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- Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...s a noted British monologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], became famous as ...
8: ...in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chosen not to do so.
12: ...t they had it easy because they were avoiding the real war in France and the future invasion. The allied... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...figurehead of a political philosophy that became known as [[Thatcherism]], which involves reduced gove...
31: ...ccured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher a...
33: ...ical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was chall... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]. Under the [[Constitution of Irel...
12: national_motto = none |
49: footnotes = <sup>1</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[Irish poun...
60: ... ''de facto'' independence in [[1922]] it became known as the "[[Irish Free State]]", a name that was ...
67: ...r at that stage was expected to be ended by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For the ... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
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62: ...s conquered by various Central Asian groups, most notably the [[Tocharian]] [[Kushan]]s.
64: ...Kadphises' son [[Vima Takto]] conquered territory now in India, but lost much of the western parts of ...
72: ...hal Empire completely vulnerable. The British did not gain strong footholds in the Pakistani region un... - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ..., [[perennial]], woody [[plant]]. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the term g...
11: ...s. The listing below gives examples of many well known trees and how they are typically classified.
18: ...der the bark. Endogenous trees, mainly in the [[monocotyledon]]s (e.g. [[palm tree|palms]]), grow by a...
20: ...le. Age determination is also impossible in endogenous trees.
24: ...e of individual specimens. A spruce seedling does not fit the definition of a tree, but all spruces ar... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...rnica.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''[[Darlingtonia]]'': note the small entrance to the trap underneath the s...
2: [[nutrient]]s (but not [[energy]]) by trapping and consuming [[animal]]...
6: [[Charles Darwin]] wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
20: ...]]'', which secrete mucilage, but whose leaves do not
32: pitchers do not overflow. To counteract this problem, [[natural ... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...of Delium]] and the [[Battle of Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']]...
7: ...given his father's occupation as an artisan; in Xenophon's ''Symposium'', Socrates explicitly states t...
11: ...r as he ''knew'' he knew nothing and strived for knowledge. Historical accounts from varied sources, ...
13: ... of his time. Although no written accounts of his real life have been located, he is idolized by his dis...
21: ...uotes are attributed to Socrates in Plato's and Xenophon's writings: - Mars (27704 bytes)
2: ...Image:Mars NPArea-PIA00161 modest.jpg|thumb|right|North Polar region with icecap. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-C...
13: ...niformly distributed in the atmosphere. Plans are now being made to look for other 'companion' gases t...
24: ...], this interpretation remains controversial with no consensus having emerged.
27: The dichotomy of Martian topography is striking: northern plains flattened by lava flows contrast wit...
29: ...called [[Tharsis]], containing several large volcanos. See [[list of mountains on Mars]]. Mars also h... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ... [[printing press]] and [[paper mill]]. His best known assistant was [[Johannes Kepler]].
8: ...hie Brahe]]). [[Otte Brahe]], Tycho's father, a [[nobleman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark...
10: ...h.'' Apparently this did not lead to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho l...
12: ...him that he began to make his own studies of astronomy helped by some of the professors. He purchased ...
14: ...s many measurements and methods as there are astronomers and all of them disagree. What's needed is a ... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
7: ... races (19 in [[2005 Formula One season|2005]]), known as ''grands prix'', on custom-constructed cours...
18: ...ampionship for constructors followed in [[1958]]. Non-championship Formula One races were held for man...
24: The first major technological development, [[Cinquemani]]'s introduction...
28: ...lar chassis; this proved to be the next major technological breakthrough since the introduction of rea...
30: ...ced [[ground effect]] aerodynamics that provided enormous downforce and greatly increased cornering sp... - Computer (32773 bytes)
8: ...mputers have been built out of many different technologies, nearly all popular types of computers have...
10: ...' computers were once common in the 1960s but are now rarer.
14: ...rmally identified and explored by [[Claude E. Shannon]].
16: ...uring]] identified which problems could and could not be solved by computers, and in doing so founded ...
20: ...ally equivalent to ones and zeroes; there are no known ways to successfully emulate human comprehensio... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
19: population_note = 7,533,384 ([[metropolitan area|metro area]]) ...
