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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo s...
14: ... sometimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a s...
38: ...age from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and p...
56: * Hill, John E. 2004. ''The Peoples of the West from the Weilue'' 魏略 '... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
9: ...den city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indians. Marcos was se...
14: ...nown as [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]) were no rich people at all, the village consisted mostly of thatched ... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
3: ...at their homes. Many streets were paved, and many people had their shops and homes in the same building. T...
5: ...ten mixed with spices, milk, and sugar which many people thought improved the taste.
7: ...he Dutch form of dress. [[Quakers]] wore neat and simple clothing as their [[religion]] taught them. Many ...
9: ...rs, and many other professions. A number of other people worked at industries related to [[metal]]: [[bla...
11: ... few schools in the frontier. By adulthood, most people on the frontier had received less schooling than ... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
5: ... particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan."
26: ...disconnect between the [[House of Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the attempt to introduce a [[Divi...
45: *Simple clothes for priests
46: *Simple ceremonies in Church
47: *Simple decorations (if any) in Churches - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
47: ...round''' movement (Gaelic '''urlar''') which is a simple theme, then a series of somewhat minimalist varia...
103: ...usually played by the [[Laz]] and [[Hemşin]] people. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
31: ...rged as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless ...
150: [[simple:November 4]] - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
19: ...an Catholics was not well-received by the English people. Public alarm increased when James's second wife,...
26: ...e totally extinguished, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne....
38: ...posed by an overwhelming majority of the Scottish People) on [[16 January]] [[1707]]. Under the Act, Engla...
57: ...ts that the Queen was a [[lesbian]], has led many people to believe that their relationship was sexual in ... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...fusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
35: ...storic act of [[civil disobedience]], and how her simple act connects to the larger tapestry of the [[civi...
37: ...d determintaion and inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere. - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
14: ...her career: "Their philosophy consists in a very simple formula, that of calling God to witness, as Plato...
26: ..., and they burned her body with fire. And all the people surrounded the patriarch Cyril and named him 'the...
30: ...s and instruments of music, and she beguiled many people through (her) Satanic wiles. And the governor of ... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
22: ...nwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are ...
35: ...can we do to promote world peace?" Her answer was simple: "Go home and love your family." In the same year...
49: ... countries. These included hospices and homes for people with [[AIDS|HIV/AIDS]], [[leprosy]] and [[tubercu...
68: ...civil liberties in [[1975]], Mother Teresa said: "People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no st...
104: ...is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people." - Tiger lily (1547 bytes)
12: {{Taxobox section binomial simple|color=lightgreen|binomial_name=Lilium lancifolium...
23: Some people mistakenly call the [[daylily]], ''Hemerocallis''... - Cootamundra wattle (1558 bytes)
12: {{Taxobox section binomial simple|color=lightgreen|binomial_name=Acacia baileyana}}
17: ...ofusely for a very short period of time, and many people are [[allergy|allergic]] to some or all species. ... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
21: ...l]] or [[oil]]. Because of the steam engine, some people took to calling the steam locomotives themselves ...
32: ...ore the [[first world war]] which saw a number of simplex diesel systems built for the war, a small number... - Respiratory system (5107 bytes)
24: ... result of the elastic recoil of lung tissue. A simple [[:wikibooks:Constructing school science lab equi...
46: ...[SI|metric units]], about half a [[metre]]). Many people fear big bugs, and they should be comforted by th... - Brain (22060 bytes)
30: ...xperimental) artificial vision for deaf and blind people, and [[brain pacemaker]]s are now common to regul...
50: ...'[[Creativity]] can be easily developed using the simple brainstorming/lateral thinking techniques.'' - Eye (21834 bytes)
1: ... organs are found in a variety of creatures. The simplest eyes do nothing but detect whether the surround...
11: ...among the [[arthropod]]s and are composed of many simple facets which give a pixelated image (not multiple...
15: Some of the simplest eyes, called [[ocelli]], can be found in animal...
16: Jumping spiders have simple eyes that are so large, supported by an array of ...
73: ...t, another green light, and lastly blue light. In simple terms, this allows human beings to see [[RGB colo... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
6: ...es|Germanic]] and later [[Slavic Peoples|Slavic]] peoples. The era of the migrations has historically been...
