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  1. Puritan (15882 bytes)
    1: The '''Puritans''' were members of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] a...
    5: ...he term "Puritan" was [[Reformed]] or [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] and led to the establishment of the [[Pr...
    8: ...contact with the radical reformers in [[Calvinism|Calvinist Geneva]] and [[Lutheranism|Lutheran German...
    10: ...ing" of church practice through [[Holy Bible|biblical]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or a...
    12: ...f Common Prayer]]''; the imposition of its liturgical order by legal force and inspection sharpened Pu...
  2. Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
    6: ..., brother-husband, and son. However, in all these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with h...
    9: ...she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 BC|44]]–[[30 BC]]).
    11: ...). After a short war, Ptolemy XIII was killed and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolem...
    13: ... boy his heir, naming his grand-nephew [[Augustus Caesar|Octavian]] instead.
    15: ...tolemy XIV died mysteriously. Cleopatra then made Caesarion her co-regent. She may have poisoned her b...
  3. Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
    3: ...ember 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologis...
    5: ...k in [[Polynesia]]. In 1926 Mead joined the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, as ass...
    12: ...ad's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
    13: ...courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive t...
    14: ...nt out that at the time of publication, many Americans had begun to discuss the problems faced by youn...
  4. Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
    11: ...urned to Mayo and took up residence at the family castle or tower-house in [[Clare Island]].
    14: ...e year was up Grace divorced Richard and kept the castle. It remained for centuries in the O' Malley f...
    19: ...o flight and they barely escaped. Later Grace was captured but released some time later.
    22: ...er sons and her brother were taken captive by a local English ruler, Granuaile sailed to England to pe...
    26: ...p://www.rencentral.com/oct_nov_vol1/graceomalley.shtml]
  5. Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
    2: ...August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] of the [[20th century]]. Her...
    6: ...s not her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley...
    8: ...eane with Albert and Ida Bolender of [[Hawthorne, California|Hawthorne]], southwest of [[Downtown Los ...
    10: ... died in a mental hospital near [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]].
    12: ...adys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guardian. After Grace married in [[1935]], ...
  6. Ptolemy I of Egypt (7434 bytes)
    7: ...lexander had him marry the Persian princess [[Artacama]], but we find no further mention of her. When...
    9: ...ecurely, and secondly to secure control in Cyrenaica, [[Cyprus]] and [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] ...
    13: ...d Ptolemy's brother [[Menelaus]] was defeated and captured in the decisive [[Battle of Salamis in Cypr...
    15: ...hird time he evacuated the country. But when news came that Antigonus had been defeated and slain by L...
    17: ...ext hundred years the question of its ownership became a recurrent point of enmity between the Seleuci...
  7. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
    8: image_map = LocationPakistan.png|Location of Pakistan |
    11: capital = [[Islamabad]] |
    16: ..._city = [[Karachi]] (also [[financial capital]]) |
    31: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $2567 |
    32: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 135th |
  8. Maryland (22654 bytes)
    9: Capital = [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]] ...
    36: ... that revolted against British rule in the [[American Revolution]]. ''See: [[Annapolis Convention]].''
    41: ..."Terra Maria") was granted to his son, [[C棩lius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore]], on [[June 20]], [[16...
    43: ...s of tens of thousands of British convicts, which carried on until independence. The [[Maryland Tolera...
    45: ... Mason]] and [[Jeremiah Dixon]], to survey what became known as the [[Mason-Dixon line]] which would f...
  9. Tennessee (19096 bytes)
    9: Capital = [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]...
    39: ...-day [[Monroe County, Tennessee]]. The town was located on a river of the same name (now known as the ...
    41: ...://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/tennessee.html]
    43: ...ounty". When a [[constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]] met in [[17...
    48: ...o [[Indian Territory]] west of [[Arkansas]]. This came to be known as the [[Trail of Tears]], as an es...
  10. Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
    4: ...r the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian capital and national library.
    6: ....” After twelve years of constant military campaigning, Alexander died, probably of [[malaria]]...
    11: ... his father descended from [[Heracles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] t...
    14: ...|Pausanias]]), who held a grudge against Philip because the king had ignored a complaint he had expres...
    16: ...ial rivals and marched south with his armies in a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront ...
