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  1. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    13: ...t the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to...
    66: ...s. Many academic philosophers criticize Rand not only for her sweeping denouncements of academic philo...
    105: ... vol 2, #2. [http://www.skeptic.com/02.2.shermer-unlikely-cult.html]
  2. Glass (26176 bytes)
    22: ...sub>/{{Germanium}}O<sub>2</sub> glass, which has only slightly different optical properties (the germa...
    52: ...loped, which led to its becoming a much more commonly used material. The invention of the glass pressi...
    85: ...ere rarely optically parallel giving rise to commonly seen distortions.
    87: ...hieved by grinding and mechanical polishing, but only at considerable expense.
    137: ...e glass would be placed thicker side down for the sake of stability. Also, the sparkle is greater and th...
  3. Heraldry (23465 bytes)
    9: The word "[[Crest (heraldry)|crest]]" is commonly used to refer to a coat-of-arms. However, in her...
    22: ...of arms''</td><td>''A shield, traditionally used only by a man''</td></tr>
    28: ...laced upon metal, nor colour upon colour, for the sake of contrast.
    69: ...redundancy by referring to a particular tincture only once in the blazon, but the College of Arms has ...
    92: ...sual, like wild men or [[Saracen]]s. If you show only the head of an animal, cut off at the neck, it i...
  4. Carpet (15753 bytes)
    1: ...were primarily hung on walls or used on tables. Only with the opening of trade routes in the 17th cen...
    3: ... floors, rugs on beds or on the hearth). For the sake of clarity, some textile scholars also differenti...
    16: ...ut forming a knot. Because of the loom structure only five colors can be used to create the design. Mo...
    19: Unlike woven carpets, [[embroidery]] carpets are not ...
    63: ... can be used to cover a floor. They are usually only used in commercial settings and often are not af...
  5. Sackbut (3802 bytes)
    4: ...having a more mellow [[tone]]. It was employed mainly in [[alto]], [[tenor]] and [[bass]] sizes. It wa...
    10: ...g to use D and A positions in performance for the sake of greater historical accuracy, rather than trans...
  6. President of the United States (42878 bytes)
    19: ...nt of the United States|Vice President]] are the only two nationally elected officials in the United S...
    29: ...d defend the Constitution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoo...
    162: | 25 || [[William McKinley]]{{ref 6}}
    163: || [[Image:Mckinley.jpg|50px]]
    262: Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only President to serve more than 8 years in the offi...
  7. Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
    34: ...ndash;[[March 3]], [[1837]]). At the time he was only 27 years old, the youngest representative at the...
    56: ...ntial [[oath of office]], becoming the first and only president to do so.
    58: ...p would soon break up, but instead it became the only Cabinet that would remain unchanged through a fo...
    63: ... part of southern New Mexico for $10,000,000 commonly known as the [[Gadsden Purchase]].
    65: ...everal southern Senators, with Pierce consulting only [[Jefferson Davis]] of his cabinet. The passage...
  8. California (63989 bytes)
    93: ...the [[Sea of Cortez]] and the Pacific coast were only partially explored and California was shown on e...
    122: ...he odd-numbered districts are elected in years evenly divisible by four, i.e., presidential election y...
    124: ...m lasts through January 2007. Schwarzenegger was only the second person in the history of the United S...
    128: ...erms, after which they may run for re-election. Unlike the retention elections for Supreme Court and ...
    134: ... Empire, Orange and San Diego counties, and most inland, eastern, and rural areas. Democratic bastion...
  9. Agathon (3124 bytes)
    4: ... and effeminate youth, and it may be only for the sake of punning on his name that he makes Dionysus cal...
    6: ...ent of truly virile expression and deficient in manly thought and vigor. With him begins the decline o...
  10. Sport (14061 bytes)
    18: Not only has professionalism helped increase the populari...
    51: ...hos that the activity will be enjoyed for its own sake. The well-known sentiment by sports journalist [[...
    54: [["Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing."]] or an obsession with individual achiev...
    58: ...example, in [[football]] it is considered sportsmanlike to kick the ball out of play to allow treatmen...
    62: .... Athletes, coaches, fans, and parents sometimes unleash violent behaviour on people or property, in m...
  11. History of science (41710 bytes)
    27: ... such as the search for knowledge for knowledge's sake.
    40: .... Initially these universities were organized to only teach [[theology]], but people like [[Roger Baco...
    78: ...sults by introducing discrete energy levels. Not only did [[quantum mechanics]] show that the laws of ...
