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- Culture of China (15738 bytes)
10: ...ced by the Book of Songs, Confucius and Chinese Poet, Qu Yuan. Early Chinese instruments was based on...
12: ...ral well known Chinese poets influenced Chinese poetry, which included Cao Cao and his sons and Tao Qu...
14: ... Tang poetry was marked by the influence of two poets, [[Li Shangyin]] and [[Li Yu]], the latter who i...
16: ...try was marked by a lyric poetry known as [[Ci (poetry)|Ci]] which expressed feelings of desire, often...
18: ...y was marked by a poet named [[Yuan Mei]] whose poetry has been described as "unusually clear and eleg... - Egyptian hieroglyph (6639 bytes)
4: ...ogograph]]ic, [[syllabary|syllabic]], and [[alphabet]]ic elements.
8: ...nown hieroglyphic inscription was the [[Narmer Palette]], found during excavations at [[Hierakonpolis]...
10: ...onants, [[logograph]]s, representing a word, and determinatives, which indicate the semantic category ...
12: ... but existed along side the other forms. The [[Rosetta Stone]] contains both hieroglyphic and demotic ...
14: ...llegorical, even magical, system transmitting secret, mystical knowledge. This respect engendered not ... - Arkansas (11679 bytes)
42: ...[[Quapaw]] people and the river along which they settled. Other [[Native American]] nations living in ...
70: ...er is referred to as the "Delta" of Arkansas. It gets this name from the formation of its rich alluvia...
71: [[Image:PetitJean.jpg|right|thumb|260px|''Petit Jean State Park'', one of many attractions that...
112: ... food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal products, machinery, paper products, bromine, a...
141: ...Baptist]] (42% of the total state population), [[Methodist]] (9%), [[Pentecostal]] (6%). - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
40: Although the exact etymology of the name is uncertain, "Wisconsin" is t...
47: In [[1634]], Frenchman [[Jean Nicolet]] became Wisconsin's first European explorer. The...
51: ... to its residents being relatively equally split between voting for the [[United States Democratic Par...
53: ...Indian treaties opened up southwest Wisconsin to settlement, thousands of miners—many of them im...
61: ...y of Wisconsin]]), although a common nickname (sometimes used pejoratively) among non-residents is "[[... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...amplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, ...
38: ...ted by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provin...
48: ...rest in meadow, uplands, lakes, ponds and swampy wetlands.
50: ...areas of the state. Annual [[snow]]fall averages between 60 to 100 inches depending on elevation, givi...
57: ...95 feet. The state's average elevation is 1,000 feet.]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress...
54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet - Anacharsis (4399 bytes)
2: ...ks, those who were skillful in a thing vie in competition; those who have ''no'' skill, judge"'' &mdas...
8: ... to enter into hospitable relations. The servant returned with Solon's quintessentially Greek answer, ...
12: ..., which catch small flies and allow wasps and hornets to escape.
14: ...d on his statues: 'Restrain your tongues, your appetites, your passions.' (Compare the philosophy of [...
16: His famous ''Letter to [[Croesus]]'', the proverbially rich king o... - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
2: ...Image:us flag large Betsy Ross.png|right|thumb|[[Betsy Ross]] purportedly sewed the first [[Flag of th...
14: ...Province of Massachusetts Bay]], later [[Massachusetts]] and [[Maine]]
58: ...tch colony as of 1776; [[British Honduras]], had settlements, but "unofficial" until at least a couple... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|thum...
4: ...m to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/...
6: ...r system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...nd strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmosph...
10: ...teroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate man-made objects which have... - Comet (30542 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hale-Bopp-large.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a white dust tail and blue g...
3: ...composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and various [[m...
5: ...riginate via a different process, but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials...
9: ...bital trajectory. While the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 5...
11: ...rding of a comet is the appearance of Halley's Comet on the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], which records the [[N... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...ating the [[universe]] known as the [[scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces these [...
4: ...n]] saw the inception of the modern [[scientific method]] to guide the evaluation of [[knowledge]]. Th...
6: ...nquires about other areas of knowledge, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavi...
11: ... what science ''is'', how it ''functions'', and whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. T...
13: ...re can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of investigation. - History of biology (3053 bytes)
3: ...maticae: Geologia, biologia, phytologia generalis et dendrologia'', published in [[1766]].
7: In the [[19th century]] the area of [[genetics]] developed, when the [[Austria]]n [[monk]] [[...
9: ...osition and support]] from different parts of society.
11: ...larified the basic structure of [[DNA]], the [[genetic material]] for expressing [[life]] in all its f...
13: ...d, with some success, but with attendant [[ethics|ethical questions]]. In particular, [[stem cells|tot... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
3: ...e sometimes called [[sound effect]]s; the border between sound effects and actual musical instruments ...
5: ...ser]] and engineer [[Edgar Var賥]] created a variety of compositions using electronic horns, whistles...
12: ...me, the music was distributed over the telephone network.
18: ...a resistorwire which has to be pressed against a metal plate. [[Oskar Sala]] was one of the first play... - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
1: [[Image:ClaudeMonet.jpg|right|frame|Claude Monet]]
2: '''Oscar-Claude Monet''' ([[November 14]], [[1840]] – [[December ...
4: ... wanted to paint. On the beaches of Normandy, he met [[Eug�ne Boudin]], who taught him [[en plein ai...
6: ...d to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at a university.
8: ..., [[Frederic Bazille]], and [[Alfred Sisley]]. Together they shared new approaches to art, which came ... - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
2: ... exuberantly [[profane]], touching all points in-between. Because of the wide range of time and place ...
7: ...s. [[Celtic]] traditions have survived in the [[Breton lai|lais]] of [[Marie de France]], the ''[[Mabi...
10: ...did, they often ''claimed'' to be handing down something from an [[auctor]] instead. From this point o...
16: ...lic]] clerics were the intellectual center of society in the Middle Ages, and it is their literature t...
20: ...ot in fixed form, and numerous competing missals set out individual conceptions of the order of the [[... - Government (12596 bytes)
1: ...to administrate, whether over an area of land, a set group of people, or an association.
13: ...en called [[Political minister|ministers]] or secretaries. Ministers may in theory act as advisors to ...
21: ...ministration]], [[transport]], [[social welfare]] etc., claiming support of [[deity|deities]], providi...
29: ...try]] varies considerally but generally makes up between about 30% and 70% of [[Gross domestic product...
75: ...(varieties)]] - [[Democratization]] - [[Civil society]] - [[Checks and balances]] - [[History of democ... - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
25: **[[Elizabeth I of England]]
43: **[[William the Silent]] of the Netherlands
88: * [[Petrarch]], Francesco Petrarca
123: * [[Pieter Brueghel the Elder]]
124: * [[Pieter Brueghel the Younger]] - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
2: !colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffff99"| '''The Vietnam War'''
4: |Conflict||Vietnam War, part of the '''[[Cold War]]'''
10: ...ion of South Vietnam<br>• Reunification of Vietnam under communist rule<br>
14: ...Flag_southvietnam_large.png|100px|Flag of South Vietnam]]<br><br><br>[[United States|United States of ...
15: ...r />[[Image:Viet cong flag.gif|95px|Flag of the Viet Cong]]<br><br />
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