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- Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
11: ...r children reading skills and religious lessons. Basic arithmetic was the only other education. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
5: The effects spread throughout [[Western Europe]] and [[North America]], ...
55: ...machine tools metal was worked manually using the basic hand tools of hammers, files, scrapers, saws and ...
69: ...ffect that these new [[machine]]s were seen as a threat to employment, and early innovators were attac...
83: ...n]], [[cast iron]] and [[wrought iron]] improved through the exchange of ideas (although this was by n...
94: ...umping water back to a reservoir that had passed through a water wheel. [[James Watt]]'s invention of ... - Steel (28384 bytes)
21: ...effects of [[metal fatigue]]. Large amounts of chromium and nickel (often 18 and 8 %, respectively) ...
32: ...e as a byproduct of copper and bronze production throughout the bronze age.
36: ...]], iron tools and weapons displaced bronze ones throughout the near east. This process appears to ha...
38: ... furnace where [[bellows]] was used to force air through a pile of iron ore and burning [[charcoal]]. ...
46: ...d by [[300 BC]], iron was the material of choice throughout China for most tools and weapons. A mass ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
61: ... many Heath supporters in the Shadow Cabinet and throughout her administrations sought to have a cabin...
73: ... waiting with baited breath for that media catch-phrase- the U-turn- I can only say this: You turn if ...
93: ... [[Deng Xiaoping]] on [[19 December]] stating the basic policies of the [[People's Republic of China]] re...
96: ... protest song|"Maggie Out!" protest song]], sung throughout that period by some of her opponents. Many...
100: ...fically against [[Economic and Monetary Union]], through which a single currency would replace nationa... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
11: ...s]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[menstruation]]...
13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded...
24: ... submission. An [[atheist]], Sanger attacked the Christian church for its opposition to her message, b...
38: ......] Perhaps the greatest physical danger to the chronic masturbator is the inability to perform the s...
54: ... on abortion (like many of her opinions) changed throughout the course of her life, she was acutely aw... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
8: ...ued to resist her vocation, and paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to E...
41: ... Two Women Throwing Flowers 1872.jpg|''Two Women Throwing Flowers'' (1872) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...er novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emp...
19: ... Petersburg]], [[Russia]], and was the eldest of three daughters of a Jewish family. She studied philo...
22: ...d States|Hollywood]] and took odd jobs to pay her basic living-expenses. While working as an [[extra]] on...
28: ...untainhead'' had, became a bestseller. ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete st...
41: ...alks at several east-coast universities, largely through the [[Nathaniel Branden Institute]] ("the NBI... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
7: ...n [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disinheriting Charles, the...
12: ...additionally insisted on having her examined for three weeks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before gra...
24: ...nne's "great diligence" (according to one of the chroniclers who served in her army). A day of skirmis...
33: ...as conducted in flagrant violation of a number of basic [[Inquisition | Inquisitorial]] guidelines. The ...
38: ...was first brought to [[Saint-Ouen]] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
14: ...brates combined, excluding bony fishes. Orchids, through their floral complexity and their interaction...
16: ...ecies. The word 'orchis' was first used by [[Theophrastos]] ([[372 BC|372]]/[[371 BC|371]] - [[287 BC|...
18: ... natural habitat, are considered by [[CITES]] as threatened or endangered. They are therefore protecte...
26: All orchids have these five basic features :
38: ...plicate leaves, shed their aged leaves annually, through an articulation between the [[lamina]] and th... - Botany (8977 bytes)
9: ...genetic]] and [[biochemistry|biochemical]] level through [[organelle]]s, [[cell biology|cells]], [[bio...
13: ...rbon dioxide]], an important [[greenhouse gas]], through [[photosynthesis]]. A good understanding of p...
20: ... [[agriculture]], and botany provides some of the basic science to understand how to minimize their impac...
47: ...hey have more than two [[haploid]] (n) sets of [[chromosome]]s, a condition known as [[polyploid|polyp...
51: ...und [[300 BC]], are two large treatises by [[Theophrastus]]: ''On the History of Plants'' (''[[Histori... - Testicle (6183 bytes)
3: ...y temperature of 37 degrees Celsius (99 degrees Fahrenheit). The cremasteric muscle is part of the spe...
19: ...aculates the sperm, mixed with other fluids, out through the [[penis]]. (The genital anatomy describe...
21: ...nsversetestis.png|thumb|right|Transverse section through the left side of the scrotum and the left tes...
30: ...?. Measurement in the living adult is done in two basic ways: (1) comparing the testicle with ellipsoids ...
32: ...peting against their intrinsic hormonal function through the use of externally administered steroidal ... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
6: Following are some basic functions of the human circulatory system:
15: ...more properly called [[hemolymph]] in this case) through the arteries to spaces called [[sinuses]] whi...
20: ...tely separated into two pumps. Amphibians have a three-chambered heart. Birds and mammals show complet...
35: ...arry the blood to the [[lung]]s, where it passes through a capillary network close to air-filled [[alv...
38: ...e [[left ventricle]], which then pumps the blood through the [[aorta]], the major artery which supplie... - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
10: == Basic anatomy of the human alimentary canal ==
18: **[[small intestine]], which has three parts:
22: **[[large intestine]], which has three parts:
39: ...he [[bloodstream]]. The remaining particles pass through the [[large intestine]] and are ultimately ex...
47: ...roduce digestive juices that reach the intestine through small tubes. In addition, parts of other orga... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
9: ...ody are similar in some ways to those of the most basic [[vertebrate]]s. Human [[consciousness]] involves...
13: ...human brain usually weighs between 1 and 1.5 kg (three pounds) in an average volume of 1,600 cm³ ...
19: ...f Willis]]. Blood is then drained from the brain through a [[brain sinuses|network of sinuses]] that d...
27: ...soft, and it deforms somewhat during its passage through the birth canal, then recovers its shape. Th...
40: ...and information that is remembered and processed throughout the cerebral cortex. [[Endocrine_gland|End... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
3: ... and diseases affecting the kidney is called [[nephrology]].
5: == Basic [[anatomy]] ==
20: ...re than a million in each normal adult kidney. Nephrons regulate water and soluble matter (especially ...
22: A nephron consists of an initial filtering component call...
24: ...r the kidney tubule. Blood leaves the glomerulus through an ''efferent'' (out-going) arteriole. - Mammary gland (2185 bytes)
4: The basic components of the mammary gland are the [[alveoli... - Connective tissue (1646 bytes)
1: ...sive [[extracellular matrix]]. There are several basic types: - Body cavity (2315 bytes)
1: A '''body cavity''' is an aspect of a number of basic animal body plans ([[Phylum (biology)|phyla]]) th...
3: ...comes the mouth. Protostomes include annelids, arthropods and mollusks. In [[Deuterostomes]], the open...
5: In arthropods and mollusks, the coelom is reduced in size,... - Ploidy (4598 bytes)
1: ...haploid. In contrast, tetraploidy (four sets of chromosomes), a type of [[polyploidy]], is not uncomm...
3: ...for a species, for example the euploid number of chromosomes in a human cell is 46.
6: ...[[cell (biology)|cell]]s bear one copy of each [[chromosome]].
8: ...id. For organisms that only ever have one set of chromosomes, the term '''monoploid''' can be used int...
10: ...sis]], germ cell precursors have their number of chromosomes halved by randomly "choosing" one homolog... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
11: There are three basic styles of traditional beehive; Tile hives, Skeps ...
58: ...iated with the doctrine of the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]] and represents industry...
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