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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...d that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...hout running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the...
5: ...s likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniv...
9: ...ficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-... - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
2: ...e word "emperor," rather than ''basilissa'', "empress") from [[797]] to [[802]]. She was the wife of [...
6: ...n discretion for ten years, displaying great firmness and sagacity in her government.
8: ...in [[787]], formally revived the adoration of images and reunited the [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern chur...
10: ...ich this occasioned swelled in [[790]] into open resistance, and the soldiers, headed by the [[Armenia...
12: ...n [[solar eclipse|eclipse of the sun]] and a darkness of seventeen days' duration were attributed by t... - Impatiens (2161 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox ordo entry | taxon = [[Ericales]]}}
14: ...oth in, and out, of direct [[sunlight]].Common names in North America include impatiens, jewelweed, to...
16: Major common names for one or more species include [[balsam]], [[jewelweed]] and [[busy lizz...
18: ...af surface, giving them a silvery sheen that becomes pronounced when they are held underwater.
20: ...ct bites, and stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) rashes. They are also used after poison ivy contact to p... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
2: ..., and yellow pansies]] | caption = 5-petaled pansies}}
7: {{Taxobox ordo entry | taxon = [[Violales]]}}
10: {{Taxobox species entry | taxon = '''''V. tricolor'''''}}
11: {{Taxobox subspecies entry | taxon = '''''V. t. hortensis'''''}}
15: ''Viola × wittrockiana'' - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...[Aristotle]] and [[Ptolemy]], until they were successfully revived and developed by [[Copernicus]] nea...
7: ...hypothesis]] of the heliocentric model. [[Archimedes]] wrote:
9: ...un, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the Earth to revolve bears such a proportion to t...
11: ...g, as the following passage from [[Plutarch]] suggests (''On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon'...
13: ...th to revolve in an oblique circle, while it rotates, at the same time, about its own axis." - Cartography (10500 bytes)
1: ... into one of three main types; [[computer-aided design |CAD]], [[geographic information system | GIS]...
3: ...jective reality and that we can make reliable representations of that reality by adding levels of abst...
7: ...sized topological relationships such as connectedness, adjacency, and containment.
9: ...]]ians later used geometry to survey land and to resurvey it after the periodic flooding of the [[Nile...
11: ... [[250s BCE|250 BCE]], [[Eratosthenes]] of Cyrene estimated the circumference of the earth to within 1... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...]] is a type of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[Egyptology]].
7: ...orian''. [http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Teaching/HIS-SCI-STUDY-GUIDE/0...
9: ...st solutions to ultimately settle many of these questions while others may last for eternity.
13: ...rn Egyptian chronology, so the previous "firm" dates cannot be supported astronomically.
15: ... ended in [[139|139 CE]]. Therefore, the [[Menophres Era]] may have started in 1321 BCE. However, John... - Earth (30908 bytes)
4: ...d don't bother putting "MOSTLY HARMLESS" or "HARMLESS" or any Hitchhiker's Guide reference in here. It...
7: ... [[Moon]]. Its dominant [[Sentience|sentient species]] is the [[human]] (''Homo sapiens sapiens'').
9: Its symbol consists of a circled cross, representing a [[meridian]] and the [[equator]]; a varia...
14: ...ount Everest]], which is only 8,850 m) and the lowest (the bottom of the [[Mariana Trench]], at 10,911...
17: ... and a solid inner core. The liquid outer core gives rise to a weak [[magnetosphere|magnetic field]] d... - Ra (2793 bytes)
2: ...Zeus, to Thebes. He remained paramount for centuries except for a brief suspension during the time of ...
4: ... aspect of Ra that is the rising sun. In later times, he was associated with [[Heryshaf]]. Eventually,...
6: [[Image:Pharaoh-Ra.jpg|frame|right|''A Pharaoh makes an offering to Ra'']]
8: ...to protect Ra was said to be the cause of [[solar eclipse]]s, and difficulty in doing so was said to cause ...
10: ...e [[Phoenix]], as he rose again each night in flames. - Hathor (11883 bytes)
4: ...Ogdoad]] [[cosmogeny]]. Hathor was an ancient goddess, worshipped as a cow-deity from at least [[2700 ...
6: ...ting the fate of the newborn, and [[midwife|midwives]] delivering them.
8: ...uction|sexual]] manner), gaining the title ''Mistress of Heaven''. Having been identified as Ra's wife...
10: ...o considered quite motherly creatures, and sometimes as an aquatic form of the cow.
