Search results
|
|
Showing below up to 50 results starting with #1.
View (previous 50) (next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Steel (28384 bytes)
28: ...into tools in pre-contact [[North America]]. Beginning around the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people...
32: ...Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.]] Beginning between [[3000 BC]] to [[2000 BC]] increasing ...
36: ...nt theory is that warfare and mass migrations beginning around 1200 BC disrupted the regional tin trad...
40: ...l fire for prolonged periods of time. By the beginning of the iron age, smiths had discovered that ir...
60: ...increasing the height of the flue to as tall as 5 meters (16 feet) and smelting as much as 350 kg (750 lb... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
28: ...area|Ranked 51st]]<br/> 488,100 [[square kilometer|km²]]<br/> Negligible
60: Separated from [[Persia]] and annexed by [[Russia]] between [[1865]] and [[1885]], ...
66: ... a very short person, barely taller than 150 centimeters (5 feet).
82: | [[Image:TurkmenistanNumbered.png|150px|left|]]
88: ...e]], along the southwestern border, reaches 2,912 meters. The Balkan Mountains in the far west and the Ku... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
67: ...he [[Eastern Han Dynasty]] (25-220 AD), was 1.8 [[meter]]s (nearly six feet) tall and might have died at ...
69: ...'s [[Silk Road]] in [[Xinjiang]], about 200 [[kilometers]] east of Yingpan.
104: * [[Nesperennub]] - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
4: ...distinction belongs to the [[Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano]]. However, due to the proximity of...
8: ...in this exact spot, which had previously been a cemetery for pagans as well as Christians.
17: ...]] and [[1667]], in the center of which is a 25.5 meter tall obelisk. The [[obelisk]] was moved to its pr...
22: ...) across. It is not simply its vast scale (136.57 meters from from the floor of the church to the top of ...
24: ... by Donato Bramante at the outset in 1503, was planned to be carried out with a single masonry shell, ... - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
3: ...s, with a diameter of 3.7 meters (11 ft). The 190 meter (625 ft) frieze winds around the shaft 23 times. ...
19: ...ient Roman units of measurement|Roman feet]]; beginning slightly above the bottom of the base, the hel...
61: ...across the bands of images— just as, on the Colonne Vendôme, Napoleon's figure can be picked up, sc... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
36: ...;]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
41: ...England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner]]
66: *[[W.K. Dickson|William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]], motion picture camera - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
5: ...ium-gain antenna. A low-gain, omnidirectional antenna is mounted below the high-gain dish. The spacecr...
7: ...nfrared radiometer]], and an [[imaging photopolarimeter]], which produced [[photograph]]s and measured th...
24: * [[Unmanned space missions]] - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
16: ...ght from ever heating the surface. Venus's [[Bolometer|bolometric]] [[albedo]] is approximately 60%, and...
23: ... It is not known why Venus is different in this manner, although it may be the result of a collision w...
25: ... no impact crater smaller than about 3.2 km in diameter can form.
31: ... veil no mortal raised), first observed by [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] in [[1672]]. Sporadic sightin...
36: ...enus (which the early Babylonians called ''Nindaranna''). The ancient [[Sumeria]]ns and Babylonians ca... - Sundial (16148 bytes)
89: ...to measure angles to geographic features. Large (meter-sized) diptychs may have been used for [[navigati...
99: == Precision sundials (heliochronometers) ==
101: A precision sundial, called a '''heliochronometer''',
105: Heliochronometers usually indicate the minutes to within 1 minute ...
109: The classic shape for a heliochronometer is an ''equatorial bow sundial''. - Mammal (11782 bytes)
57: *[[Fennec Fox]]
164: ...vidence of mammalian evolution from reptilian beginnings: from a single ear bone, and several lower ja...
181: ...s]] around 130 million years old, one more than a meter in length, the other having remains of a baby din...
204: ...te and progress concerning the theoretical underpinnings of systematization itself, partly through the... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
6: ... The electricity passing through the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air, producing l...
24: ...forced to flow in opposite directions (stepped channels called [[Step leader|step leaders]]). The con...
26: ...led a [[positive streamer]], and can eventually connect to the descending discharge from the cloud.
33: ...en the discharge rapidly superheats the leader channel, causing a [[shock wave]] to be sent out.
