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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ... [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] and [[Biography]]. Also, see [[Internationa...
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17: ...st at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
22: ...y]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]])
26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]...
20: ...ost extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White H...
30: ...as sometimes been called the ''"[[List of people known as the father or mother of something|father of ...
32: ...uality of wine now being made in Virginia, to say nothing of the rest of the country.
41: ...y him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, reads, - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ... [[Europe]]. It is bordered to the north by the [[North Sea]], [[Denmark]], and the [[Baltic Sea]], to...
51: ...ages per the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages|ECRML]].<br>
57: ...e [[G8]] nations and a founding member of what is now the [[European Union]].
62: ...o back more than a thousand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state...
66: ...ading state of Germany, from the more western and northern parts. - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Dinosaur}}<br/>{{StatusFossil}}
2: ... skull.gif|225px|]] | caption = Skull of ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex|T. Rex]]'' from the <br /> [[United Sta...
7: {{Taxobox_superordo_entry | taxon = '''Dinosauria'''}}<br>{{Taxobox_authority | author = [[Ri...
16: ...em [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/03dinosaur.html]".
17: ...flying.jpg |thumb|300px|left|Tenontosaurus and deinonych]] - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...emnants of the [[protoplanetary disc]] which were not incorporated into planets during the system's fo...
4: ... by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1937), the...
6: ...the solar system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ... distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive passage through [[Earth's atmospher...
10: ...cts in our system, and [[minor planet]] for a taxonomy of the subplanetary objects that include astero... - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ..., [[perennial]], woody [[plant]]. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the term g...
11: ...s. The listing below gives examples of many well known trees and how they are typically classified.
18: ...der the bark. Endogenous trees, mainly in the [[monocotyledon]]s (e.g. [[palm tree|palms]]), grow by a...
20: ...le. Age determination is also impossible in endogenous trees.
24: ...e of individual specimens. A spruce seedling does not fit the definition of a tree, but all spruces ar... - Archaeopteryx (8771 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_superordo_entry | taxon = [[Dinosauria]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_norank_entry | taxon = [[Coelurosauria]]}}
14: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Archaeopteryx lithographica | author =...
17: ...dely accepted as the earliest and most primitive known [[bird]]. The discovery of the first intact spe...
19: ...]] of southern [[Germany]]. The first skeleton is now housed at the [[Natural History Museum]] of [[Lo... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
11: ...hip was being [[careening|careened]] Dampier made notes on the fauna and flora he found there. Later t...
18: ...ing the [[Dampier Strait]] between these islands (now the [[Bismarck Islands]]) and New Guinea.
30: ...ge'' (126 men) and ''Cinque Ports'' (63 men) for another expedition to the South Seas.
32: This voyage was not a success. It is most notable for the events surrounding [[Alexander Selki...
40: ...an unusual degree of influence on figures better known than he: - Saint Paul, Minnesota (13759 bytes)
2: ...]]. The city is located just south of 45 degrees north [[latitude]] (the suburb of [[Roseville, Minne...
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31: ...Saints|St Paul Saints]] [[minor league baseball|minor league]] [[baseball]] team, the [[Minnesota Thun...
33: ...neapolis-Saint Paul International Airport]]. Also notable is the [[Fort Snelling]] National Historic S...
35: ...Paul regularly has events centering around the [[Snoopy]] family. For the past several years, local [[... - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
1: ...me fascinated by the works of [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]], [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], and [[Jean-Jacques R...
7: ...tory of philosophy were compiled from the lecture notes of his students and published posthumously.
9: ...nsumed its opponent. The revolution therefore has nowhere to turn but on to its own result: the hard-w...
27: ...Hegel at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitä´ (now known as the [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Humboldt...
29: ...gs of each other. A group of the Young Hegelians known as [[Die Freien]] ("The Free") gathered frequen... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: '''[[Philosopher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philoso...
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5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
7: *[[Nicola Abbagnano]], (1901-1990)
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ...logy]] and cultural heritage. The capital was [[Tenochtitlan]], built on raised islets in [[Lake Texco...
