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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
1: ...{Taxobox_begin | color = lightgreen | name = Grapefruit}}
2: ...sket of grapefruit]] | caption = A basket of grapefruit}}
16: ...n for its [[fruit]], which are also known as grapefruit.
18: ...ions in [[Florida]] and [[Texas]]. In Spanish the fruit is known as the ''toronja''.
20: ...o]] (''Citrus grandis'') with the sweet [[orange (fruit)|orange]] (''Citrus sinensis''), though it is ... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
5: ...ere used to make soups and stews. Pies were made from gathered raspberries, strawberries, and cherrie...
7: ...ame from the roots of the madder herb; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts.
9: The average life expectancy on the frontier was 25 years old. Many children died of di...
11: ...n the frontier. By adulthood, most people on the frontier had received less schooling than the averag...
13: ...and dancing was popular among both women and men. From time to time, acrobats, tightrope walkers, and ... - Bee (11175 bytes)
27: ...] that they use in order to obtain the [[nectar]] from [[flower]]s. Bees have antennae made up of thir...
29: ... on other species. Some of this pollen is carried from flower to flower, but the bulk of it is carried...
41: ...]]s begins in the spring when the queen bee rises from hibernation. At this time the queen bee is the ...
45: ...le]], and deposits all the [[Egg (biology)|egg]]s from which the other bees are produced. Except for h...
47: ...upa]]e in a frame of honeycomb are referred to as frames of [[brood (honeybee)|brood]] and are often s... - Botswana (22276 bytes)
1: ...Economic system|economy]], closely tied to South Africa's, is dominated by [[cattle]] raising and [[mi...
37: | From [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br />[[September 30]], [[...
56: ...h Africa]]), which came into the area from South Africa during the Zulu wars of the early 1800s. Prior...
58: ...[[Setswana]]-speaking people today live in South Africa.
60: ...4 regularized tribal rule and powers. A European-African advisory council was formed in 1951, and the ... - Bast goddess (3454 bytes)
12: ... golden jewellery to wear and were allowed to eat from the same plates as their owners. Consequently, ... - Australian Aboriginal art (4187 bytes)
7: Traditionally, paints were often made from water or [[saliva|spittle]] mixed with ochre an...
13: ...free of knots and other blemishes. It is best cut from the tree in the wet season when the sap is risi...
21: ... mythological [[imp]]ish creatures. Mimihs are so frail that they never venture out on [[wind]]y days ... - Plant (12870 bytes)
38: ...s. Plants are distinguished from [[green alga]]e, from which they evolved, by having specialized repro...
47: ...he last major group of plants to appear, emerging from within the gymnosperms during the [[Jurassic]] ...
52: The embryophytes developed from green algae; the two are collectively referred ...
54: ...e green plants, acquiring chloroplasts separately from ingested or symbiotic green and red algae.
56: ...s but contain eukaryotic [[cell nucleus|nuclei]]. Fruiting bodies, of which [[mushroom]]s are the most... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
1: ...ings related to human [[society]]. The term comes from the [[Latin]] ''civis'', meaning "citizen" or "...
5: ...their food from [[agriculture]], as distinguished from [[band society|band]] and [[tribe|tribal]] soci...
15: ...vilization is a complex society, as distinguished from simpler societies. Everyone lives in a society...
31: ...namely [[Mehrgarh]] and [[Harappa]]) and [[West Africa]], where ancient peoples grouped together to f...
39: ...ereal]] crops (see [[West Africa#Prehistory|West Africa: Prehistory]]). In [[Ancient Egypt]], [[mortar... - Garlic (12167 bytes)
1: ...ogy)|family]] [[Alliaceae]]. The word comes to us from Old English ''gārlēac'', meaning "spe...
3: ...on of "garlic breath" can be alleviated by eating fresh [[parsley]] and this is included in many garli...
5: [[Image:Czosnek2_1511.jpg|frame]]
8: ...garlic plant does not produce seeds, but is grown from [[bulb]]s. These bulbs, whose segments are usua...
10: ...s of which are 10 or 12 cloves, or smaller bulbs. From these new bulbs can be procured by planting out... - Cerebellum (7954 bytes)
6: ...ly vision). Movement commands themselves are sent from the primary [[motor cortex]] to motorneurons in...
8: ...tine nuclei. Another major and important input is from the inferior olive which relays error signals t...
12: ...he cerebellar cortex look similar in all animals, from fish to mice to humans. This has been taken as ...
23: ...bellar cortex), and only one climbing fiber (axon from inferior olivary neurons).
24: ...layer contains granule cells which receive inputs from outside the cerebellum (via mossy fibers) and s... - Cheerleading (7470 bytes)
19: *'''Hurdler''' The free leg is either forward (a front hurdler), or sideways (a side hurdler.) The be...
23: ... similar to the hurdler, except that there are no front herkies and the bent knee is out sideways.
27: ...es and raise arms in high V. Swing arms around in front and jump on 5-6, stand stationary and stand up...
