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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
8: ... (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
6: ... Nights", which she won, adding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of ...
8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...st who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she w...
9: ...ternity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father a...
11: ==First success==
14: ...eral sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
3: ...ding hiatus until [[1946]] when she signed with [[Apollo Records]], releasing several singles that are now...
5: ... [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson ... - Basalt (2961 bytes)
2: ...k]], sometimes [[porphyritic]], and is often both fine-grained and dense. Basalt in the tops of subaer...
8: ... were brought to Earth by the astronauts of the [[Apollo program]]. [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] used the wor...
22: * [[Basalt fiber]] - Africa (35389 bytes)
16: ...'ph'' to ''f'' in Greek is datable to about the [[first century]], so this cannot really be the origin...
18: ... was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer [[Ptolemy...
23: [[Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg|thumb|250px|Africa in the [[Blue marble]] ...
55: ...acial based categorization and philosophies was a fixture of the European culture of that time. The te...
57: ...nd determining ones ancestoral past based on superficial features was highly innaccurate. - Kansas (21369 bytes)
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44: ...[Missouri]] invaded Kansas during the territory's first election and forced the election of a pro-[[sl...
46: ...e war. On [[February 19]], [[1861]] it became the first U.S. state to prohibit all [[alcoholic beverag...
61: ...d astra per aspera'', or "To the stars through difficulties"
73: ... the highest standards in the nation. Kansas was first among the states to ban the concept of [[separ... - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
6: ...ratic]]s, grace smells one can say little with confidence about his life and teachings. Pythagoras an...
13: ...of this life: the disciples would sing hymns to [[Apollo]] together regularly; they used the [[lyre]] to c...
17: ...er [[taboo]]s, including the proper way to stir a fire or place one's shoes before going to sleep.
23: ...original teaching. Even today, scholars cannot definitively identify the "real" Pythagoreans.
25: ...mer, a pioneering scientist, or a wild [[shaman]]-figure. <!-- examples here might be nice --> The tru... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...r]] [[demand]] and aspirations, coupled with significant changes in the [[lifestyle]]; and a series of...
3: ..., the [[Aftermath of World War I|period after the First World War]] was marked by a [[Post-WWI recessi...
5: ...nd [[dancing]], in defiance of the horrors of the First World War, which were still present in peoples...
11: ...w products on the market on which to spend it. At first, the cessation of wartime production caused a ...
19: ... the stage for the entrance of violent crime into film and popular culture. - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
3: ...crater)|Daedalus]], photographed by the crew of [[Apollo 11]] as they circled the [[Moon]] in 1969. Locat...
5: ...quite different; astronomers embrace the [[scientific method]], while astrologers do not.
10: ...Theoretical astrophysics is concerned mainly with figuring out the observational implications of diffe...
12: The fields of study can also be categorized in other way...
17: ...jects in the sky and their changes of position. Defines the system of coordinates used and the [[kinem... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
7: *The [[Sun]] (☉) is a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] G2 [[star]] that contains ...
20: ... System, accompanied by their main satellites, profiled against the limb of the Sun]]
23: *Artificial [[satellite]]s orbiting the planets, mainly E...
25: **[[Space debris]] of artificial origin that can be found in orbit around Eart...
26: ...are sub-planetary bodies that accreted during the first years of the Solar System and that no longer e... - Sun (20830 bytes)
39: | [[1 E18 m²|6.09]] [[scientific notation|×]] 10<sup>12</sup> [[square kilo...
128: ... a [[main sequence]] star, with a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] of G2, meaning that it is ...
136: ...tor). Tidal effects from the planets do not significantly affect the shape of the Sun, although the S...
138: ...ntre of the Sun. Nevertheless, the Sun has well defined interior structure, described below. The Sun'...
144: ... of 4.26 million tonnes per second or 383 [[SI prefix|yottawatts]] (9.15×10<sup>16</sup> tons of... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...1E&db_key=AST&high=41e14f475d05983 scientific paper] to use the word in its title was publishe...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "mino...
8: ...assify asteroids is in terms of size. A working definition is that asteroids are larger than 50 m in d...
10: ...y objects that include asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate ma... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
42: *[[List of topics (scientific method)]]
63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
66: **[[List of FIPS country codes]]
73: *[[SI prefix]]
81: *Specific measures - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...pects of space exploration was the landing of the first man on the moon in the [[space race]] between ...
3: ==From fiction to fact==
4: ...hter materials and other technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions ...
6: ...cury]] space capsule trainers, and the original [[Apollo 16]] space capsule.
8: ...lue Marble]], a [[1972]] image taken during the [[Apollo program]] - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...of spacewalks. 437 people qualify under the FAI definition. Those who have achieved this are said to h...
9: ...d a Russian launch vehicle, arguably becoming the first American cosmonaut in the process.
13: ...efers to people who has actually been in space. Official English text issued by the Chinese government...
18: ...tober 15]] [[2003]] [[Yang Liwei]] became China's first astronaut on the [[Shenzhou 5]] spacecraft.
20: ...tronaut has traveled was 401,056 km (during the [[Apollo 13]] emergency). - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...estigating the [[universe]] known as the [[scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces th...
4: ...al that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosoph...
6: ...e, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavily used by the others as an external ...
11: ...owledge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-fr...
13: ...; and [[Paul Feyerabend]], who argued that scientific knowledge is not cumulative or progressive, and ... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...4 to 5.5 in [[apparent magnitude]]; Mercury is sufficiently "close" to the Sun that [[telescope]]s rar...
3: ...mes]] when in the evening sky, but was known as [[Apollo]] when it appeared in the morning, being closely ...
5: ... the planet as the ''Water Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
16: ...d earlier terrain. In addition, Mercury has "significant" [[tidal bulge]]s, raised by the [[Sun]] (the...
18: Mercury's terrain features are officially listed as the following: - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...s|¹]] is an ancient [[China|Chinese]] [[fortification]] built from the end of the [[15th century]...
5: ...s built during the reign of [[Qin Shi Huangdi|The First Emperor]], the main emperor of the short-lived...
11: # [[1138]] - [[1198]] (the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period]])
18: ...]]. Spanning nine provinces and 100 counties, the final 500 kilometers have all but turned to rubble, ...
24: ...ads. Sections of the Wall are also prone to [[graffiti]]. Parts have been bulldozed because the Wall i... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ... story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...methods used to control planes have advanced significantly as well. Initially planes were controlled ...
13: ... counter-claims how successful these were. See [[First flying machine]] for a review of such claims.
15: [[Leonardo da Vinci]] was the first person to seriously design an aircraft, design...
17: ...craft through the air was the crux of flying. Sufficiently light and powerful engines would not be av...
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