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- Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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58: [[Image:f_ww2_DeGaulle.jpg|thumb|250px|General de Gaulle reviewing troops.]]
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68: [[Image:DeGaulleRadio.jpg|thumb|250px|General de Gaulle speaking on the BBC during the war.]]
69: ...t was France in June 1940, the news that a French general was in London refusing the tide of events and cal... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...utopia]]", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in ...
7: To his father's great displeasure, More seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career in orde...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive...
17: ...er left-hand corner describing to a listener the island of Utopia, whose layout is schematically shown...
19: ...hy. More and Erasmus collaborated on a Latin translation of the works of [[Lucian]], which was publis... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
8: ...ed and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these i...
15: ...th caused by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation.
21: ...es Alexandre de Calonne]], who became Controller-General of the Finances in [[1783]], pursued a strategy o...
25: ...ts), and promising the convocation of the Estates-General within five years, but also attempted in the mean...
27: ... on [[August 8]], [[1788]] to convene the Estates-General in May [[1789]] — for the first time since ... - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
3: ...ers. Congress is a [[bicameralism|bicameral]] legislature, consisting of the [[United States House of ...
7: ...se with the upper houses of the [[bicameral]] legislatures of most other nations.
15: ...[[Guam]], [[Puerto Rico]], and the [[U.S. Virgin Islands]]. Members are [[direct election|directly el...
17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
26: ...ess can also be found on the internet, on the legislative database [[THOMAS (database)|THOMAS]]. - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
4: ...f both houses is necessary for the passage of legislation. The exclusive powers enumerated to the Sena...
10: ...vention]] in [[1787]]; all states except [[Rhode Island]] agreed to send delegates. Many delegates cal...
12: ...a question by Thomas Jefferson, said "we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it (from ...
14: ...ted in the South's defeat and in the abolition of slavery. The ensuing years of [[Reconstruction]] wit...
16: ... of senators by the people, rather than state legislatures; they achieved their objective in [[1913]] ... - Computer (32773 bytes)
6: ==General principles==
12: In most computers today, the problem is first translated into mathematical terms by rendering all rele...
14: ...f information processing problems that can be translated into mathematical ones). This basic idea, whi...
20: ...ed tables of lines and colors, which are then translated into arbitrary patterns of light by the outpu...
26: ...tionary:computer|computer]]" for definitions, translations and detailed etymology. - Ship (18843 bytes)
12: ...r decks were almost awash, resulting in a dangerously unstable condition. Additionally, anyone who sig...
23: ...his period too, heavy [[fuel oil]] came into more general use and began to replace [[coal]] as the fuel of ...
29: ==General terminology==
52: ...e approximately horizontal surfaces in the ship's general structure. Unlike flats, they are a structural pa...
105: * [[Sloop]] - Forest (3705 bytes)
6: ... in [[lignin]] and other materials that decompose slowly.
9: ...pg|thumb|right|250px|A decidous beech forest in [[Slovenia]].]]
17: ...l forest]]s occupy the [[subarctic]] zone and are generally evergreen and needle-leaved. [[Temperate]] zon...
24: ...an Island.jpg|thumb|300px|A forest on [[San Juan Island]] in [[Washington]]]]
25: {{Commons|Forest}} - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
31: ...es several islands in the bay and the [[Farallon Islands]] 27 miles offshore in the [[Pacific Ocean]]....
46: ...e out and a naval force under Commodore [[John D. Sloat]] took it in [[1846]] in the name of the [[Uni...
53: ...mise of 1850]] was igniting a fierce fight over [[slavery]]. Disgusted by increasing corruption and cr...
58: ...the San Francisco cholera epidemic, the state legislature devolved this responsibility to the counties...
95: ...d in his San Francisco home. The success of Craigslist stands as a testament to the over-production o... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...ian of the 5th century BC. It was built under the general supervision of the sculptor [[Phidias]], who also...
11: ...ly for optical reasons. ''Entasis'' refers to the slight swelling of the columns as they rise, to coun...
13: ... and are 10.4 metres high. The corner columns are slightly larger in diameter. The stylobate has an up...
31: ...ntrary to subsequent mythology, the Ottomans were generally respectful of ancient monuments in their territ...
39: ...orce the Museum to do so (which would require legislation). - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
11: ...ris|Julia]], married [[Gaius Marius]], a talented general and reformer of the Roman army. Marius became one...
21: ...ed a naval force, captured the pirates and their island stronghold and put them to death by [[crucifix...
30: ...y building a relationship with Rome’s great general would play into his hands later.
32: ...nt and high profile position. While it was enormously expensive on a personal basis, it gave a great d...
