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- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: '''Cleopatra VII Philopator''' (Κλεοπάτρ&al...
6: ...ncient Egypt's rulers, and is usually known as simply '''Cleopatra''', all of her similarly-named pred...
21: ...of the lavish dinners she shared with Antony, she playfully bet him that she could spend ten million [...
35: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html Cleopatra... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...d. Her husband, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], has been implicated as well, and remained in jail until [[Novem...
6: ...fe College]], where she was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. She tempor...
11: ... she was leader in [[exile]] of the [[Pakistan Peoples Party]] (PPP), her father's party, but was unab...
17: ...humb|200px|left|Benazir Bhutto at a [[Pakistan Peoples Party]] event in Newark, CA, [[28 September]] [...
21: ...] and says she wants to return to office, most people in Pakistan are convinced that she and her husba... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth'''
35: ...sical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/s...
41: ...h the goal of becoming a concert [[pianist]]. Her plans changed when she attended a course on internat...
43: ...tical science]], ''[[cum laude]]'' and [[Phi Beta Kappa]], from the [[University of Denver]]. In [[1975]]...
77: ...ush named Rice's deputy, [[Stephen Hadley]], to replace her as National Security Advisor. On January 7... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
7: ...d her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
11: ...hailand]] at a [[Cambodia]]n refugee camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Me...
13: ...in [[Houston, Texas]], to research, develop and implement advanced technologies suited to the social, ...
15: ... implementing advanced technologies that may be employed advantageously to the development of less ind...
19: ...93); People magazine's 1993 "50 Most Beautiful People in the World"; CORE Outstanding Achievement Awar... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ... She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor's degre...
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Ma...
14: In the 1970s, she pioneered the implementation of [[standards]] testing of computers, ...
38: ... is famous for her ''nanoseconds'' visual aid. People (such as generals and admirals) used to ask her ... - Heart (10132 bytes)
3: ...", from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''kardia'' (καρδια) for "heart".
15: ...ry artery]]. In the lungs gaseous exchange takes places and the blood releases [[carbon dioxide]] int...
23: The blood supply to the heart itself is supplied by the left and right ''coronary arteries'', w...
28: ...trial systole'', ''ventricular systole'' and ''complete cardiac diastole.'' The atrial systole consist...
30: ...and ''aortic semilunar valves'' close. Finally complete cardiac diastole involves relaxation of the at... - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
1: ... and other ceramic materials. This article will explore the history, techniques, cultural significance...
21: ...ured into molds, making it easier to produce multiple copies of a design.
23: *Glazing and Firing: Glazing involves applying a coating that will turn to glass when the po...
30: ...raku ware, known for its simplistic beauty, is deeply intertwined with the Japanese tea ceremony and Z...
46: ...d Κεραμεικος (the name of a suburb of [[Athe... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
1: ...0px|Calligraphy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bi...
2: '''Calligraphy''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] καλλος ''kallos...
4: ... more general terms, called [[palaeography]]. Examples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest t...
14: ...ide, hiragana and katakana were developed from simplified cursive versions of characters. In the hands...
54: ...ters have been affected by seal carving, since simplification of characters has often been practiced. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
25: ... historical stages of the Greek language that are placed prior to the creation of the [[Greek alphabet...
36: ...Italian]] is to [[Latin language|Latin]], for example. It is claimed that an "educated" speaker of the...
44: Greek is spoken by about 12 million people mainly in [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]] but also in ...
52: ... reflects features of the older language. The examples below are intended to represent Attic Greek in ...
164: | [[plosive consonant|'''Plosive''']] - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...d to mean various things from "any euphonious and pleasing sound" to only a printed document showing h...
4:
8: ...nomy]] and [[musica]]. The concept of musica was split into three major kinds: [[musica universalis]],...
10: ...rceived as a form of music, without necessarily implying that any [[sound]] would be heard - music ref...
14: ...mathematical proportions in sound - be it sung or played on instruments. The polyphonic organization o... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
22: ...sity]] in [[1787]], and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then was admitted to the bar a...
24: ...rn wife, Adams wed Louisa Johnson in 1797. The couple named one of their sons after George Washington....
