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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...ledge]], [[meaning]], [[value]], [[being]] and [[truth]]. Each culture, [[prehistoric]], [[ancient]], ...
7: ...ilosophers such as [[Plato]]. The Medieval period runs until roughly the late [[1400s]] and the [[Rena...
12: ...ecame known (perhaps unjustly) for claiming that truth was no more than opinion and for teaching peopl...
16: ...about important matters like justice, beauty and truth. He wrote nothing, but inspired many disciples....
20: ... as the reason for them being more appropriate in running society. - 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...
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...
52: ...had united the largest kingdoms of Spain and were ruling them together. - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...le Pharaoh, though, again, Nitocris may have also ruled and taken the title.
4: ...building Egypt's trade networks which had been disrupted by the [[Hyksos]] occupation of Egypt during ...
6: She is believed to have ruled from [[1473 BC]] to 1458 BC. [[Josephus]] quot...
11: ...ose II had only two daughters with Hatshepsut, Nefrure and Meritre, but managed to father a male heir,...
13: ...wn right. She took one step further than Sobekneferu and had herself crowned Pharaoh about 1473 BC and... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
1: [[Image:Messalinde-Jerusalem.JPG|frame|A queen accepting fealty from a va...
3: ..., [[1161]]) was [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|Queen of Jerusalem]] from [[1131]] to [[1153]].
5: ...d [[Ioveta of Bethany|Ioveta]], abbess of St. Lazarus in [[Bethany (Israel)|Bethany]].
9: ...ir authority. Contemporaries of Melisende who did rule, however, included [[Urraca of Castile]] ([[108...
11: ...de enjoyed the support of the ''[[Haute Cour of Jerusalem|Haute Cour]]'', a kind of royal council comp... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
10: ...lliam wrote up a will on the very day he died instructing that his daughter marry [[Louis VII of Franc...
12: ...aunch of the [[Second Crusade]] from V麥lay, the rumored location of [[Mary Magdalene]]'s burial, dra...
14: ...e Turks attacked and slaughtered as many as 7000 Crusaders. As this decision was made by Eleanor's ser...
16: ...ttack. Failing in this attempt, they retired to Jerusalem, and then home.
18: ...[[1160]], and then into England. She was also instrumental in developing trade agreements with Constan... - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
12: ...]], he had suffered a complete mental breakdown. Rumours were rife that he was incapable of fathering...
16: ...lowed up with a victory at [[St Albans]] on 22 February 1461, at which she defeated the Yorkist forces...
20: ...ession and ruthlessness, but now she was a broken spirit, imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]] until rans... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
6: While working at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she particip...
16: ...sed, the weak and the persecuted in our time. Her spirit and legacy of human solidarity and concern contin... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
15: ...esselink.net/kr/star.htm] This destroyed Besant's spirit, as it went against her ideals. She tried to acco... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...nessed events of the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Russian Revolution]]. She spent a number of years i...
6: ...cal repression]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]], she moved ...
24: On [[February 11]], [[1916]], she was [[arrest]]ed and impri...
29: ...ed for two years, after which she was deported to Russia. At her deportation hearing, [[J. Edgar Hoove...
32: ... and [[Louise Bryant]], both of whom were also in Russia at this time (during a period when it was imp... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: '''Nina Hamnett''' ([[February 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956...
5: ... [[Jean Cocteau]], she stayed for a while at [[La Ruche]] with many of the leading members of the avan...
7: ...divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
11: ...oductions of fabrics, clothes, murals, furniture, rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918... - 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...
12: ... the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to conti...
14: ...ing within Russian poetry: the flowering of the [[Russian Symbolist movement]], and this movement was ... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
24: A free spirit, she would wear a corsage of carrots, kept a goat... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
8: ...nd dogmatic Christians who demanded the final destruction of paganism on the other. Hypatia herself w...
12: ...y of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions. On account of the self-possession and ease...
14: Some insights into the power struggle of the time are granted by the letters writte...
22: ...hurch. And surely nothing can be farther from the spirit of Christianity than the allowance of massacres, ...
30: ...devoted at all times to magic, astrolabes and instruments of music, and she beguiled many people throu... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ... has been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the [[Amer...
21: .... In April 1861, after the [[First Battle of Bull Run]], she established an agency to obtain and distr...
27: ...ian work during the war between [[France]] and [[Prussia]]. Created in [[1864]], the International Red...
39: ...rton was one of America's greatest heroines -- a true patriot and philanthropist who, when she saw a p...
41: ..., receiving the Iron Cross, the Cross of Imperial Russia and the International Red Cross Medal. Her fi... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
55: *[[1970]] ''[[Spirit in the Dark]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
24: ...t is unclear who first introduced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and cont...
26: ...ice as well, and in her later recordings youthful spirit is replaced by overtones of regret, but her impac...
28: ...er life, was abusive, but did try to get her off drugs. They were separated at the time of her death.
30: ...u Porgy" ([[cover]]ed exactly by Simone), and the rueful blues "Fine and Mellow" are jazz classics. He...
34: ... well [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/]. - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
5: ...]s) and unique [[guitar]] playing, tuning the instrument in unorthodox manners to produce a distinctiv...
7: ... [[George Hamilton IV]] and for folk singer [[Tom Rush]]. The songs on her first two solo albums ''[[...
9: ...1970), maturity brought a record infused with the spirit of [[California]] life (the canyon of the title i...
13: ...rican drumming (the [[Drum|Warrior Drums]] of [[Burundi]] making up the foundation of "The Jungle Line...
19: ...roduction values were asked; the synthesizer and drum machine-led arrangements have dated far quicker ... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
10: ...ing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] (later of [[the Cult]] and [[Guns N' Roses]]),...
13: ... Years", "China", "Winter" and "[[Crucify (song)|Crucify]]". During this time, Tori recorded the song ...
16: ... than forwards from ''Little Earthquakes''. In February, she began the "Under the Pink" tour. Four tra...
23: ...d unduly indecipherable to some fans, and the instrumentation, including church bells, bagpipes, and a...
33: ...ts closing track "1000 Oceans" was much closer in spirit to her early songs, and quickly became a fan favo... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ... she died between three and 15 years after the [[crucifixion]] of Jesus, can be found in the [[Apocryp...
15: ...history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years of age, where he was fou...
27: ...ived. They took her to live in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] when she was three years old, much like Ha...
31: ...nto [[Heaven]]. ("[[Mary's Tomb]]" - a tomb in Jerusalem is attributed to Mary, but it was unknown un...
40: ...jpg|thumb|140px|Right|Image from 17th century [[Peru]]vian [[cult]]]] - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
9: ...he prophetess for the end-times, through the Holy Spirit, she sought to draw more and more to studying the...
17: ... school at the age of 9 years, Ellen Harmon was struck in the face with a rock thrown by another schoo...
39: * basing supposed visions on rumors
40: * visions incongruent with later scientific knowledge
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