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- Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of differential [[calculus]]. While they both discovered calculu...
4: ...also credited with providing mathematical substantiation for [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion]]. He...
6: ...ooling of objects when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of...
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12: ... life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life and achievements]].''
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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
10: ...gin in the Greek cities of western Asia Minor (Ionia) with [[Thales]] of Miletus, who was active aroun...
14: ...lls of an orator in order to influence the [[Athenian Assembly]], and thereby grow wealthy and respect...
16: ...very good idea what they were talking about, especially when they talked about important matters like ...
20: ...he forms as the reason for them being more appropriate in running society.
22: ...idity|valid]]. A crucial assumption in [[Aristotelian logic]] is that it has to be about real objects.... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...o Great Britain) was a product of subsequent negotiations.
12: ... Her closest friend, and perhaps her most influential advisor, was [[Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlb...
15: ...come her close friend and one of her most influential advisors. Jennings later married John Churchill ...
17: ...n V]]. Mary also married a Protestant Prince: William of Orange. When Charles II died in [[1685]] (con...
19: ...wed by any descendants of William by a future marriage. - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ...June 1]], [[1974]]) is a successful [[Canada|Canadian]] [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [[actor|a...
10: ...io]], [[Canada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette. She has an older brother, Chad, and a...
12: ...ears old, she went to the home of singer [[Olivia Newton-John]], one of her early idols, and said over the...
21: ...ter, Morissette auditioned for a role on the Canadian children's television show ''[[You Can't Do That...
25: :''Take a trip to New York with your guardian'' - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job wi...
7: ...d accompaniments included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Ja...
11: ... included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]], who happen...
17: ...ied as a consequence thereof. It was an unsubstantiated rumour that lingered for decades, fuelled by [...
21: ...e taken a black patient to a white hospital, especially when there was a nearby black hospital. The dr... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
3: ...assically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to tha...
7: ... at [[Montgomery College]] and began playing at piano bars, many of them gay, chaperoned by her fathe...
10: ...h; an experience that would feed into her influential song "[[Me and a Gun]]". She also met [[Steve Ca...
13: ...ere rejected on the grounds that the "girl and a piano thing" wasn't going to sell. Extensively re-wor... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...ac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with some claiming that the proper start of the...
3: ... century, science was highly [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]]; at its end, science was [[mathematics|mathema...
9: ...s it is treated in this account, is science essentially as it is understood and practiced in the moder...
11: ...oward Margolis as part of a larger (and controversial) theory of the causes of the revolution (Margoli...
21: *Inertia and inertial frames of reference - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...ally produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools very rapidly, thereby not giving enough ti...
3: ...amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word ''gl...
5: ...n use as a building, container or decorative material.
9: ...ert]], and [[biology|biologically]] inactive material which can be formed with very smooth and impervi...
20: ...transparent to visible light (not all glassy materials are). The transparency is due to an absence of ... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
1: ...also referred to as '''achievements''' or '''armorial bearings'''. Its origins lie in the need to dist...
5: ..., almost always the shape of the shield is immaterial and different artists can depict the same coat o...
14: ...] and some Algerian civic heraldry of French colonial origin, specific shapes of shield are specified ...
62: ...h as [[ermine]], ermines, or vair, are regular variations of the field that represent various types of...
63: ...rmine is in design a field argent, semé ¨see [[variations of the field]]) of ermine-spots sable, but i... - Science (19868 bytes)
6: ...empirical results that can be checked and [[Falsifiability|possibly contradicted]].
12: ...govern human affairs. Because of their close affiliation, the terms "positivism" and "empiricism" are ...
16: ...knowledge of the real, and empiricism makes a crucial error of reasoning — the '''epistemic fall...
26: ...have different meanings in science than in colloquial speech. Scientists use the term ''model'' to mea...
28: ...apple fell" is to state a fact, whereas [[gravity|Newton's theory of universal gravitation]] is a body of ... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom|No...
46: ...rity Languages]]. In each of these, the UK's official name is as follows:
52: ... Northern Ireland'' in 1927.<br><sup>6</sup> Official estimate provided by the UK [[Office for Nationa...
