Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ur of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but completely h...
6: ...f her closest sister, Maria-Carolina (two years older) and brother, Max, (one year younger.) Her other...
7: ...een years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in...
9: ...ld like as a reward, Mozart is said to have responded by saying he would like the hand of the Empress'...
11: ...d off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was married to the Regent of the [[Netherlands... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ... a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].
7: ... predominantly Irish neighbourhood on the south side of Indianapolis. Her father, Paul, served as coun...
9: ...e, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campai...
13: ...anagement Act of 1990]], which required cities to develop comprehensive growth plans, and she negotiat...
15: ...e to narrowly defeat her in the Republican landslide year of [[1994]]. - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ...ent]] [[Bill Clinton]]. She is a member of the [[Democratic Party]].
8: ...oining the [[Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29|Democratic Party]] and writing her thesis on radical...
10: ...ld become the future White House Counsel for President Clinton.
12: ...counsel for a brief time before he committed suicide in 1993].
17: In 1980 Bill Clinton was defeated for reelection as governor. In 1982, as pa... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
1: ...right|thumb|Artists can use woodworking to create delicate [[sculpture]]s.]]
7: ...y tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.
9: ...f wooden animal statues from the [[Iron Age]]. Wooden [[idol]]s from the [[La Tene|La T讥]] period ar...
11: ...f_China#Ancient_history|Chinese]]. Woodworking is depicted in many ancient Egyptian drawings, and some...
13: ...after his death. This book is filled largely with descriptions of dimensions for use in building vario... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...onomic boom|boom]] and accelerated [[consumer]] [[demand]] and aspirations, coupled with significant c...
3: ...the second half of this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also c...
5: ...s were cultivated in [[jazz]] and [[dancing]], in defiance of the horrors of the First World War, whic...
8: ... [[1920]]s were setting the stage for the [[Great Depression]] that would dominate the [[1930]]s.
10: ===Demobilization=== - April (9790 bytes)
7: The name is derived from the [[Latin]] ''aprilis'', either from ...
15: Poets identify April with the end of winter, but they don't...
24: ::Modernized for ''The Norton Anthology of English Liter...
28: :Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
29: :Memory and desire, stirring - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
4: :'''Founded:''' [[1870]], as an independent professional club. Joined the National Associa...
5: ...emnants'', in [[1901]], after a number of players deserted the team for the [[American League]]. The ...
8: :'''Logo design:''' A red "C" circumscribed by a blue circle...
18: ...teams in [[1870]], each with the singular goal of defeating the Red Stockings. A number of them adopt...
20: ...uth side of the city. The [[Great Chicago Fire]] destroyed the club's ballpark, uniforms and other po... - Golf (35905 bytes)
4: ...ng various [[golf club (equipment)|clubs]]. It is defined in the ''Rules of Golf'' as ''"playing a bal...
6: ...the ball in as few strokes as possible may be impeded by various obstructions, such as bunkers and [[w...
8: ...r and then adds the points over a round; for more details on this method, see [[The INTERNATIONAL]], a...
16: ... or may be replaced by dropping another ball outside the water, but a penalty is incurred in the latte...
18: ...The ''hole'' must have a diameter of 108 mm and a depth of at least 100 mm. Its position on the green ... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
7: ...29, 2005. The next version, [[Mac OS X 10.5]], codenamed "Leopard", is scheduled to be released at th...
12: ...etc. This metaphor is sometimes called the WIMP model for '''W'''indows, '''I'''cons, '''M'''enus, '''...
13: ...e of a [[Computer mouse|mouse]] or other pointing device in personal computing.
14: ...rag" behaviors to perform actions with a pointing device.
19: * Aesthetic and ergonomic industrial "All in One" design that reduced clutter. - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...mputer program|programming]]) a computer can be made to represent some aspect of a problem or part of ...
4: The discipline which studies the theory, design, and application of computers is called '''[...
8: ...s, photons, quantum particles or any other well-understood physical phenomenon. Although computers ha...
10: .... For example, electron flows might be used to model the flow of water in a dam. Such ''[[analog sig...
12: ...is first translated into mathematical terms by rendering all relevant information into the [[binary]] ... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...ade of metal) stacked or rolled to form a compact device, but '''every''' multi-[[conductor]] [[geomet...
7: ... but opposite charge, the ''total'' charge in the device is always zero.
