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- Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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20: ... Edward Snowden leaks highly classified documents from the National Security Agency.
52: ...orge H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at th...
54: ...Washington bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle.
55: ...ernment shutdown in American history, which lasts from December 22, 2018 to *January 25, 2019 (35 days... - Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
1: ...) was [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|Queen of Jerusalem]] from [[1186]] to 1190. She was the eldest daughter o...
9: ...aldwin of Ibelin]], rebuffed Philip's advances. Affronted, Philip left Jerusalem to campaign in [[Anti...
11: ...]], the emperor previously receiving confirmation from his niece, the [[dowager queen]] [[Maria Comnen...
17: ...pt by Raymond and Bohemund, her political rivals, from marrying her daughter into the rival court fact...
21: ... succeed. Sibylla herself though was not excluded from the succession. Guy had become very unpopular a... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
3: ...ses. Current trends in this field are moving away from analog methods of mapmaking and toward the crea...
6: [[Image:Radkarte_MKL1888.png|thumb|World map from the [[Middle Age]]s.]]
7: The oldest known map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The oldest maps emp...
9: .... An engraved map of the holy city of [[Nippur]], from the Kassite period ([[14th century BCE|14th]] &...
14: ... map.JPG|thumb|[[Muhammad al-Idrisi]]'s world map from 1154. Note that south is at the top of the map.... - Tawaret (3580 bytes)
7: ...wand]]s in [[ritual]]s to drive evil spirits away from mothers and children. She was also depicted in ...
9: ...raco]]. She was described as the "mistress of the horizon" when she was depicted on the ceiling of the tomb... - Washington (20186 bytes)
45: Prior to the arrival of explorers from [[Europe]], this region of the Pacific Coast ha...
49: ...sh explorers [[Manuel Quimper]] in [[1790]] and [[Francisco Eliza]] in [[1791]], then by British Capta...
51: ...the northwest territory to explorers and trappers from other nations, most notably Britain and then th...
55: ...hat same year [[Washington Territory]] was formed from part of [[Oregon Territory]].
59: ...forests and the ports along Puget Sound prospered from the manufacturing and shipping of lumber produc... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...st planet in the [[Solar System]]. Mercury ranges from −0.4 to 5.5 in [[apparent magnitude]]; Me...
8: (This Data comes from [http://www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-...
10: ...[temperature]] of Mercury is 452 K, but it ranges from 90–700 K; by comparison, the temperature ...
12: ...posited by [[comet]] impacts and/or gases arising from the planetary interior.
182: The orbit of Mercury is eccentric, ranging from 46 million–70 million kilometres in radiu... - Season (10047 bytes)
4: ... the season of the flood, the season of emergence from the flood, and the hot harvest season.
6: ...ited States]] has its [[Tornado]] season (peaking from late winter through mid summer, depending upon ...
22: ...Antarctica, and therefore a considerable distance from the moderating influence of the southern oceans...
36: ...wing twilight, or at least a pre-dawn glow on the horizon, for increasing hours each day, for more than a m...
38: ...the first faint wash of light briefly touches the horizon (for just minutes per day), and then increases in... - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: '''Mars''' is the fourth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in the [[solar system]]. It is name...
6: ...#x2642; (a circle with a small arrow pointing out from behind it), is a stylized representation of the...
15: ...en summer and winter, giving rise to Earth-like [[frost]] and large [[cirrus cloud]]s [http://marsrove...
18: ...tic field would have helped to protect the planet from [[cosmic radiation]]. Other explanations have a...
22: Amongst the findings from the Opportunity rover is the presence of [[hema... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
4: ...color="black" | [[image:neptune.jpg|250px|Neptune from Voyager 2]]<br><small><font color="white">Click...
9: ...rrier]]<br> [[John Couch Adams]]<br> [[Johann Gottfried Galle|Johann Galle]]
136: ...orbit]], Neptune is sometimes the furthest planet from the [[Sun]]. Neptune is named after the [[Neptu...
142: Orbiting so far from the sun, Neptune receives very little heat. Its...
146: ...set at least 0.55 radii (about 13,500 kilometers) from the planet's physical center. Comparing the mag... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
10: ...shared some similarity with lightning. [[Benjamin Franklin]] endeavored to test this theory by using a...
12: ... to a post with a [[silk]] thread. As time passed Franklin noticed the loose fibers on the string stre...
14: ... had conducted similar experiments in [[France]], Franklin had suggested the original high-object-with...
16: ...clothes singed, the engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the door itself torn of...
18: Franklin also invented the [[lightning rod]], likely... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ...court. [[Beate Bille]], Tycho's mother, also came from an important family which had produced leading ...
