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- Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
3: ...963]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]]. She was born in [[Los Angeles, California]...
7: ..., for which she won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1998]].
9: In 1998, Hunt became the first actress to win both an [[Emmy]] and an [[Academy Award...
11: ...1999]]. The couple divorced on [[December 18]], [[2000]].
20: *''[[Cast Away]]'' (2000) - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
1: [[image:Streep_Silkwood.jpg|thumb|right|Streep in ''Silkwood'' (1983)]]
2: ...n [[June 22]], [[1949]]) is an American [[actor|actress]] who has received numerous accolades for her ...
5: ...oice]]'' ([[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], [[1982]]).
7: ...n—and her truthful approach toward the industry and her own presence within it. As she would say...
9: ...immediate audience. In the [[1990s]], therefore, Streep took to playing roles with greater variety, in... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
1: ...|thumb|250px|Julie Andrews as Maria, with the Von Trapp children in ''The Sound of Music''.]]
3: ...]], [[1935]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[actress]], [[singer]], and [[author]], best known for ...
5: ...tion of ''[[The Boy Friend]]'' in [[1953]] (which transferred to [[Broadway]] the same year, giving An...
9: ..., the following year, for her role as [[Maria von Trapp]] in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' ([[1965]]), an...
11: ...n of the Year]] by the [[Harvard University]] theatrical society. - Reese Witherspoon (2585 bytes)
2: ...976]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] perhaps most familiar as Elle Woods in the [...
9: ...oth comedic and dramatic roles and has won Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Criti...
25: *''[[American Psycho]]'' (2000)
26: *''[[Little Nicky]]'' (2000)
27: *''[[The Trumpet of the Swan]]'' (2001) (voice) - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
1: ...Nadia Comaneci.jpg|framed|Comaneci at the 1976 Montreal Olympics]]
7: ...ne silver. At the Pre-Olympics competition in Montr顬 in 1975 Nadia won the All-Around title. That ...
9: ...on. Nadia had scored 19 perfect scores before Montreal.
11: ...ll-around title in 1977, but the Romanian team controversially walked out of the competition during ev...
19: ...peak at the [[United Nations]] to launch the Year 2000 International Year of Volunteers. She is currentl... - Delia Gonzalez (2350 bytes)
1: ...wins, although several of her losses have been controversial.
5: ... then met [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]'s [[Ivonne Trevino]]. Many fans believed Gonzalez actually won ...
7: ...ons, the talented [[Regina Halmich]], in May of [[2000]]. Again, the hard-luck Gonzalez came out on the ...
9: ...ew chance to become a world champion again, while training very hard in anticipation of that chance. - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
1: ...na Navratilova.jpg|thumb|right|Navratilova at the 2000 US Open]]
11: ... to get herself into shape that eventually made extreme levels of fitness and conditioning a hallmark ...
13: ...d Slams in 1975 - losing in the final of the [[Australian Open]] to [[Evonne Goolagong]] and the [[Fre...
17: ... Open where she lost a third-set tie-breaker to [[Tracy Austin]]. She won both Wimbledon and the Frenc...
19: ...74-match winning streak in 1984|74-match winning streak]] (a record for a professional) by beating Nav... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
12: ...nd Vince Foster, who worked in the Clinton Administration as a deputy counsel for a brief time before ...
18: ...hingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces2000/stories/hillary032199.htm]
23: ...ated that $40,000 of her profits came from larger trades ordered by someone else and shifted to her ac...
25: ...go Mercantile Exchange rules governing [[margin]] trading. However, Melamed concluded that Clinton had...
27: ...id she made the decisions, Blair made most of the trades. Her situation was not unique for 1979, when... - Brain (22060 bytes)
1: ...rm can also be used for the [[invertebrate]] [[central nervous system]]. In most animals, the brain is...
3: The brain controls and coordinates most [[movement]], [[behavior]...
5: ...e body by sending various chemicals called [[neurotransmitter]]s across gaps known as [[synapse]]s. Sm...
9: ...arge optical lobes on the left and right (Butler, 2000).
11: ...cortices with less than six layers of neurons, a structure known as [[allocortex]] (Martin, 1996). Mo... - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
3: ... in his pottery studio.png|thumb|right|350px|Illustration of a man working in his pottery studio]]
5: ==Introduction==
10: The history of ceramics can be traced back to the Paleolithic era. Early pottery wa...
17: ... coiling, and slab building. It's one of the most traditional methods where the artist shapes the clay...
19: - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
1: ... '''history of sculpture''' is varied and is illustrative of how sculpture has changed extensively ove...
