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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...chemical element]]s. First created by [[Dmitri Mendeleev]], the elements are arranged by [[electron]] ...
3: ...s for displaying the chemical elements]] for more details or different perspectives.
9: ... The IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral systems as they confusingly used t...
15: ... (standard)|standard table]] (same as above) provides the basics.
17: *The [[Periodic table (big)|big table]] provides the basics plus full element names. - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...beknefru]] and Pharaoh [[Nitocris]] actually preceded her (though the latter is not certain to have ru...
4: ...ghout Egypt. She also began rebuilding Egypt's trade networks which had been disrupted by the [[Hyksos...
10: ...fe of Amun'' before either parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her h...
11: ...ose III]], by a lesser wife named Isis before his death.
13: ...t it soon became apparent that she had only one model in mind, Sobekneferu, the last monarch of the Tw... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...logy]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Pa...
5: ...Eventually, with the monetary assistance of her elder sister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[che...
7: ... was far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence ...
9: ...itially the chloride salts (refining radium chloride on [[April 20]], [[1902]]) and then two new [[che...
11: ... Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...wig Boltzmann]]. After she obtained her doctorate degree, she went to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study ...
10: ...|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, whi...
12: ...[[1966]], when Hahn and Meitner together were awarded the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] with [[Fritz Stra߭an...
17: ...h, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue o... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: '''Maria Callas''' ([[December 2]], [[1923]] –[[September 16]], [[19...
5: .... Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many bel canto operas, contributin...
7: ...or many roles. Her later [[stereo]] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an incre...
9: ... was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ...cqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinated US president [[John F. Kennedy]]. - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...ew Bible]], the queen of [[Ahasuerus]] (commonly identified with [[Xerxes I of Persia|Xerxes I]] or [[...
5: ...name ''Esther'' is most likely related to the [[Medes|Median]] word for myrtle, ''astra'' and the [[Pe...
7: ...ad advised. In addition [[God]]'s workings are hidden in the events of the Book of Esther even though ...
9: ...[Ashtoreth]]. The names may nevertheless be coincidentally related, as the [[Semitic languages|Semitic...
12: ...min|Benjamite]]. She resided with her cousin [[Mordecai]], who held some office in the household of th... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: ...fe of the historical Mary is a subject of ongoing debate.
6: ...her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to t...
12: ...he disciples ask questions of the risen Savior (a designation that dates the original no earlier than ...
14: ...r he prepared us and made us into men." She then delivers - at Peter's request - a vision of the Savi...
18: ...this. For certainly these teachings are of other ideas." - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], AE II 2490).]]
2: ...[[20th century]]; currently being a focus of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[C...
7: ...e River|Meuse]] to [[Jacques D'Arc]] and Isabelle de Vouthon, a [[peasant]] family later granted [[nob...
11: ...mb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirion ([[1876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the ...
12: ...lies to the city of [[Orl顮s]], which had been under siege by the English since the previous October.... - Brain (22060 bytes)
4: ...[Image:Anatomy06-brain.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
5: The brain is primarily made up of two types of [[cell (biology)|cell]]s: [[gl...
7: ==A smart device==
11: ...the volume of the brain compact enough to fit inside the skull.
14: ...vessel]]s in the brain, is another major cause of death and brain damage. - Vertebral column (7072 bytes)
5: ...es are ''compensatory'' or ''secondary'', and are developed after [[birth]], the former when the [[chi...
7: ... convexity of the curve is directed to the left side.
17: ...nsverse processes stand backward, on a plane considerably behind that of the same processes in the cer...
21: ...he thoracic region. They present, in front, the sides of the bodies of the vertebrae, marked in the th...
25: ...cervical and lumbar regions; and is small and rounded in the thoracic region, where motion is more lim... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
12: ...agnoliophyta''') are one of the major groups of modern [[plant]]s, comprising those that produce [[see...
16: ...ce of truly naked ovules in the [[Cycadophyta|Cycadeae]] and [[Pinophyta|Coniferae]], entitling them t...
17: [[Image:IR_8091B.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
18: ...hen gradually came to be accepted as the suitable designation for the whole of the flowering plants ot...
19: ..._012A_carnations.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...e [[Modern Age]]. The Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in the [[14th century]] in [[Ita...
