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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...ing." Early texts refer to him as ''[[dux]] bellorum'' ("war leader") and High [[Medieval]] Welsh tex...
25: ... of sufficient intensity to outsmart the temporal ruler, Arthur. Similar incidents are described in th...
37: ... the tradition of his exploits was preserved, and rudely embellished, by the obscure bards of [[Wales]...
39: ...ng a unified cultural icon under which the Norman rulers and the native Welsh could rally against thei...
49: ... [[1165]] with the unexplained depiction of ''Arturus Rex'' bearing a [[sceptre]] and riding a [[goat]... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ould be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless reg...
9: ...pecies (both those harmful to humans, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and benefi...
11: ...ulture. [[Italian American]]s hail Columbus as an icon of their heritage.
27: ...in Khios. It is believed that this is where he recruited some of his sailors.
46: ....99 meters or 6,082.66 feet at the equator). The true circumference of the earth is about 40,000 km (2... - Clip art (7441 bytes)
22: ....com/image/category/construction-clipart.htm Construction]
37: ...roomclipart.com/image/category/fruit-clipart.htm Fruit Clipart]
47: ...://classroomclipart.com/clipart/Clipart/Icons.htm Icon Clipart]
55: ...egory/musical-instruments-clipart.htm Musical Instruments Clipart] - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
1: ...jpg|thumb|300px|This [[solidus (coin)|solidus]] struck under Irene reports the legend <small>bASILISSH...
6: ...he supreme power in the name of the latter, Irene ruled the empire at her own discretion for ten years...
8: ...hese, held in [[786]] at [[Constantinople]], was frustrated by the opposition of the soldiers. The sec...
10: ...d, formally proclaimed Constantine VI as the sole ruler.
12: ...his attendants on the Asiatic shore of the [[Bosporus]], the emperor was carried back to the palace at... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
22: ... pillion). This has caused her to later become an icon of the transgendered community. During the [[20th...
25: ...ia Eleonora of Brandenburg|Maria Eleonora]] of [[Prussia|Brandenburg]], came from the [[Hohenzollern]]...
31: ...cipal member of the governing regency council. As ruler, Christina resisted demands from the other est...
39: ...tside the orbit of Sweden's influence, the first fruits of which were to have been an invasion of Port...
51: ...te to female friends, has caused her to become an icon for the lesbian community. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
13: ...Her bitter accusations of [[adultery]], [[mental cruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world fo...
15: ... [[celebrity]] of her generation: a [[fashion]] [[icon]], an ideal of feminine [[beauty]], admired and e...
32: ... Palace]] announced the [[engagement]] on [[24 February]] [[1981]]. Mrs Parker Bowles had been dismiss...
40: ...ffair]] with her [[Horse#Show Sports|riding]] instructor, [[James Hewitt]]. (Theoretically, such an af...
50: ...hed touching a person infected with the [[HIV]] virus. Her contribution to changing the public opinion... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
52: ...first ballot and won the job on the second, in February 1975. She appointed Heath's preferred successo...
57: :"The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are r...
73: ...red as a result of this policy it is nonetheless true that the goal of controlling inflation was achie...
87: ...e permitted by Mrs Thatcher to station nuclear [[cruise missile]]s at British bases, arousing mass pro...
100: ... new super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels". She was specifically against [[Economic an... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: '''Rosa Louise Parks''' (born [[February 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') i...
10: ...ricans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle.
12: ...the United States|United States Supreme Court]]'s ruling that segregated bus service was unconstitutio...
14: Afterwards, Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement. She moved to Detroi...
19: ... her autobiography, ''My Life'', that it was not true that she was physically tired but was "tired of ... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
9: ...as drafted to the [[Army]] in [[1942]], Ball was crushed (He sustained a knee injury and performed in ...
50: ...ing scene in this episode is an American cultural icon.
62: ...n the course of which the [[sheriff]] and his two Rubenesque daughters are tied up with a handy piece ... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
35: ...brance of Things Past]]," but this never came to fruition. She withdrew from the entertainment world c...
38: ...place in history and would gain in value. On [[February 9]], [[1951]], she became a [[naturalized citi...