22: ...cumulates on the plates of a capacitor, a voltage develops across the capacitor due to the electric fi...
30: For an ideal capacitor, the capacitor [[current]] is proport...
45: ...rs are usually specified such as 5 or 10%, or broader ranges for some types. Adjustable versions have ... - Digital photography (33923 bytes)
4: ...ther devices, such as [[mobile phone]]s, now include digital photography features.
10: * [[charge-coupled device]] (CCD)
18: ...onsumer digital cameras became available for considerably lower prices. (The [[Ritz Dakota Digital]] i...
22: ...eb cam]]s at the lowest-end, a [[digital memory]] device (usually [[flash memory]]; [[floppy disk]]s a...
24: ...can take still photographs, and store them on [[videotape]] or on flash memory cards. - Depth of field (8291 bytes)
1: ..._dof.jpg|thumb|260px|An example of fairly shallow depth of field]]
2: ... focus, but focus falls off gradually on either side of that distance, so there is a region in which t...
4: ... However, the most important factor is the actual degree of error in relation to the area of film expo...
6: ... nearer will produce the image of a disk whose border is known as "[[circle of confusion]]." The diame...
8: ...ars sharp while the areas in front and behind the depth of field appear blurry.]] - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
5: ... is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] with 1.5 million people
24: founded = [[May 4]], [[1868]] |
33: density = 1,074|
46: ...aced them; or, they may be the ancestors of the modern Pima Indians who now live on the [[Salt River]]...
49: ...es northwest of a similar farming community at Hayden's Ferry, which would become [[Tempe, Arizona|Tem... - Pole vault (5243 bytes)
5: ...als intersecting each other at right angles. In order to cross these without getting wet, and at the s...
7: ...L. Jahn]]. The modern pole vaulting technique was developed in the [[United States]] at the end of the...
9: ==Modern vaulting==
12: ...ded vaulter would place the right hand, with an undergrip, within 10 to 2 in of the top end of the pol...
14: ...ment and rules for the competition are virtually identical to the [[high jump]]. Unlike high jump thou... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
1: ...uce]] in the middle, and ended with Athens' surrender in [[404 BC]].
5: ...nly known as the [[Sparta|Spartans]]), who, as leaders of the [[Peloponnesian League]], had long been ...
7: ...likely a greater catalyst for the war than Thucydides and other ancient authors realized, more so than...
11: ...s, the two powers were relatively unable to fight decisive battles.
13: ... slaves, known as [[helots]], needed to be kept under control, and could not be left unsupervised for ... - Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
1: ...movement.<br>'''3:''' Optical encoding disks include light holes.<br>'''4:''' Infrared LEDs shine thro...
3: ... The underside of the mouse houses a device that detects the mouse's motion relative to the flat surf...
5: ... because the cord on early models resembled the rodent's tail, and also because the motion of the poin...
9: [[Image:firstmouseunderside.jpg|frame|The first computer mouse held by invent...
11: ....com/3543541.html 3541541]. Ball and wheel by ''Rider'', 9/74, [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/38354... - Modem (21628 bytes)
1: ...e a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital [[data]].
3: ...service|POTS]]), and once received on the other side, converts those sounds back into 1s and 0s.
5: ...over [[microwave]] radio links. Some microwave modems transmit more than a hundred million bits per s...
7: ... into electronic digital data streams. Optical modems routinely have data rates in excess of a billio...
9: ... of transmitting analog signals, from driven [[diode]]s to [[radio]]. - Cell (29541 bytes)
3: The [[cell theory]], first developed in the [[19th century]], states that all [...
15: ...nergy stored in organic molecules. This energy is derived from [[metabolic pathway]]s.
21: ...mes (''dark blue''). The drawing on the ''right'' demonstrates how bacterial DNA is housed in a struct...
23: ...ms) that function and survive more or less independently, through ''colonial'' forms with cells living...
34: ...these primary components of the cell then briefly describe their function. - Analytical chemistry (4933 bytes)
1: ...the [[analysis]] of material samples to gain an understanding of their [[chemical composition]] and [[...
9: Most modern analytical chemistry is quantitative. Quantitat...
12: ...dering array of techniques available to separate, detect and measure chemical compounds.
14: ... painstaking, but is an essential first step when dealing with certain mixtures of substances, like ex...
15: ...ies, often without separation. Newer methods include [[atomic absorption spectroscopy]] (AAS), [[nucle...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).