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- Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
10: ...s helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle.
16: ==Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the civil rights movement==
17: ...uestioned some of the more mythic elements of her story.
35: ...storic act of [[civil disobedience]], and how her simple act connects to the larger tapestry of the [[civi... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...ern Ontario Gothic]], [[comedy]], and the [[ghost story]]. Some critics say her first novel, ''[[The Edib...
53: :''[[Good Bones and Simple Murders]]'' ([[1994]])
65: :''[[Freeforall (short story)|Freeforall]]'' ([[1986]])
70: :''[[Shopping (short story)|Shopping]]'' ([[1998]]) - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...s the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's w...
13: ...ic narrative encompassing almost entire English history. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
35: ...can we do to promote world peace?" Her answer was simple: "Go home and love your family." In the same year...
60: ...ctions and attributed the healing to a miracle. A story in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' quoted him as sayi... - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ...sh; some skeptics see him as the world's greatest storyteller. He told many stories to Kublai Khan. The P...
16: ...r one night during which the Polos dressed in the simple clothes of a peasant in China. Shortly before the...
40: ...dren's game ([[Marco Polo (game)|Marco Polo]]), a story in the [[science fiction]] series ''[[Doctor Who]... - Map (10223 bytes)
11: ...". This conceit is elaborated in a one-paragraph story by [[Jorge Luis Borges]] and [[Adolfo Bioy Casare...
35: ... map that also depicts approximate bearings. The simple maps shown on some directional [[road sign|road s... - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
17: ...nd-answer format. Some of these teachings took a simple form: "What is wisest?" "Number"; "What is truest...
57: ...tes about Pythagoras in ''Apologia'', including a story of him being taught by [[Babylon|Babylonian]] dis...
68: ...oras.html ''Pythagoras of Samos'', The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, School of Mathematics and...
69: ...al Texts Project, Hanover College Department of History]
70: *[http://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/pythag/pythag.html ''Pythagoras and the Pythagore... - Australian Aboriginal art (4187 bytes)
3: ...ure. Artwork was used to mark territory, record history, and tell stories. Rare ochres for paints were tr...
9: ...rticular using the motif of a [[handprint]]. More simple designs of straight lines, circles and spirals, w...
34: Story telling and totem representation feature prominen... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...ionally in Britain it has also referred to [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] [[earthworks (engineering)|earthwor...
2: ...French castle is a ''chau-fort,'' for in French a simple ''chau'' connotes a grand [[country house]] at th...
4: ...gure prominently in [[History of Japan|Japanese history]], where the feudal [[Daimyo]] inhabited them.
14: ...or baron could control surrounding territory. The story of [[Hugh of Abbeville]] in the last decades of t...
65: ...al workmen. A typical case will be found in the history of [[Brandenburg]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia]] (Ca... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
64: ...cope Company" [http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/edison_mutoscope.cfm].
66: ...in penny arcades, where people could watch short, simple films. This was especially important to Thomas Ed...
126: ...http://www.flyingmoose.org/truthfic/tesla.htm One Story of Nikola Tesla] : Anecdotes concerning the relat... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
27: ...ved independently on at least four occasions. The simplest pitfall
29: ...s are quite clearly evolutionarily derived from a simple
136: is prevented by the leaf's having a simple memory: for the lobes to shut, two [[stimulus|sti...
180: true carnivores, including both unspecialised and simple traps, like ''Heliamphora'', to extremely special...
202: quite clearly), and flypapers show a simple evolutionary gradient from sticky, non-carnivorou... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
14: ...le is known for being one of the few figures in history who studied almost every subject possible at the ...
16: === History and influence of Aristotle's work ===
19: The history of Aristotle's works from the time of his death u...
54: ...he stomach', from which he had long suffered. The story that his death was due to hemlock poisoning, as w...
71: ==== History ==== - Compass (8275 bytes)
7: ==History of the navigational compass==
20: ... the [[12th century]]. About [[1358]], there is a story about an English monk, [[Nicholas of Lynne]], who...
28: ==Construction of a simple compass== - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
10: ... poet under his patronage. This was but an act of simple justice, Ariosto having already distinguished him...
12: ...people given over to his care; indeed, there is a story about a time when he was walking alone and fell i... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
4: ...cticut Compromise]], a compromise made at the [[History of the United States Constitution|Constitutional ...
8: ==History==
9: {{main|History of the United States Senate}}
25: ...ns censuring members; [[censure]] requires only a simple majority and does not remove a senator from offic...
30: ...$162,100<!--http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/senate_salaries.htm-->; the Presi... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
5: ...cientist in [[history of science and technology|history]], and in [[popular culture]], ''Einstein'' has b...
16: ...red a slow learner, possibly due to [[dyslexia]], simple [[shyness]], or the significantly rare and unusua...
145: ...house in Princeton.jpg|200px|thumb|Einstein's two-story house, white frame with front porch in Greek rev... - Mongoose (2463 bytes)
16: ...d. They are fairly intelligent and can be taught simple tricks, so they are often kept as pets to protect...
18: ...''[[The Jungle Book|Jungle Book]]'' [[short story|story]] "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by [[Rudyard Kipling]], whic... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
31: ... from a ticker and relying on his imagination and storytelling gifts to flesh out the game. Once in [[193...
42: ...s a remake of an earlier version based on a short story by [[Ernest Hemingway]]. Reagan's co-stars were [...
87: ...to Reagan as the most [[pro-life]] president in history. (However, two of the three [[Supreme Court of th...
138: ...e Cold War [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5071695,00.html].
251: ...ars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? … Did he a... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
55: ...], Nixon refused television makeup (instead using simple "Lazy Shave" coverup makeup) and was feeling sick...
73: ... revolutionary movement that would eventually [[History_of_Cambodia#The_Khmer_Republic_and_the_War|kill 1...
80: ... landslide election victories in U.S. political history, defeating [[George McGovern]] and garnering over...
122: *"This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a res...
136: *"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker." (From his... - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
64: ...to former members of the 129<sup>th</sup>. It was simple economics, in 1919 wheat went for $2.15 a bushel,...
74: A famous story says that when Truman was summoned to the [[White...
86: ...of the greatest upsets in presidential election history by defeating [[Thomas E. Dewey]] and earning a te...
229: {{Us_history_clipart}}
235: * [[History of the United States (1945-1964)]]
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