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- Otto Lilienthal (1728 bytes)
1: [[Image:otto-lilienthal.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Otto Lilienthal]]
3: ...t successful human-carrying [[glider]], the [[Derwitzer Glider]] in [[1891]], but this distinction in ...
5: ...prove that heavier-than-air flight was practical without flapping wings, laying the groundwork for the...
6: [[Image:Otto_lilienthal_flying.jpg|200px|left]]
8: ...t his aircraft could only reach low speeds and altitudes. On [[9 August]] [[1896]], a gust of wind fr...
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- List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
3: ...an in the late [[15th century]] and lasted for a little more than three full centuries.
91: *[[Vitus Bering]]
94: *[[Fyodor Petrovich Litke]]
97: *[[Otto von Kotzebue]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...bandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
30: ...rge Abbot|Abbot, George]], (1603-1648), English writer
31: ... Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lise_Meitner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lise Meitner]]
2: ...]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioactivity]] and [[nuclear physics]].
4: ...ner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of ch...
8: ...n [[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Aug...
10: ... Einstein|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning le... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...tant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...ed a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jensen ]...
7: ... like the Earth spinning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described t...
9: ...other. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go clock...
11: ...d as saying, "winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work." - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...ly player to have won all four of the Grand Slam titles at least four times each.
6: ...soon began winning junior tournaments with regularity, and in [[1982]] she won the European Championsh...
8: ...there were "hundreds" of kids like her in the [[United States]].
10: ...cus was kept very much on on-court play. Working with her father and coach Pavel Slozil, Graf typicall...
12: ...Chris Evert]] in the final. She followed this up with seven further tournament victories in 1986, and ... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
56: ...Kelvin|K]] (1050 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1922 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
69: | [[Velocity of sound]]
74: | [[Electronegativity]] || 1.1 ([[Pauling scale]]) - Brain (22060 bytes)
1: ...[nervous system]]. Although the brain is usually cited as the supervisory center of [[vertebrate]] ner...
3: ... Functions of the brain are responsible for [[cognition]], [[emotion]], [[memory]], [[motor learning]]...
5: ... by sending various chemicals called [[neurotransmitter]]s across gaps known as [[synapse]]s. Small in...
9: ...[eye]] for visual processing and a central brain with three divisions. The cephalopod brain has a cent...
11: ...eeping the volume of the brain compact enough to fit inside the skull. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ... of the Renaissance in the [[15th century]] in [[Italy]], early [[16th century]] in [[Northern Europe...
5: ...mage:MCD_001.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Romanesque]] [[architecture]] flourished in the early '''Middle Ages'''...
6: ...ts political and social senses were unevolved and its technologies undeveloped, compared to the preced...
8: ...cture quickly vanished, leading to the rise of illiteracy among leadership.
12: ...Romans did not withstand the changes, and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery la... - Concertina (3686 bytes)
2: ...eed_instrument|free-reed]] family of instruments. It was first invented in [[1829]] by [[Sir Charles W...
6: ...ere are several common kinds. To player familiar with one of these "systems," a concertina of a differ...
10: ...dited as the inventor of the Anglo concertina. British builders active in the late nineteenth and ear...
13: ... placing the thumbs through thumb straps and the little fingers on metal finger rests, leaving three f...
16: ...notes in the left hand, high notes in the right, with some overlap (like a two-manual organ), and the ... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ..., Greece has a long and rich history during which its culture has proven especially influential in [[E...
11: | colspan=2 align=center | <small>''National [[motto]]:'' ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡ&#...
17: | '''[[Capital]]''' || [[Athens]]
19: | '''Largest city''' || [[Athens]]
27: ...al ([[2004]])<br> - [[Population density|Density]] || [[List of countries by population|Ranked 70... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...Baltic Sea]], to the south by [[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]],...
13: ... und Freiheit''<br>([[German language|German]]: Unity and Justice and Freedom)
15: ...]]<br>3rd stanza (''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit'')
21: |'''[[Capital]]''' || [[Berlin]]
23: |'''Largest City''' || [[Berlin]] - Ancient history (7857 bytes)
1: ...rope ancient history was followed by [[Late Antiquity]] and the [[Middle Ages]].
3: ...t|cuneiform]] possibly being the oldest form of writing. [[Genetic]] evidence, however, points to the ...
12: *African Ancient Kingdoms: [[Axumite Kingdom]], [[Kush]], etc.
17: *[[Hittites]]
23: *[[Mitanni]] - 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]] - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ...ed votes) rather than ''universal suffrage'' (abolition of discrimination due to, for instance, race),...
2: ... 1912.jpeg|thumb|350px|Suffrage parade, New York City, 1912]]
3: ... the [[United States]] became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women.
4: ...office in [[South Australia]] in [[1894]], along with universal suffrage in that state.
13: ... latter half of the nineteenth century, starting with [[South Australia]] in [[1861]]. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...aic]], which are [[Semitic languages]], and [[Elamite]], which is an [[Elamo-Dravidian]] language.
16: ...y) in the 1880s, but Rawlinson's volumes contain little Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets...
18:
20: The University of Pennsylvania began excavating Sumerian [[Nipp...
24: Credit for being first to scientifically treat a bilingu... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...of Babel]] story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...ol planes have advanced significantly as well. Initially planes were controlled by moving your entire...
9: ...er_leonardo1.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter body ]]
11: ...er_leonardo2.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter wings ]]
15: ...iderable amount of interpretation of his design, with modern knowledge of aerodynamic principles in mi... - Printmaking (6788 bytes)
1: ...ocess chosen, the artist may work in conjunction with an expert printmaker, and make use of a [[printi...
6: ...aking techniques are [[woodcut]], [[etching]], [[lithography]], and [[screen-printing]]. Other printma...
11: ...placed over the block. The block is then rubbed with a [[baren]] or [[spoon]], or is run through the ...
16: [[Georg Baselitz]],
34: ...[intaglio (printmaking)|intaglio]] family (along with [[engraving]], [[drypoint]], [[mezzotint]], and ... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
22: ... - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...Emile Berliner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]]
31: *[[Bi Sheng]] — primitive movable [[printing]] types
40: ...her von Braun]], (1912-1977), [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - World War I (62979 bytes)
1: ...res 1917.jpg|thumb|300px|Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the [[Battle of Passchendaele]]. Battle after...
2: ...sties, the [[Habsburg]]s, the [[Romanov]]s, the [[Ottoman]]s and the [[Hohenzollern]]s, who had roots of...
4: ...iplomatic and political origins|Diplomatic and political origins]] below).
6: ...hus the outbreak of [[World War II]] in [[1939]]. It also greatly increased the use of mass industrial...
8: .... Scholars have also cited German diplomatic ineptitude as well as a tremendous tide of nationalism th...
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