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  1. History of China (45919 bytes)
    14: ...20116;帝). These rulers were legendary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them, the [[Yell...
    18: ...r from around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, h...
    28: ... nominal [[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and...
    30: ... period began during the reign of Ying Zheng, the king of Qin. His unification of the other six powers, ...
    44: ...ticized in works such as ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''.
  2. Puritan (15882 bytes)
    5: ... particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan."
    10: ...rly [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]), by the impositions of kings and popes. They all argued for a restructuring ...
    16: ...is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter became the backbone of the Anglican...
    20: ...tentially dangerous movement; he authorized the [[King James Bible]] partly to reinforce Anglican orthod...
    24: ...l War]]. Puritans certainly agitated against the king, and reform of the religion was a rallying cry fo...
  3. Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
    23: ...hought to have marched to bagpipes. The idea of taking a leather bag and combining it with a chanter and...
    27: ...nd they are often used at the funerals of high-ranking civilian public officials as well.
    47: ...round''' movement (Gaelic '''urlar''') which is a simple theme, then a series of somewhat minimalist varia...
    50: ... a smaller reed than the GHB chanter reed, and lacking a bag or drones, is suitable for practice in sett...
    79: ...ipers. The name was chosen in honour of the Irish king [[Brian_Boru]], though the pipe is not a recreati...
  4. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    10: ...ime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to...
    16: ...London Underground|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Sto...
    21: ...ing [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in the [[Valley of the Kings]].
    38: ...- After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s Kings Square, [[Israel]]i prime minister [[Yitzhak Rab...
    45: *[[1470]] - King [[Edward V of England]], one of the two [[Princes...
  5. Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
    8: ...combined into a single [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Kingdom]], Anne became the first Sovereign of [[Great ...
    10: ...r this reason that the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament of England]] passed legislation all...
    15: ...rendon]], an important politician). Her uncle was King [[Charles II of England|Charles II]], and her sis...
    17: ...Prince George of Denmark]], brother of the Danish King [[Christian V of Denmark|Christian V]]. Mary also...
    24: ...trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from making her his Regent during his military campaigns in E...
  6. Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
    3: ...e held the title of a [[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingdom of [[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Seren...
    11: ...grandchild of [[King]] [[George III of the United Kingdom]], Princess May was only a minor member of the...
    17: ...rt Victor, due mainly to [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]]'s fondness of May, as well as...
    19: ...ther, His Royal Highness [[George V of the United Kingdom|Prince George, Duke of York]], to propose to M...
    27: <tr><td>[[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom| King Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor]], <td>[[23 Ju...
  7. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
    10: ...by a relatively unknown minister ([[Martin Luther King]]) gathered to discuss the proper actions to be t...
    35: ...storic act of [[civil disobedience]], and how her simple act connects to the larger tapestry of the [[civi...
    51: ...rds]] and [[LaFace Records]] as the defendants, asking for $5 billion in damages.
    61: * [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/rparksmug1.html The mug shot of R...
  8. Marie de France (1845 bytes)
    1: ...ry]]. Little is known of her early life; from the simple but literary [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman...
    3: ...out [[1215]]. One of her works is dedicated to a "King Henry," the other to a "Count William"; it is tho...
  9. Glass (26176 bytes)
    1: ...time for a regular [[crystal]] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|table sugar]] is melted...
    20: ...(inhomogeneities cause light to be scattered, breaking up any coherent image transmission). Ordinary gla...
    26: ...luding the [[United States]]), but the same toolmaking techniques can be applied to industrially-made gl...
    42: ...e the [[stone age]]. The first documented glass making is in [[Egypt]] around [[1500 BC]], when glass wa...
    46: ...w the emergence, in [[Germany]], of new ways of making sheet glass by blowing spheres, swinging these ou...
  10. Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
    16: | vicepresident=[[William R. King]]
    18: ...ction]], Pierce and his running mate [[William R. King]] won in a landslide, beating [[Winfield Scott]] ...
    47: ...e 49th ballot on [[June 5]]. Senator [[William R. King]] of [[Alabama]] was chosen as the nominee for [[...
    60: ...sectional apprehension when he pressured [[United Kingdom|Britain]] to relinquish its special interests ...
    85: ...es|Vice President]]||align="left"|'''[[William R. King]]'''||align="left"|1853
  11. Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
    48: ...|Cabinet]]-level department), revived national banking and banks, and admitted [[West Virginia]] and [[N...
    59: ...]. The centerpiece of his platform was the undertaking of navigational improvements on the Sangamon in t...
    81: ...in the state, he turned most of his energies to making a living at the bar.
