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- Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
1: ...ew England colony. The Middle Colonies were also known as the "bread basket" colonies because of their...
11: ...r children reading skills and religious lessons. Basic arithmetic was the only other education.
13: ...nd bowling were popular with the men, as they are now. The women enjoyed visiting with friends and rel... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labor to one dominated by indus...
3: ...]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development ...
5: ...developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
10: ...ncial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is t...
14: ...0 onwards, because there was a scientific and technological improvement, growth of supply of food beca... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ... alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
8: ...d chemical partner such as carbon. This process, known as [[smelting]], was first applied to metals wi...
11: ...ng this process, leading to a patterned layering known as [[pearlite]] due to its [[pearl]]-like appea...
15: ...hat the transformation to ferrite or perlite does not have time to take place. The transformation int...
19: ...s so critical to the end result, this process is known as '''[[tempering]]''', source of the term '''t... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...figurehead of a political philosophy that became known as [[Thatcherism]], which involves reduced gove...
31: ...ccured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher a...
33: ...ical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was chall... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...New York Call'' entitled "What Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation''...
11: ...s followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse f...
13: ...(renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the Nationa...
15: ...h Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of A...
24: ... regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she contrasted w... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...in [[Allegheny City]], [[Pennsylvania]], which is now part of [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]],...
8: ...r vocation, and paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[18...
14: ...n against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of h...
21: ...mpler, straightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified herself with any art movement a...
27: ... the ancient art, and her brother's death she did not paint until [[1912]]. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...e_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philoso...
11: ...ational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Rand...
13: ... his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by p...
19: ...me from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she liked and adopted. The... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman of valor, vigor, and faith.
7: ...and making the infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
10: [[Image:JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-L...
12: ... private prayer that he had made the previous [[1 November]], although he additionally insisted on hav...
14: ...iers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Count of Dunois)]],[[La Hire]], and [[Poton de Xaintrailles]]. - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
2: ...age | image = [[Image:Orchin_P622.jpg|250px|Phalaenopsis hybrid]] | caption = Orchid}}
5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]}}
14: ...me sources give 30,000) [[species]], and perhaps another 60,000 [[hybrid]]s and varieties produced by ...
21: These [[monocotyledon]]ous plants are [[cosmopolitan]] in dist... - Botany (8977 bytes)
9: ...might be concerned with the classification ([[taxonomy]]), structure ([[anatomy]]), or function ([[pla...
11: ...phycology]]). Most algae, fungi, and microbes are no longer considered to be in the plant kingdom. How...
20: ... to understand how to minimize their impact. [[Ethnobotany]] is the study of this and other relationsh...
28: ...t one example. There may be many [[drug discovery|novel cures for diseases]] provided by plants, waiti...
30: ...ake for granted. The production of [[silk]] would not be possible without the cultivation of the [[mul... - Testicle (6183 bytes)
1: The '''testicles''', known medically as '''testes''' (singular '''testis''...
3: ...rm body and are able to cool. This phenomenon is known as the cremasteric reflex. It also occurs in re...
5: ...right and left sides. It is thought that this is another evolutionary development which protects each ...
11: ...ormone]]s, of which [[testosterone]] is the best known
28: ...cies is more likely to be [[polygamous]] than [[monogamous]]. Production of testicular output is also ... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
6: Following are some basic functions of the human circulatory system:
15: ... [[mollusk]]s is ''open'', meaning that there are no [[capillary|capillaries]] and [[vein]]s: one or m...
20: ...'double'' circulation]] is used, but the heart is not always completely separated into two pumps. Amph...
24: ===No circulatory system===
25: An example of an animal with no circulatory system is the flatworm (class Tubella... - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
10: == Basic anatomy of the human alimentary canal ==
12: In a normal [[human]] adult male, the GI tract is approxi...
21: ***'''[[ileum]]''', (not to be confused with the [[ilium]], or hipbone). ...
39: ...ly mechanical, as relatively large parts of food (now called "bolus") are minimized into smaller porti...
51: ... parts so that the body can use them to build and nourish cells and to provide energy. - Human brain (15406 bytes)
7: Human [[encephalization]] is especially pronounced in the [[neocortex]], the most complex porti...
9: ...ody are similar in some ways to those of the most basic [[vertebrate]]s. Human [[consciousness]] involves...
23: ...tic brain injuries]] and a [[pediatric]] disease known as [[hydrocephalus]]. Increased fluid pressure ...
31: ...yond cognitive functions, the brain regulates autonomic processes related to essential body functions ...
38: The human brain appears to have no localized center of conscious control. Like the b... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
5: == Basic [[anatomy]] ==
15: In a normal human adult, each kidney is about 11 cm long ...
20: ...], of which there are more than a million in each normal adult kidney. Nephrons regulate water and sol...
33: ...ltration rate]] is a [[Renal_physiology#Tests|diagnostic test of kidney function]].
39: ...d by [[adenosine triphosphate|ATP]]. Glucose, amino acids, variable ammounts of mineral ions are thus... - Mammary gland (2185 bytes)
4: The basic components of the mammary gland are the [[alveoli...
11: ...ildbirth|birth]], there are lactiferous ducts but no alveoli. Little branching occurs before [[puberty... - Connective tissue (1646 bytes)
1: ...sive [[extracellular matrix]]. There are several basic types:
12: ...[[Marfan syndrome]] - a genetic disease causing abnormal [[fibrillin]].
13: ...dietary deficiency in [[vitamin C]], leading to abnormal [[collagen]]. - Body cavity (2315 bytes)
1: ...e visceral organs to move freely relative to one another.
3: ... opening becomes the anus. [[Chordate]]s and echinoderms are both Deuterostomes.
9: ...|acoelomates]] via some members of another group known as "[[pseudocoelomates]]". Alternatively, it is... - Ploidy (4598 bytes)
1: ...ets of chromosomes), a type of [[polyploidy]], is not uncommon in healthy plant species.
3: ...''Euploidy''', or the '''euploid number''' is the normal number of chromosomes within a cell for a spe...
8: ...y ever have one set of chromosomes, the term '''monoploid''' can be used interchangably with haploid.
13: ...homologs]]) of each [[chromosome]] (both sex- and non-sex determining chromosomes), usually one from t...
18: ...d in many species of insects from the order [[Hymenoptera]], particularly [[ant]]s, [[bee]]s, and [[wa... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
1: ...ng winter. A location where beehives are kept is known as an [[apiary]].
5: ...b|comb]]. The comb is often cross-attached and cannot be moved without destroying it. This is sometime...
9: ... many countries) because the bees and the comb cannot be inspected for disease or [[parasite]]s withou...
11: There are three basic styles of traditional beehive; Tile hives, Skeps ...
14: ...in rows to provide some shade, at least for those not on top. Keepers could smoke one end to drive the...
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