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- Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: [[Image:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: ...ne of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the [[Middle Ages]]. She was [[Queen con...
6: ...e mistress of [[William IX of Aquitaine]], the [[Troubador]]. Eleanor was named after her mother and c...
8: ...es that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
10: ...a wedding present that is still in existence, a [[rock crystal vase]] that is on display at the Louvre... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...beth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709...
3: ...xorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Ras...
7: ...litical opponents to challenge her right to the throne.
9: ...these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by he...
11: ... dislike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her mother (... - 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... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
3: ... Kathleen then moved to [[Camden, Maine]]. Millay rose to fame with her poem "[http://www.bartleby.com...
7: ...ied 43-year-old widower of [[Inez Milholland]], [[Eugene Jan Boissevain]], who greatly supported her caree...
9: ...Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy th...
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died about ...
20: Her finest poems, however, are probably "[http://www.bartleby.com/131/1.html Renasce... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ...ess transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effect]], which is named for [[Pierre ...
10: ...] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ...bel committee, partly because Hahn downplayed her role ever since she left Germany. Some said also th...
17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physic... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: Prof. Dr. '''Maria G?rt-Mayer''' ([[June 28]], [[1906...
3: ...tions and enrolled there in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max ...
5: ...obel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jensen ]].
7: ...ning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
9: ...wise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, others twirl ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ... an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]] since the early [[20th century]]; ...
7: ...heirs, disinheriting Charles, the [[Dauphin]] ([[crown prince]]), and making the infant [[Henry VI of ...
10: ...il on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
11: ...76]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]...
12: ... before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a succession of towns where preparations w... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...the time, the two were considered scandalous to a roughly equal degree. She was sponsored into the ''...
6: ... the [[1870s]], and was soon in demand all over Europe and in the [[United States]]. She soon develope...
8: ...was also to publish a series of books and plays throughout her life.
10: ...an affair with a Belgian nobleman, Charles-Joseph-Eugene-Henri, Prince de Ligne, with whom she had her onl...
16: ...r career, in spite of the need to use a wooden [[prosthetic limb]]. She died in the arms of her son M... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...rn won an [[Emmy Award]] in [[1975]] for her lead role in ''[[Love Among the Ruins (TV movie)|Love Amo...
5: ...iscussed, and her mother campaigned for birth control and equal rights for women. The Hepburns demand...
7: ...teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shoo...
8: <!-- expand information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on He...
10: ...was in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Host... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ...te daughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Riccardo Scicol...
7: ...s and was discovered by her future husband, film producer [[Carlo Ponti]].
9: ...n meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: ...l]] play), ''[[Houseboat (movie)|Houseboat]]'' (a romantic comedy again co-starring Cary Grant), and [...
13: ...re freely expressed herself, although she gained profiency in the [[English language]]. In [[1960]], h... - Science (19868 bytes)
8: ... the world, their causal powers, the mechanisms through which they exercise those powers, and the sour...
10: ... On the other hand, sciences like geology or meteorology need not be able to make accurate predictions...
14: ...ery notion of testing theories with [[facts]] is problematic.
15: .... Moreover, he demonstrated that science has not proceeded historically as the steady accumulation of ...
16: ...dge of the real, and empiricism makes a crucial error of reasoning — the '''epistemic fallacy'''... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
16: | vicepresident=[[Aaron Burr]]; [[George Clinton (politician)|George Cli...
18: ...ulturalist]], [[Horticulture|horticulturist]], [[Property|land owner]], [[architect]], [[Archaeology|a...
23: ...]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from families who had settled in [[Virginia]] for sev...
25: ..., [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unani...
27: The [[Library of Congress]] was founded from the sale of his collection (the Library was foun... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
3: ...ewinds and consists of some [[marsh]]es and [[mangrove]] [[swamp]]s. Some parts of the island's interi...
9: ...'''. In the [[13th century]], the Caribs arrived from South America in the third wave, displacing both...
11: ...island's [[fig]] trees, whose long hanging aerial roots he thought resembled beards. Between Campos' s...
13: ...6]], Barbados was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Barbados always enjoyed a large m...
15: ...sed a few years before the abolition of slavery throughout the British empire in [[1834]]. - Indiana (20194 bytes)
47: ...al end of Mississippian dating ("contact with [[European]]s"). The specific [[Native American]] [[tri...
60: ...475 mile long [[Wabash River]] bisects the state from northeast to southwest and has given Indiana two...
66: The total gross state product in 2003 was $214 billion. Indiana's Per Capit...
69: ...l Indiana), grapes, and mint ( Source: USDA crop profiles). It should be remembered that while the sta...
71: ...e agricultural sector, comparatively little food processing occurs in the state. - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
38: ...ocono Mountains]] and the [[Delaware Water Gap]] provide popular recreational activities.
42: ...es, while others are virtually indistinguishable from non-Amish or Mennonites.
44: ...The term "Dutch" is a misnomer, as none of these groups are of Dutch origin; the German adjective for ...
51: ...e]] (also known as Lenni Lenape), Susquehanna, [[Iroquois]], Eriez, [[Shawnee]] and other [[Native Ame...
53: ... Philadelphia, was settled by [[Sweden]], but control later passed to the [[Netherlands]], and then to... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
36: ...ey]], one of the most fertile and agriculturally productive regions in the world. Oregon is known for ...
38: ...{IPA|[ˈɔɹ.ə.gən]}}. The pronunciation {{IPA|[ˈɔɹ.ə.ˌ...
41: ...servation]], and [[urban growth boundary|limited growth]].''
43: ...he [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
45: ...as of 2004|as of July 2004]], the population had grown to an estimated 3,594,586. - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
46: ...Post Oak/Black Jack Oak savanah territory of the Cross Timbers, to the plains and semi-arid regions of...
48: The state is one of the six states on the [[Frontier Strip]].
56: ...ry (Northeastern Oklahoma, including the Tulsa Metropolitan area), Kiamichi Country (Southeastern Okla...
60: From a [[bioregional]] perspective, Oklahoma is recog...
61: Tall Grass Prairie, [[Cross Timbers]], Caves & Prairie, [[Ozark]] Highlands... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
37: Its name is from the [[Lakota#The_Dakota|Dakota people's]] name f...
39: ...the [[Upper Midwest]]. The most significant [[metropolitan area]] is known as the [[Minneapolis-St. P...
41: The state is a major [[food]] producer for the country, and has a number of [[natur...
49: ...therer activities, which changed over time as [[Europe]]ans settled in the area and further exploited ...
51: ... the [[St. Croix River (Wisconsin-Minnesota)|St. Croix River]], though many histories focus on the mil... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ...nu;δρος}} ("Megas Alexandros"), King of [[Macedon]] ([[336 BC]]-[[323 BC]]), ...
6: ...n in which he appears as a towering legendary [[hero]] in the tradition of [[Achilles]].
9: ...e]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature and stimul...
11: ...anus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achilles]].
14: ...of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames ... - Ecosystem (2598 bytes)
1: ...iocoenosis]]''') living together with their [[environment]] (or '''[[biotope]]'''), functioning as a u...
3: ...ansley, 1939). Modern usage of the term derives from the work of [[Raymond Lindeman]] in his classic ...
9: ... of [[ecological health]] attempts to measure the robustness and capacity for recovery of a natural ec...
23: *[[Eugene Odum]]
29: *[[Trophic level]]
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