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- 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... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
4: ...roughout Egypt. She also began rebuilding Egypt's trade networks which had been disrupted by the [[Hyk...
11: ...ly two daughters with Hatshepsut, Nefrure and Meritre, but managed to father a male heir, [[Thutmose I...
20: ... ruler's wife of Egypt. Historians who believe in traditional explanation of Hatshepsut believe her mo...
24: ...e time the tallest in the world, erected at the entrance to the Temple of Karnak. One still stands tod...
28: ... as shown on the right. The names are technically transliterated as m3‘t-k3-r‘ ḥ3t-... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...ber]] [[1793]]) Daughter of [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], wife of [[Louis XVI]] and mother of [[Louis ...
4: ...r) of the Austrian empress, [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emp...
7: ...ther, the Empress Maria-Theresa, had ruled the Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's b...
15: ...that he should marry one of [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabri...
19: ... a Thanksgiving Mass was held in her honour. The streets of the city where covered in flowers, which M... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...ed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]...
31: ...ge-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands of [[northern England]], and increa...
36: ...hen the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] won control of Grantham Council in [[1945]], Roberts was no...
38: ...|Oxford]] from [[1944]] where she studied [[chemistry]]. She became Chairman of the [[Oxford Universit...
45: ...g and Land. She moved to the Shadow [[HM Treasury|Treasury]] Team after [[1966]]. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...ce" Zinovievna Rosenbaum''', was a popular and controversial [[United States|American]] [[philosopher]...
19: ... Party of the Soviet Union|Communist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There i...
22: ...er basic living-expenses. While working as an [[extra]] on [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s ''[[King of Kings]]'...
26: ...mpany]] publishing house. Despite these initial struggles ''The Fountainhead'' was successful, bringi...
31: ...]] of egoism and individualism. Rand also had a strong dislike for [[mysticism]], [[religion]], and c... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: Her introduction to aviation occurred at a Kansas state fa...
10: ... to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ...ng [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. However, strong north winds, icy conditions and mechanical pro...
16: ...36]] she took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started...
22: ...signed to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide her to the island once she arrived... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...f an [[ophthalmology|ophthalmologist]] and was in training to become a medical doctor in 1932 when she...
12: ...s over. She also hoped to fly out the children of propaganda minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who'd been living t... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
2: ...e [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]], [[London]]]]
3: [[Image:Eca dead2.jpeg|thumb|234px|A propaganda image of Edith Cavell]]
7: ...ropaganda throughout the war [http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/edith_cavell.htm].
9: ...ribed on her statue in St. Martin's Place, near [[Trafalgar Square]] in [[London]]. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ... German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became...
5: ...rview she recalled that dancing was what made her truly happy. After injuring her knee, she attended a...
7: ...regarded as one of the most effective pieces of [[propaganda]] ever produced, even though Riefenstahl herself ...
9: ...ahl qualified to represent Germany in [[cross-country skiing]] in the [[1936 Summer Olympics|Olympics]...
13: ...s but politically naļ¶„ and ignorant about their atrocities—a position which many of her critics... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...ains a one-party [[authoritarian]] state from its true communist days.
4: ...omplete and indivisible country. This claim is controversial with the ROC considering itself an [[inde...
6: ... rule, usually excluding the two [[Special Administrative Region]]s, [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]]. The ...
13: ...ol of [[mainland China]] and the Kuomintang in control of [[Taiwan]] and some outlying islands of [[Fu...
15: ...and there was development of infrastructure, industry, healthcare, and education, which raised [[livin... - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...ken Finland'') is a [[Nordic countries|Nordic country]] in northeastern [[Europe]], bordered by the [[...
27: |[[List of countries by area|Ranked 63th]] <br>[[1 E11 m?|338,145 k...
30: |[[List of countries by population|Ranked 109th]] <br>5,211,311<br>...
44: | '''[[List_of_country_calling_codes|Calling Code]]''' || +358
51: ...ally in the northern and eastern parts of the country. - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
3: ...he primary criterion for [[Imperial examination|entry into the imperial bureaucracy]].