37: ...latter's quest for re-election, was sworn in to replace him. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...arth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
15: Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s ...
53: ... that at a given time there are at least 1,000 people living in Antarctica. This varies considerably w...
103: ...[John Calvin Batchelor]]'s "The Birth of the [[People's Republic]] of Antarctica" ([[1983]])
106: <!-- Somebody who can read Japanese, please check the year here http://www.nacos.com/koma... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
6: ...e in [[1792]], where he was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. On [[January 6]], [[1817]] he married Henriett...
16: ...duce that the concepts and designs were readily duplicated by others. Whitney's company that produced...
22: ...on to American industry was the development and implementation of the [[American System of manufacturi...
24: ...therefore be manufactured cheaply, because the supply of goods was no longer limited by the number of ...
26: ...ted by a skill." Whitney's concepts were later exploited by [[Henry Ford]] and others in [[manufactur... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...ssilia]] (today Marseille). He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern [[Europe]] around 325 [[Co...
4: ...e could never have funded. His story is, however, plausible. The trip may have been underwritten by a ...
6: ...le in succession to Bordeaux, Nantes, Land's End, Plymouth, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Icel...
8: ...porary lapse in the blockade, known to have taken place around the time he travelled.
10: ...ni'' or ''Priteni'', 'Painted?' or 'Tattooed?' people, a term Romans Latinised as ''Picti'' ([[Picts]]... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
2: ...Greek language|Greek]] {{polytonic|Σωκράτης}} Sōkrá´Ĥamp;...
5: ...of Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] that Socrates was decorated ...
7: ... scientific institute with his friend Chaerophon; Plato has Socrates tell us that he once spent all of...
11: ...to the version of his defense speech presented in Plato's ''Apology'', Socrates' life as the "gadfly" ...
13: ...s disciples and thinkers that reflect on his accomplishments through their writing. - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...le]]s (e.g. [[electron]]s / [[proton]]s) which couples to [[electromagnetic fields]] and causes attrac...
3: ...e [[quantity of electricity]] or charge. For example, "''Q'' = 0.5 C" means "the quantity of electric...
8: ...s believed by some to have been used for [[electroplating]]. There is no firm documentary evidence to ...
10: ...word ''electricus'' from ''ηλεκτρον'' (''elektron''), the Gre...
22: ...and other effects (some have been duplicated or explained; and others which have not). Nikola Tesla, i... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Tampico, Illinois]]
13: | place of death=[[Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California | ...
25: ...n was [[baptism|baptized]] in his mother's [[Disciples of Christ]] church in Dixon, and in [[1924]] he...
29: ...for the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none...
31: ...d. Reagan smoothly improvised a fictional play-by-play (in which hitters on both teams fouled off pitc... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...e into what has become modern [[France]], an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible to t...
6: ...rded by later historians such as [[Suetonius]], [[Plutarch]], and [[Dio Cassius|Cassius Dio]].
17: ...Roman Senate]], people were forced to stand and applaud his presence.
28: ...n asked why he would have such a reaction, his simple response was: "Do you think I have not just...
30: ...elationship with Rome’s great general would play into his hands later. - Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
5: ...thology|myth]], and [[archaeology]]. During the [[Pleistocene]] [[ice age]], Ireland was extensively g...
9: ...ey constructed by stretching animal skins over simple wooden frames. They had outdoor hearths for cook...
14: ...and pottery, and the use of more advanced stone implements. It was once thought that these innovations...
20: ...onuments. The largest of these tombs were clearly places of religious and ceremonial importance to the...
32: ...t have been the result of colonisation: it may simply have been the natural consequence of the introdu... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...anbul]] in today's [[Turkey]]. Today, Constantinople is the area between the [[Golden Horn]] and the ...
3: ...lorin]], is synonomous with Byzantium (Constantinople), where most gold coins circulating in Europe ca...
5: ...r provinces to the east in Asia beyond Constantinople, allowing the east to develop relatively unmoles...
7: Constantinople was captured and sacked by the [[Fourth Crusade]...
9: ..., the capital was moved to [[Ankara]]; Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul in [[1930]].
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