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- Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: ...ferent religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of China is [[Chinese tradit...
5: ...eligions, while others regard them as solely philosophies of life.
7: ...ofess a belief in multiple belief systems. It is possible for someone to claim to be a [[Buddhism|Budd...
9: ...[[Confucianism]], [[shamanism]], and [[Taoism]]. Most Chinese have a conception of [[heaven]] and [[yi...
11: ...ynasty that had lapsed into [[corruption]] could lose the [[Mandate of Heaven]] and be overthrown by a... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mid_horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' M...
5: ...33), at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother was alive at the time, but who wou...
7: ...on of his royal house, would listen to such a proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Franci...
11: ...he Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition. On [[April 1]], [[1560]] she named as chanc...
15: ...e]], and found before her a career worthy of the most soaring ambition. She was then forty-one years o... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ... the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scot...
17: ...ng loss to the English at the [[Battle of Solway Moss]]. In [[Falkland Palace]], her father heard of t...
19: ...her mother, who strongly opposed the marriage proposition, went into hiding in [[Stirling Castle]], wh...
31: ...y tried to change the agreement so that he could possess Mary years before the marriage was to take pl...
33: ...her such actions. It lasted until June [[1551]], costing over half a million pounds and many lives. In... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the g...
12: ...no della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospigliosi Palace]] in [[Rome]], so Orazio hired the Tuscan...
24: ...on of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecially of the Grand...
26: ...aintings wished to have an image of the author, whose fame was rising. The success and the fashion rad...
36: ...obably born in [[1627]]. Artemisia tried, with almost no success, to teach them the art of painting. - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
1: ...hich circulates [[blood]] around the [[body]] of most [[animal]]s.
15: The circulatory system of [[arthropod]]s and most [[mollusk]]s is ''open'', meaning that there are...
17: ===Closed circulatory system===
18: ...halopod]]s ([[squid]]s and [[octopus]]es) are ''closed'', meaning that the blood never leaves the syst...
35: ...]s, where it passes through a capillary network close to air-filled [[alveoli]]. This enables the rele... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
4: *[[Callistus Xanothopoulos|Xanothopoulos, Callistus]], patriarch of Constantinople
6: *[[Isidore Xanthopoulos|Xanthopoulos, Isidore]], patriarch of Constantinople
7: *[[Francis Xavier|Xavier, Francis]], ([[1506]]-[[1552]]), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary]]
8: ...Xenakis, Iannis]], ([[1922]]-[[2001]]), Greek composer
9: ...[Xenocrates]], ([[396 BC|396]] - [[314 BC]]), philosopher - List of painters (54090 bytes)
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - Zoology (5641 bytes)
10: ...Greek language|Greek]] ''zoon'' = animal and ''logos'' = word) is the [[biology|biological]] [[academi...
28: ...thology]] study mechanisms that are specific to those groups.
35: ...rs on zoo-geography, and (3) [[collector]]s of [[fossil]]s and [[palaeontologist]]s are the chief vari...
37: ...Wotton was simply an exponent of [[Aristotle]], whose teaching, - with various fanciful additions, con...
39: ...tory conceptions of successive naturalists with those which are to be found in the works of [[Caldon]]... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...became an early "[[research institute]]". For purposes of [[publication]], he owned a [[printing press...
10: ...strup Castle]] until he was six years old. Around 1552 his uncle was given the command of Vordingborg Ca...
12: ...acrobosco]]'s Tractatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis and [[Regiom...
16: ...he [[arcminute]]. (These measurements became the possessions of Kepler following Tycho's death.)
18: ...the [[skull]] was rimmed with green, a sign of exposure to [[copper]], not silver or gold. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...rchant" or "marketeer". Educated in [['s-Hertogenbosch]] and at the [[University of Leuven]]. Although...
12: ...He produced more maps and he was appointed Court Cosmographer to [[Duke Wilhelm of Cleve]] in [[1564]]...
22: ...by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. ISBN 1-891... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - ) - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
6: [[Guru Nanak]] was opposed to the caste system. His followers referred to ...
10: Guru Nanak's doctrinal position is clear, despite the appearance that it is ...
12: ...ch tended to erect "a wall of falsehood" around those who live totally in the mundane world of materia...
24: ...to have Langar. Guru Amar Das also trained 140 apostles of which 52 were women to manage the rapid ex...
30: ...ru Tegh Bahadur|Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji]]. Sikh mythos says that Guru Tegh Bahadur sacrificed himself to... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ...ntial treatise, ''Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva''.
12: Serlio's treatise was translated into Spanish in 1552 and published in Toledo by Juan de Ayala with the...
28: ...ooks VI-VII of "Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva" with "Castrametation of the Romans" and "T... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
1: ...d the world||Christmas Around the World (Bradley Joseph album)}}
29: In India, most educational institutions have a mid-academic yea...
41: ...merican TV dramas, Christmas became popular, but mostly not as a religious occasion. For many Japanese...
43: ...national holiday. Shortly thereafter businesses close for the New Year's holidays, usually reopening o...
47: ...tree in Downtown [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]] (notice mosque in the back)]] - Judge (10187 bytes)
13: ...ic country with a [[rule of law]], judges are supposed to be [[impartial]], and not influenced by the ...
17: In most [[civil law]] jurisdictions judges go to special...
27: ...s have become associated with the occupation. In most nations of the world judges wear long robes, usu...
33: ...were replaced in 2000 by black robes similar to those worn in the rest of the world.
37: In most [[English (language)|English]] speaking countrie...
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