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- Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
5: ...y Louise Streep''' in [[Summit, New Jersey]], [[United States|USA]], and raised in nearby [[Bernardsvi...
7: ...h toward the industry and her own presence within it. As she would say when collecting her [[Emmy awar...
9: ... of [[Isabel Allende]]'s ''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', [[1995]]'s ''[[The Bridges of Madison Count...
11: ...om]]'', and completing another successful decade with ''[[Music of the Heart]]'', for which she learne...
18: ...below are her awards from the best recognized institutions. - Geography (8541 bytes)
2: ...mma;ραφειν'' ("to write," as in "to describe").
5: ...estigate what is where on the Earth, but also why it's there and not somewhere else, sometimes referre...
13: ...te discipline and became part of a typical universitycurriculum in Europe.
15: Over the past two centuries the quantity of knowledge and the number of tools has explode...
63: ...nship with other bodies in the [[solar system]]. It also includes [[landscape ecology]] and [[environ... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
1: ...raphy. Most commercial quality maps are now made with map making [[software]] that falls into one of t...
3: ... we can make reliable representations of that reality by adding levels of abstraction.
9: ...ater used geometry to survey land and to resurvey it after the periodic flooding of the [[Nile]] obscu...
11: ...rene estimated the circumference of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
13: ...ical cult that developed many number-based superstitions that later became the basis of [[mathematics]... - Africa (35389 bytes)
1: ...atellite orthographic.jpg|thumb|A satellite composite image of Africa]]
3: ...er 800 million human inhabitants in 54 countries, it accounts for about one seventh of the [[world hum...
8: ...frica (province)|province of Africa]] with its capital [[Carthage]], corresponding to modern-day [[Tun...
10: The origin of ''Afer'' may either come from:
13: ...Greek language|Greek]] word ''aphrike'', meaning without cold; - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
2: ...te orthographic.jpg|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of Antarctica]]
4: ...cated near the Earth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
6: ...ra Australis]] ("Southern Land") go back to antiquity, the first commonly accepted sighting of the con...
8: ...erage [[altitude]], and the lowest average [[humidity]] of any continent on Earth, as well as the lowe...
10: It has been assigned the [[Internet]] [[Top-level do... - Hungary (18459 bytes)
1: ...ania]], [[Serbia]], [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]]. It is known locally as the ''Country of the [[Magyar...
15: capital = [[Budapest]] |
17: largest_city = [[Budapest]] |
19: leader_titles = [[President of Hungary|President]]<br><br>[[...
22: area_magnitude = 1_E10 | - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] (also known as G...
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
17: leader_titles = [[Prime Minister]]<br>[[President]] |
19: largest_city = [[Jerusalem]] |
22: area_magnitude = 1 E10 | - Lepidoptera (3770 bytes)
12: ...dults have two pairs of membranous wings covered with [[Scale (zoology)|scales]], and mouth parts adap...
21: ... (1999), but for the superfamily [[Gelechoidea]], it retains the system of Nye & Fletcher (1991) rathe...
23: ...ided into several suborders, the largest being [[Ditrysia]]. Several other classifications of Lepidop...
27: ...rld.'' Volume 6: xxix + 368 pp. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London.
28: *[http://www.leps.it/ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa... - Animal (16429 bytes)
51: ...e plural, and ultimately from ''anima'', meaning vital breath or soul.
55: ...tive chamber, with one or two openings. Animals with this sort of organization are called metazoans, ...
57: ... shells, bones, and spicules. During development it forms a relatively flexible framework upon which ...
63: ...rthenogenesis]], where fertile eggs are produced without mating, or in some cases through fragmentatio...
65: ...gement. It first invaginates to form a gastrula with a digestive chamber, and two separate germ layer... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...ap below shows, the shapes of time zones can be quite irregular because they usually follow the bounda...
6: ...h Observatory]] in [[Greenwich]], [[London]], [[United Kingdom]] [http://greenwichmeantime.com/]. For ...
8: ...1—known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British Summer Time]] (BST).
11: ...A]]: UTC − 8 (e.g. if it is 12:00 UTC, then it is 04:00 in Los Angeles)
12: ...a]]: UTC − 5 (e.g. if it is 11:00 UTC, then it is 06:00 in Toronto) - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...acters with their [[glyph]]s, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. Many di...
5: ...inese characters, linear sorts are particular unsuitable for Chinese dictionaries. ''(See [[collation]...
8: ... a limited selection of words from a speech community is called a [[minimizing dictionary]] (e.g. a di...
