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- Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
6: ...i's mother, Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, opposed the marriage, many of her nobles supported it, ...
12: ...een. Her ex-husband would become one of France's most beloved monarchs.
14: ...ng-minded Marguerite took many lovers, notably [[Joseph Boniface de La M?], [[Jacques de Harlay, Seign... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...ate the globe; [[Francis Bacon]] laid out his philosophical and political views; and English colonisat...
16: ...that time and was also declared illegitimate and lost the title of princess. Thereafter she was addres...
18: ...n referred to as "Kat". Chapernowne developed a close relationship with Elizabeth and remained her con...
25: ...ed the throne, but was [[Deposition_(politics)|deposed]] less than two weeks later. Armed with popular...
27: ... Lady Elizabeth to succeed rather than her next-closest relative, [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Stuart]], ... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
3: ...1608;رية الجزائرية ال...
23: ...]:||[[Algiers]] الجزائر<br><small>(El Djazaﲬ Al-J...
60: ...long the coast. Berber kingdoms began to emerge, most notably [[Numidia]], and seized the opportunity ...
62: ...he Berbers adopted [[Islam]] ''en masse'', but almost immediately expelled the Caliphate from Algeria,...
66: ...im Algerians remained outside of French law, and possessed neither French citizenship nor the right to... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
32: | '''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]''' (PPP)<br> - Total ([[2...
49: ...nging the political face of Iraq, which had been mostly dominated by its [[Sunni]] minority since its ...
64: ...en appointed the new [[Prime Minister of Iraq]]. Most power will be invested in him. The new Governmen...
70: ...afadhah'', Kurdish: پاریزگه ''Pⲩzgah''). Particularly in Ira...
97: ...as a small coastline with the [[Persian Gulf]]. Close to the coast and along the [[Shatt al-Arab]] the... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
37: ...rom [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]<br>[[June 25]], [[1991]]<br>[[1992]] |
54: ... of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] from [[1945]] until gaining independence i...
59: ...d in the [[7th century]]. In [[745]], Carantania lost its independence, being largely subsumed into th...
61: ...rian Empire]], with Slovenians inhabiting all or most of the provinces of [[Carniola]], [[Gorizia]] an...
65: ...[25 June]] [[1991]] upon its independence from Yugoslavia. Slovenia joined [[NATO]] on [[29 March]] [[... - Giraffe (8140 bytes)
16: ...fidae]], consisting only of the giraffe and its closest relative, the [[okapi]].
34: ...ged. Bone constitutes the bud-like horns called ''ossicorns'', which are covered with the giraffe's sk...
38: ...o 50 percent of giraffe calves reach adulthood; those that do have a life expectancy of between 20 and...
40: ...the twigs of trees, preferring plants of the [[Mimosa]] genus; but it appears that it can without inco...
54: ...nish]] retain it. The Arabic word الزرافة ''ziraafa'' or ''zur... - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ...omic burden in the form of health care costs and lost productivity. Major genetic changes in the virus...
12: The A type of influenza virus is the type most likely to cause [[epidemic|epidemics]] and [[pan...
14: ...dentified for influenza B virus. At present, the most common antigenic variants of influenza A virus a...
16: ...et al'' 2004) Examples of the nomenclature are A/Moscow/10/99 (H3N2) and B/Hong Kong/330/2001.
18: ..., is unusually [[virulent]], or is for which the host is unusually unresponsive to treatment. Thus, th... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...l 9]], [[1626]]) was an [[England|English]] [[philosopher]], [[statesman]], [[spy]], [[freemason]] and...
4: ... a lawyer, but he has become best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the [[scientific ...
8: ...]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the...
14: ...] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong...
21: ...oris Partus Maximus'', but he failed to obtain a position of the kind he thought necessary for success... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ... these different colonies found themselves more closely united than ever before, at odds with the [[Ki...
9: ...ing]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...es"]] would benefit immensely. It was in this atmosphere that [[Christopher Columbus]] left Spain on ...
