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  1. Louisiana (26375 bytes)
    12: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]] de facto |
    13: ...glish language|English]] 91.2%, [[French language|French]] 4.8% |
    45: ...the main language of everyday life, but traces of French survive in local dialects.
    60: ...avelier de La Salle]] in honour of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] in [[1682]]. The first permanent...
    62: ...nt-day [[Saint Louis, Missouri]]. ''See also:'' [[French colonization of the Americas]]
  2. Missouri (16086 bytes)
    54: ...cennial census. The Senate consists of 34 members from districts divided such that the population of e...
    65: ...main behind from a glacier that once had extended from the north to the Missouri River.
    67: ...] [[igneous]] [[Saint Francois Mountain Range|St. Francois Mountains]].
    97: *11.2% [[African American|Black]]
    103: ...n]] (10.5%), [[England|English]] (9.5%), [[France|French]] (3.5%).
  3. Texas (39610 bytes)
    38: ...nguage]] of the [[Hasinai]], ''tejas'', meaning ''friends'' or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers...
    42: ...ist of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
    50: ** flying — [[Mexican free-tailed bat]]
    57: ...om you talk to (and which part of Texas they come from), Texas forms part of the [[U.S. Southern State...
    62: ...ve flown over its soil: the [[Fleur-de-lis]] of [[France]], and the national flags of [[Spain]], [[Mex...
  4. West Virginia (24258 bytes)
    38: ... Maryland and Virginia. West Virginia broke away from [[Virginia]] during the [[American Civil War]]....
    40: .../www.wvbridgeday.com/bridge-day-BASE-jumping.php] from the bridge), as well as many national and state...
    48: ...braham Lincoln]]. Upon the secession of Virginia from the union on [[April 27]], [[1861]], anti-seces...
    76: ...n a near shore environment from sediments derived from mountains to the east, in a shallow inland sea ...
    90: ...sup2;), most statistics in this section are taken from the 2002 US Census of Agriculture for West Virg...
  5. Minnesota (26682 bytes)
    37: Its name is from the [[Lakota#The_Dakota|Dakota people's]] name ...
    54: Much of the state was purchased from [[France]] as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]], alth...
    59: ...e [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] people, a mixed French and Native American culture, were a presence ...
    61: Modern [[immigrant]]s have come from all over the world in recent decades, with [[Hm...
    63: ...with the early Scandinavian immigrants. Families frequently own or share [[cabin]]s on central and no...
  6. 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]]
  7. Pope Paschal II (3427 bytes)
    1: ...rius''''' (d. [[January 21]], [[1118]]), [[pope]] from [[August 13]], [[1099]] until his death, was a ...
    3: ... 1106 to seek the mediation of King [[Philip I of France]] and Prince Louis in the Imperial struggle, ...
    5: ...hem as imperial fiefs and forced the pope to flee from Rome. Paschal returned after the emperor's with...
  8. List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
    17: *[[Albert Uderzo|Uderzo, Albert]], (born 1927), French cartoonist of ''[[Asterix]]'' fame
    25: *[[Fritz von Uhde|Uhde, Fritz von]], (1848-1911), German painter
    52: *[[Frederick D. Underwood|Underwood, Frederick D.]], president of the [[Erie Railroad]] [...
    110: ...[Maurice Utrillo|Utrillo, Maurice]], (1883-1955), French painter
  9. Ptolemy II of Egypt (4048 bytes)
    6: ...tolemy I]] and [[Berenice I of Egypt|Berenice I]] from [[288 BC]]-[[285 BC]].
    8: ...ia, Egypt|Alexandria]]. Not that Egypt held aloof from wars. [[Magas of Cyrene]] opened war on his hal...
    18: ...ompared with the [[Versailles]] of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]].
    22: .../penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/3*.html Ptolemy Philadelph...
  10. French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
    1: ... of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted in France's loss of all its possessions in North Americ...
    5: ...the Conquest), since it is the war in which [[New France]] was conquered by the British and became par...
    9: ...rench and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian allies, following the confl...
    13: ...[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's capital.
    15: ...of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking populations in [[Acadia]] to Louisia...
  11. Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
    1: ... later drawn into the [[conflict]], while a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was ...
    3: ...[Native Americans]]/[[First Nations]]) sided with France although some did fight alongside the British...
    8: ...strian Succession]]. During that conflict, King [[Frederick II of Prussia]] had gained the rich provin...
    10: ...e)|Hanoverian]] possession as being threatened by France. Great Britain's alliance with Prussia was a ...
    14: ...ire|Great Britain]] and [[French colonial empires|France]].
  12. Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
    1: ...ng with the return of young [[soldier]]s from the fronts of the [[Great War]] and emergence of a new a...
    3: ... this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Y...
    5: ...ge parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality, in [[arch...
    8: ...es|economy of the USA]], took sometime to convert from [[War economy|a wartime economy]] to a peacetim...
    19: ...f-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audience in any and every way. ...
  13. 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...
  14. 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.
  15. 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]])
  16. 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...
  17. Crusade (28507 bytes)
    2: ...ian Crusade]] against the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crusades]].
    7: ...ght an outlet for their violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I]] in opposing...
    9: ...day Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstinence]] with prayer or alms (except duri...
    18: ...n and consider how the idea of a holy war emerged from this background.'' — [[Norman F. Cantor]]
    21: ... Eastern church, [[Alexius I]] expected some help from a fellow Christian. However, the response was m...
  18. Castle (27805 bytes)
    1: A '''castle''' (from the [[Latin]] ''castellum'', diminutive of ''ca...
    2: ...expanded into pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15th century, their "castle" designati...
    10: ...st and foremost castles were places of protection from an invading enemy, a place of retreat. This can...
    11: ...e weapons, built in otherwise hostile territories from which to control surrounding lands.
    14: ...nd control of a region. A castle was a stronghold from which a lord or baron could control surrounding...
  19. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
    53: *[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau|Jacques Cousteau]], [[France]] — [[Aqua-Lung|aqualung]]
    56: ...illiam Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
    87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas...
    88: *[[William Friese-Greene]], (1855-1921) — [[cinematograph...
  20. Food (24212 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Foods.jpg|thumbnail|right|Food from plant sources]]
    23: ...epare food prior to eating since their divergence from [[Homo erectus]], possibly even earlier.
    28: ...o eat meals together with other family members or friends and this is seen as an important social occa...
    39: ...ce on mechanised tools which have been developed, from the [[threshing machine]], [[seed drill]], thro...
    49: ===From [[plant]]s===

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