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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...he familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...addy]] agriculture is [[Radiocarbon dating|carbon-dated]] to about 6000 BC, and associated with the [[...
14: ...皇五帝). These rulers were legendary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them...
18: ...22799;朝) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeolog...
22: ...he last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC). - Crocus (3680 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Liliopsida]]}}
8: {{Taxobox familia entry | taxon = [[Iridaceae]]}}
24: ...al garden in [[Leiden]]. By 1620, the approximate date of Ambrosius Bosschaert's painting (''illustrat...
26: ...'' is placed botanically in the iris family ([[Iridaceae]]). These are hardy perennial plants, which h... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Quincy Adams
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1825]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1829]]
9: | date of birth=[[July 11]], [[1767]]
12: | date of death=[[February 23]], [[1848]] - Set (mythology) (12196 bytes)
6: ...ut is usually considered to be either ''(one who) dazzles'' or ''pillar of stablity'', one connected t...
15: ...od of Egypt|Predynastic Period]] (''circa'' 4000–3500 BCE), and the ''Set-animal'' is even found...
27: ...ep in the form of a serpent, [[turtle]], or other dangerous water animal. Surprisingly, in some [[Late...
39: ... to Set in the village of Mut al-Kharab, in the [[Dakhlah Oasis]].
50: ...er, Olaf Ernst. 1997. ''Temples and Gods in Roman Dakhlah: Studies in the Indigenous Cults of an Egypt... - Thoth (5655 bytes)
5: ...s as the inventor of writing and the 365-day calendar, and was considered to have been the scribe of t...
7: ... 360 days is exactly 5 whole days, i.e. the extra days added. It also happens that 72 is the number of...
9: ...sionally used to refer to Thoth himself. He had a daughter named [[Seshat]].
16: [[Aleister Crowley]] commissioned [[Lady Frieda Harris]] to assist him in painting the ''Thoth De...
18: ...[New Orleans, Louisiana]] which parades on the Sunday before Mardi Gras. The Krewe features a float de... - Ammonius Hermiae (1773 bytes)
1: ...is scholars [[Asclepius]], [[John Philoponus]], [[Damascius]] and [[Simplicius of Cilicia|Simplicius]]...
9: ...eparately, with Latin translation and scholia, at Leiden, 1621, at Helmstadt, 1666, and at Paris, 1850. - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
3: ... the hands of their countrymen. They settled in [[Leiden]] for 12 years, but by [[1617]] a poor economy an...
10: ...st threat from that quarter (there were other armadas in other years and the [[Gunpowder Plot]] occurr...
15: ...]] after 65 days at sea and anchored near present-day [[Provincetown, Massachusetts|Provincetown]] on ... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...Galilei''' ([[Pisa]], [[February 15]], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [...
14: Later research, however, has validated the experiments. The experiments on falling bo...
26: ...e little doubt that both of them were beaten by [[David Fabricius]] and his son [[Johannes Fabricius|J...
39: ...y'' unless a [[force]] —often [[friction]]— acts upon them, refuting the accepted Aristote...
53: ...athematical methods were the standard ones of the day. The analyses and proofs relied heavily on the [... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
3: '''Jan van Eyck''' (c. [[1385]]–[[1441]]) was a [[15th century]] [[Flanders|Fle...
7: The date of his birth is not more accurately known than ...
11: ...ion, receiving extra pay for secret services at [[Leiden]], drawing his salary at [[Bruges]], yet settled ...
13: ...Bruges, where he married, and his wife bore him a daughter, known in after years as a nun in the conve...
17: ...nd may now be seen at [[Chatsworth]], bearing the date of 1421; no doubt this picture would give a fai... - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: .... Electricity gives rise to one of the four [[fundamental force]]s of nature, and is a conserved prop...
8: ..., dated to about [[250 BCE]] and called the [[Baghdad Battery]], resembles an electrochemical cell and...
10: ...cal energy in large quantities, was invented at [[Leiden University]] by [[Pieter van Musschenbroek]] in [...
12: ...and theories through the famous, though extremely dangerous, [[experiment]] of flying a [[Kite flying|...
16: ...Ampere, and Ohm is honored by society, in that fundamental units of electrical measurement are named a... - Egyptian soul (5527 bytes)
5: ...æco-Roman]] ''Book of Breathings'', a descendant of the ''[[Book of the Dead]]'', was for ensuri...
33: ... and The American University in Cairo Press. 161–162.
34: ...: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. 1–70.
36: ...s and The American University in Cairo Press. 47–48. - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
4: ...ed that the pagan Celts were not widely literate—although a written form of Gaulish using the [[...
6: ...ormerly (or presently) Celtic-speaking areas post-date the Roman conquest. And although early Gaels in...
12: ... restrictions, his short list is a helpful and fundamentally precise observation. In balancing his des...
43: ...is]], [[Contrebis]], [[Coventina]], [[Damara]], [[Damona]], [[Dea Matrona]], [[Dea Sequana]], [[Dis]],...
47: ...[Murigen]], [[Neit]], [[Nemain]], [[Niamh]], [[Nuada]], [[Ogma]], [[Plor na mBan]], [[Sheila-na-gig]],... - Helium (36603 bytes)
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5: | colspan="2" align="center" | [[hydrogen]] – '''helium'''
9: ...r><div align="right"><small>[[Periodic table (standard)|Full table]]</small></div>
32: ...c0ffff" | '''<font color="green">[[Heat|Thermal]] data'''</font>
52: ..."#c0ffff" | '''<font color="green">[[Electron]]ic data'''</font> - Bluebuck (1913 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Artiodactyla]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Bovidae]]}}
12: ...phaeus | author = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | date = [[1766]]}}
17: ...nna]], [[Stockholm]], [[Paris]], and [[Leiden]] – along with some bones and horns elsewhere. Non... - Leyden jar (3953 bytes)
7: ...stored at the surface of the elements, at the boundary with the dielectric.
10: ...g|thumb|left|222px|Leyden jars, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden [http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/]]]
14: ...scientific world, hence the jar was named after [[Leiden]], the home town of the [[university]].
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