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- Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ... laid the groundwork for [[classical mechanics]]. Newton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottf...
4: ...heliocentrism]]. Newton is also credited with providing mathematical substantiation for [[Kepler's law...
6: Newton also developed a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]], describing the...
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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)
7: ...hilosophy]] has a long history. Conventionally divided into three large eras - the Ancient, Medieval a...
10: Western Philosophy is generally said to begin in the Greek cities of western Asia Mino...
12: ...g parts), the [[Eleatic School|Eleatics]] [[Parmenides]] and [[Zeno of Elea|Zeno]] (All is One and cha...
14: ...ere respected members of society, and were well paid by their students. It's also well known that orat...
16: ...rying to determine whether anyone had a very good idea what they were talking about, especially when t... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
19: ...; instead, she quickly defected to the invader's side. James attempted to flee the realm on [[11 Decem...
22: ...our, and the guards at the royal palaces were forbidden to salute her husband.
24: ...licly supported William's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law,...
26: ...enacted the [[Act of Settlement 1701]], which provided that, failing the issue of Princess Anne and of...
28: ...ress when her father died later in [[1701]]. She did not, however, endear herself to her half-brother,... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
12: ...ivia Newton-John]], one of her early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm ...
16: :''What did you think I'd be doing now''
26: :''And your fake identification''
27: :''When they said, "Is there something, anything''
29: :''You said, "Yes, I'd like to know what kind of people'' - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...ny, a show that also included [[Ma Rainey]], who did not teach Bessie to sing but probably helped her ...
7: ... railroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accomp...
9: ...iness, and the advent of talking pictures, which did [[vaudeville]] in. Bessie, however, never stopped...
11: ... her old blues groove, but "Take Me For A Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popul...
13: ...ton]]'s uncle) Richard Morgan. They were in an accident and Smith was severely injured. A doctor soon ... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...lic for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number one on the ...
7: ...[North Carolina]], at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, N.C. When Amos was 2?, her family moved to [[Bal...
10: ...arted working with other artists (including Stan Ridgway of [[Wall of Voodoo]], [[Sandra Bernhard]] an...
13: ... desolation of "Me and a Gun", which received considerable critical attention. When the album was rele...
16: ...he album included "More Pink", a collection of B-Sides including a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ... Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with...
3: ...ent meaning, and "scientist" had not been coined; Newton was called a [[natural philosophy|natural philoso...
27: *Constant period of the pendulum (Newton)
31: ...far to fill fourteen centuries, and the other candidates are few:
40: ...d been accepted by all but a few astronomers. The idea that the earth moved around the sun, as advocat... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ... was originally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: ...sponds to [[German language|German]] ''Glas,'' [[Middle English|M.E.]] ''glas,'' [[Old English languag...
13: ...Common glass''' is mostly amorphous [[silicon dioxide]] ([[Silicon|Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), whic...
22: ...ed]] wavelengths in [[fibre optic]] cables. Individual fibers are given an equally transparent claddi...
26: ...tremely sharp knives since the [[stone age]]. Obsidian collection is prohibited by law in some places... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ...ister. Dexter ("right" in [[Latin]]) is the left side of the shield, and sinister ("left") is the righ...
5: ...arms may be drawn in many different ways, all considered equivalent, just as the [[letter]] "A" may be...
7: ...raldry, but the usual practice is to use bold, vivid colours rather than [[pastel]] shades.
12: Traditionally, as women did not go to [[war]], they would not have a shield. ...
75: ...field]] of a [[shield]] in [[heraldry]] can be divided into more than one [[tincture (heraldry)|tinctu... - Science (19868 bytes)
8: ...nce in terms of [[ontology]]: science attempts to identify what "things" in the world, their causal po...
16: ...ogy in which empirical reality is only the most evident layer, but there must also be actual and real ...
21: ...s]] with none of these properties, moving very rapidly in an area consisting mostly of empty space. Ma...
28: ...'s theory of universal gravitation]] is a body of ideas that allows a scientist to explain why the app...
30: ...s such as [[string theory]] may provide promising ideas, but have yet to receive the same level of scr... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
52: ...'' in 1927.<br><sup>6</sup> Official estimate provided by the UK [[Office for National Statistics]]. A...
