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- Silk (8683 bytes)
2: ...rism-like structure, which allows silk cloth to refract incoming light at different angles.
5: ...ese [[culture]] both geographically and socially. From there, silken garments began to reach regions t...
8: ...nt, the [[Middle East]], [[Europe]], and North [[Africa]]. This trade was so extensive that the major ...
11: ...trove to keep the knowledge of sericulture secret from other [[nation]]s, in order to maintain the Chi...
15: ...nd textures, they all differ in one major respect from the domesticated varieties. The cocoons, which ... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
15: ...dynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Eg...
16: * The dates of Dynasties 1 to 10 are from Baines and Malek, ''Atlas of Ancient Egypt'' (...
17: * The dates of Dynasties 11 to 20 are from Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in ...
18: * The dates of Dynasties 21 to 26 are from Kitchen, ''Third Intermediate Period in Egypt''...
20: (This information has been supplemented from ''The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt'', edited... - California (63989 bytes)
91: ...a|San Jose]], and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], and is responsible for many legal and t...
93: ... shown on early maps as an island. The name comes from ''Las sergas de Esplandián'' (Adventures of Sp...
101: ...tions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harbingers o...
105: ...ck plague|plague]], caused because the area lacks frosts to kill mosquitos and fleas.
107: ...] of the [[United States Navy]] sailed into [[San Francisco Bay]] and claimed California for the Unite... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...ally in [[Japan]]. ''Silk road'' is a translation from the [[German language|German]] ''Seidenstraߥ''...
3: ...hrough the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Africa]].
13: ... the way from the shores of the [[Pacific]] to [[Africa]], and deep into the heart of [[Europe]]. Thes...
18: [[Lapis lazuli]] was being traded from its only known source in the ancient world R...
28: ...ains, routes across them were, apparently, in use from very early times. - Venice (22017 bytes)
8: ...from Verona in 1178, opening a lifeline to silver from Germany; the last autocratic doge, Vitale Michi...
16: ...actice, a number of Doges were forced by pressure from their [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] peers to resig...
20: ...]]. This apparent lack of zeal contributed to its frequently coming into conflict with the [[Papacy]]....
24: ...nice during the [[First Coalition]]. The [[France|French]] conqueror brought to an end the most fascin...
26: ...e city on [[January 18]], [[1798]]. It was taken from Austria by the [[Treaty of Pressburg]] in [[180... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Modem (21628 bytes)
1: ...' (a [[portmanteau|portmanteau word]] constructed from '''mod'''ulator and '''dem'''odulator) is a [[d...
5: ...odems" transmit [[serial communications|repeating frames of data]] at very high data rates over [[micr...
7: ...lons. Heat changes an etalon's size and thus its frequency.
9: ...ed over any means of transmitting analog signals, from driven [[diode]]s to [[radio]].
14: ...first commercial modem, the [[Bell 103]]. Using [[frequency-shift keying]], where two tones are used t... - Praseodymium (9138 bytes)
77: | 1,333224E-06 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1070 K
160: The name Praseodymium comes from the [[Greece|Greek]] ''prasios'', meaning green...
162: ...a new earth, [[Samarium]], from didymium obtained from the mineral [[samarskite]]. In [[1885]], the [[...
165: ...nazite]] and [[bastnasite]], and can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an [[ion exchange]] p...
200: ...otopes of praseodymium range in [[atomic weight]] from 120.955 [[atomic mass unit|u]] (121-Pr) to 158.... - Samarium (10157 bytes)
100: | 1070 kJ/mol
179: ...marium oxide is used in optical glass to absorb infrared light.
180: ...act as sensitizers for phosphors excited in the infrared.
184: ...hemist [[Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]] from the mineral [[samarskite]] ((Y,Ce,U,Fe)<sub>3</...
190: Samarium is never found free in nature, but, like other rare earth elements,... - Roman law (15349 bytes)
2: ...sand years from the law of the [[twelve tables]] (from [[449 BC]]) to the [[Corpus Iuris Civilis | cod...
8: ...iri legibus scribundis'') in the year 449 BC. The fragments which have been preserved show that it was...
10: Another important statute from the Republican era is the [[lex Aquilia]] of [[...
12: ...in later times, and [[Servius Sulpicius Rufus]] a friend of [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]]. This, Rome had ...
19: ...praetor�s edict, which was used by all praetors from that time onwards. This edict contained detaile...
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