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- Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ... laid the groundwork for [[classical mechanics]]. Newton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottf...
4: ...ution]] and the advancement of [[heliocentrism]]. Newton is also credited with providing mathematical subs...
6: Newton also developed a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]], describing the...
10: {{IsaacNewtonSegments}}
12: ... life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life and achievements]].''
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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...nderstanding]], [[knowledge]] or [[wisdom]] on fundamental matters as diverse as [[reality]], [[knowle...
16: ...ontinuous project - the one still being pursued today - is [[Socrates]], who studied under several Sop...
29: ...aused first cause, and this is God. Aquinas also adapted this argument to prove the goodness of God. E...
42: ...te it, the way the entire larger modern period is dated, from the [[Renaissance]]. In some usages, "Mo...
46: ...ystematic empiricism, following after [[Sir Isaac Newton]]'s natural philosophy. Thus [[Diderot]], [[Volta... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: '''Anne''' ([[6 February]] [[1665]]–[[1 August]][[1714]]) became Queen of [[England...
15: ...s II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]], ...
17: ...tant [[Prince George of Denmark]], brother of the Danish King [[Christian V of Denmark|Christian V]]. ...
19: ...m and Mary. They were to be followed by any descendants of William by a future marriage.
26: ...ver|Sophia, Electress of Hanover]], and her descendants, who descended from [[James I of England]] thr... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ...(born [[June 1]], [[1974]]) is a successful [[Canada|Canadian]] [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [...
10: ... 1]], [[1974]], in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette....
12: ... gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you."''
36: ...is" to avoid possible confusion with fellow [[Canada|Canadian]] singer [[Alannah Myles]]. The album we...
38: ...ed to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound. However, ''Now Is The Time'' sold l... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: '''Bessie Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattanooga, T...
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stok...
7: ... became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accompaniments included some of th...
9: ...sie, however, never stopped performing. While the days of elaborate shows were over, she continued tou...
11: ... included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]], who happen... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...s probably best known to the wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her s...
7: ...[North Carolina]], at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, N.C. When Amos was 2?, her family moved to [[Bal...
10: ...nd her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] (later of [[the Cul...
13: ...se]], [[Will MacGregor]], [[Carlo Nuccio]], and [[Dan Nebenzal]], the record ended up full of raw, emo...
33: ...rgirl Hotel'', but like that album featured overt dance music influences and a relatively subdued pian... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...ca]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with some claiming t...
3: ...ent meaning, and "scientist" had not been coined; Newton was called a [[natural philosophy|natural philoso...
7: ...es may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differences.
27: *Constant period of the pendulum (Newton)
31: ...ar to fill fourteen centuries, and the other candidates are few: - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...was originally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
5: ... will be concerned with a specific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses in common use as a...
20: ...s is due to the addition of compounds such as [[soda ash]] (sodium carbonate).
30: ...he melting point to about 1000 ?C. However, the soda makes the glass water-soluble, which is obviously...
32: ...ass that absorbs [[UV]] wavelengths (biologically damaging ionizing radiation). - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
28: ...of two metals (light tinctures) and five colours (dark tinctures), although there are a number of othe...
69: ...e custom in English [[blazon]] was to reduce redundancy by referring to a particular tincture only onc...
92: ...legs), salient (leaping), sejant (sitting) and gardant (looking at the viewer). There are humans as we...
104: ...xample of a triple fimbriation.[http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Sig/86SignalBattalion.htm]) The fil...
135: ...ies.com/wapenskild/skole/NewtonE.html the arms of Newton Technical High School] in [[South Africa]]: "Quar... - Science (19868 bytes)
6: ...jective, empirically testable, and "predictive" — they predict empirical results that can be che...
16: ...d empiricism makes a crucial error of reasoning — the '''epistemic fallacy'''. This is the mista...
28: ...apple fell" is to state a fact, whereas [[gravity|Newton's theory of universal gravitation]] is a body of ...
30: ...t is nevertheless conceivable that they will some day be supplanted. Younger theories such as [[string...
32: ...evidence is presented. Even the most basic and fundamental theories may turn out to be imperfect if ne... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
37: established_dates = 1801<sup>5</sup>|
47: *[[Welsh language|Welsh]]: ''Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon''
54: ...ions of [[England]], [[Wales]] and [[Scotland]] — are located on the island of [[Great Britain]]...
58: ...ted Kingdom, forming [[Northern Ireland]] to this day.
62: ...Ireland). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotl... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
16: LandArea = 144,701 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 28|Dec 28]], [[1846]] |
25: ...Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|DST]]-5 |
46: ...een home to approximately 17 different tribes. Today, only the [[Mesquaki]] tribe is left in Iowa and...
50: ...ted in a few shots finding Iowa soil; a raid into Davis and Van Buren counties by Confederate guerrill... - 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... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
16: LandArea = 19,231 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 18]], [[1787]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
39: ...w York State]] and had its capital at [[New Amsterdam]], now known as [[New York City]]. Some of south...
41: ...Colonel [[Richard Nicolls]] sailed into what is today [[New York Harbor]] and took over the colony. Th... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...o a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the ...
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
133: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
145: ...]: [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]]
182: ...6]]: [[Davy lamp|Miner's safety lamp]]: [[Humphry Davy]] - Space (10661 bytes)
1: :''This article is about '''space''' — the scientific and philosophical concept. For ...
4: * One view of space is that it is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a set of [[dimen...
6: ... A contrasting view is that space is part of a fundamental [[abstract]] mathematical [[concept]]ual fr...
8: ...s, but treats both as features of [[spacetime]] – a conception that challenges intuitive notions...
24: ...an be considered 'space'. In particular, the boundary between space and [[Earth's atmosphere]] is con... - 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 ... - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ... tail, pointed in slightly different directions — dust being left behind in the comet's orbit (s...
15: ...like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary surfaces allows them to absorb ...
29: ...0," the "Great September Comet of 1882," and the "Daylight Comet of 1910." After [[Edmund Halley]] de...
31: ...0 comets and is conducting a contest to guess the date of its 1000th comet discovery.{{hnote|SOHO (200...
45: ... things being very limited.{{hnote|Sagan, pp. 23–24}} However, the Aristotelean viewpoint proved... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...ite irregular because they usually follow the boundaries of states, countries or other administrative ...
4: [[image:Timezones.png|thumb|400px|Standard Time Zones of the World by the CIA]]
6: ...ve. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time...
8: ... the remainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British...
12: *[[Toronto, Ontario|Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]: UTC − 5 (e.g. if it is 11:00 UTC, then i... - 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...
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