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- Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...on, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with ...
5: ...carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that c...
8: ... carbon. This process, known as [[smelting]], was first applied to metals with lower [[melting]] point...
11: ...dy-centered cubic to a [[face-centered cubic]] configuration, called '''[[austenite]]''' or '''γ...
13: ...cally [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the strength of ferrite. Martensite has ... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
6: ...hetamine|speed]] freak" and occasional [[heroin]] user. She also used other [[psychoactive drug|intoxica...
14: ...career and featured her biggest hit single, the definitive cover version of [[Kris Kristofferson]]'s "...
20: ...ia]], and her ashes were scattered into the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The album ''Pearl'', released six weeks...
24: ...sh; her rasping, [[overtone]]-rich sound was significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influ...
26: ... grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interest until the late [[1... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
10: ...ge]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc when she first heard her call; [[Michael (archangel)|Saint Mi...
12: ...ks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a success...
14: ...esus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of t...
16: ...April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from [[May 4]]–[[May 7]],... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
10: ..., and four film roles, including ''[[BMX Bandits (film)|BMX Bandits]]'' and ''[[Bush Christmas]]''. D...
19: ...hut]]'' ([[1999]]), [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s final [[film]], when she co-starred with her husband as a ma...
23: ...s (2001 film)|The Others]]''. While in Australia filming ''Moulin Rouge!'', Kidman injured her knee, ...
24: ...e same year she took a hand at production for the film ''[[In the Cut]]''.
26: ...prestigious [[Golden Lion Award]] at the [[Venice Film Festival]]. - Map (10223 bytes)
3: A '''map''' is a simplified depiction of a [[space]], a navigational aid wh...
9: ... tradition, often merge geography with non-scientific [[cosmography]], showing the relationship of the...
11: ...o the mile." A character notes some practical difficulties with this map and states that "we now use ...
13: ...n importance. In terms of quantity, the most significant number of drawn map sheets is probably made u...
17: ... oriented with the north up, hence north is identified with the top of a sheet. - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
6: ...slightly at the end. However, there were only six finger-holes and two keys.
8: ... some regions "curtall", as it was shortened significantly). The English name of "bassoon" comes from...
10: ...omposer-performers—spurred on the further refinement of the bassoon. Increased sophistication bo...
16: ... the finger holes are drilled obliquely to aid in fingering, and wooden instruments are lined with a h...
20: ...even [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s famously difficult opening solo in [[The Rite of Spring]] only a... - Flora (plants) (3124 bytes)
1: ...1466flowe.jpg|thumb|right|Wildflower located in a field near Juneau Alaska.Image provided by [http://c...
3: ...ea or time period, with the aim of allowing identification. Some classic and modern floras are listed ...
7: ==Flora classifications ==
12: ...iously considered weeds have been shown to be beneficial or even necessary to various ecosystems.
18: ...ers may be either geographically or politically defined. They usually require some specialist botanic ... - Inca mythology (10365 bytes)
8: ...for three foundation legends rather than just the first.
10: ...ti]]. Manco Capac, himself, was worshiped'' as a fire and sun'' god. According to this Inti legend, M...
20: ...have their own Apu, and some of them receive sacrifices to bring out certain aspects of their being. ...
27: ...n half by her many lovers. Her body grew into the first coca plant, the leaves of which men were only ...
30: ...es onto the doll; this was believed to caused the user to receive what he desired. - Sickle (1231 bytes)
1: [[Image:SickleUser wb.png|thumb|right|300px|Using a sickle]]
3: ...d. The inside of the curve is sharp, so that the user can swing the blade against the base of the crop,...
15: * '''Sickle''' is a fictional unit of money in the [[Harry Potter]] seri... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ...ose sound is produced mechanically, and only amplified electronically - for example an [[electric guit...
10: In the broadest sense, the very first electrified musical instrument was the [[Denis d?or]] datin...
12: The first purely electronic musical instrument was the [...
