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- Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
9: ... to Eternity]]''. Kelly made three films with [[Alfred Hitchcock]]: ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'', ''[[Rea...
15: ...e Aumont]]. She reportedly was surprised to learn from Rainier that she was expected to give up her fi...
17: ...tle actual danger that [[Monaco]] would revert to France since, in [[1882]], a childless prince of Mon...
19: Before Grace Kelly drew Rainier's attention, French film star [[Gis謥 Pascal]] had been his love...
28: ...n an independent nation, rather than reverting to France. Due to Prince Albert's enduring bachelorhood... - 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... - 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... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]],...
10: ...tters of science and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the prima...
12: ...eo's experiments, in particular the distinguished French [[History of science and technology|historian...
14: ...esearch into Galileo's unpublished working papers from as early as [[1604]] clearly showed the reality...
24: ... on the opposite side of the Sun and to face away from the Earth when it was on the Earth-side of the ... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: '''Venus''', the second [[planet]] from the [[Sun]], is named after the [[Roman mytholo...
3: ..., it always appears in roughly the same direction from Earth as the Sun (the greatest [[elongation]] i...
7: ...me astronomers use ''[[Cytherean]]'', which comes from [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives incl...
14: ...]'s, even though Venus is nearly twice as distant from the Sun and only receives 25% of the solar irra...
16: ...k into space. This prevents most of the sunlight from ever heating the surface. Venus's [[Bolometer|... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
138: '''Jupiter''' is the fifth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] and by far the [[Solar system by si...
142: ...ter was able to be seen, just below the [[Moon]], from parts of the [[Southern Hemisphere]].
145: ...uishes a large and massive planet such as Jupiter from a [[brown dwarf]], although the latter possesse...
175: ...phases of hydrogen; the conditions blend smoothly from gas to liquid as one descends.
178: [[Image:Jupiter from Voyager 1.jpg|thumb|left|Detail of Jupiter's at... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
137: '''Saturn''' is the sixth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]]. It is a [[gas giant]], the second-...
142: ...nterior, the droplets of helium releasing heat by friction as they fall down through the lighter hydro...
144: ...smaller storm was observed. Astronomers using [[infrared]] imaging have shown that Saturn has a warm p...
147: ...I'', based on [[radio astronomy|radio]] emissions from the planet, has a period of 10 h 39 min 22.4 s ...
149: ... [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-062804.html] The cause of the change is unknown. - Lightning (33113 bytes)
10: ...shared some similarity with lightning. [[Benjamin Franklin]] endeavored to test this theory by using a...
12: ... to a post with a [[silk]] thread. As time passed Franklin noticed the loose fibers on the string stre...
14: ... had conducted similar experiments in [[France]], Franklin had suggested the original high-object-with...
16: ...clothes singed, the engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the door itself torn of...
18: Franklin also invented the [[lightning rod]], likely... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
4: '''Ocean''' (from [[Oceanus|Okeanos]], a Greek god of sea and wat...
6: ... [[archipelago]]s into the following five bodies, from the largest to the smallest: the [[Pacific Ocea...
12: ... last few million years movement of the [[Africa|African Continent]] has closed the straight off entir...
51: ...s may have once had internal oceans that have now frozen, such as [[Triton (moon)|Triton]]. The planet...
55: ...lysis of data from the [[Huygens probe]] of the [[Cassini-Huygens]] space mission, which dropped onto Titan... - Sea (3330 bytes)
5: ...e [[Dead Sea]]. The [[Sea of Galilee]] is a small freshwater lake with a natural outlet, but the term ...
105: ...efully be better known after the arrival of the [[Cassini probe]]. - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - Woodpecker (14469 bytes)
47: * [[Bar-breasted Piculet]], ''Picumnus aurifrons''
48: * [[Lafresnaye's Piculet]], ''Picumnus lafresnayi''
74: * [[African Piculet]], ''Sasia africana''
89: ...[[Yellow-fronted Woodpecker]], ''Melanerpes flavifrons''
90: * [[White-fronted Woodpecker]], ''Melanerpes cactorum'' - Argon (6952 bytes)
63: ...art per million|ppm]] Ar-36. In [[2005]], the ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Huygens]]'' probe also discoverd the pres...
66: ... of Helsinki]]. By shining ultraviolet light onto frozen argon containing a small amount of hydrogen f...
71: ...ha emission]] by [[calcium]]. Argon-37 is created from the decay of calcium-40 as a result of subsurfa... - Plutonium (24623 bytes)
169: ...the [[Galileo probe|Galileo]] and [[Cassini probe|Cassini]] space probes; earlier versions of the same tech...
176: ...converting several nuclear power plants in the US from [[enriched uranium]] fuel to [[MOX fuel]] as a ...
178: ...re conducted without any kind of informed consent from the subjects of the experiment. The episode is ...
181: .../sup>Pu remain from the birth of the solar system from waste of supernovae, because its half-life (80 ...
188: ...cts). The Pu-239 can then be chemically separated from the rest of the material to give high-purity Pu... - Pigeons (23097 bytes)
72: ... is secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the [[crop]]. Both sexes produce ...
112: * [[African Olive Pigeon]], ''Columba arquatrix''
148: * [[African Lemon-dove]], ''Columba larvata''
160: * [[African Collared Dove]], ''Streptopelia roseogrisea''
168: * [[African Mourning Dove]], ''Streptopelia decipiens'' - Woodpeckers (14469 bytes)
47: * [[Bar-breasted Piculet]], ''Picumnus aurifrons''
48: * [[Lafresnaye's Piculet]], ''Picumnus lafresnayi''
74: * [[African Piculet]], ''Sasia africana''
89: ...[[Yellow-fronted Woodpecker]], ''Melanerpes flavifrons''
90: * [[White-fronted Woodpecker]], ''Melanerpes cactorum'' - Arthur Bremer (1850 bytes)
11: ... However, authorities were never able to question Cassini, as he was found dead of a [[heroin]] overdose, l...
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