  11. Ptolemy II of Egypt (4048 bytes)
    2: ...phus''' ([[309 BC|309]]-[[246 BC]]), was of a delicate constitution, no [[Macedon]]ian warrior-chief o...
    8: ...("Rough Cilicia"), [[Pamphylia]], [[Lycia]] and [[Caria]] were largely in Ptolemy's hands.
    10: ...aughter [[Berenice (Seleucid queen)|Berenice]] (''ca''. 250).
    12: ...er her repudiation he married, probably for political reasons, his full-sister [[Arsinoe II of Egypt|A...
    16: [[Callimachus]], made keeper of the library, [[Theocri...
  12. Ptolemy III of Egypt (1403 bytes)
    3: ...pt]] Philadelphus and [[Arsinoe II of Egypt]]. He came to power in 246 BC upon the death of his father...
    10: .../E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/6*.html Ptolemy Euergetes I at LacusCurtius] —...
    11: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_iii.htm Ptolemy II...
  13. Ptolemy IV of Egypt (2166 bytes)
    5: The arming of Egyptians in this campaign had a disturbing effect upon the native pop...
    7: ...rotagonist of the [[Apocrypha|apocryphal]] [[3 Maccabees]], which describes purported events following...
    10: .../E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/7*.html Ptolemy Philopator I at LacusCurtius] &#8212...
    11: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_iv.htm Ptolemy IV]...
  14. Ptolemy IX of Egypt (2673 bytes)
    7: Ptolemy IX's name recalls that of his great ancestor, [[Ptolemy I of Egy...
    10: ...E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/11*.html Ptolemy Soter II at LacusCurtius] — (C...
  15. Ptolemy V of Egypt (2995 bytes)
    1: ...Egypt]], was not more than five years old when he came to the throne, and under a series of regents th...
    5: ...as. Philip seized several islands and places in [[Caria]] and [[Thrace]], whilst the [[Battle of Paniu...
    9: ... some accounts represent him as personally tyrannical. In [[197 BCE]] Lycopolis was held by rebels bu...
    14: .../E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/8*.html Ptolemy Epiphanes at LacusCurtius] — (Chapt...
    15: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_v.htm Ptolemy V] &...
  16. Ptolemy VI of Egypt (2419 bytes)
    5: ...|Rome]] to seek support, which he received from [[Cato]]. He was restored the following year by the i...
    8: .../E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/9*.html Ptolemy Philometor at LacusCurtius] — (Chap...
    9: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_vi.htm Ptolemy VI]...
  17. Ptolemy VIII of Egypt (5881 bytes)
    1: ...Ptolemaic dynasty]] in [[Egypt]]. His complicated career started in [[170 BC]], when [[Antiochus IV Ep...
    3: ...partition that left Physcon in charge of [[Cyrenaica]].
    5: ...tion]] records that Physcon had bequeathed Cyrenaica to Rome if he died childless, an act not mentione...
    7: ...r [[Cleopatra Thea]], and sent him back to Cyrenaica.
    9: ...olemy VIII Euergetes II", the name deliberately recalling his ancestor [[Ptolemy III of Egypt|Ptolemy ...
  18. Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
    2: ...image | image = [[Image:Trex skull.gif|225px|]] | caption = Skull of ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex|T. Rex]]'' ...
    16: ...p://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/03dinosaur.html]".
    20: ...roved tremendously useful in [[scientific classification|classifying]] dinosaurs, which are still know...
    25: [[Image:Allosaurus_clipart_aca.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Allosaurus Image provided by...
    30: ...vians.html''DinoBuzz''] hosted by [[University of California]] Museum of [[Paleontology]]</blockquote>
  19. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    1: ...mage:VAT74_0643_W.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a...
    2: ...n buried there, too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]]...
    4: ...edra]] Petri'', the episcopal throne of the basilica's namesake when he led the Roman church, but whic...
    7: ...convened in the Basilica of Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernini.]]
    8: ... started construction in [[324]] of a great basilica in this exact spot, which had previously been a c...
  20. Sun (20830 bytes)
    30: ...or="#ffffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''Physical characteristics'''
    55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
    101: ! align="left" | [[Carbon]]
    122: ...n is usually referred to as ''the'' Sun, and is occasionally referred to as '''Sol''' to distinguish i...
    124: ...ary stellar body around which an object orbits is called ''its'' sun, and stars in a [[multiple star s...

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