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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...
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