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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...rmally has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air from returning via the supply. Every bagpipe has a [...
18: ...t exceptions, including the Italian Zampogna, the French Musette du Cour, and several varieties of Sco...
23: ...Proscription]], and the entire myth seems to stem from the letterpress of Donald MacDonald's Martial M...
25: ...An explosion of popularity seems to have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by [[Robert...
35: ...er is [[Mixolydian_mode|mixolydian]] with a range from one degree lower than the tonic to one octave a... - 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... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], ...
12: ... [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
17: ...ted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
24: ... there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep her from rolling off.
31: ...ted them to break their traditional alliance with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...3]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ...n [[astrophysics]], [[general relativity]], and [[free-electron laser physics]]. She later became the ...
9: ... Shuttle accidents, the [[STS-51-L|''Challenger'' explosion]] and the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]]. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
8: ...]], which is named for [[Pierre Victor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years...
10: ...in]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led ...
12: ...er were awarded the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] with [[Fritz Straßann]]. On a visit to the USA in 1946 she...
17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essa...
25: .../13/3/1 A critical review of Patricia Rife's book from PhysicsWeb] - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
7: ...closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
13: ...arriage was not consummated either. She separated from Betanelly after a few months, and their divorce...
15: ... [[nineteenth century]] that took its inspiration from [[Hinduism]] and [[Buddhism]]. Madame Blavatsky...
21: ...ght's disease]] of the kidneys, and complications from [[influenza]], Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky...
59: ...d The Secret Doctrine'' by [[Max Heindel]] (1933; from Max Heindel writings & with introduction by [[M... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
17: ... is a cultivated garden [[flower]]. It is derived from the wildflower called the [[Heartsease]] or Joh...
20: ...r native violet (''V. lutea'') and eventually one from the Near East (''V. altaica''), to produce a ho...
22: With the explosion of greenhouse-building in the Victorian age (due ...
34: ... gardeners buy biennials as packs of young plants from the garden center and plant them directly into ...
52: 11 parts fresh ammonium carbonate - 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]].]]
22: ...plify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself.
26: Glass is sometimes created naturally from volcanic [[magma]]. This glass is called [[obs... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...tate-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especially by Jackson...
58: ...g office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one excepti...
63: ...itution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opinion that the 'lawles...
65: <blockquote>"I freely confess that I should experience great reluct...
69: ...t an example, in the bosom of this Union, of such frightful disorder, such needless convulsions of soc... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...y, it remains a one-party [[authoritarian]] state from its true communist days.
15: ...time in a century, and there was development of infrastructure, industry, healthcare, and education, w...
19: ...r. Mao remained head of the Party but was removed from day to day management of economic affairs which...
23: ...ut) and a much wider range of personal rights and freedoms for average Chinese as evidence of the succ...
27: ...ost Chinese dissidents living abroad, many people from Hong Kong or Taiwan, ethnic minorities like Tib... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
23: | [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[French language|French]], [[English language|English]], [[Armenian l...
66: ...word "Lebanon" (also "Loubnan" or "Lebnan") comes from the [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] word ''laban''...
73: ...e provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [[France]].
77: ...try gained independence in [[1943]], and [[France|French]] troops withdrew in [[1946]].
78: Lebanon's history from independence has been marked by alternating per... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...British possession after France's defeat in the [[French and Indian War]]. For many years, rightful co...
44: ...north to south, is 159 miles. Its greatest width, from east to west, is 89 miles (the narrowest width ...
52: ...particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and climate conditions unique ...
58: ...ing the era Native Americans migrated year-round. From [[1000 BCE]] to [[1600|1600 CE]] was the Woodla...
60: ..., [[1609]], [[French colonization of the Americas|French explorer]] [[Samuel de Champlain]] claimed th... - Animal (16429 bytes)
51: ... which ''animalia'' is the plural, and ultimately from ''anima'', meaning vital breath or soul.
57: ...During development it forms a relatively flexible framework upon which cells can move about and be reo...
63: ...produced without mating, or in some cases through fragmentation.
70: ...few small parasitic [[protist]]s. The name comes from the posterior location of the [[flagellum]] in ...
72: ...isputed whether this event, called the [[Cambrian explosion]], represents a rapid divergence between differen... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
31: ... evolution]]: the study of the evolution of stars from their formation to their end as a stellar remna...
49: In astronomy, [[information]] is mainly received from the detection and analysis of [[electromagnetic...
56: ...to eliminate noise (electromagnetic interference) from the atmosphere.
64: ...ight is heavily absorbed by [[water vapor]], so infrared observatories have to be located in high, dry...
66: ...d (except for a few wavelength "windows") [[Far infrared astronomy]], so observations - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
19: ...2003 due to a [[Brazilian rocket explosion|rocket explosion]] that killed several technicians. They had their...
22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...r [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scien...
11: ...fic data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ...ccount of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found i...
27: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
52: ...oration by bringing together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world. - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
9: ...use geologic units occurring at the same time but from different parts of the world can often look dif...
19: ...tribes (and defined using stratigraphic sequences from Wales). The "Devonian" was named for the Briti...
28: {{mergefrom|List of time periods}}
126: ...phibious [[eurypterid]]s; [[rhizodont]]s dominant fresh-water predators. In the seas primitive [[Chon...
173: ...| Major diversification of life in the [[Cambrian Explosion]]; more than half of modern animal [[Phylum (biol... - Animals (10378 bytes)
2: ...acteristics that define them and distinguish them from other life forms. Animals are divided into vari...
8: ... respond to their environment. This system ranges from simple nerve nets in cnidarians (jellyfish, for...
10: ...exual reproduction involves the fusion of gametes from two individuals, leading to genetic diversity.
11: ...ack cell walls, a feature that distinguishes them from plants and fungi. They have a more flexible cel...
18: ...During development it forms a relatively flexible framework upon which cells can move about and be reo... - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 miles) ...
6: ...ranean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|M...
8: ... a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilian...
18: ...7. Spain's fascist government lead by [[Francisco Franco]] was a great asset in trade to the Axis powe...
22: ...of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Gr... - History of the United States (1964-1980) (21973 bytes)
11: ...then segues into a launch countdown and a nuclear explosion. The ads were a response to Goldwater's advocacy...
15: ...vil rights]] divided conservative southern whites from the rest of the party (see [[Dixiecrat]]).
20: ...e proposed, they continued to have strong support from both of the United States' major political part...
27: ...Viet Minh]] (led by [[Ho Chi Minh]]) defeated the French colonial army in [[1954]], the colony was gra...
29: ...]) was formed as a [[guerrilla]] movement drawing from the South Vietnamese peasantry and working clas...
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