35: ...path. Photographs have been taken on which non-connected streamers are visible [http://www.erh.noaa.g... - Atmospheric pressure (6841 bytes)
18: ...ts on radio, television, and newspapers. When barometers in the home are set to match the local weather r...
22: ...making this reduction differs slightly. See [[altimeter]].
24: ...metric altimeter setting which will cause the altimeter to read altitude above mean sea level in the vici...
26: ...ometric altimeter setting which will cause an altimeter to read height above a particular runway threshol...
41: ...c pressure is often measured with a mercury [[barometer]], and a height of approximately 30 inches of mer... - Cambodia (32076 bytes)
79: ...ellectuals, detractors of Marxism, and some just innocent civilians. Millions fled across to neighbour...
85: ...n present day Cambodia appeared in the [[1st millennium]] AD. During the 300s, 400s, and 500s AD, the ...
122: ...ustion, the regime killed anyone suspected with connections with either the defeated Khmer Republic go...
169: ...etnam]] on the east and southeast. It has 443 kilometers of coastline along the [[Gulf of Thailand]].
171: ... the [[Dangrek Mountains]] (average elevation 500 meters) along the border with Thailand's [[Isan]] regio... - Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
23: ... the tail) and dorsal fin are formed of dense [[connective tissue]] and don't contain bones or muscle....
40: ...y will employ "fish wacking" whereby a fish is stunned (and sometimes thrown out of the water) with th...
43: ...yes, but most sound waves are transmitted to the inner ear through the lower jaw. As the object of int...
59: ...hich may be male). A single calf is born, about 1 meter (3 feet) long at birth. - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...sunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
4: ...lometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in th...
24: ...nce as the wave travels, so the energy per linear meter in the wave decreases as the inverse power of the...
28: ...n less than one metre. This is often practically unnoticeable to people on ships. The energy of a tsun...
45: Tsunamis cannot be prevented or precisely predicted, but there ... - Long-distance track event (2855 bytes)
1: ...trained consistently for over 10 weeks prior to running the race.
5: ===3,000 meter steeplechase===
7: ...rength, stamina and agility than the flat [[3,000 meter]] event. The world record for men is:
15: ===5,000 meters===
17: ...ch an event may comprise of a total of 60-200 kilometers a week. The world record for men: - Forbidden City (7592 bytes)
3:
14: ...specifically designed to withstand attacks by [[cannon]]s.
16: ...;和門). The northern section, or the Inner Court, was where the Emperor worked and lived w... - Palermo (10618 bytes)
12: ... seen in the Palatine Chapel, the church San Giovanni degli Eremiti and the Zisa. [http://sights.seind...
18: The Italian ''[[Risorgimento]]'' and Sicily's annexation ([[1860]]) to the [[House of Savoy|kingdom...
30: ...problems, but is also a city of almost three millennia of history, beautiful palaces and churches, col...
42: ...ian (astronomy)|la Meridiana]] '' on the floor, running precisely N/S. The ends of the line mark the ...
47: ...degrees of preservation. Close to the city is 600 meter high Monte Pellegrino, with spectacular views of ... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
26: |'''Diameter'''||2.4 m
34: |'''[[NICMOS]]'''||camera/spectrometer
40: |'''[[STIS]]'''||spectrometer/camera (failed)
45: ...ion in 1993, the telescope was restored to its planned quality, and became a vital research tool as we...
54: ...or a telescope with a [[mirror]] 2.5 m in diameter. The second major advantage would be that a spac... - Alfalfa (6719 bytes)
18: ...Fabaceae]], the [[pea]] family) is a genus of perennial flowering [[plant]], ''Medicago'', most common...
20: ... deep [[root]] system sometimes stretching to 4.5 meters. This makes it very resilient, especially to dro...
24: Its wide cultivation beginning in the seventeenth century was an important ad...
39: ...es a year. Total yields are typically around 1 tonne/hectare (4 ton/acre) but vary regionally and wit...
47: ... Ideally, the hay is cut just as the field is beginning to flower. When using farm equipment rather th... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
62: ...table land speculation, city leaders banned all cemeteries within the city. Burials moved to the undevelo...
64: ...ety across the Bay saved thousands. With the centennial of the disaster approaching, a city supervisor...
