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- Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...ter Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[193...
7: ...36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her terminal illness. (The age differ...
9: ... her public speaking career at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defendi...
13: ...ontracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave ...
15: ... after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this work. While so occupied in [[New York City|New Yo... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[August 7]], [[1876]]–[[October 15]], [[1917]])
3: ...'' (spelled '''Margarete Gertrude Zelle''' in English), a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[exotic dancer]] who ...
5: ...nd became an exotic dancer, performing "[[Orientalism|Oriental-style]]" dances. Her stage name Mata Ha...
7: ...l agent for the French and the Germans, but there is no evidence that she ever produced any substantia...
9: ... third tale claims that not only did she fling a kiss to her killers, she flung open her long coat and... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...y [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...fternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film...
8: ...on]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[John Cage]], and [[Anais Nin]]. She continued making 16mm films such as "...
10: ...t, ''Divine Horsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accomp... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...es Democratic Party|Democrat]] from [[Alabama]] [[1917]]-[[1940]], [[Speaker of the United States House ...
14: ...lznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: Polled, moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test for [[Gone with the Wind]] put ...
20: ...in [[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won ...
22: ...avorite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman. - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
1: ...form created as an artistic expression. Sculpture is primarily concerned with space: occupying it, rel...
3: The term also refers to the artistic discipline, act or [[art]] of making sculpture: chang...
5: ...lpturesque'' if it shares qualities with [[classicism|classical]] figurative sculpture or [[statue]].
37: In his late writings, [[Joan Miró even proposed that s...
41: ...with a chain saw from a standing tree, which was diseased and due to be felled]] - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
1: {{Egyptian Dynasty list}}
2: ...ry of [[ancient Egypt]] stretching from the establishment of the [[Eleventh dynasty of Egypt|Eleventh ...
5: ...sty of Egypt|Tenth dynasty]] in the 14th year of his reign to reunite Egypt, bringing an end to the [[...
8: ...Upper Egypt), under the reign of Mentuhotep IV. This explains the smooth transition of power as a pala...
10: ...ed useful experienced by the time he would start his sole reign. The co-regencies lasted throughout th... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
1: This is a '''Conventional Egyptian chronology'''.
5: ...0th century but not including any of the major revision proposals that have also been made in that tim...
7: ...ies as possibilities. Consequently, there may be discrepancies between dates shown here and in article...
9: ...is the “Conventional Chronology” that is quoted by [[David Rohl]] in ''A Test of Time'' (1...
15: * Predynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Lat... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
3: ...s Constitution|U.S. Constitution]], the President is also the [[head of government|chief executive]] o...
5: ... as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
7: ...of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations wit...
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]].
12: ...ution|Article II]] of the U.S. Constitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to bec... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
5: ...He was admitted to the bar in [[1875]] and began his career as a lawyer in [[Columbia City, Indiana]]....
7: ... platform through the state legislature, nor in raising a convention to rewrite the state constitution...
11: ... and served as Vice President until [[1921]]. It is said that Marshall initially turned down the nomi...
13: ...ited States Capitol|Capitol]] building. Before this, Presidents had made a habit of using the Vice Pr...
17: ...ope]] to sign the [[Versailles treaty]] and push his [[League of Nations]] idea. - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
16: <tr><td>'''[[List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States |Polit...
20: ... term and was never elected to the presidency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[U...
26: ...e served in the New York legislature. He worked his way up through the Whig party, eventually being s...
29: ... we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution."
31: ...ade no public comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylo... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
13: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1893]])</td></tr>
15: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1889]])<br>
21: ...s|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr>
23: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
25: [[Thomas A. Hendricks]] ([[1885]], [[List of leaders who died in office|died in office]])<... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...rrive at the age of the Earth and outlines their history.
4: ...arth creationism]] (see [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belief.asp Old-earth or young...
6: ...e]], who thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...ence, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, suggesting in the mid-[[18th Century]] that the...
11: ...position and then measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that the Earth was about 75,0... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
2: |+<big><big><br/> Republic Turkmenistan</big></big>
6: ...:Turkmenistan flag large.png|125px|Flag of Turkmenistan]]
7: ...Turkmenistan coa.jpg|100px|Coat of Arms of Turkmenistan]]
9: | align=center width=148 | [[Flag of Turkmenistan]]
10: ...lign=center width=148 | ([[Coat of Arms of Turkmenistan|In Detail]]) - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...as a coastline on the [[Caspian Sea]]. Kazakhstan is also a former republic of the now extinct [[Sovie...
3: Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world by area, b...
40: | '''[[Prime minister]]'''
44: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 9th]]<br>2,717,300 [...
47: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 57th]]<br/>15,... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
2: |+<big><big><br>'''Tajikistan'''<br>'''</big></big>
6: ...mage:Tajikistan flag large.png|125px|Flag of Tajikistan]]
7: ...mage:Coa tajikistan.jpg|98px|Coat of Arms of Tajikistan]]
9: | align=center width=148 | [[Flag of Tajikistan]]
10: | align=center width=148 | [[Coat of Arms of Tajikistan]] - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...inland is '''Suomi.''' In the Swedish language it is '''Finland'''.
16: ...Finnish language|Finnish]], [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish]]
22: |'''[[List of Presidents of Finland|President]]''': || [[Ta...
24: |'''[[List of Prime Ministers of Finland|Prime minister]]''': || [[Matti Vanhanen]]
27: |[[List of countries by area|Ranked 63th]] <br>[[1 E11 m... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...[[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean ...
6: ...7;رائيل<br>("Dawlat Israil") |
7: common_name = Israel |
8: image_flag = Israel_flag_large.png |
9: image_coat = Israel-coa-medium.png | - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: ...а}}, ''Ukraina'' {{IPA |/ukraˈjina/}}) is a [[republic]] in eastern [[Europe]] which border...
3: ...nd the republic's present borders were only established in [[1954]]. It became independent once more f...
28: | '''[[Prime Minister of Ukraine|Prime Minister]]''' || [[Yuliya Tymoshenko]]
30: ...Area]]'''<br> Total<br> % water || [[List of countries by area|ranked 43rd]]<br>[[1 E11 m2...
32: ...])<br> [[Population density|Density]] || [[List of countries by population|ranked 25th]]<br>47,7... - Flag of Arizona (872 bytes)
3: ...opper-mining industry. The blue in the lower half is the same blue adopted for the national flag.
5: ...s W. Harris]] who was the general and chief administrative officer of Arizona, and was first sewn by ...
10: ...e.com/states/symb/flags/az_flag.htm Arizona flag history] - Flag of Indiana (917 bytes)
2: ... adopted by the [[Indiana General Assembly]] in [[1917]], as part of the commemoration of the state's 19...
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