30: * Quite a few moves are borrowed from dances ([[Breakdancing|Breakdancing/Hip Hop]]) ...
50: ...ew minutes on the floor a squad covers everything from stunting to tumbling to dancing. - Hot air balloon (8769 bytes)
1: ...ntgolfier brothers]]' invention in [[Annonay]], [[France]] in [[1783]]. The first manned flight was m...
9: ...icist named [[Pilⴲe de Rozier]] and the Marquis Francois d'Arlandes successfully petitioned for the ...
24: ...lled a [[Rozier]] balloon after its creator, Jean-Fran篩s Pilⴲe de Rozier.
35: ... balloon flight starts with unpacking the balloon from its carrying bag. A gasoline powered fan is us...
39: ...has landed, the envelope is deflated and detached from the basket. The envelope is then packed into it... - Electron microscope (5936 bytes)
11: High [[voltage]] electron beams from a [[cathode]] are focused by [[magnet]]ic lense...
14: ...y detecting secondary electrons which are emitted from the surface due to excitation by the primary el...
22: *''Cryofixation'' - freezing a specimen so rapidly, to liquid nitrogen t...
28: ...the surface from an angle and sputtering material from the surface. A subclass of this is Focussed Ion...
36: ...his gives the problem of distinguishing artifacts from material, particularly in [[biology|biological]... - Pompey (25785 bytes)
5: [[Image:pompeygr.JPG|frame|right|Pompey the Great]]
8: ..., making them the inevitable subject of prejudice from the Roman elite. His family had only achieved a...
10: ... of [[Aemilia Scaura]], his pregnant stepdaughter from her husband to marry his young ally. Pompey was...
12: ...[Gaius Julius Caesar]]. Pompey would meet Crassus from within the army. Crassus, like Pompey, had been...
14: ==Sicily and Africa== - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
5: ...at only got them more burnt, so they were scarred from the fire for the rest of their life.
11: ...erformed at [[Versailles]], before [[Louis XVI of France]], to gain his permission for a trial human f...
15: On [[November 21]], [[1783]], the first free flight by humans was made by [[Pilâtre de Rozi...
16: (A flight by Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781 with his "ornithopter", a...
22: ...ary 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. Balloons using heated air rather than lighte... - Apache (7848 bytes)
3: ...d [[Navajo]] people. The Apache peoples migrated from the Northern Plains into the Southwest relative...
8: ...thern Athabaskan peoples in North America fan out from west-central [[Canada]] where some Southern Ath...
10: ...veling on the plains east of the Pueblo region, [[Francisco Coronado]] wrote:
18: ...e term was applied to Southern Athabaskan peoples from the Chama on the east to the San Juan on the we...
26: The Chiricahua Apaches were removed from their [[Indian reservation|reservation]] in [[1... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
2: ...ir'') formed the southern part of [[Mesopotamia]] from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until t...
5: ...adian language|Akkadian]] which belongs to the [[Afro-Asiatic languages]].
12: ...fare over water rights, trade routes, and tribute from nomadic tribes.
18: ...g it his capital, and claimed an empire extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. He is t...
24: ...l]]s, [[millet]], [[wheat]], [[turnip]]s, [[Date (fruit)|date]]s, [[onion]]s, [[garlic]], [[lettuce]],... - Corinthian order (9508 bytes)
6: ... had been placed over the basket, to protect them from the weather. An [[Acanthus (genus)|acanthus]] p...
11: ... of the way, to where the [[entasis]] begins. The French like to call these ''chandelles'' and sometim...
18: ... At the Capitol the proportions of architrave to frieze are exactly 1:1. Above that, the profiles of ...
20: ...la]] enclosure. A single Corinthian column stands free, centered within the cella. Quite mysterious, a...
21: ...|right|thumb|300px|''[[Maison Carrée]],'' Nimes, France, [[14 BCE]] ]] - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
6: ... and low points in Death Valley National Park.png|frame|A slice through the highest and lowest points ...
8: [[Image:Wpdms shdrlfi020l death valley.jpg|frame|left|Death Valley and environs]]
36: ...ns front as a result. This type of canyon results from the relatively fast uplift on this mountain ran...
38: ...le rainfall). Annual average precipitation varies from 1.90 inches (48 mm) overall below sea level to ...
40: [[image:below_sea_map_for_Death_Valley.png|frame|Entire area in yellow is below sea level (USGS... - Sword (24928 bytes)
2: ...h German]] ''Schwert'', literally "wounding tool" from a [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-Eu...
8: [[Image:Sword of Gou Jian.jpg|frame|[[Sword of Gou Jian]] as seen on a Chinese hig...
10: ...opotamia]]. Swords from the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] from ca. [[1400 BC]] show characteristic spiral patt...
11: Sword production in [[China]] is attested from the Bronze Age [[Shang Dynasty]].
14: [[Iron]] swords became increasingly common from the [[13th century BC]]. The [[Hittites]], the...
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