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- Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...d unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eightee...
22: ...ork was set for the eventual heirs of Puritanism, from the "low-church" Protestant and [[evangelicalis...
26: ...Dissenters]]. [[English Dissenters]] were barred from any profession that required official religious...
28: ...nwealth period, the Church of England was removed from Royal control and reorganized to grant greater ...
32: ...nd formed individual colonies, their numbers rose from 17,800 in 1640 to 106,000 in 1700. [http://www.... - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
2: ... "emperor," rather than ''basilissa'', "empress") from [[797]] to [[802]]. She was the wife of [[Leo I...
8: ...these, held in [[786]] at [[Constantinople]], was frustrated by the opposition of the soldiers. The se...
10: ... restive under her autocratic sway. An attempt to free himself by force was met and crushed by the emp...
12: ...teen days' duration were attributed by the common superstition to the horror of heaven.
14: ...eophanes]], who alone mentions it, the scheme was frustrated by Aëtius, one of her favourites. A ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ...
38: ...he [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]], known as the [[Spanish Civil... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ...nd an American [[statesman]], [[ambassador]] to [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosoph...
23: ...0]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from families who had settled in [[Virginia]] for se...
25: ...ch included Jefferson, [[John Adams]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livin...
27: ...[curriculum]] of which Jefferson also designed. [[Frank E. Grizzard]], Jr., a scholar at the Universit...
30: ...at the layers of occupation, and draw conclusions from them. - Vietnam (18265 bytes)
6: ... II]], [[Japan]] occupied Vietnam. After the war, France attempted to re-establish control but ultimat...
8: ...r Powers Resolution]] prevented the United States from defending South Vietnam. [[Fall of Saigon|Saigo...
10: ...public of Vietnam."'' Refugees continued fleeing from Vietnam through the rest of the decade, and int...
12: ...tnam invaded [[Cambodia]] and removed [[Pol Pot]] from power and into hiding, thereby decisively stabi...
17: ...ut in practice it receives most of its directives from the party. Although there has been some effort ... - January (2450 bytes)
8: ...equal a standard lunar year (354 days). A Roman [[superstition]] against even numbers resulted in the addition o... - Religion (72319 bytes)
10: The word religion is thought to derive from one of two combinations of Latin roots. The fi...
25: ...sion, see [[approaches to distinguishing religion from non-religion]].
38: *An ethical framework, including a definition of activities whic...
53: ... Commandments]] of the [[Old Testament]], flowing from the beliefs rather than being defined by the be...
54: ...xt|texts they hold as sacred]] uniquely different from other writings, and which records or is the bas... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
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...
20: ...figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]] with the axiomatic approach of Desca... - Albatross (4372 bytes)
17: The '''albatrosses''' (from [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ''Alcatraz''...
21: ... by gliding across wave fronts gaining [[energy]] from the vertical [[wind gradient]]. Their principal...
28: ...rder [[Ciconiiformes]], whereas in Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the more tradition...
30: ... [[British Ornithologists' Union]] and the South African authorities split the albatrosses into four g...
38: It is a [[superstition]] among sailors that it is disastrous to shoot an... - Bat (13851 bytes)
18: [[Free-tailed bat|Molossidae]]<br />
31: ...not just as pollinators, but eating the resulting fruits and so spreading their seeds. This role expla...
39: # Megachiroptera ([[megabat]]s or fruit bats)
42: Megabats eat fruit, while microbats eat mainly [[Insect|insects]]...
44: ...nce that Megachiroptera evolved flight separately from the Microchiroptera, a group of mammals which w... - Amulet (8206 bytes)
5: ...[[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''tilasm'', ultimately from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''telesma'') consists...
10: ... see people with more than one [[Buddha]] hanging from their necks; in [[Bolivia]] and some places in ...
18: ...drawings with [[kabbalah|cabbalistic]] signs), [[Afro-American]] syncretic religions, like [[Voodoo]],...
24: Deriving from the ancient [[Celts]], the [[clover]], if it ha...
