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- China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and v...
7: ... formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and ...
16: ...eir nation as culturally and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nati...
25: ... political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dyna... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
12: ...and dismissed by the early church fathers. In the fragmentary text, the disciples ask questions of the...
22: ...[Harvard Divinity School]], has observed, "The confrontation of Mary with Peter, a scenario also found...
31: ...:10); although the Roman Catholic Church withdrew from this linkage at the [[Second Vatican Council]] ...
33: ...ose critical scholars who are drawing conclusions from the canonic texts alone believe that the woman ...
36: ...rance]]. Though her bones were scattered at the [[French Revolution]], her head is said to remain in h... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...iginally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: The word ''glass'' comes from [[Latin]] ''glacies'' (ice) and corresponds to ...
18: ...nto other shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]]
20: ...ties cause light to be scattered, breaking up any coherent image transmission). Ordinary glass does not allo...
22: ...plify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself. - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...ocidal]] [[Second Congo War]] (known also as the African World War), the deadliest conflict since [[Wo...
16: official_languages = [[French language|French]] |
41: established_dates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[June 30]], [[1960]] |
42: currency = [[Congolese franc]] |
50: ...on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest International Comparison Programme b... - Ecosystem (2598 bytes)
3: ...Tansley, 1939). Modern usage of the term derives from the work of [[Raymond Lindeman]] in his classic...
5: ...consider this vision or a self-standing unit with coherent and stable flows only to be a bit restrictive. - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ...facilitated demographic shifts to the "frontiers" from the more industrialized states in the Northeast...
8: ...economic base as municipalities lost the revenues from the enterprises that had departed. In the natio...
14: ...ss African Americans have grown more marginalized from the mainstream of U.S. society than their count...
18: ...tered confidence in the presidency. International frustrations, including the fall of [[South Vietnam]...
22: ...d by [[Moscow]], were spreading rapidly across [[Africa]], [[Southeast Asia]], and [[Latin America]]. ... - Evolution (27661 bytes)
1: [[Image:Charles Darwin.jpg|right|frame|[[Charles Darwin]], father of the theory of ev...
3: ...e in the frequency of [[allele]]s in a population from one generation to the next.
6: ...dern synthesis, "evolution" means a change in the frequency of an [[allele]] within a [[gene pool]]. T...
14: # The [[common descent]] of all [[organism]]s from a single ancestor.
18: ...] is a model of the world (or some portion of it) from which [[falsifiability|falsifiable]] [[hypothes... - Religion (72319 bytes)
10: The word religion is thought to derive from one of two combinations of Latin roots. The fi...
25: ...sion, see [[approaches to distinguishing religion from non-religion]].
38: *An ethical framework, including a definition of activities whic...
53: ... Commandments]] of the [[Old Testament]], flowing from the beliefs rather than being defined by the be...
54: ...xt|texts they hold as sacred]] uniquely different from other writings, and which records or is the bas... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...rk for the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution]]s, the Latin American independenc...
14: ...ne. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ... mechanics of physical observation, resulted in a coherent system of verifiable predictions and set the tone...
18: ...ies. If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw th...
20: ...figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]] with the axiomatic approach of Desca... - Form of government (3639 bytes)
11: ...e original socio-economic [[ideology|ideologies]] from which they developed. This may mean that adher...
13: ...related political practices rather than a single, coherent political movement.
25: ...ls.com/mwhite28/20c-govt.htm Types of Governments from Historical Atlas of the 20th Century]
26: ...ite28/othergov.htm Other classifications examples from Historical Atlas of the 20th Century] - Magnesium (9193 bytes)
7: ...of this metal is to aid the removal of [[sulfur]] from iron and steel.
15: ...e production of pure [[uranium]] and other metals from their [[salt]]s.
17: * Dead-burned magnesite is used for refractory purposes such as brick and liners in furnac...
21: ...ing of [[tablet|tablets]], to prevent the tablets from sticking to the equipment during the tablet com...
26: The name originates from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word for a distric... - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
48: ...the [[world economy]]. Structural components made from aluminium are vital to the [[aerospace]] indust...
58: ...so coated with a thin layer of aluminium, but are front coated to avoid internal reflections even thou...
74: ...re are used in [[laser]]s for the production of [[coherent light]].
82: ...lue if people started producing this bright metal from clay. Therefore, instead of giving the goldsmit...
86: ...in bauxite ore and successfully extracted it. The Frenchman [[Henri Saint-Claire Deville]] improved W?... - Silicon (13233 bytes)
47: ...-efficient of [[resistance]], since the number of free charge carriers increases with temperature.
50: ...] and [[animal]] life. [[Diatom]]s extract silica from water to build their protective cell walls. Oth...
51: ...[Pottery]]/[[Vitreous enamel|Enamel]] - It is a refractory material used in high-temperature material ...
54: *[[Glass]] - Silica from sand is a principal component of glass. Glass c...
57: ...]] - Silicon can be used in [[laser]]s to produce coherent light with a wavelength of 456 nm. - Terbium (7841 bytes)
150: ...te]] is used as a [[laser]] material that emits [[coherent light]] at 546 nm.
157: Terbium is never found in nature as the free element, but it is contained in many [[mineral]... - Xenon (12457 bytes)
185: ...ght and they have intense emissions in the near infrared, which are used in some night vision systems....
192: ...the engine, inert nature makes it environmentally friendly and less corrosive to ion engine then other...
195: ...is Travers]] in [[1898]] in the residue left over from evaporating components of liquid air.
198: ...his noble gas is naturally found in gases emitted from some [[mineral spring]]s. Xe-133 and Xe-135 are...
208: ...r reactors due to the release of this fission gas from cracked fuel rods or fissioning of uranium in c... - Roman law (15349 bytes)
2: ...sand years from the law of the [[twelve tables]] (from [[449 BC]]) to the [[Corpus Iuris Civilis | cod...
8: ...n sense. It did not aim to provide a complete and coherent system of all applicable rules or to give legal s...
10: Another important statute from the Republican era is the [[lex Aquilia]] of [[...
12: ...in later times, and [[Servius Sulpicius Rufus]] a friend of [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]]. This, Rome had ...
19: ...praetor�s edict, which was used by all praetors from that time onwards. This edict contained detaile... - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
2: ...side of [[Europe]]. Both [[knight]]s and peasants from many different nations of [[western Europe]], w...
5: ...ral, and of the First Crusade in particular, stem from events earlier in the [[Middle Ages]]. The brea...
7: ...Sardinia]], freeing the coasts of Italy and Spain from [[Muslim]] raids.
12: ... were politically and, to some extent, culturally fragmented at the time of the First Crusade, which c...
16: ...rusalem to the Seljuks in 1076, but recaptured it from the Ortoqids in 1098 while the crusaders were o... - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
4: ... advocated [[empiricism]], perceiving nature as a coherent system of laws that could be explained in the lig...
14: ... of [[Rome]] in the [[5th century]], and isolated from the rest of the world by the spread of [[Islam]...
16: ...rpretation. Given the limited scientific advances from about [[476]] to about [[1000]], this period ca...
18: ...ic]], [[geometry]], [[astronomy]] and [[music]]). From the year [[787]] on, [[decree]]s began to circu...
20: ...e rebirth of the interest in speculative inquiry; from this interest would follow the rise of the [[Sc...
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