8: ...man period were not everywhere decimated, the new peoples greatly altered established society, and with it...
14: ...ristianity or with classic Roman culture. Warrior people such as the [[Vikings]] were still capable of cau...
30: ...rought the forced assimilation of numerous native peoples to the European entity.
68: ...ula'' and ''media tempora''). There seem to be no simple reason why a particular language ended up with th... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
7: ...se in many Western cultures, [[marriage|married]] people wearing a [[wedding ring]].
21: * [[3000 BC]] - Egypt and Iran makeing simple [[hammer]]ed [[iron]] beads - Weaving (6924 bytes)
1: ...oth]]. This cloth can be plain (in one color or a simple pattern), or it can be woven in decorative or art...
3: ...er]]-controlled [[Jacquard loom]]s. In the past, simpler fabrics were woven on other [[dobby loom]]s and ...
9: ...s rise to many possible weave structures from the simplest plain weave, through [[twill]]s and [[satin]]s ...
24: ...ished cloth back from England. Nonetheless, many people wove cloth in Colonial America.
42: A plain weave was what most people liked in Colonial times. Almost everything was p... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
44: Greek is spoken by about 12 million people mainly in [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]] but also in m...
272: ...merous [[diphthongs]]. This has been reduced to a simple five-vowel system. Most noticeably, the vowels i,...
315: ...ormal, literally "health"), you only say this to people that you know well. When you address a stranger y...
469: *[http://www.greekliterature.gr/people/psixaris.html Biography of Yiannis Psyxaris and t...
481: ...s.kypros.org/LearnGreek/ Learn Greek Online], for people who would like to learn the beauty of modern Gree... - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
5: ...etter for the [[Pope]] asking to be sent educated people to teach in his empire, to inform the [[Mongols]]...
16: ...ved in Asia. Though they were much impressed, the people of Venice still doubted the Polos. - Society (6217 bytes)
6: ...eaning of ''society'' simply refers to a group of people living together in an ordered community.{{fn|1}}
8: ...ces]] use the term ''society'' to mean a group of people that form a semi-closed (or semi-open) [[social s...
15: ...] societies, [[horticulture|horticulturalist]] or simple farming societies, and [[agriculture|intensive ag...
20: ...behest of some individual or some larger group of people. This type of ''generosity'' can be seen in all k...
22: ...ow a status on some individual or larger group of people, when that individual or group performs an admire... - Flute (11293 bytes)
7: ...formance have led to the development of what many people consider ''the'' flute, the [[Western concert flu...
53: ...er of the instrument. The Indian flutes are very simple instruments when compared with their western coun... - Recorder (12954 bytes)
24: ...derivative of historical fingering, it requires a simple forked fingering for the fourth scale degree in t...
29: This term is regrettably used by relatively few people but it is in fact the best word for describing th...
34: ...ransition from recorder to a modern woodwind much simpler for a schoolchild. - Didgeridoo (7516 bytes)
5: ...n northern Australia suggests that the Aboriginal people of the Kakadu region have been using the didgerid...
7: ...ype of instrument made and used by the [[Yolngu]] people of north-east [[Arnhem Land]]. This name is not a...
39: ...], [[yucca]] and other materials. For a cheap and simple didgeridoo, a length of [[polyvinyl chloride|PVC]... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
6: Simple metal or wood reed instruments ("Maultrommel", Je...
20: ...rst used in Europe around [[1800]] AD for organs. People used their knowledge and the standard of the cont...
28: ... for each note. The instrument was copied by many people, and many variations came into existence in a ver...
33: ...e two or three bass harmony keys, which sound the simple chords of the tonic and dominant. - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
99: A number of people have made specially tuned variants of the diatoni...
174: ... interesting warbling tonal variation on the very simple waveform of the basic ten- or twelve-hole diatoni...
195: ...harmonicas include tiny four-hole instruments and simple plastic models of a conventional size.
201: ...arn it alone) and because of its practical size. People also began to call it a harp. - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ...an origin, as no Indigenous Brazilian or European people use musical bows, and very similar instruments ar...
56: ...er leads the singing, which is made easier by the simple rythm and little variation that he plays, and add...
58: ...s the Gunga. For instance, while the Gunga play a simple, eight-unit pattern "tsh-tsh, ding, dong, dong", ... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
47: ...tes deadlocked, with no candidate reaching even a simple majority, much less the required [[supermajority]...
