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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
47: | [[Hawaii]]
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
63: | [[Iowa]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ces from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to create...
7: ...d; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...d during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Sha...
18: ...e, where a bronze smelter from around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, foun...
28: ...122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ...n|Shiraz]], not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur (Kyrus).
6: ...The other three sides are formed by a [[retaining wall]], varying in height with the slope of the grou...
8: ...oncerning whom [[Ctesias]] relates that his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reached...
12: ...we must bear in mind that Ctesias assumes that it was the custom for a king to prepare his own tomb du...
14: ...ilding, which was still intact 900 years ago, and was used as the [[mosque]] of the then existing city... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to p...
5: ...cond Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...itical disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
16: ...ions. During the [[Spring and Autumn Period]], it was used only to describe the states politically des...
18: ...ng]], and [[Tibet]], and the ROC now governs [[Taiwan]] (also claimed by the PRC), these regions are a... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
24: ...[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3:
7: ...adame Puisieux and with Sophie Voland, to whom he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters t...
14: ...comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any subject that he approached, that in th...
16: ...nes]]. Here he remained for three months; then he was released, to enter upon the gigantic undertaking...
25: ...ast of the letterpress was issued in 1765, but it was 1772 before the subscribers received the final v... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...SH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...d the coronation of her successors. Known for the way she superbly bejeweled herself for formal events...
9: ... Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide ...
11: ...he Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid the...
13: ... her aunt every week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... works, before taking part in the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representa...
6: ...rset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained ...
13: ... Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him) was jailed for fourteen years.
18: ...archist communists like [[Peter Kropotkin]].) She was charged with "inciting a riot" by the criminal c...
21: ...ourse of study in anarchist ideas. Leon Czolgosz was found guilty of murder and executed. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...lieved travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals o...
8: ...ted States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, but art supplies a...
14: ... friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
21: ... away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[novelist]]. She is one...
5: ...ir own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as a writer of romances. An additional...
8: ...f Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', and it was at that time that she began to live with [[Georg...
10: ...ovelistic career. Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be ...
12: ...e of 61 in London of a [[kidney]] [[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...April 8]], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known ...
5: ... through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged seven, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of...
7: ...B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that...
9: ...era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired fro...
11: ...eir love; as the couple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the c... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...nstitute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ...al breakdown]] for a year. Due to her gender, she was not allowed admission into any Russian or Polish...
7: ...races of some unknown radioactive component which was far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[Dec...
9: ...ium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity....
11: ...nri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...er 29]], [[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[African American]] [[gospel music|gospel]] ...
3: ...ble backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility.
7: She was posthumously inducted into the [[Gospel Music As... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
3: ...16]] [[1098]] – [[September 17]], [[1179]]) was a [[German people|German]] [[abbess]], [[Monasti...
6: ...und her. Upon Jutta's death in [[1136]] Hildegard was chosen superior of the community, and eventually...
8: ...out writing her visions, holding them inside. She was finally convinced to write by members of her ord...
10: ==The Awakening==
11: ...only to Jutta and another monk, named Volmar, who was to become her lifelong secretary. However, in 11... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: ...:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~1989)]]
2: ...ust 6]], [[1911]] – [[April 26]], [[1989]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]],...
4: ... [[Celoron, New York]] and after her father died, was raised by her working mother and grandparents. I...
5: ...th. Her grandfather who she considered her father was sued once for money, then again for prison sente...
7: ...the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king". - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...cs]]. She was born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the town of [[Por...
5: ...d have entered more events if she could, but this was not allowed - at the Olympic Trials prior to the...
9: ...the [[WPGA]] and later the [[LPGA]] (of which she was a founding member) until illness shortened her c...
11: ... Open, in addition to leading the money-list. She was the leading money-winner again in 1951 and in 19...
13: ...th Century'' in an [[Associated Press]] poll. She was also the highest ranked woman on [[ESPN]]'s list... - Retina (13061 bytes)
7: [[George Wald]], [[Haldan Keffer Hartline]] and [[Ragnar Gran...
29: ...levels fall. The actual photopigment is bleached away in bright light and only replaced as a chemical ...
33: ...transfer of signal to the brain, the [[visual pathway]], the retina is vertically divided in two, a te...
49: ...echnology|MIT]] and the [[University of New South Wales]], an "artificial retina" is under development...
64: ... of Utah. Retrieved July 19, 2004. Everything you wanted to know about eye and retina. - Cornet (3752 bytes)
3: ...et is a standard [[brass band]] instrument, which was derived from the bugle family. However, lately i...
9: ...t is primarily responsible for its characteristic warm, mellow tone, which can be distinguished from t...
11: ...s a public domain image from Webster's Dictionary 1911]]
13: ...exists a long-model cornet which looks about half-way between the short instrument and a trumpet. This...
25: ... time that the purchase of commission in the army was abolished in the army reform bill of 1871. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[George Washington]]
18: ... United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825...
22: ...o [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...se of the American colonies. Years later, when he was an old man, Adams undertook to write out, at len...
26: ...h]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]]. - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
4: .... Arthur]], 41 delegates from 25 nations met in [[Washington, D.C.]], USA for the International Meridi...
7: # It was desirable to adopt a single world meridian to re...
8: ...ransit instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich was to be the "initial meridian".
15: ...ench did not adopt the Greenwich meridian until [[1911]].
21: The meridian through Greenwich was selected as the Prime Meridian because over two ...
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