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1. Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
   1: ...jpg|frame|200px|Benazir Bhutto; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minister]]
   6: ...dcliffe College]], where she was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. She ...
   21: ...s strengthened and revitalized. Pakistan made new friends and maintained better relations with many co...
   32: ...ing more than two terms. This disqualifies Bhutto from ever holding the office again, and some said it...
   34: ...who is suffering from [[Alzheimer's disease]] and from where she travels around the world giving lectu...
2. Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
   27: ...first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the se...
   31: ...isor]] during his first term. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female ...
   37: ...air]] was killed in the bombing of the primarily African-American [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing...
   41: ...Experience in America." [http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Ri...
   43: ...s [[Russian language|Russian]], [[French language|French]], and [[Spanish language|Spanish]].
3. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
   3: ...aduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor's degree in ...
   5: ...for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work on the deve...
   9: ... extended her FLOW-MATIC language with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it wa...
   12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at...
   16: ... a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]].
4. Actinium (7046 bytes)
   110: | ²²¹[[francium|Fr]]
   113: | β^- || 1.117 || ²²⁶[[thorium|...
   119: | α || 5.536 || ²²²[[francium|Fr]]
   122: | β^- || 0.045 || ²²⁷[[thorium|...
   125: | α || 5.042 || ²²³[[francium|Fr]]
5. Artery (6875 bytes)
   1: ...are muscular tubes that carry [[blood]] flow away from the [[heart]] to the [[biological tissue|tissue...
   3: ...nd elastic tissue. The outermost layer (furthest from the flow of blood) is known as the ''[[tunica a...
   11: ... etc. (See epinephrine, norepinephrine, alpha and beta receptors.)
   15: ... binding sites have bound oxygen. Blood returning from the lungs, via the 4 pulmonary veins, to the le...
   17: ...ting hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen). Returning from the body to the right atrium, [[hemoglobin]] mo...
6. Heart (10132 bytes)
   3: ...he term ''cardiac'' means "related to the heart", from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''kardia'' (&kappa...
   9: ...maintain coordinated unidirectional flow of blood from the atria to the ventricles.
   13: ...art_labelled_large.png|thumb|250px|left|Anterior (frontal) view of the opened heart. White arrows indi...
   15: ... through [[pulmonary vein]]s to the left atrium. From the left atrium this newly oxygenated blood pas...
   23: ...and right ''coronary arteries'', which branch off from the aorta.
7. Pancreas (4781 bytes)
   26: ... trypsinogen by cleaving it to form trypsin. The free trypsin then cleaves the rest of the trypsinoge...
   33: .... The largest number of cells are, by far, the [[beta cell]]s which produce [[insulin]]. The [[alpha c...
   36: ...sh. An example of one such food that can be made from the pancreas of a calf, lamb or pig is [[Sweetb...
8. Greek language (35285 bytes)
   15: ...ied in schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onwards.
   17: ... known world, it was spoken from [[Egypt]] to the fringes of [[India]]. After the [[Roman]] conquest o...
   21: *'''[[Modern Greek]]''': Steaming directly from [[Koine Greek]], '''Modern Greek''' can be trac...
   32: ... this is found in the [[Linear B]] tablets dating from [[1500 BC]]. The [[alphabet]] normally used, wa...
   44: ...Austria]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Canada]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Germany]]...
9. John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
   22: ...niversity]] in [[1787]], and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then was admitted to the...
   26: ...list]] to the [[United States Senate]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1803]], until [[June 8]], [[1808...
   28: ...814]], and Minister to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] from [[1815]] to [[1817]]. During this time, Adams a...
   30: ...cquisition of [[Florida]] and in keeping the U.S. from becoming dependent on [[England]]. He is someti...
   37: ...val [[Andrew Jackson]]. Adams served as President from [[March 4]], [[1825]] to [[March 3]], [[1829]]....
10. 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...
