] that is on display at the Louvre. Within a month of their marriage...
14: ... leader with no concept of maintaining troop discipline or morale, or of making informed and logical t...
18: ...al in developing trade agreements with Constantinople and ports of trade in the Holy Lands.
22: ...ment, Eleanor married [[Henry II of England|Henry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy]]. ... - 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...
25: ...on Christina for her difficult birth, or just the horror story itself, may have prejudiced Christina again...
27: ...a prince would be trained. Even as a child she displayed a precociousness that astonished the brillian... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
8: ...Melbourne]], the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, and then to the Philip Street Theatre...
13: ...]] of [[1990]] in [[Telluride, Colorado]]. The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and l...
19: ...n she co-starred with her husband as a married couple for the second time.
23: ...an injured her knee, so [[Jodie Foster]] had to replace her in ''[[Panic Room]]''. The following year ...
26: ...' character falls in love with a 10 year-old boy (played by [[Cameron Bright]]), who she believed to b... - War (7002 bytes)
1: ..., organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use of violent, p...
6: ...are, as illustrated by the success of highly disciplined troops of the [[Roman Empire]].
8: ...warfare. Inventions created for warfare have also played an important role in others fields. The conti...
16: ...econd World War]], combined with the unquestioned horror of [[nuclear war]] have contributed to the curren...
24: ...as restraints at times. In some cultures, for example, conflicts have been highly ritualized to limit ... - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...name ''Africa terra'' — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern...
16: ...ing prefix a-, so meaning a land free of cold and horror. But the change of sound from ''ph'' to ''f'' in ...
37: ...[[Prester John]], [[14th century]] [[European]] explorers arrived in Africa.
51: ...side by side with no buffer between them. For example, the [[Congo River]], although it appears to be ...
53: ...hat had substantial European populations, for example [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], systems of se... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
16: ...ed individual was placed at his/her final resting place through a set of [[Egyptian burial rituals and...
18: ...ough it is not a 'true' mummy. The body is on display in the [[British Museum]] and has been given th...
31: ...into tombs. The incision was covered with a metal plate bearing the [[Eye of Horus]] (wedjat) which sy...
37: ...er protect the deceased, magical [[amulet]]s were placed on specific parts of the body between the lay...
45: ...iduals would simply be mummified and laid in a simple tomb or on a ledge in a larger tomb. Higher-stat... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
78: ... but some go more one way than others. For an example, Bergen County, which is very Republican in the ...
82: ... members. Assembly members are elected by the people for a two year term in all odd-numbered years; S...
107: ...ny jokes about [[pollution]] and [[irony|ironic]] plays on the state's nickname, the "Garden State."
165: ..., Senses Fail, Saves The Day, Thursday, Hidden In Plain View, The Early November, Armor For Sleep, Out...
169: *The DeLeo brothers of [[Stone Temple Pilots]] are both from New Jersey. The brothers,... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
12: ...xander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
31: ...ional Basketball Association|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
34: ...n Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
128: *[[Mike York|York, Mike]], ice hockey player - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
10: Please use the new section editing feature if your b...
17: ...s/List_of_mis|11,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_people_by_name:_Zz|12,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_tel...
29: **[[Lists of people]]
63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
90: *[[Classification of finite simple groups]] - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
12: |Place||Principally in the southern United States; al...
53: ...h]] States, where slavery and [[Plantation|cotton plantation]] agriculture were most dominant, formed ...
55: ...state]]s" did not secede, and one seceding state split; these five are known as the [[Border States (C...
58: ...ssion from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for gradual emancipation) in [[1863]] as [[West...
62: ...tate]] and a part of the Union. Lincoln had won a plurality there, but there was a number of Southern ... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
136: ...entric orbit]], Neptune is sometimes the furthest planet from the [[Sun]]. Neptune is named after the ...
138: ... spacecraft, ''[[Voyager 2]]'', which flew by the planet on [[August 25]], [[1989]].
142: ...ated by [[accretion|infalling matter]] during the planet's birth, now slowly radiating away into space...
144: ...nus (planet)|Uranus]]. There is likely to be a [[planetary core|core]] consisting of (molten) rock an...
146: ...be characteristic of flows in the interior of the planet and not the result of Uranus' sideways orient... - Cambodia (32076 bytes)
45: ...vada Buddhism|Therevada Buddhists]] of [[Khmer people|Khmer]] extraction. A citizen of Cambodia is usu...
51: ... one year to negotiate between the [[Cambodian People's Party]] and the royalists' [[FUNCINPEC]] is in...
61: ...l name of Cambodia, the one most used by Khmer people, is '''Srok Khmae''' literally "Land Khmer". ''S...
70: ...blique populaire du Kampuchea'' (a calque of [[People's Republic of China]]) under the rule of the Vie...
77: ...]. [[Angkor Wat]], the empire's main religious temple, remains a symbol of Cambodia during its time as... - Halloween (18290 bytes)
4: ...e''' and this name is still used by some older people. Halloween was formerly also sometimes called ''...
10: ...and when [[magic]] is most potent (''see, for example, [[Catalan mythology about witches]]'').
24: ... carve a pumpkin into a scary or comical face and place it on the home's doorstep on Halloween night f...
29: ...ick or treat!" (or, less frequently, "Halloween apples!") The occupants of the house (who might thems...
33: ...or plumbing was so widespread, tipping over or displacing outhouses was a popular form of trick. - 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]].
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...
30: ...elationship with Rome’s great general would play into his hands later. - Depth of field (8291 bytes)
1: [[Image:frms_mkt_dof.jpg|thumb|260px|An example of fairly shallow depth of field]]
4: ... the camera, and the way in which the image is displayed all have an influence. However, the most impo...
23: | align="center" | Example of how the [[F-number]] affects<br> depth of fie...
26: ...ash;common, for instance, in [[melodrama]]s and [[horror film]]s); a shot of rolling hills would be likely...
30: ...r using a 400 mm lens to shoot a subject (for example, a bird) 10 metres away. Assuming an aperture of... - American comic book (14771 bytes)
7: ==The Platinum Age==
23: Following the war, new genres appeared. For example, [[teen]] humor (epitomized by [[Archie Comics]]...
26: ...ed comic books. Industry circulation declined sharply. Superheroes, in particular, were all but wiped...
28: ... Comics]] gained fame as a publisher of crime and horror comics, producing a number of high-quality suspen...
30: ...t notably National and Archie, two of the largest players. In 1954, they and other publishers founded... - 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... - Gong (10121 bytes)
7: ...t deal of skill. The smallest suspended gongs are played with bamboo sticks, or even western-style dru...
9: ...truck with a beater. Bowl gongs are used in [[temple]] worship, especially in [[Buddhism]].
18: ...o make a shallow cylinder. On a 10" gong, for example, the rim extends about an half an inch perpendic...
24: ===Nipple gongs===
26: '''Nipple gongs''' have a raised boss or nipple in the centre, often made of a different metal t... - Ondes Martenot (2090 bytes)
7: ...instrument was frequently used in soundtracks for horror and [[science fiction]] movies, and is still used...
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