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- Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: Much of Holiday's childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by herself in h...
9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
20: ...k entrance and forced to wait in a dark room away from the audience before appearing on stage. Once be...
24: ...duced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and contemporaneous sources that she...
30: ...d [[Lester Young]]; both were less than two years from death. - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...ate, '''Eve''' (or '''Hawa''') was either created from his [[rib]] (Genesis 2.21-22), or created at th...
15: ... Garden of Eden to cultivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: "Of the tree of t...
17: ...r tradition made into Satan) to eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, for "the se...
20: ...[[Jesus]] was born, the flaming sword was removed from the Garden of Eden, making it possible for [[hu...
22: ...Garden of Eden|Paradise]] is matter of literalist conjecture; traditional Jewish sources assert that it was le... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
21: ...Not a single [[eclipse]] record has been utilized from that period so far. Pharaoh [[Sahure]] or [[Sep...
23: ...ical correspondent of the ''[[The Times|Times]]'' from 1967. He wrote in his ''Ancient Maya civilizati...
27: ... "There is a surprising amount of uncertainty and conjecture in the data and interpretations which form the ba...
29: ...or later, page 307). Edgerton points out that the fragment of the el-Lahun temple register that forete...
31: ...8th year and death of [[Shoshenq V]]; if reckoned from 822 BCE, then the end of Shoshenq's reign falls... - Continental drift (4518 bytes)
3: ...frican geologist [[Alexander Du Toit]] as well as from [[Arthur Holmes]]. The idea of continental drif...
9: South America and Africa are moving apart at [[Centimetre|3 cm]] per ye...
14: ...r [[earthworm]] found in South America and South Africa.
16: ... It was this temporary feature which inspired [[Alfred Wegener]] to study what he defined as continent...
22: ... of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] as well as the [[East Africa Rift]]. Confirmation of this hypothesis would... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
61: ...fornians (or outsiders in general). State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political ...
68: ... that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the ...
69: ...m the word ''oolighan'', referring to grease made from fish, which the [[Native American]]s of the reg...
70: ... is likely to have heard the terms because of his frequent encounters with [[Mohegan]]s in the late [[... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...Empire'') was the ruling [[dynasty]] of [[China]] from [[1368]] to [[1644]], though claims to the Ming...
5: [[Image:Hung-wu.jpg|framed|left|Hongwu Emperor]]
8: ...one of the only two dynastic founders who emerged from the [[peasant]] class, the other being [[Han Ga...
12: ...ded estate]]s were confiscated by the government, fragmented, and rented out; and private slavery was ...
16: ...on of Hongwu, who ruled as the Emperor [[Yongle]] from [[1403]] to [[1424]] and was responsible for mo... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
14: ...ore the [[12th century]], is currently subject to conjecture (see [[authentic performance]]).
17: ...e. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a syste...
19: ...as a stand-in for 4/4 time is actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common ...
21: ...emensis), [[Johannes de Muris|Jehan des Murs]], [[Franco of Cologne]], [[Johannes de Garlandia]] (Joha...
27: ...hant]] was used and shows the influence of North African music. The Mozarabic liturgy even survived th... - 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... - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
1: ...bstraction]] and [[logic|logical]] [[reasoning]], from [[counting]], [[calculation]], [[measurement]],...
8: ...[Day|days]], [[Season|seasons]], [[Year|years]]. From counting, naturally followed [[arithmetic]] (e....
15: ...s from [[string theory]]. The mathematics arising from this immediately has relevance for the subject ...
23: ...ians wanted their theorems to follow mechanically from a few simple incontrovertible truths and for th...
28: ... That is, mathematical knowledge exists separate from the physical world. - Meditation (26064 bytes)
7: From the point of view of [[psychology]], meditation...
20: ...ces. It may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a busy daily routine, or even as a means of gai...
32: ...rgy and spirits that can protect the practitioner from misfortune.
41: ... loss. This in turn can gradually free one's mind from the attachment to the impermanent that is the r...
53: ...icult one of struggle and [[temptation]]. [[Saint Francis]] would also retreat to the wilderness in is... - Pope Pius I (856 bytes)
1: ...[Aquileia]], his father being one "Rufinus". Some conjecture that he was a martyr, and he is celebrated as suc...
3: ...led to speculation that both Hermas and Pius were freedmen. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
9: ...nci", which means "Leonardo, son of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his work...
18: ...with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love so much?"
20: ...ntimately involved with any woman, nor in a close friendship with one. He also surrounded himself with...
