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- Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
10: ...407AD, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was hand written in Belgium, by Gerard...
13: ...ate for various times in the [[liturgy|liturgical day]].
18: ... tastes. The sturdy Roman letters of the early [[Dark Ages]] gradually gave way to cursive scripts su... - Printing (4400 bytes)
6: [[Book]]s are usually printed today using the technique of [[offset printing]], and ...
11: ...d using the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [...
15: ...an imported press in Mexico City, Mexico. Stephen Day built the first printing press in North America ...
39: * [[Adam d'Ambergau]]
40: * [[David Bruce]] - Silk (8683 bytes)
25: ... made of it outlast those made of ordinary silk — commonly lasting fifty years or more.
27: ... and is, therefore, more comfortable to wear. Nowadays, it is mainly sought after for the highest-qual...
33: [[James I of England]] introduced silk growing to the American colonie... - Weaving (6924 bytes)
3: ...n other [[dobby loom]]s and the Jacquard harness adaptation was reserved for more complex patterns. T...
24: ... flax to Britain and buy finished cloth back from England. Nonetheless, many people wove cloth in Colonial... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
10: ...pean flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[damask]], list, [[haircloth]], and [[ingrain]] (aka ...
16: ...Jacquard loom]]) in 1812 in France and c. 1825 in England. The addition of steam power in the mid-19th cen...
19: ...ermany in 1804. They became extremely popular in England in the 1830s.
39: ...ld is called the "Pazyryk Carpet,". It is usually dated to the 5th century BC. It was excavated by [[S...
48: ...ppear in paintings (notably from Italy, Flanders, England, France, and the Netherlands). Carpets of Indo-Pe... - Culture (23440 bytes)
6: Many people today use a conception of "culture" that developed in ...
10: ...and [[value]]s; but rather that only a single standard of refinement suffices, against which one can m...
14: Today most social scientists reject the [[monadic]] co...
19: ...[[anthropology|anthropologists]] had adopted and adapted the term ''culture'' to a broader definition ...
21: ...s a supplement to it, as the main means of human adaptation to the world. - Cor anglais (2674 bytes)
9: ...to keep their reeds moist and to prevent moisture damage to their instrument by swabbing it out freque...
15: ...e its name, the instrument is not thought to be [[England|English]] in origin. A common explanation of the ... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
1: ... pipes. Many large installations will have a secondary set of pipes in the choir loft, at the opposite...
5: ...[pedalboard]]. Three, four or five manuals plus pedals is not uncommon for a larger instrument.
7: ...nly found in [[church]]es, and in some [[Reform Judaism|reformed synagogues]]. They are also found in ...
11: ...date the text of the heading in any way, please update the link too.-->
31: ...it played. In archaeological excavations near [[Budapest]] in Hungary (the ancient [[Pannonia]]) a Rom... - Sheng (instrument) (1217 bytes)
1: ...x|A Sheng player beside the River Thames, London, England.]] - George Washington (29551 bytes)
6: | date1=[[April 30]], [[1789]]
7: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1797]]
9: | succeeded=[[John Adams]]
10: | date of birth=[[February 22]], [[1732]]
13: | date of death=[[December 14]], [[1799]] - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ...; [[October 8]], [[1793]] <small>[[Gregorian calendar|(N.S.)]]</small>) was President of the [[Contine...
8: ...s uncle's business. Shortly after his return from England, his uncle died and he inherited the fortune and ...
15: ...d, paper and tea. In [[1768]], upon arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was impounded by Briti...
17: ... led Bostonians to joke that "[[Samuel Adams|Sam Adams]] writes the letters [to newspapers] and John H...
19: ...ed they could be ready to fight in sixty seconds—and his boycott of [[tea]] imported by the [[Br... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Adams
3: | image name=johnadamsvp.flipped.jpg
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1797]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1801]]
9: | date of birth=[[October 30]], [[1735]] - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1801]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1809]]
7: | preceded=[[John Adams]]
9: | date of birth=[[April 13]], [[1743]]
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1826]] - James Madison (15187 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1809]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1817]]
9: | date of birth=[[March 16]], [[1751]]
12: | date of death=[[June 28]], [[1836]]
18: ... [[June 28]], [[1836]]) was the fourth ([[1809]]–[[1817]]) [[President of the United States|Pres... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Quincy Adams
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1825]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1829]]
9: | date of birth=[[July 11]], [[1767]]
12: | date of death=[[February 23]], [[1848]] - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: ...Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March 4]], [[1841]]</td></tr>
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</t...
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 24]], [[1862]]</td>...
15: <br>(daughter-in-law, widowed)</td></tr>
22: ...Declaration of Independence]], the first of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first langu... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
19: | '''Date of birth:''' || [[February 12]], [[1809]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]]
42: ... '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President of the United States]], a...
44: ... U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries. These events soon led to the [[American Civi... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
6: ...erm of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1869]] – [[March 3]], [[1877]]</td></tr>
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[April 27]], [[1822]]</td>...
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 23]], [[1885]]</td>...
17: ;[[Schuyler Colfax]] ([[1869]]–[[1873]])
18: ;[[Henry Wilson]] ([[1873]]–[[1875]])</td></tr> - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
2: ...[[Royal Greenwich Observatory]], [[Greenwich]], [[England]]; it is the meridian at which longitude is 0 deg...
10: # All countries would adopt a universal day.
11: ... universal day would be a [[solar time|mean solar day]], beginning at the mean midnight at Greenwich a...
12: # That nautical and astronomical days everywhere would begin at mean midnight.
17: The [[International Date Line]] (the jagged red line down the right side... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...k]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λογος (''logos'', "wo...
14: ...cookers, transport of [[ore]]s, extraction of [[soda]], [[sulfur]] and [[alum]], and administrative is...
24: ...ogist)|William Smith]]'s stratigraphic studies on England and Scotland.
26: ...out the Earth's history and are still occurring today. In contrast, [[Catastrophism|catastrophism]] is...
29: ...ianism, which influenced the thought of [[Charles Darwin]].
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