66: ... the rising value of real estate, all remaining cemeteries in the city were evicted to south of the city ...
77: ...dition]] and [[Japantown]] neighborhoods. His planning led to the creation of [[Embarcadero Center]],...
93: ...ing backlash resulted in a progressive majority winning control of the Board of Supervisors in the [[2... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
27: ...d geography of Mesoamerica, the extent of site planning appears to have been minimal; their cities hav...
29: ...ter wells, or ''[[cenotes]]'', the city grew by connecting great plazas with the numerous platforms th...
41: ...he case of terraces and smaller structures, to 45 meters in the case of great temples and pyramids. A fl...
48: ...y limestone platforms of typically less than four meters in height where public ceremonies and religious ...
117: ... different systems persist today: raised fields connected by canals can be seen on aerial photographs,... - Hybrid vehicle (47544 bytes)
6: ...o a [[generator]] (merely the electric motor(s) running in generator mode[[electric motor|Electric mot...
14: ...arine]]s, which operate in essentially the same manner as hybrid electric cars. However, in this case...
20: ... their European diesel engines to Toyota. Toyota announced model year [[2005]] hybrid versions of the ...
22: ...will be built in Kentucky, USA. Also, [[Nissan]] announced the release of the [[Nissan Altima|Altima]]...
55: ...ry) in cold regions. In 2004 Railpower had been running pilots in the US with the so called Green Goat... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
6: Röntgen was born in [[Lennep]] (now a part of [[Remscheid]]), Germany, to a ...
12: ...United States (in [[Iowa]]) and at one time he planned to emigrate. Although he accepted an appointme...
16: ...tubes. By late 1895 these investigators were beginning to explore the properties of [[cathode ray]]s ...
18: ...öntgen noticed a faint shimmering from a bench a meter away from the tube. To be sure, he tried several...
22: ...misrepresents his investigative powers; he had planned to use the screen in the next step of his exper... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
22: ..., although a portion of the city (the [[1909]] [[annex]]) is located in [[DeKalb County, Georgia|DeKal...
24: ...vement]] and served as the host city for the Centennial [[1996 Summer Olympics]].
28: ... the suburbs OTP (Outside the Perimeter). The Perimeter is Atlanta's equivalent to the [[Capital Beltway]...
33: ...Georgia|Athens]]. The terminus was originally planned for [[Decatur, Georgia|Decatur]], but its citiz...
45: ...media and from presidential candidate [[John F. Kennedy]]. Despite this incident, Atlanta's political ... - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (37869 bytes)
23: area = 1,608.8 [[square kilometer|km²]] (621.2 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
36: ...the city has a total area of 1,608.8 [[square kilometer|km²]] (621.2 [[square mile|mi²]]). 1,57...
67: ...aries such as mountains or oceans, Oklahoma City annexed huge swaths of land in the 1960s, leading to ...
73: ...s World Airport, [[U.S. 77 Broadway Extension]] connects Central Oklahoma City to Edmond, and [[Inters...
90: ...d best arts festival in the nation, (April), the annual [http://www.downtownokc.com Downtown Salute] (... - Molecular nanotechnology (10344 bytes)
10: ...Nano prefix for the number of subdivisions of a [[meter]]. Such a product is likely to have around a sex...
39: ...PAO would used the principle of phased-array millimeter technology but at optical wavelengths. This woul...
55: ...velopment of nanotechnology. These include the banning of free-foraging self-replicating pseudo-organ... - Allemande (1374 bytes)
3: ...ke [[Johann Jakob Froberger|Froberger]] and [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] followed suit in their alle...
7: ...came to be used for a new type of dance in triple meter; [[Carl Maria von Weber|Weber's]] ''Douze alleman... - Guitar (36953 bytes)
15: ...itar. Excavated in Susa, [[Iran]]. Dated 3rd Millennium BC.]]
65: ...t consist of passive components such as [[potentiometer]]s and [[capacitors]], but may also include speci...
68: ...ow the string vibrations to resonate. Trying to connect two thin pieces of wood at a 90 degree angle i...
85: ...e diameter the ''heavier'' the string is (with thinner strings being ''lighter''). Heavier strings req...
