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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
22: ...rie-Antoinette was presented with the magnificent jewels which traditionally belonged to a French dauphin...
43: ...ortly after the coronation, Marie-Antoinette attempted to bring the [[duc de Choiseul]] back to court....
61: ... entire country was standing on the edge of bankruptcy. [[Louis XIV]]'s wars with [[William III of Eng...
71: ...nac]] was made the new princess' Governess. She kept this post even when Marie-Antoinette's three othe...
75: ...wels and feathers and she refused to buy any more jewels for her personal collection. She was, however, f... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...r family and friends. At around this time she adopted the name "Tori," after a friend of a friend tol...
23: ...ing church bells, bagpipes, and a gospel choir, kept it away from the mainstream scene. The accompanyi...
36: ... sprawling, messy version of [[John Lennon]]'s cryptic "Happiness is a Warm Gun" and the rocky, fuzzy ...
39: ...r ego Scarlet and her cross-America trip post-[[September 11]], [[2001]]. Through the songs, Amos expl...
43: ...sc inside would shatter. The success of this attempt was so great that the record industry began to fo... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
2: ...e:Orchin_P622.jpg|250px|Phalaenopsis hybrid]] | caption = Orchid}}
14: ...orld Checklist of Orchids" gives about 24,000 accepted names. About 800 new species are added each yea...
20: == General description ==
21: ... plants are [[cosmopolitan]] in distribution, except [[Antarctica]] and deserts. The great majority ar...
30: ...king [[endosperm]] (food reserves). A notable exception is ''[[Disa]] cardinalis'', whose seeds may gr... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...]] is made from less valuable materials. However, jewellery can and has been made out of almost every kin...
3: ...rnaments or [[Body piercing jewelry|body piercing jewellery]].
5: The word is derived from the word "jewel", which was [[anglicise]]d from the Old French "j...
7: ...hristians]] wearing a [[crucifix]] in the form of jewellery, or, as is the case in many Western cultures,...
9: Jewellery in various forms has been made and worn by bo... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
8: ...enomination in [[1872]], owing to charges of corruption in connection with the [[Cr餩t Mobilier of Am...
10: ...olfax, California]], is named in his honor. The "Jewel of the Midwest", Schuyler, Nebraska, is also name... - Inca mythology (10365 bytes)
8: ...ocha]]. In another, he was brought up from the depths of [[Lake Titicaca]] by the sun god [[Inti]]. H...
10: ...l behavior angered the tribes that they were attempting to rule. (''[[huaca]]'').
39: ..., earlier worshiped by the [[Ichma]] but later adopted into the creation myth of the Inca.
40: ...od of [[water]] in pre-Inca mythology that was adopted by the Inca. He was a god of rainstorms and a c...
43: ...caguary]]'' was the god of [[metal]]s, [[Gemstone|jewel]]s and other underground items of great value. - Spider (29039 bytes)
2: ...ider.jpg|220px|Long-jawed orb weaver spider]] | caption = [[Long-jawed orb weaver spider]]}}
45: Leptonetidae ([[leptonetid spider]])<br />
123: ...ds the male is largely a myth... only in some exceptional cases does the male fall victim to the femal...
131: ...e family Araneidae use sex pheromone analogs to capture only the males of certain moth species! Despit...
136: ...a spider makes contact with its prey it will attempt to bite. - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
8: ...ish Dictionary]]), whereas a dictionary that attempts to cover only a limited selection of words from ...
14: ...language using a non-[[Roman alphabet|Roman]] script, entry words in the non-English language may eith...
17: ...ey may be minimizing dictionaries, i.e. they attempt to cover only a limited number of the specialized...
20: ...panese dictionary') in Japanese and ''Okpyeon'' ('Jewel Book') in Korean. Each entry has one Chinese cha...
23: ... of the simplest concepts. From these, other concepts can be explained and defined, in particular for ... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
15: ...his handling of paint emulates van Eyck's subtle, jewel-like perfection. Unlike other Flemish masters, Ro...
20: * [[triptych]] ([[1438]]-[[1440]]), [[Berlin Museum]]
26: * the triptych from Middelburg, Berlin Museum - Bodhisattva (7734 bytes)
12: ...na]] Buddhist philosophy sometimes poses the concept of the bodhisattva in opposition to that of the '...
14: ...[Kagyu]] school. Other schools give variant descriptions.
64:
72: * Gampopa; The Jewel Ornament of Liberation; Snow Lion Publications; I... - Florence (11538 bytes)
23: ...ry: in [[1345]] Florence was the scene of an attempted strike by wool combers (''ciompi''), who in [[1...
