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- Human (48024 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_superfamilia_entry | taxon = [[Hominoidea]]}}
21: ...rimate]] belonging to the superfamily of [[Hominoidea]], with all of the [[apes]]: [[chimpanzee]]s, [[...
24: ...he upper limbs for manipulating objects, a highly developed [[brain]] and consequent capacity for abst...
27: ...ly [[philosophy of mind]], attempts to fathom the depths of each of these perspectives. [[Art]], [[mus...
30: ...and [[manipulate]] the world around us led to the development of [[technology]] and [[science]] as a s... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: ...osopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philosop...
8: ...dialogue ''[[Phaedrus (Plato)|Phaedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, thro...
10: ...can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[rationalism|rationalist]].
12: ...cs'', ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'', ''Politics'', ''De Anima (On the Soul)'' and ''[[Poetics]]''.
14: ...hology]], [[rhetoric]] and [[theology]]. He also dealt with [[education]], foreign customs, [[literat... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|right|200px|Artemis sculpture.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom ClipAr...
3: ...[[Roman mythology]], she was known as [[Diana (goddess)|Diana]]. In [[Etruscan mythology]], she took ...
7: ...as the [[moon goddess]] to complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of [[Helios]] a...
11: ...preaching of the new faith, zealously riot in her defense, shouting "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!"...
13: Festivals in honor of Artemis include [[Brauronia]], held in [[Brauron]] and the festiv... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
2: ...ning strokes are observed during a night-time thunderstorm.]]
6: ...e air, producing lightning's characteristic [[thunder]] sound.
10: ...but while waiting for its completion, he got the idea of using a flying object, such as a [[kite]] ins...
12: ...fallen during the storm had soaked the line and made it conductive.
14: ...ted the original high-object-with-some-spark-gap idea that they used, so he usually gets the credit. - Archery (18991 bytes)
5: ==Modern competitive archery==
9: ...competing with bows for millennia, the first recorded archery competitions began around [[1583]] in [[...
11: ...Internationale de Tir рам'Arc). Olympic rules are derived from FITA rules.
17: ... An archer shoots between 3 and 6 arrows per end, depending on the type of round. After each end, the ...
19: ...ially lethal weapons, much attention is paid to order and safety. - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ...repertoire that included systematic burial of the dead and adornment of the living. During this perio...
7: Modern humans spread rapidly over the globe from [[Afr...
12: ...s of grains in the Ohalo II paleolithic site in modern Israel seem to suggest that cereals had been in...
14: ...velopments such as [[writing]] and extensive [[trade]] were introduced.
16: ...nnium BC|2500 BCE]], but the first dynasty to be identified by archaeology is that of the [[Shang Dyna... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4: | order=35th President
7: | preceded=[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
8: | succeeded=[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
11: | dead=dead - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Lyndon B. Johnson
4: | order=36th President
7: | preceded=[[John F. Kennedy]]
8: | succeeded=[[Richard Nixon|Richard M. Nixon]]
11: | dead=dead - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Richard M. Nixon
4: | order=37th President
7: | preceded=[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
8: | succeeded=[[Gerald R. Ford]]
11: | dead=dead - Zeus (17267 bytes)
1: [[Image:Zeus_god.jpg|thumb|250px|Zeus, Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
2: ...leader of the gods and [[god]] of the sky and thunder in [[Greek mythology]].
6: ...d among the [[Germanic tribes]] and they did not identify Zeus/Jupiter with either Tyr or Odin, but wi...
8: ...ndo-European inheritance, the classical Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the culture...
13: ...]] beliefs and the [[archetype|archetypal]] Greek deity. - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ... years of civil war that followed, Octavian would defeat such enemies as [[Marcus Brutus]], [[Gaius Ca...
5: ...[police force]] and the world's first [[fire brigade]]. He finished, repaired or rebuilt almost every ...
7: ...borders he established to become the [[natural borders]] for the Empire for over 400 years. His surnam...
10: ...ble but undistinguished family of the equestian order on [[September 23]], [[63 BC]]. His father was t...
