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- Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Lo...
3: ...t became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and was the editor-in-chief of the f...
42: ... a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original. Goethe's tran... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
34: ... Reno enrolled at [[Harvard Law School]], one of only sixteen women in a class of more than 500 studen...
70: ...Ferrell on the final installment of the recurring sketch “[[Janet Reno’s Dance Party]]” ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ... undisputed portrait of Jane Austen is a coloured sketch done by Cassandra which resides in the [[National...
12: ...bear in mind that a "good marriage" was then the only available form of social security other than deg... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
14: ...ike [[Max Bugnard]]. She noted that she was the only female in most of the classes that she attended ...
28: ...the Ladle". In a 1978 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, she was affectionately parodied by [[Dan Aykroyd... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
10: ...ne-Henri, Prince de Ligne, with whom she had her only child, the writer [[Maurice Bernhardt]], in [[18...
11: [[Image:Sarah Bernhardt.png|thumb|right|Sketch of Sarah Bernhardt]] - Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
1: ... strictest definition of illuminated manuscript, only manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, like ...
3: ...d, for many areas and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting.
22: ...nned out beforehand, probably on wax tablets, the sketch pad of the era. The design was then traced onto... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
17: *Some stars can only be seen from certain parts of the earth.
25: ...]. This would, in turn, eventually lead to [[the Enlightenment]] a concern for scientific accuracy and...
41: ...is a very general type of map, the kind you might sketch on a napkin. - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
15: ...namic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design would...
17: ...to be made so as to accomplish that which we can only suggest. Yet there are sufficient proofs and exa...
53: ... occurred on [[July 2]], [[1900]]. It lasted for only 18 minutes, as LZ 1 was forced to land on the la...
57: ...W) as he expected. Langley's assistant, Charles Manly, then reworked the design into a five-cylinder w...
61: ...as "wing warping". Although this method was used only briefly during the history of aviation, it worke... - Printmaking (6788 bytes)
11: The [[artist]] draws a sketch on a plank of [[wood]] and then uses sharp tools ...
35: ...]]s. [[line (art)|Lines]] can vary from smooth to sketchy.
46: ...'' or [[newsprint paper]]. The wiping leaves ink only in the incisions.
70: ...er repels the grease in the ink, the ink adheres only to the oily parts, perfectly inking the image. - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
18: ...se the telescope to observe the [[sky]]. Based on sketchy descriptions of telescopes invented in the [[Net...
24: ...geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]] predicted that only crescent and new phases would be seen, since Ven...
39: ...esis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them. This principle was inc...
41: ...ieved this equality of period to be exact, it is only an approximation appropriate to small amplitudes...
43: ...time greater than when he and the assistant were only a few yards apart. While he could reach no concl... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
13: ...nal [[Ku Klux Klan]], in 1866; but it lasted for only three years.
71: ...re locked in a cycle of [[debt]], from which the only hope of escape was increased planting. This led ...
80: ... four-year span. To make matters worse, the [[McKinley Tariff of 1890]] was one of the highest the cou...
86: ... of work and destroying the industrial economy. Only the gold standard, they said, offered stability.
91: ...the election -- to the Republican's [[William McKinley]]. - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
3: ...uring the daytime, making it one of only two heavenly bodies that can be seen both day and night (the ...
7: The adjective ''Venusian'' is commonly used for Venus, but it is etymologically incorre...
14: ...nds in the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat.
16: ...ght back into space. This prevents most of the sunlight from ever heating the surface. Venus's [[Bol...
18: ... of force against obstructions. The clouds are mainly composed of [[sulfur dioxide]] and [[sulfuric ac... - DNA (29095 bytes)
8: ...re the electronic properties of DNA? Is junk DNA only molecular garbage?}}
10: ...arily a very accurate description, and that it's only meant as a generic overview.
14: ...entific dissection in a field you don't master ''only'' contained scientific data -- that would be fru...
27: ...rand of double-stranded DNA will "mate" properly only with a "T" on the other, complementary strand;
29: ...here are just four possible combinations, naming only one base on the conventionally chosen side of th... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
3: ...in enforcing the ''[[limpieza de sangre]]'' ("cleanliness of blood") against descendants of converted ...
18: ...as [[Pope Sixtus IV]] sanctioned the Inquisition only in the state of Castile. Later, Borgia was to ha...
20: ...thority of the Inquisition was supposed to reach only Christians, not Jews or Muslims, but since [[149...
44: ...als as suspected heretics in Spain, but of these only about 1,200 - 2,000 were actually sentenced to t...
55: ...isition (Monty Python)|The Spanish Inquisition]]" sketch by [[Monty Python]] ("Nobody expects the Spanish ... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ... the ''Superbas'' (under manager Ned Hanlon -- "Hanlon's Superbas" was the name of an acrobatic troup ...
23: ...en known won two successive pennats under [[Ned Hanlon]] in 1899 and 1900.
25: In 1902 Hanlon expressed his desire to buy a controlling inter...
28: ...o how did those bums do today?" Mullin decided to sketch an exaggerated version of famed circus clown [[Em...
32: *The only Brooklyn World Series title came in [[1955 World... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
23: ...deavoured to produce a telephone which would not only send musical notes, but articulate speech. With ...
25: ... range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the eighteen patents granted in his n...
39: ...otice of a patent application) of a similar kind only 2 hours after Bell had filed for his patent.
55: ...[decibel]] (dB), equal to 0.1 B, became more commonly used.
62: ...art. The sender consisted of a mirror directing sunlight onto the mouthpiece, where the light beam was... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
24: ...was actually fought a few miles to the west, and only overlapped the old battlefield along the Brock R...
26: ... of the old battle site before moving southward. Unlike the Union army of a year before, Grant had no ...
32: ...of the Wilderness 1864 map.png|thumb|left|300px|''Sketch of the battle of the Wilderness. Position of 2d C...
38: ...o hours, the situation was totally reversed. Not only had Longstreet regained all the ground lost, he ...
45: ...t's strategy was to wage a war of attrition. The only way that Lee could escape from the trap that Gra... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
15: In 1903 Cook led an expedition to [[Mount McKinley]], which resulted in his circumnavigation of th...
21: ==The 1906 Mt. McKinley Climb==
24: ... has ever been found: his photos' vistas, his two sketch maps' markers and peak-numberings for points atta...
29: ... crossing [[Nares Strait]] to Annoatok on the Greenland side in the spring of 1909, allegedly almost d...
31: ...ng similarities between Ahpellah and Etukishook's sketched route of their journey south and the route take... - Photography (18493 bytes)
2: ...nical]], [[chemical]] or [[digital]] devices commonly known as [[camera]]s.
5: Most commonly a [[camera]] or [[camera obscura]] is the image ...
25: [[image:First_photo_sketch.jpg|thumbnail|Sketch of the same scene]]
30: ...early cameras did not fix an image in time; they only projected what was before an opening in the wall...
36: ...e [[negative_%28photography%29|negative]] image. Unlike a daguerreotype, a calotype negative could be ... - Galen (5904 bytes)
18: ...wn theories from those principles. In turn, he mainly ignored Latin writings of [[Celsus]].
37: ...antiqua.org.uk/bio_gal.html Galen: A Biographical Sketch]
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