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- Culture of China (15738 bytes)
10: ... religion. Early forms of art in China were made from pottery, jade and by bronze casting in the Shan...
14: ... latter who introduced the stanza form. Painting from the Tang dynasty period mainly consisted of lan...
29: ...s a sense of grandeur; this applies to everything from palaces to farmhouses. One notable exception is...
38: ...sty]]. Artifact circulating in US museums on loan from Beijing]]
83: ...] - [[Shanghai cuisine]] - [[Soy sauce]] - [[Stir frying]] - [[Szechuan cuisine]] - [[Szechuan pepper]... - Egyptian hieroglyph (6639 bytes)
5: The word ''hieroglyph'' comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ἱε...
14: ...ount for misleading quality of surviving comments from Greek and Roman writers about hieroglyphs. Anot...
16: ...r [[Theodosius I]]; the last known inscription is from a temple far to the south not too long after [[...
18: ...luding the ''[[Hypnerotomachia Poliphili]]'' of [[Francesco Colonna]].
20: ...homas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]] and [[Jean-Fran篩s Champollion]] beginning the very early 1800... - Arkansas (11679 bytes)
42: ...me, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to t...
44: ...d States]] as a [[slave state]]. Arkansas seceded from the Union on [[May 6]], [[1861]] during the [[...
50: ...ic Party|Democrat]], was convicted of felony mail fraud as part of the [[Whitewater Scandal]]. This l...
54: ...cted separately from the governor and thus can be from a different political party.
70: ... Mississippi. The Grand Prairie is slightly away from the Mississippi river in the southeast portion ... - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
40: ...e English. Other theories are that the name comes from words meaning "Gathering of the Waters" or "Gre...
47: ...] became Wisconsin's first European explorer. The French controlled the area until [[1763]], when it w...
51: ...ocialist, [[Daniel Hoan]], was mayor of Milwaukee from [[1916]] to [[1940]]. During both the [[2000]] ...
53: ...thousands of miners—many of them immigrants from [[Cornwall]], England—flocked to southern...
61: ...adison is also home to the [[Vilas Zoo]] which is free for all visitors as well as the [[University of... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...British possession after France's defeat in the [[French and Indian War]]. For many years, rightful co...
44: ...north to south, is 159 miles. Its greatest width, from east to west, is 89 miles (the narrowest width ...
52: ...particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and climate conditions unique ...
58: ...ing the era Native Americans migrated year-round. From [[1000 BCE]] to [[1600|1600 CE]] was the Woodla...
60: ..., [[1609]], [[French colonization of the Americas|French explorer]] [[Samuel de Champlain]] claimed th... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
46: *[[Frank Yates|Yates, Frank]], ([[1902]]-[[1994]]), statistician
48: ...[[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
57: *[[Yazdegerd I of Persia]], from [[399]] to [[420]].
58: *[[Yazdegerd II of Persia]], from [[438]] to [[457]].
59: *[[Yazdegerd III of Persia]], from [[632]] to [[651]]. - Anacharsis (4399 bytes)
1: [[Image:Anacharsis.jpg|frame|left|Anacharsis]]
4: ...s''' was a [[Scythian]] philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the [[Bl...
6: ...ench took to [[Benjamin Franklin]]. His rough and free discourse became proverbial among Athenians as ...
18: ... Sardis, as I think it very desirable to become a friend of yours."
25: ...high impact on the growth of [[philhellenism]] in France at the time. The book went through many editi... - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
6: ...ish North American possessions—the former [[French colony]] of [[Quebec]] and the colonies of [[...
10: ...isted the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into t...
29: ...wiki>*</nowiki>Vermont was an independent country from 1777 until it became the 14th state in 1791. To... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...is picture of [[433 Eros]] shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its...
4: The term "asteroid", meaning ''star-like'' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''asteroeides'', '...
8: ...larger than 50 m in diameter, distinguishing them from [[meteoroid]]s, which are typically [[boulder]]...
14: ...Earth's solar system. As of [[May 23]], [[2005]], from a total of 277,090 minor planets with calculate...
24: ...s, whereas families are much "tighter" and result from the catastrophic break-up of a large parent ast... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...r [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scien...
11: ...fic data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ...ccount of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found i...
27: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
52: ...oration by bringing together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world. - History of biology (3053 bytes)
3: ... by [[Karl Friedrich Burdach]] in [[1800]], [[Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus]] (''Biologie oder Philoso...
7: ...ought in the field by the independent work of [[Alfred Russel Wallace]].
9: ...t of evolutionary theory|opposition and support]] from different parts of society.
11: By [[1953]] [[James Watson]] and [[Francis Crick]] clarified the basic structure of [[D...
18: .../genomics/human/watson-crick/ James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick. "Letters to ''Nature'': Molecular... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ...ch as by adjusting the [[pitch (music)|pitch]], [[frequency]], or duration of each [[note]].
5: French [[composer]] and engineer [[Edgar Var賥]] cr...
10: ...as followed by the [[Clavecin 鬥ctrique]] by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste de Laborde in [[1761]].
18: Ca. 1929 [[Friedrich Trautwein]] invented the [[Trautonium]] in...
20: ...nes using an electro-mechanical principle derived from the design of the [[Telharmonium]]. Later Hammo... - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
1: [[Image:ClaudeMonet.jpg|right|frame|Claude Monet]]
2: ... [[1840]] – [[December 5]], [[1926]]) was a French [[impressionism|impressionist]] painter.
4: Monet was born in [[Paris|Paris, France]], but his family moved to [[Le Havre]] in [[...
8: ...e-Auguste Renoir]], [[Frederic Bazille]], and [[Alfred Sisley]]. Together they shared new approaches t...
12: During the [[Franco-Prussian War]] ([[1870]] – [[1871]]), M... - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
2: ...erature, it is a complex and rich field of study, from the utterly [[sacred]] to the exuberantly [[pro...
7: ...survived in the [[Breton lai|lais]] of [[Marie de France]], the ''[[Mabinogion]]'' and the [[King Arth...
10: ...anding down something from an [[auctor]] instead. From this point of view, the names of the individual...
20: ...iographies]], or "lives of the saints", were also frequently written, as an encouragement to the devou...
22: ...a prolific poet, and his [[Franciscan]] followers frequently wrote poetry themselves as an expression ... - Government (12596 bytes)
9: ...oth meanings, whereas [[French in Canada|Canadian French]] also generally uses it to mean the executiv...
21: ...ning support and legitimacy include providing [[infrastructure]] for [[justice]], [[administration]], ...
56: ...ille]] - [[John Stuart Mill]] - [[Karl Marx]] - [[Friedrich Engels]] - [[Max Weber]] - [[Vladimir Leni...
59: *[[David Friedman]] - [[Noam Chomsky]] - [[John Rawls]] - [[J...
103: ...ting machine]] - [[Voting rights]] - [[Women's suffrage]] - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
11: **[[Francesco Foscari]]
15: **[[Francesco Sforza]]
22: **[[Catherine de Medici]] Queen of France
28: **[[Francis I of France]]
29: **[[Francis, Duke of Guise]] of France - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ... Vietnam]]<br><br>[[Viet Cong|National Liberation Front<br>(Viet Cong)]]<br><br />[[Image:Viet cong fl...
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationa...
37: ...y experts consider the Vietnam War to just be one frontline in the larger [[Cold War]].
41: ...for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]], a South Vietnamese opposition movement with...
43: ...ort to maintain control of her former colony of [[French Indochina]].
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