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- China (38909 bytes)
3: ...ilizations, as a single [[state]] or multiple states, and as a single [[nation]] or multiple nations.
5: ..., the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...inese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
10: ...''Main article: [[Name of China in various languages]]''
14: ...r known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states. - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ... name, "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ...rother-husband, and son. However, in all these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her ...
9: ...e named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 BC|44]]–[[30 BC]]).
11: ... a short war, Ptolemy XIII was killed and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIV as...
13: ...oy his heir, naming his grand-nephew [[Augustus Caesar|Octavian]] instead. - Performance (3170 bytes)
2: ...e [[viewer]] or viewers, or [[audience]]). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and audience ...
4: Examples of performance [[genre]]s include:
5: * musical genres:
10: * theatrical genres:
14: ** [[ballet]] and other types of [[Performance dance|dance]] - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...ow host in the United States, and has an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly...
8: ...to an undisclosed medical problem [http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.htm]. Limbaugh stated that ...
10: ...one". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Sh...
16: ...nto, California]]. After achieving some local success, he moved to [[New York City]] (and his current ...
18: ...States|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]] or even President George W. Bush. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
2: subject_name=Diana, Princess of Wales|
3: image_name=Diana, Princess of Wales.jpg |
11: ...at title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] rather than by marriage.
13: ...biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...he world. To her admirers, Diana, Princess of Wales was a [[role model]] — after her death, the... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...arrested.jpeg|thumb|right|330px|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room ...
2: ...ey''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [[American Civil Rights Move...
4: ...er; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
8: ...second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct...
10: ...as lifted. This event helped spark many other protests against [[segregation]]. In helping in this boy... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: ...] - [[October 22]], [[1976]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[aviator | pilot]] and squadron comma...
3: Nancy Harkness, born in [[Houghton, Michigan]], earned her pilo...
5: ... a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the ...
7: ...ing division. She then convinced the division to establish the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]...
11: ...ican B-25 Mitchell]], and along with [[Betty Gillies]], a [[B-17]]. She was certified in 16 military ... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
2: ...s a famous [[World War II]] [[Germany|German]] [[test pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of...
4: ...when she left that field to pursue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s she became fairly famous, se...
6: ...t command of Karl Franke she soon became a major test pilot on the [[Junkers Ju 87]] ''Stuka'' and [[D...
8: ...d many accidents and was badly injured several times.
10: ...rom a [[Heinkel He 111]] bomber. Later it was suggested that similarly equipped V-1 would be used as p... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ... - [[August 7]], [[1974]]) specialised in [[anesthesia]] and childbirth. She graduated from [[Columbia...
3: ...inutes after birth, and sometimes also at 10 minutes. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Hun...
4: ...House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[John H. Bankhead II]] ([[1872]...
6: ...Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New Yo...
8: During these early New York years, she became a peripheral me...
10: ...d]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: ...], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[actor|actress]].
5: ...tafsson''' in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]], the youngest of three children born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson...
7: ==Becoming an actress==
10: ...[stage name]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] and one in [[Germany]].
12: When Stiller went to the [[United States]] in [[1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ... Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
5: ...heir parents' encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, includin...
7: ...zed for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in films such as '...
10: ...adway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...nds. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...]] of the [[20th century]]. Her sizzling screen presence, stunning good looks and mysterious [[death]]...
6: ... seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gifford]], a [[salesman]] for the studio where Marilyn's mother, Glady...
8: ...nia|Hawthorne]], southwest of [[Downtown Los Angeles]], where she lived until she was seven. The Bolen...
12: ...ligent and more unhappy than her screen image suggested.
16: ... mysterious death - she still generates huge interest in her life and brilliant career. - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...dal in the final of the 80 m [[hurdling|hurdles]] event at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]]. Left of ...
3: ...which was unheard of at a time where female athletes were still frowned upon by many. It earned her th...
7: ...[European Championships in Athletics|European titles]], 58 Dutch championships and set or tied 12 [[wo...
23: ... time. However, his attitude towards female athletes changed after he fell in love with Koen, who was ...
25: ...rs-Koen and her husband had other plans, and she resumed training only weeks after her son's birth. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...alcot.grange.750pix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Great Western Railway]] No. 6833 ''Calcot Grange'', a [[4-6...
3: ... train, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space or are rarely det...
5: ...ce is [[push-pull]] operation, where the locomotives push the trains in one direction, and are control...
7: ==Benefits of locomotives==
8: ...motive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include: - Kidney (12846 bytes)
3: ... medical field that studies the kidneys and diseases affecting the kidney is called [[nephrology]].
9: ...l level T12 to L3, and the right kidney usually lies slightly lower than the left in order to accommod...
18: ...y is called the [[renal cortex]], deep to which lies the [[renal medulla]]. The innermost portion is t...
20: ... molecules while secreting other, unneeded molecules. Reabsorption and secretion are accomplished with...
24: ...iltrate, which enter the kidney tubule. Blood leaves the glomerulus through an ''efferent'' (out-going... - Liver (11441 bytes)
1: ...also produces [[bile]], which is important for digestion. Medical terms related to the liver often sta...
5: ... the right side of the upper abdomen. The liver lies [[anterior]] to the [[gallbladder]] and superior ...
7: ...ess the nutrients and toxic byproducts of food digestion. The hepatic [[vein]]s drain directly into th...
9: ...la of Vater]]. The branchings of the bile ducts resemble those of a tree, and indeed the term "biliar...
14: ... the liver into four lobes based on surface features. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...umping the liquid sugar onto a cold surface. The resulting solid is amorphous, not crystaline like the...
3: ...rded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word ''glaer'' for amb...
5: ...fic type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses in common use as a building, container or decorat...
9: ...e and will break into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely, with t...
16: ==Properties and Uses== - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...more information, see [[United Nations member states]].
3: ...l these obligations. The General Assembly determines admission upon recommendation of the Security Cou...
5: ...ions]], which committed the Allies to the principles of the [[Atlantic Charter]] and pledged them not ...
12: *[[UN Trusteeship Council]]
18: ''Main articles: [[League of Nations]] and [[History of the Unite... - Science (19868 bytes)
4: There are different theories of what "science" is.
6: ... and "predictive" — they predict empirical results that can be checked and [[Falsifiability|poss...
8: ...gh which they exercise those powers, and the sources of those powers in terms of the thing's structure...
10: ...ation]] is impossible and that scientific hypotheses can only be falsified ([[falsification]]).
12: [[Positivism]], a form of empiricism, advocates using science, as defined by empiricism, to gover...
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