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- Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
33: ... the even less popular [[Community Charge]], more commonly known as the [[poll tax]]. At the same time ...
38: ...nite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Lyons & Company]], where she helped develop methods for prese...
43: ...r seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made ...
47: ...ps "not only towards [[Socialism]], but towards [[Communism]]". She won promotion to the [[Shadow Cabin... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...[[Marxist]] revolutionary group that became the [[Communist Party of Germany]] and took part in an unsu...
14: ...rg believed that an independent Poland could only come about through revolutions in [[Germany]], [[Aust...
16: ... Kingdom of Poland]] (SDKP), which was later to become the [[Socialist Democratic Party of the Kingdom ...
29: ... breaking out, the European workers' parties were committed to a general strike. When the crisis in the...
38: ... engagement with the British Navy by German Naval Command, despite the fact it was clear that the war h... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
11: Quote:"Dat's a big ole resurrection lie, Ned. Uh slew-...
38: ...''[[The Complete Stories (Zora Neale Hurston)|The Complete Stories]]'' ([[1995]]) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
12: ...n [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in...
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. ...
34: ... repetitive and sometimes humorous style. Typical quotes are
37: ...n, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle." - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
7: ...ounding her work, especially her premiere work, ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ([[1928]]), based on researc...
11: == ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ==
12: In the foreword to the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boa...
20: ...n the United States. [See [http://www.livejournal.com/users/aperey/1217.html Perey]]
24: ...United States]] organization) recently declared ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' the "worst book of the 20th ... - Julian of Norwich (1710 bytes)
1: ...s. Even her name is uncertain, the name "Julian" coming from the [[Church of St. Julian]] in Norwich, ...
3: ...ssion as opposed to law and duty (note the famous quote below). For Julian, suffering was not a punishme...
5: She is commemorated by the [[Anglican]] Church on [[May 8]] ... - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...and. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
5: ...mar. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroo Clipart]]]
6: ...ulture" with "[[civilization]]" and contrasts the combined concept with "[[nature]]". According to this...
12: ...ity (philosophy)|authentic]] unblemished lives, uncomplicated and uncorrupted by the highly-stratified ...
17: ...iew]]". In this mode of thought, a distinct and incommensurable world view characterizes each ethnic gr... - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
14: ...hoka's visit with his army trickled in, he was welcomed by the revolting militias and the uprising ende...
16: ...found inscriptions indicate that she went on to become his second or third queen.
30: ...y routed through the skilled tactics of Kalinga's commander-in-chief. Ashoka, baffled at this defeat, a...
34: ... This sight made him sick and he cried the famous quote, "What have I done?" The brutality of the conques...
38: ...tempted to raise the professional ambition of the common man by building universities for study and wat... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
22: ...carry all his life. This [[anglophobia]] would be combined with a distrust and dislike of Eastern arist...
26: ...e him his nickname. The war, and particularly his command at the [[Battle of New Orleans]] on [[January...
34: Jackson was the first U.S. President to come from outside the original Revolutionary circle. ...
51: ...the expansion of credits and speculation, and the commercial progress of the nation's economy was not n...
55: ... (the "[[Tariff of Abominations]]") on imports of common goods were seen by many in Southern states as ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
46: ...at getting rival groups to work together toward a common goal. He personally directed the war effort, w...
48: ...tic war measure which would set the stage for the complete abolition of the institution.
53: ...ired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to...
59: ...ting Lincoln; Talk--> He served as a captain in a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from Ne...
61: ...e of [[Sir William Blackstone]]'s four-volume ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]'', he taught hi... - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
3: ...y was produced in [[447 BC]] and won a victory. A quote in [[Aristophanes]]' ''[[The Frogs]]'' suggests h...
5: ...es]] took a line from Achaeus, while Aristophanes quotes him twice, in ''The Frogs'' and ''[[The Wasps]]'... - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
4: ...[Greece]] owing to the war between Sparta and the combined forces of [[Athens]], [[Thebes, Greece|Thebe...
10: received the supreme command, was totally defeated off [[Cnidus]]
33: Quote
34: ...er any man with nothing left to lose, for he will come back at you with the strength of 10 men. - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...rew]], [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]], which also comprises [[Akkadian language|Babylonian]] and [[Akka...
16: ...uneiformists, e.g., Father Johann Strassmaier who compiled an Alphabetisches Verzeichnis (cuneiform syl...
24:
30: ...y in translating Sumerian can be illustrated by a quote from Miguel Civil of the University of Chicago's ...
40: ...gogram, such as the word 'diri', not the separate component signs. - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
1: ...|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
12: ...esigns of Hooke's [[anchor escapement]] remain in common use.
14: ...since [[Zacharias Janssen]] had already assembled compound microscopes in [[1590]]. However, Hooke's mi...
24: The famous Newton quote, ''"If I have seen further, it is by standing on ... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
10: ... Vietnam<br>• Reunification of Vietnam under communist rule<br>
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33: ...f the country under a government dominated by the Communist Party of Vietnam. In [[Vietnam]], the confl...
37: ...ablish control over their colony. This definition comes from those who tend to include the war with Fra...
45: ...tside Asia, however, dictated that this would not come easily. - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: ...h '''[[faith]]''' or '''belief system'''—is commonly defined as [[belief]] concerning the [[super...
10: ...ord religion is thought to derive from one of two combinations of Latin roots. The first is ''re + leg...
17: ... of the Divine (if any). This broad definition encompasses all systems of belief, including those tha...
19: ...not appeal to authority or personal experience in coming to their beliefs, but instead rely on epistemo...
25: For a more complete discussion, see [[approaches to distinguishi... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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47: ...le wrote in his memoirs that "my mother felt an uncompromising passion for the fatherland, equal to her...
59: ...nce|Sedan]] on May 10, 1940, he was finally given command of the 4th Armoured Division.
63:
75: ...(de Gaulle's symbol of Free France)". (The actual quote was by Churchill's envoy to France, Major-General... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...by these numbers (ambiguities are resolved by the common practice of referring to clues by both number ...
12: ...l variants from the usual forms exist. Two of the common ones are ''barred crosswords'' which use bold ...
14: ...er" by [[Emily Cox]] and [[Henry Rathvon]], which combines cryptic clues with diabolically ingenious va...
18: ...th 4 or even 3. [http://homepage.urbanet.ch/cruci.com/textes/histoire6.htm]
26: ...ocess of elimination using checks. Alternatively, compass point answers are often clued as "XXX to YYY ... - Philo Farnsworth (6489 bytes)
7: ...nsworth. A local [[philanthropist]] managing a [[community chest]] agreed to fund Farnsworth's early [...
11: ...in June of that year Farnsworth joined the Philco company and moved his laboratory to Philadelphia, al...
13: ...n system for the [[U.K.]]. By 1939 Farnsworth 's company had licenced patents to RCA.
25: ...hamber, thereby avoiding a considerable amount of complexity.
27: ...e a practical [[neutron]] source, and is produced commercially for this role. - Drama (12658 bytes)
3: ... crying out, "Oimoi ta dramata!" (Oh no what's become of my plays).
15: ...ing other ideas and not feeling pressured, the outcome being that they thought more about how hard it m...
21: ...atyr play]]s. The origins of Athenian tragedy and comedy are far from clear. We must understand that dr...
27: ...s less important, entering into the imagination becomes more difficult and the idea of play can go out ...
34: ...ny forms of Educational drama these all share one common goal, to create awareness or an understanding ...
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