12: ...y against Caesar’s orders that turned the tide of the battle and granted Caesar his last victory... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
5: ... is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] with 1.5 million people
24: founded = [[May 4]], [[1868]] |
33: density = 1,074|
46: ...aced them; or, they may be the ancestors of the modern Pima Indians who now live on the [[Salt River]]...
49: ...es northwest of a similar farming community at Hayden's Ferry, which would become [[Tempe, Arizona|Tem... - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
10: founded = |
19: density = 843.6|
30: ...Image:Kansas_state_map.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
33: ... [[wagon train]]s made their way west from Independence, Missouri, on a 2,000-mile journey following w...
35: ...ats were regularly docking at the Topeka landing, depositing meat, lumber, and flour and returning eas... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...y studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes was one of the key thinkers of the Scienti...
2: ...ge-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descartes Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
4: ...heless, many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late [[Aristotelianism]], the revived [[Sto...
6: ...e invention of the [[calculus]] and [[analysis]]. Descartes's reflections on mind and mechanism began ...
11: On March 31, 1596, Descartes was born in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Ind... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
2: ...es the history of '''[[Christianity]]''' and provides links to relevant topics.
8: ...e Christian claim of exclusivity, that only its understanding of "Jewish" teaching is valid, led to an...
10: ...s [[Jesus]] (the [[Incarnation]]), and became the deliverer of both Israel and of all mankind. Christi...
29: ...t to follow what would later be called the [[Noahide Laws]] subset of the [[Law of Moses]]. The [[Dida...
32: ...[[Syria]] is the site of the earliest discovered identifiable Christian house church. - July 24 (8660 bytes)
5: ...] - [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]] is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son [[King Ja...
6: *[[1701]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] founded.
7: ... [[Jacob Brown]]'s [[United States|American]] invaders.
10: ...te]] General [[Jubal Anderson Early|Jubal Early]] defeats [[United States|Union]] troops led by Genera...
13: ...blishes first account of [[Paul Bunyan]] in the [[Detroit News]]. - Shinto (25829 bytes)
2: ...ocesses, for example, [[Amaterasu]], the [[Sun goddess]]. The word Shinto was created by combining two...
4: ...hinto practices and teachings, once given a great deal of prominence during the war, are no longer tau...
9: ... ancestral deities were given prominence over the deities of other groups, though different systems co...
11: ...aterasu]]. Much of the area of modern Japan was under only fragmentary control by the Imperial family,...
13: ...For example, he famously linked Amaterasu, Sun Goddess and ancestor of the Imperial family, with [[Dai... - History of dance (9081 bytes)
3: ...g dance is the [[Natya Shastra]] on which the ''modern'' interpritation classical Indian dance (e.g. ...
5: ...ds of dancing is by [[Homer]], whose "[[Iliad]]"; describes [[chorea (dance)|chorea]] (''khoreia'').
7: ...he most eminent Greek sculptors studied the attitude of the dancers for their art of imitating the pas...
10: ...been kings and queens. A brief outline might include folk, social, ballroom, religious, and experiment...
13: ...imitation of the movement of the heavens.’ (Designing for the Dancer, Elron Press, London, 1981) - Corinthian order (9508 bytes)
1: ... of the [[Pantheon, Rome]] provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through th...
2: ...non]], the [[Tuscan order]] and the [[Composite order]].)
4: ...gin of the Corinthian Order, illustrated in [[Claude Perrault]]'s ''[[Vitruvius]]'', 1684]]
6: ...tal could be adjusted according to demands of the design, without offending. The texture and outline o...
9: ...and Byzantine practice, the leaves may be blown sideways, as if by the wind of Faith. Unlike the Doric... - Doric order (6699 bytes)
3: ...[Corinthian order|Corinthian]]. The Greek Doric order was the earliest of these, known from the [[7th ...
7: ...pg|thumb|right|250px|[[Temple of the Delians]], [[Delos]]; [[19th century]] pen-and-wash restoration]]
9: ...hat occupies the lower half of the entablature. Under each triglyph are peglike ''guttae'' that appear...
11: ...e:DoricParthenon.jpg|thumb|left|100px|The Doric order of the [[Parthenon]]]]
13: Early examples of the Doric order include the temples at [[Paestum]], in southern [[Italy]]...
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