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- Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
4: ...inue to defend [[young earth creationism]] (see [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belie...
19: ...h as static, with changes brought about by intermittent [[catastrophe]]s. Many naturalists were influe...
27: ...olutionists had used others; and ultimately the latter two groups were proven more correct.
37: ...confident of himself, and the fact that multiple attempts to determine the age of the Earth seemed to ...
43: ...water, snow, and [[groundwater]]. [[Robert J. Strutt]] of Imperial College, London, found traces of ra... - Australia (39438 bytes)
7: national_motto =None (formerly Advance Australia)|
48: ...Great Britain|British]] in 1770, and officially settled as a British colony on [[January 26]], [[1788]...
56: ...A Voyage to Terra Australia" by the navigator [[Matthew Flinders]]. Despite its title (which reflected...
65: ... called [[New Holland]], but made no attempt at settlement. In 1770 [[James Cook]] was the first Europ...
67: ...men's Land]] (the present day [[Tasmania]]) was settled in 1803, becoming a separate colony in 1825. B... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
12: national_motto = none |
67: ...e United Kingdom. It finally seemed possible in [[1911]] when the [[House of Lords]] lost their veto, an...
69: ... 1919]]. However it was not admitted. After the bitterly fought [[Anglo-Irish War|War of Independence]...
73: ..., arguing in the face of public support for the settlement that the "people have no right to do wrong"...
75: ...an army which was able to overwhelm them on the battlefield. British supplies of artillery, aircraft, ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ... The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
21: ...mbol, is known as the "Cradle of Portugal." The Battle of S㯠Mamede took place nearby in 1128. (court...
29: ...s a nation to [[June 24]], [[1128]], with the [[Battle of S㯠Mamede]] by [[Afonso I of Portugal|Afons...
31: ...tugal's most historic battle of Portugal, the [[Battle of Aljubarrota]]. The victorious John was then ...
42: ... exploration of Africa. Before this voyage very little information was known in Europe about what lay ... - Flag of Arkansas (1800 bytes)
1: ...|thumb|right|Flag of Arkansas.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
5: ...rizontal line across the center. The judging committee of the DAR added the state name and placed one ...
8: [http://www.fotw.net/flags/us-ar.html#story History an... - Flag of California (3028 bytes)
1: ...dern Bear Flag of California. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...pted by the [[California state legislature]] in [[1911]]. The [[flag]] of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Califo...
7: ...ag is white with a wide [[red]] strip along the bottom. There is a red star in the upper left corner a...
15: ...times as it was lowered, would later write in a letter to his mother "Cuffy came down growling"--"Cuff...
22: * [http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/toddflag.html An 1890 p... - Flag of Colorado (1126 bytes)
1: ...thumb|right|Flag of Colorado. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ... horizontal stripes of equal width; the top and bottom stripes are blue, and the middle stripe white. ...
4: ... was designed by [[Andrew Carlisle Johnson]] in [[1911]] and adopted by the state's General Assembly on ... - Flag of Michigan (1261 bytes)
1: ...ag.jpg|right|Flag of Michigan.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
5: ...gn features three [[Latin]] mottos. From top-to-bottom they are:
6: ... ''[[E Pluribus Unum]]'', "Out of many, one", a motto of the United States
8: ... peninsula, look about you" (the official state motto)
10: The present flag, adopted in 1911, was the third state flag. The first flag feature... - Flag of North Dakota (1521 bytes)
1: ...mb|right|Flag of North Dakota.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...he [[North Dakota]] legislature on [[March 3]], [[1911]], although the color was not precisely specified...
6: ...n, its primary digital source file for the flag [http://discovernd.com/images/flag.jpg] is actually in...
8: This inattention to detail extends to all state symbols; the... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 29<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 28|Dec 28]], [[1846]] |
45: ...ch explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marquette]] are believed to be the first Europeans to visi...
47: *The first white settlers officially moved to Iowa in June [[1833]]. P...
50: ...pated in the war, 13,001 of whom died. A small battle fought at Athens, MO in 1861 resulted in a few ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 14<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 4]], [[1791]] |
36: ...mplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, [...
38: ...ed by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provinc...
46: ...ecause their relatively low altitude allows for little [[tree-line|timberline]], form a north-south sp... - Utah (29154 bytes)
25: AdmittanceOrder = 45<sup>th</sup> |
26: AdmittanceDate = [[January 4]], [[1896]] |
47: Butterfly = N/A |
48: Fish = [[Trout|Bonneville Cutthroat Trout]] |
63: Motto = ''Industry'' | - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 9<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 21]], [[1788]] |
36: ...and has probably the most famous of all [[state motto]]s: "[[Live free or die]]".
38: ...as also been embraced for reflecting the state's attachment to tradition and limited government. Its s...
42: In 2003 it gained international attention for having the first openly [[gay]] bishop,... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ...60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
15: * 12 KYA: [[Pottery]] by [[Jomon]] in [[Japan]]
123: * [[1645]]: [[Vacuum pump]]: [[Otto von Guericke]]
136: ...1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle)]]
143: * [[1769]]: [[Steam engine]]: [[James Watt]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
25: *[[Fritz von Uhde|Uhde, Fritz von]], (1848-1911), German painter
26: *[[Charlotte Uhlenbroek|Uhlenbroek, Charlotte]], (born 1968), British zoolologist and televisi...
53: ...Undset, Sigrid]], (1882-1949), ''Kristin Lavransdatter''
54: *[[Giuseppe Ungaretti|Ungaretti, Giuseppe]], Italian poet
56: ...lexander von Ungern-Sternberg|Ungern-Sternberg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field ma... - Agathias (4785 bytes)
9: ... authority for the period he describes." —[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01204b.htm''Catholic ...
11: ...of the events of which it treats" (''Enc. Brit.'' 1911). [[Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]] contrasts Agathias as ...
16: ...org/A/AG/AGATHIAS.htm ''Encyclop椩a Britannica'' 1911:Agathias]
17: *[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01204b.htm ''Catholic...
18: *[http://www.sasanika.com/pdf/Agathias%20Final.pdf Agat... - Ptolemy II of Egypt (4048 bytes)
8: ...us]], desiring [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], attacked soon after. Two or three years of war left E...
16: ...or Hellenic culture, he seems to have shown but little interest in the native religion.
18: ...d in the [[pseudepigraphy|pseudepigraphical]] [[Letter of Aristeas]] which connects the [[Septuagint]]...
22: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/3*.html Ptol...
24: {{1911}} - Ptolemy IV of Egypt (2166 bytes)
3: ...alestine]], and the great Egyptian victory of [[Battle of Raphia|Raphia]] ([[217 BC|217]]), at which P...
5: ...to orgiastic forms of religion and literary [[dilettantism]]. He built a temple to [[Homer]] and compo...
7: ... which describes purported events following the Battle of Raphia, in both [[Jerusalem]] and [[Alexandr...
10: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/7*.html Ptol...
11: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey]] ([[1852]]-[[1911]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]]) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
15: ...1874]] and is now displayed in the [[Mus�e Marmottan]], Paris. From the painting's title, art critic...
28: His wife Alice died in [[1911]] and his son Jean died in [[1914]].
37: * [http://www.accents-n-art.com/artists/claude-monet-bio...
38: * [http://www.triada.bg/Gallery/Monet/Monetbio.htm A Mon...
39: * [http://www.fondation-monet.com/uk/biographie/index.ht...
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