Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Earth (30908 bytes)
7: ...th''' or '''Terra''', is the third planet outward from the [[Sun]]. It is the largest of the [[solar s...
9: ...or]]; a variant puts the cross atop the circle ([[Unicode]]: ⊕ or ♁).
14: ...f approximately 12,742 km. The maximum deviations from this are the highest point on Earth (the summit...
55: ... is only 1/20,000 as great as the energy received from the Sun.
74: ...utaway-english.png|thumb|350px|left|Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. Partially to scale.]] - North Africa (3562 bytes)
1: ...Image:Africa-countries-northern.png|right|Map of Africa with the northern countries highlighted]]
3: '''North Africa''' is a region generally considered to include...
14: ...gh they do not share a common culture with North Africa.
16: ...frica]] or [[Tamazgha]]) is the portion of North Africa that consititutes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia an...
18: Some North African countries, particularly Egypt and [[Libya]], ... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
1: ...aintained independence during the [[Scramble for Africa]], and continued to do so until [[1936]], when...
40: ...gdom|British]]) [http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/ethiopia/pankhurst/history_of_northern_ethiopi...
59: ...at powers of his time. It was at this time that [[Frumentius]] introduced [[Christianity]] into the co...
61: ...r]]), basing their claims on their direct descent from [[Solomon]] and the queen of [[Sheba]].
67: ... the southern entrance of the Red Sea, was bought from the local sultan in March 1870 by an Italian co... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines o...
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by t...
60: ...anguage|Hebrew]] פלשת ''{{unicode|Pəléšeṯ}}'').
68: ...], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the s...
73: ...nd. The Jewish population in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...is picture of [[433 Eros]] shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its...
4: The term "asteroid", meaning ''star-like'' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''asteroeides'', '...
8: ...larger than 50 m in diameter, distinguishing them from [[meteoroid]]s, which are typically [[boulder]]...
14: ...Earth's solar system. As of [[May 23]], [[2005]], from a total of 277,090 minor planets with calculate...
24: ...s, whereas families are much "tighter" and result from the catastrophic break-up of a large parent ast... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ... allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
178: *[[List of largest optical refracting telescopes]]
363: *[[Historical African place names]]
371: *[[List of toponyms]] (with names derived from a place or region)
398: *[[List of fruits]] - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...st planet in the [[Solar System]]. Mercury ranges from −0.4 to 5.5 in [[apparent magnitude]]; Me...
3: ... cross below and a semicircle above the circle ([[Unicode]]: .It is a stylized version of the god's head an...
8: (This Data comes from [http://www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-...
10: ...[temperature]] of Mercury is 452 K, but it ranges from 90–700 K; by comparison, the temperature ...
12: ...posited by [[comet]] impacts and/or gases arising from the planetary interior. - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
7: ...process quicker and easier: People began to write from left to right in horizontal rows (rotating coun...
13: ...aphically distinguishes the logograms ([[kanji]]) from syllabary characters ([[kana]]) but otherwise r...
15: ...ngress.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|Cuneiform tablet from the Kirkor Minassian collection in the [[Librar...
16: ...an used, together with a handful of logograms for frequently occurring words like "god" and "king." T...
27: ... them a copy of a recently discovered inscription from the reign of the Assyrian emperor [[Tiglath-Pil... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: '''Venus''', the second [[planet]] from the [[Sun]], is named after the [[Roman mytholo...
3: ..., it always appears in roughly the same direction from Earth as the Sun (the greatest [[elongation]] i...
5: ...mirror: a circle with a small cross underneath ([[Unicode]]: ♀).
7: ...me astronomers use ''[[Cytherean]]'', which comes from [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives incl...
14: ...]'s, even though Venus is nearly twice as distant from the Sun and only receives 25% of the solar irra... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
138: ...zed representation of the god's lightning bolt ([[Unicode]]: ♃).
142: ...ter was able to be seen, just below the [[Moon]], from parts of the [[Southern Hemisphere]].
145: ...uishes a large and massive planet such as Jupiter from a [[brown dwarf]], although the latter possesse...
