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  1. Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
    9: ...areer at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], deba...
    13: ...sionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a revival meeting at the urging of her fath...
    15: ...1912, and they had a son, [[Rolf McPherson|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913.
    23: ...typing sermons and other religious materials. By 1917 she had started her own newspaper, named ''The Br...
    27: ...1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, California]...
  2. Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
    2: ...'' ([[August 7]], [[1876]]–[[October 15]], [[1917]])
    5: ...the turn of the [[20th century]], after a failed attempt to become a [[teacher]], a failed marriage, a...
    7: ...d|executed by firing squad]] on [[October 15]], [[1917]]. Mata Hari was probably a low level agent for t...
    13: ...Harlot]], yes. But [[traitor]]ess? Never!" —attributed to Mata Hari, on trial.
    17: ...ning the hero's party during a botched terrorist attack in [[Shenyang_City|Fengtian]] in [[1913]].
  3. Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
    2: ...n '''Eleanora Derenkovskaya''' on [[April 29]], [[1917]], '''Maya Deren''' was an [[American]] [[avant-g...
    21: ...Choreography for Camera'' (1945) with [[Talley Beatty]]
    26: ...e'' (1943) with [[Marcel Duchamp]] and Pajorita Matta
  4. Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
    4: ...es Democratic Party|Democrat]] from [[Alabama]] [[1917]]-[[1940]], [[Speaker of the United States House ...
    8: ...ther minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
    14: ...t choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
    16: ...Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face).
    18: ...he played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portrayal won the New York ...
  5. Sculpture (5545 bytes)
    3: ...anging one or more of the physical or contextual attributes of an object, such as its mass, colour, te...
    24: ** [[terracotta]]
    52: * [[terra cotta]]
    64: *[[Relief]]: sculpture still attached to a background, standing out from that grou...
    80: ==Greenfield Products Pty Ltd v. Rover-Scott Bonnar Ltd==
  6. Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
    6: ...1.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
    10: ... least launched one campaign into [[Nubia]]. In [[1917 BC]] Amenemhat created his son Senuseret I co-reg...
    12: [[Senusret I]] ([[1917 BC]] - [[1872 BC]]) continued the policy of his f...
    20: ...enemhat II had allowed. He also invited Asiatic settlers to Egypt to labor on Egypt's monuments. But l...
    45: ...ermediate Period]] in which some of the Asiatic settlers of Amenemhat III would grasp power over Egypt...
  7. Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
    9: ...dates proposed by these two authors. There is no attempt to remove this in the combined chronology pre...
    15: * Predynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynas...
    20: ...Egypt for Universities], which was developed by [http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/ The Petrie Museum of Egy...
    177: *Senuseret I (Kheperkare) 1917-1872
  8. President of the United States (42878 bytes)
    55: * [[John F. Kennedy]], born [[May 29]], [[1917]], was the first president born in the 20th centu...
    62: {| {{prettytable}} cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2
    289: ...sprawling retreat occasionally used as a casual setting for hosting foreign dignitaries.
    315: ...gov/research_room/jfk/house_select_committee/committee_report_gunmen.html]
    319: **[[Warren G. Harding]], died of [[heart attack]] in [[1923]]
  9. Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
    5: ...all studied law at [[Wabash College]]. He was admitted to the bar in [[1875]] and began his career as ...
    15: As Marshall made little news and was viewed as something of a comic foi...
    19: ... the requests of many to do so, Marshall did not attempt to become the first [[Acting President]] of t...
    29: ...he American lexicon. During a Senate debate in [[1917]], a particularly bellicose Senator catalogued wh...
  10. Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
    26: ..., New York]] to continue his studies. He was admitted to the bar in [[1823]] and began his practice o...
    39: ...tension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.
    48: *Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her.
    55: ...under Commodore [[Matthew Perry (naval officer)|Matthew Perry]].
    59: ...at although the Compromise had been intended to settle the slavery controversy, it served rather as an...
  11. Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
    31: ... when many politicians were neither, but he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the natio...
    40: ...vernor of New York. Although Cleveland never admitted or denied the rumor, he did admit to paying chi...
    46: Cleveland himself admitted that, as President, his greatest accomplishment...
