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- Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
10: ... when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for attaining a title, so William wrote up a w...
14: ...weak and ineffectual military leader with no concept of maintaining troop discipline or morale, or of ...
16: ...], an ally until the attack. Failing in this attempt, they retired to Jerusalem, and then home.
28: ... This aroused not only Eleanor's horror and contempt, but most of Europe's.
30: .... When Eleanor tried to join them, she was intercepted. Henry, who put down the rebellion, imprisoned ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
52: ...epetition of Stein's work to her search for descriptions of the "bottom nature" of her characters, suc...
61: Today, most manuscripts are kept in the [[Beinecke Library]] at [[Yale University]... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: '''Suzanne Valadon''' ([[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]...
18: ... but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness."
24: ...ee spirit, she would wear a corsage of carrots, kept a goat in her studio to "eat up her bad drawings"... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...ia Callas''' ([[December 2]], [[1923]] –[[September 16]], [[1977]]) was a [[Greece|Greek]]-[[Uni...
13: ...rthodox Church on Rue Georges-Bizet on the [[20 September]], and her ashes were buried in the [[P貥 L... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
8: ...visual art]]s as well as acting, painting and sculpting herself, as well as modelling for [[Antonio de... - Geology (12007 bytes)
22: ... [[volcano]]es, as opposed to the ''[[Neptunism|Neptunists]]'', who believed that all rocks had settle...
26: ...in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time.
33: ... and by [[Arthur Holmes]], but wasn't broadly accepted until the [[1960s]] when the theory of plate te... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
8: == First concepts ==
25: ...h a short age for the Earth. Biologists could accept that the Earth might have a finite age, but even ...
27: ...mates would prove far too short. Thomson had attempted to root the debate in one set of facts; the geo...
37: ...ident of himself, and the fact that multiple attempts to determine the age of the Earth seemed to show...
41: ...hat the discovery of radioactivity upset the assumptions on which most calculations of the age of the ... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
24: *[[Egypt]] (Misr) - [[Cairo]] - Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
39: | From the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[September 19]], [[1983]]
59: ...hort of the two-thirds majority needed. In late September 1998, [[Hurricane Georges]] caused approxima... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
46: ... "The Delaware State," and in 1792 that entity adopted its first constitution, declaring itself to be ...
54: Delaware's fourth and current constitution was adopted in [[1897]] and provides for executive, judicia...
104: ...hodist]] (27% of the total state population), [[Baptist]] (9%), [[Pentecostal]] & [[Presbyterian]] & [...
181: ...etween [[New Jersey]] and [[Pennsylvania]], and emptying into [[Delaware Bay]], which separates New Je... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: The [[Scientific Revolution]] saw the inception of the modern [[scientific method]] to guide t...
6: ...cience|natural]] and the [[social science]]s attempt to base their [[theory|theories]] on established ...
19: ...ristotle.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[Aristotle]] (sculpture)]]
54: ...ed an important role. During this period the concepts of [[citation]] and [[peer review]] were develop...
61: ...n]] questioned religious doctrine. The works of [[Ptolemy]] (Astronomy), [[Galen]] (Medicine), and [[A... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
7: .... In many cases, such faunal stages have been adopted in building the geologic nomenclature, though i...
15: ...entury. The most influential of those early attempts (championed by [[Abraham Werner]], among others)...
19: ...]], and the name "Carboniferous" was simply an adaptation of "the Coal Measures," the old British geol...
73: ... sea. Primitive [[Aves|birds]] gradually replace pterosaurs. [[Monotremes]], [[marsupial]]s and [[pl...
92: ...mammal-like. First [[dinosaur]]s, [[mammal]]s, [[pterosaur]]s, and [[crocodilia]]. ''[[Dicrodium]]''... - Caste (32815 bytes)
20: ...ght and explained to them by their spiritual preceptor. To the Brahman belongs the right of teaching a...
58: ...ts of untouchability lies in the hatred and contempt which the Brahmins created against those who were...
84: ...as synonyms of brahmin, seems to justify the assumption that the profession had already, to a certain ...
86: There is, however, with the exception of a solitary passage in a hymn of the last bo...
98: ... the elaboration of a system of conventional precepts, partly forming the basis of [[Manusmriti|Manu's... - Zoology (5641 bytes)
39: ...ies is to compare Aristotle's classificatory conceptions of successive naturalists with those which ar... - Paleontology (5646 bytes)
29: ... taxa and other data collection, systematic description of new species, and collections management. - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
50: ...he Germans. He made five unsuccessful escape attempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retali...
56: ...smissed de Gaulle's theories with the notable exception of [[Paul Reynaud]] who would later play a maj...
69: ...ons of Frenchmen were refugees on the road), excerpts of the speech appeared in French newspapers the ...
82: ...he President of the provisional government from September [[1944]] but resigned on [[January 20]], [[1...
87: ... active politics, though the RPF lingered until September [[1955]]. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
25: ...s tactlessness), Brienne went on the attack, attempting to disband the parlements entirely and collect...
31: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[August 8]], [[1788]] &ndash...
33: ... of the opposition that the government would attempt to gerrymander an assembly to its liking. In ord...
35: ...nd that the Third Estate itself was the nation, kept these resentments alive.
40: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[June 17]], [[1789]] –... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
2: ...pporters and opponents of the revolution. It attempts to give identifying facts and ultimate fates. ''...
9: ...in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'etat|coup]]'' attempt
14: * [[Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte|Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte]] - General, later king of [...
70: *[[Jean-Baptiste Jourdan]] - French general, victor at [[Battl...
74: *[[Jean-Baptiste Kléber]] - Revolutionary general, assassinat... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
14: ...ly Cox]] and [[Henry Rathvon]], which combines cryptic clues with diabolically ingenious variations on...
52: ... if they have one of the words then they can attempt to guess the phrase. This has also become popular...
60: ===Cryptic Crosswords===
61: {{merge|Cryptic crossword}}
62: ... can take some practice. In [[Great Britain]], cryptics are the most common variety of crossword puzzl...
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