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- China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and v...
7: ... formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and ...
16: ...eir nation as culturally and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nati...
25: ... political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dyna... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
25: ...;[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
29: ... of [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from [[1808]] until [[1813]], when he was removed. I...
33: ... a Federalist. He had already, in [[1808]], moved from Kinderhook to [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]], and ...
39: ...ion, where he opposed the grant of [[universal suffrage]]. His course in the Senate was not altogether...
43: ...oted for the measure in obedience to instructions from the New York [[State legislature|legislature]] ... - Eurasia (4541 bytes)
2: [[Image:Eurasia.jpg|right|thumb|African-Eurasian aspect of [[the Blue Marble|Earth]]]...
3: ...[supercontinent]], part of a supercontinent of [[Africa-Eurasia]], or simply a continent. In [[plate t...
9: ...graphically separated from each other as they are from Europe.
11: ...rope]] and parts of [[North Asia]] create another vaguely similar cultural and geographic sphere known as...
13: ... most Asian migrants traditionally tended to come from the Pacific-rim countries, thus the contrasting... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
39: ...o grow due to active [[lava]] flows, most notably from [[Kilauea|Kīlauea]]. Ethnically, it is the...
51: ...of the island chain. These islands are, in order from the northwest to southeast, Niihau, Kauai, O...
54: ...iian Islands were formed by [[volcano]]es arising from the sea floor through a vent described in geolo...
58: The movement of the Hawaiian royal family from the Island of Hawaii to Maui and subsequently t...
64: ...to extend their sway and defend their communities from predatory rivals. Warfare was endemic. The gen... - Anaximander (3421 bytes)
6: ...r decay, which perpetually yields fresh materials from which everything we can perceive is derived.
10: ...of ours, cylindrical in shape, poised equidistant from surrounding orbs of fire, which had originally ...
12: ...ankind was supposed by Anaximander to have sprung from some other species of animals, probably aquatic...
18: ''On Nature'', circa ? (fragment survives) - Anaximenes of Miletus (1082 bytes)
1: ...r contemporary of [[Anaximander]], whose pupil or friend he is said to have been.
3: ... variety of contents, its universal presence, its vague associations in popular fancy with the phenomena ... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]],...
10: ...tters of science and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the prima...
12: ...eo's experiments, in particular the distinguished French [[History of science and technology|historian...
14: ...esearch into Galileo's unpublished working papers from as early as [[1604]] clearly showed the reality...
24: ... on the opposite side of the Sun and to face away from the Earth when it was on the Earth-side of the ... - Assessment (8640 bytes)
20: ...rt; criterion-referenced assessment does not vary from year to year (unless the criteria change).
26: ...f practical assessment and written test. Teachers frequently complain that some examinations do not pr...
28: ...stions, too many options within a question paper, vague marking instructions and poorly trained markers.
37: ...those pertaining to grading and use of raw scores from assessments.
41: ... at the possible social impacts of proposed new infrastructure projects, natural resource projects, or... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...s cared for by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the ...
8: ...in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in t...
10: ...e Press|Aldus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Ital...
12: ...]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe.
14: ...ull of contradictions. Erasmus held himself aloof from all entangling obligations; yet he was in a sin... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
22: ...izable as Maya are the fantastic stepped pyramids from the [[Terminal Pre-classic]] period and beyond....
29: ...ion and availability of natural resources such as fresh-water wells, or ''[[cenotes]]'', the city grew...
37: ... with stone tools ... only hardening once removed from its bed. In addition to the structural use of ...
41: ...of a platform sub-structure that varied in height from less than a meter, in the case of terraces and ...
54: ...e]]s and [[equinox]]es. Other ideas seem to stem from the possible creation story told by the relief ... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
4: ...regions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Although the struggle between execu...
8: ...cs' constitutionally guaranteed "right" to secede from the union. Russia was the largest of the union ...
12: ...chev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected a...
14: ...go]], [[Gennady Yanayev]], and [[Oleg Baklanov]] (from left) go public with the formation of a State o...
18: ... and they quickly received diplomatic recognition from many nations. Gorbachev's rump government recog... - Confucius (21352 bytes)
20: ...<small>(Ch: </small>孔子<small>, less frequently </small>孔夫子<small>;
22: |align=right| ||<small>Py: Kǒngzǐ, less fr. Kǒngfūzǐ;
24: ...ight| ||<small>[[Wade-Giles|WG]]: K'ung-tzu, less fr. K'ung Fu-tzu)</small>
50: ... son of a once noble family who had recently fled from the [[Song (state)|State of Song]]. His father ...
56: ... Chinese people as a Great Teacher or Master. Far from trying to build a systematic theory of life and... - Libya (12985 bytes)
1: Libya is a country in [[North Africa]], bordering the [[Mediterranean Sea]], locate...
3: ...sometimes referring to the entire continent of [[Africa]].
59: ...[[terrorism]]. All Libyan diplomats were expelled from the United States and the United States officia...
67: ...man [[La Belle (discotheque)|La Belle]] nightclub frequented by U.S. servicemen on [[April 5]], which ...
74: ...o [[constitution]], and the laws of the land come from [[Islamic law]], and Qadhafi's ''[[The Green Bo... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...th America and then he would have to head back to France to regain funding. This article covers his tr...
7: ... the [[St. Lawrence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his ...
9: ...ries, Champlain joined another expedition to New France in the spring of [[1604]] led by [[Pierre Dug...
19: ...he men headed back, leaving Champlain with only 2 Frenchmen and 60 natives.
21: ...ois turned and fled. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred y... - Australian Shepherd (9749 bytes)
52: ...often excels at [[dog sports]] such as [[disc dog|frisbee]] and [[dog agility]].
63: ...ht appear to be hyperactivity in the house around fragile furnishings or involve the destruction of ya...
67: ...he [[Pyrenees Mountains]] between [[Spain]] and [[France]].
69: ...Collie, and Bouvier des Flandres, as well as dogs from [[Germany]] and Spain. For many centuries, [[s...
71: ...es of hot and cold, and fields varied in altitude from sea level into the higher, rougher [[Sierra Nev... - Occipital lobe (3582 bytes)
8: ...of the lobe merge with the parietal lobes along a vague boundary defined by several lateral occipital gyr...
14: ...lf of the retina on the same side of the head and from the inside half of the retina on the other side...
18: ...ged, the result can be [[homonomous]] vision loss from similarly positioned "field cuts" in each eye. ...
24: ...vel description of the local orientation, spatial-frequency and color properties within small [[recept... - Middle East (6318 bytes)
3: ...re specifically, [[Asia]], and sometimes [[North Africa]].
6: ...[Morocco]] are increasingly being called [[North Africa]] instead, in contrast to Middle Eastern (Iran...
17: ... and cultural associations, as is [[Sudan]]. The African countries [[Mauritania]] and [[Somalia]] also...
21: ...rceived [[Eurocentrism]]. The region is only east from the perspective of western Europe. To an [[Indi...
23: ...ords, the term Middle East came about when the UK/French part of the world used the term. - 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... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
5: Some genre labels are quite vague, and may be contrived by [[critic]]s; [[post-rock...
33: ...band]], [[bebop]], [[hard bop]], [[cool jazz]], [[free jazz]], [[jazz fusion]] and [[smooth jazz]].
37: ...h degree of technical skill and musical knowledge from the performers.
39: ...rm today is a widely varied one, using influences from all of the past styles, although the root of mo...
45: ... the early 1960s rhythm 'n' blues took influences from [[gospel music|gospel]] and [[rock and roll]] a...
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