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- Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...ersal and, as the map below shows, the shapes of time zones can be quite irregular because they usually...
4: [[image:Timezones.png|thumb|400px|Standard Time Zones of the World by the CIA]]
6: ...today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerl...
8: ... in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British Summer Time]] (BST).
10: The time for a location is given relative to UTC. Some exa... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: The '''geologic time scale''' is used by [[geologist]]s and other scie...
3: ...e in each period. Different spans of time on the time scale are usually delimited by major [[geology|ge...
7: ...re recognized faunal stages than defined geologic time units.
9: ...ones based on [[trilobita|trilobites]]. The same timespan is split into [[Tommotian]], [[Atdabanian]] a...
11: ==History of the time scale== - Time (15299 bytes)
3: ...n philosophical and scientific issues relating to time.
5: ...motion have long served as standards for units of time - such as the apparent motion of the sun across t...
9: The standard [[unit]] for time is the [[SI]] [[second]], from which larger units...
11: ...iversal Time]] (UTC) which is the basis for civil time.
15: ... important systems of periodization is [[Geologic time]], which is a system of periodizing the events th...
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
46: time_zone = |
48: time_zone_DST = varies |
64: ... plateau, the Mexica, or Aztecs, as they were sometimes called in memory of [[Aztlan], the starting poin...
74: ...s of Tejas, calling themselves Texians and led mainly by relatively recently-arrived [[English languag...
76: ... (arguably, the most powerful in the world at the time) at the city of [[Puebla, Puebla|Puebla]] on [[Ma... - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...mple of political stablity in the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin Am...
46: | '''[[Time zone]]'''
47: | [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] -6
61: In [[Pre-Columbian]] times the [[Native American]]s in what is now [[Costa ...
69: ...Central America. Since the late [[19th century]] only two brief periods of violence have marred its de... - List of elements by symbol (14812 bytes)
127: ...>[[actinon]]</td><td>86</td><td>Name given at one time to an isotope of [[radon]] identified in the deca...
145: ...d>[[ionium]]</td><td>90</td><td>Name given at one time to an isotope of [[thorium]] identified in the de...
164: ...d>[[thoron]]</td><td>86</td><td>Name given at one time to an isotope of [[radon]] identified in the deca... - Pennsylvanian (1543 bytes)
3: The '''Pennsylvanian''' is a [[Geologic Timescale|geologic (sub)period]] lasting from roughly ...
5: ...the [[United States]] in Middle [[Pennsylvanian]] time.]]
6: ...ne]]s, it is treated as a full fledged [[Geologic Timescale|geologic period]] between the [[Mississippia...
14: Provides a picture of what the world at the time period. - Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
7: ...x was positioned a [[mirror]] which reflected [[sunlight]] during the day; a [[fire]] was lit at night...
9: ...of modern optics and reflective technology in the time period in which the lighthouse existed. Probably ...
17: ...t and lacking in the kind of landmark used at the time for [[navigation]], a marker of some sort at the ... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...east 3,500 years, and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of their civilization...
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itse...
14: ..., and one of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. F...
24: ... the Shang), is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang. - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...vers, in modern [[Iraq]] and [[Syria]]. More commonly, the term includes these river plains in totalit...
6: ...] and the [[Elamite Empire|Elamites]]. During the time of the [[Persian Empire]] of [[Sassanid]]s this a... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...edon]] has been beyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
8: ...t his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reached by means of an apparatus of ropes. Ct...
12: ...II]]. [[Xerxes II]], who reigned for a very short time, could scarcely have obtained so splendid a monum...
30: ...ed by an excessive love of wine. (2) At the very time when his enemy and his rival for a throne was pre...
37: ...ersian tradition at a very remote period knew of only three architectural wonders in that region, whic... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
14: ...e to the use of slavery there - the workforce, mainly slaves, performed the labour that otherwise woul...
20: ... the idea that evil is a kind of ignorance, that only knowledge can lead to virtue, that art should be...
27: ... worthy of study. One continuing interest in this time was to prove the existence of God, through logic ...