14: ...ect with the aim of mapping the heavens conducted from a single location over a period of several year...
22: ...burg, where he built a great quadrant, Basel, and Freiburg. He was informed about his father's illness
33: ...hat the [[parallax]] of the object did not change from night to night, suggesting that the object was ...
43: ...narch|King]] [[Frederick II of Denmark and Norway|Frederick II]] of [[Denmark]] and [[Norway]], impres... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...ble. Yet, humans had colonized nearly all the ice-free parts of the globe by the end of the Ice Age, s...
12: ...of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did not use agriculture until relatively mode...
14: ...y. However, these civilisations were so different from one another that they almost certainly must hav...
21: ...may not have had metal tools until the [[Chavin]] horizon in [[900 BCE]], we also know the [[Moche]] had me...
29: ...their territory through conquest and colonisation from the beginning of the [[5th century BCE]]. By th... - Ramadan (3064 bytes)
12: ...ing Ramadan, Muslims are also expected to refrain from indulging in violence, anger, envy, greed, lust...
14: ...sunset, when the sun's disk sinks below the local horizon. These times are known as [[Salah|Fajr]] and [[Sa...
18: ...er to Allah. It is a time for Muslim families and friends to worship and celebrate together.
24: ...ng's practice of each religion might be different from one another. - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
6: ... [[Al-Fazari, Mohammad|Fazari]] ([[Richard Nelson Frye]]: Golden Age of Persia. p163). In the [[15th ...
8: ...al pointers indicating the positions of stars, is free to rotate. Some astrolabes have a narrow ''rul...
12: ... (in degrees) of the star could be read ("taken") from the graduated edge of the astrolabe; hence "ast...
18: ...ssahalla]]. The same source was translated by the French astronomer and astrologer [[Pelerin de Prusse...
20: In the 15th century, the French instrument-maker [[Jean Fusoris]] (ca. 1365 -... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
19: ...) was the 42nd [[President of the United States]] from [[1993]] to [[2001]]. Before his Presidency, C...
23: ... conviction of many staff members, associates and friends, though never himself. He became the second ...
25: ...ssumption of office marked a "generational shift" from the former Presidents who were mostly World War...
27: ...-the-time the largest American [[budget deficit]] from his predecessor [[George H. W. Bush|President G...
38: ...popular anger over the escape of Cuban prisoners (from the [[Mariel Boat Lift]]) detained in [[Fort Ch... - Ionosphere (19365 bytes)
1: ...practical importance because it influences [[high-frequency]] (HF) (3–30[[MHz]]) [[radio propaga...
6: ...d to as the ionosphere. In a plasma, the negative free electrons and the positive ions are attracted t...
8: ...[[recombination]] begins to take place in which a free electron is "captured" by a positive ion if it ...
10: ...t. The local winter [[hemisphere]] is tipped away from the Sun, thus there is less received solar radi...
14: ... e profile.gif|right|thumb|350px|Electron density from solar ionization during the day and night durin... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
16: ...he was to continue his education and gain loyalty from the Macedonian legions, while waiting to accomp...
23: ...ly. Octavian immediately dropped the "Octavianus" from his name, and referred to himself simply as Gai...
25: ...r’s will. Octavian, however, gained support from the masses and conflict between the two seemed ...
31: ...military positions, and war was once again on the horizon.
34: ...us. Antony had reached Gaul and gathered strength from the legions stationed there. Together with [[Ma... - Architectural history (13369 bytes)
3: ...entury]], architecture of the past was understood from a [[form|formal]] perspective, emphasizing the ...
7: ...es and seeks to liberate its history and practice from inappropriate Western doctrines.
9: ...anged approaches across time — the changing frameworks traced across the many editions of [[Sir ...
17: At the beginning, [[humanity]] was confronted with a world thoroughly alive with [[god]]s,...
33: ...ch place had its own nature, set within a world refracted through myth, thus temples were sited atop m... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
20: ...ok Strait]], which separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not gues...
26: ..." was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kanga...
30: ... forced his men to eat such foods as [[citrus]] [[fruit]]s and [[sauerkraut]]—under punishment o...
32: ...mand of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began.
34: [[Image:Cookroutes.PNG|frame|center|The routes of Captain James Cook's voya... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
6: |nickname="The A-T-L", "The Horizon City", "The Capital of the South", "The Phoenix C...
28: ...ch has come to delineate the interior of the city from the surrounding suburbs. This has given rise to...
33: ...stern & Atlantic Railroad]], for lines connecting from [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Chattanoo...
38: ... of the economy away from agriculture and a shift from the "Old South" attitudes of slavery and rebell...
41: ... commuted in 1915, riots broke out in Atlanta and Frank was [[lynching|lynched]].
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