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- Flag of Alaska (694 bytes)
3: ...nd the [[forget-me-not]], the state flower. The [[Polaris|North Star]] is for the future of the state of Al... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...tury]] [[United States]] attempted to escape to [[free state]]s, or as far north as [[Canada]], with t...
4: ...mbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominently in [[African American history]].
10: ...y sects of mainstream denominations such as the [[Free Methodist]]s and [[American Baptist]]s. Books, ...
21: ...g short biographies of the people, that contained frequent railway metaphors. Still maintained corres...
23: ...t four adults and two children were sent by train from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. However, the addit... - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
20: ... a "bad order", to withdraw his troops, he was confronted by another superior. He explained his ration...
26: ... began a Sunday school for blacks, both slave and free.
30: ...]], Jackson married again. Mary Anna Morrison was from North Carolina, where her father was the first ...
36: ...ginia infantry regiments. All of these units were from the [[Shenandoah Valley]] region of Virginia.
38: ...place at Harpers Ferry, Colonel Jackson jumped in front of a soldier who was about to be killed by a s... - 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... - 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: ...measuring their [[bearing (navigation)|bearings]] from the ship. These [[lines of position]] can be pl...
47: ...eir latitude by measuring the angular altitude of Polaris any time that it was visible. Determining latitud... - Ernest Shackleton (9537 bytes)
8: ...right|250px|Four men from Nimrod (left to right): Frank Wild, Shackleton, Eric Marshall, and Jameson A...
14: ...officer. He went to school at [[Dulwich College]] from [[1887]] to [[1890]]. In [[1904]] he married Em...
21: ...urvy]] on the return trip and Dr. Wilson suffered from [[snow blindness]] at intervals.
28: ... 88?23'S: a point only 180 km (97 nautical miles) from the South Pole.
36: ...after departing from [[South Georgia]]). Everyone from ''Endurance'' survived. - Star (12279 bytes)
3: ...the [[Earth]]'s [[atmosphere]] and their distance from us. The Sun is also a star, but it is close en...
5: ...on kilometres, or 4.2 [[light year]]s away (light from Proxima Centauri takes 4.2 years to reach Earth...
9: ...city, to [[supergiant]]s like the [[North Star]] (Polaris) and [[Betelgeuse]], in the [[Orion (constellatio...
17: ...aviolet and infrared components are typically far from negligible. The apparent [[brightness]] of a st...
25: ... High mass stars powerfully illuminate the clouds from which they formed. One example of such a [[nebu... - Ursa Major (6591 bytes)
8: From the bowl to the handle, the stars in the Big Di...
10: ...e dipper cup, through those stars and up and away from the dipper. The dipper also points the way to ...
14: ...ddition to the Big Dipper, another asterism comes from Arab culture – the "leaps of the gazelle"...
31: ...somewhat enriched region of the Milky Way Galaxy, from the point of view of stellar populations and es...
33: ...re relatively young stars, having formed together from a protostellar nebula something like 150 millio... - Ursa Minor (3030 bytes)
4: ...pe. The star at the end of the dipper handle is [[Polaris]], the "''North''" or "''Pole Star''".
6: Polaris can also be found by following a line through the...
8: ...''septentrional'' (northern) in [[French language|French]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]], to go wit...
11: *Polaris (α UMi): a yellow [[supergiant]] of spectr...
22: ...sto]]. The tail was said to have been lengthened, from that usually expected for a bear, due to the in... - Cult classic (2953 bytes)
2: ...t does attract devoted, even fanatical, attention from a select group. See [[cult film]], [[cult telev...
27: *[[Plan 9 From Outer Space]]
44: *[[Freaks and Geeks]]
79: *[[Frank Herbert]]
86: *[[Frank Zappa]]
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