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- Dragonfly (4578 bytes)
26: ... of the dragonfly, from egg to death of adult, is from six months to as much as six or seven years. Fe...
28: ...s the libellulid dragonfly, ''Nannophya pygmaea'' from east [[Asia]] with a wing span of only 20 ...
37: ...y discovered that dragonflies employ an [[optical illusion]] to stalk other insects who invade their territo... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...ng with the return of young [[soldier]]s from the fronts of the [[Great War]] and emergence of a new a...
3: ... this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Y...
5: ...ge parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality, in [[arch...
8: ...es|economy of the USA]], took sometime to convert from [[War economy|a wartime economy]] to a peacetim...
19: ...f-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audience in any and every way. ... - Art (11479 bytes)
11: ... some extent, and [[child art]] is created by all from about the first birthday.
52: The word ''art'' derives from the [[Latin]] ''ars'', which, loosely translate...
61: ...of our being, between what is real and what is an illusion
74: ... is often described as a lay critique and derives from the fact that in [[Western culture]] at least, ...
84: From one [[point of view|perspective]], art is a gen... - Human (48024 bytes)
24: Humans have an erect body carriage that frees the upper limbs for manipulating objects, a hi...
30: ... [[state]]s down to [[Family|families]], and also from the [[community]] to the [[self]]. Seeking to [...
54: ...species of [[chimpanzee]]s should be reclassified from ''[[Pan troglodytes]]'' and ''[[Pan paniscus]]'...
56: ...had]] and seems to indicate an earlier divergence from the ape lineage.
58: ... genome is significantly affected by assimilation from archaic humans (i.e., 80% of loci may have some... - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...ited States]] and [[Britain]] would open a second front on the European continent; but the Allied inva...
11: ...er [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet First S...
13: ...came to be called the [[Oder-Neisse Line]]. Aside from a few minor adjustments, this would be the "iro...
15: ...autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for the allegiance of t...
17: ...emerge intact—and even greatly strengthened from an economic perspective—was the United St... - Religion (72319 bytes)
10: The word religion is thought to derive from one of two combinations of Latin roots. The fi...
25: ...sion, see [[approaches to distinguishing religion from non-religion]].
38: *An ethical framework, including a definition of activities whic...
53: ... Commandments]] of the [[Old Testament]], flowing from the beliefs rather than being defined by the be...
54: ...xt|texts they hold as sacred]] uniquely different from other writings, and which records or is the bas... - 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]]. - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ... popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against ...
7: ...rdano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint Domenico near [[...
9: ...t [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A.D. and to be associated with [[...
13: ...ernicus|Copernicanism]] and forced to leave for [[France]].
17: ...powerful French patrons, including [[Henry III of France|Henry III]]. During this period, he published... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...erical]] or [[logic]]al terms. Computers are made from [[digital circuit|components]] that perform sim...
24: ...logue]], [[digital]] and [[electronic]]. However, from the context of the citation, it is obvious thes...
39: *[[Mainframe|Mainframe computer]]
51: ...uter development means new uses for computers are frequently found and current definitions quickly bec...
54: ... purely [[electronic]] computers were constructed from [[thermionic valve]]s (tubes). In the [[1950s]]... - Tyrannosaurus rex (20653 bytes)
2: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:Tyrannosaurus (front view).jpg|250px]]|caption=Fossil skeleton at<b...
15: ...carnivorous]] [[Theropoda|theropod]] [[dinosaur]] from the Upper Maastrichtian, the last stage of the ...
22: ...e. The teeth are often worn or broken at the tips from heavy use but, unlike [[mammals]], were continu...
35: ...nnosaurid ''[[Dilong paradoxus]]'' was discovered from the same formation with preserved long tail plu...
40: ...d of extracting as much food (marrow) as possible from a carcass's least nutritious parts. Horner also... - Performing arts (1198 bytes)
1: ...medy]], [[music]], [[dance]], [[opera]], [[magic_(illusion)|magic]] and the [[marching arts]], such as [[bra...
5: The performing arts differ from the [[plastic arts]] insofar as the former uses... - Buddhist philosophy (14386 bytes)
6: ... and non-being, and this critique is inextricable from the founding of Buddhism.
25: ... process of maturation and that we - regarding it from without - can call morality."''
33: Decisive in distinguishing [[Buddhism]] from what is commonly called [[Hinduism]] is the iss...
41: ====Issues arising from the doctrine of anatta====
43: ...eption of a continuous identity was held to be an illusion. - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...u Granth Sahib]], the Sikh holy book. It departs from some of the social traditions and structure of ...
4: ...tain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyond wha...
10: ...arance that it is a blend of insights originating from two very different faiths. Sikhism's coherence ...
12: ...d matter as a veil, so that only spiritual minds, free of desire, can penetrate it by the grace of the...
18: Political pressure from surrounding Muslim nations forced the Sikhs to ... - Ice age (15810 bytes)
2: ...umb|right|Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the [[Vostok, Antarctica|Vostok]] ice core over...
6: ...acial periods, occurring at 40–100,000 year frequencies. These are the best studied. There have ...
16: ...illion years ago. There was an extensive ice age from 350 to 260 million years ago.
31: ...believe that anthropogenic (i.e. manmade) forcing from increased "[[greenhouse gas]]es" would outweigh...
35: ...actors: atmospheric composition (particularly the fraction of [[carbon dioxide|CO<sub>2</sub>]] and [[... - Sense (11343 bytes)
5: ...how many senses there are. The disagreements stem from a lack of consensus as to what the definition o...
13: ...interpret sensory input to derive new information from it.
15: ...d through the body by tactition. Lower and higher frequencies than can be heard are detected this way ...
21: ...factory receptor neuron]]s in the [[nose]] differ from most other neurons in that they die and regener...
31: ...the thermoceptors in the skin are quite different from the [[homeostasis|homeostatic]] thermoceptors w... - 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, ...
29: ...ower) believed that time, motion, and change were illusions, basing this on a rather [[Time/Parmenides| inte...
31: ...tention between [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]. Newton believed time was, l... - Moon (37975 bytes)
6: ...ll.jpg|250px|none|The Moon as seen by an observer from Earth]]
7: <small><font color="white">The Moon as seen from Earth</font></small>
190: ...', the terms ''selene/seleno'' and ''cynthion'' (from the [[Lunar deity|Lunar deities]] [[Selene]] an...
192: The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 [[kilometre]]s...
194: ...o 11]]. The first men sent ''to'' the Moon were [[Frank Borman]], [[Jim Lovell|James Lovell]] and [[Wi... - Film (18911 bytes)
4: ...e field in general. The origin of the name comes from the fact that [[photographic film]] (also calle...
6: ...ash; whereby the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second after the source has been remov...
26: ...w invention, and its product, was in their native France, the Lumieres quickly set about touring the C...
34: ...housands of such theaters were built or converted from existing facilities within a few years. In the...
40: ...HS]] and [[DVD]] sales to consumers; and 28% came from television (broadcast, cable, and pay-per-view)... - Dragonflies and Damselflies (4651 bytes)
26: ... of the dragonfly, from egg to death of adult, is from six months to as much as six or seven years. Fe...
28: ...s the libellulid dragonfly, ''Nannophya pygmaea'' from east [[Asia]] with a wing span of only 20 ...
37: ...y discovered that dragonflies employ an [[optical illusion]] to stalk other insects who invade their territo... - Rio Bec (1828 bytes)
7: ...he steps are only a design motif that creates the illusion of functional stairs. Even if the steps were fun...
8: ...oorways, which have been built into niches in the fronts of the temples, give the appearance of a func...
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