5: ... by French historian [[Jules Michelet]], and expanded upon by [[Switzerland|Swiss]] historian [[Jacob ...
10: ...riod is now often replaced by the term "[[Early Modern]]". (See [[periodization|periodisation]], [[Lum...
12: ...e as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
17: ...del Fiore.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] church of [[Florence]], [[Italy]]. Flore... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...olemy]], until they were successfully revived and developed by [[Copernicus]] nearly 2000 years later.
7: ...[hypothesis]] of the heliocentric model. [[Archimedes]] wrote:
9: ...it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the...
11: ...ntric model]] was assumed to be a simpler, better explanation for the lack of parallax. The rejection of the he...
17: ...arth was 42,000 km in [[circumference]], he concluded that the Moon was 14,000 km in circumference. Th... - Cor anglais (2674 bytes)
1: ...amore]]s but larger. If the oboe were to be regarded as a soprano in C, then the "cor anglais" would ...
7: ...manding to play. The amount of breath support needed is greater than for the oboe, as is the difficul...
9: ...which is generally done by the performer, is considered something of an art. While performing, cor an...
15: ...tainty that this is the case. This probable misunderstanding gave birth to another one, the naming of...
22: ...scores over the oboe, most likely because its rounder tone quality. - Geology (12007 bytes)
3: ...d [[uranium]]. Additional economic interests include minerals such as [[asbestos]], [[perlite]], [[mic...
7: ...ween earthly and [[Theology|theological]] jurisprudence.
10: ...f the [[mountain]]s and by [[Deposition (geology)|deposition]] of [[silt]].
12: ...ks ''Peri lithōn'' by [[Theophrastus]], a student of [[Aristotle]], remained authoritative for mi...
14: ...etallica libri XII'', with an appendix ''Buch von den Lebewesen unter Tage'' (book of the creatures be... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
1: ...e outermost part of the [[Earth]]'s interior is made up of two layers, the outer [[lithosphere]] and t...
3: ...ay from each other), and transform (two plates slide past one another). [[Earthquake]]s, [[volcano|vol...
5: ...r [[chemistry]], the discovery of the [[genetic code]] for [[genetics]], or [[evolution]] in [[biology...
8: ...the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plates to undergo motion in different directions.
10: ...famous. These boundaries are discussed in further detail below. - Continental drift (4518 bytes)
3: ...]. The idea of continental drift did not become widely accepted as [[theory]] until the [[1950s]] in E...
5: ...tectonics]]''' for information on current ideas underlying concepts of continental drift.
11: == Evidence for continental drift ==
14: ...ca]], and [[Antarctica]]. There is also living evidence - the same animals being found on two continen...
16: ...hich inspired [[Alfred Wegener]] to study what he defined as continental drift. - Asia (16910 bytes)
4: ...raphy|geographically]], however, Asia is not considered a continent or a [[subcontinent]].
6: ...] (according to others, through the [[Kuma-Manych Depression]]), the [[Caspian Sea]], the [[Ural River...
12: ...Moreover, some consider that "[[Europe]]" is also derived from Akkadian as a mirror of "Asia". It bear...
14: An alternative explanation is that the word Asia is rooted in a [[Greek lang...
24: ...[Bicontinental country]] for details about the borderline cases between Asia and Europe, Asia and Afri... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
1: ... of countries by population density|by population density]], [[list of countries by date of nationhood...
3: ...[[country]], [[state]], [[nation state]] for some explanation of the difference between these.
16: *[[Cape Verde]] - [[Praia, Cape Verde|Praia]]
21: *[[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] - [[Kinshasa]]
48: *[[R鵮ion]] - [[Saint-Denis, R鵮ion|Saint-Denis]] (France) - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...on|privatized]] its economy in the past three decades. Politically, it remains a one-party [[authorit...
4: ...rsial with the ROC considering itself an [[independent state]]. See '''[[China]]''' and [[Political st...
6: ...d China]]" is sometimes used to denote the area under the PRC's rule, usually excluding the two [[Spec...
13: ...[Fujian]]. On [[October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zedong]] declared the People's Republic of China, establishin...
15: ...s may also doubt statistics or accounts given for death tolls or other damages incurred by Mao's campa...
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