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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ... Jamshid'' ("the throne of Jamshid"). That they represent the Persepolis captured and partly destroyed ...
8: ...tures, and one of those at ''Nakshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to be the tomb of...
12: ...sias assumes that it was the custom for a king to prepare his own tomb during his lifetime. Hence the k...
26: ...cated guests. (2) At this point one of the women present, Thais by name and Attic by origin, said that...
27: ...any torches were gathered. Female musicians were present at the banquet, so the king led them all out ... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...covery. Such theories have grown from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include ...
7: ... a word with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific perio...
16: ...atters like justice, beauty and truth. He wrote nothing, but inspired many disciples. He was executed in ...
20: ...s the indecision of the masses (who voted on everything, including military strategy) as the reason for m...
29: .... Therefore, the first cause is the best possible thing. Similar arguments are used to prove God's power ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: The somewhat widespread notion that Columbus fought with opposition bas...
5: ... is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...ral]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([...
48: ... many successful individuals, initiative and enterpreneurship ended up being more important than factua...
52: Columbus first presented his plan to the court of [[Portugal]] in [[... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
13: ...thwest passage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he plante...
17: ... arrived on [[October 2]], [[1535]]. Much more impressive than the small and squalid village of Stadac...
19: ...oo late to return to France. Cartier and his men prepared for winter by strengthening their fort, stac...
23: ...e, not ten were well enough to help the others, a thing pitiful to see". Cartier estimates the number of...
25: ...aya]] who had been taken to Europe by Cartier the previous year. Visiting the French fort for a friend... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
13: ...er own court at [[Ludlow Castle]] and many of the prerogatives normally only given to a [[Prince of Wal...
17: ...526]], the Princess Mary was sent to [[Wales]] to preside over the [[Council of Wales and the Marches]]...
19: ...re abolished, and the King was acknowledged as "Supreme Head" of the [[Church of England]].
30: ...t monarch; his Parliament's [[Act of Uniformity]] prescribed Protestant rites for church services, such...
35: ...on was met with popular disapproval, which was suppressed by the use of force. A young boy so bold as ... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
12: ...for that abbey's greatest archbishop. That was nothing compared to the marriages the queen arranged for ...
16: ...It was said that Eleanor Talbot had done the same thing Elizabeth Woodville did later: A widow who caught... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
31: ...me ownership, and in so doing created a more entrepreneurial culture. She also aimed to cut back the [[...
38: ...& Company]], where she helped develop methods for preserving [[ice cream]]. She was a member of the tea...
50: ...mar school]]s and adopt [[comprehensive school|comprehensive secondary education]], of which she approv...
52: ...e second, in February 1975. She appointed Heath's preferred successor [[William Whitelaw]] as her [[Dep... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
39: ...kely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a vegetable."
40: ...s such as ''Tender Buttons'' have since been interpreted by critics as a feminist reworking of partiarc...
46: #Grounding the Continuous present
50: ...ng is that you must have deep down as the deepest thing in you a sense of equality."
52: ...a history of her." Grahn: "Using the idea of everything belonging to a whole field and mattering equally,... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
9: ...her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is hailed as one of the greatest novelis...
13: ...editation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenatio...
15: ...'t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible ha... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
7: ... controversy surrounding her work, especially her premiere work, ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ([[1928]]),...
16: ...tion? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?" She found that it did....
18: ... with, observed, and interviewed (through an interpreter) the sixty-eight young women between the ages ...
33: ...h-population density areas were not, for example, present in the same way in Oksapmin, West Sepik Provi...
35: ...phasis in child-rearing, and her documentation of predominantly peaceful relations among relatives hold... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
11: ...ere German scientists working on exactly the same thing so after they had published their results Maria s...
17: ...onour her too. The [[University of Chicago]] also presents an award each year to a young "outstanding" ... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ...0]] she resolved to study medicine, an unheard-of thing for a woman in those days, regarded by some as al...
9: ... in 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the [[British... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...ention, though she is still one of the industry's premiere female singer/songwriters. The influence of...
27: :''When they said, "Is there something, anything''
61: .... As a result, Morissette unabashedly shared everything, from her buoyant love of life ("You Learn"), to ...
84: Things changed quickly, however, when a [[Los Angeles, ...
134: ...eased as a single, but nevertheless received widespread radio airplay. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...est and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family and friends. At around this time ...
13: ...ejected on the grounds that the "girl and a piano thing" wasn't going to sell. Extensively re-worked and ...
16: ..."God", "Cornflake Girl" (a #4 single in the UK), "Pretty Good Year" and "Past the Mission", which featu...
43: ...ing the album. These were then distributed to the press on the understanding that they would be returne...
48: ...in their original recordings. Recording under the premise that a librarian is a "chronicler," Amos piec... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
19: ...y June 1915 she had left home and was on the road preaching full-time.
27: ...ur years of 1918 to 1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los A...
31: ...fluenced by the Salvation Army: in a campaign to spread the church nationwide, she adopted a theme of "...
33: ... less a [[fire and brimstone|fire-and-brimstone]] preacher than one to endorse charitable work and "ecs...
35: ...rly '20s. McPherson was first woman in history to preach a radio sermon, and with the opening of Foursq... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...ss]] of the [[20th century]]. Her sizzling screen presence, stunning good looks and mysterious [[death]...
25: ...n December 1953. It was a smash hit. And when the press realised that the nubile beauty in the magazine...
27: ''[[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]]'' and ''[[How To Marry A Millionaire...
31: ...hough Monroe started work on a new movie, ''[[Something's Got To Give]]'', she died during production.
40: .... DiMaggio biographer Richard Ben Cramer asserts things got violent as a result. One incident allegedly ... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ...[[television]] and who, from the [[1980s]] to the present day, has been regarded as one of the best in ...
7: ...truthful approach toward the industry and her own presence within it. As she would say when collecting ...
13: ...ate Events]]''. That same year, Manhattan Borough President [[C. Virginia Fields]] proclaimed [[May 27]...
65: ... [[SAG]] Best Actress Nomination for ''[[One True Thing]]''
66: ... - [[Golden Globe]] Best Actress, in ''[[One True Thing]]'' - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
17: ...he outbreak of [[World War II]] put a stop to the preparations. The Olympics were formally cancelled on...
29: .... The German press was excited, as the record had previously been owned by an English team. Months late...
31: ... in the big cities. Naturally, sport was the last thing on people's minds, and the Blankers family, livin...
47: ...sewife", and "Amazing Fanny" by the international press, she was welcomed back home in Amsterdam by an ...
71: ...s, friends and contemporary athletes, it paints a previously unknown picture of her. During her success... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
1: ...y three-dimensional form created as an artistic expression. Sculpture is primarily concerned with space...
3: ...emporary art|contemporary sculpture]] transmits expression through arrangement and juxtaposition or by ...
81: ...7 IPR 417 is authority for the proposition that a thing not intended to be a sculpture is not a sculpture...
86: ...ive statues being seen as the 'perfect form' of representation for the human body.
87: ...ently, nudity in sculpture and [[painting]] has represented a form of ideal, be it innocence, openness ... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ...y alike, blazons follow a set of rules. The first thing the blazon describes is the [[tincture (heraldry)...
12: ...r of countries, some [[armiger|armigerous]] women prefer to use a shield anyway. A parallel usage for n...
62: ... vair, are regular variations of the field that represent various types of actual [[fur]]. Any charge m...
94: ...ape, as on the [[American flag]], which in fact represent spurs), [[crescent]]s, [[bugle]]-horns, [[wat...
100: A [[fess]] is the same thing as a pale, only horizontal.
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