58: ...n of similar beliefs but a broad cross-section of people he personally knew. Many thought that the diverse... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
106: ...ly that even were the Constitution construed as a simple contract, would it not require the agreement of a...
109: ...ount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and state owning a foot of land between h...
167: ... executed by the United States government.) Three people were sentenced to life imprisonment ([[Michael O'...
268: *[[World Almanac's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium]]
320: ...g.org/etext/11728 eText of ''Abraham Lincoln: The People's Leader in the Struggle for National Existence''... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
126: ...a ridge, but has different characteristics than a simple volcano.
140: There are debates about the simple "hotspot" concept, since theorists cannot agree o...
159: ...on. The government evacuated tens of thousands of people. Forty eight hours later, bang on time, the volca... - Greece (54754 bytes)
72: ... progressed, much of Greece was overrun by Slavic peoples from the north, and a period of uncertainty and ...
76: The invasions of the [[Turkic peoples|Turks]] after the battle of [[Manzikert]] in 107...
87: ...]] and were not Crypto-Christians became [[Turkic peoples|Turks]] in the eyes of Orthodox Greeks. Therefor...
90: ...unteered to fight for the cause — including people like [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord ...
100: ...[[Axis Powers|Axis]], the Greek government gave a simple negative response (see [[Oxi Day]]) — there... - Finland (29511 bytes)
65: ...presentation of "the people" since they spoke the people's language and since a great deal of their ancest...
71: ...t the Soviet Union got even more influence; other people worked single-mindedly to oppose the communists.
88: ...titutionality of laws in Finland is verified by a simple vote in the parliament. However, the Constitution...
104: ...land. [[Dialect]]s, [[folklore]], [[custom]]s and people's feeling of affiliation are associated with thes...
143: ...o the north, in [[Lapland]], are found the [[Sami people|Sami]], numbering less than 7,000, who like the F... - Israel (51605 bytes)
73: ... subsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Shoah]], or [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]],...
78: ... accepted tentatively [http://www.multied.com/bio/people/BenGurion.html] by Zionist leader [[David Ben-Gur...
142: ... can decide to dissolve itself ahead of time by a simple majority, known as a vote of no-confidence.
255: At the end of [[2003]], of Israel's 6.7 million people, 81% were "[[Jew]]s and others", and 19% were [[A... - Spain (36498 bytes)
58: ...he [[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a separ...
97: ...ment going to great lengths to shield the Spanish people from the effects of the [[oil crisis]].
114: ...fusal of the Spanish state of the right of Basque people to choose freely their political status. Recently...
118: ...2005, Spain became the first country to allow its people to vote on the European Union constitution that w...
183: ...ult of a referendum in Gibraltar where 98% of the people opposed them. See [[Gibraltar]] for more informat... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
9: ... ago. There is clear archaeological evidence that people in South America and India domesticated different...
13: ... it came from other than that it was a [[plant]]; people in the region, familiar only with [[animal]] fibe...
95: [[simple:Cotton]] - Mummy (16225 bytes)
45: ...dividuals would simply be mummified and laid in a simple tomb or on a ledge in a larger tomb. Higher-statu...
56: *'''[[Inca]]s''', a practice also adopted by peoples they conquered, e.g. [[Chachapoyas]].
58: *'''[[Tibet]]ans''', who reserved this honor for people who reached a highest level of [[enlightenment]].
75: ...l produced a number of [[bog bodies]], mummies of people deposited in [[bog|sphagnum bog]]s apparently as ...
93: ...n]] that would be too dangerous for use on living people. In fact, mummies can be studied without unwrappi... - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
9: ...ch the game on television. A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level.
11: ...han 200 countries in every part of the world. Its simple rules and minimal equipment requirements have no ... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
36: ...ct, on average Oregon is as dry as Texas, but few people live in Eastern Oregon.
41: ...e the future for all [[United States|Americans]]: simple living, [[conservation]], and [[urban growth boun...
43: ...ncreasing population without losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first place. The state has pion...
105: ... the legislature has referred 363 measures to the people, of which 206 have passed.
135: ''See also the [[list of people from Oregon]] and the [[list of Portlanders]]'' - Desert (21206 bytes)
18: ... be designated as specifically different from the simple definition of a desert: a place where evaporatio...