31: ...urable to communicate with [[demon]]s and to show friendship towards them. - Monitor lizard (2209 bytes)
2: ... = Monitor Lizard, Masai National Reserve, Kenya Africa]]}}
22: ...snakes]] (Serpentes) are believed to have evolved from a [[sister group]] to the Varanidae.
26: ...nitors.asp Wildwatch], the name actually resulted from a mishearing of the [[Arabic (language)|Arabic]... - Nero (23127 bytes)
2: [[Image:nero.JPG|frame|Nero]]
32: ...n]] [[island]]s. Lucius was presumably separated from his mother at this point.
34: ...s first decisions was the recalling of his nieces from exile.
52: ...]], and the ''praefectus praetorianus'' [[Sextus Afranius Burrus]]. The first five years under Nero be...
54: ... state affairs. However problems would soon arise from Nero's personal life and the increasing competi... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
46: ...water from the Salt River. Their name is derived from the [[Pima]] (Akimel O'otham) phrase, ''Ho Ho K...
49: ... and others from Wickenburg had dug a short canal from the Salt River and founded a small farming colo...
53: ...'', memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins left by the Hohokam.
61: ...Hotel now stands. Miss Nellie Shaver, a newcomer from Wisconsin, was appointed as the first female sc...
65: ...nment. The bill was signed by Governor [[John C. Fremont]] on [[February 25]], [[1881]]. Phoenix wa... - Hippocrates (3132 bytes)
2: ...icum'', or "Hippocratic writings") rejected the [[superstition]] and magic of primitive "medicine" and laid the ... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
8: ...ld and silver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and have been ...
11: ...f [[mysticism]] and [[magic (paranormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and belie...
13: ...son to separate the chemical (material) dimension from the interpretive, symbolic or philosophical one...
17: ...uml;ve interpretations of some alchemists, or the fraudulent hopes fostered by others should not dimin...
19: ...istry, which provided a more precise and reliable framework for matter transmutations and medicine, wi... - April Fool's Day (15510 bytes)
3: == Superstitions ==
4: ...l will be compensated by marriage to, or at least friendship with her.
6: Another [[superstition]] is that marriage on April Fools' Day is not a g...
9: ...ing on 1 April. In [[1582]], King [[Charles IX of France]] brought in the new [[Gregorian calendar]], ...
12: ...s of the world; it is actually the first of April from '''0000 -1200 1 April''' until '''2359 +1400 1 ... - Baseball (36464 bytes)
3: ...sometimes called ''hardball'' to differentiate it from the closely related sport of [[softball]] and o...
12: ...ays has the ball -- a fact that differentiates it from most other team sports. The teams switch every...
26: ...tempt to prevent the [[#Team at bat|team at bat]] from scoring. The fielding team has a ''[[pitcher]]...
34: ... ''[[right fielder]]'', the positions being named from the catcher's perspective. The right fielder ge...
42: ...me for both teams is held between Houston and San Francisco with 16 pitchers. The pitcher's main weapo... - Cat (30067 bytes)
18: ...ats to keep [[mouse|mice]] and other rodents away from their grain. Currently, the cat is one of the...
25: ...uch exceptional genetic mutation.) When angry or frightened, a cat will lay its ears back, to accompa...
37: ...ng membrane]], which is a thin cover which closes from the side and appears when the cat's eyelid open...
45: ...ling brown liquid. Indoor cats will also benefit from being provided with a [[scratching post]] so th...
52: ...possibility of infection (or, rarely, [[rabies]]) from a cat bite. Cats ravage [[ecosystem]]s where th... - Klopotec (8027 bytes)
1: ...ird-scaring_rattle.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Klopotec from [[Slovenske Gorice]] has four wings]]
5: ...nd in some dialetcs ''klapoc''. Both words derive from '''klopotati''', that is to produce cut off, rh...
9: ...] also states that the klopotec drives [[snake]]s from the vineyard and softens the grapes.
13: ...he youngest brother of the [[Habsburg]] Emperor [[Francis I of Austria]] had it in his vineyard in [[1...
17: ... and [[Prlekija]] (of which it is a symbol), less frequently in [[Lower Carniola]] and [[White Carniol...
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