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- Persepolis (15450 bytes)
8: ...ttom of the valley. The modern Persians call this place ''[[Naksh-i Rustam]]'' ("the picture of Rustam...
12: ...he usurper [[Sogdianus]] (Secydianus). The two completed graves behind Takhti Jamshid would then belon...
18: ...t acquainted with the city until it was taken and plundered by Alexander the Great.
20: ...mportant particulars with Takhti Jamshid, for example, in being supported by the mountain on the east.
25: ...onged to the common people and were abundantly supplied with furniture and wearing apparel of every ki... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
3: ... forms to emerge in the world. Greek theatre and plays have had a lasting impact on [[Western world|W...
7: ... [[Dionysus]], the Greek god of [[fertility]] and wine. This tradition is probably accurate, since Athe...
9: ...34 BC]], a man named [[Thespis]] is credited with playing the role of the main character in a narrativ...
13: ...horus]]). In addition, the subject matter of the plays had expanded so that rather than just Dionysus...
17: ...s]] and the comic writer [[Aristophanes]]. Their plays, along with some [[secondary source]]s such as... - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
7: :''"[Stephanie] sent to Saladin bread and wine, sheep and cattle in celebration of her son's wed...
19: ...ho sent him to Tyre as his representative. The people of Tyre were reportedly so taken by his youth an...
21: ...h her, something even more disgusting than the coupling of the flesh. I asked one of their courtiers t... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...g the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
13: ...involvement in the Resistance. Realizing that the wine he forced her to drink was poisoned, she managed ... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
29: ...'You said, "Yes, I'd like to know what kind of people''
36: ...sequent singles "Feel Your Love", "Walkaway" and "Plastic" were also modest hits.
61: ...ics completely from personal experiences. For example, as Morissette began meeting with record labels,...
66: :''And then played golf for awhile''
69: :''You took me out to wine, dine, sixty-nine me'' - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ...he first day of the week she, with [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and Mary the mother of [[James]], ([[G...
12: ...church fathers. In the fragmentary text, the disciples ask questions of the risen Savior (a designatio...
36: ...ied in [[Ephesus]] and was buried in [[Constantinople]].
40: ...Catholic iconography of the [[Crucifixion]], or replaced by John]]
43: ... the Petrine tradition, Mary Magdalene is often replaced by Mary, mother of Jesus, a passive figure wh... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
10: ... to fine cuisine. She learned to cook in order to please him and entertain their large social circle. ...
14: ...ter]]s, [[sole (fish) | sole]] meuni貥, and fine wine as a culinary revelation. She described the exper...
28:
30: ...ce the understanding, appreciation and quality of wine and food", a pursuit she had already begun with h...
34: ...rs during a series of [[stroke]]s in 1989. The couple did not have children. - Apple (20408 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}} - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...ns may have developed a sophisticated and more complicated artistic tradition.
12: The Mesolithic period has some examples of portable art, like painted pebbles ([[Azilie...
15: ... to the [[11th millennium BC]]. The Jōmon people were making clay figures and vessels decorated w...
20: ...ther the elaborate pottery decoration of, for example, the [[Želiesovce]] and painted [[Lengyel]]...
22: ...ance marked with a massive stone carved with a complex design of spirals. The tomb of [[Knowth]] has r... - Printing (4400 bytes)
13: ...gy in 1440. Basing the design of his machine on a wine press, Gutenberg developed the use of raised and ...
38: ===People=== - 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''']] - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]]
20: Many people consider Jefferson to be among the most brillian...
30: ...84]], Jefferson avoided the common practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. In...
32: ...would be pleased with the quantity and quality of wine now being made in Virginia, to say nothing of the... - Australia (39438 bytes)
47: <!-- [[Australian English]] please. -->
48: ...88]]. As the population grew and new areas were explored, six self-governing [[Crown Colony|Crown Colo...
50: ...aterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people and [[Torres Strait Islander]]s.
54: ...to use the word "Australia" was [[Alexander Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical Collection of Voyages a...
62: ...claiming the land for Britain in [[1770]]. This replica was built in 1988 for Australia's bicentennial... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
3: ...en the black majority and the white minority have played a large part in the country's [[History of So...
13: ...nto Namibia and Botswana, and elsewhere. These people, who are a physically distinct population from o...
24: ...ulations displaced earlier [[hunter-gatherer]] peoples as they migrated.
26: ...d [[Cape Frontier Wars]] against the [[Xhosa]] people, and imported [[slaves]] from [[Indonesia]], [[M...
32: ... tactics much better on local conditions. For example, the Boers wore [[khaki]] clothing, which was th... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ...s]], forming the [[Celt-Iberian]]s. Early Greek explorers named the region "[[Ophiussa]]" (Greek for "...
21: ...radle of Portugal." The Battle of S㯠Mamede took place nearby in 1128. (courtesy IPPAR)]]
25: An [[Islam]]ic invasion took place in [[711]]. Many of the ousted nobles took ref...
29: ...as formally recognized. Afonso, aided by the [[Templar Knights]], continued to conquer southern lands ...
31: ...torious John was then acclaimed as king by the people. - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such as the [[Islas Chafari...
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
58: ...[[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a sepa...
68: ...a supplied the Roman Empire with food, olive oil, wine and metal. The emperors [[Trajan]], [[Hadrian]] a...
77: ...st of the world. The unification of Iberia was complete when Carlos I's son, [[Philip II of Spain|Feli... - Honey (11666 bytes)
6: ...oney has a distinctive flavor which leads some people to prefer it over [[sugar]] and other [[sweetene...
8: ... 18%, virtually no organism can successfully multiply to significant amounts in honey.
37: ... which is crucial for [[flowering plant|flowering plants]].
40: ...ollecting this resource have to be fed protein supplements, as honeydew lacks the protein-rich pollen ...
41: ...ed beech]]. In the early morning sunlight, the droplets of nectar glisten like the morning dew, giving... - Abydos, Egypt (9715 bytes)
6: ...ty. From [[Ptolemaic Period|Ptolemaic]] times the place continued to decay and no later works are know...
10: ...portant in later times, so that at last the whole place was considered as sacred to him (''Abydos'', i...
12: ==Temples built==
14: ...Third dynasty of Egypt|3rd dynasty]]. The old temple entirely vanished in the 4th dynasty, and a smal...
15: ...y [[Khufu (pharaoh)|Khufu]] (or Cheops) in his temple reforms. - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
17: ...ntrate almost wholly on political, military and diplomatic history, and ignore economic and social his...
20: ...y Greek geography, where every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours by the sea or m...
24: ...Libya]]. Modern [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]], [[Naples]], [[Marseilles]] and [[Istanbul]] had their be...
28: As colonization was bound to exhaust the supply of desirable territory, first [[Crete]], then in...
32: ... onwards, the aristocracies were overthrown and replaced by [[populist]] leaders called [[tyrant|tyran... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
19: ... consuls, initially patrician but later opened to plebeians, were elected officials who exercised exec...
21: The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, mostly related ''Ital...
25: ...e of the senators, however, and was murdered in a plot organised by [[Brutus]] and [[Gaius Cassius Lon...
27: ... any bloodshed (or even much resistance), thus completing Octavian's (now renamed [[Augustus]]) projec...
33: .... After [[395 AD]] the empire became permanently split into a western and an eastern part.
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