137: ... - [[Xinjiang]] Uighur Autonomous Region of the [[People's Republic of China]] - Sun (20830 bytes)
168: ...s the only part of the Sun cool enough to support simple molecules such as [[carbon monoxide]] and [[water...
209: ...er [[supernatural]] phenomenon. One of the first people in the Western world to offer a scientific explan... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
17: ...ages/List_of_mis|11,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_people_by_name:_Zz|12,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_tele...
29: **[[Lists of people]]
90: *[[Classification of finite simple groups]]
163: **[[List of asteroids named after important people]]
368: *[[List of political entities named after people]] - History of science (41710 bytes)
29: ...omical information in a systematic manner through simple observation. Though they had no knowledge of the...
40: ...es were organized to only teach [[theology]], but people like [[Roger Bacon]] encouraged teaching of the s...
46: ...ed for new ideas to be rapidly copied to multiple people.
52: ...ated scholarly collaboration by bringing together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world.
93: ...[amino acid]]s, could themselves be built up from simpler molecules in a [[simulation]] of primordial [[pr... - Flag (13245 bytes)
3: ...s formal end the distinction between a flag and a simple cloth banner is blurred. Generally, a piece of cl...
27: ...pted by many [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] states and peoples as their symbols. ''Examples'': [[Flag of Slova...
31: ...g of East Germany|East Germany]], [[Flag of China|People's Republic of China]], [[Flag of Vietnam|Vietnam]...
77: A flagpole, or flagstaff, can be simple supports made of wood or metal. If it is taller ...
80: ...ay require more complex support structures than a simple pole, such as guy wires, or to be built as a mast... - Macau (16856 bytes)
26: |Handover from [[Portugal]] to the [[People's Republic of China]]
40: ...t transferred [[sovereignty]] over Macau to the [[People's Republic of China]] in [[1999]], and it is now ...
67: ...clared martial law. As result of the protests 11 people died and 200 were injured.
69: To peacefully oppose the government, the Chinese people enacted ?three no?s? - no taxes, no service, no s...
71: ...le, and in 1987, an agreement was made with the [[People's Republic of China]] to make Macau a [[Special A... - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
7: ...developments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write from left to right in horizontal r...
16: ...of simplified cuneiform characters, that formed a simple, semi-alphabetic syllabary, using far fewer wedge... - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
7: ... on the older oral traditions of the [[Germanic]] peoples. [[Celtic]] traditions have survived in the [[Br...
22: ...lerics were the [[mystery play]]s: growing out of simple [[tableaux]] re-enactments of a single Biblical s...
34: ...ntertained a society that, in most cases, limited people to the area in which they were born. (But note th...
65: ...m]]'' ("The Ecclesiastical History of the English People"), the Venerable [[Bede]] - Castle (27805 bytes)
2: ...French castle is a ''chau-fort,'' for in French a simple ''chau'' connotes a grand [[country house]] at th...
73: ...ce of such fortresses in private hands, while the people hated them from the first for the oppressions con...
94: ...and then the rest; to protect the workers and the people already inhabitating the castle. - Government (12596 bytes)
1: ...ate, whether over an area of land, a set group of people, or an association.
103: ...g]] - [[Recall election]] - [[Secret ballot]] - [[Simple majority]] - [[Sortition]] - [[Split vote]] - [[S... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
66: ...re listening to music on his [[phonograph]]. Now, people could go to a penny arcade, put in a coin, put on...
75: His contributions to technology benefited people world-wide, and in [[1878]], he was named Chevali...
100: ...e, placed Edison first in the "100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 [[Year]]s", noting that his [[li... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
5: ...ty|band]] and [[tribe|tribal]] societies in which people live in small settlements or nomadic groups and m...
7: ...ct society, whether complex and city-dwelling, or simple and tribal. This definition is often perceived as...
15: ...ation is a complex society, as distinguished from simpler societies. Everyone lives in a society and a cu...
20: ...ftain]] of one noble family or [[clan]] rules the people; or a [[state]] society, in which the ruling clas...
24: ...accumulation of more material possessions than in simpler societies. - Politics (7193 bytes)
25: ...y]] re-emerged as politics by the people, for the people. In the 19th century [[Karl Marx]] believed the ...
