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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the generation...
14: ...particularly cruel torture to a painter. Both procedures were used to corroborate the truth of her alle...
16: ...12]]-13), stored in the [[Capodimonte Museum of Naples]], is impressive for the violence portrayed, an...
18: ...tist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple moved to [[Florence]], where Artemisia received ...
20: ...urn to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Naples]]. After her mother's death in [[1651]], Pruden... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and poli...
9: ...Black America of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston...
15: ...ritings, Hurston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Other popular...
20: ... her little regarded last novel, ''Seraph on the Suwanee'', Hurston was wrongly accused of child moles...
22: ...the [[Brown v board of education|Brown v Board of Education]] case (1954), arguing in a letter to the [... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (infor...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work...
20: ... in the literary canon and the future of women in education and society.
60: * [http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read her li... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
13: ...t as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...e, where he was found among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this perio...
17: ...ster Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other women (John 19:26). Mary cr...
19: Of the roughly 100 people in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day...
27: ...was conceived. They took her to live in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] when she was three years old, muc... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...dly Edouard Bernard, a French lawyer, and she was educated in French Catholic convents. To support hers...
8: ...]]. She was also to publish a series of books and plays throughout her life.
12: ...ilm, as it had accompanying cylinders with dubbed dialogue.) She went on to star in eight motion pictures an... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Western world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich h...
52: ...n world|western civilization]] and being the birthplace of [[democracy]], [[philosophy]], the [[Olympi...
57:
65: ...nglish/greece/living/read_greek/alphabet.html]. [[Plato]] described how the Greeks live round the Aege...
68: ...he Byzantine Empire, centered around [[Constantinople]] (known in ancient times as [[Byzantium]]), rem... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...ia]]. Landlocked and mountainous, it borders [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[T...
52: ...201 BC]]. The earliest ancestors of the Kyrgyz people, who are believed to be of [[Turkic]] descent, l...
54: ...ry draft on the Kyrgyz and other Central Asian peoples, caused many Kyrgyz to flee to China.
58: ...d [[Kyrgyz alphabet]] was introduced, which was replaced by [[Latin script]] in [[1928]]. In [[1941]] ...
72: ...[[referendum]] asking for a renewed mandate to complete his term of office. He received 96.2% of the v... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
49: ...y the latter part of that century, the various peoples of Zambia were largely established in the areas...
51: ... mid-19th century, it was penetrated by Western explorers, missionaries, and traders. [[David Livingst...
59: ...th Africa]] (ANC), and the [[South-West Africa People's Organization]] (SWAPO).
61: ...People's Republic of China|Chinese]] assistance, reduced Zambian dependence on railroad lines south to ...
69: ...an exploitation and stressed cooperation among people, but not at the expense of the individual. - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
3: Home to one of the world's oldest and most complex [[civilization]]s, '''[[China]]''' boasts a his...
16: ... It was during this period, painting emphasis was placed on spiritual rather than emotion of the previ...
20: ...Western techniques, introduced oil painting and employ [[socialist realism]]. Modern Chinese poetry w...
25: Chinese [[architecture]], examples of which can be found over 2,000 years ago, has...
27: ...ture of imperial China. This of course does not apply to [[pagodas]], which in any case are relatively... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
7: Nor did the instructors of his early manhood supply the corrective which his boyhood lacked.
42: ...entions Alcibiades several times in his satirical plays, for instance making fun of his manner of spee...
43: * Alcibiades figures in several [[Socratic dialogue]]s:
44: ** [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] where he appears to be in lo...
45: ...iades'' (or ''Alcibiades II''): see [[Alcibiades (dialogues)]] - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
2: ... thus the literature is best characterized by its place of origin and/or language, as well as its genr...
5: ...since the Church was virtually the only source of education, Latin was a common language for Medieval w...
7: ... the older oral traditions of the [[Germanic]] peoples. [[Celtic]] traditions have survived in the [[B...
