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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
40: | [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]]
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
81: ...— [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909]] — [[1911]] (wings added)
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ation merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...nded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ... the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) th...
18: ...[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
22: ...g]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: '''Persepolis''' was an ancient capital of the [[Persian E...
4: ...jpg|thumb|380px|After 2500 years, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
6: ...e throne of Jamshid"). That they represent the Persepolis captured and partly destroyed by [[Alexander...
8: ...ht be inferred from the sculptures, and one of those at ''Nakshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its...
9: ...olis (L)]][[Image:Persepolis 1.JPG|thumb|300px|Persepolis (R)]]</center> - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...tury BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ... the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...e subject of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...t the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states.
16: ... (state)|Chu]] and [[Qin (state)|Qin]]. The "Chinese" thus defined their nation as culturally and poli... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...baco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
24: ...[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dunes'', ''The Magic...
62: ...beille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
5: ...icle and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...was educated by the [[Jesuits]], and became a bookseller in [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinett...
10:
12: ...homable uncertainty of the philosophy which professes to be so high above both church and world.
14: ...lity of teaching the blind to read through the sense of touch. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...yette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
3: ... Kingdom of [[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known a...
5: ...sors. Known for the way she superbly bejeweled herself for formal events, Queen Mary's valuable collec...
9: ...ein in the Empire of [[Austria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the ...
11: ...art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [[museum]]s. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...il War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquis...
6: ...y]]'s ''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent at...
9: ... live with their sister Lena. Goldman worked for several years in a textile factory, and in 1887 marr...
13: ...vement in the United States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry C...
18: ... to this imprisonment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...ellow male students, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old mast...
8: Returning to the United States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with h...
10: ... [[1872]], after studying in the major European museums, her style matured, and in Paris, she studied ...
14: ...It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
20: ... ([[1880]]). [[Mary Cassatt]]. Oil on canvas. [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].]] - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...s of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their ...
5: ...ames, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as a writer of romances. An additional factor ...
8: ...], she published a translation of Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', and it was at that time tha...
10: ...ned married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
15: ...th her. Yes behold me in love with this great horse-faced bluestocking.</blockquote> - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...'The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a pop...
9: ... but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public's inabi...
11: ...ure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driv...
13: ...at their estate [[Pickfair]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital proble...
15: ...he love of the actress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a message saying simply, "By the clock... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ish universities so she worked as a governess for several years. Eventually, with the monetary assista...
9: ... and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
11: ...nary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Pr...
13: ...aving it open so the scientific community could research unhindered.
17: ...atheist]], raised a [[Catholic]], but that didn't seem to matter). France at the time was still reelin... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...y of the genre. She grew up in the "Black Pearl" section of the [[Carrollton, Louisiana|Carrollton ne...
3: ... in the history of [[Norway]]. She began a radio series on [[CBS]], and signed to [[Columbia Records]...
5: ...late [[1950s]] and early [[1960s]] continued to rise when she recorded with [[Percy Faith]], and perfo... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
3: ...ic]] leader, [[Mystics|mystic]], author, and composer of [[music]].
6: .... Upon Jutta's death in [[1136]] Hildegard was chosen superior of the community, and eventually moved ...
8: ...uperior in 1141 demanding of her, "Write what you see". At first she was hesitant about writing her v...
11: ...ommanded her to write down everything she would observe in her visions.
15: ...self and because of diverse sayings of men, I refused for a long time a call to write, not out of stub... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: ...:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~1989)]]
2: '''Lucille Ball''' ([[August 6]], [[1911]] – [[April 26]], [[1989]]) was an [[United...
4: ...ron, New York]] and after her father died, was raised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[192...
5: ...er was sued once for money, then again for prison sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed t...
9: ...on. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking caused problems right from the start. When he was draft... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ... after she hit five [[home run]]s in a single [[baseball]] game.
9: ...nal, she won back her amateur status during the [[Second World War]] and won the 1946-47 U.S. Women's ...
15: ==See also== - Retina (13061 bytes)
1: |[[Image:Eye.jpg|thumb|Color Cross Section Illustration of the Human Eye courtesy of [h...
5: ...ion potential]]s in retinal [[ganglion cell]]s whose [[axon]]s form the [[optic nerve]]. The retina no...
7: ...n Physiology or Medicine]] for their scientific research on the retina.
9: ...of the [[blood vessel]]s in the retina have been used for [[biometric]] identification.
12: ...h from one ora to the other (or macula), the most sensitive area along the horizontal [[meridian]] is ... - Cornet (3752 bytes)
1: ...ornet''' is a [[brass instrument]] that closely resembles the [[trumpet]].
3: ... often than the cornet in [[orchestra]]l, small ensemble, and solo performances. The cornet is the mai...
7: ... their sound differs. Also available, but usually seen only in the brass band, is an Eb soprano model ...
9: ...asier to hold, with its centre of gravity much closer to the player.
11: ...s a public domain image from Webster's Dictionary 1911]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
18: ...ice President]] of the [[United States]], and the second (1797–[[1801]]) [[President of the Unit...
22: ...igrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Bo...
24: ...tis? argument inspired Adams with zeal for the cause of the American colonies. Years later, when he wa... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
2: ...gitude]]) passing through the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]], [[Greenwich]], [[England]]; it is the m...
8: ...through the principal transit instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich was to be the "initial meridi...
15: ...ench did not adopt the Greenwich meridian until [[1911]].
21: ...on their maps in 1884. Other reference meridians used previously include
33: ...-not certain of seconds, could also be fractional seconds-->west of Greenwich)
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