42: ...me frugality, and was a very wealthy woman. It is rumored that she wrote an [[autobiography]] just bef...
50: ...ostage stamp honoring her enduring status as an [[icon]]. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...'[[Love Among the Ruins (TV movie)|Love Among the Ruins]]'', and was nominated for four other Emmys an...
26: In true Hepburn fashion, she demanded an outlandish $1,5...
30: ...silver screen's most beloved stars and a feminist icon, at the time made studio executives fret that she...
77: ...stmas]]'', which was based on a short story by [[Truman Capote]].
162: ...'[[Love Among the Ruins (TV movie)|Love Among the Ruins]]'' ([[1975]]) - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ... her a perennial [[sex symbol]] and later a [[pop icon]].
6: ...ne for the theory that Mortensen was in fact her true father.
8: ...Wayne and Ida were her parents until Ida, rather cruelly, corrected her. After Marilyn's death, Ida cl...
20: ...ilyn starring in one movie - ''[[Ladies of the Chorus]]'' in [[1948]] but once again she was dropped. ...
25: ...gan to surface. Shot by Tom Kelley when she was struggling, the prints were bought by Hugh Hefner and ... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
5: ...y but little more. Because there is no internal structure provided for the bees to start from, the bee...
7: ... hives was typically extracted by ''pressing'' - crushing the wax honeycomb to squeeze out the honey. ...
9: ...nspected for disease or [[parasite]]s without destruction of the honeycomb and usually the colony.
17: ...at the bottom of the skep. There is no internal structure except what the bees build themselves.
38: Langstroth frames are thin rectangular structures made of wood or plastic and which have a wa... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
5: ... there were many unique genres of art, such as [[Crusade art]] or [[animal style]].
15: ...enturies, when [[Arab conquest]]s and Byzantine [[iconoclasm]] halted the production of art in the East....
19: ...ic, Slavic and other peoples during the [[V?rwanderung|Migration period]] from about 300-900 (to be co...
27: ...s with what we call Early Christian art until the iconoclasm period of 730-843 when the vast majority of...
45: **[[Iconography]] or [[Icon]] - Stained glass (3937 bytes)
31: ...bulk of the population was illiterate. See also [[icon]]. - Iconography (7643 bytes)
1: ...di.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Salvator Mundi]]'' is an [[iconography]] depicting [[Christ]] with his right hand...
2: ...rth a thousand words”, and so it is that '''iconography''' is the traditional art of portraying fi...
4: ...f change, the flower of new life, the fire of destruction, etc.). The many heads, eyes, feet, and arms...
6: ...d paint making up the physical substance of the [[icon]]. A more modern illustration of this concept mig...
8: ...or shown them passes over to the [[archetype]], [[icon]]s are kissed, carried in procession, and venerat... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ..., with lyrics by [[Vinicius de Moraes]]. The instrument is also a part of [[Candomblé-de-caboclo tr...
4: ...ample of an unaccompanied berimbau: [[Image:Sound-icon.png|30px]] [[media:Toque-de-angola.ogg|Toque de A...
9: ...m the inside of an automobile [[tire]]) tightly strung and secured from one end of the verga to the ot...
18: *Vaqueta: Small stick struck against the arame to produce the sound.
40: ...red bad practice to strike other parts of the instrument. As with most aspects of playing the berimbau... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
66: ...economic development while under British colonial rule was focused in the North. Dissatisfaction culmi...
68: ...of the north-south civil war and a degree of self-rule. This led to a ten-year [[hiatus]] in the civil...
74: ... rebels reported that they remained in control of rural areas and others reports indicated that widesp...
83: ...dan)|National Congress Party]]. After 1997, the structure of regional administration was replaced by t...
85: ...ws remain in effect. Al-Turabi was arrested in February 2001, and charged with being a threat to natio... - Isis (20790 bytes)
3: ...gically as the wife of [[Osiris]] and mother of Horus, and was worshipped as the archetypical wife and...
12: ... its pronunciation as ''eye-sis'' is a further corruption by English speakers. The Ancient Greeks tend...
14: The true [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] pronunciation is ...
20: ...hipped individually, but rather together with [[Horus]] and [[Osiris]], who is her brother and husband...
29: ==Iconography== - 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, ...
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