34: ...on of authority]]). He proposed three reasons why people followed the orders of those who gave them:
99: [[simple:Politics]] - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
27: ...ved independently on at least four occasions. The simplest pitfall
29: ...s are quite clearly evolutionarily derived from a simple
136: is prevented by the leaf's having a simple memory: for the lobes to shut, two [[stimulus|sti...
180: true carnivores, including both unspecialised and simple traps, like ''Heliamphora'', to extremely special...
202: quite clearly), and flypapers show a simple evolutionary gradient from sticky, non-carnivorou... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
28: ...e.jpeg|right|250px|thumb|Determined to lead their peoples' resistance against white takeover of their land...
56: ...mpire, 2.3 million Scandinavians, and 3.3 million people from Russia (mostly Jews, Polish Catholics, and L...
117: ...on skilled workers. His objectives were "pure and simple": increasing [[wage]]s, reducing hours and improv...
121: ...r Company in Chicago. In the ensuing battle, nine people were killed and some 60 injured. Next came the ri...
158: ...anguage, although the languages of the Philippine people were [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Visayan_lang... - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
86: ...Roosevelt]] promised "a new deal for the American people," a phrase that has endured as a label for his ad...
135: ... producers. Desperate for salvation, many businesspeople even demanded that the government enforce such tr...
189: ...eflation, perpetuating the Great Depression. When people decided to save more (spend less) businesses resp...
193: ... Keynes's basic idea was simple. In order to keep people fully employed, governments have to run deficits ...
197: ... on the distribution of wealth among the American people. - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
97: ... elucidate all the laws of the universe, based on simple observation (without experimentation) through rea...
101: ...s to the position that thinking alone often leads people astray, and therefore one must compare one's idea... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
1: {{otherpeople|John Locke}}
3: ...h [[society]] and [[epistemology]]. An [[English (people)|Englishman]], Locke's notions of a "[[government...
31: ...ding his distinction between passively acquired ''simple ideas'', such as "red," "sweet," "round," etc., a...
35: ... of legitimate government and 2) arguing that the people may remove a regime that violates that theory; Lo...
44: According to ''[[A People's History of the United States]]'': - Evolution (27661 bytes)
18: ...dents, is a scientific theory. In plain English, people use the word "theory" to signify "conjecture", "s...
58: ...d 2 billion years ago. In the last billion years, simple multicellular plants and animals began to appear ...
158: ...erences in wealth and success among societies and people and [[eugenics]], which claimed that human civili...
160: ...ors with other animals has also affected how some people view the relationship between humans and other sp... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
58: ...ocracy]]. Officials had no responsibility to "the people"--their function was to serve God by best oversee...
75: ...]]. Their venture was initially a failure for the simple reason that there was no incentive for emigration...
121: ...ot wish to bankroll the subjugation of the native people of the area to make room for colonists. In fact,...
149: ...story/United_States/People Pictures of Historical People] - DNA (29095 bytes)
5: In [[bacterium|bacteria]] and other [[prokaryote|simple]] [[biological cell|cell]] organisms, DNA is not ...
12: :Wikipedia needs to be accurate, but it can be simple ''and'' accurate. Dumbing down something too muc...
14: This is what most people need, and that's why it has been inserted at the ...
22: This section presents a brief and simple overview of DNA.
39: ...lled "the molecule of heredity", pieces of DNA as people typically think of them are not single molecules.... - Butterfly (9348 bytes)
20: ...ve striking colours and patterns on their wings. People who study or collect butterflies (or the closely ...
44: ...re often confused with moths, but there are a few simple differences between them, including colour, habit... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
20: ...ismologist named [[Charles F. Richter]] devised a simple numerical scale (which he called the [[magnitude]...
31: ...cornell.edu/pages/tg21/Earthq.html]; [[http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/eyewit.html]).
64: ...at Hanshin earthquake]] (1995). Killed over 6,400 people in and around [[Kobe]], [[Japan]]. - Economics (30960 bytes)
27: ...th varying degrees of success, to any field where people are faced with alternatives – [[education]]...
63: ...oods will be the cost of making the last one that people will purchase, and the price of all the employees...
87: ...ying, selling, and prices. Some of the models are simple [[accounting]] models, while others postulate spe...
