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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
7: ...th gardens that existed at [[Nineveh]] as tablets from there clearly showing gardens have been found. ...
15: ...n alliance between the nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and...
17: ...ng suspended from cables or ropes. The name comes from an inexact translation of the Greek word [[krem...
19: ...rraces raised one above another, and resting upon cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with ...
49: [[fr:Jardins suspendus de S魩ramis et murs de Babylon... - Epithelium (4397 bytes)
1: ...ide of blood vessels) or external (e.g. [[skin]]) free surfaces of the body.
15: ...e suggests, these cells have a shape similar to a cube, meaning its width is the same size as its height...
16: ...mnar epithelial cells and secrete [[mucus]]. The free surface of the columnar cell has tiny hairlike ... - Alaska (24727 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun |
14: Governor = [[Frank Murkowski]] |
40: ...ackground:#efefef; text-align:center;"|''The Last Frontier''
66: ...|2000]]. The name "Alaska" is most likely derived from the [[Aleut]] word for "great country" or "main...
71: ...Americas|the first Europeans to reach Alaska came from Russia]]. [[Vitus Bering]] sailed east and saw ... - 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 [[... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]] - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ...]], [[1571]] at the [[Imperial Free City|Imperial Free City]] of [[Weil der Stadt]] (now part of the [...
11: Though he excelled in his schooling, Kepler was frequently bullied, and was plagued by a belief that...
15: ...o be a superb mathematician. Upon his graduation from that school in [[1591]], he went on to pursue s...
19: ...ath, Kepler was appointed Imperial Mathematician (from November [[1601]] to [[1630]]) to the Habsburg ...
25: ...vered the third law of planetary motion: distance cubed over time squared. He initially rejected this id... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...a calculation tool, often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires. It was in use ce...
8: ...ng the horizontal axis to spin all the beads away from the horizontal beam at the center.
10: ...ddition]], [[subtraction]], [[square root]] and [[cube root]] operations at high speed.
35: ...bead from the upper deck and (later) another bead from lower deck in each column of the Chinese abacu...
43: ...for native Japanese were all made with all wooden frame. In this way the "thickness" of the soroban (f... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
1: [[Image:MacOKXTigerCover.jpg|Mac OS X Tiger front cover|thumb|260px|[[Mac OS X v10.4]], "Tiger"]...
4: ...ed after the [[McIntosh]], a variety of [[apple]] fruit favored by [[Jef Raskin]]. The original 128k M...
9: From its inception, the Macintosh has introduced or ...
20: * Separation of a program's code from its resources to allow localization, etc.
58: ...at not only utilized the 68000, but speeded it up from 5 MHz to 8 MHz; it also had a 384 by 256 bitmap... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
5: ...le]]s, and by kicking the legs to push water away from the body.
13: ...n side-to-side on most swimmers. This reduces the frontal cross-section, reducing drag further, and al...
15: ...he cube of the speed) of an equal amount of torso frontal area.
26: ...ed in [[1873]] by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from [[Native American]]s.
33: ...ice, almost all freestyle events are swum using [[front crawl]]. Events are held at distances of 50&nb... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
46: ...water from the Salt River. Their name is derived from the [[Pima]] (Akimel O'otham) phrase, ''Ho Ho K...
49: ... and others from Wickenburg had dug a short canal from the Salt River and founded a small farming colo...
53: ...'', memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins left by the Hohokam.
61: ...Hotel now stands. Miss Nellie Shaver, a newcomer from Wisconsin, was appointed as the first female sc...
65: ...nment. The bill was signed by Governor [[John C. Fremont]] on [[February 25]], [[1881]]. Phoenix wa... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...t by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil ...
16: ...ps in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...tion was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in another treatise,...
22: ...country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. ... - Puzzle (1711 bytes)
2: ...s written down, acted out, etc. Many puzzles stem from serious mathematical or logistical problems, wh...
5: [[Image:Rubiks cube scrambled.jpg|thumb|[[Rubik's Cube]]]]
15: * [[Rubik's Cube]]
18: * [[Soma cube]] - Sliding puzzle (2847 bytes)
3: ...he board. This property separates sliding puzzles from [[rearrangement puzzle]]s. Hence finding moves,...
8: ...erized, and is available to play for free on-line from many web pages. It is a descendant of the [[jig...
30: ...34 Hardest possible simple sliding block puzzle?] from ''[[The Economist]]''
32: ...nt 4872682] - sliding puzzle wrapped on [[Rubik's Cube]] - Pantheon, Rome (8255 bytes)
3: ...e the [[7th century]] AD. It is the only building from the Greco-Roman world which is completely intac...
15: The building's consecration as a church saved it from the abandonment and spoliation which befell the...
17: ...annon, and that the bronze for the baldachin came from [[Venice]].[http://gnv.fdt.net/~aabbeama/Christ...
21: ...www.beniculturali.it/default.asp?versione=Inglese&from=1] is in charge of the security and maintenance...
26: ...s in diameter). The dome is the largest surviving from antiquity, and was the largest dome in western ... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Time (15299 bytes)
9: ...ndard [[unit]] for time is the [[SI]] [[second]], from which larger units are defined like the [[minut...
23: ... is part of a fundamental [[abstract]] conceptual framework (together with [[space]] and [[number]]) w...
27: ... think (and talk) about the world. Another way to frame this is to ask, "Can time itself be measured, ...
31: ...tention between [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]. Newton believed time was, l...
33: ...s, but rather both are elements of a systematic [[framework]] we use to structure our experience. Spa... - Architecture of Ancient Greece (9161 bytes)
3: ...[[Roman architecture]] heavily copied Greek), and from late written sources such as [[Vitruvius]] ([[1...
7: ...rble came only from Mt Pentelus in [[Attica]] and from a few islands such as [[Paros]], and its transp...
14: ...the format of the [[Parthenon]]. Alternatively, a cube-shaped building would have a columned [[portico]]...
16: ...rovided a space for sculptures, known as [[frieze|friezes]], which consisted of alternating [[metope (...
31: ...oric style was used in mainland Greece and spread from there to the Greek colonies in [[Italy]]. The I... - Gold (24329 bytes)
156: ... These colors are the result of gold's [[plasmon frequency]] lying in the visible range, which causes...
162: ...] and dissolves allowing the gold to be displaced from solution and be recovered as a solid precipitat...
179: *Since it is a good reflector of both infrared and visible light, it is used for the protect...
186: ... famed for its gold. Exploitation is said to date from the time of [[Midas]], and this gold was import...
192: ...ld that has ever been refined would form a single cube [[1 E2 m|20 m]] (66 ft) a side. - Australian Cattle Dog (7087 bytes)
66: ...il|left|A young ACD at the top of a dog agility A-frame.]] </div>
83: ...p://www.sitstay.com/store/toys/toysd.shtml Buster Cube].
85: ...brief training sessions are more effective than infrequent long training sessions. - Ancient Indian science and technology (21581 bytes)
9: ...lgebra]] and [[algorithm]], [[square root]] and [[cube root]].
24: ...lgebra]] and [[algorithm]], [[square root]] and [[cube root]]. Zero is a numeral as well as a concept. I...
28: ...ear conception of the abstract number as distinct from the numerical quantity of objects or spatial ex...
32: ...ician in Arabic is called ''Hindsa'' which means "from India."
38: ...ology]], like casting of a [[horoscope]]. Apart from this linkage of astronomy with [[astrology]] in...
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