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- Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
5: ...neer 10. Three pairs of rocket [[thruster]]s provided spin-axis control (maintained at 4.8 rpm) and ch...
7: ...[[telescope]]s with overlapping fields of view to detect [[sunlight]] reflected from passing [[meteoro...
11: ...e Sun at a nearly [[asymptotic latitude]] of 17.4 degrees above the [[solar equatorial plane]] and was...
15: ...e origin of the spacecraft. It includes a drawing depicting a man, a woman, the transition of a hydrog...
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- Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
1: ...and sometimes [[Maryland]]. Today these areas are described as the [[Mid-Atlantic States]]. The middl...
3: ...ortraits painted. Homes in the country could be made of logs and chinked with moss or mud.
5: ...amily drank [[milk]] and [[whiskey]], which was made out of corn, rye, wheat, and barley. The whiskey...
7: ...rnut tree bark; red came from the roots of the madder herb; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts...
9: ...inting and publishing were also very important trades. - 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. - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
7: ...rah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...She was born in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], and attended school at [[Victoria University in the Universit...
4: ...ave feminism]]. She also has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian literatur...
6: ...he [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
8: ... fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or for her [[Booker P...
10: ...he French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]]. - 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... - 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. - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: '''Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1910]]–[[July...
3: ...0040420CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, disp...
7: ...iety]]. In [[1965]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winsto... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rogrammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer p...
3: ... at [[Yale University]], where she received an MA degree in the same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [...
5: ...d from the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculat...
7: ...auchly]] Computer Corporation and joined the team developing the [[UNIVAC I]]. In the early [[1950s]] ...
9: ...machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fa... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
3: ...rett Anderson''' ([[9 June]] [[1836]] – [[17 December]] [[1917]]) was an [[England|English]] phys...
5: ...[London]], she was refused admission as a full student both there and at many other medical schools to...
7: ...ad of the poll for [[Marylebone]], and was also made one of the visiting physicians of the East London...
9: ...877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the [[British Med... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...], [[nurse]], and [[humanitarian]]. She has been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and ...
6: ...cated and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers and sisters were kept busy answering he...
8: ...her became ill, for 2 years Clara stayed by his side and learned to administer all his medicine, inclu...
12: ...ized the community's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free pub... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ...ire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American Red Cross Nursing Service]].
3: <table align=left><tr><td>[[Image:JaneADelano.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...endent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
6: ...o her profession resulted in her being named president of the American Nurses Association and chair of...
8: ...odern nursing profession, Delano almost single-handedly created [[American Red Cross]] [[Nursing]] whe... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...'The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[Internation...
7: ...s named after the city of her birth, as was her older sister (named [[Parthenope]] for the old city th...
9: ...gions of the poor and indigent. She announced her decision to her family in [[1845]], evoking intense ...
11: ...ed the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then president of the [[Poor Law Board]]. This led to her act...
13: ...oneering hospital established and managed by an order of [[Nun|Catholic sisters]] in [[Germany]], and ... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...rvatoire de Musique et D飬amation'' by the [[Duc de Morny]] in [[1859]] for theatrical training.
6: ...ver Europe and in the [[United States]]. She soon developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress...
8: ...pting herself, as well as modelling for [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of...
10: ... collapsed, largely due to the young actor's dependence on morphine.
12: ...nd two biographical films in all. The latter included ''Sarah Bernhardt à ‚elle-Isle'' ([[1912]]), a f... - Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
7: ...th [[Jack Nicholson]]), for which she won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1998]].
9: ...first actress to win both an [[Emmy]] and an [[Academy Award]] in the same year.
11: ...n [[July 18]], [[1999]]. The couple divorced on [[December 18]], [[2000]].
18: *''[[The Curse of the Jade Scorpion]]'' (2001)
24: *''[[Twelfth Night]]'' (Made for TV) (1998) - Silk (8683 bytes)
1: ...orm4.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Silk Worms. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
5: ...silk was one of the staples of international [[trade]] prior to [[industrialization]].
7: ==Silk trade==
8: ...s trade was so extensive that the major set of trade routes between Europe and Asia has become known a...
11: ...macy, as gifts to foreign dignitaries. The remainder was sold at exorbitant prices. - Recorder (12954 bytes)
1: ...r to the functioning of the ancestors of the recorder, early folk [[whistle]]s.
3: ...at the instrument intended was the sopranino recorder.
5: ...y at some level, is pre-tuned, and is not too strident in even the most musically-inept hands. It is h...
7: ... of recorder music in which he himself plays recorders.
9: ... are the most common solo instruments in the recorder family. - Flugelhorn (2315 bytes)
1: ...50px|Flugelhorn- this is a standard 3-valved Bb model.]]
2: ...n]] family developed by [[Adolphe Sax]] (who also developed the [[saxophone]]); however, other histori...
4: ...r playing style. It is usually played with a more deeply conical [[mouthpiece]] than either trumpets o...
6: The tone is fatter and usually regarded as more "mellow" and "dark" than that of the tru...
8: ...later projects. Other prominent practioners include [[Clark Terry]], [[Freddie Hubbard]], [[Woody Sha... - 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: ...llows inflates an internal reservoir bellows inside the harmonium from which air escapes to vibrate t... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=Third President
7: | preceded=[[John Adams]]
8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]] - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ... [[Azores Islands|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Isla...
5: ...After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal declined.
7: ...ocial and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
15: ...ver among some other tribes. {{Inote | ''Hist󲩡 de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ󲩯'', page 9, "A...
17: ...atin Right]] in [[73|73 AD]].{{Inote | ''Hist󲩡 de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ󲩯'', page 135, ...
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