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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...v periodic table''', is a tabular display of the known [[chemical element]]s. First created by [[Dmitr...
9: ...f Pure and Applied Chemistry]] (IUPAC). The IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral...
22: ...Periodic table (metals and non-metals)|Metals and Non Metals]]
48: ...ifferences in [[mass]]. Elements adjacent to one another within a period have similar mass but differe...
51: ...rts burning, diatomic nitrogen is a gas that does not support burning, and carbon is a [[solid]] which... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...' in [[Portuguese]]) was most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could hav...
3: ...windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurate...
5: ... two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This i...
7: ..., including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Ce...
11: ...ope, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ist of Lords of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but h...
20: ...ge|Eton]], and also learned modern languages. She now speaks fluent [[French language|French]], as she...
23: ...sed to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly go without me, I wouldn't leave without...
27: ...itary, though other royal women have been given honorary ranks. - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
8: ...he former of these, held in [[786]] at [[Constantinople]], was frustrated by the opposition of the sol...
12: ...eror was carried back to the palace at [[Constantinople]]; and there, by the orders of his mother, his...
14: ...he patricians, upon whom she had lavished every honour and favour, conspired against her, and placed o... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...n 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment...
5: ...al]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting...
10: ...ing Virtue and Merit'' (1745), with some original notes of his own. He composed a volume of bawdy stor...
14: ... variation and [[natural selection]]. It is worth noticing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensi...
23: ...e active writers, all the new ideas, all the new knowledge, that were then moving the cultivated class... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...nd [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Sometimes refer...
9: ...d political views; and English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Si...
11: ...nce in the granting of [[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities,...
13: [[Virginia]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afterwards a member of the [[Uni...
18: ...rnowne, who was often referred to as "Kat". Chapernowne developed a close relationship with Elizabeth ... - 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... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...ntury]] in [[Italy]], early [[16th century]] in [[Northern Europe]], as well as the [[Protestant Refor...
6: ...ical and social senses were unevolved and its technologies undeveloped, compared to the preceding cult...
8: ...tury|8th]] centuries, which conquered the Levant, North Africa, Spain and some of the Mediterranean is...
12: ...tralised administrative systems of the Romans did not withstand the changes, and the institutional sup...
14: ...e areas of Europe were many people with little or no contact with Christianity or with classic Roman c... - List of dinosaur classifications (7586 bytes)
1: This article contains a '''list of dinosaur classifications'''.
5: ...ains the traditional ranks used in [[Linnaean taxonomy]]. The classification has been updated from the...
7: ...†) is used to indicate taxa with [[extinct|no living members]].
17: *** †Division [[Carnosauria]]
18: **** †Subdivision [[Spinosauroidea]] - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
3: ...istic civilization|Greek]] [[geographer]], [[astronomer]], and [[astrologer]] who probably lived and w...
5: ...es. One is the astronomical treatise that is now known as the '''[[Almagest]]''' (in Greek ''Η &mu...
7: ...tellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole sky.
9: ... mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the Roman and anci...
11: ...'', Ptolemy put all this information into a grand scheme. He assigned coordinates to all the places and g... - Serpent (instrument) (2056 bytes)
1: ... a woodwind, instrument. The [[Hornbostel-Sachs]] scheme of [[musical instrument classification]] places i...
7: ...alled "Russian Bassoon", which is neither Russian nor a bassoon. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...e the accretion time of the Earth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretio...
3: == Prescientific notions ==
4: ...lculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began on [[...
9: ...re scientific basis. The naturalist [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], regarded as the founder of [[Russia]]n scie...
11: Lomonosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779... - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...fri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the [[Africa (pro...
12: ...be—possibly [[Berber]]—who dwelt in [[North Africa]] in the Carthage area;
16: ...atable to about the [[first century]], so this cannot really be the origin of the name.
18: ...nent, the idea of ''Africa'' expanded with their knowledge.
26: ...us of Suez, 130 km (80 miles) wide. From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in [[Morocco]], a lit... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...ncountered peoples and mapped lands previously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the...
3: The Age of Exploration was rooted in new technologies and ideas growing out of the [[Renaissance]...
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]] and back ...
15: ...e Arab [[lateen sail]] that made ships far more manoeuvrable. It was also through the Arabs that [[Anc...
18: ...se routes were controlled by the Muslim states of North Africa, long rivals to Portugal. It was the Po... - Sub-Saharan Africa (3920 bytes)
1: ...' corresponds with the standard representation of North as above and South as below. '''Tropical Afric...
3: ...much of the interior of the continent remained unknown to the outside world until the colonial era.
5: ...of the [[least developed countries]]. (See ''[[Economy of Africa]]''.)
7: ... part of Africa. According to this classification scheme, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa are: - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
5: native_name = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
12: ...ial_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom|None]]; [[English language|English]] ''[[de facto]]'...
46: ...]] under the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages]]. In each of these, the UK's offic...
51: ...and Scots]]: ''Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northren Ireland''<br/>
52: ...]. As of April 2005, the July 2004 estimates were not yet available.<br><sup>7</sup> [[ISO 3166-1]] is... - Conflict (3579 bytes)
9: One should not confuse the distinction between the presence and...
25: ...concern for the outcomes of the other party. This scheme leads to the following hypotheses:
29: * No concern for either side's outcomes leads to attem...
31: ...d to the most satisfactory outcomes, but this may not hold true for many Asian societies.
40: ...r notable historic conflict. See [[Bloody Sunday (Northern Ireland 1972)]]. - Alaska (24727 bytes)
9: Motto = North to the Future |
12: ... = [[English language|English]] 85.7%, Native North American 5.2%, [[Spanish language|Spanish]] 2....
14: Governor = [[Frank Murkowski]] |
52: ...U.S. state flowers|State flower]]'''||[[Forget-me-not]]<br />(''Myosotis alpestris'')
54: ...'''[[List of U.S. state mottos|State motto]]'''||"North To The Future" - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
4: ...m a fear that they would hinder his search after knowledge.
5: Nothing is known of his teachers; there is no reason for the theory that he studied under [[Her...
11: His influence was due partly to his astronomical and mathematical eminence, but still more to...
15: He attempted, not without success, to give a scientific account of...
16: The [[polytheism]] of the time could not tolerate such explanation, and the enemies of Pe... - Animal (16429 bytes)
9: [[Ctenophora]] (comb jellies)<br>
20: [[Echinoderm]]ata<br>
23: [[Kinorhyncha]]<br>
51: ...lly considered animals because they move, but are now treated separately. Colloquially [[human]]s hav...
55: With a few exceptions, most notably the [[sponge]]s (Phylum [[Porifera]]), anima...
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