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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... dating back at least 3,500 years, and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of the...
7: ...odern human might have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Ch...
14: ...er of the [[2nd century BC]], begins perhaps 1300 years earlier with an account of the [[The Three Augus...
18: ... [[Xia Dynasty]] (夏朝) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated...
28: ...es remained by the end of 5th century BC, and the years in which these few states battled each other is ... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
5: ... of pudding called cornmeal mush every day of the year. [[Johnnycake]], bread made with cornmeal, was a...
7: ...he Dutch form of dress. [[Quakers]] wore neat and simple clothing as their [[religion]] taught them. Many ...
9: ...any children died of disease during their first 5 years living there. The people that lived in the Middl... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
25: ...popularity seems to have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by [[Robert Burns]] for "[[Sc...
47: ...round''' movement (Gaelic '''urlar''') which is a simple theme, then a series of somewhat minimalist varia...
72: ...g these instruments have become popular in recent years.
75: For many years the playing of close harmony (thirds and sixths)...
79: ...The Brian Boru bagpipe was played for a number of years by the pipe band in the Royal Inniskilling Fusil... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days r...
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Ant...
150: [[simple:November 4]] - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
26: ...e totally extinguished, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne....
31: ...lpox]] shortly before his death, leaving the five-year-old [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] on the throne...
33: ...Queen Anne's War]]) would continue until the last years of Anne's reign, and would dominate both foreign...
38: The next years of Anne's reign were marked by attempts to merge...
44: ==Later years== - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...s valuable collection of jewels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
38: ...yalty, but was a favourite of George, who liked a simple life.
49: ...d Kingdom|King Edward VII]]. For the rest of that year, May was styled Duchess of Cornwall and York, unt...
75: ...e that in her shorthand title. Mary died the next year, before having the chance to see Elizabeth II's [... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
25: ...ses before, such as that of [[Irene Morgan]], ten years earlier, which resulted in a victory in the Supr...
32: [[Image:Parkstoday.jpg|frame|Rosa Parks in the year 2000]]
35: ...storic act of [[civil disobedience]], and how her simple act connects to the larger tapestry of the [[civi...
57: ...s, like [[Plessy v. Ferguson|Homer Plessy]] sixty years earlier, arrested for her refusal to move to the... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
14: ...her career: "Their philosophy consists in a very simple formula, that of calling God to witness, as Plato...
22: ... in the month of March during Lent, in the fourth year of Cyril's episcopate, under the tenth consulate ...
45: ==Year of birth== - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
35: ...mple: "Go home and love your family." In the same year, she was also awarded the [[Balzan Prize]] for pr...
47: ...sa fell and broke her [[collar bone]]. Later that year, in August, she suffered from [[malaria]], and fa...
72: The next year, Hitchens published ''[[The Missionary Position: ...
77: ...her views later when asked in [[1993]] about a 14-year-old rape victim in [[Ireland]], "Abortion can nev... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
14: ...epted names. About 800 new species are added each year. There are more orchid species than all vertebrat...
34: They have simple [[Leaf|leaves]] with lengthwise [[vein]]s. Their ...
38: ...ve on, attached to their pseudobulbs, for several years. Other species, especially those with plicate le...
48: ...) sprouting from or next to those of the previous year (as in the genus ''[[Cattleya]]''). While this l...
56: ... dormant and is called a '''backbulb'''. The next year's pseudobulb then takes over, exploiting the last... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
23: ...ve long, erect, flowering [[stem]]s. These may be simple or branched, solid or hollow. These stalks may be...
28: ...rom November to March, the bleakest period of the year.
68: ... to an inch broad. Towards the latter part of the year they are eaten by cattle. The seeds are numerous ... - Raspberry (2847 bytes)
12: {{Taxobox section binomial simple|color=lightblue|binomial_name=Rubus idaeus}}
19: ... the autumn, as well as the summer crop on second-year canes. Raspberries can be cultivated from [[USDA ... - Lilac (2336 bytes)
16: ... are opposite, [[deciduous]], and in most species simple and heart-shaped, but pinnate in a few species (e...
23: ... flowering. Unpruned lilacs flower reliably every year. Despite this, a common fallacy holds that lilacs... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
23: ...an on [[21 February]] 1804, although it took some years before steam locomotive design became efficient ...
29: ...rt of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables retain steam for all or part of ...
32: ...ore the [[first world war]] which saw a number of simplex diesel systems built for the war, a small number...
90: ...ned and replaced by a cable-hauled guideway a few years later. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
30: From roughly the year 1000 onward, greater stability came to the lands ...
42: ...nd applied usefully than in the previous thousand years of human history all over the globe. The period ...
47: ...nds. Wars between kingdoms, such as the [[Hundred Years' War]] between England and France, weakened the ...
68: ...ula'' and ''media tempora''). There seem to be no simple reason why a particular language ended up with th...
78: ...inople]] or the end of the Anglo-French [[Hundred Years' War]] (both [[1453]]), the invention of printin... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
27: ...r Academy]] to prepare for college and later that year entered [[Bowdoin College]] in [[Brunswick, Maine...
29: In his second year of college, his grades were the lowest in his cla...
34: ...[March 3]], [[1837]]). At the time he was only 27 years old, the youngest representative at the time.
47: ...tes deadlocked, with no candidate reaching even a simple majority, much less the required [[supermajority]...
56: ...re merely shaken up, but they watched as their 11-year-old son Benjamin ("Bennie") was crushed to death ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
48: ...e would only emerge with the [[New Deal]] some 70 years later. Lincoln was also the president who declar...
53: ...(Menard County), Illinois|New Salem]]. Later that year, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and...
61: ...mitted to the Illinois Bar in [[1837]]. That same year, he moved to [[Springfield, Illinois]] and began ...
106: ...ly that even were the Constitution construed as a simple contract, would it not require the agreement of a...
122: ...ears of his life, perhaps at the suggestion of 11-year-old Grace Bedell.]] - Volcano (27295 bytes)
12: ... the geographical center of Iceland roughly 8,000 years ago; it flowed all the way to the sea, a distanc...
26: ...at [[cone]]s, as the expulsions build up over the years, or in short-lived [[volcanic cone#cinder cone|c...
41: ... erupted dozens of times in the past few thousand years but are not currently showing signs of activity....
43: ...00 years, and in [[Hawaii]], little more than 200 years.
47: ...2 million years old and hasn't erupted for 70,000 years, yet scientists do not consider Yellowstone as e... - Greece (54754 bytes)
72: ...ce experienced fluctuating fortunes. In the early years many of its works of art were looted by the empe...
87: ...hnic, cultural and linguistic heritage during the years of the Ottoman rule (although at the time it was...
100: ...[[Axis Powers|Axis]], the Greek government gave a simple negative response (see [[Oxi Day]]) — there...
104: During the years of [[Nazism|Nazi]] occupation, hundreds of thous...
107: ...Kings of Greece|Greek monarchy]]. Later that same year, in October of 1973, the head of the junta, colon... - Finland (29511 bytes)
55: ...nish pagans]] were already Christened hundreds of years before. [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish]] became the d...
63: ...il War]] that coloured domestic politics for many years. The Civil War was chiefly fought between "the w...
80: ...the Eduskunta members, who are elected for a four-year term on the basis of proportional representation...
88: ...titutionality of laws in Finland is verified by a simple vote in the parliament. However, the Constitution...
112: ...he country is growing by about 7 sq. kilometres a year.
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