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- Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...t woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboard [[Vostok 6]] in [[1963]].
5: ... corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina ...
7: ...w on [[Vostok 6]], and became the first woman and first civilian to fly into space. Her call sign in t... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
6: ... continent occurred in [[1820]] and the first verified landing in [[1821]]. A [[1513]] map by Admiral ...
8: ...[area]] of 13,200,000 km², Antarctica is the fifth largest continent, after [[Eurasia]], [[Africa...
32: ...to the [[South Pole]], the borders of which are defined by degrees of [[longitude]]. In terms of [[lat...
87: ...Africa]]n National Antarctic Expeditions), on the Fimbul Coastal Ice Shelf in [[Queen Maud Land]] {{fl...
90: * [[Vostok, Antarctica]] ({{coor dm|78|28|S|106|48|E|}}) ({{... - 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 ...
11: ...ace. The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
13: ... first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vostok 1]], carrying [[Yuri Gagarin]] on [[April 12]] [[... - 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: ...ov]], who was roughly 26 years old when he flew [[Vostok 2]], and the oldest is [[John Glenn]] who was 77 ... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
16: ...s a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham radio]] operator.
28: ... for [[Hawaii]]an statehood, which would become official on [[August 21]].
31: ...st]] for [[France]] singing "Un premier amour" (A first love).
32: ...cecraft [[Voskhod 2]] for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to [[Extra-vehicular activity|walk in s...
36: ...Oil embargo crisis]]: Most [[OPEC]] nations end a five-month [[oil]] [[embargo]] against the [[United ... - Ice age (15810 bytes)
2: ...emperature and dust from the [[Vostok, Antarctica|Vostok]] ice core over the last 400 000 years]]
4: ... the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in an ice age (because the [[G...
18: [[Image:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png|thumb|400px|right|Sedime...
20: ... growth of an ice sheet in Antarctica, but intensified during the [[Pleistocene]] (starting around 3 m...
24: ...t and erase the geological evidence, making it difficult to interpret. It took some time for the curre... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...ence and location have never been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the [[classical Gree...
12: ...e island of Atlantis. Atlantis might be a work of fiction, yet an extended [[parable]] intended to ill...
14: ...n the centre of the island at a distance of about fifty [[Ancient_weights_and_measures#Length_4|stadia...
17: ...tinent beyond the islands, in order to offer sacrifice to the gods of the ocean.
23: ...] and the wise Silenus mentions the Meropids, the first men with huge cities of gold and silver. Silen... - Climate change (15859 bytes)
3: ... of [[environmental policy]], it refers more specifically to changes being studied in the present, inc...
6: ...ariations in CO2, temperature and dust from the [[Vostok]] ice core over the last 400 000 years]]
10: ...ent among scientists (as revealed by the [[scientific literature]]) that:
22: ...l times [http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/fig3-2.htm]. To see a graph of the world's average t...
23: ...er geologic times, our present atmosphere is significantly lower in CO<sub>2</sub>. In the last 600 mi... - Global warming (53726 bytes)
3:
13: == Scientific opinion ==
14: {{seemain|scientific opinion on climate change}}
16: ...onsensus]] on global warming is summarized by the findings of the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
18: ...climate change, concluding that there is a scientific consensus on the reality of ''anthropogenic'' cl... - Lake (11397 bytes)
3: ...r supply, [[recreation]] ([[swimming]], [[wind surfing]],...), water supply, etc.
5: [[Finland]] is known as ''The Land of the Thousands La...
17: ...if the lake were drilled into, it may result in a fissure and spraying in the same manner as a shaken ...
22: ...ompared to the total volume of the lake. The significant input sources are precipitation onto the lake...
29: ===Artificial lakes=== - Ice Age (15809 bytes)
1: ...emperature and dust from the [[Vostok, Antarctica|Vostok]] ice core over the last 400 000 years]]
3: ... the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in an ice age (because the [[G...
17: [[Image:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png|thumb|400px|right|Sedime...
19: ... growth of an ice sheet in Antarctica, but intensified during the [[Pleistocene]] (starting around 3 m...
23: ...t and erase the geological evidence, making it difficult to interpret. It took some time for the curre... - Temperature record (5617 bytes)
20: ...[http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/069.htm#fig220] However, coverage of these proxies is sparse...
35: ...ratures have been made over Earth's history. The field of paleoclimatology includes ancient temperatu...
41: ...r; many others reach more than 100,000 years. The Vostok core covers four glacial/interglacial cycles. Two...
44: [[Image:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png|thumb|400px|Five million years of climate change]]
47: ...nd most often are attributed to changes in the configuration of continents and ocean sea ways.
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