36: ...ble advantages in dealing with the Senate and legislation. - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
45: ...l as "incompetent to command people" and "dangerously [[psychotic]]." His commander at the time said, ...
47: ...anation for the capitulation was the ''[[Dolchstosslegende]]'' ("dagger-stab legend") which purported ...
60: ...[Sturmabteilung|SA]]. Another admirer was wartime General [[Erich Ludendorff]]. Hitler decided to use Luden...
73: ...ment of the Depression. The urban working classes generally ignored Hitler's appeals and [[Berlin]] and the...
75: ...egarding the circumstances of her death, which is generally viewed as an event of lasting turmoil for Hitle... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ...ed for only a few weeks or months at a time, were generally reluctant to go very far from home, and would o...
23: ...with the British as Loyalists. Thousands of black slaves used the war as a chance to escape to freedom...
31: ...ial government]] of [[Massachusetts]]. Lieutenant General [[Thomas Gage]], already the [[commander-in-chief...
33: On the night of [[18 April]] [[1775]], General Gage sent 900 men to seize munitions stored by th...
35: ...g|thumb|300px|left|''The Death of [[Joseph Warren|General Warren]] at the Battle of Bunker's Hill'' ([[Joh... - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
29: ... the Governor's mansion. It was used as a market commons for over six years. Although an expensive Governo...
37: ... allowed the Klan to seize control of the Indiana General Assembly and place the corrupt Governor Edward Ja...
41: ...sion off the original bill; the final enacted legislation consolidates budgetary functions of the City...
45: ...tal area is 1.81% water. These figures are bit misleading because they do not represent the entire Co...
47: ...rcle is depicted on the city’s flag, and is generally considered the city’s symbol.) Four diag... - Lansing, Michigan (6961 bytes)
37: ..., 0.05% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 4.54% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other rac...
50: ...ould later found [[Oldsmobile]], which became a [[General Motors]] division in [[1908]].
56: * [[General Motors]] has several manufacturing plants in and ...
84: {{commons|Lansing, Michigan}} - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...56;осси́я, transliteration: ''Rossiya'' or ''Rossija''), is a count...
13: ...e population from the [[8th century]] onwards and slowly assimilated both the Scandinavians as well as...
15: ...irst came to be applied to the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|...
17: ..., the [[Golden Horde]] of the pagan Mongols and Muslim Turkic-speaking nomads who pillaged the Russian...
37: ... Some of these groups have become increasingly [[Islamist]] over the course of the struggle. It is est... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
15: ...a'': truth, and ''graha'': grasp/hold), often translated as "way of truth" or "pursuit of truth", has ...
31: ...irculated several petitions to both the Natal Legislature and the British government in opposition to ...
33: ...ul Indian protesters finally forced South African General [[Jan Christian Smuts]] to negotiate a compromise...
35: ...sonal form of [[Christian anarchism]]. Gandhi translated Tolstoy's "[http://wikisource.org/wiki/A_Lett...
44: ...ove. Furthermore, cooperation among Hindus and Muslims, which had been strong at the height of the no... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English language|English...
34: ...g from human passions. The work was closed with a general "Review and Conclusion," in direct response to th...
36: ...d Politick]]''). In [[1651]] he published his translation of the ''[[De Cive]]'' under the title of ''...
62: ...exposed by Wallis, before allowing an English translation of the ''De Corpore'' to appear in 1656. But...
64: ...ized the opportunity given him by the English translation of the ''De Corpore'' to re-confront Hobbes ... - Native American (42651 bytes)
11: ...[[American Samoa]] (USA) and natives of [[Easter Island]] ([[Chile]]).
19: ...l]] and [[genetics|genetic]] evidence, scientists generally agree that most Native Americans descend from p...
25: ...f some sites in South America prior to the previously assumed date of 12–14,000 years ago.
26: ...borigine]]s or the [[Negritos]] of the [[Andaman Islands]]. These hypothetical [[American Aborigine]]s...
30: ...ne]], including [[mammoth]]s, [[horse]]s, [[giant sloth]]s, and [[woolly rhinoceros]]es. The [[Clovis ... - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
3: ...hemistry)|compound]]. [[20-Mule Teams]] were famously used to transport this ore out of the Valley, he...
6: ... points in Death Valley National Park.png|frame|A slice through the highest and lowest points in Death...
9: ...n the central part of Death Valley which causes a slight widening and relatively more subsidence there...
36: ...o the [[stream]] bed. Instead a V-shape ends at a slot canyon half way down with a relatively small an...
45: ...for [[soil]]s to form. [[Mass wasting]], the down slope movement of loose rock, is therefore the domin...
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