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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...eiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|I...
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
5: ...lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...e [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...nding on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or multiple c...
5: ...of China]] in [[1912]]; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Jap...
7: ...utes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states. - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...beknefru]] and Pharaoh [[Nitocris]] actually preceded her (though the latter is not certain to have ru...
4: ...ghout Egypt. She also began rebuilding Egypt's trade networks which had been disrupted by the [[Hyksos...
10: ...fe of Amun'' before either parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her h...
11: ...ose III]], by a lesser wife named Isis before his death.
13: ...t it soon became apparent that she had only one model in mind, Sobekneferu, the last monarch of the Tw... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
1: ...al, possibly Melisende herself, from the [[Melisende Psalter]]]]
3: '''Melisende''' ([[1105]] - [[September 11]], [[1161]]) was [[...
5: ... was named after her paternal grandmother, Melisende of Montlhery, wife of Hugh I, [[Count of Rethel]]...
9: ...reginam, cui jure hereditario competebat." Melisende was no mere regent-queen (for her son Baldwin III...
11: ...hter as a capable successor to himself and Melisende enjoyed the support of the ''[[Haute Cour of Jeru... - Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
1: ...Melisende of Jerusalem|Queen Melisende]] had provided an example of successful rule by a queen regnant...
5: ... former Queen [[Melisende of Jerusalem]], who founded the convent of St. Lazarus in Bethany for her si...
9: ...t cousin of Sibylla, arrived in [[1177]] and demanded to have the princess married to one of his own v...
11: ...tween the princess and his prisoner, Saladin demanded a large ransom, which Baldwin himself could not ...
19: ...he accord between Jerusalem and Egypt. Baldwin IV deposed Guy as regent in [[1183]] and attempted to h... - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
5: ...V of Toron]] in [[1183]] (the contract had been made several years earlier, as a sort of thanks to Hum...
7: ... pointed out to him. Thereupon Saladin gave out orders throughout his army that no attack should be di...
9: ...er Sibylla's position for the entire period. In order to prepare for the future after Baldwin IV, Isab...
11: ...s settlement, both Sibylla and Isabella were considered equally entitled to succeed.
13: ...ion. Now, that both Baldwin IV and Baldwin V were dead, it was easier to resurrect that legal grounds ... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...attle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the [[Thirty Years'...
3: <table border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style=...
5: ...ourdon stor.jpg|center|185px|Christina of Sweden, depicted by S颡stien Bourdon]]
12: ...td>'''Predecessor'''<td>[[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]]
13: ...lign=top><td>'''Successor'''<td>[[Charles X of Sweden]] - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...al monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. S...
9: ...]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed with impat...
11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|ho...
16: ...on after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Successio...
18: ...daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbish... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...stemaker and the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]].
8: ...lection. Elected on [[November 28]], [[1919]], in December she became the second woman elected, and th...
10: ...''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
12: ...re avoiding the real war in France and the future invasion. The allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed, t... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
6: |'''Order'''
12: |'''Predecessor'''
27: ...[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
34: ...icle for the ''[[New Yorker]]'', Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at [[Colum...
35: ...d an administrative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] m... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...servative political office. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of of...
5: <table border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><t...
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7: ...ption><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
10: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 September]] [[1997]]</td>... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...d [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], members of the [[Independent Labour Party]] and much-concerned with women's ...
9: ...to the [[Workers' Socialist Federation]]. She founded the newspaper of the WSF, ''[[Women's Dreadnough...
11: ...ntarism in contrast to the views of the newly founded [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] (CPGB. Howe...
13: This unity was to be short-lived and when the leadership of the CPGB proposed that Sylvia hand over t...
15: ...nd was supportive of left communists such as [[Amadeo Bordiga]] and [[Anton Pannekoek]]. - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
2: ...e daughter of an [[Atheism|atheist]] father and a devout [[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witness]] mot...
4: ...en Lanier]] of the [[Blue ֹster Cult]], who recorded several songs to which Smith contributed, includ...
6: ...in an assembly line in New Jersey, with the flipside a version of the rock standard with the addition ...
8: ...y and is widely considered one of rock's greatest debuts. The cover photograph by [[Robert Mapplethorp...
10: ... and reorganise her life, a luxury which had been denied her in her early rise to fame. - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
9: ...ecords]] in [[1990]] and was ready to release her debut album in [[1991]]. However, she did not like t...
11: ...rofessional relationship, eventually creating her debut album, called ''[[Tuesday Night Music Club]]''...
13: ...erformance and Best New Album. Other singles included "A Change Would Do You Good", "Home" and "Everyd...
17: ...e Rock Vocal Performance in 2000 when it was included in her album, "Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live fro...
19: In [[1999]] Crow also made her acting debut (barring a [[cameo]] in the film "54") as ill-... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...ur. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Academy Awards, the record for nominations until 2003, ...
5: ...d with giving her a sense of adventure and independence.
7: ...l for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shooting golf in the low eightie...
8: ...and information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
10: ...ay her degree was in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...hile 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on the far left.]]
7: ...by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
11: ...ar she was a sports talent, but she could not decide which sport to pick. A swimming coach advised her...
13: ... Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, although as a sprinter, not a mid...
17: ...y 2, 1940, a week before the Netherlands were invaded by German troops. - Pineal gland (4403 bytes)
1: ...-brain.jpg|thumb||200px|right|Brain Clip Art provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
11: ..., perivascular phagocyte, pineal neurons and peptidergic neuron-like cells.
13: ...onia, and a little animal matter. <!-- I have no idea what Gray's Anatomy means by "Animal matter" - s...
17: ... by darkness and inhibited by light. Light can be detected by the [[suprachiasmatic nucleus]] (SCN) wh...
19: ...er [[tetrapods]] and the skull orifice sealed. Modern birds and reptiles have been found to express t... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...e [[Modern Age]]. The Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in the [[14th century]] in [[Ita...
5: ... by French historian [[Jules Michelet]], and expanded upon by [[Switzerland|Swiss]] historian [[Jacob ...
10: ...riod is now often replaced by the term "[[Early Modern]]". (See [[periodization|periodisation]], [[Lum...
12: ...e as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
17: ...del Fiore.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] church of [[Florence]], [[Italy]]. Flore... - Mosaic (6524 bytes)
3: ...thumb|150px|Detail of mosaic from [[Herculaneum]] depicting [[Amphitrite]]]]
7: ...ly 12th-century [[Kiev]]an mosaic depicting [[St. Demetrius]].]]
12: ...ve arts|decorative art]], an aspect of [[interior decoration]]. In mosaics, small [[tile]]s or fragme...
16: ...ed across the ancient world for domestic interior decoration. Mosaics of the [[4th century BC]] are fo...
18: ...co di Venezia|St Mark's]]. In Western Europe, the demanding techniques of fresco replaced the even mor...
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