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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
8: ... (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], ...
2: ...e and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...e [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ...the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ... hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marily... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...ly 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the gre...
7: ...er to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A hardened and angry child, she dropped out...
9: ...oliday: Wishing on the Moon'', ISBN 0306811367). Clarence Holiday accepted paternity, but was hardly a...
14: ...er first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
16: ... Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manh... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...n the history of the genre. She grew up in the "Black Pearl" section of the [[Carrollton, Louisiana|C...
3: ...s who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility.
5: ...]]. The late [[1960s]] saw a downturn in her popular success. She ended her career with a concert in... - Basalt (2961 bytes)
2: ...ro]]. The crustal portions of oceanic [[tectonic plate]]s are predominantly made of basalt.
4: ...ticularly as rinds on rapidly chilled surfaces of lava flows, and is commonly (but not exclusively) as...
8: ...d to have had an [[Ethiopia]]n origin, meaning a black stone.
12: ...e Columbia River Plateau. [[Pyroxene]], [[plagioclase]], and [[magnetite]] are common minerals.
13: *'''Alkaline basalt''' is relatively poor in silica and rich in sodium. - Africa (35389 bytes)
3: ...ts for about one seventh of the [[world human population]].
8: ...mdash; "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent,...
11: *the [[Phoenician languages|Phoenician]] ''`afar'', dust;
13: *the [[Greek language|Greek]] word ''aphrike'', meaning without c...
14: *or the [[Latin]] word ''aprica'', meaning sunny. - Kansas (21369 bytes)
4: Flag = Kansas state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Kansas]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = KS |
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' | - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
1: ...[[580s BCE|582 BCE]] – [[496 BCE]], [[Greek language|Greek]]:
2: ...tician]] and [[philosopher]], known best for formulating the [[Pythagorean theorem]].
6: ...s and his students believed that everything was related to [[mathematics]], and felt that everything c...
9: Pythagoras was probably born on the island of [[Samos]], off the coast of [[Asia Minor]]. ...
13: ...iples would sing hymns to [[Apollo]] together regularly; they used the [[lyre]] to cure illness of the... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ... as well as the [[international]], which shaped a large part of the [[history]] of the [[20th century]...
3: ...e Roaring Twenties broke out in [[Germany]], [[England]] and [[France]], where the second half of this...
5: ...e idea of modernity to a large parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favo...
8: ...orth America|the North American economy]], particularly the [[Economy of United States|economy of the ...
11: ...y rebounded as the returning soldiers entered the labor force and factories were retooled to produce c... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
1: ...here]]. It studies the [[Cosmology|origins]], [[Galaxy formation and evolution|evolution]], and [[Astr...
3: ...crater)|Daedalus]], photographed by the crew of [[Apollo 11]] as they circled the [[Moon]] in 1969. Locat...
5: ...e's destiny and human affairs in general are correlated to the apparent positions of astronomical obje...
8: ... Much of the effort in these two areas, once done largely by hand, is highly automated nowadays, to th...
12: ... of space under study (e.g., Galactic astronomy, Planetary Sciences); by subject, such as star formati... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...h]] is the third planet of the Solar System. ''[[Planetary system]]s'' are a more generic term for [[s...
3: ==Planets In the Solar System==
5: The wide variety of objects that exist in the Solar System fall into several categories. In recent y...
7: ...(☉) is a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] G2 [[star]] that contains 99.86% of the syste...
8: ... Solar System are those nine bodies traditionally labelled as such: - Sun (20830 bytes)
2: ... 1em; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;" align="right" width=280px
24: ! align="left" | [[Galaxy|Galactic]] period
35: ! align="left" | Oblateness
76: ...c]]) <br>67.23? <br>(to the [[Milky Way|galactic plane]])
84: ! align="left" | [[Solar rotation|Rotation period]]<br>at equator - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...pse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|t...
4: ...term to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-b...
6: ...olar system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...e through [[Earth's atmosphere]] and strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generall...
10: ...signate man-made objects which have ended up in solar orbits, such as the [[Mariner IV]] probe. - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
1: This is a '''list of reference tables''', similar to the collection of [[reference table]]s found ...
3: It includes listings or tabular information for quick reference, not narrative a...
7: Despite the present lack of support at Wikipedia for sorting tables, one...
9: ...dia:Page size]] suggests not to divide lists even large.
13: ...pacing=0 style="float: right; border-collapse: collapse"> - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...nd important aspects of space exploration was the landing of the first man on the moon in the [[space ...
6: ...cury]] space capsule trainers, and the original [[Apollo 16]] space capsule.
8: ...lue Marble]], a [[1972]] image taken during the [[Apollo program]]
13: ... Race]] between the two superpowers. Soviet dog [[Laika]] became the first animal in orbit on [[Novemb...
15: ...[[2004]] when [[Civilian Space eXploration Team]] launched the [[GoFast Rocket]] on a suborbital fligh... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
9: ...irst American to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle, arguably becoming the first American...
11: ...spationauts''' (a [[hybrid word]] formed from the Latin ''spatium'', "space", and Greek ''nautes'', "s...
13: ...tàikōng'' (太空), [[Chinese language|Chinese]] for [[outer space|space]]. In Ch...
18: ...to space in June [[1963]] aboard [[Vostok 6]]. [[Alan Shepard]] became the first [[American]] in space...
20: ...tronaut has traveled was 401,056 km (during the [[Apollo 13]] emergency). - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...mpirical knowledge]], a global community of [[scholar]]s, and a set of [[technique]]s for investigatin...
4: ...ies are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within t...
6: ... different articles. [[Mathematics]] is closely related to, but distinct from [[science]] (at least in...
11: ...nd trends. The [[sociology of science]] in particular has focused on the ways in which scientists work...
13: ..., who argued that scientific knowledge is not cumulative or progressive, and that there can be [[demar... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...4]]–[[1975|75]]); only 40–45% of the planet has been mapped.
3: ...mes]] when in the evening sky, but was known as [[Apollo]] when it appeared in the morning, being closely ...
5: The Chinese and Japanese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Water Star'', based on the [[Five Ele...
8: .../www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-religion-planet-nearest-to-the-sun answers.com])
10: ...ries by only about 11 K (with respect only to [[solar radiation]]; not [[climate]] or [[season]]). The... - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
5: ...Dynasty]], on a much larger scale and with longer lasting materials (solid stone used for the sides an...
24: ...in disrepair, serving as a playground for some villages and a source of stones to rebuild houses and r...
26: ...tionwide. However, Beijing has enacted local legislation which would prohibit visits to the "wild Grea...
42: ...arracks and administrative centers are located at larger intervals.
46: ...hed walls are erected with earth and rubble fill placed in between with a final paving to form a singl... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
1: [[Image:Landon-IcarusandDaedalus.jpg|right|thumb|Icarus and ...
3: ...ionary tale about attempting to reach heaven, similar to the [[Tower of Babel]] story in [[The Bible]]...
5: ... are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, suc...
13: ...ee [[First flying machine]] for a review of such claims.
15: ...h century from materials that would have been available to da Vinci. The design was deemed flightworth...
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