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| Rosa Bonheur Rosa Bonheur, née Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (b. Bordeaux, France, March 16, 1822 Thomery (By), France, May 25, 1899) was a French animalière and realist artist, one of few female sculptors. As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works Ploughing in the Nivernais (in French Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape; and, The Horse Fair (in French Le marché aux chevaux ), which was exhibited at the Rosa_Bonheur | |
| Justinian II Justinian_II | |
| Romanos II Romanos II or Romanus II (Greek:Rōmanos II) (93815 March 963) was a Byzantine emperor. He succeeded his father Constantine VII in 959 at the age of twenty-one, and died suddenly in 963. Romanos_II | |
| 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica/archive 1 Wikipedia_talk:1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica/archive_1 | |
| Probus Probus | |
| Baby-farming Talk:Baby-farming | |
| Arbroath Arbroath or Aberbrothock () is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has a population of 22,785. Arbroath | |
| Battle of Almansa The Battle of Almanza, fought on April 25, 1707, was one of the most decisive engagements of the War of the Spanish Succession. At Almanza, the Franco–Spanish army under Berwick soundly defeated the allied forces of Portugal, Britain, and the United Provinces led by the Earl of Galway, reclaiming most of eastern Spain for the Bourbons.It has been described as "probably the only battle in history in which the British forces were commanded by a Frenchman, the French by a Briton". Battle_of_Almansa | |
| Henry II of France Henry_II_of_France | |
| Orkney Talk:Orkney | |
| Antinous Antinoüs or Antinoös (Greek:November 29 110–October 30 130) was a member of the Roman Emperor Hadrian's entourage, to whom he was beloved. He was deified after his death. Antinous | |
| Nicomedes I of Bithynia Nicomedes I (Greek:second king of Bithynia, was the eldest son of Zipoites, whom he succeeded on the throne in 278 BC. Nicomedes_I_of_Bithynia | |
| Gaius Cassius Longinus For other individuals with a similar name, see Cassius Longinus.Gaius Cassius Longinus (before 85 BC Roman senator, the prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, and the brother in-law of Brutus. Gaius_Cassius_Longinus | |
| Bering Island Bering_Island | |
| Neustria Neustria or Neustrasia, meaning "new Aquitaine to the English Channel, approximating most of the north of present-day France, with Paris and Soissons as its main cities. Thus Neustria formed the western part of the kingdom of the Franks under the rule of the Merovingian dynasty during the sixth to eighth centuries. Neustria | |
| Aphaea Aphaea (Greek φαία; not dark or vanisher) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local deity associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle Under Athenian hegemony, however, she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias: Aigina as one goes toward the mountain of Pan-Greek Zeus, the sanctuary of Aphaia comes up, for whom Pindar composed an ode at the behest of the Aeginetans. Aphaea | |
| China proper/Archive 1 Talk:China_proper/Archive_1 | |
| Pontifex Maximus The Pontifex Maximus (which literally means "Greatest Bridge-maker") was the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of Pontiffs. This was the most important position in the ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post. Pontifex_Maximus | |
| Colchis In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolkhis (Georgian and Laz:k'olxeti; Greek:Kolkhís) was an ancient Georgian , state kingdom and region in the Western Georgia (Caucasus region), which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgian nation and its subgroups. Colchis | |
| Battle of Leuctra The Battle of Leuctra (or Leuktra) was a battle fought between the Thebans and the Spartans and their respective allies amidst the post-Corinthian War conflict. The battle took place in the neighbourhood of Leuctra, a village in Boeotia in the territory of Thespiae. Theban victory weakened Sparta’s immense influence over the Greek peninsula which Sparta had gained since its victory in the Peloponnesian War. Battle_of_Leuctra | |
| Autolycus In Greek mythology, Autolycus (in Greek, 'Lone Wolf") was a son of Hermes and Chione. He was the husband of Neaera, or according to Homer of Amphithea. Autolycus fathered Anticlea (who married Laertes of Ithaca and was the mother of Odysseus) and several sons of whom only Aesimus is named. Autolycus | |
| Tatars Talk:Tatars | |
| Brion VIBBER/archive User_talk:Brion_VIBBER/archive | |
| Tarn (department) Tarn is a department of 5,7582 in the Midi-Pyrénées region in the south-west of France, named after the Tarn River. It was formed in 1790 of the three dioceses of Albi, Castres and Lavaur, belonging to the province of Languedoc. In 1906, the population was 330,533. In 1999, it stood at 343,402.Of particular note in the department are Albi (the capital), Castres, Gaillac, Lavaur, Mazamet and Cordes. Tarn_(department) | |
| Harran Harran, also known as Carrhae, is a district of Şanlıurfa Province in the southeast of Turkey. Harran | |
| Summanus In Roman mythology, Summanus () was the god of nocturnal thunder, as opposed to Jupiter, the god of diurnal (daylight) thunder. His precise nature was unknown even to Ovid Circus Maximus, and every June 20th cakes were offered to him as propitiation. His name can be derived from the Latin sub-manus (cf. Summanus | |
| Prester John Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe from the 12th through the 17th centuries, told of a Christian patriarch and king said to rule over a Christian nation lost amidst the Muslims and pagans in the Orient. Written accounts of this kingdom are variegated collections of medieval popular fantasy. Prester_John | |
| Croatia Talk:Croatia | |
| Posidonius Posidonius (Greek:Apameia" (ὁ Απαμεύς) or "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ρόδιος) (ca. 135 BCE - 51 BCE), was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age. None of his vast body of work can be read in its entirety today, as it exists only in fragments. Posidonius | |
