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- Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ...rebelled against the expected role for a woman of her status, which was to become an obedient wife.
9: ...and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...eform of the [[Poor Laws]], extending far beyond the provision of medical care.
13: ...ical care and by the commitment and practises of the sisters. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...[[diva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an internati...
3: ...t stars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...n the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ...t. The outbreak of [[World War I]] at the end of the year stopped most national and international tenn...
14: ...nning in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...esulting solid is amorphous, not crystaline like the sugar was originally, which can be seen in its [[...
3: ...n]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word ''glaer'' for amber.
5: ...be concerned with a specific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses in common use as a build...
9: ...tirely, with the addition of other compounds or [[heat treatment]].
13: ...Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), which is the same chemical compound found in [[quartz]], or in its poly... - Stained glass (3937 bytes)
7: ...typically in the golden haloes depicted in church windows. In general usage, stained glass refers to glass ...
9: ...olor transmission characteristics that, even for the same color, can provide surprising results.
11: ...re then [[Soldering|soldered]] together to create windows, panels, and/or lampshades incorporating colorful...
13: ...ting its own weight and (for a window) surviving the elements.
15: ...wig Shaffrath]], [[Johannes Shreiter]] and many others who transformed an ancient art form into a cont... - Iconography (7643 bytes)
2: ...bolically]] mean more than a simple depiction of the person involved.
4: ...ew life, the fire of destruction, etc.). The many heads, eyes, feet, and arms do not have to be taken ...
6: ...Testament]] when [[God]] takes material flesh in the form of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]].
7: ...e Hindu god Shiva. Note the blue skin and symbols held in his hands]]
8: ...ause the honor shown them passes over to the [[archetype]], [[icon]]s are kissed, carried in processio... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ...sdent.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ...deral government]] and [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States armed forces|armed forces]].
5: ...dent was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today...
7: ...]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] o...
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
1: ...osphere), as well as the connected processes and phenomena.
3: ...he [[Moon]] in 1969. Located near the center of the [[Far side (Moon)|far side]] of Earth's Moon, its...
5: ...n, they are quite different; astronomers embrace the [[scientific method]], while astrologers do not.
8: ...cal nature of celestial objects—what makes them "tick".
10: ...trophysics is concerned mainly with figuring out the observational implications of different models, a... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...ntences. Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a book.
5: ...hape, or pronunciation of each character. Due to the nature of Chinese characters, linear sorts are pa...
8: ...ontaining the 2000 most frequently used words in the English language).
11: There are many different types of dictionaries, inclu...
14: ...ish language may either be printed and sorted in the native order, or [[Romanization|romanized]] and s... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
1: ...n index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
7: ...ing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
10: Please use the new section editing feature if your browser
11: ... (e.g. good old Netscape 3.04 gold) can't handle the page size.
21: *Also included here: - Anemometer (11426 bytes)
1: ...to the rigging that runs around the perimeter of the roof.]]
3: ...], and is one of the instruments found in a [[weather station]].
5: ...of either class will give information about both these quantities.
7: ...e. The result has been that wind velocities published in many official publications have often been in...
9: ...ting shafts of mines and buildings for instance, these anemometers, known, however, as air meters, are... - Medieval architecture (3180 bytes)
2: ...ent various forms of [[architecture]] popular in the [[Middle Ages]].
6: ...ring attention on the altar at the ''center'' of the church.
11: ...cterized by a use of round or slightly pointed arches, barrel vaults, cruciform piers supporting vault...
16: ...c style]]. Such new elements of design allowed cathedrals to rise taller than ever, and it became some...
22: ...shelters for archers on the roofs to hide behind when not shooting. - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...[[Tower of Babel]] story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...at were otherwise unflyable able to fly, such as the [[F-117]].
7: ==Before the 20th century==
13: ...re many claims and counter-claims how successful these were. See [[First flying machine]] for a revie...
15: ...d, was made. Leonardo also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design would not have flown. - 2006 (7939 bytes)
11: ...06''' is a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It has been designated:
12: * The ''International Year of [[Deserts]] and [[Deserti...
14: ...zart]] Year'', celebrating the 250th birthday of the Austrian composer ''Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Am...
16: ==Predicted and scheduled events==
19: ...l remainder of non-metric road distance signs in the [[Republic of Ireland]] must be changed to [[metr... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
2: ...wave) [[amateur radio]] operators. Morse code is the only digital [[modulation]] mode designed to be e...
7: # intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character)
11: ...gely replaced by more regular formats, including the [[Baudot code]] and [[ASCII]].
13: ...al code specification, largely limited to use in the United States, became known as Railroad or [[Amer...
17: ...eiver retracted the armature, so that portion of the tape was left unmarked. - Lightning (33113 bytes)
6: ...the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air, producing lightning's characteristic [[thund...
10: ...a]] but while waiting for its completion, he got the idea of using a flying object, such as a [[kite]]...
12: ...ain which had fallen during the storm had soaked the line and made it conductive.
14: ...park-gap idea that they used, so he usually gets the credit.
16: ...nocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the door itself torn off its hinges. - Cockroach (5997 bytes)
19: ...re much bigger. When infesting buildings, cockroaches are considered [[pest]]s.
22: ...ngs and widely found around garbage or in the kitchen.
24: ... like [[frankfurter]]s in the case called an [[ootheca]].
26: ... individuals claiming to have seen albino cockroaches.
28: ...y produce up to eight egg cases in lifetime. In other words, in favorable condition it can produce 300... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: ...in the famous [[Chandos portrait]], artist and authenticity unconfirmed.]]
2: ...s in the [[English language]], as well as one of the world's pre-eminent [[dramatist]]s.
4: ...rmed all around the world. Shakespeare was among the very few playwrights who have excelled in both [[...
6: ...s especially impressive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 years.
8: ...s of works based on Shakespearean phrases]], and the many [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays... - Bat (disambiguation) (977 bytes)
3: * The [[bat]], a flying mammal of the order Chiroptera.
5: ... transliteration of ''[[Bata (goddess)|Bata]]'', the name of a minor goddess in early [[Egyptian mytho...
6: * ''[[Die Fledermaus|The Bat]]'', an operetta by [[Johann Strauss II]].
7: ...[The Bat!]], an [[e-mail]] client for [[Microsoft Windows]].
9: * ".bat", the filetype extension for [[Microsoft Windows]] [[batch file]]s. - Bat (13851 bytes)
29: ...translated as ''Hand Wing'', as the structure of the open wing is very similar to an outspread human h...
31: ...tomidae]]) of central and [[South America]], and the allied family [[Noctilionidae]] (Bulldog bats) th...
35: ...rats," these terms are erroneous, as bats are neither [[rodent]]s nor [[rat]]s.
37: There are two suborders of bats:
42: ...vigation and finding prey. A handful of species, the [[vampire bat]]s, feed on [[blood]]. - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
4: ...n computing, as the Macintosh came out in a time when most computers used [[operating system]]s (OS) w...
7: ...enamed "Leopard", is scheduled to be released at the end of 2006.
9: ...arized a number of innovations adopted later by other PCs and operating systems.
11: Innovations introduced or popularized with the original Macintosh:
12: ...esktop]], etc. This metaphor is sometimes called the WIMP model for '''W'''indows, '''I'''cons, '''M''...
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