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- Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ...shrub]] for comparison). Compared with most other plant forms, trees are long-lived. A few species of ...
5: ...g [[orchard]] crops (e.g. [[apple]]s). Trees also play an important role in many of the world's [[myth...
9: ...gy)|orders]] and [[family (biology)|families]] of plants. Trees thus show a wide variety of growth for...
11: ...lant]]s and conifers. The listing below gives examples of many well known trees and how they are typic...
13: ...fined largely by the trees that inhabit them; examples are [[rainforest]] and [[taiga]] (see [[ecozone... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...trapped inside ]]A '''carnivorous plant''' is a [[plant]] that derives some or most of its
3: ...[[insect]]s and other [[arthropod]]s. Carnivorous plants usually
4: grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients,
6: ...rote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
10: ...asic trapping mechanisms exploited by carnivorous plants. These - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
29: ... the original version of the Constitution were supplemented by the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War...
60: ...overnment are reserved to the states or to the people.
127: ...e dominant role that [[Congressional committees]] play in its proceedings. Committees have assumed the...
135: ...knowledgeably with all fields of interest. The complexity of national life today calls for special kno... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...hat perform simple well-defined functions. The complex interactions of these components endow computer...
4: ...iscipline which studies the theory, design, and application of computers is called '''[[computer scie...
6: ==General principles==
10: ... the physical phenomena being exploited. For example, electron flows might be used to model the flow ...
12: ... operations on that information are reduced to simple [[Boolean algebra]]. - Ship (18843 bytes)
2: ...ule of thumb]] saying (though it doesn't always apply) goes: "a boat can fit on a ship, but a ship can...
4: ... five-masted ''Preussen'' was the outstanding example but the big [[German Empire|German]] ships and [...
12: In Britain until the [[Samuel Plimsoll|Merchant Shipping Act of 1876]], ship-owner...
14: .... Hence the "ladder" of lines seen forward of the Plimsoll mark to this day.
17: Until the application of the [[steam engine]] to ships in the ea... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
42: ...ne]] (a [[Miwok]] Indian word meaning "western people") living in the coastal area between [[Point Sur...
44: European discovery and exploration of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] began in...
56: ...od. All of the county not in the city limits was split off to form [[San Mateo County, California|San ...
62: ...terred corpses contributed to the transmission of plague, and possibly also motivated by the opportuni...
69: ...e after the Earthquake. On July 22, 1916 a bomb exploded on Market Street during a [[Preparedness Day]... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...e into what has become modern [[France]], an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible to t...
6: ...rded by later historians such as [[Suetonius]], [[Plutarch]], and [[Dio Cassius|Cassius Dio]].
17: ...Roman Senate]], people were forced to stand and applaud his presence.
28: ...n asked why he would have such a reaction, his simple response was: "Do you think I have not just...
30: ...elationship with Rome’s great general would play into his hands later. - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...through the eighth century. They in turn were displaced by a group of Scandinavians, the [[Varangian...
15: ...be applied to the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|10th]] to [[1...
17: ... of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Uk...
23: ... their territories. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less fu...
37: ...he struggle. It is estimated that over 200,000 people have died in this conflict. Minor conflicts also... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political phil...
6: ...Ren頄escartes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
12: ...racted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommend...
16: ... Earl of Devonshire, died of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] in June 1628. The widowed countess dismisse...
20: ...showing how physical phenomena were universally explicable in terms of motion, at least as motion or m... - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ... of America''') are those peoples [[indigenous people|indigenous]] to the [[Americas]], living there p...
5: ...ural and genetic commonality with other arctic peoples not native to the American continent, such as t...
7: ...First Peoples]]" and "Native Canadians". First Peoples are enshrined in the Canadian Constitution with...
9: ...trued to either include or exclude the [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] of [[Canada]] and the [[Mestizo...
11: Other indigenous peoples that are native to territorial possesions of Am... - Global warming (53726 bytes)
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11: Use of the term "global warming" generally implies a human influence — the more neutral ter...
16: ... [[United States]] [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/displaypagedoc.asp?id=13057].
25: ...e. The unsmoothed, annual value for 2004 is also plotted for reference.]]
38: ...a is not in dispute, the records suffer from incomplete coverage, geographically and historically, mak... - Dog (69384 bytes)
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17: ...ehavioral design accounts for their trainability, playfulness, and ability to fit into human household...
23: ... such extreme stress, high protein diets (which implies a lot of meat consumption) help prevent damage... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
6: ...inued his research and wrote a series of books on plants and animals, now including mankind in ''[[The...
19: ... March [[1827]] Darwin made a presentation to the Plinian society of his discovery that black spores o...
22: ...clergymen who saw it as part of their duties to explore the wonders of God's creation.
26: ...t Cambridge till June and following Henslow's example and advice he was in no rush to take holy orders...
27: ...anted to study natural history in the tropics and planned to visit [[Madeira]] with some class-mates u...
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