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- Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...' blasted into orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the f...
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 ...
13: ... Share, (TM) an international science camp for students ages 12 to 16, that utilizes an experiential c... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
9: '''Modern Greek'''
13: ...story of some 3,000 years. It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
17: ...n the armies and conquered territories of [[Alexander the Great]], but after the [[Hellenistic]] colon...
21: ...poken by approximately 15 million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in [[Greece]].
32: ... since the [[2nd millennium BC]]. The earliest evidence of this is found in the [[Linear B]] tablets d... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ... manuscripts (hence its familiar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard of Cr...
7: ...modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole sky.
11: ...ar circle). He put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Isla...
13: ...|thumb|300px|Ptolemy System Explained. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
14: ...f latitude from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that he kne... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...c actually consists of is something that is still debated today.
4: ... by way of the Latin ''musica''. It is ultimately derived from ''mousa'', the Greek word for [[muses|m...
6: ... may be combined with it in song) is relatively modern.
10: ...s. From this concept later resulted the romantic idea of a music of the spheres.
12: ..., all things were connected with each other - a mode of thought that finds its traces today in the [[o... - Pan pipes (2209 bytes)
2: ...ng been popular as a folk instrument, and is considered the ancestor of both the [[pipe organ]] and th...
8: ...and plural.) Other names for the instrument include '''panflute''' and the [[medieval]] name '''''fis...
10: ... in [[Peru]]vian traditional groups and other [[Andean music]].
14: ...lutejedi.com/pan-flute-history-page.html A Worldwide History of the Panflute] by Douglas Bishop
15: * [http://www.panflutejedi.com/academypage.html Free Panflute Lessons] by Douglas Bish... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
2: ... the seat of government moved to the [[Nile Delta|Delta]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking...
4: ...of Zeus" ([[Zeus]] being the god whom the Greeks identified with [[Amun]]).
6: ...he name ''Thebes'' is often mistakenly thought to derive from the Greek as there is a city in Greece w...
20: *[[Deir al-Madinah]] (workers' village) - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
3: ...ota;στοτέλης
4: ...osopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philosop...
8: ...dialogue ''[[Phaedrus (Plato)|Phaedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, thro...
10: ...can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[rationalism|rationalist]].
12: ...cs'', ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'', ''Politics'', ''De Anima (On the Soul)'' and ''[[Poetics]]''. - Socrates (7975 bytes)
2: ...tonic|Σωκράτης}} Sōkrá´Ĥamp;#275;s) was a Greek ([[Athens...
5: ...n and instead encouraged the decoration of Alcibiades. During such campaigns, he also showed his extra...
7: ...ates that he teaches for a living, paid by his students, and that he thinks this is the most important...
9: ...g and everyone, and apparently it offended the leaders of this time. He was found guilty as charged, a...
11: ...hy for much longer than this and include [[Parmenides]], [[Anaxagoras]], [[Prodicus]], the priestess [... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... which the months are displayed, [[January]] to [[December]]. The first day of the medieval Julian yea...
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
15: ...|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
22: ...[[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published.
25: ... The first claim under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]].... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...s]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on num...
6: ...] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
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23: ...ΜΗΟΝ ΚΗΦΑΣ'''</small><br>(Simeon Kephas)
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]]... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...etribution.) Some math historians consider Archimedes to be one of history's greatest mathematicians, ...
4: ...ented the [[irrigation]] device known as [[Archimedes' screw]].
6: ...inst the invading Romans was the [[claw of Archimedes]].
8: ...wooden ship with a variety of mirrors, they concluded that the enemy ships would have had to be virtua...
10: Archimedes was killed in Syracuse by a Roman soldier in 212... - Mastodon (1620 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Proboscidea]]}}
14: ...#8057;ς and ὀδούς, "nipple tooth"), and is also an obsolete name ...
16: ...rly humans, and archeologists are still trying to determine what role, if any, the early human settler... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...ntroducing Roman influence into what has become modern [[France]], an accomplishment whose direct cons...
4: ...lic]] and the beginning of the [[Roman Empire]] under Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son, [[Caesar ...
6: ...tarii'')]], and many details of his life are recorded by later historians such as [[Suetonius]], [[Plu...
9: ... who according to myth was the son of [[Venus (goddess)|Venus]]. Caesar was raised in the Subura, a lo...
15: ...7;s proscription said, "He whose life you so much desire will one day be the overthrow of the part of ... - Digital photography (33923 bytes)
4: ...ther devices, such as [[mobile phone]]s, now include digital photography features.
10: * [[charge-coupled device]] (CCD)
18: ...onsumer digital cameras became available for considerably lower prices. (The [[Ritz Dakota Digital]] i...
22: ...eb cam]]s at the lowest-end, a [[digital memory]] device (usually [[flash memory]]; [[floppy disk]]s a...
24: ...can take still photographs, and store them on [[videotape]] or on flash memory cards. - Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
5: ...pulverizing rock and bone, and eradicating all evidence of early human settlements. Something similar ...
7: ...he treeless [[permafrost]] was transformed into a densely forested fertile land.
9: ...tructed by stretching animal skins over simple wooden frames. They had outdoor hearths for cooking the...
14: ...ion was a long and slow process resulting from trade and overseas contacts with agricultural communiti...
16: ...extensive Neolithic field system - arguably the oldest in the world - has been preserved beneath a bla... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...re]] on [[May 11]], AD [[330]]. It was first founded as a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] colony with the na...
5: ... Asia beyond Constantinople, allowing the east to develop relatively unmolested, while Rome and the we...
7: ...e-captured by [[Nicaean Empire|Nicaean]] forces under the command of [[Michael VIII Palaeologus]] in [...
9: ...he city. When the Republic of [[Turkey]] was founded in [[1923]], the capital was moved to [[Ankara]]...
15: * [[Golden Horn]] - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...iday and ends around [[Pentecost]]. See [[Eastertide]].)
4: ...n]] has a different chronology which has Christ's death at the time of the slaughter of the Passover l...
6: ... fertility festival, although there is no hard evidence of any link.
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59: ...ed on a [[lunar calendar]] similar—but not identical—to the [[Hebrew Calendar]]. The preci... - Gold (24329 bytes)
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26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
43: | [[van der Waals radius]]
53: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) - Selenium (9236 bytes)
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26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
43: | [[van der Waals radius]]
52: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) - William McKinley (11746 bytes)
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6: <tr><td>'''Order'''</td><td>25th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Predecessor'''</td><td>[[Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
12: <tr><td>'''Date of Death'''</td><td>[[September 14]], [[1901]]</td></tr...
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