13: .... Though these northerly lands were relatively close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little i...
16: ...roto-[[nationalism]] and national assertiveness blossomed under the threat of Spanish invasion, assist... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...Bruno the Nolan''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]], [[astronomer]], and [[occultist]] execute...
9: ...ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A.D. and to be associated w...
15: ...in [[Toulouse]], where he briefly had a teaching position. At this time, he began to gain fame for his...
17: ...nned a play summarizing some of his cosmological positions, titled ''Il Candelaio'' ("The Torchbearer"...
19: ...t appears to have given offense and was denied a position there (and elsewhere in England). - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...etween a pair of conductors on which equal but opposite electric charges have been placed. Intentional...
7: ...ctric. Because each plate stores an equal but opposite charge, the ''total'' charge in the device is ...
9: ...|The electrons in the molecules shift toward the positively charged left plate. The molecules then cr...
13: ...ference]] or ''voltage'' (''V'') which appears across the plates:
16: ... causes a potential difference of one [[volt]] across the plates. Since the farad is a very large uni... - Scythia (22520 bytes)
5: The most significant Scythian tribes mentioned in mainly ...
13: ...zerbaijan and southern Russia. Ruled by small, closely-allied 鬩tes, Scythians had a reputation for ...
23: ...m long distances to bring them for burial in Gerrhos.
25: ...3 mentioned them as "a destroyer of nations... [whose] chariots shall be as the whirlwind."
29: ...reat of Persia, they were apparently reached by crossing the Danube. Herodotus relates that, being no... - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
9: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | [[Phosphorus|P]]<br />'''As'''<br />[[Antimony|Sb]] ...
96: ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#cccc99" | Most stable isotopes
122: [[Positron emission|β<sup>+</sup>]]<br />
143: ...is very similar chemically to its predecessor [[phosphorus]], so much so that it will partly substitut...
146: ...it tree]]s (resulting in neurological damage to those working the sprayers), and [[copper]] arsenate h... - Potato (22889 bytes)
11: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''S. tuberosum''''' }}
13: ...color = lightgreen | binomial_name = Solanum tuberosum| author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] }}
16: ...[[starch]]y [[tuber]]. Potatoes form the world's most important non-[[cereal]] crop, and grow world-wi...
26: ...[Francis Drake]] as a more likely candidate. In [[1586]], after battling the Spaniards in the [[Caribbea...
30: ...had dug up all the ground where they grew, and almost sifted it, could not extirpate them.' <sup>[http... - Giraffes (7566 bytes)
16: ...fidae]], consisting only of the giraffe and its closest relative, the [[okapi]].
34: ...ged. Bone constitutes the bud-like horns called ''ossicorns'', which are covered with the giraffe's sk...
38: ...o 50 percent of giraffe calves reach adulthood; those that do have a life expectancy of between 20 and...
40: ...the twigs of trees, preferring plants of the [[Mimosa]] genus; but it appears that it can without inco...
54: ...nish]] retain it. The Arabic word الزرافة ''ziraafa'' or ''zur... - Lava (9992 bytes)
9: ...00C to 1200C (1300F to 2200F). However, the [[viscosity]] of lava is 100,000 times that of water. Neve...
19: ...is characterized by a rough or rubbly surface composed of broken lava blocks called [[clinker]].
21: ... flows. ‘A‘a is usually of higher viscosity than pāhoehoe (usually spelled just pahoe...
32: ||[[Image:Pahoehoe toe.jpg|thumb|none|250px|Closeup of advancing molten "toe" of Pahoehoe]]
33: ...umb|none|150px|Toes of a pāhoehoe advance across a road in [[Kalapana, Hawaii|Kalapana]] on the e... - Giza (1132 bytes)
3: ... language|Arabic]], الجيزة, [[Transliteration|transliterated]] ''al-...
5: ...of the [[Giza Plateau]]: the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, inclu...
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