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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
- List of elements by symbol (14812 bytes)
39: <tr><td>Fr</td><td>[[francium]]</td><td>87</td><td></td></tr>
114: ...><td>[[tungsten]]</td><td>74</td><td>(German ''Wolfram'')</td></tr>
139: ...rancium]]</td><td>87</td><td>Current symbol is '''Fr'''.</td></tr>
140: <tr><td>Fr</td><td>[[florentium]]</td><td>61</td><td>Discred...
179: ...td>87</td><td>Discredited claim to discovery of [[francium]].</td></tr> - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
5: ...ere used to make soups and stews. Pies were made from gathered raspberries, strawberries, and cherrie...
7: ...ame from the roots of the madder herb; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts.
9: The average life expectancy on the frontier was 25 years old. Many children died of di...
11: ...n the frontier. By adulthood, most people on the frontier had received less schooling than the averag...
13: ...and dancing was popular among both women and men. From time to time, acrobats, tightrope walkers, and ... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...itain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effic...
12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh... - Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ...s, which are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of...
8: ...rtant that smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iro...
11:
17: ...n this case, expansion occurs. Internal stresses from this expansion generally take the form of [[com... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... [[Valois Dynasty|Valois]] branch of the kings of France, and mother of three further kings of that br...
5: ...the time, but who would become King [[Henry II of France]].
7: ...proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to see his grandchildren b...
11: ...r the accession of her sickly son [[Francis II of France]] at age 15. His wife, [[Mary I of Scotland|...
13: ...e or metal. They forcefully shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...rested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he'd failed to return ...
19: ... most prevalent story is that it was through his friend Clarence Clay. Clarence's sister, Bonnie's si...
23: ...ts]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake."
25: ...s, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamilton]] and others. He r...
35: ...en or robbery victims, usually releasing them far from home, sometimes with money to help them get bac... - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
1: [[Image:Nadia Comaneci.jpg|framed|Comaneci at the 1976 Montreal Olympics]]
11: ...howed up at the 1978 World Championships. A fall from uneven bars resulted in a 4th place finish, but...
13: ...ion for blood poisoning due to a cut in her wrist from her metal grip buckle. Against doctors' orders...
17: Comaneci retired from competition shortly after these Games. Her last...
23: ...]. She has received two [[Olympic Order]] awards from the [[IOC]]. - Actinium (7046 bytes)
110: | <sup>221</sup>[[francium|Fr]]
119: | α || 5.536 || <sup>222</sup>[[francium|Fr]]
125: | α || 5.042 || <sup>223</sup>[[francium|Fr]]
141: ...ho separated it from [[uraninite|pitchblende]]. [[Friedrich Otto Giesel]] independently discovered act...
143: The word actinium comes from the Greek ''aktis, aktinos'', meaning beam or r... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
4: ...ve.jpg|thumb|Traditional manufacture of ''skeps'' from [[straw]] in [[England]]]]
5: ... box hives of varying dimensions, with or without frames, and finally replaced by Langstroth equipment...
7: Honey from traditional hives was typically extracted by ''...
9: ''Skeps'' and other fixed-frame hives are no longer in wide use (and are illeg...
20: ... They were called "gums" because they often were from red gum trees. - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
1: ...usands of years, involves the creation of objects from clay and other ceramic materials. This article ...
7: ...his art form encompasses the creation of anything from earthenware and porcelain to decorative tiles a...
39: ... the longevity of ceramic products make it an eco-friendly choice in an age of disposable products and...
46: The word '''''ceramic''''' is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word Κ&epsil...
57: ...ve furnaces, a commonly used abrasive, and as a refractory material. - Mosaic (6524 bytes)
3: ...mphitrite_mosaic.jpg|thumb|150px|Detail of mosaic from [[Herculaneum]] depicting [[Amphitrite]]]]
12: ...ior decoration]]. In mosaics, small [[tile]]s or fragments of pottery (known as ''[[tesserae]]'', dim...
16: ...istinguished luxurious Roman villas across north Africa. In Rome, Nero and his architects innovated th...
18: ...]. In Western Europe, the demanding techniques of fresco replaced the even more labor-intensive techni...
20: .... The process is known as [[zillij]] in [[North Africa]] and [[qashani]] further east. Some of the b... - Pottery (17136 bytes)
4: ...some decorative items. Similar types of ware made from [[porcelain]] clays are simply referred to as "...
16: ...dividual techniques, where pieces are constructed from hand-rolled coils, slabs, ropes and balls of cl...
19: ... into a radial symmetry, so that it does not move from side to side as the wheel head rotates is refer...
25: ...are usually called "ceramics" to distinguish them from other pottery.
29: ...Pot1656.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Contemporary pottery from [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]], [[Japan]]]] - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
41: ...stol, England. This was sculpted with a chain saw from a standing tree, which was diseased and due to ...
55: * frozen [[blood]], dead [[animal]]s
64: ...ture still attached to a background, standing out from that ground in "High Relief" or "Low Relief" ([...
65: ...the round": designed by the sculptor to be viewed from any angle.
66: *Free-standing sculpture - Engraving (3556 bytes)
- Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...iginally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: The word ''glass'' comes from [[Latin]] ''glacies'' (ice) and corresponds to ...
18: ...nto other shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]]
22: ...plify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself.
26: Glass is sometimes created naturally from volcanic [[magma]]. This glass is called [[obs... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ... a shield are described from the top to the base, from dexter to sinister. Dexter ("right" in [[Latin]...
14: ...huthatswana]] and some Algerian civic heraldry of French colonial origin, specific shapes of shield ar...
28: ...The names of the tinctures mainly come to us from French. The first rule of heraldry is the rule of ti...
69: ...he blazon, but the College of Arms has moved away from this practice in recent years.
75: ...shares their shape. (It should be noticed that [[French heraldry]] takes a different approach in many... - Manuscript (5266 bytes)
8: ...r]]. In Russia [[birch bark documents]] as old as from the 11th century have survived.
10: ...s in a [[scriptorium]], each making a single copy from an original that was declaimed aloud.
16: ... language|Greek]] or [[Latin]] and usually dating from the [[4th century]] to the [[8th century]], are... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
2: '''Calligraphy''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] καλ...
4: Calligraphy should be distinguished from the studies of [[epigraphy]] or [[palaeography]...
12: ...uan-shu and contained more than 3,000 characters. From that time to the present, there have been five ...
14: ... as a guide, hiragana and katakana were developed from simplified cursive versions of characters. In t...
52: ...clerical script is highly stylised, a development from seal script form. They are highly angular in ap... - Printing (4400 bytes)
11: ...g the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [[868]]...
13: ... developed the use of raised and movable type and from the start used oil based inks.
18: ...nhope]], [[George E. Clymer|George E. Clymer]], [[Friedrich Koenig|Koenig]] and others introduced new ...
46: * [[Francysk Skaryna]], first [[Belarus]]ian printer
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