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- 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... - Geography (8541 bytes)
1: [[Image:Environment_09.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...φειν'' ("to write," as in "to describe").
11: ...dun maintained the Greek and Roman techniques and developed new ones.
13: ...s]] revived a desire for both accurate geographic detail, and more solid theoretical foundations. This...
15: ...]], as well as [[economics]], [[sociology]] and [[demographics]]. - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: ... is a [[republic]] in eastern [[Europe]] which borders [[Russia]] to the east, [[Belarus]] to the nort...
3: ...re only established in [[1954]]. It became independent once more following the [[fall of the Soviet Un...
5: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
12: | [[Image:Trident_02.jpg|125px|Ukraine: Coat of Arms]]
14: | ([[Flag of Ukraine|In detail]]) - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
22: DensityRank = 45<sup>th</sup> |
23: 2000Density = 5.79 |
24: AdmittanceOrder = 47<sup>th</sup> |
27: Longitude = 103?W to 109?W |
28: Latitude = 31?20'N to 37?N | - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
1: ...ary|dictionaries]] and [[encyclopedia]]s (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the wor...
3: It includes listings or tabular information for quick refere...
7: ...ve come back to this page, paste the javascript code you have copied into your URL window and run it. ...
9: <!-- [[Wikipedia:Page size]] suggests not to divide lists even large.
13: ...llpadding=1 cellspacing=0 style="float: right; border-collapse: collapse"> - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
14: ==Decipherment==
16: [[Henry Rawlinson]] (1810-1895) deciphered the [[cuneiform]] writing of Mesopotamia,...
18: Ernest de Sarzec (1832-1901) began excavating the Sumerian ...
22:
26: - Tornado (14220 bytes)
3: ...[[Tornado Alley]]. Although in pure number of incidences, the [[United States]] experiences more torna...
8: ...], and sometimes [[hail]] are associated with thunderstorms. Many tornadoes appear at the tail end of...
10: ...otation can intensify and form tornadoes is not understood.
12: ...mes opposite direction swirls develop under a thunderstorm. And about 1 in 100 tornadoes rotate in an ...
14: ... high wind velocity and the associated wind-blown debris. Tornadic winds have been measured well in ex... - Horse (38916 bytes)
15: ...ed an important role in [[transport]], whether ridden or used for pulling a [[chariot]], [[carriage]],...
19: ...ances of modern horses with true extra toes as evidence that minor genetic mutations can reintroduce a...
21: ...rtle easily and must, for the safety of riders, undergo careful introductions to strange objects and s...
25: ...ecently, researchers have observed that a form of democracy appears to exist among horses. For instanc...
28: ...vy horses of northern [[Europe]], such as the [[Ardennais]]. - Drama (12658 bytes)
1: ...eant to be read rather than staged; examples include the plays of [[Seneca]], ''[[Manfred]]'' by [[Geo...
3: ...dians applied it to the plays they wrote; [[Euripides]] is portrayed in the [[Acharnians]] of [[Aristo...
7: ... drama as an umbrella, with all of its subforms underneath it.
13: ... another character or situation gives a greater understanding of what is happening around us.
15: ...about how hard it must be to live alone. They broadened their own perceptions of the world. This all o... - Information (13474 bytes)
2: ...''''Information''''' is a term with many meanings depending on context, but is as a rule closely relat...
4: ... "information" is often used without careful consideration of the various meanings it has come to acqu...
6: ...e bee's nervous system uses the information to guide the bee to the flower, where the bee often finds ...
8: ...ing sections roughly in order of narrowest to broadest.
12: ...mation in this sense is simply any message the sender chooses to create. - French language (40201 bytes)
3: ...]], [[U.S.]] state of [[Louisiana]], [[Haiti]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Madagascar]], ...
25: ...le]] and the [[Vascons]] on the Spanish/French border.
27: ...ch today (largely place and plant names and words dealing with rural life and the earth). In the reve...
31: ... number of new words: perhaps as much as 15% of modern French comes from Germanic words, including man...
