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- Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon q...
11: ... fairly soft metallic material that can dissolve only a small concentration of carbon (no more than 0....
21: ...osphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly found elements must be removed from the ore duri...
28: ... the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people of [[Greenland]] began making [[harpoon]]s and other edged to...
46: ...lized cast iron, and quench-hardened steel, with only a few, probably ornamental, bronze weapons. - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...[lemur]]s. Madagascar and [[Mauritania]] are the only countries not to use a [[decimal currency]].
66: ...tion in [[March]] [[1972]]. However, he resigned only 2 months later in response to massive [[antigove...
68: ...year presidential term. For much of this period, only limited and restrained political opposition was ...
111: .... It is also mentioned that the communes are the only entities that are operational, and there will be...
174: ...ough [[2001]], [[poverty]] levels remained stubbornly high, especially in rural areas. A six-month pol... - Koala (10686 bytes)
18: ... [[herbivore]] endemic to [[Australia]], and the only representative of its [[family (biology)|family]...
35: ...y for [[excretion]], and the hind gut is greatly enlarged to extract the maximum amount of nutrient fr...
37: ...d]] areas. Of the over 120 species of gum trees, only about 20 are not poisonous to koalas.
47: ...remain hidden in the pouch for about six months, only feeding on milk. During this time they grow ear...
54: ...ther Australian bird and mammal species, and commonly coexist with humans so long as their food suppli... - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
17: ... the four sides of the base have a mean error of only [[1 E-2 m|15 mm]] in length, and 12 [[arcsecond|...
22: ...aking it the largest pyramid in Egypt, surpassed only by the [[Great Pyramid of Cholula]] in [[Mexico]...
24: ... limestone could be seen miles away even under moonlight.
26: ...everal other Egyptian pyramids—and that the niche would have contained a statue of the king, but th...
28: ...kind of granite known as "Red Aswan Granite" and only found some 250 miles South of Cairo. - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...along the [[Atlantic Ocean]], Vermont is noted mainly for the [[Green Mountains]] in the west and [[La...
66: ...ks]] burnt the settlement to the ground, leaving only chimneys and giving the area its name.
104: Vermont is the home state of the only two current members of the United States Congres...
121: Unlike other states, Vermont does not have a [[term l...
146: ...Cottage industry|cottage industries]] and [[Niche|niche markets]]. Examples of these are such exports as ... - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
42: Only a tiny percentage of animals are ever fossilized...
51: ...re are bigger dinosaurs, but they are known from only a small handful of bones. The current record hol...
53: ...[[mammoth]] were dwarfed by the giant sauropods. Only a small handful of aquatic animals approach it i...
58: ...rison with modern animals in similar [[ecological niche]]s rely on speculation and promise to generate co...
84: ...d until they filled most of the vacant ecological niches. During the reign of the dinosaurs, which encomp... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
25: ...tian war against Muslim conquests, it is not the only such example. The [[Normans|Norman]] adventurer ...
28: ... both Arabs (in Sicily) and Byzantines (on the mainland). A Latin hegemony in the Levant would provide...
34: On a popular level, the first crusades unleashed an unprecedented wave of impassioned, perso...
41: ...ut also in Spain and central Europe, against not only Muslims, but also Christian heretics and persona...
93: ...ade was diverted to [[Tunis]], where Louis spent only two months before dying. - Anthropology (23191 bytes)
1: ...bate, with anthropological methods now being commonly applied in single society/group studies.
16: ...e, the [[romanticism| romantic]] reaction to the Enlightenment produced thinkers such as [[Herder]] an...
20: ...nes; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In ...
30: ...able beliefs and practices. Thus, "culture" not only transcends the opposition between nature and nur...
58: ... on how societies evolve and fit their ecological niche - an approach popularized by [[Marvin Harris]]. [... - Mammal (11782 bytes)
156: ...est of all animals. True [[flight]] has evolved only once in mammals, the [[bat]]s; mammals such as [...
191: ...als existed alongside the [[dinosaur]]s, mammals only began to dominate after the [[mass extinction]] ...
194: ...h;58 mya), mammals exploded into the [[ecological niche]]s left by the extinction of the dinosaurs. Small... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
10: ...[[Nanni di Banco]], Ghiberti, and Donatello were enlisted. In service of this project, Donatello compl...
14: ... Louis of Toulouse'', which originally occupied a niche at Orsanmichele, were the first works in bronze w...
