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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...[1729]] - [[November 6]], [[1796]] ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]])), born ''Sophie Augusta Fredericka'', kn...
5: ...osed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on current events in Russia and the rest of Eur...
9: ...eccaria-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine d...
25: ...ulminated in the [[Battle of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. T...
27: ...and helped maintain the absolute monarchies and a balance of power in 18th-century Eastern Europe for anoth... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...ll]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
34: ...VI&oldid=12528936 Wikipedia Article] (most likely dated [[April 19]][[2005]] at 2:52 PM EST). During h...
42: ...cal liberal|liberal]] critics decry the lack of a balance between liberal and conservative viewpoints on ta...
44: ... Ted Kennedy's ironic praise of presidential candidate John Kerry's wartime rescue of a fellow soldier...
65: ...]], and [[Walt Disney World]]. Presidential candidates [[Howard Dean]] and [[Wesley Clark]] joined in... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
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31: | [[Gulzarilal Nanda]]
51: ...1;धी)''' ([[November 19]], [[1917]] – [[October 31]], [[1984]]) was [[Prime Minister...
67: ...should be viewed through the [[Cold War]] prism – Pakistan being a close South Asian ally of the... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
3: ...ldegard of Bingen''' ([[September 16]] [[1098]] – [[September 17]], [[1179]]) was a [[German peo...
24: ...saints and Virgin Mary for the holidays and feast days, and antiphons. There is some evidence that her...
26: ...nal use. Thus, "Reyan (tansy) is hot and a little damp and is good against all superfluous flowing hum...
34: ...eak and parents feel no love, leading to a bitter daughter.
37: ... of paradise. According to her, before the Fall, Adam had a pure voice and joined angels in singing pr... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...d her 13th nomination for ''[[Adaptation (movie)|Adaptation]]''. Hepburn won an [[Emmy Award]] in [[1...
5: ...father was a staunch proponent of publicizing the dangers of [[venereal disease]] in a time when such ...
7: ...ater be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in ...
12: ...n and Smith's marriage was rocky from the start — she insisted he change his name to S. Ogden Lu...
21: ...zon]] princess in [[The Warrior's Husband]] (an update of ''[[Lysistrata]]''), which debuted to excell... - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
3: ...ast]], winner of five [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of...
5: ... Stefania-Alexandrina; she was named after "Nadezhda" ("Hope"), the heroine of a Russian film.
7: ...nships in [[Skien]], Norway, winning three gold medals and one silver. At the Pre-Olympics competitio...
9: ...around, balance beam and uneven bars), a silver medal (team all-around) and a bronze (floor exercise)....
13: ...e helped give the Romanians its first team gold medal. - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 4 bronze medals).
7: ...nt with portable apparatus. Keleti also won six medals, but won four golds and two silvers.
9: ...r floor title, while winning silver medals in the balance beam and uneven bars event. Finally, she won the ...
11: ...total of Olympic medals to eighteen - nine gold medals, five silver and four bronze. - Brain (22060 bytes)
3: ...unctions such as heartbeat, blood pressure, fluid balance and body temperature. Functions of the brain are ...
14: ... brain, is another major cause of death and brain damage.
34: ...y-controlled biological "ratbot" that could go in dangerous places.
77: Regions identified in [[chordate]] brains include:
98: *****[[caudate nucleus]] - Colon (anatomy) (1808 bytes)
20: ...waste, reclaiming water and maintaining the water balance and absorbing some vitamins, such as [[vitamin K]...
22: ...e large intestine produces no digestive enzymes — chemical digestion is completed in the small i... - Ear (6659 bytes)
23: ... of the [[Eustachian tube]]s - evolutionary descendants of the [[gills]] - which connect the middle ea...
26: ... (inner ear)|vestibular apparatus]], the organ of balance located in the inner ear that consists of three [...
47: * [[Balance disorder]]s - Human brain (15406 bytes)
13: ..., which must be removed to prevent [[brain damage|damage]].
23: ... about 500 ml or more of cerebrospinal fluid each day, with only about 15 percent of the body's estima...
25: ...emale humans have large pelvic openings to accommodate the birth of large-headed children, but the lar...
38: ...pecially those of the [[frontal lobes]], but redundant and complementary processes within the brain re...
56: ...]], [[thought]] and [[emotion]]. Studies of brain damage resulting from accidents led to the identific... - Eye (21834 bytes)
1: ... but detect whether the surroundings are light or dark. More complex eyes are used to provide the [[s...
15: ...lls. They can distinguish between light and dark (day and night), but no more. This enables snails to ...
24: ...tering the eye. Too much light being let in could damage the retina, too little light would be blindin...
31: ...e eye does not. The choroid gives the inner eye a dark colour, which prevents disruptive reflections w...
65: ...l acuity]] (a measure of detail). This is why the darker conditions become, the less colour objects se... - Bone (11388 bytes)
29: ...d is an important process in regulating [[calcium balance]]. As bone formation actively ''fixes'' circulati...
42: ...bones and certain parts of irregular bones. Secondary ossification occurs after birth, and forms the ...
46: ... and the repair of micro-damaged bones (from everyday stress). Repeated stress results in the bone thi...
128: |the end regions of the bone; regions of secondary ossification - Pituitary gland (3020 bytes)
7: ...ignals from the hypothalamus, including TRH, CRH, DA, GnRH, and GHRH, which travel to the anterior lob...
20: * [[Water]] balance in the body - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
14: | [[March 4]], [[1857]]–[[March 4]], [[1861]]
22: | '''Date of Birth'''
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50: '''James Buchanan''' ([[April 23]], [[1791]] – [[June 1]], [[1868]]) was the [[15]]th ([[1857...
53: ...ciary (Twenty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1830]]. Buchanan served ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
19: | '''Date of birth:''' || [[February 12]], [[1809]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]]
42: ... '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President of the United States]], a...
44: ... U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries. These events soon led to the [[American Civi... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...cult to define. This article describes the modern dating methods used to arrive at the age of the Eart...
4: ...s Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today continue to defend [[young earth creationism]] (...
25: ... seemed much too short to be plausible. [[Charles Darwin]], who had studied Lyell's work, had proposed...
27: In a lecture in [[1869]], Darwin's great advocate, [[Thomas Huxley|Thomas H. H...
31: ... friction]] to give the Earth its current 24-hour day, and concluded that Thomson was on the right tra... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
2: ...east, this phenomenon tends to occur near the boundaries of the [[plate tectonics|continental plates]]...
21: ...or global weather pattern changes. Potential candidates include [[Yellowstone National Park]] and [[La...
24: Volcanoes are usually situated either at the boundaries between [[tectonic plates]] or over [[hot spo...
96: ...anic object in the solar system, due to [[tides|tidal]] interaction with Jupiter. It is covered with v...
111: ...ike on its south side. Photo credit: USGS Digital Data Series]] - 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]... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
51: | [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] +2 ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST +3]])
57: | [[Lebanon Cedar]]
71: Lebanon is one of the fifteen present-day countries that comprise what is considered to be...
73: ...andated]] the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [[France]].
75: ...s constitution, drawn up in [[1926]], specified a balance of political power among the major religious grou...
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