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- History of China (45919 bytes)
14: ...e [[13th century BC]] and takes the form of inscriptions of divination records on the bones or shells ...
50: ...89. "South China under the Later Han Dynasty" (Chapter One from ''Generals of the South: the Foundatio...
51: ...Han for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang, ...
55: ....'' Draft annotated English translation.[http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han...
56: ...'' Draft annotated English translation. [http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/weilue/weilue... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
25: ...ose of this story would be to promote popular acceptance of the new [[Christianity|Christian faith]] b...
37: ...umphed over the Saxons, their common enemies. [Chapter 38, Footnote 138]</blockquote>
41: ...he tales surrounding Arthur were independently adapted from [[Breton]] oral traditions, spread through...
49: ...ained depiction of ''Arturus Rex'' bearing a [[sceptre]] and riding a [[goat]]. [[15th century]] merch...
53: ...found with the remains, and transcribed its inscription as - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for...
46: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that th...
54: ... of lobbying at the Spanish court, where he was kept on a salary to prevent him from taking his ideas ... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...m for themselves, and the word was always a descriptor of a ''type'' of religious innovation, rather t...
8: ...yes of the Puritans, this had made doctrine unacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[M...
10: ...belief that all existing churches had become corrupted by practice, by contact with pagan civilization...
14: ...ure and liturgy that the monarchy required. Attempts by the [[bishop]]s of the Church of England to e...
26: ...f Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the attempt to introduce a [[Divine right of kings]] to Charl... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: .... When the [[Scottish Parliament]] refused to accept the choice of the English Parliament, various coe...
17: ...tholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion.
19: ...erefore vacant. The Crown was offered to, and accepted by, William and Mary, who ruled as joint monarc...
33: ... army to Lord Marlborough, whom she appointed [[Captain-General]]. Marlborough also received numerous ...
35: ... of Sunderland]] and [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer|Robert Harley]]). One may observe th... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
16: ... Victoria became [[heir presumptive|heiress-presumptive]] to the throne. Since the law at that time ma...
25: ...hildless, Ernest Augustus was also the heir-presumptive to the British throne.
27: ... the [[Whig]] Party, which had been in power, except for brief intervals, since [[1830]]. The Whig Pri...
37: ...tributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theorie...
39: ... Eight more children would be born during the exceptionally happy marriage between Victoria and Prince... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
19: ... propose to May. George duly proposed and May accepted. Despite its being an arranged marriage, May an...
29: ...ried Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood ([[9 September]] [[1882]] – [[23 May]] [[1947]]); and...
58: ...VII, was slow in leaving Buckingham Palace, and kept some of the royal jewels that should have been pa...
62: ...nd Albert, and her youngest son Prince John was kept away on the Sandringham Estate so the public woul...
73: ...e Queen was also something of an opportunistic kleptomaniac, making it very clear to hosts and others ... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
8: She studied at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and at the [[School o...
18: ...Prison in Yang? After a surgical operation in [[September]] 2003, she was again placed under house arr... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...rs later amid various [[Political corruption|corruption]] scandals by the then President of Pakistan [...
6: ... to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. She temporarily left Radcliffe for New York Ci...
8: ...as the first Asian woman to be President of the [[Oxford Union]], after the election had to be re-run beca...
15: ...n once again her government was dismissed on corruption charges.
17: ...istan Peoples Party]] event in Newark, CA, [[28 September]] [[2004]]]] - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
31: ...labour market that would create jobs and could adapt to market conditions. Exacerbated by the global r...
33: ...the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Eco...
38: ...udied [[chemistry]]. She became Chairman of the [[Oxford University Conservative Association]] in [[1946]]...
45: ...inistry of Pensions and National Insurance]] in September [[1961]], keeping the post until the Conserv...
50: ...d the budget of the [[Open University]] from attempts to cut it. - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...briefly by a relative in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at th... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
57: :''[[The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse]]'' ([[1982]])
59: :''[[The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English]]'' ([[... - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
9: ...e Ages'', Roger S. Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881 - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
20: ...gh she was seen alive in the water, a rescue attempt failed and her body was lost. - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
7: ...coming a research fellow at [[Somerville College, Oxford]] in [[1936]], a post which she held until [[1977...
11: ... Volume in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...s said that her older brothers and sisters were kept busy answering her many questions, and each sibli...
17: ...ith my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted [[Mason]], he bade me seek and comfort the affl...
31: ... of crisis. As Barton expanded the original concept of the Red Cross to include assisting in any grea...
35: ...an a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Massachusetts.
45: Clara Barton's Birthplace in [[North Oxford, Massachusetts]] [http://www.clarabartonbirthplac... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ...of Jesus. They found the [[empty tomb|sepulchre empty]] but saw the "vision of angels" ([[Gospel of Ma...
12: ...first needed to be defended. All of these manuscripts were first discovered and published between [[19...
22: ...[[Pistis Sophia]]'', and The ''[[Gospel of the Egyptians]]'', reflects some of the tensions in second-...
24: ...ry'']: (English), syncretic text, incorporating Coptic and earlier Greek versions; further web links
33: ... of [[Nikos Kazantzakis]]'s novel ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' followed a similar tradition. - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
3: ... Bingen''' ([[September 16]] [[1098]] – [[September 17]], [[1179]]) was a [[German people|German...
12: ...e heavens were opened and a blinding light of exceptional brilliance flowed through my entire brain. A...
20: [[Image:Sthildegard-manuscript.jpg|thumb|"Universal Man" illumination from Hilde...
22: ...ons of words for her lyrics and a constructed script, many [[conlang]]ers look upon her as a mediaeval...
26: ... balance to the body. That is why in giving descriptions of plants, trees, birds, animals, stones, Hil... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
11: ... She subsequently spent seasons in repertory in [[Oxford]] and [[Nottingham]]. In [[1961]] she joined the ... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
10: She met author [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] at [[Oxford University]] in November 1964. Neither was aware...
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