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Wikipedia: John Hay
In-depth biography of John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 - July 1, 1905), author of the Open Door Policy in China. Hay also paved the way for the construction of the Panama Canal.
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Wikipedia: Robert Hooke
Wikipedia offers biographical information on Robert Hooke (1635-1703 CE), one of the greatest experimental scientists of the seventeenth century.
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Wikipedia: Causes of the French Revolution
Discusses the causes of the French Revolution. Some of the reasons given are resentment of royal absolutism, the rise of enlightenment ideals, national debt, and food scarcity.
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Wikipedia: Francis Hopkinson
Wikipedia provides brief biographical information on Francis Hopkinson, American Author and one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence.
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Wikipedia: Midnight's Children
Wikipedia provides information on the novel by native Indian Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children. Includes summary, hyperlinked terms, and external links.
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Wikipedia: International Date Line
Wikipedia offers information on the International Date Line, an imaginery line that offsets the hours added as one travels east through time zones.
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Wikipedia: Japanese Literature
Wikipedia provides detailed information on the history, forms, and authors of Japanese literature. Includes external links and hyperlinked terms.
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Wikipedia: Philosophy of Law
Wikipedia offers detailed information on the Philosophy of Law, including a long list of philosophers of law with links to more information.
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Wikipedia: Juvenal
Wikipedia offers brief biographical information on Juvenal, Roman satiric poet of the 1st century A.D.
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Wikipedia: Kansas Nebraska Act
Wikipedia offers excellent information on the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
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Wikipedia: Friedrich August Kekule Von Stradonitz
Wikipedia offers biographical information and an image on german organic chemist, Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (1829-1896 CE).
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Wikipedia: Know Nothing
Wikipedia provides detailed information on the Know Nothing movement, a Native American political movement of the 1850s.
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Wikipedia: Tsung Dao Lee
Wikipedia provides biographical information on Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist who recieved the Nobel Prize at the age of thirty-one.
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Wikipedia: Capacitors
Wikipedia offers detailed information on capacitors, including a hyperlinked table of contents for easy site navigation.
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Wikipedia: Konrad Lorenz
Wikipedia provides biographical information on Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist and ornithologist.He is credited with re-discovering the principle of animal imprinting.
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Wikipedia: Magnetism
Detailed information on magnetism, a physics phenomenon. Page includes a hyperlinked table of contents for easy navigation. Wikipedia is an online wiki, popular (not scholarly) in nature.
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Wikipedia: Electromagnet
Easy-to-read information and an illustration of an "electromagnet," a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is induced by the flow of an electric current.
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Wikipedia: Mahabharata
An overview of the Mahabharata, one of the great religious epics of India.
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Wikipedia: First Battle of the Marne
A brief overview of the First Battle of the Marne, a World War I battle in which French and British forces defeated the Germans.
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Wikipedia: Menander
Biographical information on Menander, ancient Greek dramatist and chief representative of the New Comedy genre.
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Wikipedia: Mencius
Brief biographical information on Mencius, a well-known Chinese philosopher and a Confucian.
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Wikipedia: Minuet
Wikipedia offers an excellent definition of the minuet, a dance for 2 persons in 3/4 time. Includes many hyperlinked terms.
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Wikipedia: Trier
Wikipedia, a publically-maintained wiki, offers information on the German city of Trier, including its well-preserved Roman buildings, city gate, and baths. There are images and external links, as well.
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Wikipedia: National Labor Relations Act
Wikipedia offers information on the National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act. Includes background, content, controversies that arose, and criticisms of the Act, along with many links to more information.