| Wandering Jew Talk:Wandering_Jew | |
| New London, Connecticut New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States. Thames River (pronounced as to rhyme with 'James', unlike the river of the same name in London, the capital of England, which pronounces it to rhyme with 'hems') in New London County, southeastern Connecticut.The city is home to Connecticut College, Mitchell College, the United States Coast Guard Academy, and The Williams School. New_London,_Connecticut | |
| Gong Talk:Gong | |
| House of York The House of York was a branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet, three of whom became English kings in the late 15th century. The House of York was descended in the paternal line from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, the fourth surviving son of Edward III, but also represented Edward's senior line, being maternal descendants of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, Edward III's second surviving son, and based on these descents they claimed the English crown. House_of_York | |
| Willow Willow | |
| Charles Piazzi Smyth was born in Naples, Italy to Admiral William Henry Smyth and his wife Annarelia. He was called Piazzi after his godfather, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, whose acquaintance his father had made at Palermo when serving in the Mediterranean. His father subsequently settled at Bedford and equipped there an observatory, at which Piazzi Smyth received his first lessons in astronomy. Charles_Piazzi_Smyth | |
| Macedon/Archive 2 Talk:Macedon/Archive_2 | |
| Battersea Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is an inner-city district located 2.9 miles (4.8Charing Cross. It has a population of 75,651 people (April 2001). Battersea | |
| Limehouse Limehouse is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is on the northern bank of the River Thames opposite Rotherhithe and between Ratcliff to the west and Millwall to the east.Limehouse is sometimes thought by newcomers to be centred on Narrow Street and the Limehouse Basin, but it is in fact centred on Limehouse Town Hall in Commercial Road. Limehouse | |
| Marylebone Marylebone (sometimes written St. Marylebone or Mary-le-bone) is an affluent, inner-city area of central London, located within the City of Westminster. It can be pronounced as Marribun or Mar(i)-lee-bone Marylebone | |
| Mitcham Mitcham is a district in South London, in the London Borough of Merton. The area is located on the border of Inner London and Outer London. It is both residentially and financially developed, well served by Transport for London, and home to Mitcham Town Centre, Mitcham Library, and Mitcham Cricket Green. Nearby districts include Streatham, Tooting, Sutton, and Croydon. Mitcham | |
| Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos (Νικηφόρος Κάλλιστος Ξανθόπουλος), of Constantinople, the last of the Greek ecclesiastical historians, flourished around 1320.His Historia Ecclesiastica, in eighteen books, brings the narrative down to 610; for the first four centuries the author is largely dependent on his predecessors, Eusebius, Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, Theodoret and Evagrius, his additions showing very little critical faculty; for the later period his labours, based on documents now no longer extant, to which he had free access, though he used them also with small discrimination, are much more valuable. Nicephorus_Callistus_Xanthopoulos | |
| Piquet For other uses see Piquet (disambiguation)Piquet is a trick-taking card game for two players. Pronounced "pee-kay" in France, it is usually pronounced "picket" in English speaking countries. Piquet | |
| Hazard (game) Hazard is an Old English game played with two dice which was mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the 14th century. The name "hazard" derives from the Arabic word az-zahr (زهر) which is a translation of the plural "dice". Hazard is not interchangeable with "Grand Hazard," which is played with three dice; Grand Hazard is similar to Sic bo. Hazard_(game) | |
| Theophrastus Theophrastus (Greek:''Eressos in Lesbos, was the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. His interests were wide-ranging, extending from biology and physics to ethics and metaphysics. His two surviving botanical works, Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants, were an important influence on medieval science. Theophrastus | |
| Christian cross Talk:Christian_cross | |
| William Henry Perkin Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS (12 March 1838 14 July 1907) was an English chemist best known for his discovery, at the age of 18, of the first aniline dye, mauveine.Perkin was born and brought up in the East End of London. At the age of 15, he entered London's Royal College of Chemistry, studying under August Wilhelm von Hofmann. William_Henry_Perkin | |
| Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (; 12 May 1820 – 13nurse, writer and noted statistician. Florence_Nightingale | |
| History of the Alps Talk:History_of_the_Alps | |
| Basutoland Basutoland or officially the Territory of Basutoland, was a British crown colony established in 1884 after the Cape Colony's inability to control the territory. It was divided into seven administrative districts; Berea, Leribe, Maseru, Mohales Hock, Mafeteng, Qacha's Nek and Quthing.Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the United Kingdom on October 4, 1966. Basutoland | |
| Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish, FRS (10 October 1731 - 24 February 1810) was a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper "On Factitious Airs". Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and gave the element its name. Cavendish is also known for the Cavendish experiment, his measurement of the Earth's density, and early research into electricity. Henry_Cavendish |
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