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  1. Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
    5: ...n]] who may have had affairs with many military officers and politicians.
    7: ...uilty and [[Execution by firing squad|executed by firing squad]] on [[October 15]], [[1917]]. Mata Har...
    9: ...ims she blew a [[kiss]] to her killers before the firing began. A third tale claims that not only did ...
    11: ...n named Pierre de Morrisac arranging to bribe the firing squad into loading their guns with [[blank (c...
    15: The [[1931]] film of her final days, "Mata Hari", starred [[Greta Garbo]] in ...
  2. Volcano (27295 bytes)
    3: ...ing Bromo and Semeru volcanoes on [[Java (island)|Java]] in [[Indonesia]].]]
    4: ...rom the name of [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]], a god of fire in [[Roman mythology]].
    12: ...square km. Note that the terms ''felsic'' and ''mafic'' are sometimes substituted by the older chemist...
    15: ...ually build a wide mountain with a shield-like profile. Their lava flows are generally very hot and ve...
    21: ... hard to identify given that there is no formal definition of the term.
  3. Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
    17: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Bengali language|Bangla]]
    51: | '''[[National Fish]]''' || [[Hilsa]]
    73: ...et, but some estimates claim 50,000 deaths in the first three days of the so-called ''[[Operation Sear...
    77: ...ecame ready ground for recruitment of the freedom fighters. The headquarters of the Bangladesh Forces ...
    81: ...akistan since March, returned triumphantly as the first [[Prime Minister]] of the new nation. India wi...
  4. Indonesia (12958 bytes)
    1: ...]], between the [[Indian Ocean|Indian]] and [[Pacific Ocean]]s. It is the most populous [[Muslim]]-maj...
    12: ... Ika]] <br> ([[Javanese language#Old Javanese|Old Javanese]]/[[Kawi language|Kawi]]: Unity in Diversity)...
    14: official_languages = [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]...
    56: ...on the islands of [[Sumatra]] and [[Java (island)|Java]] from the [[7th century|7th]] to [[14th century]...
    58: ...led Indonesia as a colony until [[World War II]], first under the control of the [[Dutch East India Co...
  5. Time zone (34024 bytes)
    2: ...e increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region t...
    6: ...e zones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as ...
    24: Note: The time zone adjustment for a specific location may vary due to the use of [[daylight s...
    31: ... About [[August 23]], [[1852]], time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Gree...
    33: ...me to be observed nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitud...
  6. Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
    2: ...le of "the foreigners" among the populace, which finally led to a peasant revolt that pushed the Yuan...
    6: ...rospect of rebellion ripened. After many years of fighting, the rebel group led by Zhu Yuanzhang, the ...
    12: ...e Ming dynasty. Great [[landed estate]]s were confiscated by the government, fragmented, and rented o...
    14: ...andidates for posts in the civil service or the officer corps of the 80,000-man army, once again, had ...
    16: ...olute authority in his own hands, abolished the office of prime minister and so removed the only insur...
  7. Agriculture (19147 bytes)
    3: ...is the process of producing [[food]], [[feed]], [[fiber]] and other desired products by the cultivatio...
    8: ...thumb|250px|[[Tea]] plantation in [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Indonesia]]]]
    11: ...asingly so elsewhere, which consists of obtaining financial income from the cultivation of land to yie...
    15: ...], [[ethanol]], [[alcohol]]s and [[plastic]]s), [[fiber]]s ([[cotton]], [[wool]], [[hemp]], and [[flax...
    17: ...n the [[Western world]], the use of [[genetic modification|gene manipulation]], better management of s...
  8. Microscope (8708 bytes)
    3: The most common type of microscope&mdash;and the first to be invented&mdash;is the '''optical microsc...
    8: ... is a microscope that uses only one lens for magnification. [[Anton van Leeuwenhoek|Van Leeuwenhoek]]'...
    23: #fine adjustment knob
    34: ...s a power of 100&times;. The actual power of magnification is the product of the powers of the ocular ...
    42: ...g distance. A stereo microscope has a useful magnification up to 100&times;. The resolution is maximal...
  9. Continental shelf (2503 bytes)
    3: ...ch joins [[Borneo]], Sumatra, and [[Java (island)|Java]] to the Asian mainland. Other familiar bodies of...
    5: ...e]]'s poor for half a millennium before they were fished out. If [[anoxic]] conditions in the sediment...
  10. Morse code (33777 bytes)
    13: ..."International Morse". Morse's original code specification, largely limited to use in the United State...
    17: ... Morse and Vail's initial telegraph system, which first went into operation in 1844, marked a paper ta...
    23: ... "dah", and a dot as "dit". When a dit is not the final element of a character, its sound is shortened...
    25: ...be called a Morse code, but the term is used specifically for the two kinds of Morse code used for the...
    27: ...repeat more clearly.&quot;). The letters of these five-letter code words were sent individually using ...