    91: ...ls provided a ready supply of products which not only provided energy, but also synthetic materials fo...
    117: ...reciated by his contemporaries and came into use only with discoveries of British surgeon [[Joseph Lis...
  12. Medieval music (31843 bytes)
    29: ... center. The standardization effort consisted mainly of combining these two (Roman and [[Gallican cha...
    36: ...uence, if only from the music of the synagogue. Only the smallest of scraps of ancient music have sur...
    55: ...ent Rome|Roman]] drama with Christian stories--mainly the Gospel, the Passion, and the lives of the sa...
    63: ...]]ic notation first appeared in western music, mainly a context-based method of rhythmic notation know...
    91: ...uired a polyphonic sophistication formerly found only in sacred music, a development not surprising co...
  13. Barbecue (24807 bytes)
    6: ... the U.S., many consider "barbecuing" to include only relatively indirect methods of cooking, with the...
    40: [[Bulgogi]] (&#48520;&#44256;&#44592;) is thinly sliced [[beef]] (and sometimes [[pork]]) marinat...
    51: ...ant in [[Tuscaloosa]], there are no side dishes, only ribs, bread, and sauce.
    69: ...e meat, though not always used in cooking. The Moonlight Inn in [[Owensboro, Kentucky|Owensboro]] is t...
    91: ...le hog is typically used; in the west, sometimes only pork shoulders are used for barbecue.
  14. Economics (30960 bytes)
    1: ...tion of [[scarcity|scarce]] resources to satisfy unlimited wants. This involves analyzing the [[produ...
    45: ...surable value is needed. The oldest and most commonly used is ''price'', or the going rate of exchange...
    54: ... only at the expense of, say, fewer carrots (you only have so much land on which to grow food - land i...
    74: ... economists, but those theories are far from the only accepted basis for "value". For example, [[neocl...
    91: ... of reasoning is exhibited by [[Paul Krugman]]'s online essay, ''There's something about macro''. See ...
  15. Christianity (47078 bytes)
    14: ...generally believe that faith in [[Jesus]] is the only way to achieve salvation and to enter into [[hea...
    29: ... been written eponymously by their respective namesakes.
    45: ... organization the Christian church had to deal mainly with occasional, but sometimes severe persecutio...
    54: This was only the first of several [[ecumenical council|ecumen...
    58: ...us Christus]]'' (Christ alone&mdash;is Jesus the only mediator between humanity and God, or do the Chu...
  16. Meditation (26064 bytes)
    32: ...ows the practitioner to tap into the healing and enlightening energy coming from the life-giving womb ...
    34: ...ple words, but invariably the deeper meaning can only be understood through regular practice.
    39: ...nd is instead trained to be acutely aware of not only breathing, but all things that one comes to expe...
    47: The Buddha achieved [[Bodhi|enlightenment]] while meditating under a [[Bodhi tree...
    76: ...echniques are intended to train attention for the sake of provoking insight. Think of it as the opposite...
  17. Cambodia (32076 bytes)
    49: ....e. "the great river") and the [[Tonle Sap Lake|Tonle Sap]] (i.e. "the fresh water river"), an importa...
    83: ===Ancient states: Funan and Chenla===
    85: ...s AD, the Indianized states of [[Funan]] and [[Chenla]] took hold in what is now present-day Cambodia ...
    94: ...18) saw the rapid expansion of the Khmer Empire. Unlike his ancestors, who had concentrated upon the c...
    96: ...d so much stone." Often, quality suffered for the sake of size and rapid construction. An example of thi...
  18. Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
    11: ...western painter to paint landscapes for their own sake, rather than as a backdrop to a religious [[alleg...
  19. William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
    6: ...ly impressive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 years.
    14: ... and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is a...
    35: ...er, Belott sued his father-in-law for delivering only part of the dowry. Shakespeare was called to tes...
    41: ...of some, he took a neutral position, making sure only that his own income from the land was protected....
    49: :Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear,</br>
  20. Hittites (17910 bytes)
    7: ...#1495;&#1514;&#1497; or ''HTY'' in the consonant-only [[Hebrew language|Hebrew script]]), which are al...
    37: ... written in the [[17th century BC]] but survived only as copies made in the [[14th century BC|14th]] a...
    46: ... For this reason, all the kings' reigns passed mainly by struggles and wars with neighbouring Assyrian...
    149: ...:3); the latter was murdered by [[David]] for the sake of his wife [[Bathsheba]]. [[King Solomon]] had H...
    156: ...ple, and believe that the similarity in names is only a coincidence. In order to stress this distincti...

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