5: ...tural legacy, while others sought to combine the strengths of Chinese and Western cultures. In essence...
10: ...uments, then later gave way to string and reed instruments.
12: ...al well known Chinese poets influenced Chinese poetry, which included Cao Cao and his sons and Tao Qui...
14: ...". Also in the Tang dynasty, Chinese opera was introduced. - Ant (13019 bytes)
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7: {{Taxobox_superfamilia_entry | taxon = [[Vespoidea]]}} - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
4: ...he right to stand for public office in [[South Australia]] in [[1894]], along with universal suffrage ...
11: ...rious countries throughout the world. In many countries women's suffrage was granted before [[universa...
13: ... the nineteenth century, starting with [[South Australia]] in [[1861]].
15: ...y permitted to stand for election) in a major country was granted in [[New Zealand]] in [[1893]].
17: ... allow women to stand for parliament was South Australia, in [[1894]]. - Sport (14061 bytes)
11: ...f sport from these sources, it is reasonable to extrapolate that there was some activity at these time...
13: ...wrestling. Ancient [[Persian]] sports such as the traditional [[Iran]]ian martial art of [[Zurkhaneh]]...
17: ...itism in sports, and greater accessibility. These trends continued with the advent of mass media and ...
18: ...eak from a hectic workday or to relieve unwanted stress, as with any profession.
24: ...anics. The examples given are intended to be illustrative, rather than comprehensive. - Albania (24647 bytes)
1: ...t on the [[Ionian Sea]] in the southwest. The country is an emerging [[democracy]] and is formally nam...
31: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 139th]] <br> [[1 E10 m²|28...
37: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 126th]]<br>3,582,205 <sma...
39: ... product|GDP]]'''<br> - Total ([[List of countries by GDP|2003]])<br> - GDP/capita<br> ...
40: ...PPP) per capita|PPP]]) <br> $2,230 ([[List of countries by GDP (Nominal) per capita|Nominal]]) - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
1: ... which commemorates [[Trajan]]'s victory in the [[Trajan's Dacian Wars|Dacian Wars]]. Its design has i...
3: ...viewing platform at the top. The capital block of Trajan's Column weighs 53.3 tons which had to be lif...
5: ...n eagle, and later by a heroically nude statue of Trajan himself, which disappeared in the [[Middle Ag...
9: ...rating the first (101-102), and the top half illustrating the second (105-106).
11: ...y]] writing on a shield flanked on either side by Trophies. Otherwise, the scenes on the frieze unfold... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: ...t revolutionary at all, that it did not radically transform colonial society, but simply replaced a di...
7: ...c, etc. situations before the revolution, and the trends which led to the coming revolution -->
16: ...ilosophy]] and began to replace arguments born of tradition and authority with those based on observat...
18: ===Religious trends===
23: ...e stable and profitable, new economic and land distribution policies were implemented. Colonial resent... - World War I (62979 bytes)
6: ...]. It also greatly increased the use of mass industrialization as the basis for a new form of warfare ...
8: ...o cited German diplomatic ineptitude as well as a tremendous tide of nationalism that swept the Europe...
10: ...le because of tight defences. This was especially true of the [[Western Front (WWI)|Western Front]]. O...
16: ... this assassination has been linked as the direct trigger for World War I, the war's real origins lie ...
19: ...way. Frantic diplomatic efforts to mediate the Austrian-Serbian quarrel simply became irrelevant, as t... - World War II (58065 bytes)
2: ...and every inhabited continent. Virtually all countries that participated in [[World War I]] were invo...
4: Attributed in varying degrees to the [[Treaty of Versailles]], the [[Great Depression]], na...
6: ... Days), but continued in Asia until [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [[15 Aug...
8: ...al war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilians]] to a new deg...
10: ...influence]], the former undergoing economic reconstruction under the [[Marshall Plan]] and the latter ...
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