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- Alexandria (28378 bytes)
14: * The Roman era from [[80 BC]] until the arrival of the Arabs in [[6...
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (y...
16: * The modern city from [[1798]] (red).
21: ...ects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away.
23: ...ehind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile mouths. An Egyptia... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
4: The name "volcano" has its origin from the name of [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]], a god of f...
18: ...'[[Volcanic cones]]''' or [[cinder cone]]s result from eruptions that throw out mostly small pieces of...
41: ...tive" volcano. The lifespan of a volcano can vary from months to several million years, making such a ...
43: ...to note that the span of recorded history differs from region to region; in the [[Mediterranean]], rec...
47: ...tone as extinct. In fact, because the caldera has frequent earthquakes, a very active geothermal syste... - Anatolia (2665 bytes)
5: Because of its strategic location at the intersection of Asia and [[Europe]], Anatolia has been a cradl...
7: ...have proposed Anatolia as the hypothetical center from which the Indo-European languages have radiated... - 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 ... - Nebraska (13662 bytes)
36: ... of the [[United States]], Nebraska gets its name from a [[Native American]] ([[Otoe tribe|Oto]]) word...
44: ... Act|homesteader]]s poured into Nebraska to claim free land granted by the federal government.
47: ...Civil War]]. At that time, the capital was moved from [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]] to Lancaster, later r...
55: ...al flight"'' as it is called has led to offers of free land and tax breaks as enticements to newcomers...
59: <i>See: [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Nebraska|List of Congressmen]] and [[List of Go... - Great Depression (16069 bytes)
1: ...onomic]] [[recession]] (or "depression") that ran from [[1929]] to [[1941]]. It led to massive bank f...
4: ...decline in industrial production and productivity from the century and a half where economic records h...
14: ...tary system and its trade relationships. Theories from Marxian or Marxist economics focus on the relat...
16: ..., and that the Great Depression was simply at the intersection of several concurrent long cycle troughs.
24: ...ed. Many people had to depend on the aid of their friends or relatives to find a job. - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
13: ...,911 [[metre|m]] (35,797 feet) <!--- Using figure from Mariana Trench article --->below sea level [htt...
15: * The point farthest from the Earth's centre is the summit of [[Mount Chi...
16: ...]] (the bottom of the Mariana Trench is 6366.4 km from the centre of the Earth).<!--- Other contenders...
19: ... at a straight-line distance of 2648 km (1645 mi) from the nearest coastline.
20: ...0,000 km? (8,657,000 sq mi) of ocean (equidistant from [[Pitcairn Island]] in the north, [[Marie Byrd ... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...woven with astronomy, and not completely separate from it until about 1750‑1800 in the [[Western...
26: The other important names of astronomers from India are [[Madhava]] and [[Nilakantha]].
50: ...y cultured, and many important works of knowledge from [[ancient Greece]] were translated into Arabic,...
54: ...[[Medieval university|Universities]]"). The model from the Greeks most remembered through the [[Middle...
62: ...observe the sky, and after constructing a 20x [[refractor telescope]] he discovered the four largest [... - Denver, Colorado (21161 bytes)
30: ...the largest city along the [[Colorado Front Range|Front Range]] and forms the heart of the [[Denver-Au...
32: ...rado)|Cherry Creek]], approximately fifteen miles from the foothills.
38: ... of the plains regions along the foothills of the Front Range.
43: ...Creek (Colorado)|Cherry Creek]], across the creek from the existing mining settlement of [[Auraria, Ka...
47: ...ile the town grew, land parcels were often traded freely for grubstakes and in the course of gambling ... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
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]].
43: ...ters for Disease Control]] was founded in Atlanta from the old Malaria Control in War Areas offices an... - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
29: ...ew capital city. Ralston was an apprentice to the French architect [[Pierre L'Enfant]], and he helped ...
31: ...ed in 1836, but Indiana went bankrupt in [[1839]] from the loans taken out under the aforementioned bi...
