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- 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... - Oboe (5230 bytes)
1: [[Image:Oboe.jpg|thumbnail|50px|right|Modern Oboe]]
3: ...a descendant of the [[shawm]]. The word "oboe" is derived from the French word ''hautbois'', meaning "...
7: ...often produce a nasal (often out-of-tune) and strident tone that is difficult to blend with other inst...
13: ...gether with the flute/recorder it is one of the oldest [[woodwind]] instruments.
17: ...table oboe-makers of that period are the German [[Denner]] and the English [[Stanesby]]. The range fo... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ... and [[businessman]] who developed many important devices. "The Wizard of [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Men...
5: ... Nevertheless, Edison received [[patent]]s worldwide, including the [[United States]], [[United Kingdo...
10: ...ing near Vienna, Ontario. Among them was Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr., a shingle maker, tailor, and tavern...
12: ...MacKenzie Rebellion]] that sought Canadian independence. The revolt failed and, like his grandfather,...
14: From [[Port Huron]], Sam Edison moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Mil... - Pope Sergius III (3716 bytes)
1: ... chroniclers dubbed the reversal of the natural order as they saw it, with ''women'' in power: [[Theod...
3: ...e of Spoleto]], and all the official records were destroyed; consequently most of the surviving docume...
7: ...once more, tried and found guilty again, and beheaded. He even went so far as to place a laudatory rem...
16: *[http://fmg.ac/FMG/Popes.pdf Lindsay Brook, "Popes and pornocrats: Rome in the Early M...
20: Predecessor=[[Pope Christopher|Christopher]]| - Springfield, Illinois (6768 bytes)
9: founded = [[1819]] |
18: density = 796.9|
25: ... received its city charter in [[1840]]. It was made the capital of Illinois in [[1837]], and the Legi...
29: ...ibrary and Museum; the train depot from whence he departed to Washington; and his burial mausoleum.
32: ...4 and has retained many of the furnishings Wright designed for it. Springfield is known for its carril... - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...wn as ''royal tennis'' or ''court tennis''), an older form of the game that is played indoors on a ver...
12: ...nal clear space around the court is required in order for players to reach overrun balls. A net is str...
14: ...als used for the court surface. Each surface provides a difference in the speed and bounce of the ball...
18: ...fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt to wooden gymnasium surfaces to artificial grass similar t...
20: ...s courts add an additional variable, with bounces depending on how healthy the grass is and how recent... - List of female tennis players (8364 bytes)
25: * [[Lisa Bonder-Kreiss]] (USA)
43: * [[Denisa Chladkova]] (Czech Republic)
55: * [[Lindsay Davenport]] (USA)
56: * [[Nathalie Dechy]] (France)
57: * [[Elena Dementieva]] (Russia) - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...Alchemy can be regarded as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation o...
4: ...|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
8: ...] of gold and silver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and hav...
11: ...ormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and beliefs have limited validity, but if w...
13: ... both an inner meaning referring to the spiritual development of the practitioner as well as a materia... - Adolescence (13933 bytes)
2: ...contrast, the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) defines adolescence as the period of life between 10...
4: ...with developments in a person's psychology and academic career. In the onset of adolescence, children ...
6: ... For example, [[Judaism | Jewish]] tradition considers people to be adult members of the community at ...
9: ...the human [[lifespan]] when a [[child]] begins to develop [[adult]] [[secondary sex characteristics]] ...
15: The word '''preteen''' describes a child a bit younger than a teenager: per... - Irrigation (13719 bytes)
2: ... [[rain]]fall with water from another source in order to grow crops. In contrast, agriculture that rel...
6: ...[[lake]], [[aquifer]], [[well]], or [[snowpack]]. Depending on the distance of the source and the seas...
13: ... water-logging while other parts may be too dry. Depending on [[heat]], [[wind]], and [[soil]] [[Perm...
15: ...ter resources]]. Furrow irrigation also has a tendency to raise the water table in some areas and cau...
18: ...es. However, terracing does allow steep mountainsides to be used to grow plants (although it may be mo...
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