29: footnotes = |
31: ...ty]] (the only one in California) situated at the northern tip of the [[San Francisco Peninsula]] that...
44: ...name of [[Yerba Buena]] in [[1822]], when what is now the downtown area was first settled by William R...
48: ... Buena Cove, granted to the city by military governor [[Stephen Watts Kearny]] in 1847. - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...Socialist German Workers Party]] (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
13: ...luding 6 million [[Jew]]s, in a [[genocide]] now known as [[the Holocaust]].
20: ...of [[Linz]] in the province of [[Upper Austria]], not far from the [[German Empire|German]] border in ...
22: ...er, Adolf was accused by his political enemies of not rightfully being a Hitler, but a Schicklgruber. ...
24: ...pelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allowed to return until well after Maria Schickl... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
20: population_note = 1,796,857 ([[List of metropolitan areas by po...
30: footnotes = |
37: [[Miwok]], [[Shonommey]] and [[Maidu]] Indians lived in this area fo...
42: ...oloma, California|Coloma]] (located some 50 miles northeast of the fort), a large number of gold-seeke...
44: ...gh over time it has grown to extend significantly north, south, and east of there). A number of direct... - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
4: ...e by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]s. Residents are known as "[[List of famous Salt Lakers|Salt Lakers]]"...
6: ...lly brought economic growth, and the city became known as the "Crossroads of the West". The city has d...
20: ...0 Manifesto|"The Manifesto"]], which officially renounced polygamy in the church. This paved the way f...
22: ...Madeleine]] in [[1909]], the first major churches not of the Latter-Day Saint faith. Both cathedrals a...
27: ...ians]] experiencing [[recession]] migrated for economic reasons. [[Utah]] had escaped the brunt of the... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
13: ...ial rule]] to world attention. His philosophy of non-violence, for which he coined the term ''[[satya...
15: ...ism|Hindu]] beliefs: [[truth]] (''satya''), and [[non-violence]] (''[[ahimsa]]''). His auto-biography,...
18: ...t, Gandhi learned from an early age the tenets of non-injury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting ...
20: ...n [[1887]], and joining Samaldas College. He did not stay there long, however, as his family felt he ...
22: ...! Before changing the following paragraph, please note that "practise" is the correct spelling of the ... - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
3: ...ry]] and early [[20th century|20th]] to exploit minor local bonanzas of gold. The only long-term profi...
5: ...egion out of the sea and created a line of [[volcano]]es. Later the [[Crust (geology)|crust]] started ...
9: ...in the last few million years and both bounded by north-south trending [[mountain range]]s. These and ...
36: ...on this mountain range doesn't allow the canyons enough time to cut a classic V-shape all the way down...
38: ...or the Death Valley area makes it [[North America|North America's]] driest spot, receiving about 1.7 i... - Global warming (53726 bytes)
3: ...many journalists and politicians, but by only a minority of established scientists.
5: ...tm]]). Much of this uncertainty results from not knowing future CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, but there is...
9: ==Terminology==
11: ...ty" for non-human caused change [http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/518.htm]. Sometimes the ter...
18: ...that current climate change is natural. However, none of these papers (sic) argued that point." - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ... [[Bolivia]] to the northeast and [[Peru]] to the north.<!--
13: national_anthem = ''[[National anthem of Chile|Himno Nacional]]'' |
48: ...r Island]] and [[Isla Sala y Gómez]]; does not include 1,250,000 km² of claimed territory ...
56: ... another meaning attributed to ''chilli'' is the onomatopoeic ''cheele-cheele''—the Mapuche imit...
61: ...]s briefly extended their empire into what is now northern Chile, but the area's remoteness prevented ... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
2: {{Refimprove|date=November 2007}}
10: ...te Christmas-like festivities even though they do not consider themselves Christians. Many customs, in...
12: ...ormer [[colony|colonies]] of Western powers with (nominal) [[Christian]] cultural heritage.
14: ...ecting a cultural interest in this Western phenomenon, and, sometimes, as part of retail marketing cam...
20: ...a few days before, while television stations are known to air Christmas films and cartoon specials pop...
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