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- Volcano (27295 bytes)
4: The name "volcano" has its origin from the name of [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]], a god of f...
18: ...'[[Volcanic cones]]''' or [[cinder cone]]s result from eruptions that throw out mostly small pieces of...
41: ...tive" volcano. The lifespan of a volcano can vary from months to several million years, making such a ...
43: ...to note that the span of recorded history differs from region to region; in the [[Mediterranean]], rec...
47: ...tone as extinct. In fact, because the caldera has frequent earthquakes, a very active geothermal syste... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...[[Hispanic]] ancestry, many of whom are descended from [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[colonist]]s. It al...
46: ...ld. Dispatched from [[New Spain]], conquistador [[Francisco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] led a full-scale exp...
50: ..."The Royal Road" as a 700 mile (1100 km) lifeline from the rest of [[New Spain]] to his remote colony....
52: ...olently in [[1676]], and the Pueblo uprising of [[1680]] drove the Spanish to abandon New Mexico entirel...
58: [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] of [[France]] sold the vast [[Louisiana Purchase]], which... - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
7: ...n. Many contemporary houses in the city are built from lumber, concrete blocks, and other materials bu...
43: ..., or "The Royal City of the Holy Faith of [[Saint Francis of Assisi]]".
45: ...1848 New Mexico was acquired by the United States from Mexico, and in 1912 New Mexico became that coun...
49: ... all over town. The styles run the whole spectrum from [[Baroque]] to [[Post-modern]].
60: ...rom [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 4.20% from two or more races. 47.82% of the population are... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...0 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC the Hittite poli...
5: ... language]]. The Hittites should be distinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhab...
7: ...rchs (Bible)|Patriarch]]s up to [[Ezra]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian capt...
14: ...I]] and his son [[Akhenaton]]. Two of the letters from a "kingdom of Kheta", apparently located in the...
15: ...the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of t... - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...] kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta d...
11: Southern India suffered little or no incursion from foreign lands, which facilitated the establishm...
14: ...ed south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century AD, fol...
20: ... the European powers. Initial rivalry between the French and the English companies finally ended with ...
23: ...modern state, followed. India gained independence from British rule on [[August 15]] [[1947]], later b... - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
2: '''Blackbeard''' ([[1680]]? – [[November 22]], [[1718]]) was the nic...
6: ...[[cannon]], which had ranged the west coast of [[Africa]], taking English, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] and [...
12: ...e all of the valuables, food, liquor, and weapons from the ship and if there was no resistance, let th...
14: ...orth Carolina]], [[Charles Eden]], received booty from Teach in return for unofficial protection and g...
18: ...ed him to maneuver freely while the English ships frequently grounded. Eventually, however, Blackbeard... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
7: ...mation of the [[Cathay Company]] to send [[Martin Frobisher]] back to the New World for more gold
11: ...oleonic)|Italian Republic]], with [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] as president, becomes the [[Kingdo...
14: *[[1886]] - [[Carrollton Massacre]]: 20 [[African American]]s are killed in [[Mississippi]].
21: ...y opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
22: *[[1948]] - [[Benelux]], [[France]], and the [[United Kingdom]] sign the [[Trea... - Sweden (27111 bytes)
3: ...ttles with its neighbouring countries [[Denmark]] from the 12th century – 1710, and [[Norway]] i...
19: ...[[Swedish language|Swedish]]: "Thou Ancient, Thou Free") |
67: ...]] originated in a so-called "[[back-formation]]" from the plural form [[Swedes]] ([[Old English]] ''S...
69: ...sia down to southern Europe. The [[Kievan Rus']], from which Russia takes its name, traces its heritag...
73: ...untry today known as Finland was a part of Sweden from [[1362]] until [[1809]]. - 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... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Dysprosium (8843 bytes)
62: | 1680 [[Kelvin|K]] (2565 [[Fahrenheit|?F]])
163: ...]] [[chalcogen|chalcogenide]]s are sources of [[infrared]] radiation for studying chemical reactions; ...
166: ... in the [[1950s]]. The name dysprosium is derived from [[Greece|Greek]] ''dysprositos'', "hard to get ...
169: Dysprosium is never encountered as the free element, but is found in many [[mineral]]s, inc... - History of the periodic table (7005 bytes)
3: ...t]]s such as [[gold]], [[silver]], and [[copper]] from antiquity, as these can all be discovered in na...
8: ...phosphorus]]. He kept his discovery secret, until 1680 when [[Robert Boyle]] rediscovered it and it beca...
16: From this law, D?einer went on to discover the [[hal...
21: [[Alexandre-ɭile B駵yer de Chancourtois]], a French geologist, was the first person to notice the...
37: ... weights were incorrect. He provided for variance from atomic weight order, left space for new element... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
8: ...] kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta d...
11: Southern India suffered little or no incursion from foreign lands, which facilitated the establishm...
14: ...ed south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century AD, fol...
20: ... the European powers. Initial rivalry between the French and the English companies finally ended with ...
23: ...modern state, followed. India gained independence from British rule on [[August 15]] [[1947]], later b... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
11: ...(1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702).
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
19: ...as [[binomial nomenclature]], and the name formed from the two parts is known as the [[scientific name...
23: ...p at a given layer is composed of a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the tw...
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