    50: ...d the [[Interstate Commerce Act]], the first law attempting Federal regulation of the railroads.
    62: ...lump was preserved and is on display at the [[M�tter Museum]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philad...
  12. Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
    4: ...inue to defend [[young earth creationism]] (see [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belie...
    19: ...h as static, with changes brought about by intermittent [[catastrophe]]s. Many naturalists were influe...
    27: ...olutionists had used others; and ultimately the latter two groups were proven more correct.
    37: ...confident of himself, and the fact that multiple attempts to determine the age of the Earth seemed to ...
    43: ...water, snow, and [[groundwater]]. [[Robert J. Strutt]] of Imperial College, London, found traces of ra...
  13. Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
    58: ... strength in the territory of Turkmenistan in an attempt to expand into Afghanistan. The empire broke...
    60: ...ol of Turkmenistan. The [[October Revolution]] of 1917 in Russia and subsequent political unrest led to ...
    66: ...elevision is his profile. The two books he had written are mandatory readings in schools, motorclubs, ...
    90: The climate is [[subtropical]] desert, with little rainfall. Winters are mild and dry, with most p...
    96: One-half of its irrigated land is planted in [[cotton]], making it the world's 10th-largest producer;...
  14. Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
    3: ...br&e0303.pdf], down from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/dynamic/svedenia_rk/population/...
    21: ...al-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: n/a''</small>
    72: ...kh Khanate separated into the Great, Middle and Little (or Small) Hordes&mdash;confederations based on...
    74: ...to the Russian Empire and outright seizure. The Little Horde and part of the Middle Horde signed treat...
    76: ...nce of [[Semirechye|Semirechie]]. The number of settlers rose still further once the [[Trans-Aral Rail...
  15. Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
    58: ...d a war against [[Bolshevik]] armies in a futile attempt to maintain independence. The Bolsheviks woul...
    62: ...with [[Afghanistan]]. Since the [[September 11th Attacks]], [[United States|American]] troops have als...
    73: *[http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/may/tajik.html Account o...
    100: ... revenue precariously dependent upon exports of cotton and aluminum, the economy is highly vulnerable ...
    125: ...=com_content&task=view&id=93 "We have to wait a little bit, and the nation will rebel itself"] by Dale...
  16. Finland (29511 bytes)
    12: | align=center colspan=2 | <small>''National [[motto]]: None''</small>
    24: ... Ministers of Finland|Prime minister]]''': || [[Matti Vanhanen]]
    33: ...br/>[[6 December]] [[1917]]<br/>[[22 December]] [[1917]]
    51: ...t [[Mesolithic]] settlers. The arrival of the [[Battle-Axe]] Culture (or Cord-Ceramic Culture) in Sout...
    53: ...sia]] and the Baltic region. There is not much written information of Finnish history before the 13th ...
  17. Israel (51605 bytes)
    10: national_motto = n/a |
    60: ...Judah|Jewish kingdoms and states]] existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium until th...
    66: === Caliphate, Crusades, and the Ottoman Empire ===
    68: ...sades|Crusaders]], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the...
    73: ...ions]] transferred control of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire to the [[United Kingdom]] as a mandate...
  18. Ukraine (22193 bytes)
    3: ... [[Russia]], [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]]. A brief period of independence foll...
    18: ... align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: none''</small>
    76: ... wars between East European monarchies and the [[Ottoman Empire]].
    78: Following the Russian Revolution in [[1917]], Ukraine was briefly independent in two states,...
    82: ...s crushed the [[Red Army]]. In the encirclement battle of [[Kiev]], the city was acclaimed by the Sovi...
  19. Flag of Arizona (872 bytes)
    1: ...|thumb|right|Flag of Arizona. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
    3: ...the [[conquistador]] colors, and the colors of setting sun, as well as portraying Arizona's legendary...
    5: ...flag of Arizona was adopted on [[February 17]], [[1917]]. It was designed by Colonel [[Charles W. Harris...
    10: [http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/az_flag.htm...
  20. Flag of Indiana (917 bytes)
    1: ...|thumb|right|Flag of Indiana. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
    2: ... adopted by the [[Indiana General Assembly]] in [[1917]], as part of the commemoration of the state's 19...
    5: [http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/emblems/embflag...

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