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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
5: ==Biography==
7: ...of the painter [[Orazio Gentileschi]], one of the greatest representatives of the school of [[Caravagg...
14: ...hongs wrapped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularly cruel torture to a pain...
24: ...ors there was Buonarroti the young (nephew of the great [[Michelangelo]]): busy with construction of a...
50: ...elle Delizie'' of queen [[Enrichetta Maria]] in [[Greenwick]]. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: Hurston was born in [[Notasulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[an...
9: ... the period, and thus it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America of the early 20th century. For ...
13: ...anguage this way was making a caricature of Black culture and thus was not deserving of respect. Recently,...
17: Some of Hurston's work was groundbreaking: She was among the first academics to...
22: ...[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] ''Sentinel'' that desegregation was predicated on black inferiority. The l... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
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16: ==Biography==
19: ...screenwriting; in late [[1925]], however, she was granted a [[Visa (document)|visa]] to visit American...
28: ..., as well as a handful of others including [[Alan Greenspan]] and [[Leonard Peikoff]] (jokingly design...
31: ...l of which she believed helped foster a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human happiness,... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
5: ...York|New York]]. She attended [[Vassar College]], graduating in 1909.
7: She entered graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[191...
11: Her ''Patterns of Culture'' ([[1934]]) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in...
22: ...mum and the Sword'', the study of the society and culture of [[Japan]] that she published in [[1946]], inco...
24: ...ues even despite the post-war changes in Japanese culture. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...es on problems of child rearing, personality, and culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Ed...
7: ... ([[1928]]), based on research she conducted as a graduate student, but her position as a pioneering a...
14: ...y of the problems faced by adolescents in another culture would be illuminating.
18: Mead conducted her study among a small group of [[Samoa]]ns -- 600 people -- in which she g...
28: ...stianity]]. They further pointed out that Samoan culture had changed considerably in the decades following... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
3: ...tour. Shortly thereafter she published her autobiography ''Makeba: My Story''. In [[2002]], she shared...
5: In [[2004]] Makeba was voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans (see [[List of South Africans]]...
8: *[[Culture of South Africa]]
9: *[[Grammy Awards of 1966]] - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
54: :''I hit the ground running, although I know not of what toward''
57: :''I felt culture-shocked, but dissuaded I was not''
95: ...l reference to the [[Charles Dickens]] novel, ''[[Great Expectations]]'':
121: ...nowledge the possibility that Morissette may have grown artistically since she was a 17-year-old.
123: ...h, the album was nominated for six [[Grammy Award|Grammy Awards]]. At the [[1996]] ceremony, Morissett... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...57;m''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[Greek language|Greek]] '''Μαριαμ''', ...
6: ...n Gospels. Mary ([[Miriam]] in Hebrew, Mariam in Greek) is mentioned by name in three of the four [[G...
8: It is generally agreed that she was a young woman when she first beca...
11: ...ng the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (1575)]]
25: ...hodox she is called ''[[#Theotokos|Theotokos]]'' (Greek for ''God-bearer'') and ''[[St. Mary]]''. Cath... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: [[Image:joan of arc miniature graded.jpg|right|thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[paint...
5: ==Biography==
7: ...wing years. In [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disinheriting...
12: ...three weeks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to ...
18: ...wed by the surrender of Beaugency on the 17th. A greater victory was achieved on the 18th, when an En... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ... through her many [[cookbook]]s and television programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook '...
6: ...m [[Smith College]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1934, she moved to [[New York City]] and wor...
8: ...sband Paul Cushing Child, a high-ranking OSS cartographer, and later to [[China]], where she received ...
20: ...at fit well with American fascination with French culture in the early 1960s. Lauded for its helpful illust...
24: ...itchen'', was illustrated with her husband's photographs. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
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3: ... known by the ''[[nom de guerre]]'', '''Christine Granville'''. She became celebrated especially for ...
5: ==Biography==
7: ...lthy assimilated Jewish banker. Krystyna Skarbek grew up in comfort until her father frittered away t...
13: ...e organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." This group had been formed in [[October]] [[1939]] by eng... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
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13: {{Taxobox section trinomial botany | color = lightgreen | trinomial_name = Viola tricolor hortensis | ...
14: {{Taxobox section subdivision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = Hybrids}}
22: With the explosion of greenhouse-building in the Victorian age (due in lar... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
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14: ...,000 [[hybrid]]s and varieties produced by [[horticulture|horticulturalists]]. The Kew checklist "World Che...
16: Orchids get their name from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''orchis'', meaning 'testicle', from the app... - Hyacinth (flower) (2431 bytes)
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11: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = Genera}}
17: ...fter the [[Hyacinth (mythology)|Hyacinth]] from [[Greek mythology]].
19: ...cer. This hyacinth has a single dense spike of fragrant [[flower]]s in shades of red, blue, white, or ... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
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21: ... very varied and range from cold regions into the grassy slopes, meadowlands, stream banks and deserts...
23: ...re are 3 - 10 basal, sword-shaped [[leaf|leaves]] growing in dense clumps. - Apple (20408 bytes)
25: ... breeding programs to develop apples suitable for growing in climates unsuitable for ''M. domestica'',...
27: ... well as in the [[United States]] since the [[Immigration to the United States|arrival of Europeans]].
32: ...apple breeding are a colorful skin, absence of [[Egremont Russet|russet]]ing, ease of shipping, length...
41: ... is a list of common cultivars and where they are grown. The year and place of origin is also listed:
47: *'[[Cox's Orange Pippin]]': [[Great Britain]], New Zealand - Rose (15436 bytes)
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21: ...mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of generally thorny [[shrub]]s or [[liana|clim...
23: ...ew (particularly in southeast [[Asia]]) are [[evergreen]] or nearly so. - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
4: ==Historiography==
5: ...overy of ancient texts, and a rebirth of European culture in general.
10: ...r of the [[20th century]] many scholars [[Historiography|took the view]] that the Renaissance was perh...
19: ...e has no set starting point or place. It happened gradually at different places at different times and...
21: ...-birth meant the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek Latin heritage through ancient manuscripts and... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
44: ...ined terrestrial and celestial mechanics into one great system that seemed to be able to describe the ...
46: Not only [[astronomy]] and [[mechanics]] were greatly changed. [[Optics]], for instance, was revol...
50: ... and subsequent improvments by Galileo and others greatly expanded the accuracy and range of celestial...
58: .... Thus, the final cause of rain was to let plants grow. Until the scientific revolution, it was very n...
64: ...and hence the results of an experiment would not agree with the true way nature worked. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
6: ...chnologies undeveloped, compared to the preceding culture.
8: ...replaced by the rule of local potentates, and the gradual break-down of economic and social linkages a...
12: ...lture of the newcomers, the remnants of classical culture, and Christian influences, produced a new model f...
14: ...o contact with Christianity or with classic Roman culture. Warrior people such as the [[Vikings]] were stil...
16: ...ld see the regrowth of centralized power, and the growth of new "national" identities, as strong ruler...
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