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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...ate !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
57: ...[[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
81: ...— [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909]] — [[1911]] (wings added)
105: | [[1911]] — [[1917]]
124: | [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...g by the Qin emperor ([[2nd century BC|200 BC]]) strengthened the Chinese civilization. Politically, C...
7: ...s, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In la...
18: ...nnect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in central [[Henan]] province, where a bronze smelter from...
28: ...mi-feudal system. Nevertheless, power became decentralized during the [[Spring and Autumn Period]] whe...
30: ...aoning]], and governed under the new local administrative system of [[commandery]] and [[prefecture]] ... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...en beyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
12: ... was buried at [[Pasargadae]] and if there is any truth in the statement that the body of [[Cambyses I...
18: ...t was probably under this king, with whom the sceptre passed to a new branch of the royal house, that ...
20: ...by Xerxes, bears evident traces of having been destroyed by fire. The locality described by Diodorus a...
26: ...rches, and urged all to take vengeance for the destruction of the [[Greek temple]]s. (4) Others took ... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng2.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in th...
5: ...]] [[Chinese dynasty|dynastic]] change. The [[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a ...
7: ...orld War II. Since then the ROC has maintained control over Taiwan and the [[Pescadores]], islands off...
14: ...e centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states.
16: ...although being continually redefined while the central political influence expanded territorially, and... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
17: ...badie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
24: ...[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767...
5: ...enged conventions regarding [[novel]]s and their structure and content, while also examining [[philoso...
10: ...reece'' (1743); with two colleagues he produced a translation of James's ''Dictionary of Medicine'' (1...
12: ...ptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, to the vanity of...
14: ...election]]. It is worth noticing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Dide... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...ictoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
9: ...absburgs]], the once powerful ruling family of Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[...
11: ... avoid their [[creditor]]s in [[1883]]. The Tecks travelled throughout Europe, visiting their various ...
13: ...se to her aunt, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May...
17: ...een Victoria]]'s fondness of May, as well as her strong character and sense of duty. Albert Victor was... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
6: ...aker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy...
9: ...ing, Goldman left her marriage and her family and traveled to New Haven, CT, and then to [[New York Ci...
23: ==Birth control==
24: ... as a tragic consequence of social conditions. In 1911, Goldman wrote in ''[[Mother Earth (magazine)|Mot...
29: ...rganising rallies against [[World War I]].(''illustration, left'') She was imprisoned for two years, a... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...ment that valued education. Her parents believed travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 yea...
6: ...nnsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and the slow pace...
8: ...int copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
12: ...d that her colors were too bright and that her portraits too accurate to be flattering to the subject.
18: Shortly after her triumphs with the [[impressionism|impressionists]], ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
8: ...began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
19: ...chological insight and sophisticated character portraits.
21: ...as sharp in pointing out the hypocrisy of the country squires and socially conscious. ''[[Felix Holt,...
23: ... style and clarity of thought. Eliot's sentence structures are clear, patient, and well balanced, and...
42: * ''[[Stradivarius (novel)|Stradivarius]]'' (1874) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...d in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ...d film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four yea...
11: ...Irish-born silent-film actor, on [[January 7]], [[1911]]. The couple had numerous marital problems, name...
13: ... Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorc...
15: ...Ronald. Fairbanks, however, was the love of the actress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a mes... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she...
7: ...gical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of some unknown radioactive component which w...
9: ... they named [[polonium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its int...
11: ... in Physics]], [[1903]]: "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joi...
13: ...ion of her services to the advancement of [[chemistry]] by the discovery of the elements radium and po... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: '''Mahalia Jackson''' ([[October 29]], [[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[Africa...
3: ... [[Columbia Records]] in [[1954]]. With her mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospe... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
17: ...eaching any outlandish doctrine could instantly attract a large following. Hildegard was critical of s...
22: ... her inventions of words for her lyrics and a constructed script, many [[conlang]]ers look upon her as...
26: ...dy. That is why in giving descriptions of plants, trees, birds, animals, stones, Hildegard is mostly c...
28: ...olorful illustrations of the prevailing church doctrine of her time, which she supported, rather than ...
32: ... of menstruation now close, in the same way as a strong man can old something enclosed in his fist. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: ...:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~1989)]]
2: ...89]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]], [[comedian]] and star of [[I Love Lucy]]. A...
5: ... then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ...ed in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (a...
17: ...ate_factory1.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Lucy and Ethel try to "Speed it up a little."]] - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias''' ([[June 26]], [[1911]] in [[Port Arthur, Texas]] – [[September 2...
5: ... hurdles, and cleared the same height as her compatriot [[Jean Shiley]] in the high jump. The jury, ho...
11: ...53. She made a comeback in 1954 and took the Vare Trophy and her tenth and final major with a U.S. Wom... - Retina (13061 bytes)
1: |[[Image:Eye.jpg|thumb|Color Cross Section Illustration of the Human Eye courtesy of [http://classro...
5: ...ssing by other [[neuron]]s of the retina, and are transformed into [[action potential]]s in retinal [[...
9: ...vessel]]s in the retina have been used for [[biometric]] identification.
11: ==Physical structure of human eye==
12: ...p central vision. Around the fovea extends the central retina for about 6mm and then the peripheral re... - Cornet (3752 bytes)
1: ...[[brass instrument]] that closely resembles the [[trumpet]].
3: ...band]] in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and other countries that have British-style brass bands.
5: ==Relationship to trumpet==
7: ...ument, with usually just one in a band, adds an extreme high register to the brass band sound and can ...
9: ...ng beginners as it is easier to hold, with its centre of gravity much closer to the player. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...Old Style]], [[Julian Calendar]]), 1735 in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]]. His father, a farmer, also na...
24: ...length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
31: ... to the Stamp Act was a part of the never-ending struggle between individualism and corporate authorit...
33: ...our colonists during the [[Boston Massacre]]. The trial resulted in an [[acquittal]] of the officer wh... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
8: ...meridian passing through the principal transit instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich was to be th...
10: # All countries would adopt a universal day.
12: # That nautical and astronomical days everywhere would begin at mean midni...
15: ...ench did not adopt the Greenwich meridian until [[1911]].
35: ...elestial bodies, prime meridians are likewise arbitrarily defined.
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