12: ...g next to her. As divine mother, she was also represented with, or as, an [[uraeus]], a stylised [[cob... - Alyattes II (1682 bytes)
1: ...of the [[Lydian empire]], was the son of [[Sadyattes]], of the house of the [[Mermnadae]].
3: ...ipse]] took place (see also [[Thales]]); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fi...
5: ...[[Colophon]]). ([[Izmir|Smyrna]] was sacked and destroyed c.[[600 BC]]E, the inhabitants forced to mo...
9: He was succeeded by his son [[Croesus]].
11: ... all that was left being some broken alabaster vases, pottery and charcoal. On the summit of the mound... - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
9: ...rned to love and admire him and the poet [[Euripides]] derived from him an enthusiasm for science and ...
10: ...ssert that even [[Socrates]] was among his disciples.
12: ...is nature and his superiority to ordinary weaknesses—traits which legend has embalmed.
14: ...of the celestial bodies led him to form new theories of the universal order, and brought him into coll...
15: ...he [[Peloponnesus]]; the heavenly bodies were masses of stone torn from the earth and ignited by rapid... - Sun (20830 bytes)
11: ...×10<sup>6</sup> [[mile|mi]]) <br>(8.31 minutes at the [[Speed of Light]])
13: ...align="left" | [[Apparent magnitude|Visual brightness]] (''V'')
22: | 2.5×10<sup>17</sup> km <br>(26,000 [[light-year]]s)
25: | 2.26×10<sup>8</sup> [[Julian year|a]]
33: | [[1 E9 m|1.392]]×10<sup>6</sup> km<br>(109 [[Earth]]s) - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...n that [[telescope]]s rarely examine it (the greatest [[elongation]] is 28.3?). Mercury has no [[natur...
3: ...f the Sun and then the other. It was called [[Hermes]] when in the evening sky, but was known as [[Apo...
5: The Chinese and Japanese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Water Star'', based ...
8: ...rs.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-religion-planet-nearest-to-the-sun answers.com])
10: ...n]]). The sunlight on Mercury's surface is 6.5 times as intense as it is on Earth, a total [[irradianc... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...y motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] ...
4: Kepler was a [[professor]] of [[mathematics]] at the [[University of Gr...
6: ...er, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonices mundi''' ("The Harmony of the world") in Linz dur...
9: ...s said to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant...
13: ... observed another astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
5: | align="center" colspan=2 | <small>'''[[Decades]]:'''</small> <br> [[1970s]] [[1980s]] [[1990s]]...
7: | align="center" | <small>'''[[Centuries]]:'''</small> <br> [[20th century]] - '''[[21st c...
11: ...day]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It has been designated:
12: * The ''International Year of [[Deserts]] and [[Desertification]]''
23: ...ince of [[Quebec]] will be reconstituted, as the result of a referendum held [[June 20]], [[2004]]. - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...aper mill]]. His best known assistant was [[Johannes Kepler]].
5: ... his surname "Brahe". Apparently his contemporaries did so and the usage has persisted.
8: ...itten Tÿcho). He was born at his family's ancestral seat of [[Knudstrup]] [[Castle]], [[Denmark]]...
10: ...tempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childless uncle and aunt, J? Brahe and [[Inger Oxe]], in t...
12: ...ctatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis and [[Regiomontanus]]' De tri... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...most important [[discovery (observation)|discoveries]] ever, and is the fundamental starting point of ...
8: ...n and the other sister, Katharina, married a businessman and city councillor, Barthel Gertner.
10: ...rara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
12: ...a, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''.
14: ...serve a lunar [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing ... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...f the [[photoelectric effect]] and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".
7: ... work and philosophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist...
14: ...e insistence of his mother, was given [[violin]] lessons.
16: ...elopment of the theory of relativity to this slowness, saying that by pondering space and time later t...
18: ...g his late childhood and early adolescence by suggesting and providing books on science and mathematic... - Benjamin Banneker (3034 bytes)
3: ...me the owner of a farm and married one of her slaves, whom she freed.
5: ...lt a series of [[dam]]s and watercourses that successfully [[irrigation|irrigated]] the family [[farm]...
7: ...licas of each piece, calculating the gear assemblies himself, and used the parts to make a striking cl...
9: ...s of the locations of [[star]]s. Ellicott was impressed with his work and lent him books on [[mathemat...
11: ...calculations to predict [[solar]] and [[lunar]] [[eclipse]]s and to compile an [[ephemeris]] for the ''Benj...
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