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- Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
9: ...was celebrated by sacrificing male animals, and [[slave]]s, by suspending them on the branches of tree...
11: ...e]], the first Christmas tree was introduced in [[1840]] by the duchess of Orleans.
19: ...falgar Square]] in [[London]] where the City of Oslo presents a tree to the people of London as token...
57: ...g multiple branch styles. Many trees now come in "slim" versions, to fit in smaller spaces. Most of th...
83: ...having a hole in the middle for the trunk, with a slot cut to the outside edge so that it can be place... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
6: ...doubt, since its remains came to be studied seriously.
11: ...ry small percentage were identical, or even obviously connected, with those of any other script. The d...
43: There is slight evidences of such changes as might be due to ...
67: ...) the scattered communities of the center of the island coalesced into a strong monarchical state, the...
69: ...ith the capital, were founded in the east of the island to command fertile districts and assist mariti... - Gong (10121 bytes)
1: ...casting techniques. Primitive drums are know as [[slit gong]]s.
18: ...ndicular to the gong surface. The main surface is slightly concave when viewed from the direction to w...
46: A '''tiger gong''' is a slightly descending or less commonly ascending gong,...
72: In older [[Java (island)|Java]]nese usage and in modern [[Bali]]nese u...
79: ...s said that the Chinese can modify its tone variously by particular ways of striking the disk. Gongs m... - English Setter (5213 bytes)
64: ...nd and to another Brit, Mr. R. Purcell Llewellin (1840-1925), who based his strain upon Laverack's and d... - William Henry Harrison (11790 bytes)
34: ...his connections to the common man. Their campaign slogans of "Log Cabins and Hard Cider" and "Tippecan...
82: ...sup>(a)</sup>, [[U.S. presidential election, 1840|1840]] (won)}} - Honduras (7841 bytes)
66: ...endent republic with the demise of the union in [[1840]].
98: ...icardo Maduro]] the economy has continued to grow slowly but the distribution of wealth remains very p... - Anna Harrison (3660 bytes)
5: ... the British lines to her grandparents on [[Long Island]], who cared for her during the rest of the wa...
11: ...s of her husband's landslide electoral victory in 1840, home-loving Anna said simply: "I wish that my hu... - Tecumseh's curse (3257 bytes)
4: ...dents elected in a year divisible by 20 between [[1840]] and [[1960]] died in office:
6: *'''[[1840]]''' - [[William Henry Harrison]], died of [[pneu...
19: ...[[Alzheimer's disease]], which caused his mind to slowly deteriorate. Some believe that as Reagan did ...
21: Regardless, the "curse" is taken seriously by some Christian groups, who recently have call... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
24: ...esign]] in nature. He got private tuition from Henslow whose subjects were maths and theology, and in ...
26: ...pt Darwin at Cambridge till June and following Henslow's example and advice he was in no rush to take ...
27: ...ation. Knowing the need for geological skills, Henslow introduced Charles to the great [[geology|geolo...
29: ...on his return home he received another letter. Henslow had recommended Darwin for the position of gent...
37: ...ter confirmed by survey in the [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]]. - John C. Breckinridge (5870 bytes)
4: ...y]] in Lexington. He was admitted to the bar in [[1840]] and moved to [[Burlington, Iowa]], but soon ret... - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
90: ...rebellions within China itself, and in the previously subject Kingdom of [[Nanzhao]] to the south. One...
114: ...vernment, fragmented, and rented out; and private slavery was forbidden. Consequently, after the death...
124: ...], increased considerably. Emperor Yongle strenuously tried to extend China's influence beyond her bor...
126: ...e [[Southeast Asia]]n archipelago. An ambitious Muslim [[eunuch]] of Mongol descent and a quintessenti...
130: ...ps or leaving the country. The aim behind the legislation was to protect the country against pirates, ... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
46: ...te" (Constitution of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1840 to 1861, and of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to... - History of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars (9742 bytes)
28: ...mostly given to the newly formed [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]. Some Italian workers, inspired by the [[Ru...
34: ...a lasting dynasty. After [[Hitler]] invaded Czechoslovakia (March 15, 1939) without notifying Mussolin...
42: ...ulgaria and Hungary) to crush both Greece and Yugoslavia, and a month later the Axis added Kosovo to I...
52: ...ions around Rome and in places such as the Greek island of [[Cefalonia]]), and the Germans quickly occ...
54: While the Allied troops slowly pushed the German resistance to the north (Ro... - Culture of Jersey (13844 bytes)
5: [[J�rriais]], the island's [[Norman language]], is spoken by a minority...
7: ...ce with the migration of English people into the island since the end of the [[Napoleonic wars]].
23: ...only arrived in Jersey in the [[1780s]], but the island supported a multitude of regular publications ...
27: ...–1884), 'A.A.L.G.' (Augustus Aspley Le Gros 1840–1877), and 'St.-Luorenchais' (Philippe Lang...
41: ...gy. He himself considered his masterpiece the translation of the [[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]] that he ... - Copepods (3800 bytes)
9: ...Henri Milne-Edwards|H. Milne-Edwards]] | date = [[1840]]}}
38: Slow motion macrophotography video (50 %) of juvenil... - Discus Fish (4433 bytes)
9: ...ity | author = [[J. J. Heckel|Heckel]] | date = [[1840]]}} - Gambian Pouched Rats (3812 bytes)
13: ...[George Robert Waterhouse|Waterhouse]] | date = [[1840]] }}
19: ...ge with side alleys and several chambers, one for sleeping and the others for storage. - Glyphs (2145 bytes)
2: ...lyphs of the [[Maya civilization]] in the early [[1840]]s. "Glyphs" still bring connotations of Maya gly... - Ice Age (15809 bytes)
9: ...ed it in his book ''ɴude sur les glaciers'' of [[1840]].
23: ...s of ice cores and ocean sediment cores unambiguously show the record of glacials and interglacials ov...
92: ...l near [[Syracuse, New York]] is now dry. [[Long Island]] was formed from glacial till, and the waters... - Vincent van Gogh (11980 bytes)
46: *famously cut off his own ear after a heated argument with...
69: * Writer [[Emile Zola]] ([[1840]] – [[1902]]) whose novels Van Gogh admired...
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