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- 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... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
6: ...ncient Egypt's rulers, and is usually known as simply '''Cleopatra''', all of her similarly-named pred...
21: ...of the lavish dinners she shared with Antony, she playfully bet him that she could spend ten million [...
27: ...y that Cleopatra asked several of her servants to test out various forms of suicide, before choosing the...
35: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html Cleopatra... - Performance (3170 bytes)
1: [[Image:Street accordion player.jpg|thumb|A street musician with accordion in...
2: ...er and audience may become blurred, as in the example of "[[participatory theatre]]" where audience me...
4: Examples of performance [[genre]]s include:
11: ** [[play]]
20: Performances might take place daily, or at some other regular [[interval (ti... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
18: ... show in the United States. The show is usually split between call-in segments and monologues by Limb...
20: ...read support and attention in [[1998]] when he complained that some radio stations were shortening his...
22: ...rty (which he had earlier alienated by breaking a pledge not to raise [[tax]]es). President [[George W...
26: ...oo late in the evening in many markets. (In many places it was aired at 1:30 AM or even later.)
30: ...tted that the changes in his voice were due to complete [[post-lingual hearing impairment|deafness]] i... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Sandringham]], [[Norfolk]], [[Engla...
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...having had the right to that title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] ra...
13: ...pic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adulte...
22: ... Althorp's rank, aided by Lady Althorp's mother's testimony against her daughter during the trial, meant... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...ing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
10: ...was lifted. This event helped spark many other protests against [[segregation]]. In helping in this boyc...
16: ==Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the civil rights movement==
19: ...[civil disobedience]] in [[1955]] refer to her simply as a "tired seamstress." Parks stated in her aut...
21: Also, some accounts downplay her prior involvement with the [[NAACP]] and th... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: ...s a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the n... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
2: ...as a famous [[World War II]] [[Germany|German]] [[test pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of ...
4: ... when she left that field to pursue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s she became fairly famous, set...
6: ...ct command of Karl Franke she soon became a major test pilot on the [[Junkers Ju 87]] ''Stuka'' and [[Do...
8: ...et'', and several larger [[bomber]]s on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting [[barrage balloo...
10: ...with a cockpit in order to be used during gliding tests, dropped from a [[Heinkel He 111]] bomber. Later... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
3: In 1953, she introduced the first test, called the [[Apgar Score]], to assess the health... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: ... Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New Yor...
10: ...]] stage, where she was to appear in over a dozen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress,...
14: ...her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...e also wonders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything appro...
18: ...h's career stalled in unmemorable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little ... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
23: ... Hari]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). The censors complained about her revealing outfit shown on the movi...
25: ... getting her leading man, [[Laurence Olivier]], replaced on ''[[Queen Christina (film)|Queen Christina...
33: ...ning Garbo's image and making her less exotic, complete with the insertion of a scene in which her cha...
35: ...ion. She withdrew from the entertainment world completely and moved to a secluded life in [[New York C...
38: ...s forever. Her movies, she felt, had their proper place in history and would gain in value. On [[Febru... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
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... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
8: ...ven. The Bolenders were a religious couple who supplemented their meager income by being foster parent...
15: ...3.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]]'']]
18: ...[[talent]] scout Ben Lyon who arranged a [[screen test]]. She passed and was offered a standard six mont...
22: By 1952 Zanuck was nearly convinced and she played her first role as a leading lady in ''Don't B...
23: ...l, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her unique connect... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...s silver medallist [[Maureen Gardner]], while 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on...
15: ...on the same day. In the high jump, she took sixth place (shared with two other jumpers) while the Dutc...
23: ...er name to Blankers-Koen. Blankers, a former [[triple jump]]er (participant in the [[1928 Summer Olymp...
25: ... athlete. Blankers-Koen and her husband had other plans, and she resumed training only weeks after her...
31: ...cities. Naturally, sport was the last thing on people's minds, and the Blankers family, living in [[Am... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...nge class]] [[steam locomotive]], at [[Bristol Temple Meads]] station, Bristol, England]]
3: ...red locomotives, and may be referred to as [[multiple unit]]s or [[railcar]]s; the use of these self-p...
12: ...should the locomotive break down, it is easy to replace it with a new one. Failure of the motive power...
14: ...e payload-hauling cars means that either can be replaced without affecting the other. At some times, l...
21: ... or [[oil]]. Because of the steam engine, some people took to calling the steam locomotives themselves... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
7: ...(anatomy)|spine]] just below the [[liver]] and [[spleen]]. [[Superior]] to each kidney is an [[adrenal...
20: ...ed molecules. Reabsorption and secretion are accomplished with both cotransport and [[countercurrent e...
24: ...ion. Blood pressure provides the force for blood plasma to be filtered through the thin, porous epith...
33: ...n rate]] is a [[Renal_physiology#Tests|diagnostic test of kidney function]].
39: ...active transport]] to take place by the energy supplied by [[adenosine triphosphate|ATP]]. Glucose, a... - Liver (11441 bytes)
1: ...uding detoxification, [[glycogen]] storage and [[plasma protein]] synthesis. It also produces [[bile]...
7: The liver is supplied by two major blood vessels: the [[hepatic arte...
23: ... secondary and tertiary branching of the blood supply. The segments corresponding to the surface anat...
42: ===Fetal blood supply===
43: ...d thence to the [[inferior vena cava]], allowing placental blood to bypass the liver. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...regular [[crystal]] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|table sugar]] is melted and co...
22: ... doped with [[Erbium]], which [[Fiber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission fr...
26: ...s]]), but the same toolmaking techniques can be applied to industrially-made glass.
30: ...substances are always added to common glass to simplify processing. One is soda ([[sodium carbonate]] ...
37: ... by these compounds. The chemistry involved is complex and not well understood. New colored glasses ar... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ... facto'' independence and/or some international diplomatic recognition from selected states, but are n...
5: ...to the principles of the [[Atlantic Charter]] and pledged them not to seek a separate peace with the [...
20: ...nd the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] met to elaborate the plans at the [[Dumbarton Oaks|Dumbarton Oaks Estate]...
24: ...ot represented at the conference, but for which a place among the original signatories had been reserv...
28: ...left|thumb|UN offices occupy a portion of this complex in [[Vienna]]]] - Science (19868 bytes)
6: ... "scientific" theories are objective, empirically testable, and "predictive" — they predict empiri...
10: ... than to literally predicting the future. For example, to say, "a paleontologist may make predictions ...
14: ...ndent observation language, so the very notion of testing theories with [[facts]] is problematic.
15: ... accumulation of facts, as the empiricist model implies.
21: ...er-intuitive]]. [[Atomic theory]], for example, implies that a granite boulder which appears a heavy, ...
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