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- Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ... it had perhaps been inhabited by the [[Dorset people]]). Born in the Jaeder district of south-west [[...
4: ...west of Iceland- lands that had supposedly been explored by Gunnjborn. Nearly a century earlier, Gunnb...
6: ...e." His salesmanship proved successful as many people (especially "those [[Vikings]] living on poor la...
12: ...reenland). His son Leif was the first Viking to explore the land of Vinland (North America). Leif invi... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: ...ht|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shi...
9: ...al Roman of the [[2nd century]], whose military exploits in Britain may have been remembered for centu...
13: ... that another Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]], led the forces battlin...
19: ...f Arthur" and states "we went with Arthur in his splendid labours"; and the poem "Journey to Deganwy,"...
23: ..."Lives") of 6th-century [[saint|saints]]: for example, in the ''Life of Saint [[Illtud]]'', he is said... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
10: ...que and cast her in a major role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story o...
23: ... Hari]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). The censors complained about her revealing outfit shown on the movi...
25: ... getting her leading man, [[Laurence Olivier]], replaced on ''[[Queen Christina (film)|Queen Christina...
33: ...ning Garbo's image and making her less exotic, complete with the insertion of a scene in which her cha...
35: ...ion. She withdrew from the entertainment world completely and moved to a secluded life in [[New York C... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
3: ...ion of [[embouchure]] and air-pressure allows the player to express a huge range of emotions and moods...
7: ...y and produce a good sound ([[tone]]) on. Amateur players often produce a nasal (often out-of-tune) an...
9: ...h (music)|pitch]] (tune) by listening to the oboe playing concert A (earlier 440 Hz everywhere, n...
11: ...d a narrower bore and a reed which is held by the player's lips near the end. [[Henry Purcell]] was th...
13: ... tied together on a small-diameter metal tube (staple). The reed is held on the lips. The commonly acc... - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
2: ... thus the literature is best characterized by its place of origin and/or language, as well as its genr...
7: ... the older oral traditions of the [[Germanic]] peoples. [[Celtic]] traditions have survived in the [[B...
22: ...often controlled by local [[guild]]s, and mystery plays would be performed regularly on set feast-days...
34: ...rtained a society that, in most cases, limited people to the area in which they were born. (But note t...
46: ...ance of the Rose]]'', ''[[Everyman]]'', ''[[Piers Plowman]]'' and ''[[The Divine Comedy]]''. - Leif Ericson (4502 bytes)
4: ...dash; ''c.'' [[1020]]) was a [[Norsemen|Norse]] explorer, and the first [[Europe]]an known to have dis...
8: ...boat of [[Bjarni Herjólfsson]], and set out to explore the land that Bjarni had found, today known as...
10: ...crew members, but in the opposite direction.{{ref|saga-of-eric-the-red}} The first land he met was cover...
12: ... They remained at this place over the winter. The sagas mention that one of Leif's men, Tyrkir, possibly...
16: Research done in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]] by explorer [[Helge Ingstad]] and his wife, archaeologist... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ... after the expedition of [[Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)|Alexander Mackenzie]], the first European to...
14: The explorers started their journey home on [[March 23]], ...
16: ...f the United States. They had to act largely as diplomats for the President because when they met an I...
23: *Discovered and described 178 new plants and 122 species and subspecies of animals (se...
26: *Established a precedent for Army exploration of the West - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
1: ...gory:Ancient Germanic peoples|ancient Germanic peoples]] of [[Europe]].
3: ...the fact that they had a name for non-Germanic peoples, ''*[[walha]]'', from which the local names [[W...
5: ...rcibly by the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] upon the peoples of [[Italy]], the various tribes remained free,...
10: ...s also testified by the fact that no pre-Germanic place names have been found in this area.
14: ...nly dramatically changed the flora, but forced people to change their way of living and to leave settl... - Annapolis, Maryland (7226 bytes)
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48: The city is a part of the [[Atlantic Coastal Plain]], and is relatively flat. The climate is mil...
52: ...census]]{{GR|2}} of [[2000]], there are 35,838 people, 15,303 households, and 8,676 families residing ...
54: ...living with them, 36.6% are [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 16.3% have a female househol...
65: ...rials to [[Alex Haley]], author of ''[[Roots: The Saga of an American Family|Roots]]'', and his ancestor... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...in "literature" (plural) but not in "Literature" (plural). What is intellectual and meaningful is subj...
5: ...olds that the literature of a [[nation]], for example, comprises the collection of texts which make it...
7: ...y or may not have [[nationalism|nationalistic]] implications. The [[Western canon|Western Canon]] form...
9: ...mbolic written language ([[hieroglyph]]s, for example). Even more conservative interpreters of the con...
11: ...ization|characters]]. [[Genre fiction]] (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also be... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...[tsunami]] about 9,000 years before his own time. Plato did mention it was somewhere outside the [[Pil...
5: ...]] and the Atlantians around 9,000 years before [[Plato]]'s existence.
9: ===Plato===
10: ''Main article: [[Critias %28Plato%29]]''
12: ...trate Plato's philosophy of the ideal government. Plato's account purports to be based on a visit to [... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ...aded the Balkans twice and encircled [[Constantinople]] in the second invasion. He marched through Fra...
5: ...e king, and he plays major roles in three [[Norse saga]]s.
9: ... of them highly cultured and civilized) by their splendid state of readiness for combat, amazing mobil...
15: ...portunity to strengthen the [[walls of Constantinople]], building the city's first [[sea wall]], and t...
21: ...ty during the invasion; the yearly tribute was tripled, rising to 2,100 Roman pounds (c. 687 kg) in go... - Viking (18085 bytes)
13: ...history is filled with tales of Vikings and their plundering.
19: :''Aurum ibi plurimum, quod raptu congeritur piratico. Ipsi enim ...
20: ...their own people, and ''Ascomanni'' by our own people, pay tribute to the Danish king."
33: ... of some of their participants. The following example is in [[fornyr𩳬ag]] from the [[H? Runestone]]...
46: ===Icelandic sagas=== - Thor Heyerdahl (6085 bytes)
5: ...ted there were no technical reasons to prevent people from [[South America]] from having settled the [...
7: ...e [[Pacific Ocean]], proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from [[South America]]. Th...
14: ...ntrance to the Red Sea. Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized ...
16: ... armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestor...
18: :'Our planet is bigger than the reed bundles that have car... - Cane Toads (5279 bytes)
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20: ... wide range of [[invertebrates]], [[carrion]] and plant material. They even been known to attempt to...
37: The saga of the Cane toad in Australia was popularized by ...
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