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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[1554]])...
3: [[Image:Coronado expedition.jpg|thumb|500px|The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.]]
7: ...expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: ...Sonora]], then traveled upstream the Sonora, and crossed the [[Gila]] to Cibola, in the west of presen...
11: ...who would be shipping supplies for Coronado. [[Pedro de Tovar]] was sent northwest, and heard of a gre... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...arbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...asticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
7: ==Iron and steel==
8: ...free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting...
10: ...ap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]] - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...pes''' are a class of [[musical instrument]], [[aerophone]]s using enclosed [[reed (music)|reed]]s. T...
11: 5) Tenor drones<br>
12: 6) Bass drone<br>
16: ...[[melody]] is played, and most have at least one drone [[harmony]], although there are relatively many...
18: ...e sound, while chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...twerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...2]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozhars...
12: ...ard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican...
15: ...ility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
16: ...orge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
18: ...ob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...at''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[Novembe...
5: ...nths later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by C...
9: ...-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine drew up ...
11: ...e status hereditary; and gave the nobles full control over their serfs and lands. In addition, Catheri...
13: Catherine proceeded to "Westernize" Russia. However, unlike [[P... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...if|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...oting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First...
5: ...he World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ns outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...om the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ed seven, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smi...
7: ...Mille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she ...
9: ...that reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ...olism, and Pickford became secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883...
13: ...'s second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business schedule and Fairban... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...n in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous [[n...
3: [[Image:KyotoRozanji.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rozanji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, with ties to La...
6: At the royal court, she was the lady in waiting for Empress...
10: ... show that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, or between 1025 and 1031...
16: ...). ''The Tale of Genji'', published in 6 volumes from 1921-33. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...", her sole single to reach number one on the [[European]] [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] charts. Cl...
7: ...ased as a 7" pressed for family and friends. At around this time she adopted the name "Tori," after a...
10: ...Matt Sorum]] (later of [[the Cult]] and [[Guns N' Roses]]), and [[Brad Cobb]]. A year later, Atlantic ...
13: ...month later, it was released in America to breakthrough critical success. The accompanying singles wer...
16: ...nsidered it a step sideways rather than forwards from ''Little Earthquakes''. In February, she began t... - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
15: ... to face the [[Sun]], a behavior known as [[heliotropism]].
18: ...early in the [[16th century]]. ''Helianthus'' is from the [[Greek language|Greek]] for "sunflower".
23: ... the next by approximately the [[golden angle]], producing a pattern of [[spiral]]s where the number o...
25: ...Sunflowers.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Sunflowers being grown commercially in [[Fargo, North Dakota|Fargo]] [...
27: ===Heliotropism=== - Cootamundra wattle (1558 bytes)
15: ... Fabaceae]]. The Cootamundra is but one of nearly 1000 species of ''Acacia'' found in [[Australia]].
17: ...les have been extensively [[introduced species|introduced]] into [[New Zealand]] and are regarded by m... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...ntury]] in [[Northern Europe]], as well as the [[Protestant Reformation]] starting in 1517. These var...
5: [[Image:MCD_001.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Romanesque]] [[architecture]] flourished in the earl...
6: ...rn European historians. That term has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotype...
8: ..., and patterns of property ownership. The ''[[Pax Romana]]'', with its accompanying benefits of safe c...
12: ...ty. The centralised administrative systems of the Romans did not withstand the changes, and the instit... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...ddle Ages and monumental Church mosaics were the crowing glory. One of the most famous of the survivin...
3: ...ars of [[art history]] in [[Western art history|Europe]], the [[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and ...
5: ...Migration Period art]], [[Pre-Romanesque art]], [[Romanesque art]], [[Gothic art]], [[Trecento art]], ...
9: ...arbarian" artistic culture of Northern Europe to produce a remarkable artistic legacy. Indeed the hist...
13: Art in the Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians traditionally look a... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...]] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|table sugar]] is melted and cooled rapidly by d...
3: ...to describe [[amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used...
9: ... brittle and will break into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely,...
16: ==Properties and Uses==
18: ...to other shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]] - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: .... [[Costume jewelry|Costume jewellery]] is made from less valuable materials. However, jewellery can ...
5: ...as [[anglicise]]d from the Old French "jouel" in around the [[13th century]]. Further tracing leads b...
14: This is a jewellery [[timeline]] from the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to th...
16: ...opper]] in [[Anatolia]], [[Iran]] and [[Eastern Europe]].
21: ...] - Egypt and Iran makeing simple [[hammer]]ed [[iron]] beads - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...central and south [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]] and surrounding countries
6: |family=[[Indo-European]]<br>
10: |nation=[[Greece]], [[Cyprus]] (and the [[European Union]])
13: ...iniˈka/}} – "Hellenic") is an [[Indo-European]] [[language]] with a documented history of s...
15: ...ed in schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onwards. - Imhotep (3367 bytes)
1: ...rovided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...[Saqqara]] in [[History of Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] around [[27th century BC|2630]]-[[27th century BC|261...
5: ...C but may perhaps go back to texts written around 1000 years earlier.
7: ... said to be married to Ptah, since she was the patron of [[Upper Egypt]]. As he was thought of as the ...
9: ...ted saying is ''Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we shall die''. - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: ...axhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] of [[North Carolina]]
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
18: ... first president who had lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associat...
22: ...rust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favor...
24: ...egan to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militi... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
4: ...="center" colspan=2>[[Image:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
21: ...of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (...
22: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>Lawyer</td></tr>
29: ... [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [[1912]].
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