89: ...—but it also requires having a model of how people use diesel, and what other goods they might subst...
95: ...hool]] of economics believes that anything beyond simple logic is often unnecessary and inappropriate for ... - Meditation (26064 bytes)
12: ...patterns). Quietness is often desirable, and some people use repetitive activities such as deep breathing,...
20: The purposes for which people meditate vary almost as widely as practices. It m...
34: ...se and power. Some mantras can be translated into simple words, but invariably the deeper meaning can only...
81: Meanwhile, the amygdala, which is a simpler structure (and older in evolutionary terms), mak...
87: ...al cortex is more affected than the comparatively simple and robust amygdala, resulting in lowered inhibit... - Mango (12190 bytes)
45: ...rushiol]], though much less than poison ivy. Some people get dermatitis from touching mango peel or sap. P...
51: Some people claim that the safest way to eat a mango is in th...
59: A simple way to eat a large mango 'as is' involves using a... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
10: ...ed for functions other than counting. Unlike the simple counting board used in elementary schools, very e...
43: ...an for native Japanese and foreigners, as Western people are of bigger body build and hands/fingers. The ... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
10: ... poet under his patronage. This was but an act of simple justice, Ariosto having already distinguished him...
12: ...s government satisfied both the sovereign and the people given over to his care; indeed, there is a story ... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
8: ...when Frankish [[Carolingian]] ruler [[Charles the Simple]] allowed the [[Vikings]] of [[Rollo of Normandy|...
54: ... part by the deprivations suffered by the country people during the war and their hatred of the local nobi...
118: ===Important People=== - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
12: ...provided that state legislatures, rather than the people, would elect senators. The Constitution was ratif...
16: ...pushed for the direct election of senators by the people, rather than state legislatures; they achieved th...
25: ...ns censuring members; [[censure]] requires only a simple majority and does not remove a senator from offic...
89: ...nal-executive agreement]]s with the approval of a simple majority in each House of Congress, rather than a... - Oceanography (3841 bytes)
1: ... within the science: Oceanography's definition is simple, it's the study of oceans.
15: ...ational Science Foundation to give grant money to people doing studies in the field of oceanography. - Hobby (3707 bytes)
10: What are hobbies for some people are professions for others: a [[computer game tes...
12: ...n make a living at [[stamp collecting]], but many people find it enjoyable; so it is commonly regarded as ...
16: ...meaning a geek or enthusiast) is often applied to people who obsessively pursue a particular hobby.
18: Whilst some hobbies strike many people as trivial or boring, hobbyists have found somet...
20: ...an one documented case of violence over things as simple as coin collecting. - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ... from [[digital circuit|components]] that perform simple well-defined functions. The complex interactions ...
12: ...all operations on that information are reduced to simple [[Boolean algebra]].
113: ...rld Wide Web]] technologies enabled non-technical people to use the internet, and it grew rapidly to becom...
142: ...mputer only has a limited number of well-defined, simple instructions, but they are not ambiguous. Typica...
146: In practice, people do not normally write the instructions for comput... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ...ans, such as ''[[Homo erectus]]'', had been using simple tools for many millennia, but as time progressed,...
12: ...ypt]], and the [[Indus River|Indus Valley]]. Some peoples, such as [[Australian Aborigines|Aborigines]] of...
14: ... the storage of food surpluses that could support people not directly involved in food production. The dev...
23: ...d [[12th century BC|1200 BCE]], as these advanced peoples lost their technological lead to their barbarian...
41: ...times. In southern India, three prominent [[Tamil people|Tamil]] kingdoms emerged, [[Chera]]s, [[Chola]]s,... - Allergy (18658 bytes)
23: The typical and most simple method of diagnosis and monitoring of Type I Hype...
28: ... economics, it is not without complications. Some people may display a delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH)...
39: ... be seen as a [[placebo]]; however, it has helped people.
73: ...ferent genetic loci are responsible for asthma in people of Caucasian, Hispanic, and African origins. - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
16: ...red a slow learner, possibly due to [[dyslexia]], simple [[shyness]], or the significantly rare and unusua...
179: ... the offer, claiming that he lacked the necessary people skills. - Benjamin Banneker (3034 bytes)
5: ...t of his life. Banneker was taught to read and do simple [[arithmetic]] by his grandmother and by a [[Quak...
