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- Time zone (34024 bytes)
8: ...is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in October ...
31: ...ime until [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to t...
41: ... 7.5? wide separated by a [[longitude]] of 180?. Unlike the zig-zagging land-based [[International Dat...
43: ...eas that do not have a legal standard time ([[Greenland]]'s [[ice sheet]] and all of [[Antarctica]]&md...
45: ...it to within 50 ms of UT1, reducing the error to only 20 m. - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
13: ...ces; 3) The strata of any given area represented only part of the Earth's long history.
23: ...represented. [[Creationist]]s proposed dates of only a few thousand years, while others suggested lar...
154: | style="background:#B189B3" | [[Wenlock epoch|Wenlock]]
268: # Though commonly used, the [[Hadean]] is not a formal eon and no ... - Time (15299 bytes)
45: ...that of light. Many subatomic particle exist for only a fixed fraction of a second in a lab relatively...
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
74: ...s of Tejas, calling themselves Texians and led mainly by relatively recently-arrived [[English languag...
139: ...e than the nation's "free and sovereign states": only since 1997 have its citizens been able to elect ...
161: Situated in the southwestern part of mainland North America and roughly triangular in shape,...
194: ... expatriate communities; Mexico's Muslims number only a few thousand or less. - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...Costa Rica has only a national [[police]] force. Unlike most of its [[Continent|continental]] neighbor...
69: ...Central America. Since the late [[19th century]] only two brief periods of violence have marred its de...
78: ...ca has no military by constitution and maintains only domestic police and security forces for internal...
118: ...nal work opportunities as agricultural workers mainly in the south-eastern border region with [[Panama...
135: ...plants]] and [[animal]]s. While the country has only about 0.1% of the world's land mass, it contains... - List of elements by symbol (14812 bytes)
- Pennsylvanian (1543 bytes)
- Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
7: ...x was positioned a [[mirror]] which reflected [[sunlight]] during the day; a [[fire]] was lit at night...
9: ... they could reach shore. However, this is highly unlikely due to the lack of modern optics and reflect...
17: ...Egypt]], with its artificial connection to the mainland (the [[Heptastadion]]) forming one side of 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...
36: ...he [[Qin Dynasty|Qin]] (秦) Emperor lasted only twelve years, he managed to subdue great parts o...
92: ...back rooms, so his father would not see them. He only kept the most old and ugly servants, and old fur...
146: ...ired by the Ming. The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned and cannon...
148: ...the Ming economic system emphasized agriculture, unlike that of Song, which had preceded the Mongolian... - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...vers, in modern [[Iraq]] and [[Syria]]. More commonly, the term includes these river plains in totalit... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
8: ...t his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reached by means of an apparatus of ropes. Ct...
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...
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: ... He did, however, report his findings both in Greenland and in Norway, but no one seemed to have taken...
3: ...uropeans in the Americas (if not counting the Greenland settlements).
7: * [[Vinland]] - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
9: ...cal career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him ...
29: ...t he with his company of riders may be seen by moonlight in the forests of Britain or Brittany or Savo...
93: ...orth a read and the Authors notes at the end are enlightening. "There is a sword and there is a stone,...
110: ...n series ''Justice League'' and ''Justice League Unlimited'' featuring related characters Morgan Le Fa... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
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...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...red because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise to the popular quotation, "''...
25: ...onstituent of the present [[Tanzania]]), until Stanley left the next year.
27: Despite Stanley's urgings, Livingstone was determined not to le... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
9: ...red harbours without serious mishap and that the only sailors he lost were victims of an epidemic asho...
21: ...he natives, in particular their habit of wearing only leggings and moccasins even in the dead of winte... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
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...
20: ...ra]], then [[Isfahan (city)|Isfahan]], which was only a few decades away from being nearly destroyed b...
103: [[nl:Ibn Batuta]] - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
11: ...and religious lessons. Basic arithmetic was the only other education. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...y [[coal]]) and powered [[machine|machinery]] (mainly in [[textile]] [[manufacturing]]). The developme...
34: ...f Arts, Manufactures and Commerce]] or, more commonly, [[Society of Arts]] published an illustrated vo...
65: ...g needed, and thus goods in these materials made only a small proportion of the output.
83: ... the scientific reasons for the improvement were only discovered later. His family followed in his foo...
101: At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, inland transport was by navigable rivers and roads, w... - 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. - 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...
44: *Education and enlightenment for the masses
62: In the [[United States]], "Puritan" is the only acceptable spelling. Through the twentieth cent... - Cottage industry (368 bytes)
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