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- Human (48024 bytes)
24: Humans have an erect body carriage that frees the upper limbs for manipulating objects, a hi...
30: ... [[state]]s down to [[Family|families]], and also from the [[community]] to the [[self]]. Seeking to [...
54: ...species of [[chimpanzee]]s should be reclassified from ''[[Pan troglodytes]]'' and ''[[Pan paniscus]]'...
56: ...had]] and seems to indicate an earlier divergence from the ape lineage.
58: ... genome is significantly affected by assimilation from archaic humans (i.e., 80% of loci may have some... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
1: [[Image:aristotle.jpg|right|framed|Aristotle (sculpture)]]
10: ...alogue itself which guides the interlocutors away from the paths to truth. The soul alone can have kno...
12: ...wrote dialogues early in his career, no more than fragments of these have survived. The works of Arist...
17: ...ing his ''Ethics'': detail from the [[Vatican]] [[fresco]] ''[[Raphael Rooms|The School of Athens]]'',...
19: The history of Aristotle's works from the time of his death until the [[1st century B... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
11: ...son who was able to kill him with a bough, picked from a tree in the forest.
23: Her name may come from ''diviana'' ("the shining one").
29: ...pg|right|thumb|250px|Closeup of statue of Artemis from Asia Minor. Image provided by [http://classroom...
37: ...idwives. She was sometimes known as [[Cynthia]], from her birthplace on [[Mount Cynthus]] on [[Delos]...
41: ...yia]], the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor. The other gods forced Hera t... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
10: ...shared some similarity with lightning. [[Benjamin Franklin]] endeavored to test this theory by using a...
12: ... to a post with a [[silk]] thread. As time passed Franklin noticed the loose fibers on the string stre...
14: ... had conducted similar experiments in [[France]], Franklin had suggested the original high-object-with...
16: ...clothes singed, the engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the door itself torn of...
18: Franklin also invented the [[lightning rod]], likely... - Archery (18991 bytes)
7: ...involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy from a set distance or distances. This is the most p...
11: ...ionale de Tir ࠬ'Arc). Olympic rules are derived from FITA rules.
15: ... 18 m and 25 m. Outdoor distances range from 30 m to 90 m (for senior archers, jun...
25: ... spaced concentric rings, which have score values from 1 through 10 assigned to them. In addition, the...
60: ...rks or flags are set out in an area archers shoot from a start point at an elected mark attempting to ... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...ble. Yet, humans had colonized nearly all the ice-free parts of the globe by the end of the Ice Age, s...
12: ...of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did not use agriculture until relatively mode...
14: ...y. However, these civilisations were so different from one another that they almost certainly must hav...
29: ...their territory through conquest and colonisation from the beginning of the [[5th century BCE]]. By th...
31: ...ed control. The pressure of [[barbarians]] on the frontiers hastened the process of internal dissoluti... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
22: ...arty (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate from the North to be elected president, and the last...
24: ...h most of his [[civil rights]] policies coming to fruition through his successor, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]...
30: ...e history course. He graduated ''[[cum laude]]'' from Harvard with a degree in international affairs ...
45: ...s, but had a mixed voting record, often diverging from President [[Harry S. Truman]] and the rest of t...
47: ...ged marriage; he interviewed several of Kennedy's friends who reported the marriage as fact, and addit... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
22: ...ed [[Public school|public schools]] and graduated from Johnson City High School in [[1924]].
24: ...d the school [[newspaper]], and spent a year away from his studies teaching school, Johnson somehow ma...
27: ...erms in the [[Texas legislature]] and was a close friend to one of Texas's rising political figures, C...
29: ...ded some of the men who worked around President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], as well as fellow Texans su...
31: ...y known as Lady Bird), a young woman who was also from Texas. After only a short period of dating, the... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
19: .... President to have ever [[resignation|resigned]] from office. His resignation came after a loss of p...
22: ...tive evangelical Quaker observances as refraining from drinking, dancing and swearing.
24: ...s of two of his brothers, one from cancer and one from a childhood accident.
28: ...nity]] that competed with the already established Franklin Society. Nixon then went on to become the ...
30: ...[[United States Navy]]. He could have been exempt from military service because of his Quaker religion... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
8: ...cal Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the [[ancient Near East]], such...
23: ... an altar to Zeus made not of stone, but of ash - from the accumulated remains of many centuries' wort...
25: ...could be found at any number of [[Greek temple]]s from [[Asia Minor]] to [[Sicily]]. Certain modes of ...
48: ...]], where there is evidence of religious activity from the [[2nd millennium BC]] onward, centered arou...