62: ... noted that the practice by some, the informal media in particular, of using "(Great) Britain" as shor...
64: ...], etc. The term is, however, often avoided, especially in [[Ireland]], by those who are conscious tha... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = IA |
33: ISOCode = US-IA |
36: ...S. Post Office]] abbreviation for the state is '''IA'''.
47: ...ew York]], [[Indiana]], [[Kentucky]], and [[Virginia]]. - Kansas (21369 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = KS |
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
37: ...] in the [[United States]]. The U.S. postal abbreviation for the state is '''KS'''.
42: Kansas, as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]], was annexed to the [[United States]...
44: ...ting place. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kansas during the te... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = NJ |
13: OfficialLang = ''None defined'' |
36: ...States of America]] and has the U.S. postal abbreviation of '''NJ'''. It is also the fifth smallest s...
39: ...arts of [[Delaware]] and southeastern [[Pennsylvania]]. These territories were taken by the Dutch in 1...
41: ...aps because of the unpopularity of the Dutch colonial governor, [[Peter Stuyvesant]]. The newly taken ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...'Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several invent...
7: ...2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
9: * 400 KYA: [[Pigment]]s in [[Zambia]]
11: ...KYA: [[Bow (weapon)|Bow]] and [[arrow]] in [[Tunisia]]
14: ...: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]] - Space (10661 bytes)
14: * The structure defined by the set of spatial relationships between objects
24: ...al body's atmosphere|atmosphere]]s of any [[celestial body]] can be considered 'space'. In particular...
41: ... the branch of [[mathematics]] which measures spatial relations, was popularised by the [ancient Greek...
43: ...fying and describing the [[Earth]], utilising spatial awareness to try and understand why things exist...
49: ...mework]] we use to structure our experience. Spatial [[measurement]]s are used to [[quantity|quantify... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
3: ...[Far side (Moon)|far side]] of Earth's Moon, its diameter is about 58 miles (93 km).]]
5: ...my|amateurs]] can still play an active role, especially in the discovery and monitoring of transient [...
8: ...nd understand the actual physical nature of celestial objects—what makes them "tick".
10: ...volved, most professional astronomers tend to specialize in one or the other. Observational astronomy ...
15: ...artian atmosphere (with similarities to a terrestrial [[tornado]]). The dust devil itself (the black s... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits, the [[aphelion|aphelia]] of which may be many times more distant than [[...
5: ...omets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
9: ...d the force exerted on the coma by the sun's [[radiation pressure]] and [[solar wind]] cause an enormo...
11: ...appearance have been noticed by humans for millennia. One very famous old recording of a comet is the...
15: ...x [[organic compound]]s are the dark surface material. Solar heating drives off volatile compounds lea... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...generally centered on [[Meridian (geography)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? ...
4: ...mb|400px|Standard Time Zones of the World by the CIA]]
6: ...ones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as dis...
11: ...[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[California]], [[United States|USA]]: UTC − 8 (e.g. if ...
15: *[[Mumbai]], [[India]]: UTC + 5.5 (e.g. if it is 13:00 UTC, then it is... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: Modern [[science]] is a body of verifiable [[empirical knowledge]], a global community of...
6: ...both the [[Natural science|natural]] and the [[social science]]s attempt to base their [[theory|theori...
15: ...e in the scientific community and those in the social sciences or humanities (for example, the "[[Scie...
23: ... unproven. Some believed that setting up ''artificial'' conditions in an experiment could never produc...
40: ... school of [[scholasticism]]. The rise of [[Christianity]] saw a strange paradox: classical Greek phil... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
3: ...en it appeared in the morning, being closely associated with the greek sun god [[Helios]]. [[Pythagora...
10: ...imes as intense as it is on Earth, a total [[irradiance]] of 9.13 kW/m².
16: ...aloris Basin]], an [[impact crater]] ~1350 km in diameter. The planet is marked with [[scarp]]s, which...
18: Mercury's terrain features are officially listed as the following:
23: * [[Planitia|Planitiae]], ''i.e.'' [[plain|plains]] - see [[List of pla...
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