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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...eat''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[Novemb...
5: ...onths later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by ...
11: ...tion the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status here...
13: ...the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the mode...
17: ...|Nikita Panin]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd sta... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...yst]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
12: ...l years in [[music radio]], Limbaugh took a break from radio and accepted a position as director of pr...
24: ...ded badly when on one show Limbaugh got into a confrontation with some [[ACT-UP]] hecklers and had to ...
26: ...e same topics as his radio show, and was taped in front of a live audience, which he facetiously claim...
34: ...tating that he had received incorrect information from one of his staff members. - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ...ary 19]], [[1966]] to [[March 24]], [[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassinat...
67: ...-aligned). India subsequently withdrew its forces from west Pakistan, but the independent [[Republic o...
69: ...had collapsed with depositors getting back only a fraction of their money. Moreover a large number of ...
80: ...be removed from her seat in Parliament and banned from running for an additional six years. Rather tha...
84: ... help of the parliament, thus protecting herself from legal prosecution once emergency rule was revok... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hildegard.jpg|right|framed|A medieval illumination showing Hildegard von...
6: .... Because she was a tenth child, and a sickly one from birth, at the age of eight Hildegard's parents ...
8: ...members of her order after falling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.
20: ...manuscript.jpg|thumb|"Universal Man" illumination from Hildegard's ''Liber divinorum operum''.]]
24: ...unded another convent, Eibingen, across the river from Bingen. Her remaining years were very productiv... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
5: ... encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, including sex. "We w...
7: ... teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, sho...
10: ... check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got a degree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mis...
12: ...atonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn wa... - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
1: [[Image:Nadia Comaneci.jpg|framed|Comaneci at the 1976 Montreal Olympics]]
9: ...lso won three gold medals (individual all-around, balance beam and uneven bars), a silver medal (team all-a...
11: ...howed up at the 1978 World Championships. A fall from uneven bars resulted in a 4th place finish, but...
13: ...ion for blood poisoning due to a cut in her wrist from her metal grip buckle. Against doctors' orders...
15: ...ter". Comaneci retained her Olympic title in the balance beam, tied for the gold medal in the floor exerci... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
9: ...r floor title, while winning silver medals in the balance beam and uneven bars event. Finally, she won the ... - Brain (22060 bytes)
3: ...unctions such as heartbeat, blood pressure, fluid balance and body temperature. Functions of the brain are ...
9: .... The brains of arthropods and cephalopods arise from twin parallel nerve cords that extend through t...
11: The brains of craniates develop from the anterior section of a single dorsal [[neura...
20: ...ers are [[congenital]]. [[Tay-Sachs disease]], [[Fragile X syndrome]], [[Down syndrome]], and [[Toure...
38: ...derstand the nervous system, including the brain, from a biological perspective. [[Psychology]] seeks... - Colon (anatomy) (1808 bytes)
3: ...um]]. Its primary purpose is to extract [[water]] from [[feces]]. In [[mammal]]s, it consists of the [...
20: ...waste, reclaiming water and maintaining the water balance and absorbing some vitamins, such as [[vitamin K]... - Ear (6659 bytes)
10: ...nning to the [[middle ear]]. This tube amplifies frequencies in the range 3 [[Kilohertz|kHz]] to...
13: ... formed cleft from the side of the face and hangs from the rest of the ear, but occasionally will be f...
17: ...three ear bones. The incus and stapes are derived from bones of the jaw, and allow finer detection of ...
21: ...and middle ear gives humans a peak sensitivity to frequencies between 1 kHz and 3 kHz. The ...
26: ... (inner ear)|vestibular apparatus]], the organ of balance located in the inner ear that consists of three [... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
19: ...d the [[circle of Willis]]. Blood is then drained from the brain through a [[brain sinuses|network of ...
21: ...he dense fluid protects the brain and spinal cord from shock; a brain that weighs 1,500 g in air weigh...
23: ...tes the soft tissues of the brain and spinal cord from the hard surrounding bones (skull and vertebrae...
25: ...dicine, [[childbirth]] was a dangerous event that frequently resulted in the death of the mother. The...
33: ...e [[neocortex]] with incoming sensory information from the [[brain stem]]. Powerful emotional pathways... - Eye (21834 bytes)
9: ...yonic development, while mollusk eyes grow inward from skin cells.
13: ...rm the lenses of their eyes. In this, they differ from most other arthropods, which have soft eyes. Th...
24: ...ours, the [[aqueous humour]]. Most of the light refraction occurs at the [[cornea]] which has a fixed ...
25: ...from a single point of a distant object and light from a single point of a near object being brought t...
27: ...rising from the shape of the cornea and lens, and from the length of the eyeball. These include [[myop... - Bone (11388 bytes)
27: Osteocytes originate from osteoblasts which have migrated into and become...
29: ...d is an important process in regulating [[calcium balance]]. As bone formation actively ''fixes'' circulati...
40: ... in long bones, such as limbs; the bone is formed from [[cartilage]].
46: ...of calcium and the repair of micro-damaged bones (from everyday stress). Repeated stress results in th...
54: Cut and polished bone from a variety of animals is sometimes used as mater... - Pituitary gland (3020 bytes)
3: ...hat it is in fact regulated by releasing hormones from the [[hypothalamus]]. It is physically attache...
7: ...nterior lobe by way of a special capillary system from the hypothalamus, down the median eminence, to ...
9: ...and posterior pituitary, nearly indistinguishable from the anterior lobe. The intermediate lobe produc...
20: * [[Water]] balance in the body - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
17: | [[Franklin Pierce]]
50: ...criticized for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American ...
53: ...uri]]. Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
55: ...nan then vowed to never marry. Buchanan was close friends with senator [[William Rufus King]], and for...
57: ...by the resignation of William Wilkins. He served from [[December 6]], [[1834]]; was reelected in [[18... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...arth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several...
4: ...s Ussher]] of [[Armagh]], [[Ireland]], calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and ...
6: ...ho thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...tury]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thous...
11: ... mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Com... - 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... - 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: - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
23: | [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[French language|French]], [[English language|English]], [[Armenian l...
66: ...word "Lebanon" (also "Loubnan" or "Lebnan") comes from the [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] word ''laban''...
73: ...e provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [[France]].
75: ...s constitution, drawn up in [[1926]], specified a balance of political power among the major religious grou...
77: ...try gained independence in [[1943]], and [[France|French]] troops withdrew in [[1946]].
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