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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. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He ...
2: ...Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ... time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get ...
5: ...first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of th... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys wit...
5: ... [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...l><sub>2</sub></small>— [[Pyrite]]. Iron oxide is a soft [[sandstone]]-like material with limite...
11: ...similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at 1...
13: ...ry similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: *[[Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
17: ...(1916-1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
20: ...e immigrant to Germany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
21: ...n, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman... - 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: - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...an [[United States|American]] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led ...
5: ...chester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
7: ... society in America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery...
9: After [[1854]] she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation ...
13: Also included in The Revolution were a number of quotes displa... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...'George Eliot''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[n...
5: ...f romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scruti...
8: ...[1851]]. The ''Westminster Review'' had been founded by [[John Stuart Mill]] and [[Jeremy Bentham]] a...
10: ... remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
12: Two years after the death of Lewes, on [[May 6]], [[1880]] she married a... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ... the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccentricity and ...
8: ...lay on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...es and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never g...
12: ...hool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during t...
14: ...an Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshi... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...' blasted into orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the f...
5: ...ysician]], teacher and [[astronaut]], she has a wide range of experience in technology, engineering, a...
9: ...ldren, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicago, Illinois...
11: ...B. in African and Afro-American Studies. She attended [[Weill Cornell Medical College|Cornell Medical ...
13: ... Share, (TM) an international science camp for students ages 12 to 16, that utilizes an experiential c... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...onist]], [[Prohibition|prohibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]], [[Surgery|surgeon]] a...
6: ... she believed the fashions of the day, which included such binding clothing as [[corsets]], were not h...
8: ...[[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practic...
10: ... [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. Finally, she was awarded a commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant Sur...
12: ...nry Thomas]]. On [[November 11]], [[1865]], President [[Andrew Johnson]] signed a bill to present her... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
1: [[image:Denise bloch photo 00 tn.jpg|right]]
3: '''Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]] - d...
5: ... up by the [[Gestapo]]. In the city of [[Lyons]], Denise Bloch was recruited to work for the [[Special...
7: ...send her to [[London]] and accompanied by another agent, she walked across the [[Pyrenees| Pyrenees mount...
9: ...gau]] in [[Saxony]] and at [[Konisberg]] in [[Brandenburg]] where she suffered great hardship from exp... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
1: ...xotic dancer]] and convicted [[espionage|spy]], made her name synonymous with ''[[femme fatale]]'' dur...
3: ...a Geertruida Zelle''' (spelled '''Margarete Gertrude Zelle''' in English), a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[e...
5: ...hile her mother was of [[Java (island)|Java]]nese descent. Around the turn of the [[20th century]], a...
7: ...ntire nations resting on Mata Hari should be regarded as myths.
9: ...t to succumb to her charms. However, one would wonder how they managed to shoot her accurately if that... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
3: '''Odette Sansom''' ([[April 28]], [[1912]] - [[March 13...
5: ...nce to work with the [[French Resistance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left h...
7: ...her supervisor, [[Peter Churchill]]. Using the code name '''Lise''', she brought him funds and acted ...
9: ... [[Gestapo]] at [[Fresnes prison]] in [[Paris]], Odette stuck to her cover story that Churchill was th... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...fore the [[Special Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and ...
7: ... at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at...
9: ... [[Germany|German]] occupiers would eventually murder her at one of their [[concentration camps]]. An...
11: ...Horthy|Miklorthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]...
13: ...pt]], it came as a shock to them that they were under suspicion due to Krystyna's contacts with a Poli... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: ...ary 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War II]] secret agent.
5: ...t of as the definitive World War II [[Poem code|code-poem]] ''[[Yours (poem)|Yours]]''.
9: ...nce with her [[Sten]] gun. She was interrogated under [[torture]], then sent to [[Ravensbr?ncentration...
11: ...embers of the SOE were executed by the Germans: [[Denise Bloch]], [[Cecily Lefort]], and [[Lilian Rolf...
13: ...l]] in the town of [[Valen硹]], in the [[Indre]] depart魥nt. - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
1: ...|center|thumb|right|250px|Judi Dench as M in ''GoldenEye'']]
2: ...]], [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] (born [[9 December]] [[1934]]) is a renowned [[United Kingdom|...
4: ...h Empire]] (DBE); in [[2005]], she was made a [[Order of the Companions of Honour|Companion of Honour]...
6: Her many television appearances include the series ''[[As Time Goes By]]'' and the afore...
9: In her native [[United Kingdom]], Dame Judi has developed her reputation as arguably the greatest Br... - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
1: [[Image:Catherine deneuve.jpg|thumb|Catherine Deneuve at Cannes in 2000]]
2: '''Catherine Deneuve''' (born [[October 22]] [[1943]]) is a [[Fra...
4: ...4), the late [[Surrealist]] masterpiece ''[[Belle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco...
6: ...ovie)|Indochine]]'' and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for the same performan...
16: *1988 - ''Agent trouble'' - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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20: | [[Chemical series]] || [[Actinide]]s
25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
39: | [[van der Waals radius]] || n/a pm - Oil painting (1776 bytes)
1: ...[linseed oil]]. Other oils occasionally used include [[poppyseed oil]], [[walnut oil]], and [[safflowe...
3: ... both those used in tournaments and those hung as decorations - were more durable when painted in oil-...
5: Recent advances in [[chemistry]] have produced modern [[water miscible oil paint]]s that can be used ...
7: ...ily liquid, imbedded with a heat sensitive curing agent"), the paintings resemble oil paintings and ... - Thyroid (5421 bytes)
3: ...|endocrine]] gland. It is situated on the front side of the neck at the level of C5 and T1 vertebral b...
14: ... epithelial cell]]s, which secrete T3 and T4. Inside the follicles is a colloid which is rich in a pro...
18: ...bly enlarged, resulting in the swollen necks of endemic [[goitre]].
20: ...]], for example, administering a thyroid-blocking agent such as propylthiouracil can prevent tadpoles fro...
22: ...nthetic thyroxine, which enables them to grow and develop normally.
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