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- David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
8: ...t Livingstone made the one convert that he ever made in Africa. Within 6 months, they had rejected Chr...
12: ... In particular, Livingstone was a proponent of trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
14: ...rned to England to try to garner support for his ideas, and to publish a book on his travels. At this ...
17: ...n disaster, with nearly every missionary dying of malaria or other ailments. The Zambesi river turned out t...
22: ... which feeds the [[Congo River]], Livingstone decided that this river was in fact the "real" [[Nile]]. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...dia sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder of the [[International Church of the Foursquare ...
7: ...e daughter of James Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout [[Methodism|Methodist]], and Mildred Ona Pear...
9: ...letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...in [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August 19...
19: ...health issues. After what she described as a near-death experience in 1913, she embarked upon a preach... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
2: <!-- FAIR USE of Mother-teresa-03.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima...
4: ...r]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
6: ...ward, the [[Bharat Ratna]] in [[1980]]. She was made an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [...
11: ...tion to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She w...
13: ...sa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...ur. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Academy Awards, the record for nominations until 2003, ...
5: ...d with giving her a sense of adventure and independence.
7: ...l for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shooting golf in the low eightie...
8: ...and information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
10: ...ay her degree was in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ... - 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: ...ccurs in many diseases and disorders, including [[malaria]], [[bacterial endocarditis]], [[leukaemia]], [[p...
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... - Parasite (2795 bytes)
1: ...on, although another definition of symbiosis excludes parasitism, since it requires that the host bene...
4: Organisms whose life cycle guarantees the death of the host are not called parasites, but are ...
11: ...es''' (''endo'' = within; parasites that live inside their hosts)
21: *** ''[[Strongyloides stercoralis]]''
25: *** [[Malaria]] (a common blood disease caused by [[plasmodium]... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...f Palestine|Palestine]], have ''de facto'' independence and/or some international diplomatic recogniti...
3: ...o fulfill these obligations. The General Assembly determines admission upon recommendation of the Secu...
5: ... The name was transferred to the UN as it was founded by the victorious powers in the war as a conditi...
20: ...ebated by governments and private citizens worldwide.
24: ...ong the original signatories had been reserved, added its name later, bringing the total of original s... - Sub-Saharan Africa (3920 bytes)
1: ...m would exclude [[South Africa]], which lies outside the [[Tropics]].
3: ...ior of the continent remained unknown to the outside world until the colonial era.
5: ...in the world, and it contains many of the [[least developed countries]]. (See ''[[Economy of Africa]]'...
7: ...n (Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe) are considered part of Africa. According to this classificati...
12: * [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] - Solomon Islands (9265 bytes)
2: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
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37: ... on 1999 census) <br> - [[Population density|Density]]
40: |'''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date
55: |'''[[List_of_country_calling_codes|Calling Code]]''' - California (63989 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Golden State |
23: PCDesert = 25 |
28: DensityRank = 12<sup>th</sup> |
29: 2000Density = 83.78 |
30: AdmittanceOrder = 31<sup>st</sup> | - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...erTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ... as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian ...
6: ...ady during his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in...
9: ...[Aristotle]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature a...
11: ...racles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Ac... - Evolution (27661 bytes)
3: ...[[genetics]] in the [[1940s]], evolution has been defined more specifically as a change in the frequen...
6: ...e the [[modern evolutionary synthesis]]. In the modern synthesis, "evolution" means a change in the fr...
8: ...share a common ancestor. It also is often used to describe the mechanisms through which evolution acts...
12: The theory underlying the modern synthesis has three major aspects:
14: # The [[common descent]] of all [[organism]]s from a single ancesto... - List of common diseases (5000 bytes)
1: ...l illness (alphabetical_list)|list of mental disorders]].
3: ...n names and technical names for diseases. This is deliberate; where multiple names are in common use f...
11: List of diseases (in alphabetical order):
19: * [[Adenoma]]
49: * [[Bipolar disorder]] - Extinction (15793 bytes)
2: ...t of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species. Exti...
4: Descendants may or may not exist for extinct species...
6: ...ey]]. The ''Eohippus'' itself is no more, but its descendants live on. It is therefore said to be pseu...
8: ...e likely to have gone unnoticed. Most of these modern extinctions can be attributed directly or indir...
12: ==Definition== - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
2: [[Image:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|'''Jefferson Davis'''...
3: ...r serving as the only [[President]] of the [[Confederate States of America]] throughout the [[American...
6: ...[[British Empire|British]], two of them serving under [[Andrew Jackson]] and receiving his commendatio...
10: ...ry Academy]] at [[West Point, New York]] as a [[cadet]].
14: ...spatched to [[Galena, Illinois]] at the head of a detachment assigned to remove [[miner|miners]] from ... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
3: ...]] [[explorers|explorer]] and [[navigator]]. He made three voyages to the [[Pacific Ocean]], in which ...
8: ... Cook rose in the ranks of the merchant fleet but declined the command of his own collier in 1755 on t...
20: ...lly [[Alexander Dalrymple]], insisted must exist, despite Cook's personal doubts. With the help of a ...
22: ...t landing, at Kurnell on [[Botany Bay]], was intended to be the site of the first [[British colony]] i...
24: Botany Bay was indeed the site of one of the earliest European contac... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
15: |popdensity=1,221
17: |latitude=33°65' N
18: |longitude=84°42′ W
22: ...lt, Atlanta is a common case study for college students who study Urban Geography around the globe. ...
24: ...19th century]] as a railroad hub. It was largely destroyed by Union forces during the [[American Civi... - Mosquito (10897 bytes)
15: ...ir of scaled wings, a pair of [[halteres]], a slender body, and long legs. The females of most mosquit...
17: ..., ''[[Psorophora]]'', ''[[Ochlerotatus]]'', ''[[Aedes]]'', ''[[Sabethes]]'', ''[[Wyeomyia]]'', ''[[Cul...
21: ... easy way to reduce mosquito populations in a residential area is the removal of standing water (where...
24: ...age:Aedes_aegypti_biting_human.jpg|thumb|left|''Aedes aegypti'' biting a human]]
25: ...r [[blood]]. The females require protein for egg development, and since the normal mosquito diet cons... - Genetic code (15677 bytes)
2: ... organisms use minor variations of the standard code.
6: ... ([[peptide|polypeptide]]), which will then be folded into a [[protein]].
8: ...') is substituted by [[uracil]] ('''U''') and the deoxyribose is substituted by [[ribose]].
10: ...ids long. ([[DNA]] is also a sequence of nucleotide bases, but there [[thymine]] takes the place of u...
12: The standard genetic code is shown in the following tables. [[#Table 1: Cod... - Global warming (53726 bytes)
3: ... by anthropogenic (human-generated) [[carbon dioxide]] (CO<sub>2</sub>). The alternative view, that t...
5: ... also uncertainty about the accuracy of climate models. [[Climate commitment studies]] predict that ev...
7: ...limate change]]. Such changes can trigger various detrimental effects by causing [[flood]]s, [[drought...
16: ...supported by an international group of science academies from various countries including [[Brazil]], ...
18: ...lso pointed out that "authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change...
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