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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). - 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...
20: ... using his master's methods of inquiry to examine problems. Central ideas are the [[The_Forms|Theory of For...
29: ...aused first cause, and this is God. Aquinas also adapted this argument to prove the goodness of God. E...
42: ...Idealism. There is also the [[lumpers/splitters]] problem, namely that some works split philosophy into mor... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...he known Islamic world, extending also to present-day [[India]], the [[Maldives]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[So...
4: ...natively be rendered '''ibn Batuta''', '''ibn Batuda''' or '''ibn Battutah'''. He is also sometimes kn...
6: ...Juzayy]], whom he had met while in [[Granada|Granada]]. This account, recorded by Ibn Juzayy and inter...
8: ... about Ibn Battuta's life comes from one source – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn Juzayy). In place...
11: ...tely) twenty Ibn Battuta went on a ''[[hajj]]'' – a pilgrimage to [[Mecca]]. Once done, however,... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
3: The dating of the Industrial Revolution is not exact, bu...
10: ... institutional changes wrought by the end of [[feudalism]] in [[Great Britain]] after the [[English Ci...
22: ...able as there was privilege and monopoly. The abundant supply of coal and iron ore made the making of ...
30: ...udy tour, gathering information where he could. Today this is called [[industrial espionage]], with mo...
59: ...ed about the need for stability and precision he adapted to the development of machine tools, and in h... - Steel (28384 bytes)
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32: ...copper-smelting sites on the [[Sinai Peninsula]], dated to about 3000 BC. Some iron oxides are effect...
34: ...] died in [[1323 BC]] and was buried with an iron dagger with a golden hilt. An [[Ancient Egyptian]] [...
40: ...artifact is a knife found on [[Cyprus]] at a site dated to [[1100 BC]].
46: ...and weapons. A mass grave in [[Hebei]] province, dated to the early third century BC, contains severa... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best...
9: ... lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that...
17: ... during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
19: The six-day-old Mary became Queen of [[Scotland]], with [[Ja...
24: On the day of the coronation Mary was dressed in heavy rega... - 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: ...fficulty aiming their guns in the rough waters, a problem not faced by the anchored Swedish ships. At batt... - 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...
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...
69: ...fort to the crew, which I regret. I love ''NFL Sunday Countdown'' and do not want to be a distraction ... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
15: |'''Date of Birth'''
29: ... a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ...s a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who preached on weekends; Rice's mot...
35: ...[http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabout_transcript090701.html]
41: ...://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Rice began classes with the goa... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...|1990 presidential election]] becoming, as a candidate of the [[Irish Labour Party|Labour Party]], the...
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD...
23: ...]], [[County Mayo]] in [[1944]], Robinson was the daughter of two medical doctors. The Hiberno-Norman ...
31: ...ich she was first elected, as an independent candidate, in 1969. From this body she campaigned on a wi...
32: *Joint Committee on EC Secondary Legislation (1973- 89) - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...on'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[...
13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded the Amer...
24: ...h venereal diseases (which she contrasted with mandatory registration of those with infectious disease... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to N...
8: ... charcoal and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea...
12: ...nforming Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fin...
15: ...and Franklin illuminating their X-ray diffraction data published in the same issue of ''Nature'' suppo...
18: ...ell have been deliberately exacerbated by John Randall. Watson has stated that Franklin should have di... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: '''Margaret Mead''' ([[December 16]], [[1901]] – [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United Sta...
5: ...Ruth Benedict]], Mead concentrated her studies on problems of child rearing, personality, and culture. (Sou...
13: ...ot universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
14: ...ds of adjustment." Boas felt that a study of the problems faced by adolescents in another culture would be...
28: ...had come to adopt the same puritanical sexual standards as the Americans who were once so shocked by M... - Apple (20408 bytes)
6: ..._classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
34: ...r than most modern cultivars), but may have other problems which make them commercially unviable, such as l...
58: *'[[Idared]]': [[Idaho]] (1942)
63: *'[[McIntosh]]': [[Canada]] (1811)
91: ...rf]] rootstocks are generally more susceptible to damage from wind and cold. Full dwarf trees are ofte... - Botany (8977 bytes)
6: [[Image:Dandelion-with-dew.jpg|400px|thumb]]
13: ... '''why study plants'''? Plants are an utterly fundamental part of life on earth. They generate the [...
15: * Understand fundamental life processes
20: ...eneficial to humans, [[weeds]] are a considerable problem in [[agriculture]], and botany provides some of t...
22: ...g|frame|left|300px|[[Gregor Mendel]] laid the foundations of genetics from his studies of plants.]] - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
5: ...ives haul their trains. Increasingly common these days in passenger service is [[push-pull]] operation...
27: ...wo and a half times that of diesel power, and the daily mileage achievable was far lower. As labour co...
29: ...e in [[China]], where [[coal]] is a much more abundant resource than [[petroleum]] for diesel fuel. In...
32: ...mber of which survive and are still operational today.
60: ...cal suppliers over German ones. In the US and Canada, they are now greatly outnumbered by diesel-elect... - Respiratory system (5107 bytes)
1: ...rbon dioxide]] and emitting [[oxygen]] during the day, consuming oxygen and producing carbon dioxide c...
43: ...e. they do not need the energy necessary for [[predator]]s, and thus their breathing is limited.
49: ...tissue engineering]], respiration is an essential problem. The small depth of diffusion respiration suffici... - Immune system (14564 bytes)
3: ...ften divided into the two sections of innate and adaptive immunity, the former encompassing unchanging...
6: ...ence. Therefore, the bacterium's DNA will not be damaged by the first enzyme because of the presence ...
11: ...ful non-self and harmless non-self is a difficult problem, and a variety of mammal disorders ([[immunodefic...
18: ...ot change during the lifetime of the organism. ''Adaptive immunity'', in which the response to pathoge...
20: ...s and all [[mammal]]s have both an innate and an adaptive immune system. - Brain (22060 bytes)
14: ... brain, is another major cause of death and brain damage.
16: Other problems in the brain can be more accurately classified a...
34: ...y-controlled biological "ratbot" that could go in dangerous places.
77: Regions identified in [[chordate]] brains include:
98: *****[[caudate nucleus]]
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