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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ces from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to creat...
7: ...d; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
11: ...ite]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in ...
14: ...d during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Sh...
18: ...u Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...ifferent [[premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[logic]]), ...
4: ==Western Philosophy==
5: ''See article [[History of Western philosophy]]''
7: ...d with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period o...
10: ...e dictum, "All is water." His most noted students were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[Anaximander]] ... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...] bellorum'' ("war leader") and High [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[empero...
2: ...g Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield]]
5: ... of his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ...rs are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
9: ...itain may have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the historical ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hat a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...gurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ...wo decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This is...
7: ...e never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversa...
9: ...f the existence of the [[New World]] by the [[Old World]], the [[Columbian Exchange]] of species (bot... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...elopment of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the ma...
3: ... the development of [[Electric power|electrical power generation]].
5: ...s often compared to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up ...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...ere members of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformat...
4: ... "[[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ...he practitioners themselves. The practitioners knew themselves as members of particular churches or m...
8: ...wards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] (middle way).
10: ...wever, in church polity (organization of church power), they differed. - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...e last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civi...
5: ...cond Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...itical disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...oric position of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states. - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: ...nt religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of China is [[Chinese tradition...
5: ...ard [[Confucianism]] and [[Taoism]] as religions, while others regard them as solely philosophies of...
7: ...corporating some Christian concepts into Buddhism while the reverse is not necessarily the case.
9: ...ms that developed within China include [[ancestor worship]], [[Chinese folk religion]], [[Confucianis...
11: ...uld lose the [[Mandate of Heaven]] and be overthrown by a [[rebellion]]. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
7: ...twerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[D...
9: ...ince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
10: ...aly)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]]. - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
14: ...th his hands". Raccoons are intelligent omnivores with a reputation for slyness and mischief.
16: ...tic eye colorings make the animal look like it is wearing a "bandit's mask".
18: ...some studies find that raccoons engage in it when water is not available.
20: ... and will begin to fend for themselves. In severe winter climates, raccoons may become dormant but do...
22: ... 12 years in the wild, but most live for only a few years. - Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
2: ...] and the wife of Emperor [[Justinian I]]. Along with her husband, she is a [[saint]] in the [[Easte...
4: ...rmation from this earliest part of her life comes from the ''Secret History'' of [[Procopius]], publis...
6: ...lcedonian herself, she was pastorally favorable toward the non-Chalcedonians.
8: ...be a wise decision. A strong-willed woman, she showed a notable talent for governance. In the [[Nika...
10: ...so something of a voice for prostitutes and the downtrodden. She also helped to mitigate the breach i... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...nce estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
6: ...rn [[Missouri]], had once owned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
8: ...yst]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
10: ...use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.)
12: ...and accepted a position as director of promotions with the [[Kansas City Royals]] [[baseball]] team. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3:
5: ...rets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon which many an article and sermon about consumer des...
7: ...e among the most graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle...
9: ==Early works==
10: - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...Germans in the government and not a single person was executed during her reign.
7: ...s were not married at that time, her illegitimacy would be used by political opponents to challenge h...
9: ... these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by h...
11: ...d herself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress.
13: ...m all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without reserve. - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...t British monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Gr...
10: ...h united England and Scotland into Great Britain) was a product of subsequent negotiations.
12: ...arlborough]], who led the English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
15: ...n Churchill (the future Duke of Marlborough), who would later become one of Anne's most important gen...
17: ...if she converted to Catholicism. Princess Anne, however, declared her firm adherence to [[Anglicanism... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marriage in [[1770]]]]
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduch...
6: ...inand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ... for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political ... - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
1: ...exius I|Alexius I Comnenus]], and is the first known female [[historian]].
3: ...staken their sexes, for he ought to have been the woman."
5: ...fective afterwards, as she was obviously isolated from her Palace sources.
11: ...html The Alexiad]'', translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928
12: ..., edited and translated by E.R.A. Sewter. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969. (This print version uses more... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...g from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkins Medical School]].
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
12: ...1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ... 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ... themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually ...
8: ...imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...er to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
3: ...d [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society...
5: ==Life and work==
7: ...ency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...s hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernis...
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