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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
8: ...'Bloody Mary'''. Her religious policies, however, were in many cases reversed by her successor, [[Eli...
10: ...ed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary I, Queen of Scots]], who lived at approximately the same time.
13: ...e a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
15: ...scholar [[Juan Lu�Vives]] upon the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in La... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...he first man on the moon in the [[space race]] between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]]...
4: ...c breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no longer a dream, but a viable practice.
6: ...one Arsenal]] displays many articles of space hardware, including a full-size replica of the [[Apollo...
13: ...]. The first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vostok 1]], carrying [[Yuri Gagarin]] on [[Ap...
15: ...er milestone was achieved on [[May 17]], [[2004]] when [[Civilian Space eXploration Team]] launched t... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...te the small entrance to the trap underneath the swollen 'balloon', and the colourless patches that c...
2: ... (but not [[energy]]) by trapping and consuming [[animal]]s,
4: grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients,
6: [[Charles Darwin]] wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
13: *Pitfall traps ([[pitcher plant]]s), which trap prey in a rolled leaf that contains a po... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...ss]] and [[paper mill]]. His best known assistant was [[Johannes Kepler]].
8: ...ycho's mother, also came from an important family which had produced leading churchmen and politician...
10: ... and where Tycho began a Latin education until he was 12 years old.
12: ... that so impressed him that he began to make his own studies of astronomy helped by some of the profe...
14: ...em disagree. What's needed is a long term project with the aim of mapping the heavens conducted from ... - Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
28: ...ichmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]].
30: ...dger]]s, [[fox]]es, [[hedgehog]]s, [[cat]]s and [[woodpecker]]s.
32: ...eadily than the females. Adults only live for a few months feeding on [[nectar]] and tree [[sap]]. - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox begin | color = pink | name = Brown Pelican}}
2: ...ox image | image = [[image: Brownpelican77.jpg|Brown Pelican]] | caption = }}
4: {{Taxobox regnum entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
15: ...ped.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Brown Pelican]]The '''Brown Pelican''' (''Pelecanus occidentalis'' <small>&d...
17: ... coasts in flocks, returning to warmer waters for winter. - Forest (3705 bytes)
2: ...orest.jpg|thumb|right|360px|A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Nort...
4: A '''forest''' is an area with a high density of [[tree|trees]] (or, historic...
6: ... [[lignin]] and other materials that decompose slowly.
8: ...anopy, which allows some sunlight to penetrate between the trees (see also: [[savanna]]).
14: * [[temperate hardwood forest]] - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
1: ...the [[Death Valley Pupfish]] - a survivor of much wetter times.
3: ...t was promoted to the status of National Park, as well as being substantially expanded.
5: ...diment and, during the wet times of [[ice age]]s, with [[lake]]s, such as [[Lake Manly]].
6: ... Park.png|frame|A slice through the highest and lowest points in Death Valley National Park.]]
8: [[Image:Wpdms shdrlfi020l death valley.jpg|frame|left|Death... - Andes (13210 bytes)
2: ...|The Andes form the longest mountain chain in the world.]]
3: ...ndes Chile Argentina.jpg|thumb|300px|The Andes between [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]]]]
4: [[Image:Andesplane.jpg|thumb|300px|Plane's view of the Andes, Peru.]]
5: ...km (300 miles) wide in some parts (widest between 18° to 20°S latitude), and of an average hei...
6: ...Andes'' comes from the [[Quechua]] word ''anti'', which means "high crest." - Red deer (16671 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox begin | color = pink | name = Wapiti}}<br/>{{StatusConcern}}
4: {{Taxobox regnum entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
17: ...wnee]] name for this animal meaning 'white rump'. Wapiti are a subspecies of the European red deer.
19: ...urope the red deer is on average smaller than the wapiti. Nevertheless, it is [[United Kingdom|Britai...
21: ...ry III]], although deer were still preserved by law for the sport of the monarch until the [[19th cen... - Sheep (9256 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
15: ... the wild [[moufflon]] of south-central and south-west [[Asia]]. For other types of sheep and their ...
25: *[[Snow Sheep]], ''Ovis nivicola''
28: ...', intact males as ''rams'', castrated males as ''wethers'', yearlings as ''[[hogget]]s'', and younge...
31: * [[wool]] breeds, or - Dog (69384 bytes)
2: ...wing is markup for the dog taxonomy box; scroll down to get to the body text -->
4: ...gian Elkhound 600.jpg|249px]] | caption = '''[[Norwegian Elkhound]]'''<br>A breed of domestic dog.}}
6: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
12: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = ''[[wolf|C. lupus]]''}}
17: ... patterns. Dogs, like humans, are highly [[social animal]]s and [[pack hunter]]s; this similarity in their... - American Bison (6740 bytes)
2: ...te image]]—[[Media:Image:Baby Bison in Yellowstone-750px.JPG|Bison young]]<br />
3: ...storic.jpg|Historic drawing]]—[[Media:Bison.wav|Bison call audio]]}}
5: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
16: ...son''), distingushed by its flat back, and the '''Wood Bison''' (''Bison bison athabascae''), disting...
18: ...ber; a single reddish-brown calf is born the following spring, and nurses for a year. Bison are matur... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
1: ...Charles Darwin aged 51.jpg|thumb|300px|Charles Darwin, about the same time as the publication of ''[[...
2: ... Kingdom|British]] [[natural history|naturalist]] who achieved lasting fame as originator of the theo...
4: ...lar theory forced early joint [[publication of Darwin's theory]].
6: ...Man and Animals]]''. His last book was about earthworms.
8: ...ose to [[Sir William Herschel]] and [[Sir Isaac Newton]]. - Golden Eagles (3752 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
15: ... best known [[bird of prey|birds of prey]] in the world. Like all [[eagle]]s, it belongs to the famil...
17: ...is a mountain-dweller, but in former centuries it was also distributed in the plains and the forests....
19: ...0th Century. 35 birds have been released into the wild since [[2001]].
21: ...nest consists of heavy tree branches, upholstered with grass. - Lemurs (4235 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
9: ...s'''}}<br>{{Taxobox_authority | author = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]] | date = [[1821]]}}
20: ... the genus of one of the lemuriform species. The two [[flying lemur]] species are not lemurs, nor are...
22: ...aller lemurs are active at night ([[nocturnal]]), while the larger ones are active during the day ([[...
24: ...e]]s, although some species supplement their diet with insects. - Stag Beetles (3702 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
28: ...ichmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]].
30: ...dger]]s, [[fox]]es, [[hedgehog]]s, [[cat]]s and [[woodpecker]]s.
32: ...eadily than the females. Adults only live for a few months feeding on [[nectar]] and tree [[sap]].
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