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- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: '''Helena Petrovna Hahn''' ([[July 31]], [[1831]] ([[Julian calen...
5: ...nist. Both her mother and grandmother were strong role models that allowed her to mature into a noncon...
7: ...atsky continued on to Cairo herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spirite for [[occult]...
9: ...w feat of hers was [[materialization]], that is, producing physical objects out of nothing. Though sh...
13: ...rriage was not consummated either. She separated from Betanelly after a few months, and their divorce ... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
4: ...h Carolina|Grabtown]], [[Johnston County, North Carolina]], the last of seven children of poor [[tobac...
6: ...w]] from 1945 to 1946, and to [[Frank Sinatra]] from 1951 to 1957. She was regarded as one of the mo...
8: ...gambo]]''. She lost to [[Audrey Hepburn]] in ''[[Roman Holiday]]''. Many thought Gardner's greatest ...
12: After a [[stroke]] in 1989, which left her partially paralyzed a...
14: ...n the Sunset Memorial Park, [[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; the town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gard... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
2: ...'kallos'' "beauty" + γραφος ''graphos'' "writing") is the art of de...
4: ...rms, called [[palaeography]]. Examples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest to both calligrap...
8: ...e earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout [[China]] to this day. Although it uses Chi...
12: ...an-shu and contained more than 3,000 characters. From that time to the present, there have been five m...
14: ...as a guide, hiragana and katakana were developed from simplified cursive versions of characters. In th... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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31: | '''Profession:''' || [[Lawyer]]
42: ... of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican ...
44: ...rica]], and took control of U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries. These events soon...
46: ...ng competing considerations and at getting rival groups to work together toward a common goal. He pers... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
4: <tr><td style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2>[[Image:Uly...
24: Grant won many important battles, rose to become general-in-chief of all [[Union army|...
26: ...e is instead mostly criticized for not taking a strong stance against the corruption, and not acting t...
30: ... village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]], where Grant spent most of his t...
32: ...ing that the "S" stood for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class ... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
1: ...the [[Mediterranean]] Sea and some of the area surrounding the [[Black Sea]].
3: ...[Image:Roman_Empire_Map.png|thumb|320px|right|The Roman Empire during the reign of [[Trajan]]]]
8: {{main|Roman Kingdom}}
9: ...d|right|The female wolf, feeding the baby twins [[Romulus and Remus]]]]
11: ...use of the river and the ford, Rome was at a crossroads of traffic and trade. - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
2: Name = North Carolina |
3: Fullname = State of North Carolina |
4: Flag = North Carolina state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of North Carolina]] |
6: Seal = North Carolina state seal.png | - Utah (29154 bytes)
45: Animal = [[Red deer|Rocky Mountain Elk]] |
48: ... Fish = [[Trout|Bonneville Cutthroat Trout]] |
65: StateRock = [[Coal]] |
74: ... most popular destinations. The name ''Utah'' is from the [[Southern Ute language]] and means "higher ...
76: ...the residents are members. The LDS Church has a strong cultural influence on the state and helped Utah... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...ngly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region to the same...
6: ...sured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at Gre...
12: ...5 (e.g. if it is 11:00 UTC, then it is 06:00 in Toronto)
18: ...nes results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day la...
19: ...23:00 UTC on Monday 15 March, then the time in Cairo is 01:00, Tuesday 16 March) - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...n the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 [[Northern United States|northern states]...
53: ...]), [[Arkansas]] ([[May 6]], [[1861]]), [[North Carolina]] ([[May 20]], [[1861]]), and [[Tennessee]] (...
55: ...1861|rioting in Baltimore]] and other events had prompted a federal declaration of [[martial law]]. [...
58: ...stern counties of Virginia organized a secession from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for ... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
16: ... C?d'Ivoire|C?d'Ivoire]] - [[Politics of Croatia|Croatia]] - [[Politics of Cuba|Cuba]] - [[Politics of...
25: [[Politics of the Faroe Islands|Faroe Islands]] - [[Politics of Fiji|Fiji]] - [[Politi...
37: ...] - [[Politics of Jarvis Island]] - [[Politics of Johnston Atoll]] - [[Politics of Jordan|Jordan]]
47: ...olitics of Montserrat]] - [[Politics of Morocco|Morocco]] - [[Politics of Mozambique|Mozambique]] - [[...
