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- Animal shell (2105 bytes)
5: ...n a layer of [[calcium carbonate]] (<nowiki>CaCO</nowiki><sub>3</sub>) in the form of platy [[crystal]...
7: ...ell (the [[iridescent]] ''nacreous layer'', also known as ''[[mother of pearl]]''), both as a means to...
9: ...n object that the animal cannot eject, a process known as ''[[encystation]]'' entombs the offending en...
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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: ...|group numbers]]; one using [[Arabic numerals]], another using [[Roman numerals]], and one using a com...
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... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...senters executed; as a consequence, she is often known as '''Bloody Mary'''. Her religious policies, h...
13: ...at [[Ludlow Castle]] and many of the prerogatives normally only given to a [[Prince of Wales]], someti...
15: ... education was undoubtedly due to her mother, who not only consulted the Spanish scholar [[Juan Lu�V...
17: ...It was then suggested that the Princess Mary wed, not the Dauphin, but his father Francis I, who was e...
19: ...s to the Pope were abolished, and the King was acknowledged as "Supreme Head" of the [[Church of Engla... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie'...
9: ...rth Press]]. She is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the fo...
11: ...ious possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], p...
13: ...closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between th...
15: ...ible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me yo... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...e in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]...
5: ...ear shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[E...
7: She was awarded the Novel for discovering the reasons as to why if there...
9: ...many dancers by having one pair go clockwise and another pair go counterclockwise. Then add one more v... - Apple (20408 bytes)
5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: ...{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
23: ...lus domestica'' is ''Malus sieversii'' (which has no common name), a tree still found wild in the moun...
25: ... baccata'' and ''Malus sylvestris'', but there is no hard evidence for this in older apple [[cultivar]...
30: ...mperate]] and [[subtropical]] climates. Apples do not flower in tropical climates because they have a ... - 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 ... - Skeleton (2955 bytes)
7: ...opods shed their exoskeletons to grow, a process known as [[molting]] (or [[ecdysis]]). During molting...
9: ...pplementing the skeleton. The human [[ear]] and [[nose]] are shaped by cartilage. Some organisms have ... - Bone (11388 bytes)
1: ...age]]. The bones of an animal are, collectively, known as the [[skeleton]].
15: ...ar structure to long bones, except that they have no medullar cavity.
19: ''Irregular bones'' are bones which do not conform to any of the previous forms (e.g. verte...
23: ...din]] which act on bone itself. Osteoblasts are mononucleate. Active osteoblasts are situated on the s...
25: ...induced osteogenetic cells. They are flattened, mononucleate cells which line bone. - Mandible (13717 bytes)
24: ...nd, separated by a deep concavity, the mandibular notch.
25: ...and forms the anterior boundary of the mandibular notch. Its ''lateral surface'' is smooth, and afford...
26: ...processus condyloideus'') is thicker than the coronoid, and consists of two portions: the condyle, and...
27: The mandibular notch, separating the two processes, is a deep semil...
30: ...by fibrous tissue, which persists to form the sphenomandibular ligament. Between the lingula and the c... - Exoskeleton (3839 bytes)
24: ...al [[armour]] (in the case of mounted knights) is not load-bearing, but furnishes the appearance of an...
30: ...s) to create the outside shape is made of a soft, non-carrying material, it is endoskeletal. "Prosthet...
32: === Exoskeletons in modern and near-future technology ===
35: ..., [[batteries]] or, potentially, [[fuel cell]]s. Another area of application is medical care, nursing ...
39: ...ever they will have to compete for adoption with another approach — surgically and genetically e... - 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... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ... they refer to the shield-bearer's point of view, not the observer's.
7: There are no strict definitions of the shades of colours used ...
12: ...efer to use a shield anyway. A parallel usage for noncombatant [[clergy]]men could be found sometimes ...
14: Very rarely and almost invariably in non-European contexts, such as the [[Coat of Arms of...
28: ... tincture: metal must never be placed upon metal, nor colour upon colour, for the sake of contrast. - Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
3: ...rus]]. Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on [[vellum]]. Beginning in the l...
7: ... a look at a modern undertaking in progress right now please see http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/
11: ...sbury Bible. The script is [[blackletter]], also known as Gothic script.]]
21: ...tury]] [[manuscript illumination]], the earliest known depiction of [[Thomas ࠂecket]]'s assassinatio...
57: *[[List of Hiberno-Saxon illustrated manuscripts]] - Brass instrument (5234 bytes)
3: ...fined by the way the sound is made, as above, and not by whether the instrument is actually made of br...
6: (not necessarily made from brass)
28: * [[Tenor Horn]]
39: Brass instruments nowadays generally come in one of three families:
41: ...brass instruments, where the player can only play notes in the instrument's [[harmonic series (music)|... - Conch (4541 bytes)
17: ...ally, a marine [[gastropod]]. Still, it should be noted that many other gastropods have common names u...
26: ...entation near the anterior end called a stromboid notch. They also have a foot ending in a pointed, si...
28: ...d. They lay [[Egg (biology)|eggs]] in long, gelatinous strands.
40: ...ritical. Most shells will only naturally play one note, but with pitch manipulations multiple sounds c...
45: ...riors of ancient [[India]] would blow conchs to announce battle, such as is famously represented in th... - Geology (12007 bytes)
3: ...ron]], [[copper]], and [[uranium]]. Additional economic interests include minerals such as [[asbestos]...
5: ... system. However, specialised terms such as ''selenology'' (studies of the [[Moon]]), ''areology'' (of...
12: ...]] (Georg Agricola), a physician, summarized the knowledge of [[mining]] and [[metallurgy]] [[1556]].
16: ...tard recorded the first observation of the [[Volcano|volcanic]] origins of this part of France. [[Jame...
20: ...n had previously been supposed in order to allow enough time for mountains to be eroded and for [[sedi... - Lithosphere (1918 bytes)
3: ...t and upper mantle float on the more plastic asthenosphere. The crust is distinguished from the mantle...
7: ...ate]]s, which move independently relative to one another. This movement of lithospheric plates is desc...
14: ...hs_crust.html Earth's Crust, Lithosphere and Asthenosphere] - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...a mere province of the Kingdom and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. There are 10 mo...
49: footnotes = <sup>1</sup> [[Low Saxon language|Low Saxon]...
55: ...[[2004]] [[UN Human Development Index]], behind [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Australia]], and [[Canada]].
57: ... [[English language|English]] [[adjective]] and [[noun]] for "of or relating to the Netherlands" is "[...
62: ...not prepared to let them go that easily. It would not be until [[1648]] before Spain would recognize D... - Marshall Islands (8760 bytes)
1: ...island nation]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]], located north of [[Nauru]] and [[Kiribati]], east of the [[F...
24: | [[Kessai Note]]
53: ...esia]]ns in the [[2nd millennium BC]], little is known of the early history of the islands. [[Spain|Sp...
76: ...ed due to lack of employment opportunities and economic development.
78: ...e is hot and humid, with a wet season from May to November. The islands occasionally suffer from [[typ... - Boat (6417 bytes)
20: * [[Canoe]]
45: * [[Norfolk wherry]]
46: * [[Outrigger canoe]]
71: * A ship can be informally known as a boat, especially by its [[crew]]. This use...
80: ==Nautical Terminology==
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