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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
9: ... losing a ship, that he entered and departed some fifty undiscovered harbours without serious mishap a...
11: ==First Voyage 1534==
13: ...ched-for [[northwest passage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] ...
17: ... site of their arrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault, a l... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
10: ...r was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right and officially the most eligible heiress in Europe. These...
16: ...had been annexed by Bohemond of Hauteville in the First Crusade, and it was now ruled by her flamboyan...
18: ...that were the beginnings of what would become the field of [[Admiralty law|admiralty law]]. She later ...
20: ... their second daughter, [[Alix of France]] (their first was [[Marie de Champagne|Marie]]), but there w...
22: ... with her. Over the next 13 years, she bore Henry five sons and three daughters: [[William, Count of P... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...[[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enli...
10: ...ded to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
12: ...romenade du sceptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, t...
14: ...f some points in aesthetics. The philosophic significance of the two essays is in the advance they mak...
23: ...onary of Arts and Sciences]]'', undertaken in the first instance by the Englishman [[John Mills]], and... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ... the tomb. The risen Lord appeared to her, but at first she knew him not. His utterance of her name "M...
12: ...ded to be defended. All of these manuscripts were first discovered and published between [[1938]] and ...
27: Tradition as early as the 3rd century identified as Mary Magdalene the woman who was a sinner in...
33: ...he same person, and [[Martin Scorsese]]'s earlier film adaptation of [[Nikos Kazantzakis]]'s novel ''[...
36: ...there from the mid thirteenth century, one of the finest [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] churches in th... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...iva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an internationa...
3: ... the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named ''La D...
8: ...r her to compete in tennis and gain strength. Her first try at the game was in 1910, when she played o...
10: ...r her first tennis strokes, Lenglen played in the final of the [[1914 in sports|1914]] French Champion...
14: ...g in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Stained glass (3937 bytes)
7: ...t has been painted with [[silver]] stain and then fired. Depending on its thickness, this stains clear...
17: ..._window.html Doak Campbell Stadium's Bobby Bowden Field]. More info at [http://www.craft.fsu.edu Mast... - Missouri (16086 bytes)
1: ...tory/slogan.asp Show-Me] State''; the U.S. Post Office abbreviation for Missouri is '''MO''' and the s...
15: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
67: ...kansas, S. E. Kansas, and N. E. Oklahoma. [[Springfield, Missouri]] in southwestern Missouri lies on t...
69: ... It is also the most fertile. It is here that one finds cotton and rice production. The Bootheel area ...
86: ...n of the state. Missouri also ranks first or near first among the production of lime. - Vermont (39851 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
36: ...ion (608,827) ranks as the second smallest of the fifty states. As the only [[New England]] state not ...
48: ...everal mountains do have timberlines: [[Mount Mansfield]], the highest mountain in the state and [[Kil...
54: ...6 degrees Celsius), at [[Bloomfield, Vermont|Bloomfield]] on [[December 30]], [[1933]].
57: ...sfield 20040926.jpg|280px|thumb|right|[[Mount Mansfield]], at 4,393 feet, is the highest elevation poi... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
13: ...agara]], [[Fort Duquesne]], and – most significantly of all– at the [[Plains of Abraham]] ...
17: The war officially ended with the signing of the [[1763 Treaty...
23: ...of the opening engagements of the war, marked the first and only instance of [[George Washington]] sur... - Government (12596 bytes)
1: ... for a certain [[territory]]. There are several definitions on what exactly constitutes a government. ...
3: ==Definitions==
4: One approach is to define government as the dominant decision-making arm ...
5: ...organization which controls a territory without defining laws would not be considered a government.
7: Another alternative is to define a government as an organisation that attempts t... - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
1: .... Detached fresco. 247 x 153 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Artist: Andrea di Bartolo di ...
8: ... the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitte...
17: ...vely to look at, fair-haired, with a modest, dignified bearing.
19: ... [[1348]], the poet finds that his grief is as difficult to live with as was his former despair. Later...
24: ...n writings are difficult to find today. It is difficult to assign any precise dates to his writings b... - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
11: ...e principal rival of Realism prior to Abélard). First, against opposition from the metropolitan teac...
15: Distinguished in figure and manners, Abélard was seen surrounded by ...
22: ...not yet twenty, consummated her work of self-sacrifice at Abélard's jealous bidding that she never ag...
25: ...onastery was intolerable for Abélard, and he was finally allowed to leave. In a desert place near [[...
29: ... St. Marcel, near [[Chalon-sur-Saone]], he died. First buried at St. Marcel, his remains were soon ca... - Christopher Condent (2308 bytes)
- Music of the United States (1940s and 50s) (18910 bytes)
10: ...the [[Bakersfield Sound]]. For a time, the Bakersfield Sound was the only homegrown music that could ...
14: ...nered critical acclaim during much of the decade, finally breaking through in a big way very late in t...
16: ==Diversification of pop music==
18: ...e Highway"), [[Jerry Lee Lewis]] ("Great Balls of Fire") and [[Chet Atkins]] ("Mr. Sandman")), as well...
20: ...]] ("I Be's Troubled") and [[Jimmy Yancey]] ("The Fives") than their American counterparts, who mostly...
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