35: ...he two major groups. It is comparable to the divide that once existed between "yes" in the south of E... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
8: dead=dead|
9: date_of_death=[[January 30]], [[1948]] |
10: place_of_death=[[New Delhi]], [[India]]
13: ...who brought the cause of [[India|India's]] independence from [[British India|British colonial rule]] t...
15: ... truth" or "pursuit of truth", has inspired other democratic activists, including [[Martin Luther King... - Quran (41479 bytes)
6: ... believe they were revealed) but in a different order, roughly by size, also believed by Muslims to be...
8: == The Qur'an as divided for reading and recitation ==
10: ...into four quarters. A different structure is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling ...
14: ...at time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Is...
16: ...ography soon became important sciences, and the model for the literary language remains to this day th... - Geyser (14881 bytes)
2: ..., [[Iceland]]; that name, in turn, comes from the verb ''gj', "to gush".
4: ...tivity may change or cease due to ongoing mineral deposition within the geyser plumbing, exchange of f...
9: ...nected to one or more narrow tubes that lead to underground reservoirs of water.
14: ...f the column and thus the pressure on the water underneath. With this release of pressure, the superh...
22: ...and eruptions will erode the channels and rapidly destroy any nascent geysers. - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...wn as ''royal tennis'' or ''court tennis''), an older form of the game that is played indoors on a ver...
12: ...nal clear space around the court is required in order for players to reach overrun balls. A net is str...
14: ...als used for the court surface. Each surface provides a difference in the speed and bounce of the ball...
18: ...fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt to wooden gymnasium surfaces to artificial grass similar t...
20: ...s courts add an additional variable, with bounces depending on how healthy the grass is and how recent... - Fashion (7767 bytes)
3: A '''fashion''' is also a design (as in a 'curious fashion') or a method (a 'c...
5: "Fashion" can also be an archaic verb meaning "to make."
16: ...tics]] with [[innovation]], coupled with pleasing details and expense.
21: ...re slowly. Men's fashions derived from military models, and changes in a European male silhouette are ...
23: ...servative [[peasant]] (James Laver; [[Fernand Braudel]]). - Akkadian language (3224 bytes)
6: ...n (''lišānum akkadītum'') is divided into dialects based on geography and time.
16: ...nstruction completely inappropriate for languages demonstrating the [[triconsonantal root]]. Sumerian ...
21: ...grammatical number|dual]], and [[plural]]), and [[verb]] [[conjugation]]s for first, second, and third [...
27: ... [[1st millennium AD|1st millennium]], possibly under the influence of [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]].
31: *[http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/ A detailed introduction to Akkadian] - Aymara language (3573 bytes)
3: ... the language of the [[Aymara]] people of the [[Andes]]. It is one of only a handful of [[Native Ameri...
5: ...however, is disputed — although there are indeed similarities, critics say that these may simply...
7: ...[Subject Object Verb|subject-object-verb]] word order. <!-- It is based on a three value logic system...
11: ...[vowel]]s ({{IPA|/a i u/}}, which distinguish two degrees of length. The high vowels are lowered to mi...
19: Some believe that the Aymara language descends from the language spoken in [[Tiwanaku]]. T... - Geography1 (26085 bytes)
2: ...he human and physical sciences," geography is divided into two main branches - [[human geography]] and...
7: ...vered at King's College, London by Sir Marc Alexander. Quoted in {{cite book |last=Baker |first=J.N.L ...
9: ...web |title=What is geography? |work=AAG Career Guide: Jobs in Geography and related Geographical Scien...
15: ...ns ([[biosphere]]). Physical geography can be divided into the following broad categories:
16: :{| style="border:1px solid #ddd; text-align:center; margin: auto;... - Adolescence (13933 bytes)
2: ...contrast, the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) defines adolescence as the period of life between 10...
4: ...with developments in a person's psychology and academic career. In the onset of adolescence, children ...
6: ... For example, [[Judaism | Jewish]] tradition considers people to be adult members of the community at ...
9: ...the human [[lifespan]] when a [[child]] begins to develop [[adult]] [[secondary sex characteristics]] ...
15: The word '''preteen''' describes a child a bit younger than a teenager: per...
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