121: ...ed guitar is not a loud instrument, that is, it cannot compete with other instruments commonly found i... - Ziggurat (6043 bytes)
1: ...vels of [[mathematics]] and construction which spanned several terraced stories and were topped with a...
11: ...tures. The final stage consisted of a 15 [[metre|meter]] hardened [[brick]] encasement constructed by [[...
15: ...f ziggurats date from the end of the third [[millennium]] BC and the latest date from the 6th century ...
21: ...ge:Lib.jpg|left|thumb|<center>The University of Tennessee Hodges Library.</center>]][[Image:Sacramento...
23: ...ennessee]] central library, in [[Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]]. Another would be the ''ziggurat by the ri... - Wombat (7860 bytes)
17: ...rt-legged and muscular [[bear]] approximately 1 [[meter]] in length, and with a mere nubbin of a [[tail]]...
21: ...et to any enemy who follows the wombat into its tunnel. - Literature (25676 bytes)
21: ... and they may or may not utilise [[rhyme]]. One cannot readily characterise [[poetry]] precisely. Typi...
23: ...ic of Gilgamesh]]'' (dated from around [[4th millennium BC|3000 B.C.]]), parts of the [[Bible]], and t...
25: ...], the [[limerick (poetry)|limerick]], or the [[sonnet]], for example. A haiku must have seventeen syl...
27: ...lton|Milton]], consists of unrhymed [[iambic pentameter]]s. Some languages prefer longer lines; some shor...
53: ...not mark the distinction precisely, and perhaps cannot do so. Note the classifications: - Ur (11926 bytes)
3: ...iggurat is a temple of [[Nanna (Sumerian deity)|Nanna]], a [[deity]] in [[Sumerian mythology]], and ha...
9: ...ing. Ur by this time was considered sacred to [[Nanna]], the [[moon]] [[god]] in [[Sumerian mythology]...
11: ... by the king [[Mesannepada]] (or Mesanepada, Mes-Anni-Padda).
17: ...his event. Later [[Babylon]] captured the city. Nanna was known to the Babylonians as ''Sin''. The Bab...
26: ...ubilees]]'' states that Ur was founded in 1687 ''Anno Mundi'' (year of the world) by 'Ur son of Kesed,... - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
7: ...n]], was deep within the area which Allied war planners expected to be overrun by the [[Soviet]] army ...
11: ...tion was a key factor in the decision to make [[Bonn]] the capital of West Germany in preference to ei...
21: ...ain candidate for its location was around the perimeter of the city. Besides, America had been caught of...
23: ...ade polite protests, at length, via "the usual channels", but without fervour, even though it was a vi...
27: ...with 1362 officers and men each. On 16 August, Kennedy had given the order for them to be reinforced.... - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
12: ...a tidy schema which equates deity and role in a manner that is quite unfamiliar to the colloquial lite...
43: ...]], [[Rudianos]], [[Sabrina]], [[Segomo]], [[Sequanna]], [[Sirona]], [[Smertios]], [[Sucellos]], [[Sul...
47: ...[Lir]], [[Luchtaine]], [[Lugh]], [[Macha]], [[Manannan mac Lir]], [[Miach]], [[Midir]], [[Mog Ruith]],...
51: ...[[Emer]], [[Ferdiad]], [[Fergus mac Roich]], [[Fionn mac Cumhail]], [[Lughaid Stronghand]], [[Oisin]],...
55: ...n]], [[Penarddun]], [[Pryderi]], [[Pwyll]], [[Rhiannon]], [[Taliesin]], [[Twm Shon Catti]] - Sword (24928 bytes)
10: ...blades became possible, from the early [[2nd millennium BC]]. The hilt at first simply allowed a firm ...
34: ...d [[1300]], in concert with improved [[armour]], innovative sword designs evolved more and more rapidl...
36: ...ver increasing sword sizes (mostly due to the beginning of the decline of plate armor and the advent o...
44: .... The [[France|French]] [[martial art]] ''[[la canne]]'' developed to fight with canes and swordstick...
61: ...allowing it to retain its strength, in the same manner as an [[Beam (structure)|"I" beam]] in construc... - Trebuchet (7499 bytes)
14: ... is released, the arm pulls the sling out of a channel in the base of the frame. When the ball moves ...