175: ...phases of hydrogen; the conditions blend smoothly from gas to liquid as one descends.
178: [[Image:Jupiter from Voyager 1.jpg|thumb|left|Detail of Jupiter's at... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
137: ... a stylized representation of the god's sickle ([[Unicode]]: ♄).
142: ...nterior, the droplets of helium releasing heat by friction as they fall down through the lighter hydro...
144: ...smaller storm was observed. Astronomers using [[infrared]] imaging have shown that Saturn has a warm p...
147: ...I'', based on [[radio astronomy|radio]] emissions from the planet, has a period of 10 h 39 min 22.4 s ...
165: ...e never part of a moon, but are instead left over from the original [[nebula]]r material that Saturn f... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ...Roman deities]]. Its symbol is either ♅ ([[Unicode]] U+2645, mostly astrological) or [[Image:X - Ura...
157: ... regions of Uranus receive a greater energy input from the Sun than its equatorial regions. Uranus is ...
172: ...rgium Sidus'' or "the Georgian" were still used infrequently (by the British alone) thereafter. The fi...
179: ...nditions. It can be easily found with binoculars. From Earth it has a diameter of 4". Even in large te...
206: ... they found that the star had disappeared briefly from view five times both before and after it disapp... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
4: ...color="black" | [[image:neptune.jpg|250px|Neptune from Voyager 2]]<br><small><font color="white">Click...
9: ...rrier]]<br> [[John Couch Adams]]<br> [[Johann Gottfried Galle|Johann Galle]]
136: ...a stylized representation of the god's trident ([[Unicode]]: ♆).
142: Orbiting so far from the sun, Neptune receives very little heat. Its...
146: ...set at least 0.55 radii (about 13,500 kilometers) from the planet's physical center. Comparing the mag... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
120: ... which are also [[Percival Lowell]]'s initials ([[Unicode]]: ♇ ), although some prefer a different s...
126: ...eone else did". Soon suggestions began to pour in from all over the world. Constance Lowell, [[Perciva...
128: ...tia Burney]], at the time an eleven-year-old girl from [[Oxford, England|Oxford]], [[England]]. Over t...
140: ...o speeds up due to the gravitational acceleration from the Sun, stays ahead of Neptune, and pulls ahea...
146: ...the case of Pluto, the star dimmed out gradually. From the rate of dimming, the atmosphere was determi... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
8: ... Πετρος which comes from the [[Greek language]] meaning pebble or piece ...
15: ...k crows, you will have denied me three times." Confronted after Jesus had been arrested, Peter did den...
19: From the early Christian writings, it is clear that ...
23: ...h this was actually apparently an ''[[ex-voto]]'' from a [[pilgrim]], and indeed a copy of the origina...
27: ..., and sent and showed Peter, that he might depart from Rome. And the rest of the brethren, together wi... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
201: [[Context-free grammar]] --
272: [[Fragmentation]] --
273: [[Free On-line Dictionary of Computing]] --
274: [[Free Software Foundation]] --
275: [[Free software movement]] -- - Kelvin (3722 bytes)
4: ! Conversion from
18: ...en molecular motion stops), and one kelvin is the fraction 1/273.16 of the [[thermodynamic temperature...
28: ... languages, the symbol should be the Roman letter Unicode K for current usage.
46: *:<math>\frac{\mathrm{K}}{11,\!605}</math> - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
29: ...language|Extremaduran]]) as ''chalaque'', then in French as ''cheraqui'', and then by the English as '...
31: ... sound after early contact with Europeans of both French and Spanish ancestry in Georgia and Alabama d...
33: ...om the [[Choctaw]] trade language. It was derived from the Choctaw word "Cha-la-kee" which means "thos...
39: ...ly recent addition of the Cherokee syllables to [[Unicode]], the Cherokee language is experiencing a renais...
46: ...dia of North American Indians'']; 2000 population from a [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2... - 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... - Female (699 bytes)
6: ...sed to represent the female gender is ♀ ([[Unicode]]: U+2640), a circle with a small cross underneat...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).