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- 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: ...the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations w...
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... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]...
9: ...[[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: ...ames V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
15: ...es of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's father.
17: ...g her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ...opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...he Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist ...
6: ...fe Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
8: ...e]]. As a result, four of its leaders were put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its membe...
10: ...d]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich University]], along with other socialis...
12: ...ally able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist memb... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
4: ...eman graduated from eighth grade and briefly attended college at Colored Agricultural and Normal Unive...
8: ...ial backing from Binga, and from the Chicago Defender, who capitalized on her flamboyant personality a...
10: ... had failed many times. Once, she saw a fellow student die during practice. However, she learned quick...
16: ...e crashed, possibly because of a wrench that got stuck in the control gears. Coleman was killed instantl...
18: ...t, she has been honored in several ways since her death: In [[1931]], a group of Black male pilots per... - 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... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[188...
3: ...ged to convince the Russians to list him as descended of aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; ...
5: ...) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appreciation o...
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of [[partial differential equation]]s (t...
9: ...to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her... - 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: ...ism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a revival meeting at t...
19: ...health issues. After what she described as a near-death experience in 1913, she embarked upon a preach... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
3: '''Odette Sansom''' ([[April 28]], [[1912]] - [[March 13...
5: ...nce to work with the [[French Resistance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left h...
7: ...her supervisor, [[Peter Churchill]]. Using the code name '''Lise''', she brought him funds and acted ...
9: ...tapo]] at [[Fresnes prison]] in [[Paris]], Odette stuck to her cover story that Churchill was the nephew ... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ...m the [[1980s]] to the present day, has been regarded as one of the best in her field.
5: ...s]], [[1979]]), and ''[[Sophie's Choice]]'' ([[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], [[1982]]...
7: ...on so many greatest movie star lists, Streep also defied expectations by her happy home life—mar...
9: ...to date—and her noted comic turn in ''[[She-Devil]]''.
11: ...s Room]]'', and completing another successful decade with ''[[Music of the Heart]]'', for which she le... - 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... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
10: ...rgestCity = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] |
11: Governor = [[Ed Rendell]] |
21: DensityRank = 10<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 105.80 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 2<sup>nd</sup> | - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...nd 320 BCE. Pytheas was the first Graeco-Roman to describe the [[Midnight Sun]], the [[Polar Aurora|au...
4: ...e Moon. In northern [[Spain]], he studied the [[tide]]s, and may have discovered that they are caused ...
6: ...es, Land's End, Plymouth, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Iceland, Britain's east coast, Kent, [...
8: ... took advantage of a temporary lapse in the blockade, known to have taken place around the time he tra...
10: ...ek as ''Prettanike'', which [[Diodorus]] later rendered ''Pretannia''. This supports theories that the... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...nd of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as...
3: == Definition ==
4: ...p://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1840AN.....17...81E&db_key=AST&high=41e14...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "mi...
8: ...[boulder]]-sized or smaller. The distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive pas... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
1: ...cing=0 align=right style="margin:0 0 .5em 1em; border-collapse:collapse;" width=280px;
4: ...]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
39: | 2.484 46°<br>(5.51? to Sun's equator)
41: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
42: | 113.715 04° - Blizzard (4179 bytes)
3: [[Image:Train stuck in snow.jpg|thumb|250px|Sudden blizzards can cause terrible damage to [[infrast...
7: ...arter of a mile for three consecutive hours, include snow or ice as precipitation, and have wind speed...
9: ...ity less than 1 km, a wind chill of less than -25 degrees Celsius, and all of these conditions must la...
17: ...izzard of [[1880]]." [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=blizzard]
23: There have been many devastating blizzards throughout U.S. History. - Horse tack (8580 bytes)
6: ...s at the rear of the saddle and goes around the widest part of the horse's belly.
8: ...ant that the saddle is comfortable for both the rider and the horse—an improperly fitting saddle...
10: There are many types of saddles, each specially designed for its given task.
21: *[[Sidesaddle]]
22: **English Sidesaddle - Archery (18991 bytes)
5: ==Modern competitive archery==
9: ...competing with bows for millennia, the first recorded archery competitions began around [[1583]] in [[...
11: ...Internationale de Tir рам'Arc). Olympic rules are derived from FITA rules.
17: ... An archer shoots between 3 and 6 arrows per end, depending on the type of round. After each end, the ...
19: ...ially lethal weapons, much attention is paid to order and safety. - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...ed through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series ha...
7: ... it - is used to fund a Players' Pool, from which descending shares are distributed to the World Serie...
9: ...or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded.
11: ...ed sponsorship. (For details, see [http://roadsidephotos.com/baseball/name.htm Mr. Pappas's web page...
13: ... of money spent by the MLB for its current worldwide marketing. - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
5: :'''Founded:''' [[1882]], as a charter member of the [[Amer...
6: ...1]], they were first called ''Pirates''. The name stuck. Over the years the team was also often called th...
9: :'''Logo design:''' Pirate caricature superimposed on crossed...
17: ...00]], the Pirates picked up star players from the defunct [[Louisville, Kentucky]] club, including gre...
19: ...t World Series title in [[1909]], defeating the [[Detroit Tigers]] in seven games.
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