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- Sport (14061 bytes)
1: ...f these. A sport has physical activity, side by side competition, and a scoring system. The difference...
3: [[Image:Oly8.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
9: ... of sport throughout history can teach us a great deal about social changes, and about the nature of s...
11: ... carbon dating. Although there is scant direct evidence of sport from these sources, it is reasonable ...
12: ...mage:Horse_racing.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A... - History of sport (6368 bytes)
1: ...e '''[[history]] of sport''' can teach us a great deal about [[sociology|social changes]] and about th...
3: Sport seems to involve basic human skills being developed and exercised for their own sake, in paral...
5: ...as we go further back in history the dwindling evidence makes this more difficult to support.
9: ....g. [[Lascaux]]) from prehistory which provide evidence of [[ritual]] ceremonial behaviour. Some of th...
11: ...drawings were discovered in the [[Libya]]n desert depicting among other acitivities, swimming and arch... - Team sport (1930 bytes)
5: ...ll, is relatively unique in that the team playing defense controls the ball, with the team attempting ...
7: ''Relay'' and ''pairs'' events are not considered team sports. - Racquets (sport) (3401 bytes)
5: ... The equipment used are 30½ inch (775 mm) wooden [[racquet]]s and a 1 7/16 inch (37 mm) hard whit...
13: ... first artificial [[nuclear chain reaction]] on [[December 2]], [[1942]].
15: .... Court upkeep, handmade balls, and breakable wooden racquets make it an expensive game. It also req...
19: ...n in a best of 12 games format (6 games on each side of the Atlantic). If each player wins six games,...
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval ...
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] na...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...eyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
8: ...nd one of those at ''Nakshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to be the tomb of [[Dari...
12: ...ngs buried at ''Nakshi Rustam'' are probably, besides Darius, [[Xerxes I]], [[Artaxerxes I]] and [[Dar...
18: ...he city until it was taken and plundered by Alexander the Great.
20: ...es of having been destroyed by fire. The locality described by Diodorus after [[Cleitarchus]] correspo... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...ean port of [[Dar es Salaam]]. The country's name derives from its [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] language,...
3: ...of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the growing demands for political participation of the [[Hutu]] ...
13: ... and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
17: ...r_titles = [[President of Burundi|President]] |
18: leader_names = [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] | - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
6: |'''Order'''
12: |'''Predecessor'''
25: |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
27: ...ominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]]...
30: ...enry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three years was a police rep... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...eled around the United States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [...
5: ...hts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady...
9: ...lorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...n afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...apher]] who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DN...
8: ...h carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945...
9: ...es Mering, her mentor, had been unhappy about her decision to leave and refused to put his name on the...
15: ...t 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or so years later'...
18: .... In fact, she had already prepared a draft paper describing the structure as a double helix when Cric... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: ...1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[actor|actress]].
5: ... Anna Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
8: ...when she appeared in an advertising short for the department store where she worked. That led to anoth...
10: ...]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] and one in [[Germany]].
12: ...me grew. He was fired by MGM and returned to [[Sweden]] in [[1928]], where he died soon after. - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
3: ... [[Princess]] Grace of [[Monaco]]''', was an [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning [[United States|American]...
5: ...llowed in that tradition. ''Kelly Drive'' in Philadelphia is named for John, Jr., who was a city counc...
7: ...becoming an actress, Kelly became a [[fashion]] model and appeared in her first [[film]], ''[[Fourteen...
9: ...ilms with [[Alfred Hitchcock]]: ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'', ''[[Rear Window]]'', and ''[[To Catch a Thi...
11: ...n [[1955 in film|1955]], she was awarded the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for ''[[The Country Gi... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...hile 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on the far left.]]
7: ...by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
11: ...ar she was a sports talent, but she could not decide which sport to pick. A swimming coach advised her...
13: ... Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, although as a sprinter, not a mid...
17: ...y 2, 1940, a week before the Netherlands were invaded by German troops. - Delia Gonzalez (2350 bytes)
1: '''Delia 'Chikita' Gonzalez''' is one of today's best f...
3: A [[Mexican-American]], Delia started going to the gym when she was little, ...
5: ...hear]] and again came on the wrong end of a close decision, this time losing the world title.
