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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
114: ...], (circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David
115: *[[Absalon]], (circa 1128-1201), Danish archbishop
116: *[[Dannie Abse|Abse, Dannie]], (born 1923), British poet - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jaz...
14: ...ther with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
47: *1958 ''[[Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert]]''
90: *1970 ''[[Ella in Budapest, Hungary]]''
100: *1978 ''[[Dream Dancing]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</smal...
3: ...]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest...
7: ...r [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they s...
9: ... to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Arou... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: '''Mahalia Jackson''' ([[October 29]], [[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[African Amer... - Basalt (2961 bytes)
4: ...y) associated with underwater eruptions. Amygdaloidal structure is common in relic [[vesicle (geology)...
8: ...sion of having been artificially constructed. The dark areas visible on Earth's moon, the [[lunar mare... - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...its capital [[Carthage]], corresponding to modern-day [[Tunisia]].
12: *the Afri, a tribe—possibly [[Berber]]—who dwelt in [[North Africa]] in the Carthage a...
16: ... change of sound from ''ph'' to ''f'' in Greek is datable to about the [[first century]], so this cann...
18: ...nal|isthmus of Suez]] and the [[Red Sea]] the boundary between [[Asia]] and Africa. As [[Europe]]ans c...
34: The [[Ishango Bone]], dated 25,000 years ago, shows [[tally stick|tallies]... - Kansas (21369 bytes)
16: LandArea = 81,815 mi²; 211,900 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 29]], [[1861]] |
25: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]]<br><small>Counties are Cen...
52: ...er Johnson]], [[Maurice Greene]] and [[Lynette Woodard]].
73: ... private continue to have some of the highest standards in the nation. Kansas was first among the sta... - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
1: '''Pythagoras''' ([[580s BCE|582 BCE]] – [[496 BCE]], [[Greek language|Greek]]:
23: ...aneous material to the original teaching. Even today, scholars cannot definitively identify the "real...
28: ...h the phrase ''autos ephe'' ("he himself said") — emphasizing the essentially oral nature of his...
39: ...ts central commitment to '''First do no harm''' — has its roots in the oath of the Pythagorean B...
54: ...orum VIII'' (''Lives of Eminent Philosophers'') — [http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlpy... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ..., and ending with the sad note of the [[Black Tuesday]], [[harbinger]] of [[The Great Depression|the G...
3: ...s termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Years" (''ann饳...
5: ...n and lightness were cultivated in [[jazz]] and [[dancing]], in defiance of the horrors of the First W...
11: ...er]]s returned to the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] with money in their pockets and a great many ne...
17: ...] had sold 15 million [[Model T]]. In all of Canada, there were only about 300,000 vehicles registere... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
3: ...onomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed by the crew of [[Apollo 11]] a...
8: ... the actual physical nature of celestial objects—what makes them "tick".
10: ...onal astronomy is concerned mostly with acquiring data, which involves building and maintaining instru...
15: ...hotographed by [[Mars Global Surveyor]], the long dark streak is formed by a moving swirling column of...
71: ... the motions of the naked-eye objects. The [[Rigveda]] refers to the 27 [[constellations]] associated ... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
45: ...e parent star, perhaps orbiting it in a matter of days. It has been hypothesised that while the giant...
59: The first and most fundamental of these advances was the [[Nicolaus Copern...
92: ! Day<br/>(days)
191: ! Day<br/>(days)
245: ...mes;10<sup>9</sup> [[kilometer|km]]<sup>2</sup> —about 11 times the area of the Earth's land mas... - Sun (20830 bytes)
8: ...ffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''Observation data'''
85: | 25.3800 [[day]]s <br>(25 d 9 h 7 min 12?8 s) [http://www.hnsky...
128: ....e. 1 light-year in ca. 1400 years, and 1 AU in 8 days.
132: ...etina]] and one's [[eyesight]].''' [[#Sun_and_eye_damage|See below for details]].
136: ...ker than its surface gravity (at the equator). Tidal effects from the planets do not significantly af... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
30: ... shape]] was developed by [[Clark R. Chapman]], [[David Morrison]], and [[Ben Zellner]]. These propert...
67: ...t. Multiple pairs could be taken over a series of days. Second, the two [[film]]s of the same region w...
98: ...heir provisional designation, e.g. [[(29075) 1950 DA]].
103: ...such names started to run out, others were used —famous people, literary characters, the names o...
120: ...] by [[243 Ida]] and its moon [[Dactyl (asteroid)|Dactyl]], all of which were imaged by the [[Galileo ... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ... from [http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.html#sort_table here] (control-click the "sort ...
54: == [[Standard]]s ==
55: *[[List of standards topics]] (these could easily be cross-referenc...
56: *International Standards
57: **[[List of ISO standards]] - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
11: ...s sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
22: ... is the government department responsible for Canada's space programme.
28: ...hing 14 orbits before returning to Earth the next day.
33: ...hich has grown to be a much bigger organisation today.
44: ...rmed [[October 1]], [[2003]], by the merger of NASDA, the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan and t... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...al of 27,876 crew-days in space including 99 crew-days of spacewalks. 437 people qualify under the FAI...
20: ... on [[STS-95]]. The longest stay in space was 438 days by [[Valeri Polyakov]]. [[As of 2005]], the mos...
24: ...United States, persons selected as astronaut candidates receive silver [[Astronaut wings]]. Once they ...
28: ...ny]], in [[1983]] by [[Canadian space program|Canada]], in [[1985]] by [[Japan]] and [[Italy]] in [[19... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...nowledge]]. This change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-sci...
11: ...dge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
40: ... long period that followed is also known as the [[Dark Ages]]. While the [[Byzantine Empire]] still he...
43: ...[Image:Vitruvian.jpg|right|thumb|140px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the bl...
46: ...vitalization of Europe. This provided a solid foundation for all future scientific work. Contact with ... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...riner 10]] ([[1974]]–[[1975|75]]); only 40–45% of the planet has been mapped.
8: (This Data comes from [http://www.answers.com/topic/mercur...
10: ...ure]] of Mercury is 452 K, but it ranges from 90–700 K; by comparison, the temperature on Earth ...
12: Surprisingly, radar observations taken in 1992 indicated that there ...
16: ...rrain. In addition, Mercury has "significant" [[tidal bulge]]s, raised by the [[Sun]] (the Sun's tides... - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...|nomadic tribes]] coming from areas now in modern day [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]].
3: The Wall stretches over a formidable [[1 E6 m|6,350 km]] (3,946 [[mile]]s), from [[...
5: ... history. The Great Wall that can still be seen today was built during the [[Ming Dynasty]], on a much...
18: ...0 kilometers have all but turned to rubble, and today it ends on the western end at the historic site ...
20: ...hus to cross. Legend has it that they took three days for the Manchu armies to pass. After they conqu... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
1: ...n-IcarusandDaedalus.jpg|right|thumb|Icarus and Daedalus]]
3: ...Daedalus]] and [[Icarus (mythology)|Icarus]]. Daedalus was trapped on the island of Minos, and so bui...
5: ...airplanes were made of [[canvas]] and [[wood]]. Today airplanes are made of [[aluminium]], and increas...
9: ...mage:Ornithopter_leonardo1.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter body ]]
11: ...mage:Ornithopter_leonardo2.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter wings ]]
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