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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...bular display of the known [[chemical element]]s. First created by [[Dmitri Mendeleev]], the elements ...
6: ...riodic table. Elements in a group have similar configurations of their [[valence shell]] electrons, wh...
9: ...f Pure and Applied Chemistry]] (IUPAC). The IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral...
21: ...iodic table (electron configurations)|Electron Configurations]]
23: *[[Periodic table (block)|Periodic table filled by blocks]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the...
29: Elizabeth made her first official visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompan... - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
4: ...] [[orphan]], she speedily gained the love and confidence of her feeble husband, and at his death in [...
6: ...er own discretion for ten years, displaying great firmness and sagacity in her government.
10: ...hed by the empress, who demanded that the oath of fidelity should thenceforward be taken in her name a...
12: ...stantine and Irene, whose title of empress was confirmed in [[792]]; but the rival factions remained, ...
14: ...rone [[Nicephorus I|Nicephorus]], the minister of finance. The haughty and unscrupulous princess, "who... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...[[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enli...
10: ...ded to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
12: ...romenade du sceptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, t...
14: ...f some points in aesthetics. The philosophic significance of the two essays is in the advance they mak...
23: ...al, but in his busy and pregnant intelligence the scheme became transformed. Instead of a mere reproductio... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
8: ...fe conditions for trade and manufacture, and a unified cultural and educational milieu of far-ranging ...
19: ...d were sometimes mutually contradictory). The benefit of feudalism however, was its resiliency, and th...
21: ...uered by [[Belisarius]], but this was a political fiction under Lombard rule and became strongly dispu...
23: ... a first European "identity," [[Christendom]], unified until the separation of [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Or...
30: ... previously pagan regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation o... - List of dinosaur classifications (7586 bytes)
1: This article contains a '''list of dinosaur classifications'''.
3: == Textbook classification ==
5: ...al ranks used in [[Linnaean taxonomy]]. The classification has been updated from the second edition in...
7: Benton classifies all dinosaurs within the Series [[Amniota]], Cl...
76: == Another scheme == - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: Ptolemy was the author of two important scientific treatises. One is the astronomical treatise that...
7: ... computational '[[Tables of Toledo]]') were of sufficient accuracy to satisfy the needs of astronomers...
11: ...'', Ptolemy put all this information into a grand scheme. He assigned coordinates to all the places and g...
18: ...ps; an edition printed at [[Ulm]] in 1482 was the first one printed north of the Alps. The maps look d...
23: ...tices (such as considering the numerological significance of names) that he believed to be without sou... - Serpent (instrument) (2056 bytes)
1: ...stel-Sachs]] scheme of [[musical instrument classification]] places it alongside [[trumpet]]s.
3: ...ys were for additional holes (out of reach of the fingers), while the original holes remained uncovere...
5: The instrument was first used to strengthen the sound of [[choir]]s in ... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ars, the exact age of the Earth is difficult to define. This article describes the modern dating metho...
3: == Prescientific notions ==
4: In the centuries preceding the [[scientific revolution]], the age of the Earth was determine...
8: == First concepts ==
9: ...he founder of [[Russia]]n science, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, suggesting in the ... - 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...
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.
59: ... created civil war and unrest between those identified as Hutu and Tutsi which culminated with the Rwa... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the relatively passive ...
7: ... [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Car...
11: ... East was always be too long and difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic ...
15: ...cient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time giving European sailors some idea of the ... - Sub-Saharan Africa (3920 bytes)
7: ... part of Africa. According to this classification scheme, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa are:
64: * [http://travel.state.gov/tips_sub-saharanafica.html USA State department travel tips] - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom...
46: ...inority Languages]]. In each of these, the UK's official name is as follows:
52: ...>6</sup> Official estimate provided by the UK [[Office for National Statistics]]. As of April 2005, th...
54: ...untry" to "state", "nation", "union", etc, please first contribute to the extensive discussion of this...
58: ...ded Wales]] as a [[principality]]) with those of, first, [[Kingdom of Scotland]] and then [[Kingdom of... - Conflict (3579 bytes)
4: ==Definitions==
7: ...ork in [[conflict resolution]] commonly has the definition: "when two or more parties, with perceived ...
12: ...scalate into a verbal exchange and/or result in [[fighting]].
25: ...concern for the outcomes of the other party. This scheme leads to the following hypotheses:
26: ...s outcomes leads to attempts to find mutually beneficial solutions. - Alaska (24727 bytes)
11: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
35: ISOCode = US-AK ([[FIPS state code|FIPS Code]] 02) |
48: |'''[[List of U.S. state fish|State fish]]'''||King [[Salmon]]
66: ...to the east, the [[Gulf of Alaska]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] to the south, the [[Bering Sea]], [[Beri...
69: Alaska was probably first settled by people who came there across the [[... - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
13: ...e who brought philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry from [[Ionia]] to [[Athens]].
15: ... attempted, not without success, to give a scientific account of [[eclipse]]s, [[meteor]]s, [[rainbow]...
22: ...mological theory of Anaxagoras in an intelligible scheme.
24: But originally they existed in infinitesimally small fragments of themselves, endless...
27: ...om the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character. - Animal (16429 bytes)
49: ...nsuming other organisms. Their body plan becomes fixed as they develop, usually early on in their [[o...
51: ...ate from the animals, but biologically they are definitely included. The name animal comes from the [...
57: ...ic [[glycoprotein]]s. This may be [[calcium|calcified]] to form structures like shells, bones, and sp...
65: ...ula undergoes more complicated rearrangement. It first invaginates to form a gastrula with a digestiv...
72: ...are known as the [[Vendian biota]]. These are difficult to relate to later fossils, however. Some ma...
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