7: ...uck Gonzalez came out on the short end of a close decision, this time a 10-round majority nod for Halm... - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...], she became the first player to achieve the "Golden Slam" – capturing all four Grand Slam titl...
6: ...e of three he began teaching Steffi to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room. She began pr...
8: ...nament at the age of 13 in October [[1982]] at Filderstadt, Germany, and lost her first professional m...
10: ...ctice courts. This narrow focus meant that Graf made few friends on the tour in her early years, but l...
12: ... [[1986]] at [[Hilton Head]], [[South Carolina]], defeating [[Chris Evert]] in the final. She followed... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
8: ...r further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would lay down a handkerchi...
10: ...nal Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during the tournament. The outbreak...
22: == Failed American debut ==
24: ...ion funds for the regions of France that had been devastated by the battles of World War I, she went t...
26: ...pressure was such that she entered the tournament despite being run down and suffering from what later... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...tandwell]] near [[Matlock, England|Matlock]] in [[Derbyshire]], now based in [[Cowes]], [[Isle of Wigh...
8: ...]), and subsequently MacArthur was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for services to spor...
12: ...d unveiled in [[January]] [[2004]], was specially designed by Nigel Irens and Benoit Cabaret for her t...
18: ...thur was also made an honorary [[Lieutenant Commander]] of the [[Royal Naval Reserve]] on the same day...
20: The new record for a single-handed circumnavigation is 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes ... - Christy Martin (2947 bytes)
3: ...her first defense, she defended her title against debutant [[Laura Serrano]], who held her to a six ro...
5: ... in front of [[Showtime]] cameras. Martin got the decision, and after that bout, she began to gain mor...
7: ...of [[2002]], she beat [[Mia St. John]], also by a decision in ten.
11: ... [[Lula, Mississippi]], knocking out [[Lana Alexander]] in the second round.
13: ...ndercards of such boxers as [[Mike Tyson]], [[Evander Holyfield]], [[F鬩x Trinidad]] and [[Julio Cesa... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the town of [[Port Arthur, Texa...
5: .... The jury, however, disapproved of her style and declared Shiley the Olympic champion. After the Game...
7: ...>[[Image:BabeStamp.png]]<P>''Babe Zaharias as <BR>depicted on a 1981<BR> US [[postage stamp|stamp]].''...
9: ...reer in the mid-1950s. She won the 1947 [[Titleholders Championship]] and the 1948 [[U.S. Women's Open...
11: ...er from playing a full schedule in 1952-53. She made a comeback in 1954 and took the Vare Trophy and h... - Campion (697 bytes)
- Spleen (4479 bytes)
1: ...|surgically]] (known as a [[splenectomy]]), and indeed often is. The spleen is often removed, for exa...
3: ...hite nodules, called [[Malpighian corpuscle]]s. Under the microscope, these areas correspond to lympho...
5: ...[splenomegaly]], occurs in many diseases and disorders, including [[malaria]], [[bacterial endocarditi...
14: ... been popularized by the poet [[Charles-Pierre Baudelaire]] ([[1821]]-[[1867]]) but was already used b...
16: ...rsisting somewhat cranky (but not quite lunatic) idea or habit of a person; however the organ is calle... - Cycling (1157 bytes)
25: * [[Bike derby]] - Hunter-gatherer (4757 bytes)
1: ...es]] before the [[Neolithic]] Era, and by an ever-declining number of populations after the [[Neolithi...
5: ...nd making complex trap systems to catch elks, reindeer, etc. However, this usage is beginning to be re...
7: All [[archaeology | archeological]] evidence to date suggests that prior to twelve thousand...
8: ...re found in the Arctic, tropical rainforests, and deserts where other forms of [[List of subsistence t...
10: It is estimated that in only a few decades there will be no more such communities. - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
1: ...on for the visible pipes of an organ to be purely decorative, with the real pipes behind them.]]
7: ...lso found in town halls, and in arts centres intended for the performance of [[classical music]]. In t...
13: ''A more detailed article is to be written at [[styles of pip...
15: ...everal distinctive styles of pipe organ have been developed and achieved popularity at particular time...
19: ...n attempt to provide authentic voices for an extended repertoire, and each one of these instruments is...
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