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- History of China (45919 bytes)
14: ...riod Sima Qian relates that a system of inherited rulership was established during the [[Xia Dynasty]]...
28: ... the Shang. The Zhou appeared to have begun their rule under a semi-feudal system. Nevertheless, power...
36: ...s soon as the Qin reign ended, the Qin imperial structure collapsed. The [[Qin Dynasty]] is well know...
44: ...n the midst of land acquisitions, invasions and struggles of [[consort clan]]s and [[eunuch]]s. The [[...
63: ...Northern Dynasties]], a sequence of local regimes ruling over regions north of [[Yangtze River|Yangtze... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
25: ...y was necessary. By [[Salic law]], no woman could rule [[Hanover (state)|Hanover]], a realm which had ...
35: The Queen married Prince Albert on [[10 February]] [[1840]] at the [[Chapel Royal]] in [[St. Ja...
41: ...er of the Great Western line, [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]].
46: ...849]], Victoria lodged a complaint with Lord John Russell, claiming that Palmerston had sent official ...
48: ...truck her with his cane, crushing her bonnet and bruising her. Pate was later tried; he failed to prov... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
9: ...scended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once powerful ruling family of Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]...
27: ... VIII, later Duke of Windsor]], <td>[[23 June]] [[1894]]<td>[[28 May]] [[1972]]<td> married [[Wallis Sim...
28: ...eorge VI]] <td>[[14 December]] [[1895]]<td>[[6 February]] [[1952]]<td> married [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|...
79: ...named in her honour, as was the Royal Navy Battlecruiser [[HMS_Queen_Mary| HMS ''Queen Mary'']]. - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
5: ...aham by a narrow margin (his wife Jane Abraham is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's ...
7: ...Aging]]. She introduced the [[Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act]] in the Senate.
9: ... legislator had served in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died. - Ouida (1938 bytes)
17: * ''A Lemon Tree'' (1894)
28: * ''The Silver Christ'' (1894) - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...[[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...ctory schools of [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...hly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polis...
10: ...ky). Her only full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarrels between the children were frequent and ...
12: ... the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to conti... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
20: - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: '''Bessie Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattan...
15: ==Rumours surrounding her death==
17: ... a consequence thereof. It was an unsubstantiated rumour that lingered for decades, fuelled by [[Edwar... - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
1: [[Image:USAFE Band trumpeter.jpg|frame|right|Trumpeter performing with the United States Air Force...
2: ...e trumpet is called a ''trumpeter'' or simply, ''trumpet player''.
4: ==Construction==
5: ...arge-01.jpg|thumb|250px|left|A standard B♭ trumpet]]
6: ...e pitch of the instrument. Three valves make the trumpet fully [[chromatic]], allowing the player to p... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
31: Cleveland was a hard worker and was scrupulously honest at a time when many politicians we...
36: ...81]], with the slogan "Public Office is a Public Trust" as his trademark of office, and was later elec...
40: ... Although Cleveland never admitted or denied the rumor, he did admit to paying child support to [[Mar...
44: ...in the election of 1888, Republicans spread false rumors that Cleveland beat his wife.
62: ... an [[orthodontist]] fitted Cleveland with a hard rubber prosthesis that corrected his speech and cove... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
60: ...rkmenistan. The [[October Revolution]] of 1917 in Russia and subsequent political unrest led to the de...
70: ... controls access to the natural resources. His "[[Ruhnama]]" book has been published by foreign indust...
88: ...ions. Rivers include the [[Amu Darya]] and [[Hari Rud]].
96: ... as well as substantial oil resources. In 1994, [[Russia]]'s refusal to export Turkmen gas to [[hard c...
100: ...ns whilst the people living outside the capital struggle in conditions of poverty. President Niyazov h... - Uganda (11554 bytes)
61: ...[[protectorate]] by the [[United Kingdom]] from [[1894]]. As several other territories and chiefdoms we...
63: ... mid-1980s. [[1971]] saw [[Idi Amin]] take power, ruling the country with the military for the coming ...
65: His rule cost an estimated 300,000 Ugandans' lives, and ...
67: ... the exception of the North, which continues to struggle with a [[Lord's Resistance Army|rebel insurge...
88: ...r in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], corruption within the government, and slippage in the g... - Flag of Mississippi (1142 bytes)
2: ...ag|Confederate battle flag]]. It was adopted in [[1894]].
4: ...01]], the voters of the state opted to retain the 1894 flag, over a new flag that some considered less o... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
1: [[image:ruthbatting.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Ruth batting for the Yankees]]
2: ...|1933]]. In 1998, ''[[The Sporting News]]'' named Ruth as Number One in its list of "Baseball's 100 Gr...
4: ... that had been the primary strategy for decades. Ruth was the focal point of the start of what has be...
9: ...o St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a school run by Catholic brothers. Brother Matthias, a [[Roma...
10: ... ruth holding baseball.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...for its scenery, [[dairy]] products and [[maple syrup]], Vermont has long been known for its [[Liberal...
46: ...[tree-line|timberline]], form a north-south spine running the most of the length of the state, slightl...
50: ...rs. The northern part of the state, including the rural northeastern section (dubbed the "[[Northeast ...
66: In [[1731]], the French arrived. Here they constructed a small temporary wooden stockade (Fort de Pi...
68: ...tlement was established in [[1724]] with the construction of [[Fort Dummer]] in Vermont's far southeas... - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
139: ...e United States District Court in Topeka, Kansas, ruled that settling on the lands ceded to the govern...
143: === Land runs ===
144: ...nd. It was to be the first of a number of "[[Land run]]s" (due to widespread cheating later land openi...
148: ...kee Strip was opened to settlement by land run in 1894. Also, in 1893, Congress set up the [[Dawes Rolls...
155: ...ess, cultural, and religious community that had sprung up there. - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
4: ...and for public office in [[South Australia]] in [[1894]], along with universal suffrage in that state.
17: ...to stand for parliament was South Australia, in [[1894]].
22: *[[Brunei]]
41: ...lacking to make the two-thirds majority. On [[February 10]], [[1919]], it was again voted upon, and t...
72: *[[Aleksandra Kollontai]] (Russia) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
210: *[[Rush Brown]] ([[1948]]-)
211: *[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] ([[1568]]-[[1625]])
212: *[[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] ([[1601]]-[[1678]]) - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...a'', a military camp, in turn the plural of ''castrum'' or watchpost), is a [[fort]], a [[camp]] and t...
17: ...Norman Conquest]], for example, Norman lords constructed castles across England to impress, control an...
30: By their very nature they were very permanent structures and many survive through to the modern day;...
42: ... of range of attack and wait for the internees to run out of either food or water. Offensive technique...
48: ...y can ... Round the summit of the mound they construct a palisade of timber to act as a wall. Inside t... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
1: ...Image:Landon-IcarusandDaedalus.jpg|right|thumb|Icarus and Daedalus]]
3: ...e wax melted, destroying the wings and causing Icarus to fall into the sea, killing him. The legend w...
5: ...eral broad trends. [[Aircraft]] designers have struggled to make their planes go faster, fly higher, ...
15: ...eonardo, its plans were preserved and it was constructed in the late 20th century from materials that ...
17: ...at powering the aircraft through the air was the crux of flying. Sufficiently light and powerful engi...
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