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 year old son of a [[Lombar...
23: ... [[Niccolchiavelli]], [[Cesare Borgia]] and [[Franchinus Gaffurius]]. - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
12: ...b|200px|Young Einstein before the Einsteins moved from Germany to Italy.]]
20: ...e school to let him go with a medical note from a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-...
22: ...r Maja was to later marry their son Paul, and his friend [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughte...
26: ...ed his scientific interests with a group of close friends, including Mileva. He and Mileva had a daugh...
37: ... that, in each case, Einstein boldly took an idea from theoretical physics to its logical consequences... - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
13: ...d to prove other ideas ([[theorem]]s) that follow from the assumptions according to exact rules of [[l...
17: ...aticians are not motivated by monetary greed; the fruits of labor are not usually patentable and in ma...
21: Mathematicians differ from [[philosopher]]s in that the primary questions ...
23: ... [[experimental mathematics]], where the truth of conjectures is probed by testing them on a number of example...
27: ... of [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. The [[Guillaume Fran篩s Antoine, Marquis de l'H?al|Marquis de l'Hop... - Molecular nanotechnology (10344 bytes)
3: ... when we cause a particular chemical reaction, we frequently get a mix of several different product sp...
31: ...and the reliable and relatively painless recovery from physical trauma. Medical nanorobots will also ...
43: ...ated impact on [[economics]] and on [[law]]. Some conjecture that nanotechnology would elicit a strong public-...
45: ...e [[digital cash]] or physical specie[http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/TangibleNanomoney.htm] (in special ...
47: ...r person (the love of a famous person, a painting from a famous artist). Demand will always exceed sup... - Indus Valley Civilization (23571 bytes)
15: ...reigner, barbarian, non-[[Aryan]]" may be derived from the name.
22: ...ops, including [[pea]]s, [[sesame seed]], [[date (fruit)|dates]], and [[cotton]], as well as a wide ra...
25: ...emonstrated that this culture did, in fact, arise from its pre-Harappan predecessor. The culture's sud...
28: ...f present-day New York. The houses were protected from noise, odors, and thieves.
30: ...mes or groups of homes obtained water from wells. From a room that appears to have been set aside for ... - Scythia (22520 bytes)
1: ... location and extent of Scythia varied over time, from the [[Altai]] region where [[Mongolia]], [[Chin...
3: ...s as ''Ishkuzai'', who are reported as pouring in from the north some time around 700 BC, settling in ...
7: ...Indo-European word for ''archer'' in turn derives from the [[Proto-Indo-European]] root *'''skeud''', ...
9: ...riors, drawn after figures on an [[electrum]] cup from the Kul'Oba kurgan burial near [[Kerch]] ([[Her...
21: ...f scholars conjecture that they migrated westward from [[Central Asia]] between [[800 BC]] and [[600 B... - Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
1: ...encoding disks include light holes.<br>'''4:''' Infrared LEDs shine through the disks.<br>
9: [[Image:firstmouseunderside.jpg|frame|The first computer mouse held by inventor [[Do...
11: ...with spring by ''Opocentsky'', 10/76, [http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3987685.html 3987685].]]
26: ... sensor will process 1512 frames per second: each frame is a rectangular array of 18*18 [[pixels]], an...
28: ...s in optical mouse technology comes in large part from competitive [[first-person shooter|FPS]] gamers... - Guinea pig (19730 bytes)
22: ... belief in the scientific community that evidence from [[mitochondrial DNA]] indicates that the [[Hyst...
24: ...e, the animals are not [[pig]]s, nor do they come from [[Guinea]]. Although there are more than 20 dif...
31: ...080;нка), the [[French language|French]] word is ''[[Wiktionary:Cochon d'Inde|Cochon...
35: ...urrency). However, evidence does not support this conjecture: for example, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] name refe...
60: ... [[Litter#Other_meanings_of_litter|Litters]] vary from 2 or 3 young to as many as 8 or more. In smalle... - Australian Shepherd (9749 bytes)
52: ...often excels at [[dog sports]] such as [[disc dog|frisbee]] and [[dog agility]].
63: ...ht appear to be hyperactivity in the house around fragile furnishings or involve the destruction of ya...
67: ...he [[Pyrenees Mountains]] between [[Spain]] and [[France]].
69: ...Collie, and Bouvier des Flandres, as well as dogs from [[Germany]] and Spain. For many centuries, [[s...
71: ...es of hot and cold, and fields varied in altitude from sea level into the higher, rougher [[Sierra Nev...
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