27: ...insight was [[Niccolchiavelli]], whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong lead...
34: ... the flood was coming, except a phone call to the jewellers on the Ponte Vecchio.
38: ...ccupation with money and with [[conspicuous consumption|the display of wealth and leisure]].
48: ...f Neptune]], which is a masterpiece of marble sculpture at the terminus of a still functioning Roman [... - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (37869 bytes)
9: ...f [[terrorism]] on American soil prior to the [[September 11th attacks]] and the most destructive act ...
96: ...l fee. The site is also home to the [http://www.mipt.org/ National Memorial Institute for the Preventi...
104: ...Theatre] and the [http://www.jewelboxtheatre.org/ Jewel Box Theatre], both in midtown and the new 1,200 s...
114: ... runs to a park past the [http://www.paulmooresculptor.com/land_run.htm Oklahoma Land Run Monument]. ...
122: ...was once rejected for a position at the Calvary Baptist Church in Deep Deuce for being "too young". Mu... - Rainforest (6551 bytes)
4: ... names yet. Tropical rain forests are called the "jewel of the earth", the "Earth's lungs", and the "worl...
16: ...l be smaller. The large leaf surface helps intercept light in the sun-dappled lower strata of the fore...
18: ... climbers or [[liana]]s. Plants with epiphytic adaptations, allowing them to grow on top of existing t...
22: Exceptionally thin bark, often only 1-2 mm thick. Usuall... - Squid (6229 bytes)
2: ...Image:Squid_clipart.jpg|200px|Squid Clipart]] | caption = Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart...
22: ... (the rough tongue common to all [[molluscs]] except [[bivalvia]] and [[aplacophora]]).
26: ...have two elongated tentacles especially for the capture of food.
53: ******Family [[Chtenopteryx|Chtenopterygidae]]: comb-finned squid
58: ******Family [[Histioteuthis|Histioteuthidae]]: jewel squid - Basilisks (3192 bytes)
1: ...basileus'', a king) is a [[legend|legendary]] [[reptile]] reputed to be king of [[serpent]]s and said ...
3: ...al]] portents). In [[Medieval Europe]], the description of the creature began taking on features from ...
7: ...e to a basilisk's glare and venom, and kill the reptiles mercilessly. In addition, merely hearing a ro...
9: ...Basilisk" Ecks, who was transformed by a mystical jewel into a green-skinned red-eyed man who could trans... - Squids (6229 bytes)
2: ...Image:Squid_clipart.jpg|200px|Squid Clipart]] | caption = Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart...
22: ... (the rough tongue common to all [[molluscs]] except [[bivalvia]] and [[aplacophora]]).
26: ...have two elongated tentacles especially for the capture of food.
53: ******Family [[Chtenopteryx|Chtenopterygidae]]: comb-finned squid
58: ******Family [[Histioteuthis|Histioteuthidae]]: jewel squid - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
10: ... and the [[jazz]] of black urbanites that first captived the mainstream audience's attention. At the ...
76: ...at "race music", as it was then known, would corrupt their children. Nevertheless, rockabilly's popul...
85: ... groups like [[The Crows]] creating a style of [[uptempo doo wop]], while singers like [[Frankie Lymon...
161: ...in the UK than the U.S., and set the stage for adoption of elements of punk in popular music in the 80...
171: ...s Back]]'' and [[N.W.A.]]'s ''[[Straight Outta Compton]]'' broke through with highly controversial and... - Golden Ratio (15928 bytes)
1: ...athematical ratio. For the [[Aristotelian]] concept of "golden mean" see [[Nicomachean Ethics]].''
3: ...] belief that reality is a numerical reality, except that numbers were not units as we define them tod...
5: ...ratio may have been understood and used by the Egyptians. The discovery of irrational numbers, number...
13: ... the name of the [[Greeks|Greek]] [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Phidias]], who was long believed to have us...
105: ...re of [[gold]]; the second we may name a precious jewel."<br><div align="right">—''[[Johannes Keple... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
26: ...g those of left-wing and republican ideology) accepted Franco's wishes of being succeedled by [[Juan C...
36: ...id ranks as an important city in Europe. By attempting to establish itself as the leading southern Eu...
99: ...ebod]] (a temple brought stone-by-stone from [[Egypt]]), the [[Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales]], t...
157: The crown jewel of Spain's next decade of infrastructure construc... - Christmas song (5216 bytes)
69: ...- A Holiday Collection'' – [[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]]
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