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- Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
15: ... [[Japan]] were the first to develop [[pottery]], dating to the [[11th millennium BC]]. The Jōmon...
17: ...G?li Tepe]] near [[Urfa]] in eastern [[Turkey]], dating to ca. [[10th millennium BC]].
18: ... at the [[Iron Gorge]], [[Serbia and Montenegro]] date to the [[7th millennium BC]] and represent eith...
22: ...these is [[Stonehenge]], were the main structures date from the early Bronze age, such monuments have ...
26: Rock art, showing scenes from the daily life and religious rituals have been found in ... - Didgeridoo (7516 bytes)
3: ...sical instrument|instrument]] of the [[Australian Aborigines]] of northern [[Australia]]. It is sometimes desc...
5: ...e didgeridoo since about 1500 years ago, based on dating of paintings on cave walls and shelters from ...
7: ...stern society. "Yirdaki", also sometimes spelt "yidaki", refers to the specific type of instrument mad...
28: [[Image:Didgeridoo_dancing.jpg|thumb|Dancing often accompanies didgeridoo music.]]
32: ...remonial occasions, whilst both men and women may dance. - Australia (39438 bytes)
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54: ...glish to use the word "Australia" was [[Alexander Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical Collection of Voy... - Australian Aboriginal art (4187 bytes)
1: ...colonisation]] as well as [[contemporary art]] by Aborigines based on traditional culture. It is not restricte...
9: ...zig zag persist throughout the work of Australian Aborigines. These are thought to be the origins of "modern" ...
21: ...so frail that they never venture out on [[wind]]y days lest they be swept away like leaf litter. If ap...
32: ...ill say if it doesn't contain the spirituality of aborigines, it is not true aboriginal art.
38: ...oyed by encroachment of early settlers and modern-day visitors. This includes the destruction of art b... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...t recent [[Ice Age]], when temperate regions of today were extremely inhospitable. Yet, humans had col...
12: ...]]. Some peoples, such as [[Australian Aborigines|Aborigines]] of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of souther...
25: ...ere to dominate Chinese thinking until the modern day. These were [[Taoism]], [[Legalism (philosophy)|...
55: ...a in 1041, but the printing press as we know it today was invented in Germany, and became far more wid...
69: ...er place. Meanwhile, Industrial [[pollution]] and damage to the [[environment]], present since the dis... - Amulet (8206 bytes)
6: ...ndash; for example: ''vade retro, [[Satan]]as'' – ([[Latin]], "go back, Satan"), to repel [[evil...
10: ...n [[Argentina]] the god [[Ekeko]] furnishes a standard amulet, to whom one should offer at least one b...
18: ...an]] syncretic religions, like [[Voodoo]], [[Umbanda]] and [[Santer�] use other drawings as amulets,...
33: ...uareg]] still use them, as do the [[Haida]] [[Canada|Canadian]] [[aborigine]]s, who wear the [[totem]]...
39: War and other dangerous activities make the participants try to ge... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...ritish explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]...
3: '''James Cook''' ([[October 27]], [[1728]] – [[February 14]], [[1779]]) was a [[Kingdom of ...
7: ...ren born to Grace and James, Sr., who worked as a day laborer on a farm. As a child, Cook moved with...
8: ...on]], and [[astronomy]], skills he would need one day to command his own ship. Cook rose in the ranks...
14: ...ing and cartographic skills, courage in exploring dangerous locations to confirm the facts (''e.g.'' d... - Native American (42651 bytes)
5: ...ples native to [[Alaska]] and [[Arctic|arctic Canada]]). The latter share their cultural and genetic c...
7: The same distinction is made in Canada, where the term [[First Nations]] applies only to...
9: ...lude the [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] of [[Canada]] and the [[Mestizo]]s and [[Zambo]]s of [[Latin ...
19: ...a]] across the [[Bering Strait]], between 17,000–11,000 years ago.
21: ...00 BC|11,500 years ago]] or earlier [http://www.andaman.org/book/chapter53/luzia/luzia.htm]. Thus othe... - Platypus (21900 bytes)
2: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:Ornithorhynchidae-00.jpg|200px]]| caption = Platypus}}
5: {{Taxobox phylum entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
8: {{Taxobox familia entry | taxon = [[Ornithorhynchidae]]}}
12: ...ynchus anatinus | author = [[George Shaw|Shaw]] | date = [[1799]]}}
14: ... its [[family (biology)|family]] (''Ornithorhynchidae'') and [[genus]] (''Ornithorhynchus''), though a... - Dingo (6650 bytes)
5: ...onships that developed between wolves and people—as people migrated eastward, semi-domesticated ...
7: ... and are regarded as more-or-less unchanged descendants of an early ancestor of modern dogs.
15: ...rnivore]]s, including the last remaining large predator, the [[Thylacine]]. (Note that the demise of t...
21: ...ugh the fence helped reduce losses of sheep to predators, this was counterbalanced by increased pastur... - Slavery (26455 bytes)
8: ...imes been regarded as an expectation such as [[mandatory military service]], or [[debt slavery]]. It ...
14: Slavery is in all countries today considered [[illegal]], a [[criminal activity]] ...
18: ...ountries by means of legal loopholes, such as Canada's “Live-in Caregiver Program. [http://www.t...
20: ...] evidence of illegal "forced labor and [[debt bondage]]" amounting to slavery was unearthed in the [[...
23: ...ar]], [[Cuba]], [[Ecuador]], [[North Korea]], [[Sudan]] and [[Venezuela]]. - Bogong Moth (3176 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Noctuidae]]}}
13: ... author = [[Jean Baptiste Boisduval|Boisduval]] | date = [[1832]]}}
20: ...nter houses or other buildings to rest during the day. In winter, adults disperse to pastures across i... - Dingoes (6363 bytes)
6: ...onships that developed between wolves and people—as people migrated eastward, semi-domesticated ...
8: ... and are regarded as more-or-less unchanged descendants of an early ancestor of modern dogs.
16: ...rnivore]]s, including the last remaining large predator, the [[Thylacine]]. (Note that the demise of t...
22: ...ugh the fence helped reduce losses of sheep to predators, this was counterbalanced by increased pastur... - Marsupial Moles (4850 bytes)
1: ...r = pink | name = Marsupial moles}}<br/>{{StatusEndangered}}
5: ...{Taxobox phylum entry | taxon = '''[[Chordate|Chordata]]'''}}
9: {{Taxobox familia entry | taxon = '''Notoryctidae'''}}
17: ...tes typhlops'' or ''itjaritjari'' by [[Australian Aborigines]]), and the '''Northern Marsupial Mole''' (''Noto...
31: ... had many of the features that are assumed to be adaptations for a life burrowing in desert sands, in ...
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