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- Plateau (3062 bytes)
2: ...ith a layer of particularly resistant rock, and underlain by softer rock.
4: ...; others rest entirely below the surface. Other undersea plateaus were formed by outpourings of [[basa...
11: * [[Deccan|Deccan Plateau]]
22: ... have been eroded by [[creek]]s and [[river]]s to develop steep relief not immediately distinguishable...
24: ...United Kingdom|Britain]] by the older name of boulder clay. - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[logic]]), [[empiricism...
7: ...odern" is a word with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the sp...
10: ...ents were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[Anaximander]] ("All is air").
12: ... parts), the [[Eleatic School|Eleatics]] [[Parmenides]] and [[Zeno of Elea|Zeno]] (All is One and chan...
14: ... the subjects and methods of debate became highly developed. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...t of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufactur...
3: ...wth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power gen...
5: ...red to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|no...
10: ...he accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumula...
12: ...h often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...avid LeRoy, ''Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
2: ...variant of Corinthian, the [[Composite order]], added by 16th century Italian architectural theory and...
4: ...le of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]].
6: ...e so much the standard, that when a Greek Ionic order was eventually reintroduced, in the later [[18th...
8: Below the volutes, the Ionic column may have a wide collar or banding separating the capital from the... - 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. - 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... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
5: ...ole of the wise-cracking brewery worker [[Laverne DeFazio]] in the popular [[television|TV]] [[situati...
9: She has directed several successful feature [[film|motion pictures]] since the mid-[[1980s]],...
16: ...[[The Christian Licorice Store]]'' (1971) (scenes deleted)
17: *''[[How Come Nobody's on Our Side?]]'' (1975)
24: *''[[Special Delivery (1999 film)|Special Delivery]]'' (1999) - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...]], was an actress, singer and major star of [[vaudeville]].
4: ... girls debuted in nearby [[Buffalo, New York]] in December of 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career ...
6: ...t of 1884. In 1886 her husband of eight years, Frederick W. Keller, passed away unexpectedly.
8: ...became her signature number. The performance also featured a lingering kiss which was seen by [[Thomas Edis...
12: ...cond [[silent film]] appearance, this time in the feature-length adaptation of [[George V. Hobart]]'s play,... - Daffodil (2832 bytes)
15: ...ge clusters, covering lawns and even entire hillsides with yellow.
17: ...le row of petals, making them resemble a small golden ball. Other cultivars have frilled petals, or an...
23: |[[Image:Unknown garden flower 6.jpg|thumb|left|A multicolor daffodil va...
25: |[[Image:Unknown garden flower 7.jpg|thumb|left|An all-white daffodil]]
27: |[[Image:Unknown garden flower 8.jpg|thumb|left|Double and triple variet... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...ves because they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
8: ...ather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include:
13: ...tly motive power assets can be moved around as needed.
17: ...s of providing motive work - the common ones include:
20: ...illustration of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Cli... - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
13: *[[Mouth]] (buccal cavity; includes [[salivary glands]], [[mucosa]], [[tooth|teeth]]...
16: *[[Stomach]], which includes the [[antrum]] and [[pylorus]]
19: ***'''[[duodenum]]'''
27: ****[[descending colon]] and [[sigmoid flexure]]
33: ...bile]] into the small intestine via the [[gallbladder]] and [[biliary system]]. The [[pancreas]] secr... - Exoskeleton (3839 bytes)
1: ...xample, have tough outer shell systems which provide rigidity and shape to their bodies.
3: ...and industrial purposes. Human exoskeletons are a feature of science fiction writing.
14: [[Silicon dioxide|Silica]]
20: Excellent as a principle of defence, exoskeletons may nevertheless cause problem...
24: ... appearance of an artificial human exoskeleton. Modern motorists use [[automobile]]s as temporary prot... - Biological life cycle (3738 bytes)
1: ...ic meiosis, and sporic meiosis. All sexual cycles feature the alternating [[haploid]] and [[diploid]] phase...
9: ... producing several haploid cells. These cells divide [[mitotic]]ally to form either larger, multicellu...
22: ...oduce [[gamete]]s. The haploid gametes do not divide mitotically, however. Without growing larger, the...
36: ...It exhibits [[alternation of generations]], which features of [[spore]]-producing multicellular [[sporophyt...
40: ...is having smaller gametophytes that are more dependent ([[parasitic]]) on soporophytes, this is called... - 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... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...oric times. Most [[Stone Age]] statuettes were made of ivory or soft stone, however some clay human a...
6: ...aterials used for sculpture during this time included basalt, diorite (a type of dark, coarse-grained ...
8: ...ith gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
11: ...ieved to represent Hammurabi. The head has the wide open eyes, typical of the time period.
13: ...t can have four legs visible if viewed from the side. The piece was excavated at [[Nimrud]] (in north... - Vernacular architecture (3581 bytes)
1: ...uishing feature of traditional vernacular is that design and construction are often done simultaneousl...
3: ...w invention, because academic architecture has tended towards a narrow range of acceptable styles and ...
5: ...Howard Davis]]'s book [[The Culture of Building]] details the culture that enabled several vernacular ...
9: ... not a kind of architecture is accepted within academia.
13: *[[Machiya]] Japanese traditional wooden townhouses - 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). - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...''[[trumpet]]'', as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet.
4: ... varieties of [[wood]] or, in the case of some student instruments, composite material or plastic [[re...
11: ...orchestral writing. Additionally, improvements made to the fingering systems of the clarinet over tim...
12: The Bass Clarinet has a very deep and loud tone. It is often only used in large ...
20: ...e of [[ebonite]]. The instrument uses a single wooden (sometimes "fiber" or plastic) [[reed (music)|re... - Crumhorn (1946 bytes)
4: ...English]] ''crump'' meaning curve, surviving in modern [[English language|English]] in 'crumpled' and ...
6: ...r holes along the length of the pipe. One unusual feature of the crumhorn is its shape; the end is bent upw...
8: ...ded downwards by means of additional holes and sliders or by dropping the pressure. Because of the lim... - Harmonium (4268 bytes)
5: ...mon in the late 19th century, replacing the [[melodeon]]. It was used as a practice instrument by orga...
9: ...[[Alexandre Debain]], though there was concurrent development of similar instruments.
15: ...ollowers of the [[sikh]] faith, who use it it the devotional singing of prayers, called [[kirtan]]. In...
20: ...Tulsidas Borkar of Mumbai. More and more music students are learning in this fashion.
22: ...s the sound fuller. In addition, many harmioniums feature an octave coupler, a mechanical linkage that open...
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