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61. Culture of China (15738 bytes)
    1: ...a.jpg|thumb|250px|Chinese Tea Ceremony Image provided [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]...
    3: ...na's history, and mastery of Confucian texts provided the primary criterion for [[Imperial examination...
    10: ...bronze casting art work, noted for its clarify of detail. Early Chinese music and poetry was influenc...
    12: ...y appreciated arts in court circles, with a great deal of work done on silk until after the invention ...
    14: ... Chinese poetry. In this period, the highly regarded greatest Chinese poets, [[Li Po]] and [[Du Fu]] ...
62. Egyptian hieroglyph (6639 bytes)
    1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg||thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
    3: <!-- table moved to top to avoid dead space -->
    8: ...al team excavating at [[Abydos, Egypt|Abydos]] (modern [[Umm el-Qa'ab]]) uncovered tomb U-j which belo...
    10: ...sonants, [[logograph]]s, representing a word, and determinatives, which indicate the semantic category...
    12: ... [[Rosetta Stone]] contains both hieroglyphic and demotic writing.
63. Arkansas (11679 bytes)
    21: DensityRank = 34^th |
    22: 2000Density = 19.82 |
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 25^th |
    26: Latitude = 33?N to 36?30'N |
    27: Longitude = 89?41'W to 94?42'W |
64. Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
    23: DensityRank = 24^th |
    24: 2000Density = 38.13 |
    25: AdmittanceOrder = 30^th |
    28: Latitude = 42&deg;30'N to 47&deg;3'N |
    29: Longitude = 86&deg;49'W to 92&deg;54'W |
65. Vermont (39851 bytes)
    21: DensityRank = 30^th |
    22: 2000Density = 25.41 |
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 14^th |
    26: Longitude = 71?28'W to 73?26'W |
    27: Latitude = 42?44'N to 45?0'43"N |
66. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    3: ...s ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
    60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]?
    66: ...ntury BC|200s BC]]: Compound [[pulley]]: [[Archimedes]]
    74: * [[1st century]]: [[Rudder|Stern mounted rudder]] in [[History of China|China]]
    83: * [[9th century|800s]]: [[Black powder|Gunpowder]] in [[History of China|China]]
67. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    7: *[[Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich]] (born 1923)
    8: *[[Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Sergeyevich]] (1906-1989)
    11: *[[Yakubu Gowon]] (born 1934), military leader of [[Nigeria]]
    12: *[[Alexander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
    37: ..., Yury]], (born 1942), Russian politician, former deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
68. Anacharsis (4399 bytes)
    4: ... to Athens in the early [[6th century BCE]] and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken "[[...
    6: ...he [[Cimmerian Bosporus]]. He cultivated the outsider's knack of seeing the illogic in familiar things...
    8: ... Solon's slave that Anacharsis was come to visit, desired to see Solon, and wanted to enter into hospi...
    10: ...ian Mysteries]] of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.
    12: ... has been lost. It was he who compared laws to spiders' webs, which catch small flies and allow wasps ...
69. Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
    1: ...|Illustration of Pilgrims in Church. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
    4: ...Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] in [[1776]] and formally broke with the [[Ki...
    10: ...most always listed the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the di...
    15: ...ons]], later [[Rhode Island|Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]]
    21: ...776]], the "Lower Counties on Delaware"), later [[Delaware]]
70. Asteroid (24334 bytes)
    1: ...nd of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as...
    3: == Definition ==
    4: ...p://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1840AN.....17...81E&amp;db_key=AST&amp;high=41e14...
    6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "mi...
    8: ...[boulder]]-sized or smaller. The distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive pas...
71. Comet (30542 bytes)
    3: ...mets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and va...
    5: ... sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; the outer edges...
    11: ... sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes...
    15: ...ics that tend to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary ...
    17: ...and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits].
72. History of science (41710 bytes)
    2: Modern [[science]] is a body of verifiable [[empirical...
    4: ... change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still...
    6: ...] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects and systems, which differs ...
    11: ...mphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
    13: ...e, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of ...
73. History of biology (3053 bytes)
    1: ...rs did their own ways of biology as a system of understanding life.
    3: ...icae: Geologia, biologia, phytologia generalis et dendrologia'', published in [[1766]].
    5: ...]]s in the world around him, which he devote considerable attention to [[categorization|categorizing]]...
    7: ...to publish his thought in the field by the independent work of [[Alfred Russel Wallace]].
    9: ...ution]]. Implications of evolution on fields outside of pure science have led to both [[Social effect ...
74. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
    36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
    49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
    117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]])
    137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]])
75. Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
    3: ...ts are sometimes called [[sound effect]]s; the border between sound effects and actual musical instrum...
    7: Electronic musical instruments are now widely used in most styles of music.
    10:
    12: ...strument was the [[Telharmonium]], built by [[Thaddeus Cahill]] in [[1906]]. Employing electric genera...
    14: ...n RF field. This was followed in 1928 by the [[Ondes Martenot]] which had a keyboard as well as sever...
76. Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
    1: [[Image:ClaudeMonet.jpg|right|frame|Claude Monet]]
    2: ...ude Monet''' ([[November 14]], [[1840]] &ndash; [[December 5]], [[1926]]) was a French [[impressionism...
    4: ...o into the family grocery store business, but Claude Monet wanted to paint. On the beaches of Normandy...
    8: ...ris, where he met [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Frederic Bazille]], and [[Alfred Sisley]]. Together the...
    10: ... la robe verte)'', which brought him recognition, depicted [[Camille Doncieux]]. Shortly thereafter Do...
77. Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
    2: ... touching all points in-between. Because of the wide range of time and place it is difficult to speak ...
    5: ...tern Roman Empire]] and the [[Orthodox Church]] made [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Old Church Slavoni...
    7: ...ve survived in the [[Breton lai|lais]] of [[Marie de France]], the ''[[Mabinogion]]'' and the [[King A...
    10: ...sical]] writers and the [[Church Fathers]] and tended to re-tell and embellish stories they had heard ...
    20: ...so frequently written, as an encouragement to the devout and a warning to others.
78. Government (12596 bytes)
    1: ...hat exactly constitutes a government. In its broadest sense, "govern" means the power to administrate...
    3: ==Definitions==
    4: ... approach is to define government as the dominant decision-making arm of the state.
    5: ...territory without defining laws would not be considered a government.
    7: Another alternative is to define a government as an organisation that attempts...
79. List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
    3: ==Political leaders==
    12: **[[Cosimo de' Medici]]
    13: **[[Lorenzo de' Medici]] (a.k.a. ''Lorenzo il Magnifico'')
    22: **[[Catherine de Medici]] Queen of France
    23: ...f Poland]] (duchess of [[Finland]], queen of [[Sweden]])
80. Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
    1: {| border="1" width="325" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" ...
    10: ...outh Vietnam<br>&bull; Reunification of Vietnam under communist rule<br>
    15: ...n="top" style="text-align:center"|[[North Vietnam|Democratic Republic of Vietnam<br>(North Vietnam)]]<...
    24: ...IA]]:''' ?<br>'''Total dead:''' 287,232<br>'''Wounded:''' 1,496,037
    25: ...fficial Vietnamese estimate: 1,100,000 <br>'''Wounded:''' 600,000

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