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- Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
3: ...aureen O'Sullivan]]. She then went on to graduate from the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]].
7: ...fter seeing her in the [[MGM]] film ''[[A Yank at Oxford]]'', but told no one until late [[1938]], when fi...
9: In [[1940]], Leigh arranged for a divorce from Holman and married [[Laurence Olivier]]. The p...
13: ...osedly friendly terms. Leigh continued to keep a framed photograph of him on her bedside table, even ...
27: *''[[A Yank at Oxford]]'' ([[1938]]) - Ivory (4783 bytes)
9: ...ge teeth projecting beyond the lips, have evolved from teeth and give certain species an evolutionary ...
13: ...o-canals that radiate outward through the dentine from the pulp cavity to the exterior cementum border...
15: ... keys. Additionally, [[warthog]] tusks, and teeth from [[sperm whale]]s, [[orca]]s and hippos can also...
19: ...llion US dollars ivory sales generate ever reach Africans; most of it goes to middlemen and vendors, s...
21: ... in Africa will endanger elephants everywhere in Africa as poachers would attempt to launder their ill... - Silk (8683 bytes)
2: ...rism-like structure, which allows silk cloth to refract incoming light at different angles.
5: ...ese [[culture]] both geographically and socially. From there, silken garments began to reach regions t...
8: ...nt, the [[Middle East]], [[Europe]], and North [[Africa]]. This trade was so extensive that the major ...
11: ...trove to keep the knowledge of sericulture secret from other [[nation]]s, in order to maintain the Chi...
15: ...nd textures, they all differ in one major respect from the domesticated varieties. The cocoons, which ... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
1: ...German styling, in a 16th century engraved book [[frontispiece]]]]
11: ...midsummer day increases from 12h to 24h as you go from the equator to the polar circle). He put the m...
14: ...from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about onl...
16: ...pts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered by ...
18: ...on the ''Geography'' was on display in [[Autun]] (France) in late Roman times. In the 15th century Pto... - Vernacular architecture (3581 bytes)
1: ...changing, but do so slowly. The new houses built from old patterns physically manifest, and then perp...
5: ...orld" published in 1997 by [[Paul Oliver]] of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. Oliver has...
9: ...onstruction of these types of buildings is remote from their eventual users, and they do not represent...
18: *[[Timber framing]] - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ... and/or some international diplomatic recognition from selected states, but are not UN members. For mo...
5: The term "united nations" was coined by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] during [[World War II]], to ...
20: ... August to October [[1944]], representatives of [[France]], the [[Republic of China]], the [[United Ki...
24: ...curity Council]] — [[Republic of China]], [[France]], the [[Soviet Union]], [[United Kingdom]], ...
26: ... land purchased by an 8.5 million dollar donation from [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]], and designed by a... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
15: ...dynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Eg...
16: ...om Baines and Malek, ''Atlas of Ancient Egypt'' (Oxford, 1980).
17: * The dates of Dynasties 11 to 20 are from Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in ...
18: * The dates of Dynasties 21 to 26 are from Kitchen, ''Third Intermediate Period in Egypt''...
20: ...d History of Ancient Egypt'', edited by Ian Shaw (Oxford, 2000), and [http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/ D... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ...nd an American [[statesman]], [[ambassador]] to [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosoph...
23: ...0]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from families who had settled in [[Virginia]] for se...
25: ...ch included Jefferson, [[John Adams]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livin...
27: ...[curriculum]] of which Jefferson also designed. [[Frank E. Grizzard]], Jr., a scholar at the Universit...
30: ...at the layers of occupation, and draw conclusions from them. - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ...e of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[G...
10: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] populat...
17: ...ions]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism ...
18: * [[Canadian French|French]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and ...
46: ...t|[[New Brunswick]]||[[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]] - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
36: | From [[United Kingdom|the British]]<br>[[1919]]
55: ...Afghanistan. The remainder of the name originates from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''stā...
64: ...ans. The Mohammadzay furnished the Saddozay kings frequently with top counsellors, who served occasion...
72: ...an were able to capture 90% of the country, aside from [[Northern Alliance]] strongholds primarily in ...
74: ...the group's downfall. In late 2001, major leaders from the Afghan opposition groups and diaspora met i... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
56: ...r, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The ...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: The [[British Isles]] is a term frequently used to refer to the [[archipelago]] whic...
