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  1. John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
    2: ...sident of the United States]], and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platf...
    4: ...[Image:Fremonts men marker.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Modern marker for site where two of Frémont's men wer...
    5: ...to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited with determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet t...
    7: ...dential]] candidate, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
    9: ...nd declared [[martial law]] in [[Missouri]]. This declaration led to a conflict with [[Abraham Lincoln...
  2. 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...
  3. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    4: ...itzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but killed her ...
    6: ...ture]] or [[Hispanic Literature]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Li...
    8: ...d the strength of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], t...
    12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays almost every trope o...
  4. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    5: dead=dead |
    8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
    9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
    11: ... values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase...
    14: ... values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
  5. Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
    3: ...[[1827]] – [[July 16]],[[1915]]) was co-founder of [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Ad...
    5: ...also advocated [[vegetarianism]]). She was a [[leader]] who emphasized [[education]] and [[health]] an...
    9: ...and have moved the hearts of men and women. Considered by some to be the prophetess for the end-times...
    11: ...bute to the unity among Christians. She even considered Christian unity to be from Satan and one of th...
    19: ...ng in this condition for several months. She also describes moments of pure bliss while having positiv...
  6. Bone (11388 bytes)
    1: '''Bone''' refers either to a hardened [[connective tissue]] or to one of the individ...
    6: ...(chiefly [[collagen]]). Bone is a [[mesh]], the [[density]] of which may vary at different [[points]].
    9: ...rge portion of skeletal mass; but, because of its density, it has a low surface area. Cancellous bone ...
    13: ...ed with yellow marrow as the child ages (see Bone Development below).
    23: ...in to ''cells'' and ''matrices''. Bone cells include ''[[osteoblast]]s'', so called ''Bone Lining Cell...
  7. Woodworking (12397 bytes)
    1: ...right|thumb|Artists can use woodworking to create delicate [[sculpture]]s.]]
    7: ...y tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.
    9: ...f wooden animal statues from the [[Iron Age]]. Wooden [[idol]]s from the [[La Tene|La T讥]] period ar...
    11: ...f_China#Ancient_history|Chinese]]. Woodworking is depicted in many ancient Egyptian drawings, and some...
    13: ...after his death. This book is filled largely with descriptions of dimensions for use in building vario...
  8. Music (16462 bytes)
    16: ...ften considered an aspect of music, if it is considered to exist.
    18: ... the expense of rhythm and timbre. John Cage considers duration the primary aspect of music because it...
    20: ...actual performance but also how music is heard, understood, even learned." <sup>[[#Notes|6]]</sup>
    25: ...mmon terms used to discuss particular pieces include [[note]], which is an abstraction which refers to...
    31: ...ch creates, performs, and promotes music. A great deal of music is produced by [[amateur]]s.
  9. Aeolian harp (2264 bytes)
    1: ...re still being hand-crafted today. Some are now made in the form of monumental metal [[sound sculpture...
    3: ...icknesses) and all be tuned to the same note, or identical strings can be tuned to different notes.
    5: The sound is random, depending on the strength of the wind passing over t...
    7: ... the side, until the restoring force arising from deflection halts and reverses the motion.
    12: ... poems, ''The Aeolian Harp'' and ''Dejection, an Ode'', both by [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]].
  10. Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
    1: ...difficult to define. This article describes the modern dating methods used to arrive at the age of the...
    4: ...ved in a similar date, and some today continue to defend [[young earth creationism]] (see [http://www....
    6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretched far into the past befor...
    9: ...of [[Russia]]n science, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, suggesting in the mid-[[18th ...
    11: ...h]] naturalist the [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon|Comte du Buffon]] tried to obtain a value ...
  11. Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
    1: ...e outermost part of the [[Earth]]'s interior is made up of two layers, the outer [[lithosphere]] and t...
    3: ...ay from each other), and transform (two plates slide past one another). [[Earthquake]]s, [[volcano|vol...
    5: ...r [[chemistry]], the discovery of the [[genetic code]] for [[genetics]], or [[evolution]] in [[biology...
    8: ...the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plates to undergo motion in different directions.
    10: ...famous. These boundaries are discussed in further detail below.
  12. Idaho (13962 bytes)
    21: DensityRank = 44<sup>th</sup> |
    22: 2000Density = 6.04 |
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 43<sup>rd</sup> |
    26: Latitude = 42? N to [[49th parallel north|49?&nbsp;...
    27: Longitude = 111? W to 117? W |
  13. Comet (30542 bytes)
    3: ...mets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and va...
    5: ... sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; the outer edges...
    11: ... sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes...
    15: ...ics that tend to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary ...
    17: ...and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits].
  14. List of themed timelines (11300 bytes)
    1: ... in chronological order. They are important in understanding [[history]].
    2: ...ich has entries for each millennium, century, decade and year.
    4: {{listdev}}
    49: ** [[Timeline of Linux development]]
    99: * [[Timeline of underwater technology]]
  15. American Civil War (47733 bytes)
    1: {| border="1" width="300" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" ...
    6: [[Military history of the Confederate States]]
    14: |Result||Defeat of seceding CSA
    19: {| border="1" width="300" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
    27: | width="50%" valign="top"|[[Confederate States of America]]<br />[[Image:starsnbars.p...
  16. Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
    1: {| border="1" width="325" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" ...
    10: ...outh Vietnam<br>&bull; Reunification of Vietnam under communist rule<br>
    15: ...n="top" style="text-align:center"|[[North Vietnam|Democratic Republic of Vietnam<br>(North Vietnam)]]<...
    24: ...IA]]:''' ?<br>'''Total dead:''' 287,232<br>'''Wounded:''' 1,496,037
    25: ...fficial Vietnamese estimate: 1,100,000 <br>'''Wounded:''' 600,000
  17. 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...
  18. Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
    1: ...margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" align="righ...
    4: ...2]]<br><small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
    47: | 1.769 17&deg;<br>(6.43? to Sun's equator)
    49: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
    50: | 131.721 69&deg;
  19. Religion (72319 bytes)
    1: ...onship with the universe. In the course of the [[development of religion]], it has taken a huge numbe...
    2: ...is used to designate what should be more properly described as a "religious organization" &ndash; that...
    5: ...ht|Fishers of men; Oil on panel by [[Adriaen van de Venne]] ([[1614]])]]
    10: ...e. The second interpretation, favoured by more modern scholars such as [[Tom Harpur]], is ''re + ligi...
    12: ===Defining "religion"===
  20. Pressure (9004 bytes)
    12: Often ''F'' is taken to be the magnitude of the mean vector force normal to the surface of...
    14: The [[gradient]] of pressure is [[force density]].
    23: ...t. Pressure acts in all directions at a point inside a gas. At the surface of a gas, the pressure forc...
    30: *''[[rho|&rho;]]'' (rho) is the [[density]] of the fluid
    38: ...or [[Cobra probe]], connected to a [[manometer]]. Depending on where the inlet holes are located on th...

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