33: ...ections enlarged the town. The population soared from just over 8,000 in 1850 to more than 169,000 by...
35: ...in the [[1890s]]. The state government offered a free supply of [[natural gas]] to factories that wer...
37: ...social organization in the city during the period from [[1921]] through [[1928]]. The Klan continued ... - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
33: ...e [[1840s]], [[wagon train]]s made their way west from Independence, Missouri, on a 2,000-mile journey...
35: ...mented by trade on a new military road stretching from Fort Leavenworth through "Topeka" to the newly-...
39: ... In [[1869]], the railway started moving westward from Topeka. General offices and machine shops of th...
52: ...egend, this mound was thought to protect the city from tornadoes. It went on to rip through the city, ...
58: ...k12.ks.us/meadows/KAY.HTM Kay E. Meadows], first African American member and president of the Topeka S... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
25: ...icknames include "Beantown", "The Hub" (shortened from [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Hol...
27: ...cy]] as well as many suburban communities further from the city, has a population of approximately 5.8...
34: ...r [[Boston, England]], a town in [[Lincolnshire]] from which several prominent colonists originated. E...
63: The [[Charles River]] separates Boston from [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], and [[C...
65: ...s increases dramatically as one goes inland away from the city. - Saint Paul, Minnesota (13759 bytes)
2: ...innesota|Roseville]] has a marker near an obscure intersection identifying the exact location of the 45th parall...
33: ...n Pike]]. The [[Como Zoo and Conservatory]] is a free zoo with a year round inside garden and amuseme...
42: ... also serves Saint Paul through coordinated buses from the train stations. The expansion of the light ...
44: ...connected to each other, and pedestrians may walk from one building to another without going outside. ...
46: ... by that point. Some of the road structure comes from the curve of the Mississippi River, conflicts b... - Columbus, Ohio (27104 bytes)
6: ...is the [[county seat]] of [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin County]]. It also extends into [[Delaware C...
20: county = [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin]], [[Delaware County, Ohio|Delaware]],<br> ...
35: ... in Delaware, [[Capital University]] in Bexley, [[Franklin University]], the [[Columbus College of Art...
48: ...wn that resembles jumbled blocks, or a train yard from overhead. The convention center was designed b...
53: ...entally), so house numbers increase with distance from downtown. This rigid street grid breaks down th... - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
4: ...nearby [[Great Salt Lake]], the city is separated from the lake's shore by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]...
15: ...an isolated area to practice their religion, away from the persecution they had faced in the East. Upo...
22: ...Salt Lake]]. A railroad was connected to the city from the Transcontinental Railroad in [[1870]] makin...
24: ...bating inner-city decay. The city lost population from the [[1960s]] through the [[1980s]], but recove...
31: ...jor construction projects were initiated. Local [[freeway]]s were expanded and repaired and a [[light ... - Gallbladder (4604 bytes)
4: ...r. The surface marking of the gallbladder is the intersection of the [[mid-clavicular line]] (MCL) and the [[tr... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
7: ...n senses and knowledge, passed by oral tradition, from navigator to apprentice.
20: ...[1976]], successfully navigated the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to [[Tahiti]] using no instruments.
39: ... accurate land-based fixes even hundreds of miles from shore. These were made obsolete by satellite na...
43: ... can be plotted on a [[nautical chart]], with the intersection being the ship's current location. Addition lines...
55: ...7 navigational stars at any time of day or night. From a single sight, a time within a second and an e... - Doric order (6699 bytes)
3: ...reek Doric order was the earliest of these, known from the [[7th century BC]] and reaching its mature ...
5: ... a square [[abacus (architecture)|abacus]] at the intersection with the horizontal [[beam (structure)|beam]] ("[...
9: ...'guttae'' that appear as if they were hammered in from below to stabilize the post-and-beam ("[[trabea...
15: ... the columns are centered under a triglyph in the frieze, except for the corner columns. The plain, un...
19: ...art of the basic vocabulary of trained architects from the later [[18th century]] onwards, shows how t... - 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...
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