59: ... mythology|Roman]] god [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]] (from '''Jovis Pater''' or "Father '''Jove'''") and a... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
16: ...he was to continue his education and gain loyalty from the Macedonian legions, while waiting to accomp...
23: ...ly. Octavian immediately dropped the "Octavianus" from his name, and referred to himself simply as Gai...
25: ...r’s will. Octavian, however, gained support from the masses and conflict between the two seemed ...
34: ...us. Antony had reached Gaul and gathered strength from the legions stationed there. Together with [[Ma...
38: ...spania and [[Narbonensis]] and Octavian received Africa, Sardinia and Sicily. This Second Triumvirate... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
46: ...water from the Salt River. Their name is derived from the [[Pima]] (Akimel O'otham) phrase, ''Ho Ho K...
49: ... and others from Wickenburg had dug a short canal from the Salt River and founded a small farming colo...
53: ...'', memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins left by the Hohokam.
61: ...Hotel now stands. Miss Nellie Shaver, a newcomer from Wisconsin, was appointed as the first female sc...
65: ...nment. The bill was signed by Governor [[John C. Fremont]] on [[February 25]], [[1881]]. Phoenix wa... - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
33: ...e [[1840s]], [[wagon train]]s made their way west from Independence, Missouri, on a 2,000-mile journey...
35: ...mented by trade on a new military road stretching from Fort Leavenworth through "Topeka" to the newly-...
39: ... In [[1869]], the railway started moving westward from Topeka. General offices and machine shops of th...
52: ...egend, this mound was thought to protect the city from tornadoes. It went on to rip through the city, ...
58: ...k12.ks.us/meadows/KAY.HTM Kay E. Meadows], first African American member and president of the Topeka S... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes wa...
4: ...mena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ..., later advocated by [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], and opposed by the [[empiricist]] s...
11: ...in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Indre-et-Loire]], [[France]]. When he was 1 year old, his mother died of...
14: ... whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Ri... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ...in the [[first century]] AD. Christianity brought from Judaism its [[scriptures]] (the [[Old Testament...
10: ... on different interpretations of various passages from the Old Testament (or [[Tanakh]]).
26: ...hurch]] is said to extend in an unbroken timeline from this period. This section will examine those f...
45: *[[Justin Martyr]], convert from Greek philosophy
67: ...hurch and Roman Emperor Constantine, we can infer from [[Athanasius]]' arguments against Arius some id... - July 24 (8660 bytes)
12: ...]] after serving three years for [[embezzlement]] from a bank.
26:
33: ...] - [[Jim Traficant|James Traficant]] is expelled from the [[United States House of Representatives]] ...
34: *[[2002]] - [[Alfred Moisiu]] becomes President of [[Albania]].
40: - Shinto (25829 bytes)
7: ...ese theories range from hypothesizes of migration from [[central Asia]] or [[Indonesia]] that are acce...
11: .... Much of the area of modern Japan was under only fragmentary control by the Imperial family, and riva...
15: ..., parts of the mythology were explicitly borrowed from Chinese doctrines. (For example, the co-creator...
35: ... Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism, but some come from ancient local traditions.
50: ...terlife are seen as complementing each other, and frequently the ritual practice of one will have an o... - History of dance (9081 bytes)
10: ... first evolved in the renaissance of the 1500s in France.
15: ...ere basically exercises in self-exaltation by the French Court.
17: ...ost of its terminology being in [[French language|French]]), but was based heavily upon the [[Italy|It...
19: == 18th and 19th centuries: from court dancing to Romanticism ==
21: ...tury the ballet was to develop throughout Europe, from a courtly arrangement of moving images used as ... - Corinthian order (9508 bytes)
6: ... had been placed over the basket, to protect them from the weather. An [[Acanthus (genus)|acanthus]] p...
11: ... of the way, to where the [[entasis]] begins. The French like to call these ''chandelles'' and sometim...
18: ... At the Capitol the proportions of architrave to frieze are exactly 1:1. Above that, the profiles of ...
20: ...la]] enclosure. A single Corinthian column stands free, centered within the cella. Quite mysterious, a...
21: ...|right|thumb|300px|''[[Maison Carrée]],'' Nimes, France, [[14 BCE]] ]] - Doric order (6699 bytes)
3: ...reek Doric order was the earliest of these, known from the [[7th century BC]] and reaching its mature ...
5: ...th [[capital (architecture)|capital]] that flared from the column to meet a square [[abacus (architect...
9: ...'guttae'' that appear as if they were hammered in from below to stabilize the post-and-beam ("[[trabea...
15: ... the columns are centered under a triglyph in the frieze, except for the corner columns. The plain, un...
19: ...art of the basic vocabulary of trained architects from the later [[18th century]] onwards, shows how t...
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