71: ...nce]] of [[Ulster]], immediately opted out of the Free State and to remain in the UK. The nomenclature... - Hippopotamus (6778 bytes)
15: ...962;" ("river horse") is a large, plant-eating [[Africa]]n [[mammal]], one of only two living and thre...
17: ...hippo often marks his territory along a riverbank from which to draw in a harem of females while defen...
19: ...hern Africa]] ([[Botswana]], [[Republic of South Africa]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Zambia]]). A separate popul...
22: ... not because they are more aggressive than other African mammals but rather because they are highly te...
24: The word hippopotamus comes, by way of [[Latin]], from the ancient [[Greek language|Greek]] ιN... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
4: ...]], Thebes was known in the [[Egyptian language]] from the end of the [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingd...
6: ... ''Thebes'' is often mistakenly thought to derive from the Greek as there is a city in Greece with thi...
27: ... of 7 vols. Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut fran硩s d’arch鯬ogie orientale du Caire. (Re...
29: .... Vol. 3 of 3 vols. Oxford, New York, and Cairo: Oxford University Press and The American University in C...
31: ...e Anchor Bible Dictionary'', edited by David Noel Freedman. Vol. 6 of 6 vols. New York: Doubleday. 442... - Isis (20790 bytes)
7: ...er origins are uncertain but are believed to come from the [[Nile Delta]]; however unlike other [[Anci...
22: ...ctor, and mother, and the lusty aspect originally from Hathor, she was also made the patron goddess of...
51: ...of the role came later by association. In many [[African]] tribes, the king's throne is known as the m...
56: .... The tale describes how Nephthys became sexually frustrated with Set, who was [[gay]] (and already ha...
65: ...of her husband. In one instance, Isis heals Horus from a lethal scorpion sting; she also performs othe... - Thoth (5655 bytes)
7: ... have children. This tale is thought to originate from commemorating a change in the calendar system; ...
15: ...'[[The Book of Thoth]]'', where the name is taken from a non-existant book in Egyptian mythology, beli...
16: [[Aleister Crowley]] commissioned [[Lady Frieda Harris]] to assist him in painting the ''Thot...
20: ...the arts & sciences [[Thothica]] derives its name from him.
22: ..."The Zone of the Enders" is called Jehuty derived from the name Djehuty. - Alabama (10792 bytes)
59: ...the province of Carolina. Nevertheless, when the French took over [[Louisiana]] they also took over t...
61: The state of Alabama seceded from the Union and became a [[Confederate States of ...
71: ...ico]]. Alabama generally ranges in [[elevation]] from [[sea level]] at [[Mobile Bay]], to a little mo...
88: -26.9% [[African American|Black]]
107: -26.0% [[African American]] - Agatharchides (3646 bytes)
5: ... in [[132 BC]] after Ptolemy, who had been driven from his kingdom by a rebellion in Alexandria, retur...
7: .... Nielbuhr]] pointed out that these excerpts were from a speech, and not part of the narrative of his ...
9: ... copy of ''Erythraean Sea'' in the tenth century, from which he preserved extensive extracts in his ''... - Agathias (4785 bytes)
7: ...[[Narses]], against the [[Goths]], [[Vandals]], [[Franks]] and [[Persians]].
9: ... and reliable, though he gathered his information from eye- witnesses, and not, as Procopius, in the e...
11: ...nowledge of facts; the work, however, is valuable from the importance of the events of which it treats...
13: ...security that form a document in the history of [[freedom of thought]]— to [[Edessa]], where jus...
18: ...s%20Final.pdf Agathias on the Persians]: excerpts from Agathias' ''History'' (in English) - Anthemius of Tralles (1694 bytes)
1: ...of Miletus]], of [[Hagia Sophia]]. Anthemius came from an educated family, his father, Stephanus was a...
14: ...h]], ''A History of Greek Mathematics''(2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921) - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
9: ...is (a native of Samos) and Mnesarchus (a merchant from Tyre). As a young man he left his native city f...
13: ...e, reading and philosophical study. We may infer from this that participants required some degree of ...
16: ... as portrayed on [[Roman empire|Roman]] [[coin]]s from [[Samos]]]]
17: ...of [[reincarnation]]. His other teachings appear framed in pithy sayings, or ''sumbola'', often in qu...
19: ...urder and pain cannot reap joy and love" (excerpt from the book ''The extended circle'', by Jon Wynne-...
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