4: ...25,000 BC), from the area of [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a well-known example.
13: ...sopotamia]]), and was donated to the [[New York Metropolitan Museum of Art]] by [[John D. Rockefeller,...
16: ... mixing eye make-up, was carved in relief, and portrayed the victory of [[Upper Egypt]] over [[Lower E...
27: ...es of musicians include a seated lyre player from 2000 BC. Statues of a lute player and a harpist were ... - Glass (26176 bytes)
3: ...[[Old English language|A.S.]] ''glaes''. Germanic tribes used the word ''glaes'' to describe [[amber]]...
9: ...y, with the addition of other compounds or [[heat treatment]].
18: ...-Ball.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and color...
20: ...ower than 400 [[nanometre|nm]], also known as [[ultraviolet]] light or UV, to pass. This is due to the...
22: ...ith [[Erbium]], which [[Fiber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from withi... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
5: ... "jouel" in around the [[13th century]]. Further tracing leads back to the Latin word "jocale", meani...
23: * [[2000 BC]] - First signs of the ''swagging'' technique
26: * 2500 BC - True iron production technology in [[Near East]].
29: * [[2000 BC]] - Use of patterned [[punch]]es
36: * 1000 BC - The start of true [[engraving]]. - List of dinosaur classifications (7586 bytes)
5: ...ation has been updated from the second edition in 2000 to reflect new research, but remains fundamentall...
7: ...sauria]]. Dinosauria is then divided into the two traditional orders, [[Saurischia]] and [[Ornithischi...
34: ******* †Family [[Troodontidae]]
78: ...nd the ''[[Ornithischia]]'', on the basis of hip structure.
91: ***** [[Sinraptoridae]] (e.g. ''[[Metricanthosaurus]], [[Sinraptor]]'') - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
3: ...n|Greek]] [[geographer]], [[astronomer]], and [[astrologer]] who probably lived and worked in [[Alexan...
5: ...s familiar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard of Cremona]]) in the 12th c...
7: ...st of 48 [[constellation|constellations]] is ancestral to the modern system of constellations, but unl...
14: Ptolemy also devised and provided instructions on how to create maps both of the whole in...
18: ... reconstructed: the long tables with numbers were transmitted to posterity through copies containing m... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...ly revived and developed by [[Copernicus]] nearly 2000 years later.
3: ...id]] [[3999 Aristarchus]], both named after the astronomer.''
5: == Heliocentrism ==
7: ...nced an alternative [[hypothesis]] of the heliocentric model. [[Archimedes]] wrote:
9: ...is is the common account as you have heard from astronomers. But Aristarchus has brought out a book co... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...ly recognized independent [[List of countries|countries]] are members. Other political entities, notab...
5: ...rate peace with the [[Axis powers]]. The name was transferred to the UN as it was founded by the victo...
12: *[[UN Trusteeship Council]]
26: ... [[United Nations headquarters]] building was constructed in [[New York City]] in [[1949]] and [[1950]...
30: ...ld War]] made agreement on peacekeeping matters extremely difficult. Following the end of the Cold War... - Ocarina (3914 bytes)
2: ...ole exists, most often on the underside of the instrument's body. They are made of [[earthenware]], al...
5: ...ian]] (''ocarina'' 'little [[goose]]', for the instrument's resemblance to the head of a bird). The o...
8: ...sel flute''', not a [[closed-pipe instrument]] contrary to common belief, since the sound is created b...
11: ...ened holes to the total volume enclosed by the instrument. This means that, unlike a [[flute]] or [[re...
15: ... the strength with which one blows through the instrument. - Concertina (3686 bytes)
2: ...ection as the bellows'' whereas accordion buttons travel ''perpendicular to the direction of the bello...
6: ...different system may feel like an entirely new instrument.
10: ...free to operate an air valve (for expanding or contracting the bellows without sounding a note) or a d...
13: ...pically held by placing the thumbs through thumb straps and the little fingers on metal finger rests, ...
16: ... and the same notes pushing and pulling. The instrument is held in the same manner as an Anglo conce... - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
5: ...uch a vast territory under his empire, which in retrospect exceeds the boundaries of the present-day r...
14: ...led area. As news of Ashoka's visit with his army trickled in, he was welcomed by the revolting militi...
18: ..., so he did not allow Ashoka to stay in [[Pataliputra]], but instead sent him back to Ujjain and made ...
20: ...sima, and threw their bodies in a well in Pataliputra. At that stage of his life, many called him Chan...
26: ...ly entwined with the concept of bravery and [[Kshatriya dharma]].
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