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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
18: ...w segmented pulp. The numerous [[cultivar]]s include the white grapefruit and the red, of which the 19...
20: ...s" [http://www.barbados.org/grapefrt.htm]. It had developed as a [[hybrid]] of the [[pummelo]] (''Citr...
22: ...me ''Citrus paradisi''. Its true origins were not determined until the [[1950s]]. This led to the offi...
26: ...he theory being that the fruit's low [[glycemic index]] is able to help the body's [[metabolism]] burn...
30: ... Fruiting Grapefruit?] in the [[Chelsea Physic Garden]], london. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...age:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]...
5: ...n which many an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...s]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the w...
10: - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist ...
6: ...fe Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
8: ...e]]. As a result, four of its leaders were put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its membe...
10: ...d]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich University]], along with other socialis...
12: ...ally able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist memb... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: ...ich often transformed the subject into a powerful abstract image.
6: ... and the [[Art Students League of New York|Art Students' League]] in [[New York City]]. She began teac...
12: ...le with travel. Her trips west gave her the solitude she required to pursue her art.
14: ...os or [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] until her death in 1986. Her home was in [[Abiquiu, New Mexico... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...en, despite her parents' strong attempts to dissuade her from engaging in a 'men's profession'. Severa...
7: ...eal her identity to him. Lagrange apparently considered her a talented mathematician and became her me...
9: ...o him admitting she was female, to which he responded:
12: ...uite extraordinary talents and superior genius. Indeed nothing could prove to me in so flattering and ...
17: ... first female to attend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives of other ... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...]], now suggests that Neanderthal humans may have developed a sophisticated and more complicated artis...
9: ...ron]] and [[manganese]] and indicates that it was decorated by someone and used as a figurine, regardl...
12: ...objects, like the paddles from [[Tybrind Vig]], [[Denmark]], are known as well.
15: ... by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord and sticks with a growing sophistication. S...
20: ... style are to be classified as art is a matter of definition. - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
2: ...ecorative [[writing]]. A style of calligraphy is described as a ''hand''.
4: ...d [[epigraphy]]. Epigraphy is a branch of the broader study of ancient handwriting in more general ter...
8: ...ciate its beauty. Calligraphy, in essence, is an abstract art.
10: ...34269;, all meaning "the way of writing") is considered an important art in [[East Asia]] and the most...
12: ...he Prime Minister [[Li Si]] drew up an official index of characters and unified the written form for t... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...using written language. Artistic painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the ...
8: The oldest known '''paintings''' are at the [[Grotte Chauv...
14: ...ry:Artistic techniques|Painting technique]]s include:
34: ...at the pigment is suspended or embedded in, which determines the general working characteristics of th...
36: Examples include: - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...c actually consists of is something that is still debated today.
4: ... by way of the Latin ''musica''. It is ultimately derived from ''mousa'', the Greek word for [[muses|m...
6: ... may be combined with it in song) is relatively modern.
10: ...s. From this concept later resulted the romantic idea of a music of the spheres.
12: ..., all things were connected with each other - a mode of thought that finds its traces today in the [[o... - Geography (8541 bytes)
1: [[Image:Environment_09.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...φειν'' ("to write," as in "to describe").
11: ...dun maintained the Greek and Roman techniques and developed new ones.
13: ...s]] revived a desire for both accurate geographic detail, and more solid theoretical foundations. This...
15: ...]], as well as [[economics]], [[sociology]] and [[demographics]]. - Map (10223 bytes)
3: ...that space. Usually, a map is a [[2D geometric model|two-dimensional, geometrically accurate represen...
7: ...itten language by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving maps, painted on a wall of the [[Cat...
9: ...y in the works of J.B. Harley, Mark Monmonier and Denis Wood.
11: ... in [[English language|English]] as "[[On Exactitude in Science]]".
13: ... internationally renowned for its comprehensively detailed work). - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ... level of local autonomy under the [[federation|federal]] system.
12: ...deral level]];<br> [[English language|English]] [[de facto]] |
14: government_type = [[Democratic]] [[Federal republic]] |
15: ...r>[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] |
16: leader_names = [[Joe Biden]]<br>[[Kamala Harris]] | - Ecosystem (2598 bytes)
3: ...an]] in his classic study of a Minnesota lake (Lindeman, 1942).
5: ...fferent elements that compose it. But others consider this vision or a self-standing unit with coheren...
7: ...or a lake can be divided into several ecosystems, depending on the used scale.
9: ...and the death of many of its native species. The abstract notion of [[ecological health]] attempts to measu... - Space (10661 bytes)
3: '''Space''' has a range of definitions.
6: ...ing view is that space is part of a fundamental [[abstract]] mathematical [[concept]]ual framework (together...
8: ...physics]] does not treat space and time as independent dimensions, but treats both as features of [[sp...
12: ...us concepts used to try to define space have included:
14: * The structure defined by the set of spatial relationships between ... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
4: ...end upon prior knowledge of a given language in order to extract associated meaning.
6: ...d in some language, which can be retrieved independently of the initial act of formulation.
9: :* a set of defined base elements or [[symbol]]s (termed charact...
10: ...assign [[meaning]]s to the base elements, their ordering, and relations to one another;
12: ...ally visually, but tactile systems have also been devised). - Art (11479 bytes)
3: ...st range of forms, styles, and cultures. Art includes a variety of media, such as painting, sculpture,...
5: ...ny discussions and debates. '''Art''', in its broadest meaning, is the expression of creativity or ima...
9: ==Historical Development and Styles==
11: ...ts such as Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, each representing a distinct appro...
15: ...us mediums and techniques. Painting, one of the oldest forms, uses pigments on surfaces like canvas or... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: Modern [[science]] is a body of verifiable [[empirical...
4: ... change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still...
6: ...] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects and systems, which differs ...
11: ...mphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
13: ...e, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
14: ... ([[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]]) - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
2: ...torial representations became simplified and more abstract.
6: ==Development==
7: ...tating counter-clockwise all of the pictograms 90° in the process), and a new wedge-tipped stylus ...
9: ...iform tablets could be fired in [[kiln]]s to provide a permanent record, or they could be recycled if ...
11: ...ssyria]]ns to write their own languages and was widely used in [[Mesopotamia]] for about 3000 years, t... - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
2: ... touching all points in-between. Because of the wide range of time and place it is difficult to speak ...
5: ...tern Roman Empire]] and the [[Orthodox Church]] made [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Old Church Slavoni...
7: ...ve survived in the [[Breton lai|lais]] of [[Marie de France]], the ''[[Mabinogion]]'' and the [[King A...
10: ...sical]] writers and the [[Church Fathers]] and tended to re-tell and embellish stories they had heard ...
20: ...so frequently written, as an encouragement to the devout and a warning to others.
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