15: ...ords. As a subtle hint of the capabilities of his people, Banneker included a copy of his newly published ... - Ship (18843 bytes)
14: ...and engaged some [[engineer]]s to derive a fairly simple [[formula]] to determine the position of a line o...
34: In the past, people counting or grouping disparate types of ship may ... - Train (10331 bytes)
31: ...he [[1970s]]. A few countries, most notably the [[People's Republic of China]] where [[coal]] is in cheap ...
74: ...gerator]] wagons for transporting food. There are simple types of open-topped wagons for transporting [[mi... - Airline (29546 bytes)
68: ...intervention in order to protect the free flow of people, communications, and goods between different regi...
117: ...iers usually offer straightforward, preannounced, simple prices. They can do this by quoting prices for ea... - Jellyfish (6276 bytes)
18: ...ct with its environment and is also the form most people are familiar with.
28: ...uth" for digestion.These cells are activated by a simple but precise [[nervous system]] called a [[nerve n... - Amulet (8206 bytes)
6: Potential amulets include: [[gem]]s or simple [[Gemstone|stone]]s, [[statue]]s, [[coin]]s, [[dr...
10: .... Even today in [[Thailand]] one can commonly see people with more than one [[Buddha]] hanging from their ...
16: ... [[cactus]] can cause controversy, for while some people consider them beneficial, others think they delay...
20: In [[Central Europe]], people believed [[garlic]] kept [[vampire]]s away, as d...
33: ... wear the [[totem]] of their clan tattooed. Other peoples also use tattoos. - Palermo (10618 bytes)
42: ...h and 18th centuries. The device itself is quite simple: a tiny hole in one of the minor domes acts as [[...
53: On the 14th of July, people in Palermo celebrate the "Festino", which is the ... - Instructional design (6896 bytes)
4: ... faced the need to rapidly train large numbers of people to perform complex technical tasks, from field-st...
12: ...l the movement of a simulated turtle by giving it simple commands such as "forward 10 units" and "turn rig... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
197: Scheduling observations for Hubble is not a simple matter. Because it is situated in a low-Earth or...
234: ...ur as well as professional astronomers as well as people with backgrounds outside astronomy, and emphasise... - Ostrich (8135 bytes)
58: ...egg (biology)|eggs]] in a single communal nest, a simple pit scraped in the ground and about 30–60 c...
72: ...e UK. There are a number of recorded incidents of people being attacked and killed. Big males can be very ... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
29: ...rd for the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none ...
51: ... but chose not to seek a third term. During the [[People's Park]] protests, he sent 2,200 National Guard t...
53: ... the [[Supreme Court of California]] issued its ''People v. Anderson'' decision, which invalidated all dea...
85: ...omosexuality was a normal state of being for some people and considered actor [[Rock Hudson]] to be a long...
251: ...ars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? … Did he a... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
34: ...ist affiliations, and said that, there were a few people who were in both Committees. Nixon said "they're ...
55: ...win voters with his foreign-policy expertise, but people only saw a sickly man sweating profusely and wear...
96: ...e perceptions by staging [[photo-op]]s with young people, and even appearing on popular TV shows such as '...
125: *"I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President i...
126: ...hat's the whole point. We're going to protect our people if we can." (to Haldeman, tapes ordered released ... - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
64: ...to former members of the 129<sup>th</sup>. It was simple economics, in 1919 wheat went for $2.15 a bushel,...
80: ...ormer First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Although some people were distrustful of his expertise on foreign matt...
88: ...cArthur]] had won the imagination of the American people. Following the Chinese intervention in early Nov...
94: ...ly wounded Truman's credibility with the American people. His unpopularity grew even more pronounced as th... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
43: ...tatorship and democracy, Hoover liked to say, was simple: dictators organize from the bottom down, democra...
48: ... eat cornbread. In all, the CRB saved ten million people from starvation.
52: ..., in the words of Ambassador Walter Hines Page "a simple, modest, energetic little man who began his caree...
54: ... [[Bolshevism]], Hoover retorted, "Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall...
93: ...ed for changes, he reiterated his view that while people must not suffer from hunger and cold, caring for ... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
64: ... it is today, Roosevelt was able to convince many people that he was in fact getting better, which he beli...
