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  1. Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
    1: ...fealty from a vassal, possibly Melisende herself, from the [[Melisende Psalter]]]]
    3: ...) was [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|Queen of Jerusalem]] from [[1131]] to [[1153]].
    9: ...the [[Count of Boulogne|County of Boulogne]] in [[France]]. Melisende was the heir of this dynasty, an...
    13: ...son of previous marriage, [[Geoffrey of Anjou|Geoffrey]] was in these same years married to Empress Ma...
    15: ...d of his crusader knights Fulk excluded Melisende from granting titles and other forms of patronage, a...
  2. John Adams (18716 bytes)
    22: ...neration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in...
    24: ...1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing ...
    28: ...ms often found his inborn contentiousness to be a handicap in his political career. These qualities were par...
    35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis...
    37: ... "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of ...
  3. Albatross (4372 bytes)
    17: The '''albatrosses''' (from [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ''Alcatraz''...
    21: ... by gliding across wave fronts gaining [[energy]] from the vertical [[wind gradient]]. Their principal...
    28: ...rder [[Ciconiiformes]], whereas in Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the more tradition...
    30: ... [[British Ornithologists' Union]] and the South African authorities split the albatrosses into four g...
    40: ...lso a [[figurative]] meaning for a hindrance or a handicap.
  4. Golf (35905 bytes)
    4: ...'Rules of Golf'' as ''"playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or ...
    6: ...ghteen. A hole of golf consists of hitting a ball from a tee on the ''[[teeing ground]]'' (a marked ar...
    12: ...t so low that most balls can be easily played) or from the ''rough'' (uncut grass or ground not prepar...
    16: ...rom which the ball is more difficult to play than from grass, and ''water hazards'' (lakes, ponds, riv...
    18: ...y be seen from some distance (but not necessarily from the tee). It is also termed "the pin".
  5. Polo (10046 bytes)
    8: ... north of [[Kashmir]], near the fabled silk route from China to the West. In one ancient sentence it e...
    14: ...followers of Siyⶡsh, a legendary Persian prince from the earliest centuries of the Empire. The poet ...
    16: ...uries. The Chinese most probably learned the game from the Iranian nobles who sought refuge in Chinese...
    20: ...port in those times, from [[Japan]] to [[Egypt]], from [[India]] to the [[Byzantine Empire]]. As the g...
    29: ...ng passes downfield to riders who had broken away from the pack at a full gallop.
  6. Gazelle (2327 bytes)
    14: ...ly found in the grasslands and [[savanna]]s of [[Africa]], but also in south-west [[Asia]]. They tend ...
    21: ...s. This is a primary piece of evidence for the [[handicap theory]] advanced by [[Amotz Zahavi]] in the stud...
  7. Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
    2: ...d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led ...
    5: ...e commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery an...
    6: ... an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeat...
    11: ...arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
    13:
  8. Gazelles (2327 bytes)
    14: ...ly found in the grasslands and [[savanna]]s of [[Africa]], but also in south-west [[Asia]]. They tend ...
    21: ...s. This is a primary piece of evidence for the [[handicap theory]] advanced by [[Amotz Zahavi]] in the stud...
  9. Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
    5: ...nquista|reconquest]] of the [[Iberian peninsula]] from Islamic forces. Spain and [[Portugal]] were fil...
    14: ...ualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy.
    16: ...n Emperor|Charles]] awarded [[Diego de Almagro]], Francisco Pizarro's former business partner, the gov...
    20: ...eraging 24 years of age, they eventually embarked from [[Havana]] on seven of the King's [[Galleon|shi...
    27: ...rough [[Tennessee]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Indiana]] from [[Mabila]].
  10. Binocular vision (10230 bytes)
    1: ...ision with two [[eye]]s. The word binocular comes from two [[Latin roots]], ''bin'' for two, and ''ocu...
    11: ...]] animals, have their two eyes positioned on the front of their heads, thereby reducing field of view...
    13: ..., but can also move them together to point to the front so their fields overlap giving stereopsis. A r...
    17: ...n the sum of the two activities evoked separately from each eye. Any advantage in using two eyes in de...
    21: Apart from binocular summation, the two eyes can influence...

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