14: ...pended on the interactions of the user with an RF field. This was followed in 1928 by the [[Ondes Mar...
16: ...hesizers in the modern sense, as they were not configurable to produce a range of complex sounds by ad... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
7: ...e [[moon goddess]] to complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of [[Helios]] as the...
41: ...Hera to let her go. Either way, Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo. A...
46: --[[User:63.28.38.18|63.28.38.18]] 16:29, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC...
78: ...as taken to [[Crimea]] to prepare others for sacrifice to Artemis.
104: ... [[Oeneus]] had forgotten her at the harvest sacrifices. - Sundial (16148 bytes)
9: ... sundials can be designed for any surface where a fixed object casts a predictable shadow.
54: [[Image:EquatorealSundialFig.png|left]]
63: ...t the path of the shadow of the ''nodus'' on specific days, thus the dial can be used as a calendar as...
95: ... telling the time by markings on the inside. The user had to know if it was morning or evening. Usuall...
122: ... an analemmatic plate. The plate has an engraved figure-eight shape. When the edge of the sun's imag... - DNA (29095 bytes)
1: ...:DNAhelixSpaceFilling.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule]]
12: ...) is also to be avoided. --[[User:Lexor|Lexor]]|[[User talk:Lexor|Talk]]
14: ... field you don't master ''only'' contained scientific data -- that would be frustrating, wouldn't it?
18: --[[User:Gutza|Gutza]] 11:47, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
35: ... by English geneticist [[Alec Jeffries]], and was first used in [[1986]] in the [[Enderby murders]] ca... - 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."). The letters of these five-letter code words were sent individually using ... - Finger (2398 bytes)
1: ...image:Hand.jpg|Human fingers; 15kb ]]<br><small>''Fingers of the human left hand''</small></div>
3: ...eat ape]]s. The grace of the fingers is not sacrificed to their [[dexterity]] due to the placement of...
5: ...phalanges, and the other fingers have three. The fingers' names in English are shown below, from the ...
8: # [[index finger]], pointer finger, or forefinger
9: # [[middle finger]] or long finger - Abacus (7218 bytes)
8: ...e are two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads each in the bottom for both decimal and h...
10: ...counting board used in elementary schools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do...
22: [[User:Mfc|mfc]] -->
24: ...nd seven shorter grooves, the former having up to five beads in each and the latter one.
26: ...he shorter grooves denote fives—five units, five tens, ''etc.'', essentially in a [[bi-quinary c... - Compass (8275 bytes)
3: ... maritime trade by making travel safer and more efficient.
5: ... [[sundial]]. A '''variation compass''' is a specific instrument of a delicate type of construction. I...
9: ...hina]]. The first known use of [[Earth's magnetic field]] in this way occurred in ancient China as a s...
22: ...ed in some places by the use of [[sounding]]s. Difficulties arose where the sea is too deep for soundi...
26: Around the same time traffic between the Mediterranean and northern Europe in... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...re grid of black and white squares; the aim is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words (...
16: ... only the answers to individual clues, but how to fit together partially built-up clumps of answers in...
20: ...'ʧ' of answer '''''ʧ'TRE''' could double as the final ''ɧ' of '''CONG''ɧ'''' when written '''ETRE'...
23: ...h. Often, a ''straight'' clue is not in itself sufficient to distinguish among several possible answer...
25: ...B''', or even '''DEL''', but until a ''check'' is filled in, giving at least one of the letters, the c... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
4: ...d personal computer to popularize the [[graphical user interface]] (GUI), a revolutionary event in compu...
7: ...eing the first to display the Mac OS logo, is the first version of the Mac OS under that name). In [[M...
12: * A [[graphical user interface]] (GUI) consisting of [[icon]]s, a [[de...
16: * Long file names, with [[whitespace]] and no [[file extension]].
26: * User programmability through [[HyperCard]], [[AppleScr...
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