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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...tion and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
15: ...ge:Statute_ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroo...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...eat''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[Novemb...
5: ...onths later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by ...
11: ...tion the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status here...
13: ...the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the mode...
16: ...mage:Buberel Coronation coach Catherine the Great.jpg|thumb|250px|Catherine the Great's coronation coac... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Mi...
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
3: ...fef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ... a shield are described from the top to the base, from dexter to sinister. Dexter ("right" in [[Latin]...
14: ...huthatswana]] and some Algerian civic heraldry of French colonial origin, specific shapes of shield ar...
20: <tr align="center"><td>[[Image:THATCHERBARONESS.jpg|The arms of Lady Thatcher]]
21: </td><td>[[Image:THATCHERBT.jpg|The arms of Sir Denis Thatcher]]</td></tr>
28: ...The names of the tinctures mainly come to us from French. The first rule of heraldry is the rule of ti... - Map (10223 bytes)
1: [[Image:Gold-sundial-on-a-map.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Gold sundial on a map]]
7: ...h-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ...tical value, and this has been the source of much fruitful map criticism over the last twenty years, n...
30: ...o the ceiling, then on the table it is a [[mirror image]] of a normal map.
49: From the last quarter of the 20th century, the indis... - Republic of the Congo (9324 bytes)
5: image_flag = Congo republic flag large.pn...
6: image_coat = Congocofarms2.PNG |
7: ...= Unit鬠Travail, Progres <br> ([[French language|French]]: Unity, Work, Progress) |
8: image_map = LocationRCongo.png |
10: official_languages = [[French language|French]] | - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... the country's early history, stemming as it does from the Roman name ''Portus Cale'', a possibly mixe...
15: ...C]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local ...
17: ...Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the [[Conii]]. Over decades, the R...
21: [[Image:Castelo guimaraes2.jpg|thumb|right|230px|The [[10th century|10th-century...
25: ...s. From there they aimed to reconquer their lands from the [[Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Ar... - List of musical instruments (9508 bytes)
1: [[Image:Music instru.jpg|thumb|250px|Photo provided by [http://classroomcl...
7: [[Image:Music_instru3.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroo...
8: ...lumn of air is made to vibrate inside them. The [[frequency]] of the wave generated is related to the ...
9: [[Image:Accordian.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroo...
12: ...string is plucked, strummed, slapped, etc. The [[frequency]] of the wave generated (and therefore the... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: [[Image:Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg|thumb|right|225px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' ...
4: ...rk for the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution]]s, the Latin American independenc...
14: ...ne. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ...d by the ideas of [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]...
18: ...ies. If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw th... - Earth Day (8264 bytes)
1: ...re awareness of and appreciation for the planet's fragile environment.
3: ...spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.''"
12: ...spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.” Secretary Gene...
19: [[Image:Tongass_national_forest_juneau_img_7501.jpg|right|400px|thumb]]
29: The Earth Day leadership fractured over the years, with Hayes and Nelson and ... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...ud]]. The words 'lute' and 'oud' are both derived from [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''al‘ud'', "th...
5: [[Image:8-course-tenor-renaissance-lute-04.jpg|thumb|8-course tenor Renaissance lute. This is a ...
7: ...wood, somewhat tapered, that are held in place by friction in holes through the ''peg box''. (There ar...
9: ...to a full octave higher than the open string (see image). Strings were historically made of gut (or extre...
11: .... The courses are numbered sequentially, counting from the highest pitched, so that the ''chantrelle''... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
1: [[Image:steamboat_lucerne_small.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Paddle steamers - [[Lake Lucern...
2: ...|right|thumb|240px|Left: original [[paddlewheel]] from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. Right:...
3: [[Image:PS Waverley leaving Dunoon 1989.jpg|thumb|right|240px|[[PS Waverley|PS ''Waverley'']]...
19: ...France]], by [[1774]] the Marquis [[Claude de Jouffroy]] and colleagues had made a working steamboat t...
21: ...River]], but then patent disputes dissuaded Fitch from continuing. - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
1: [[Image:Heloïse et d'Abélard.jpg|thumb|right|"Abaelardus and Heloïse surprised by...
2: ...rd''' ([[1079]] – [[April 21]], [[1142]]) was a French [[Scholasticism|scholastic]] [[philosopher]]....
7: ...whether this was in early youth, when he wandered from school to school for instruction and exercise, ...
10: ... Leighton - Abaelard Und Seine Schülerin Heloisa.jpg|thumb|left|Abelard and his pupil, Eloise, by Edmu...
11: ...sm prior to Abélard). First, against opposition from the metropolitan teacher, while yet only twenty... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
3: [[Image:Voltaire.jpg|frame|Voltaire]]
4: ...y the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a [[France|French]] [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] ...
8: ...his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...nism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...Abbé de [[Châteauneuf]], a friend of François' mother, instructed him in ''les bel... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leonhard Euler.jpeg|thumb|Leonhard Euler aged 49 ...
3: ...ction (mathematics)|function]]" (defined by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] - [[1694]]) to describe an [...
29: ...f laws of motion in [[fluid dynamics]], directly from [[Newton's laws of motion]]. These equations ...
37: ...ical analysis, it was Euler who synthesised [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]'s differential [[calculus]] ...
41: ...{2^2} + \frac{1}{3^2} + \frac{1}{4^2} + \cdots = \frac{\pi^2}{6}</math>, - Steam engine (17867 bytes)
6: ...|industrial machine sutherland steam fire engine. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroo...
9: ... of a steam engine after observing steam escaping from his [[pressure cooking|pressure cooker]] in abo...
15: ...f the vacuum engines were in the pumping of water from deep mineshafts. The Newcomen engine operated b...
19: ...sed a far greater pressure, but more importantly (from a [[thermodynamics|thermodynamic]] standpoint) ...
26: ... the small [[riverboat]] used in the movie [[The African Queen]]. This type is also used in some boile...
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