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  1. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    6: ...ale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
    7: ...d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
    10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
    14: ...ari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
    15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
  2. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    22: Already blinded because she suffered from [[diabetes]], she lost her [[leg]]s in [[1993]]...
    24: ...1980' s hit "Ella , elle l' a" by French singer [[France Gall]].
    33: *1955 ''[[Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues]]''
    54: *1960 ''[[Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''
    103: ...79 ''[[A Perfect Match]]'' This Live Performance from the 1979 [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] is also ava...
  3. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
    20: ...k entrance and forced to wait in a dark room away from the audience before appearing on stage. Once be...
    24: ...duced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and contemporaneous sources that she...
    30: ...d [[Lester Young]]; both were less than two years from death.
    34: ...s well [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/].
  4. Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
    1: ...[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[African American]] [[gospel music|gospel]] [[singer]]...
    3: ...er mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down he...
    5: .... Kennedy]]. She also sang at the funeral of her friend, [[Martin Luther King, Jr]]. The late [[1960...
  5. Basalt (2961 bytes)
    2: ...n be highly vesiculated, imparting a lightweight "frothy" texture to the rock. The term basalt is ofte...
    4: ...es of [[zeolite]]s, [[quartz]] or [[calcite]] are frequently found.
  6. Africa (35389 bytes)
    1: ...graphic.jpg|thumb|A satellite composite image of Africa]]
    3: '''Africa''' is the [[world]]'s second-largest [[contine...
    6: ...onAfrica.png|thumb|World map showing location of Africa]]
    8: ...ontinent, as the [[Africa (province)|province of Africa]] with its capital [[Carthage]], corresponding...
    10: The origin of ''Afer'' may either come from:
  7. Kansas (21369 bytes)
    37: '''Kansas''', derived from the [[Sioux|Siouan]] word Kansa meaning "People...
    44: ...lace. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kansas during the territor...
    52: ...t]], and [[Carrie Nation]]. Famous sport athletes from Kansas include [[Barry Sanders]], [[Gale Sayers...
    75: ...termine if evolution should once again be removed from state science standards.
    78: ...ors of Kansas]]; [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Kansas]]
  8. Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
    9: ...is (a native of Samos) and Mnesarchus (a merchant from Tyre). As a young man he left his native city f...
    13: ...e, reading and philosophical study. We may infer from this that participants required some degree of ...
    16: ... as portrayed on [[Roman empire|Roman]] [[coin]]s from [[Samos]]]]
    17: ...of [[reincarnation]]. His other teachings appear framed in pithy sayings, or ''sumbola'', often in qu...
    19: ...urder and pain cannot reap joy and love" (excerpt from the book ''The extended circle'', by Jon Wynne-...
  9. Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
    1: ...ng with the return of young [[soldier]]s from the fronts of the [[Great War]] and emergence of a new a...
    3: ... this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Y...
    5: ...ge parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality, in [[arch...
    8: ...es|economy of the USA]], took sometime to convert from [[War economy|a wartime economy]] to a peacetim...
    19: ...f-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audience in any and every way. ...
  10. Astronomy (13970 bytes)
    31: ... evolution]]: the study of the evolution of stars from their formation to their end as a stellar remna...
    49: In astronomy, [[information]] is mainly received from the detection and analysis of [[electromagnetic...
    56: ...to eliminate noise (electromagnetic interference) from the atmosphere.
    64: ...ight is heavily absorbed by [[water vapor]], so infrared observatories have to be located in high, dry...
    66: ...d (except for a few wavelength "windows") [[Far infrared astronomy]], so observations
  11. Solar system (21174 bytes)
    26: **[[Planetesimal]]s, from which the planets were originally formed, are s...
    30: **[[Meteoroid]]s are asteroids that range in size from roughly boulder sized to particles as small as ...
    34: ... belt and [[scattered disk object]]s in the outer fringes.