14: ...ipt, entry words in the non-English language may either be printed and sorted in the native order, or ...
17: ...ictionaries, i.e. they attempt to cover only a limited number of the specialized vocabulary concerned.... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...erifiable [[empirical knowledge]], a global community of [[scholar]]s, and a set of [[technique]]s for...
4: ...any place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of science.
6: ...conception). [[Technology]] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects a...
11: ...''is'', how it ''functions'', and whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. The [[sociology...
15: ...ommunity and those in the social sciences or humanities (for example, the "[[Science wars]]"). - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ...y]], and uses the standard color codes of the [[United States Geologic Survey]].
3: ... spans of time on the time scale are usually delimited by major [[geology|geologic]] or [[paleontology...
7: ...gnized faunal stages than defined geologic time units.
9: ...omian]] stages in [[East Asia]] and [[Siberia]]. It is a key aspect of the work of the International ...
13: ...d, distorted, tilted, or even inverted after deposition; 2) Strata laid down at the same time in diffe... - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ...r trunk (see [[shrub]] for comparison). Compared with most other plant forms, trees are long-lived. A ...
13: ...ope]]s are defined largely by the trees that inhabit them; examples are [[rainforest]] and [[taiga]] (...
18: ...tyledon]]s (e.g. [[palm tree|palms]]), grow by addition of new material inwards.
20: ...f [[dendrochronology]]. In some tropical regions with constant year-round climate, growth is continuou...
22: ...the leaf-bearing branches, aiding in competition with other plant species for [[sunlight]]. In many tr... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...nt''' is a [[plant]] that derives some or most of its
5: especially [[nitrogen]], such as acidic [[bog]]s and rock outcropp...
10: There are five basic trapping mechanisms exploited by carnivorous plants. These
13: *Pitfall traps ([[pitcher plant]]s), which trap prey in a rolled leaf t...
15: *Snap traps, which trap prey with rapid leaf movements; - World War II (58065 bytes)
2: ...in [[World War I]] were involved in World War II. It was the most extensive and expensive armed confli...
4: ...ich date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German [[Polish September Campaign|invasio...
6: ... it continued in China. In Europe, the war ended with the surrender of Germany on [[8 May]] [[1945]] (...
8: ...ments in [[Pingfan]]. As a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bom...
10: ... led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic of China]]... - DNA (29095 bytes)
3: ..., DNA is [[DNA replication|replicated]] and transmitted to the offspring.
5: ...g [[organelle]]s known as [[chloroplast]]s and [[mitochondria]] also carry DNA, as do many [[virus]]es...
8: ...lar desired shape, what DNA sequence will produce it? What are all the functions of the DNA? The build...
10: ...necessarily a very accurate description, and that it's only meant as a generic overview.
12: :Wikipedia needs to be accurate, but it can be simple ''and'' accurate. Dumbing down som... - American Black Bear (15019 bytes)
16: ...s. Populations in east-central and the southern United States remain in the protected mountains and wo...
20: ...occasionally sport a slight white chest blaze on either side of the river.
23: ...ic shuffle results from walking flat-[[foot]]ed, with the hind [[leg]]s slightly longer than the front...
25: == Habitat and behavior ==
27: ...rnate during winter and may build dens in tree cavities, under logs, rocks, in banks, caves, or culver... - Flood (7770 bytes)
5: ...to absorb water. When a [[rain]]fall does occur, it can sometimes result in a sudden flood of water f...
7: ... by dikes and by [[dam]]s, also prevents the deposition of silt on the rich farmlands and can result i...
12: ...itation (meteorology)|precipitation]] associated with hurricanes. The eye of a hurricane has extremely...
14: Under some rare conditions associated with [[heat wave]]s, [[flash flood]]s from quickly me...
21: ...oastal flooding has been addressed in [[Europe]] with [[coastal defense]]s, such as [[sea wall]]s and ... - Garlic (12167 bytes)
3: ...s is included in many garlic recipes. Because of its strong odor, garlic is sometimes called the "[[s...
8: ...eaning the entire garlic bulb, rather than one of its segments, thereby wildly exaggerating the amount...
10: ...ves, a deciduous spathe, and a globose umbel of whitish flowers, among which are small bulbils. The bu...
14: ...in hot wet conditions, but try it all year round. It is pretty hardy and will live through frosts.
16: ... to be watered daily. If the shoots look dry then it is a sign that the plant needs a 'drink'.
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