42: ... Reason" or "Early Modern Philosophers" and "The Enlightenment", another author might write from the p...
46: ...of the [[American Revolution]] are part of [[The Enlightenment]]. - Bjarni Herjulfsson (982 bytes)
1: ... seemed to have taken any interest in them at the time.
3: ...uropeans in the Americas (if not counting the Greenland settlements).
7: * [[Vinland]] - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
5: ...hool of thought believes Arthur to have lived sometime in the late [[5th century]] to early [[6th centur...
9: ...cal career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him ...
11: ...eltic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into [[...
29: ...t he with his company of riders may be seen by moonlight in the forests of Britain or Brittany or Savo...
43: ...[Camelot]] in the later prose romances, could sometimes be found the wizard [[Merlin (wizard)|Merlin]]. ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debat...
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
31: ...her Bartolomeo worked as a mapmaker in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] a...
41: ...times claimed that the reason Columbus had a hard time receiving support for this plan was that European... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...red because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise to the popular quotation, "''...
8: ...44]], and his wife travelled with him for a brief time at his insistence and over the protests of the Mo...
14: ...as, and to publish a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which ...
19: ...ed as a failure in many British newspapers of the time, and Livingstone experienced great difficulty in ...
22: ...[1866]], Livingstone returned to [[Africa]], this time to [[Zanzibar]] (now part of [[Tanzania]]), where... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
9: ...red harbours without serious mishap and that the only sailors he lost were victims of an epidemic asho...
13: ...or [[northwest passage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he...
17: ...ed to the chief). He sailed upriver for the first time and reached the site of present-day [[Québec Cit...
21: ...he natives, in particular their habit of wearing only leggings and moccasins even in the dead of winte...
33: ...-Malo]] on his third voyage with five ships. This time, any thoughts of finding a passage to the Orient ... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...school of [[Fiqh]], or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a [[Qadi]] or judge. However, he is best known a...
4: ...ation '''Shams ad-Din''', a title or honorific at times given to the names of scholars particularly in t...
11: Born in [[Tangier]], [[Morocco]] some time between 1304 and [[1307]], at the age of (approxi...
13: ... embarked on the first of his detours. Three commonly used routes existed to Mecca, and Ibn Battuta ch...
15: ...first trip who prophesied that Ibn Battuta would only reach Mecca after a journey through [[Syria]]. A... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
1: ...nsylvania]], [[New Jersey]], [[Delaware]] and sometimes [[Maryland]]. Today these areas are described as...
5: ..., strawberries, and cherries. Since water was sometimes impure, all members of the family drank [[milk]]...
11: ...and religious lessons. Basic arithmetic was the only other education.
13: ...as popular among both women and men. From time to time, acrobats, tightrope walkers, and showmen exhibit... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...y [[coal]]) and powered [[machine|machinery]] (mainly in [[textile]] [[manufacturing]]). The developme...
14: ... recovery from the disorder in the early medieval times, and there was development in agriculture and tr...
34: ...f Arts, Manufactures and Commerce]] or, more commonly, [[Society of Arts]] published an illustrated vo...
48: ...rmed to protest against industrialization and sometimes [[sabotage]]d factories.
53: ...chanical parts of early textile machines were sometimes called 'clock work' due to the metal spindles an... - 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....
13: ... [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the strength of ferrite. Martensite has a very ...
15: ...ransformation to ferrite or perlite does not have time to take place. The transformation into martensit...
19: ...re ductile and fracture-resistant metal. Because time is so critical to the end result, this process is... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: The word ''Puritan'' is now applied unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the ...
5: ...hurch]]. The term was used by the group itself mainly in the sixteenth century, though it seems to hav...
24: ...eak of the [[English Civil War]]. Puritans certainly agitated against the king, and reform of the rel...
26: By this time, Puritans were more often referred to as [[Dissen...
30: ...angelical]] faction of the Church of England, sometimes called "Low Anglican", while in the [[United Sta... - Cottage industry (368 bytes)
3: ...used for people working from their home on a part time basis. Primarily used for manufactoring, these wo...
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