20: ...eed to fix it. The next week, he placed it in its niche at the [[Orsanmichele]] and the commissioners wer... - Coyote (4265 bytes)
15: ... and a relative of the domestic dog. Coyotes are only found in [[North America]]. Coyotes may occasion...
17: ...f the few medium-to-large-sized animals that has enlarged its territory since human encroachment began...
26: ...[wolf]], they began to fill the wolf's ecological niche, and hunted in packs to bring down large prey.) - Extinction (15793 bytes)
2: ...e to find and exploit an [[ecology|ecological]] [[niche]] — and species become extinct when are no ...
13: ... A species may become functionally extinct when only a handful of individuals survive, which are unab...
15: ...living specimens in the wild, and are maintained only in [[zoo]]s or other artificial environments. S...
25: ... when toxic pollution renders its entire habitat unlivable; or may occur gradually over thousands or m...
39: ...pends on dense shade for protection from direct sunlight can no longer survive with no forest to house... - Wolf (22358 bytes)
41: ...irst to which is allowed to [[breed]] (generally only the alpha pair).
49: Loss of rank can happen gradually or suddenly. An older wolf may simply choose to give way wh...
51: Usually, only the alpha pair are able to successfully rear a l...
59: ...and the killing of problem animals are today the only known methods to effectively stop livestock pred...
67: ...curs in February to May and wolves, unlike dogs, only mate once a year. Another interesting fact about... - Literature (25676 bytes)
5: ...zation|historical periods]]. Popular belief commonly holds that the literature of a [[nation]], for e...
9: ...as well as letters. To others, a literature must only include examples of text composed of letters, or...
54: ...y the aesthetic richness typical of poetry using only prose
62: ...]]s and the modern [[psychological novel]]. In mainland Europe, the [[Spain|Spaniard]] [[Miguel de Cer...
85: ...s and broadcast [[soap opera]]s have carved out a niche which often parallels the functionality of prose ... - Modem (21628 bytes)
14: ...a, the 103 had a transmission rate of 300 bit/s. Only a short time later they released the [[Bell 212]...
21: ...o introduced for special-purpose situations, commonly using a high-speed channel for sending, and a lo...
23: ...ot so obvious for users who were uploading and downloading files in the same session, and these soluti...
39: ...sing use of the internet, which is largely "read only", the small sacrifice for higher speeds made sen...
44: ...red the "ultimate fallback" today, although it's unlikely anything below 2400 bit/s would actually wor... - Fungus (12992 bytes)
21: ...o be eaten. ''Wild mushrooms should not be eaten unless identifed by an expert''. However, even very k...
38: ... of these. They usually have a stalk, composed mainly of hyphae, and a cap, under which there are shee...
48: ...[saprophyte]], and that of the [[parasite]]. The only difference between detritivorous and parasitic f...
106: * [[Psilocybe]]s, commonly known as ''[[Psychedelic mushroom|magic mushroom... - Guinea pig (19730 bytes)
41: ...found on grassy plains and occupy an [[ecological niche]] similar to that of the [[cattle|cow]]. They mo...
43: Unlike many rodents such as [[mouse|mice]], [[rat|rat...
60: ...r third week after birth. Females can breed when only three weeks old. [[Litter#Other_meanings_of_litt...
77: ...e badly, if not fatally, injured by a rabbit suddenly kicking out with its paws or an overly romantic ...
85: ...in their diet. Like [[Homo sapiens|humans]] but unlike most other [[mammal]]s, guinea pigs cannot syn... - Kiwi (6303 bytes)
19: ...ew Zealand]] of the genus '''''Apteryx''''' (the only genus in family '''Apterygidae'''). At around t...
21: ...usta'' and ''M. tuberculata'')). The [[ecological niche]]s that in other parts of the world were filled b...
42: ...igs, [[stoat]]s and cats and is extinct on the mainland and the most threatened of all kiwi. About 100...
45: ...three species of brown kiwi''. [http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1566-0621/contents Conservation Genet... - Fox (3295 bytes)
7: Unlike many canids, foxes are not pack animals; they ...
32: ...s, though perfectly suited to their environmental niche in their home country, may become a minor pest wh...
37: Unlike many wild animals, foxes have also managed to ... - Arctic fox (3697 bytes)
30: ...cluding [[Russia]], [[Canada]], [[Alaska]], [[Greenland]] and [[Svalbard]], as well as in sub-Arctic a...
34: ... fox population has grown larger, taking over the niche of top predator. In areas of northern [[Europe]] ...
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