19: ...ts from side-to-side can be made by moving the channel in which the missile and sling slide in the bas...
37: ... example, the [[Punkin Chunkin]] competition, an annual competition to throw pumpkins for distance, ha...
39: ... competitors build a small trebuchet (maximum one meter square footprint, 75cm high) and fire projectiles... - Longship (3972 bytes)
5: ...w design allowed navigation in waters of just 1 [[meter]] depth, a rapid deployment on sandy shores in ca...
34: ...tage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center in Moorhead, Minnesota]
37: ... in Festschrift Untermann, ed Heidermans et al., Innsbruck, 1993. - Troy (22846 bytes)
7: ...[Germany|German]] archeologist [[Heinrich Schliemann]] excavated the area. Later excavations revealed ...
24: ...f Scamander, some 3000 years ago, were some 5 kilometers further inland, pouring into a bay that has sinc...
30: ...een the location of Troy as identified by Schliemann (and other locations such as the Greek camp), the...
36: ...– Troy IV: early [[Bronze Age]] ([[3rd millennium BC]])
50: The first city was founded in the [[3rd millennium BC]]. During the Bronze Age, the site seems to... - Ernest Shackleton (9537 bytes)
21: ...ons, food was foolishly in short supply; the personnel on long treks were usually underfed by any sens...
36: ...]] to seek help. This remarkable journey in a 6.7 meter boat (the ''[[James Caird (boat)|James Caird]]'')...
60: ...irected by [[Charles Sturridge]] and starring [[Kenneth Branagh]] as the explorer. The same story is ... - Easter (31700 bytes)
6: ... [[fertility goddess]] [[Eostre]]. The [[Easter Bunny]] is often identified as a remnant of this ferti...
101: ...of Rome. Under him Easter was established as an annual festival. The celebration was to be "the Sund...
105: ...cial holiday throughout the Christian year is an innovation postdating the early church. The ecclesias...
107: ...was not immediately opposed to the observance of annual holidays. As the far more common worldwide nam...
117: ...aditionally Orthodox Christian majority. Easter-connected social customs are native and rich. Christma... - Cadmium (10755 bytes)
190: ...e on Weights and Measures]] redefined the [[metre|meter]] in terms of a red cadmium spectral line (1m = 1... - Gold (24329 bytes)
158: ...gram]] can be beaten into a sheet of one [[square meter]], or an [[ounce]] into 300 [[square foot|square ...
170: ...cal connectors to ensure a good, low-resistance connection.
177: ...ing biological material to be viewed under a [[scanning electron microscope]].
178: ... [[Nobel Prize]], award a gold [[medal]] to the winner (with [[silver]] to the second-place finisher, ...
186: ...cribe gold, whose king [[Tushratta]] of the [[Mitanni]] claimed was as "common as dust" in Egypt. Egyp... - Helium (36603 bytes)
132: ... easily but through which non-superfluid helium cannot pass. If the interior of the container is heat...
134: ...r. So when heat is introduced, it will move at 20 meters per second at 1.8 K through helium II as waves i...
146: ...m and oxygen, is also used in this way. Below 600 meters (2000 ft) a mixture of hydrogen, helium, and oxy...
152: ...[rocket]]s (see below) and in supersonic [[wind tunnel]]s.
168: ...ium to a similar amount of cooling as Kamerlingh Onnes but at 25 standard atmospheres of pressure. - Molybdenum (10247 bytes)
196: ...] recommended exposure limit is 5000 mg per cubic meter. - Neon (6321 bytes)
45: * wave meter tubes, - Asian Elephant (3677 bytes)
12: ...= Elephas maximus | author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ...phants tend to grow to around two to four [[metre|meter]]s (7-12 [[foot|feet]]) in height and 3,000-5,000... - Plankton (2900 bytes)
3: ... forms of plankton can move several hundreds of [[meter]]s vertically in a single day (a behavior called ...
29: ...f larger animals, such as fish, crustaceans, and annelids, are included here. - Mandrill (3466 bytes)
17: ... about half as much. They grow to be about half a meter long (20 inches) and can survive up to 25 years i... - Water dragon (1570 bytes)
14: ... of that species will measure about three feet (1 meter) total length and thus requires a fairly large en...
View (previous 50) (next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).