22: ...often controlled by local [[guild]]s, and mystery plays would be performed regularly on set feast-days...
34: ...rtained a society that, in most cases, limited people to the area in which they were born. (But note t... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...n Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of th...
7: ...astronomy]] until [[1610]]. During this time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
12: ...0s]]. According to Koyré¬ the law was arrived at deductively, and the experiments were merely illustrat...
14: ...on falling bodies (actually rolling balls) were replicated using the methods described by Galileo (Set...
18: ...lescope is inaccurate, he was one of the first people to use the telescope to observe the [[sky]]. Bas... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: ...n [[ancient Greek]] [[philosopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two...
8: ...gh Plato and a few other writers. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of [[Ancient philo...
10: ...ge has ethical as well as scientific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[ideali...
12: ...ific method]] centuries later. Although he wrote dialogues early in his career, no more than fragments of t...
14: ...hetoric]] and [[theology]]. He also dealt with [[education]], foreign customs, [[literature]] and [[po... - Plato (17363 bytes)
1: ...ue 1.jpg|thumb|Statue of a philosopher, presumely Plato, in [[Delphi]].]]
2: '''Plato''' [[May 21]] [[427 BC]] – c. [[347 BC...
4: ...gue)|Demodocus]]'', or the ''[[Second Alcibiades (dialogue)|Second Alcibiades]]'').
6: ...ue is Socrates' point of view, and how much of it Plato's.
8: ...n is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -- [[Alfred North Whitehead]], Process and R... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...of Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] that Socrates was decorated ...
7: ... scientific institute with his friend Chaerophon; Plato has Socrates tell us that he once spent all of...
11: ...to the version of his defense speech presented in Plato's ''Apology'', Socrates' life as the "gadfly" ...
13: ...s disciples and thinkers that reflect on his accomplishments through their writing.
21: ...he following quotes are attributed to Socrates in Plato's and Xenophon's writings: - Christianity (47078 bytes)
8: ...enerally grouped into three main branches, which split from one another in disputes over doctrine:
23: ...1), but was rejected as an [[apostate]] by the people generally considered to be the [[Jew]]ish author...
27: ...f Jesus as recorded in the [[New Testament]]. Examples include the book of [[Isaiah]] that alludes to ...
29: ...early traditions of the church name numerous disciples (as many as [[Seventy Apostles|70]], including ...
34: ...on shared the faith, he would draw another arc completing this [[ichthys]], a symbol of Christianity.]... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
9: ...of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leonardo" ("...
18: ...his relations with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love...
29: ... and permitted him to operate his own workshop complete with apprentices. It was here that seventy [[t...
45: ...s, and did not travel without it. Thousands of people see it each year in the Louvre, perhaps drawing ...
47: ...ration of the Magi]]". After extensive, ambitious plans and many drawings, the painting was left unfin... - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
8: ...s that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. A...
12: ..., they joined Petrarch in [[Venice]], to flee the plague then ravaging parts of Europe. A second grand...
14: ... he passed his remaining years in religious contemplation. He died in [[Arqu? in the [[Euganean Hills]...
24: ...y Land"), a distant ancestor of Fodors and Lonely Planet; a number of invectives against opponents suc...
28: ...nded in classical example and philosophical contemplation. - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...[[1516]]. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|...
5: ... judge in the [[King's Bench]] court. Thomas was educated at St Anthony's School and was later a page ...
7: ... father's great displeasure, More seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career in order to becom...
9: ...rovided his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually re...
12: ...nfluential in the government, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...], [[musician]], [[poet]], and romantic comedic [[playwright]]. Machiavelli was also a key figure in [...
10: ...as other Italian [[city-state]]s on [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] missions. During this time he would draw ...
12: .... He died in Florence in [[1527]] and his resting place is unknown, however a symbolic tomb in his hon...
27: ...cally speaking rides Power or Power rides all the Players.
35: ... in contemporaneous Italian politics. (As an example, he compares the way in which Roman generals use...
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