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  1. David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
    1: [[image:david_livingstone.jpg|thumb|right|David Livingstone]]
    3: '''David Livingstone''' ([[March 19]], [[1813]] – [[May 1]], [[1873]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish...
    6: ...the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter he later married, and joined the [[London M...
    8: ...f the Moffats – although she was pregnant – but returned to [[England]] with their childre...
    11: ...orial at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.jpg|thumb|right|David Livingstone memorial at [[Victoria Falls]]]]
  2. Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
    7: ...nal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elo...
    13: ...ust 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave birth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, afte...
    19: ...13, she embarked upon a preaching career in [[Canada]] and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left home an...
    23: ...she had started her own newspaper, named ''The Bridal Call'', for which she wrote many of the articles...
    29: ...time, women in the [[pulpit]] ministry were rare—those who wore makeup and jewelry in the pulpit...
  3. Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
    4: ...r Teresa of Calcutta''' ([[August 27]] [[1910]] – [[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an international...
    11: ...r of the youth group in her local parish called Sodality. At 18, the [[Vatican]] granted Teresa permis...
    13: ...sed Virgin Mary]] in [[Dublin]] she was sent to [[Darjeeling]] in India as a novice sister. In [[1931]...
    19: ==Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity==
    24: ... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] call...
  4. 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...
  5. Spleen (4479 bytes)
    5: ...ccurs in many diseases and disorders, including [[malaria]], [[bacterial endocarditis]], [[leukaemia]], [[p...
    9: ...e hearts in relation to their body size to accommodate the higher-viscosity blood that results. Some ...
  6. Parasite (2795 bytes)
    25: *** [[Malaria]] (a common blood disease caused by [[plasmodium]...
    35: *** The [[woodrose]], [[Dactylanthus taylorii]]
    41: *** [[Tantulocarida]]
  7. United Nations (29685 bytes)
    3: ...eneral Assembly determines admission upon recommendation of the Security Council. The organization's h...
    24: ..., [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United States]] — and by a majority of the other 46 signatories.
    33: ...of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction".
    35: ...d the UN Disarmament Commission. Items on the agenda include consideration of the possible merits of a...
    55: ...ept and both the UN Service Medal, and the NATO Medal, are considered [[international decoration]]s in...
  8. Sub-Saharan Africa (3920 bytes)
    1: ...ern term ''Sub-Saharan'' corresponds with the standard representation of North as above and South as b...
    3: ...ally due to the effect of endemic diseases like [[Malaria]]. While the coasts received visits by traders, m...
    7: ...r island nations in the southwest Indian Ocean (Madagascar, The Comoros, Mauritius, and Seychelles) an...
    23: * [[Rwanda]]
    26: * [[Uganda]]
  9. Solomon Islands (9265 bytes)
    40: |'''[[Independence]]'''<br>&nbsp;- Date
    61: ...ns, government deficits, [[deforestation]], and [[malaria]] control.
    82: *[[Guadalcanal]]
    94: ...nds]], the [[Florida Islands]], [[Malaita]], [[Guadalcanal]], [[Sikaiana]], [[Maramasike]], [[Ulawa]],...
    111: ...an Catholic 18%, United 12%, Baptist 10%, Seventh Day Adventist 7%, Other Christian 4%) and about 4% i...
  10. California (63989 bytes)
    16: TradAbbreviation = Calif. |
    19: LandArea = 404,298 |
    31: AdmittanceDate = [[September 9]], [[1850]] |
    32: ...Pacific]]: [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]-8/[[Daylight saving time|-7]] |
    63: ... = [[West Coast Swing]]; folk - [[Square dance]] |
  11. Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
    4: ...nic|&Mu;&#8051;&gamma;&alpha;&sigmaf; &#7944;&lambda;&#8051;&xi;&alpha;&nu;&delta;&rho;&omicron;&sigma...
    6: ... tradition in which he appears as a towering legendary [[hero]] in the tradition of [[Achilles]].
    13: ===The ascendance of Macedon===
    14: ...as]] for his father's murder, stating that it was Darius who had been bragging to the rest of the Gree...
    23: ...xander left Caria in the hands of [[Ada of Caria|Ada]], the sister of Mausolus, whom [[Orontobates]] h...
