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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...is a [[country]] located in [[North America]], bordered by the [[United States]] to the north, and [[B...
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' |
21: government_type = [[Federal Republic]] |
22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
23: leader_names = [[Vicente Fox ]] | - 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... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - 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. - 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... - Treasury (1846 bytes)
3: ...e Service|IRS]] is the revenue agency of the [[US Department of Treasury]].
7: ...onsible for government [[procurement]], policy guidelines for [[commonwealth]], [[statutory authories]...
9: ...]], [[Canada]], [[Malaysia]], [[Singapore]] and [[Japan]].
12: * [[United States Department of the Treasury]]
19: * [[Alexander Hamilton]] (United States) - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...e [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...nding on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or multiple c...
5: ...ades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...utes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states. - May (3270 bytes)
7: ...d with the Roman [[goddess]] of fertility, [[Bona Dea]], whose festival was held in May.
9: ...d of their new schoolwork or jobs. It is due to a Japanese custom that all [[schoolyear]]s and [[fiscal y...
21: ...n [[Kentucky]], [[United States]], the [[Kentucky Derby]] is held on the first Saturday in May.
23: ...it is known as Patriots' Day (''Journ饠nationale des [[patriotes]]'').
27: * [[World Fair Trade Day]] is celebrated on the second [[Saturday]] in... - Performance (3170 bytes)
4: Examples of performance [[genre]]s include:
22: ... a [[scientific]] setting, the carrying out of predetermined [[action (philosophy)|action]]s in a cont...
24: ...ot require payment, but do welcome it. See [[extended technique]].
28: The word '''performance''' may also describe the way in which an [[actor]](ess), or [[ar...
29: ...icians polish their art at a railway station in [[Japan]]]] - 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. - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...Tale of Genji]]'', written in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earl...
4: ...ficer of the imperial court. During [[Heian]]-era Japan, couples lived separately and children were raise...
10: ...ied in 1014, when records show that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion,... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
8: ...er aeroplane for this flight a [[De Havilland]] [[De Havilland Gipsy Moth|Gipsy Moth]] (registration G...
10: ...d for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack ...
16: ...th Mollison, she flew a [[De Havilland Dragon Rapide]] nonstop from [[Pendine Sands]], South [[Wales]]...
18: ...o [[India]] in [[1934]] in a [[De_Havilland_DH.88|De Havilland Comet]] in the England to [[Australia]]...
23: *[[List of famous deaths by aircraft misadventure]] - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...b at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
6: ...fered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of education, Ms. Cochran had a qui...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran beg...
10: ... she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impove...
12: ...g America's entry into the War, in 1942 she was made director of women's flight training for the Unite... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...' blasted into orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the f...
3: ...-47]] Spacelab J flight, a [[United States|US]]/[[Japan]] joint mission. She conducted experiments in [[l...
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 ... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
5: ...born in [[New York, New York|New York]]. She attended [[Vassar College]], graduating in 1909.
7: ...in [[1923]]. [[Margaret Mead]] was one of her students.
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until the early 1930s....
11: ...' ([[1934]]) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in every human s...
18: ...interfered with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come. - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
1: ...G|thumb|right|Kannon statue in Daienin, Mt. Koya, Japan]]
2: ...Buddhism|Buddhist]]s. Commonly known as the '''Goddess of Mercy''', Kuan Yin is also reverenced by [[C...
4: In [[Japanese language|Japanese]], Kuan Yin is called '''Kannon''' or more for...
6: ...reas Avalokitesvara in other countries is usually depicted as a man.
9: ...statue of the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, [[Aomori]], [[Japan]].]] - Wisteria (4864 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox_subfamilia_entry | taxon = [[Faboideae]]}}
18: ... their entire stems either [[clockwise]] (As in [[Japanese Wisteria|''Wisteria floribunda'']]) or [[Count...
22: ...steria'' is conserved under the [[International Code of Botanical Nomenclature]].
26: *''[[Wisteria floribunda]]'' - [[Japanese Wisteria]]
35: ...rained ones. It thrives in full sun to partial shade. - Apple (20408 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox_subfamilia_entry | taxon = [[Maloideae]]}}
16: ...the family [[Rosaceae]], and is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Table apples are of the...
23: ...t affect domestic apples, and research with it to develop new disease-resistant apples is continuing.
25: ...ave been used in some recent breeding programs to develop apples suitable for growing in climates unsu...
27: ... the earliest tree to be cultivated. To a greater degree than other tree fruit, except possibly [[citr... - Camellia (2759 bytes)
13: ...rent botanists vary in the number of species considered distinct, with anything from 100–250 spe...
15: [[Image:Teestrauch Detail.jpg|left|thumb|Leaves of ''Camellia sinensis'...
16: ...ew species. The [[fruit]] is a dry capsule subdivided into 1–5 compartments, each containing 1&n...
21: ...mmercial importance for '''[[tea]]''', which is made from its leaves.
24: ...x ''C. salouenensis''). They are highly valued in Japan and elsewhere for their very early flowering, oft...
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