50: ...s]] - [[Politics of New Zealand|New Zealand (Aotearoa)]] - [[Politics of Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] - [[Pol... - Okapi (2836 bytes)
10: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''johnstoni'''''}}
12: ...al_parens | color = pink | binomial_name = Okapia johnstoni | author = [[P.L. Sclater]] | date = [[1901]]}}
15: The '''Okapi''' (''Okapia johnstoni'') is one of the two remaining species of family...
17: ...e tongues that they use to strip leaves and buds from trees. The Okapi's tongue is long enough for it ...
19: ... 2 m) high at the shoulder. Their weight ranges from 465 to 550 lb (200 to 250 kg). - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
3: ...[[1994 in sports|1994]] season), the most in any professional North American sport, while collecting o...
5: ...gs founder [[Harry Wright]] and the best players from that team re-formed in Boston and took the nickn...
20: ...nd was ready to catch New York. From there came a romp unmatched in baseball history. The Braves went ...
21: ...thletics. They were now World Champions. The turnaround was complete. The team was at the top of the l...
22: ...f these proportions has never again been seen in professional sports. - Aviator (3951 bytes)
2: ... of women flyers, reflecting the word's [[Latin]] root.
4: ...e still challenges to be flown and records to be broken.
6: ...ity given to the ''Pilot in Command'' is derived from that of a ship?s captain.
8: ...e [[United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority]] controls the issuance of civilian pilot licenses/certifi...
20: *[[Arthur Whitten Brown]] - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...[[North Pole]] on April 21, 1908, a year before [[Robert Peary]] claimed to, April 6, 1909.<ref>Hender...
9: ...sity]] and subsequently [[New York University]], from which he received his [[M.D.]] in 1890. In 1889...
13: ...ore his death. As a result of that meeting, Cook brought back the manuscript of Bridges' [[Yaghan lang...
24: ...his compass bearings, his barometer readings, his route-map's accuracy, even his camp trash — though...
28: [[Image:FCook Expedition.gif|thumb|right|A photo from Cook's 1909 arctic expedition, which he alleged ... - Des Moines, Iowa (13222 bytes)
4: ...Des Moines''' ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|pronounced]] {{IPA|/dɪˈmɔɪn/}} in...
8: ...ral part of the state. The [[Des Moines River]] (from [[French language|French]] ''Rivi貥 des Moines'...
9: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
10: ... Des Moines, including the [[Principal Financial Group]], Equitable of Iowa, Allied Insurance, and Ame...
31: metro pop = 481,394| - Geyser (14881 bytes)
2: ...ukadalur, [[Iceland]]; that name, in turn, comes from the verb ''gj', "to gush".
4: ...e formation of geysers requires a favourable [[hydrogeology]] which exists in only a few places on Ear...
6: ...r heating instead of geothermal energy. The [[nitrogen]], liquefied by a kind of [[greenhouse effect]...
9: ...ed to one or more narrow tubes that lead to underground reservoirs of water.
12: ...op of the column cools off, but because of the narrowness of the channel, convective cooling of the wa... - Tangram (4661 bytes)
19: The English word is built from TANG + GRAM.
38: *''Granfather 'Tang's Story'', Ann Tompert, Crown Publisher, Inc., 1990
42: *''Pythagoras-A Game of 179 Puzzles'', Kohner Bros. Inc. ('''179 shapes''')
44: *''Tangram ABC Kit'', Susan Johnston, Dover Publications
50: *''Tangrams'', 330 Puzzles, Ronald C. Read, Dover Publications, 1965 ISBN 048621... - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...in the late 19th Century, the game spread first throughout the English-speaking world, particularly am...
3: ...els of society and by all ages in many countries around the world. Its rules have remained remarkably...
12: ...yers to reach overrun balls. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the ...
14: ...terials used for the court surface. Each surface provides a difference in the speed and bounce of the ...
18: ...nasium surfaces to artificial grass similar to Astroturf ® . - List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
1: The following lists male [[tennis]] players from over the years who have been ranked in the top 2...
14: ...[1984]]-) - ([[:Category:Croatian tennis players|Croatia]])
29: *[[Byron Black]] ([[1969]]-) - ([[:Category:Zimbabwean te...
35: *[[John Bromwich]] ([[1918]]-[[1999]]) - (Australia)
36: *[[Jean Borotra]] ([[1898]]-[[1994]]) - (France) - one of the ...
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