11. 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:
12. Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
    1: ...aintained independence during the [[Scramble for Africa]], and continued to do so until [[1936]], when...
    40: ...gdom|British]]) [http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/ethiopia/pankhurst/history_of_northern_ethiopi...
    59: ...at powers of his time. It was at this time that [[Frumentius]] introduced [[Christianity]] into the co...
    61: ...r]]), basing their claims on their direct descent from [[Solomon]] and the queen of [[Sheba]].
    67: ... the southern entrance of the Red Sea, was bought from the local sultan in March 1870 by an Italian co...
13. Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
    6: ...ollege in [[1792]], where he was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. On [[January 6]], [[1817]] he married He...
    14: ...ians believe that this invention allowed for the African [[slavery]] system in the Southern United Sta...
    24: This system differed from the traditional [[artisan]]al style of manufact...
14. Papyrus (5819 bytes)
    2: '''Papyrus''' is an early form of [[paper]] made from the [[pith]] of the papyrus plant, ''[[Cyperus ...
    5: ...mbda;ος ''bublos'' (said to derive from the name of the [[Phoenicia|Phoencian]] city of...
    10: A sheet of papyrus is made from the stem of the plant. The outer rind is first ...
    17: ... Gr棯-Roman world it became common to cut sheets from papyrus rolls in order to form codices.
    21: ...had been reintroduced into Egypt in [[1872]] from France. Both Sicily and Egypt continue to have centr...
15. Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
    2: '''Thebes''' [Θηβαι ''Thēbai''] is the [[Greek lan...
    4: ...]], Thebes was known in the [[Egyptian language]] from the end of the [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingd...
    6: ... ''Thebes'' is often mistakenly thought to derive from the Greek as there is a city in Greece with thi...
    27: ... of 7 vols. Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut fran硩s d’arch鯬ogie orientale du Caire. (Re...
    31: ...e Anchor Bible Dictionary'', edited by David Noel Freedman. Vol. 6 of 6 vols. New York: Doubleday. 442...
16. Writing system (16928 bytes)
    4: Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems i...
    43: ...ent languages. However, they are different enough from Chinese that a Chinese text is not easily under...
    49: ...gographic systems, although they have since faded from use.
    67: ...from [[alpha (letter)|alpha]] and [[beta (letter)|beta]], the first two symbols of the [[Greek alphabet]...
    71: ...rrespond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a singl...
17. Cytoskeleton (4391 bytes)
    26: ...laments which, in turn, are polymers of alpha and beta [[tubulin]]. They have a very dynamic behaviour, ...
    36: ...ionships are so distant that they are not obvious from protein sequence comparisons alone, the similar...
18. List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
    134: [[BETA programming language]] --
    201: [[Context-free grammar]] --
    272: [[Fragmentation]] --
    273: [[Free On-line Dictionary of Computing]] --
    274: [[Free Software Foundation]] --
19. Nutrition (42689 bytes)
    4: Between the extremes of optimal health and death from [[starvation]] or [[malnutrition]], there is an...
    10: ...hough the digestive process helps to release them from the matrix of the foods where they occur. Any u...
    16: ...re hormonally and metabolically favourable than infrequent, haphazard food intake.
    20: ... Early diets were primarily [[vegetarian]] with infrequent game meats and fish where available.
    27: ...ard reluctantly agreed to a trial. Daniel and his friends received their diet for 10 days and were the...
20. Tobacco smoking (36030 bytes)
    10: ...ter or match. One of the most common favors asked from a stranger is for a light; it is also done as a...
    15: ...ury]], tobacco smoking was brought to Europe, and from there spread to the rest of the world.
    17: ...rtrayed in advertising as part of a glamorous carefree lifestyle. This image continued to be prevalent...
    37: ... he was usually seen to have a cigar clamped, was frequently remarked upon by the press and public.
    39: ...ins. However, the practice of ingesting the smoke from a smoldering leaf generates an enormous number ...

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