56: ...re is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The UK also has [[B...
64: ... (IONA) has been proposed, but is little used outside diplomatic circles.
71: ...tter remaining part of the United Kingdom. As provided for in the treaty, Northern Ireland, which cons...
74: ...tury, played a leading role in developing Western ideas of property, liberty, capitalism and [[parliam... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
28: Width = 320 |
50: ...61 resulted in a few shots finding Iowa soil; a raid into Davis and Van Buren counties by Confederate ...
52: ...oval of war-time farm subsidies. Total recovery didn't happen until the [[1940s]].
54: ...r decline of family farms in Iowa and around the midwest, and was marked by a sharp drop in the state'...
69: ...an elevation of the state is 335 [[metre|m]]. Considering the size of the state (145,743 [[square kilo... - Kansas (21369 bytes)
28: Width = 211 mi; 340 |
37: ...aning "People of the south wind", is a [[Midwest|midwestern]] [[U.S. state|state]] in the [[United Sta...
48: ...1863]], [[William Quantrill]] led ''Quantrill's Raid'' into [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]] destroying m...
52: ...senhower|President Eisenhower]], presidential candidates [[Bob Dole]] and [[Alf Landon]], [[Amelia Ear...
55: {{Template:MetaSidebar|250px|#ffffaa|right|[[Kansas state symbols|St... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
28: Width = 110 |
39: ...was also settled by the [[Sweden|Swedes]] in the mid-1600's as part of the Swedish colony of [[New Swe...
41: ...Peter Stuyvesant]]. The newly taken lands were divided by [[Charles II of England|King Charles II of E...
55: ...ew Jersey on the [[obverse_and_reverse|reverse]] side of the 1999 [[State_Quarters|New Jersey State Qu...
70: ...ng governor based on his role as State Senate President upon [[James McGreevey|James E. McGreevey]]'s ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
54: ...d]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
70: ...Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
99: ...280s]]: [[Glasses|Eyeglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]] - Space (10661 bytes)
17: ...within the conceptual field of existence that provides the 'ground' for any manifested form and, as su...
19: ...cal physics]], space is a three-dimensional [[Euclidean space]] where any position can be described us...
24: ...tmosphere]]s of any [[celestial body]] can be considered 'space'. In particular, the boundary between...
30: * [[Euclidean space]]
43: ...ography]] is the branch of science concerned with identifying and describing the [[Earth]], utilising ... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
3: ...ted near the center of the [[Far side (Moon)|far side]] of Earth's Moon, its diameter is about 58 mile...
8: ... nowadays, to the extent that they are rarely considered as independent disciplines anymore. Motions ...
27: ...omy]]: the study of objects (mainly galaxies) outside our galaxy.
39: Also, there are other disciplines that may be considered part of astronomy:
71: ...scribed the earth as spinning on its axis and considered the motions of the planets with respect to th... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...omets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and v...
5: ...[[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
9: ... rather than an orbital trajectory. While the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is gen...
11: ...dually vanish out of sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or...
17: ...ons]] fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and molecules. In these coll... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e generally centered on [[Meridian (geography)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15...
6: ... reference point for Time Zones is the [[Prime Meridian]] ([[longitude]] 0?) which passes through the ...
8: GMT (UTC) is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only betwe...
18: ...r time zones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is o...
27: See also: [[Sidereal time]] [[Calculating local time]] - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...e evaluation of [[knowledge]]. This change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are...
11: ...emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ... some fields of [[study]] which are no longer considered scientific). An account of the development o...
27: ...ommunicated across generations with much greater fidelity. Combined with the [[Origins of agriculture|...
31: ...my]] was practiced in several civilizations. Considerable observation of macrobiotic flora and fauna ... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
3: ... not realized it could alternately appear on one side of the Sun and then the other. It was called [[H...
16: ...tidal bulge]]s, raised by the [[Sun]] (the Sun's tides on Mercury are about 17% stronger than the Moon...
21: ...rsa]], ''i.e.'' [[ridge|ridges]] - see [[List of ridges on Mercury]]
32: ...ays, a [[solar day]] (the length between two [[meridian]] [[Astronomical transit|transit]]s of the Sun...
37: ...llapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" align="right" width="280px"
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