5: ==Nomenclature==
7: ...cle deals with the historical Aztec civilization, not with modern-day Nahuatl speakers.
9: ...o'', or ''Mediterranean'': a broad term that does not refer to a specific culture.
11: ...t to use the word Azteca, instead they should be known as Mexica. The [[conquistadores]] knew them as ... - Andes (13210 bytes)
6: ...], [[Peru]] and [[Venezuela]], some of which are known as [[Andean States]]. The name ''Andes'' comes ...
8: ...because of the [[equatorial bulge]]. The Andes cannot match the [[Himalayas]] in height but do so in w...
13: ...ongoing [[Orogeny|orogenic event]] resulting in minor to major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions to t...
15: ...ding [[Cotopaxi]], one of the highest active volcanos in the world.
17: ...ela, represent the submerged peaks of the extreme northern edge of the Andes range. - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
9: ...e lands around the Pacific rim are full of [[volcano]]es and often rocked by [[earthquake]]s. [[Tsunam...
15: ...tremely steep-sided, flat-topped submarine peaks known as [[seamount]]s. The western part of the floor...
18: ...lays and the skeletal remains of sea life. Terrigenous sediments are confined to narrow marginal bands...
28: ...he [[Aleutian Current]] branches as it approaches North America and forms the base of an anti-clockwis...
30: ...branch flows around Cape Horn and the other turns north to form the Peru or [[Humboldt Current]]. - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...]] the information that [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] now had a similar theory forced early joint [[public...
6: ...nd wrote a series of books on plants and animals, now including mankind in ''[[The Descent of Man and ...
21: His father, unhappy that his younger son would not become a physician and fearing that Charles woul...
24: ...well]] and Charles became the "favourite pupil", known as "the man who walks with Henslow". When exams...
26: ... following Henslow's example and advice he was in no rush to take holy orders. - Penguin (7847 bytes)
12: ''[[Aptenodytes]]''<br />
19: ...a; only a few species do. The others live further north.
23: ...uin species is the [[Little Blue Penguin]] (also known as the Fairy Penguin), which stands around 25 c...
25: ...formes. Most fossil penguins known are large, but not larger than the modern Emperor Penguin. All live...
37: ...y catch their prey near the surface in dives that normally last only one or two minutes. Larger pengui... - Black Howler Monkeys (4913 bytes)
26: ...[[family (biology)|family]] [[Cebidae]], they are now placed in the family [[Atelidae]].
32: ... at all times. Their prehensile tails are strong enough to support the monkey's entire body weight, al...
39: ...n their forests not made a [[pet]] by the [[Indigenous Peoples of the Americas|Native American]]s. - Howler Monkeys (5154 bytes)
26: ...[[family (biology)|family]] [[Cebidae]], they are now placed in the family [[Atelidae]].
34: ... at all times. Their prehensile tails are strong enough to support the monkey's entire body weight, al...
41: ...n, and hence are the only monkey in their forests not made a [[pet]] by the [[Native American]]s. - History of geography (6224 bytes)
5: ...urvived are the periplus of the Carthaginian [[Hanno the Navigator]] and a Periplus of the Erythraean ...
11: ...] (especially [[Paris]] and [[Berlin]]), although not the in the [[United Kingdom]] where geography wa...
15: ...es of [[geology]] and [[botany]], as well as [[economics]], [[sociology]] and [[demographics]].
17: ...nd]] in [[1830]], although the United Kingdom did not get its first full Chair of geography until [[19...
27: ... general laws about the spatial arrangement of phenomena. They adopted the philosophy of [[positivism]... - History of ecology (10158 bytes)
1: ...prominence before the middle of the 20th Century. Nonetheless, ecological thinking at some level has b...
6: ...tury]], about twenty thousand plant species were known, versus forty thousand at the beginning of the ...
8: ... [[latitude]] and [[altitude]], a discipline now known as [[geobotany]].
14: === The notion of biocoenosis: Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace ===
17: ...ater into communities of living beings or [[biocoenosis]]. This term was coined in [[1877]] by [[Karl...
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