  11. Christianity (47078 bytes)
    14: ...ant to the [[Old Testament]] scriptures, was crucified by humanity, died and was buried, only to be re...
    21: ...6 in the [[New Testament]], Jesus' followers were first called Christians by non-Christians in the cit...
    29: ...nessed his miracles and teachings. After his crucifixion, his apostles and other followers claimed tha...
    31: ...l as a student of Gamaliel (Acts 22:3), a leading figure amongst the Jewish Sanhedrin (Acts 5:34&ndash...
    34: ...istianity.]] Christianity spread rapidly over the first three centuries aided by the relative internal...
  12. Sea (3330 bytes)
    11: ===[[Pacific Ocean]]===
    39: * [[Baffin Bay]]
    73: * [[Java Sea]]
    112: * [[Firth|firths of Scotland]]
  13. Tsunami (29462 bytes)
    4: ... created by [[fishermen]] who returned to port to find the area surrounding the [[harbor|harbour]] dev...
    14: ... earthquakes; as well as collapses of volcanic edifices, may also disturb the overlying water column a...
    21: ...lves of water. The leading edge of a tsunami superficially resembles a breaking wave but behaves diffe...
    32: ... in the open ocean but the wave would still be difficult to outrun.
    36: ...mi that hit Hawaii on [[April 1]], [[1946]] had a fifteen-minute interval between wave fronts. The nat...
  14. List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
    166: [[Code and fix]] --
    225: [[Deterministic finite state machine]] --
    237: [[Distance field]] --
    240: [[Dvorak Simplified Keyboard]] --
    246: [[ECMAScript]] (aka JavaScript) --
  15. Nutrition (42689 bytes)
    4: ...can be caused or alleviated by changes in diet. Deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in diet can prod...
    5: ...nutrition attempts to understand how and why specific dietary aspects influence health.
    10: ..., except in the unborn fetus, participates in the first step which makes the different chemical compou...
    14: ...ation]] is very high. This makes [[science|scientifically]] valid nutritional study very time-consumin...
    20: ...ily [[vegetarian]] with infrequent game meats and fish where available.
  16. Hinduism (49198 bytes)
    17: ...om [[monism]], [[dualism]], [[vishistadvaita|qualified non-dualism]], [[pantheism]], [[panentheism]] (...
    23: Contemporary Hinduism, specifically, [[Smartism]], is most widely accepted to c...
    25: ...ars of Vishnu. The ten avatars of Vishnu are The Fish ([[Matsya]]), The Tortoise ([[Kurma]]), The Boa...
    33: ...Supreme Being. I alone am the enjoyer of all sacrificial services (Seva, Yajna) and Lord of the univer...
    38: ...gamic schools into the one ocean of Hinduism, the first of the Dharma religions. See [[Schools of Hind...
  17. Tiger (11674 bytes)
    25: ...preferred method of identification, due to the difficulty of recording the stripe pattern of a wild ti...
    31: ...oats for the fishermen on board or their catch of fish.
    42: ...ls, occurring predominantly in the island&rsquo;s five [[national parks]]. Recent genetic testing has ...
    46: ...', ''Manchurian'' or ''North China'' tiger, is confined almost totally to a very restricted part of ea...
    53: ...mited to the Indonesian island of [[Java (island)|Java]]. It now seems likely that this subspecies was m...
  18. Tangram (4661 bytes)
    6: It consists of 7 pieces, called ''Tans'', which fit together to form a square:
    28: *''2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Divers...
    39: ... Puzzle Game of Tangrams'', Martin Garner, Scientific American, p98-103, Aug. 1974
    40: *''More on Tangrams'', Martin Garner, Scientific American, p187-191, Sep. 1974
    58: *''Tangrams - The Magnificent Seven Piece Puzzle'', Barbara E. Ford, Tandor...
  19. Homo erectus (3723 bytes)
    15: ''[[Homo erectus palaeojavanicus]]''<br/>
    21: ...s predecessors. One theory is that ''H. erectus'' first used tools of the [[Oldowan]] style and then l...
    23: ...', was learning to master his environment for the first time.
    25: ...n at least be surmised that the controlled use of fire was atypical of ''Homo erectus'' until its decl...
    29: * [[Java Man]] (1891)
  20. Peking Man (2617 bytes)
    17: ...example of ''[[Homo erectus]]''. The remains were first discovered in 1923-27 during excavations at [[...
    19: ...th the first fragments being exposed in 1923. The finds have been dated from roughly 250,000-400,000 y...
    21: ...)|Java]] in 1891 by [[Eugene Dubois]], with the [[Java Man]] initially being named [[Pithecanthropus|''P...
    23: All the pre-war finds at Zhoukoudian were lost at sea during transit...
    25: ...ure were used to support ''H. erectus'' being the first "''faber''" or tool-worker. This interpretatio...

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