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- Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
1: ... Marshall''' ([[October 15]], [[1942]]) is an [[United States|American]] actress, producer and directo...
3: ...[New York City|New York]]. She is the sister of writer, producer and director [[Garry Marshall]].
5: ...the popular [[television|TV]] [[situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'' from ([[1976 in ...
14: *''[[How Sweet It Is!]]'' (1968)
28: *''[[Jumpin' Jack Flash]]'' (1986) - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...eece]], [[Cyprus]], south [[Albania]], [[Southern Italy]], south [[Republic of Macedonia|Former Yuglos...
13: ...]] with a documented history of some 3,000 years. It is symbolically divided in four historical period...
15: ...sation. It has been studied in schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onw...
17: ...estament Greek''' (after its most famous word of literature).
21: ...as 11th century). Today in its '''common''' form, it is spoken by approximately 15 million speakers wo... - Utah (29154 bytes)
11: ...pital = [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]] |
12: ...rgestCity = [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]] |
23: DensityRank = 41<sup>st</sup> |
24: 2000Density = 10.50 |
25: AdmittanceOrder = 45<sup>th</sup> | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...ntion into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded versio...
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
62: ...century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
99: ...eglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]] - Desert (21206 bytes)
4: ...e, deserts have a reputation for supporting very little life. Compared to wetter regions this may be t...
8: Deserts sometimes contain valuable mineral deposits that were formed in the arid environment or that...
14: ...fall, and semiarid lands have a mean annual precipitation of between 250 and 500 millimeters. Arid and...
16: ... also receives less than 250 millimeters of precipitation per year, but is not generally recognized as...
18: ... desert: a place where evaporation exceeds precipitation. - Sun (20830 bytes)
13: ! align="left" | [[Apparent magnitude|Visual brightness]] (''V'')
16: ! align="left" | [[Absolute magnitude]]
19: ...or="#ffffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''[[Orbit]]al characteristics'''
27: ! align="left" | Velocity
48: ! align="left" | Density - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...thority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[Vincenzo Galilei]], a mathe...
7: ...ved to the [[University of Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], an...
10: ...ted to the rejection of blind allegiance to authority (like the Church) or other thinkers (such as [[A...
12: ...rements of time, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the [[1600s]]. According to Ko... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...anuary 1 was called ''New Year's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], previously...
17: ...[1797]] - Albany replaces New York City as the capital on New York.
18: ...d [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: [[Image:Morse_sam.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://c...
2: ...r, making it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels.
4: ...s — on and off — it was an early form of a digital code. International Morse code is composed of s...
5: # short mark, dot or 'dit' (·)
7: ...intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character) - Metronome (3057 bytes)
1: [[Image:Wittner metronome in motion.jpg|A mechanical wind-up ...
4: ...me modern scholars to suspect his metronome was quite inaccurate.
10: ...mplicated "Dr. Beat", manufactured by Boss. In addition to a simple pulse, this metronome can play [[p...
12: ...gular "tick" sound to mark off regular intervals within each measure, and then there is a special meta...
21: ... of making the "ching" click sound metallic, make it sound like a regular "tick" except one [[octave]]... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
6: ...mpanied by the emission of [[light]]. The electricity passing through the discharge channels rapidly h...
10: ...t the idea of using a flying object, such as a [[kite]] instead.
12: ...len during the storm had soaked the line and made it conductive.
14: ...p idea that they used, so he usually gets the credit.
16: ...e of the room split, and the door itself torn off its hinges. - Flood (7770 bytes)
5: ...ood of water filling dry streambeds known as a "[[flash flood]]".
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: ...rare conditions associated with [[heat wave]]s, [[flash flood]]s from quickly melting mountain [[snow]] h...
21: ...oastal flooding has been addressed in [[Europe]] with [[coastal defense]]s, such as [[sea wall]]s and ... - Drama (12658 bytes)
1: ...]'' by [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]. Other dramatic literature may not resemble plays at all, such as the...
3: ...eek verb dran, `to do'. Greek tragedians applied it to the plays they wrote; [[Euripides]] is portray...
5: ==The problem with the term==
7: ... an umbrella, with all of its subforms underneath it.
9: ... stage is real, and to forget about the fact that it is not real). - Helicopter (20080 bytes)
5: ...er can travel to any location, and land anywhere with a clearing a rotor disk and a half in diameter.
9: ...carry slung loads, accommodating awkwardly shaped items), or as a mount for still, film or television ...
13: ...y eventually made its way to Europe via trade and it has been depicted in a [[1463]] painting. "Pao Ph...
15: ...e licensed (in March [[1946]]) for use in the [[United States]].
19: ...gled wings forces air downwards, creating an opposite reaction called [[lift (force)|lift]] that force... - Photography (18493 bytes)
2: ...done through [[mechanical]], [[chemical]] or [[digital]] devices commonly known as [[camera]]s.
5: ...adows of objects cast on the photographic paper, without the use of a camera. And one can place object...
15: *Sensitivity of the film
20: ...ty forces use photography for surveillance, recognition and data storage.
30: ...ra obscura'' literally means "darkened room," and it is after these darkened rooms that all modern cam... - Digital photography (33923 bytes)
4: ...evices, such as [[mobile phone]]s, now include digital photography features.
16: * Linear array (very rare, only limited to the highest-end)
18: ... considerably lower prices. (The [[Ritz Dakota Digital]] is an extreme example.)
20: == Multifunctionality and connectivity ==
22: ...owest-end, a [[digital memory]] device (usually [[flash memory]]; [[floppy disk]]s and [[CD-RW]]s are les... - American comic book (14771 bytes)
5: ...al about them, because of their huge range in quality, subject matter and audience through the past. ...
8: The first comic book published in the United States is thought to be [[The Adventures of Oba...
15: ...merican comic book, in the format we know today, with ''[[Funnies on Parade]]'' in [[1933]]. He print...
17: ...acters and stories. The company followed this up with ''[[Detective Comics]]''. Both series were heav...
19: ...mpanies were publishing large lines of superhero titles, and Superman has gone on to become one of the... - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
1: ...ter which is 282 feet (86 m) below [[sea level]]. It is also home to many species of [[plant]]s and [[...
3: ...sport this ore out of the Valley, helping to make it famous and the subject or set of numerous [[book]...
5: ...iment and, during the wet times of [[ice age]]s, with [[lake]]s, such as [[Lake Manly]].
9: ... Valley. The result of this shearing action is additional extension in the central part of Death Valle...
18: <td>South East [[California]], [[United States]]</td></tr> - Bayeux Tapestry (13194 bytes)
2: ...useum in the town of [[Bayeux]] in [[Normandy]]. It was made in [[England]] after the [[Norman Conque...
5: ...of 1066. The borders of the tapestry are filled with mythological figures, lions, dragons, and scenes...
7: ...dark room with special lighting to avoid damaging it.
9: ...ark brown and off-white can be found in cloth traditionally woven in the region.
11: ...ht strips of linen that make up the tapestry, and it is unknown whether they were done in chronologica... - Wildfire (23185 bytes)
8: ... substance somewhat like [[napalm]]; the word got its present meaning by people misunderstanding the e...
14: ...f [[drought]] and occur on days of strong winds. With extensive urbanization of wildlands, these fires...
16: ...e oils in the leaves) as a way to eliminate competition from less fire-tolerant species. In [[2004]], ...
18: ...cularly when they have reached urban-fringe communities, destroying many homes and causing deaths.
22: ... immediate fire area, but it also affects the quality of the local [[water]] supply.
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