    36: ...Sedna]], with a highly elliptical orbit extending from about 76 to 928 AU, does not obviously fit in e...
    37: ... Some of the dust is likely [[interstellar dust]] from outside the Solar System.
  12. Sun (20830 bytes)
    10: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>Earth
    21: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>[[Milky Way]] core
    55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
    122: ...onally referred to as '''Sol''' to distinguish it from other "suns". Planet [[Earth]] [[orbit]]s the ...
    128: ...istance of about 25,000 to 28,000 [[light-year]]s from the [[galactic centre]], completing one revolut...
  13. Asteroid (24334 bytes)
    1: ...is picture of [[433 Eros]] shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its...
    4: The term "asteroid", meaning ''star-like'' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''asteroeides'', '...
    8: ...larger than 50 m in diameter, distinguishing them from [[meteoroid]]s, which are typically [[boulder]]...
    14: ...Earth's solar system. As of [[May 23]], [[2005]], from a total of 277,090 minor planets with calculate...
    24: ...s, whereas families are much "tighter" and result from the catastrophic break-up of a large parent ast...
  14. List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
    7: ... allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
    178: *[[List of largest optical refracting telescopes]]
    363: *[[Historical African place names]]
    371: *[[List of toponyms]] (with names derived from a place or region)
    398: *[[List of fruits]]
  15. Space exploration (14877 bytes)
    3: ==From fiction to fact==
    11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
    15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
    22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon...
    56: Space exploration has come under criticism from people. One of the most common charges is that ...
  16. Astronaut (7339 bytes)
    3: ... are said to hold [[astronaut wings]]. Astronauts from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationalit...
    7: ...74;&#1090; ''(kosmonavt)'', which in turn derives from the Greek words ''kosmos,'' meaning "universe" ...
    11: ...alled '''spationauts''' (a [[hybrid word]] formed from the Latin ''spatium'', "space", and Greek ''nau...
    13: ... The term was coined in May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih from [[Malaysia]], who used it first in [[newsgroup]...
    20: ...nd [[Franklin Chang-Diaz]]. The furthest distance from Earth an astronaut has traveled was 401,056 km ...
  17. History of science (41710 bytes)
    6: ...r [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scien...
    11: ...fic data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
    21: ...ccount of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found i...
    27: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
    52: ...oration by bringing together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world.
  18. Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
    1: ...st planet in the [[Solar System]]. Mercury ranges from &minus;0.4 to 5.5 in [[apparent magnitude]]; Me...
    8: (This Data comes from [http://www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-...
    10: ...[temperature]] of Mercury is 452 K, but it ranges from 90&ndash;700 K; by comparison, the temperature ...
    12: ...posited by [[comet]] impacts and/or gases arising from the planetary interior.
    182: The orbit of Mercury is eccentric, ranging from 46 million&ndash;70 million kilometres in radiu...
  19. Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
    1: ...groups in Chinese history|nomadic tribes]] coming from areas now in modern day [[Mongolia]] and [[Manc...
    3: ...formidable [[1 E6 m|6,350 km]] (3,946 [[mile]]s), from [[Shanhai Pass]] on the [[Bohai Gulf]] in the e...
    12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]] of t...
    46: ...uction. Near [[Beijing]] the wall is constructed from [[quarry|quarried]] [[limestone]] blocks. In ot...
    48: ...od materials are scarce, the wall was constructed from dirt rammed between rough wood tied together wi...
  20. Aviation history (39698 bytes)
    3: ...rded history aspects of this desire have surfaced from time to time. The most well known is the legen...
    15: ...d and it was constructed in the late 20th century from materials that would have been available to da ...
    17: ...est. Yet there are sufficient proofs and examples from nature that such flights can take place without...
    19: ...n [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois d'Arlandes]] went 5 miles (8 km) in a [[hot...
    21: ...[1852]]. Henri Giffard flew 15 miles (24 km) in [[France]], with a steam engine mounted on a dirigible...

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