80: ...self, to a [[New Deal|new deal]] for the American people," coining a slogan that was later adopted for his...
84: ...of adopting revolutionary solutions, the American people had turned to the Democrats and to a leader who h...
86: ...Depression as mainly a matter of confidence—people had stopped spending, investing and employing lab...
140: ...t]], the U.S. Army Commander in California, whose simple attitude was that "a Jap is a Jap." Opponents of ... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
33: ...o choose Adams was a violation of the will of the people; he even proposed (unsuccessfully) that the [[Ele...
42: ...ts, including [[Andrew Jackson]]. Van Buren won a simple majority on the convention's first ballot, but di... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
1: ...]] cultures. Contrary to popular myth, the [[Maya people]] never "disappeared." Millions still live in th...
7: The earliest monuments consist of simple [[Tumulus|burial mounds]], the precursors to [[py...
31: ...ess permanent and more modest homes of the common people.
33: ...n public plazas were the gathering places for the people and the focus of the urban design, while interior...
41: ... utilized to mimic the appearance and feel of the simple Maya hut. Though not an effective tool to increa... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
17: ...ic, even in the presence of the [[Roman Senate]], people were forced to stand and applaud his presence.
28: ...When asked why he would have such a reaction, his simple response was: "Do you think I have not just ...
34: ...t enhanced his image irreversibly with the common people. Caesar ended his year as aedile in glory but in ...
49: ...ar rebuked the Senate and took it directly to the people.
55: ...BC came to a close, Caesar had the support of the people, along with the two most powerful men in Rome (as... - Pompey (25785 bytes)
44: ...iumphal banquet and made several donations to the people of Rome, enhancing his popularity even further.
71: ...hore. His freedman, Philipus, organized himself a simple funeral pyre and cremated the body on a pyre of b... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
5: ... [[first flying machine |counter-claims]] by some people and nations at their start, and through to the pr...
43: ... which was more an exercise in advertising than a simple delivery. The actual flight occurred on [[Novemb...
55: ... the 18th century before the Wrights, and several people had been working on heavier than air flying machi... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
8: ...den city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indians. Marcos was se...
12: ...nown as [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]) were no rich people at all, the village consisted mostly of thatched ... - Digital photography (33923 bytes)
22: ...for some linear array type at the highest-end and simple [[web cam]]s at the lowest-end, a [[digital memor...
50: *The ability to shoot RAW captures: in simple terms, this is the ability to have a file that co...
70: ...eras require no batteries and, being mechanically simple, are able to operate in extreme environments.
72: ...o print them) and many people (particularly older people) are more familiar and comfortable with how to pr...
113: ...egapixel ratings of these two sensors but in many people's opinions a 6 MP Bayer filter sensor is roughly ... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
19: ...d Velatice civilizations, it was the [[Lusatian]] people who expanded the building of strong and complex f...
21: ...ttles that took place between the Scytho-Thracian people and the [[Celtic]] tribes, advancing from the Sou...
31: ... of years BCE, evolving from sedentary indigenous peoples in the midst of Celtic and Germanic tribal movem...
43: ...3]], was in response to the raids of the invading peoples. It was the first known political formation by S...
61: ...an with these words: " ...We, the Slavs, a simple people, have no-one to teach us the truth..." The Empero... - French language (40201 bytes)
19: ...ge in the world, being spoken by about 77 million people (called [[Francophones]]) as a [[mother tongue]],...
25: ...nhabited largely by a [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] people that the Romans referred to as [[Gaul|Gauls]], al...
46: ...] centuries, [[Celtic languages|Celtic]]-speaking peoples from southwestern Britain ([[Wales]], [[Cornwall...
54: The [[Arab]] peoples also supplied many words to French around this t...
398: ...h is used in writing or in formal occasions (when people make official speeches or when they are interview... - Tobacco smoking (36030 bytes)
37: ...s. Cancer of the mouth and jaw is also a risk for people who chew tobacco rather than smoke it. US Preside...
54: ... action, as described above, do not permit such a simple [[assay]] and require more difficult studies, req...
71: ... a study by an international team of researchers, people under 40 are five times more likely to have a hea...
100: ...sation]]. Discussing the problem with supportive people can also be helpful. In addition, there are lots ...
109: ...om one person's [[cigarette]] is inhaled by other people. Non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke are at g...
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