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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ...pendent [[nation]], entirely surrounded by South African territory.
3: ...as well as many white, coloured and Indian South Africans.
5: ...the entire [[Africa]]n continent, with modern [[infrastructure]] common throughout the country.
7: {{South Africa infobox}}
9: South Africa has 11 official languages: [[Afrikaans]], [[English language|English]], [[Zulu lan... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... the country's early history, stemming as it does from the Roman name ''Portus Cale'', a possibly mixe...
15: ...C]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local ...
17: ...Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the [[Conii]]. Over decades, the R...
25: ...s. From there they aimed to reconquer their lands from the [[Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Ar...
27: ...r of the Iberian Peninsula, faced new competition from other regions. The lords of the cities of [[Coi... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ...]], [[1571]] at the [[Imperial Free City|Imperial Free City]] of [[Weil der Stadt]] (now part of the [...
11: Though he excelled in his schooling, Kepler was frequently bullied, and was plagued by a belief that...
15: ...o be a superb mathematician. Upon his graduation from that school in [[1591]], he went on to pursue s...
19: ...ath, Kepler was appointed Imperial Mathematician (from November [[1601]] to [[1630]]) to the Habsburg ...
32: ... [[Platonic solid]] model of the [[Solar system]] from ''Mysterium Cosmographicum'' (1596)]] - 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... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
5: ...eometry]] at [[Oxford]]. In the family and to his friends he was known as Stephe (rhymes with Livy). H...
11: ...dia]]. In [[1895]] he held special service in [[Africa]] and returned to India in [[1897]] to command...
13: ...oon transferred to the British secret service. He frequently travelled disguised as a butterfly collec...
15: ...ful campaign in [[Ashanti Confederacy|Ashanti]], Africa, and at the age of 40 was promoted to lead the...
17: ...as responsible for the organisation of a force of frontiersmen to assist the regular army. Whilst arra... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...ttern]]s of [[night]]time [[star]]s. Eventually [[natal chart|astrological charts]] were drawn up by cult...
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 [... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
13: ...ought the cause of [[India|India's]] independence from [[British India|British colonial rule]] to worl...
15: ... He often said that his values were simple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] beliefs: [[truth...
18: ...he [[Jain]] influences of Gujarat, Gandhi learned from an early age the tenets of non-injury to living...
23: ...India to observe the Hindu precepts of abstinence from [[meat]] and [[alcohol]]. Although Gandhi expe...
25: ...ost in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], [[South Africa]]. - Warthog (4196 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox species entry | taxon = '''''P. africanus'''''}}
11: ...ns | color = pink | binomial_name = Phacochoerus africanus | author = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | ...
13: ... into two species. On that classification, ''P. africanus'' is the Common Warthog and ''P. aethiopicu...
15: ...ons against predators. Warthogs derive their name from their short, almost wart-like, horns. They eat ...
17: They range in size from 0.9 to 1.5 metres (2.9-4.9 feet) in length and ... - Red Fox (7749 bytes)
15: ...[[Eurasia]], with several populations in [[North Africa]].
19: ... Red Fox''' (''Vulpes vulpes japonica'') migrated from [[India]] to [[China]] and eventually to [[Japa...
23: ...black ear tips and legs. The "red" tone can vary from crimson to golden, and in fact can be brindled ...
34: Red Foxes are found in a variety of [[biome]]s, from [[prairie]]s and [[scrubland]] to [[forest]] se...
36: ... to catch their food. The foxes regularly consume from 0.5–1 kilograms (1–2 pounds) of foo... - Tortoise (8250 bytes)
2: ...ant Tortoise]]<br>(''Dipsochelys dussumieri'')<br>from [[Aldabra]] atoll in the [[Seychelles]].}}
32: The size of tortoises can vary from a few centimetres to up to two meters. Tortoise...
34: ...ions on the different islands, although descended from a common ancestor, had diverged to different fo...
72: **[[African Spurred Tortoise]] (Sulcata Tortoise), '' Geo...
92: **[[Natal Hinge-Backed Tortoise]], '' Kinixys natalensis '' {{StatusConcern}} - Spotted Hyena (3840 bytes)
14: ...d, results in them having crusty white droppings (from all the bone meal). The hyena's distinctive lau...
16: ...he [[matriline]]s (the group of females descended from a single mother) that endure for generations.
23: ...ey can become very tame, and Europeans living in Africa have sometimes successfully made [[pet]]s of t... - Desert Tortoise (5389 bytes)
18: ...ndash;15 lbs (4–7 kg) when fully grown. The front limbs have heavy, claw-like scales and are fla...
20: ...ected from freezing winter weather while dormant, from November through February or March. With its bu...
22: ...s, and new growth of cactuses, as well as their [[fruit]] and [[flower]]s. Rocks and [[soil]] are also...
24: ...eriods of adequate rainfall, they drink copiously from any pools they find, and eliminate solid urates...
28: ...t. They are incubated for 90-120 days. Hatchlings from only a few eggs out of every hundred actually s...
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