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- Winter (950 bytes)
1: ...e:929_12.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Winter Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...[Irish Calendar|Ireland]] and [[Australia]], also define Winter this way. - Winter solstice (2548 bytes)
1: [[Image:929_12.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
4: ...e]], this date usually falls on [[December 21]]/[[December 22]], while it falls on [[June 21]]/[[June ...
8: ...r contexts, but it is clear that the Chinese consider "winter's arrival" (立冬 ''l� d...
10: ...days) the winter solstice; examples of these include [[Yalda]], [[Saturnalia]], [[Christmas]], [[Hanuk... - Winter melon (1801 bytes)
15: ...;}}). By maturity, the fruit loses its hairs and develops a [[wax]]y coating, giving rise to the name...
17: ... in [[Southeast Asia]], the winter melon is now widely grown in [[East Asia]] and [[South Asia]] as we...
19: ...the scooped out melon, which has been intricately decorated by scraping off the waxy coating.
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- Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ...habited by the [[Dorset people]]). Born in the Jaeder district of south-west [[Norway]], he was the so...
4: ...). Gunnbjorn's accidental discovery pushed him aside in the history of Greenland and Erik the Red has ...
8: ...volved twenty-five [[ship]]s, fourteen of which made the journey successfully; of the other eleven, so...
10: ...tury]], shortly before [[Christopher Columbus]] made his fateful journey.
12: ...n converted by his wife Þjóðhildr while on his deathbed. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...h [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
5: ...his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ...Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Kin...
9: ...ing the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little ...
11: ...eves that Arthur is a half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a suppos... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[15...
7: ...ourse this raised Coronado's interest, and he decided to try to get that [[gold]]. He set out in 1540,...
9: ...othing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[...
11: ...do River (U.S.)|Colorado]]). [[Garcia Lopez de Cardenas]] was sent out to find this river, and found h...
12: ...ent east, and found villages around the [[Rio Grande]]. Coronado set up his winter quarters in one of ... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: '''Jacques Cartier''' ([[December 31]], [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[15...
5: ...d his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a leading ship-owning family...
9: ...ere victims of an epidemic ashore, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the...
13:
17: ... The site of their arrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...orer]], whose account documents his travels and side-excursions over a period of almost thirty years, ...
4: His name may alternatively be rendered '''ibn Batuta''', '''ibn Batuda''' or '''ibn B...
6: ...lated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling'', but ...
10: ==The Hajj (with detours)==
11: ...eadth of the Muslim world, and beyond (about 44 modern countries). - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...t of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufactur...
3: ...wth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power gen...
5: ...red to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|no...
10: ...he accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumula...
12: ...h often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
1: Presidency of Barack Obama
3: ... Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Presidency of Barack Obama
4: ...pwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the se...
5: ...licans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
6: ...Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt - June (1973 bytes)
6: ...month is named for the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] [[Juno]], wife of Jupiter. In [[Japanese cale...
12: ...ummer (holiday)|Midsummer]] is celebrated in [[Sweden]] on the third Friday in June.
14: * [[Gay pride]] celebrations take place in many countries in ho... - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
14: ...a [[mammal]] native to [[the Americas]]. Its name derives from the [[Algonquian]] word ''aroughcoune''...
16: ...5.5 to 9.5 kg (12 to 21 pounds), the largest recorded being over 28 kg (61 pounds) [http://www.nature....
24: ...the largest animals to have adapted well to human development.
27: ...ay still have behavorial problems like biting and destructive and messy play. Raccoons are [[nocturnal...
29: ...vity and released often do not adapt to life outside. - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...l name, "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ...ly '''Cleopatra''', all of her similarly-named predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra w...
9: ...lowing the deaths of her brothers she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 ...
10: ...ge:The-cleopatra2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
11: ... seeking sanctuary, Ptolemy had him murdered in order to ingratiate himself with Caesar. Caesar was so... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: '''Eleanor of Aquitaine''' ([[Bordeaux]], [[France]], c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]...
6: ...], [[Duke of Aquitaine]], and her mother was Ʈor de Chⴥllerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Vicomte...
8: ... and richest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, d...
10: ...uld remain independent of France, and Eleanor's eldest son would be both King of France and [[Dukes of...
12: ...paign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader. - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absol...
5: ... the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[J...
9: ...ated to make this document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly h...
11: ... freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status hereditary; and gave the nobles full...
13: ...ncouraged foreign investment in economically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censor... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...s foundation of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Peters...
7: ...[[Kolomenskoye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married a...
9: ...luency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and ...
11: ...hat on the death of her mother (May 1727) and the departure to [[Holstein]] of her beloved sister Anne...
15: ...banishment to [[Siberia]], minus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of Russia|Anne]], consoled... - 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... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ... Kesteven" -->''', [[Order of the Garter|LG]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Privy Council|PC]] [[Royal Socie...
29: ...he Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom ... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...ember 7]], [[1962]]) was a [[pen name]] for the [[Denmark|Danish]] author '''Karen Blixen'''. Blixen ...
5: ...the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian...
7: ...uple separated in 1921, and the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Bl...
9: ...he pseudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
15: ... Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ... [[England|English]] [[novelist]] '''Marie Louise de la Ram饧''.
3: ...], to an English father and a French mother. She derived her pen name from her own baby-talk nickname...
8: ...4) (also published with the title ''Two Little Wooden Shoes'') [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13912 G...
11: * ''[[A Dog of Flanders]]'' (1872)
13: * ''Findelkind'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1367... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...helped her develop a stage presence. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta...
7: ...Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]].
9: ...itle song accompanied by members of [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a ...
11: ...her old blues groove, but "Take Me For A Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popula...
13: ...on]]'s uncle) Richard Morgan. They were in an accident and Smith was severely injured. A doctor soon a... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
3: ...ed following. She is probably best known to the wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professio...
10: ...Al Stewart]]) as a backup vocalist. She also recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[Chi...
13: ...ovie soundtrack. A remix of the song is also included on the soundtrack.
15: ===''Under The Pink''=== - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ... figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Chris...
11: ...t|250px|thumbnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by...
13: ... strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...rs only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years...
17: ... and other women (John 19:26). Mary cradling the dead body of her son is a common motif in art, calle...
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