    106: ...ly that even were the Constitution construed as a simple contract, would it not require the agreement of a...
    119: ...ong abolitionist stand finally convinced [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and other foreign countries that the...
  12. Greece (54754 bytes)
    87: ...ule (although at the time it was not strictly speaking a "Greek" church &mdash; the Greek Church was ins...
    90: ...re donated by Britain upon the arrival of the new king from Denmark in 1863, and Thessaly was ceded by t...
    100: ...[[Axis Powers|Axis]], the Greek government gave a simple negative response (see [[Oxi Day]]) &mdash; there...
    107: ...ated. In 1973, however, the junta abolished the [[Kings of Greece|Greek monarchy]]. Later that same year...
    112: ...mdash; this time democratically. Therefore former King [[Constantine II of Greece|Constantine II]] and h...
  13. Finland (29511 bytes)
    53: ...obcscure and possibly fictious stories of Finnish kings in Scandinavian sagas.
    55: ...of Christianity]] by Sweden's [[Eric IX of Sweden|King Erik]]. Actually many of the [[Finnish paganism|F...
    65: The social frontier between the ruling and the working [[Social class|class]]es has been broader in Finl...
    82: ...aper and has lower financial risk to the person making claims. In addition to the regular courts, there ...
    88: ...al court are the [[Netherlands]] and the [[United Kingdom]] (which does not have a codified constitution...
  14. Spain (36498 bytes)
    1: The '''Kingdom of Spain''' or '''Spain''' ([[Spanish language...
    19: leader_titles = [[Kings of Spain|King]]<br>[[President of the Government of Spain|Pres....
    77: ...al]] in [[1580]], as well as of the other Iberian Kingdoms (collectively known as "Spain" since this mom...
    83: ...and [[Catalonia]]. Portugal became an independent kingdom again and Catalonia enjoyed some years of Fren...
    85: ...le of king of Castilla and Aragon for the current king of Spain.
  15. Isis (20790 bytes)
    34: ...in the underworld (Isis being the wife of Osiris, king of the underworld).
    42: ...seen holding only the generic [[ankh]] sign and a simple [[staff (stick)|staff]], but is sometimes seen wi...
    49: ... [[Hathor]], the mother of Horus. By the [[Middle Kingdom]], as the funeral texts spread to be used by n...
    51: ...her theories, giving us more insight into the thinking of ancient Egyptians.
    65: ...nough to face Seth, and subsequentally became the king of Egypt.
  16. List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
    82: **[[Cooking weights and measures]]
    90: *[[Classification of finite simple groups]]
    279: ...*[[List of waterways]]: [[Waterways in the United Kingdom|UK]], [[List of canals in the United States|ca...
    357: *[[Etymological list of counties of the United Kingdom]]
    358: *[[List of places in the United Kingdom]]
  17. Macau (16856 bytes)
    50: Macau is also known as Ho King O (&#22741;&#37857;&#28595;; Haojing'ao; "Trench-...
    78: ...islative Assembly is responsible for general lawmaking.
    91: ...hough the phrase "Northern District", broadly speaking, may refer to the entire Macau peninsula, some of...
    93: ...www.imprensa.macau.gov.mo/bo/i/2001/51/Image1.gif simple logotype] based on the [[Chinese character|Han (C...
    130: * Like [[Hong Kong]] and the [[United Kingdom]], but unlike both [[mainland China]] and [[Po...
  18. Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
    9: ... were preserved because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kep...
    16: ...ms for frequently occurring words like "god" and "king." The [[Ugaritic language]] was written using th...
    21: ...ia]]. Carved in the reign of [[Darius I of Persia|King Darius of Persia]] ([[522 BC]]&ndash;[[486 BC]]),...
    23: ...abic script and he successfully deciphered it. Working independently of him, the Irish Assyriologist [[E...
  19. Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
    7: ...rie de France]], the ''[[Mabinogion]]'' and the [[King Arthur#The Arthurian romance|Arthurian cycles]].
    22: ...lerics were the [[mystery play]]s: growing out of simple [[tableaux]] re-enactments of a single Biblical s...
  20. Castle (27805 bytes)
    2: ...French castle is a ''chau-fort,'' for in French a simple ''chau'' connotes a grand [[country house]] at th...
    14: ...in particular the [[High Middle Ages]], lords and kings often built castles for offensive reasons: terri...
    17: ...exploded as local warlords staked claims to minor kingdoms from behind newly-built castles.
    59: ...st on the most exposed front. The idea of the flanking towers (which were of a type very different from ...
    65: ...burgh]] in a week, and in Germany, [[Franz von Sickingen]]'s stronghold of Landstuhl, formerly impregnab...

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