  12. Evolution (27661 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Charles Darwin.jpg|right|frame|[[Charles Darwin]], father of the theory of evolution by [[nat...
    6: ...[1930s]], work by a number of scientists combined Darwinian natural selection with the re-discovered t...
    18: ..., but rather exist in a reciprocal relationship &mdash; for example, it is a "fact" that an [[apple]] ...
    31: ...even those which do not fly &mdash; have wings. Today, the theory of evolution has been strongly confi...
    33: ...; the generation of life from non-living matter &mdash; has never been observed, indicating that the [...
  13. List of common diseases (5000 bytes)
    134: * [[Malaria]]
    244: * [[Von Hippel-Lindau disease]]
  14. Extinction (15793 bytes)
    2: ...and exploit an [[ecology|ecological]] [[niche]] &mdash; and species become extinct when are no longer ...
    4: ...though the parent species may become extinct, the daughter species lives on. In other cases, species ...
    6: ...The ''Eohippus'' itself is no more, but its descendants live on. It is therefore said to be pseudoexti...
    8: ...al organizations attempt to preserve recognized endangered species through a variety of [[conservation...
    15: ...tinction, human attempts to preserve critically endangered species have caused the creation of the [[c...
  15. Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
    2: ...:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|'''Jefferson Davis''']]
    3: '''Jefferson Davis''' ([[June 3]], [[1808]]&ndash;[[December 6]], [[1889]]) was an [[United State...
    6: ... under [[Andrew Jackson]] and receiving his commendation for bravery in the [[Battle of New Orleans]].
    8: During Davis's youth, his family moved several times, in [[...
    10: ...[[Lexington, Kentucky]] in [[1821]]. In [[1824]], Davis entered the [[United States Military Academy]]...
  16. James Cook (14770 bytes)
    1: ...ritish explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]...
    3: '''James Cook''' ([[October 27]], [[1728]] &ndash; [[February 14]], [[1779]]) was a [[Kingdom of ...
    7: ...ren born to Grace and James, Sr., who worked as a day laborer on a farm. As a child, Cook moved with...
    8: ...on]], and [[astronomy]], skills he would need one day to command his own ship. Cook rose in the ranks...
    14: ...ing and cartographic skills, courage in exploring dangerous locations to confirm the facts (''e.g.'' d...
  17. Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
    16: |timezone=[[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5
    33: ...ed and suggested that the city be named after his daughter, Martha, instead. Therefore, starting in [...
    36: ...ngs and possible union assets destroyed. The next day, mayor [[James Calhoun]] surrendered the city, a...
    43: ...ase Control]] was founded in Atlanta from the old Malaria Control in War Areas offices and staff.
    45: ...rom the national media and from presidential candidate [[John F. Kennedy]]. Despite this incident, Atl...
  18. Mosquito (10897 bytes)
    9: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Culicidae'''}}
    15: ...ember of the [[family (biology)|family]] '''Culicidae'''; these [[insect]]s have a pair of scaled wing...
    17: The family Culicidae belongs to the [[order (biology)|order]] [[Dipte...
    19: ...uguese]] word meaning ''little fly'', and its use dates back to about [[1583]]. Before then, they wer...
    21: .... Mosquito bites can transmit diseases, such as [[Malaria]] and [[West Nile Virus]], so many areas take mea...
  19. Genetic code (15677 bytes)
    2: ...h a few organisms use minor variations of the standard code.
    12: ... 2]] shows what codons specify each of the 20 standard amino acids involved in translation. These are...
    249: ...alth]] performed the experiments which first elucidated the correspondence between the codons and the ...
    256: Many codons are '''degenerate''' or '''redundant''', meaning that two or more codons may code fo...
    262: ...heterozygous]] people have some resistance to the malarial ''[[Plasmodium]]'' parasite ([[heterozygote adva...
  20. Global warming (53726 bytes)
    3:
    5: ...nge between [[1990]] and [[2100]] [[http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/339.htm]]). Much of this ...
    11: ...ility" for non-human caused change [http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/518.htm]. Sometimes the ...
    16: ...rom various countries including [[Brazil]], [[Canada]], [[China]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[India]],...
    25: ...different reconstructions, each smoothed on a decadal scale. The unsmoothed, annual value for 2004 is...

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