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  1. Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
    3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = lightgreen}}
    4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
    5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
    12: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
    18: ...uickly became a major producer of the fruit, with plantations in [[Florida]] and [[Texas]]. In Spanish...
  2. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    1: ...cia]] or [[Portugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic O...
    3: ...etting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas,...
    5: ...t]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472) of two, led by [[João Vaz C...
    7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isle...
    11: ...]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[...
  3. Steel (28384 bytes)
    3: ...ary alloying material. Carbon acts as a hardening agent, preventing iron atoms, which are naturally arran...
    5: ...n-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
    8:
    15: ... to ferrite or perlite does not have time to take place. The transformation into martensite, by contr...
    23: ...dification process, and to produce shapes such as plate, sheet, wire, etc. It is then heat-treated to...
  4. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    1: {{List of people A}}
    6: ...gapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
    10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
    13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
    17: ...(1916-1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
  5. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
    10: ...(1746), and he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural rel...
    12: ...nces of Catholicism; second, to the vanity of the pleasures of that world which is the rival of the ch...
    14: ...that day was an episodic application of the principle of relativism to the concept of [[God]]. What ma...
    23:
    25: ...al for a vaster enterprise than they had at first planned; [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] was persuaded t...
  6. Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
    7: ... society in America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery...
    9: ...f the ablest and most zealous advocates of the complete legal equality of the two sexes, and as a publ...
    13: ...uded in The Revolution were a number of quotes displaying the [[pro-life]] views of Susan B. Anthony. ...
    19: ... 13]], [[1906]]. Anthony is known as [[List of people known as the father or mother of something|"The ...
  7. George Eliot (6014 bytes)
    8: Mary Ann Evans was the daughter of an estate agent in [[Warwickshire]], born on a farm near [[Nuneat...
    19: ...el. Making masterful use of a [[counterpoint]]ed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of deni...
    23: ... clear, patient, and well balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise...
  8. Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
    5: ...ed personality, her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female...
    8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to id...
    10: ...and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get ...
    12: ...t at that time in Nervi, and undoubtedly these people would have had some influence on the impressiona...
    20: ...s, she came into contact with ordinary Russian people and was shocked by the mood of anger and violenc...
  9. Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
    7: ...d her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
    11: ...hailand]] at a [[Cambodia]]n refugee camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Me...
    13: ...in [[Houston, Texas]], to research, develop and implement advanced technologies suited to the social, ...
    15: ... implementing advanced technologies that may be employed advantageously to the development of less ind...
    19: ...93); People magazine's 1993 "50 Most Beautiful People in the World"; CORE Outstanding Achievement Awar...
  10. Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
    2: ...onist]], [[Prohibition|prohibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]], [[Surgery|surgeon]] a...
  11. Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
    7: ...send her to [[London]] and accompanied by another agent, she walked across the [[Pyrenees| Pyrenees mount...
    9: ...ntes]] area, they re-established contact with SOE agent and Benoist's fellow race car driver, [[Jean-Pier...
    11: ...e|Croix de Guerre avec Palme]]. As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, she is li...
  12. Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
    7: ...5]], [[1917]]. Mata Hari was probably a low level agent for the French and the Germans, but there is no e...
    11: ...nk]]s. The execution would be faked. However, the plot was a failure, and the guns were loaded properl...
  13. Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
    5: ...quested all French-born residents of London to supply them with photographs of their home towns, Odett...
    9: ...ll's operation in France was betrayed by a double agent, and Odette and Churchill were imprisoned. Under...
  14. Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
    3: ...E's women agents. (She actually became a British agent months before the [[Special Operations Executive]...
    7: ...zy Giżycki]] {[[1899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
    9: ... into Poland. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Pola...
    24: ...s own remarkable career as a British intelligence agent. And when Krystyna told him she loved Kowerski a...
    26: ...ents that would lead to some of her most famous exploits.
  15. Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
    3: ...ary 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War II]] secret agent.
    5: ...ushell''' in [[Paris, France]]. She was a secret agent in [[Occupied France]], who was immortalised in t...
    13: ... French government in [[1947]]. As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Sub-lieut...
  16. Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
    4: ...n of Honour]]. She has also occasionally directed plays.
    13: ...the [[National Theatre]] in London. She is a multiple winner of the main awards for performances on th...
    38: ...verything or Nothing]]'' and ''[[GoldenEye: Rogue Agent]]''.
  17. Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
    4: ...roughs came with the [[musical film]] ''[[Les Parapluies de Cherbourg]]'' (''The Umbrellas of Cherbour...
    12: *1999 - ''Place Vendôme''
    16: *1988 - ''Agent trouble''
    23: * ''[[Place Vendôme]]'' (1998)
    37: * ''[[Les Parapluies de Cherbourg]]'' ([[Jacques Demy]]), (1964)
  18. Actinium (7046 bytes)
    135: == Applications ==
    136: ...e]]. Otherwise it has no significant industrial applications.
    138: ...n a reusable generator or can be used alone as an agent for radio-immunotherapy.
    156: ...th effects, actinium-227 is about as dangerous as plutonium. Ingesting even small amounts of actinium-...
  19. Oil painting (1776 bytes)
    7: ...ily liquid, imbedded with a heat sensitive curing agent"), the paintings resemble oil paintings and ...
  20. Thyroid (5421 bytes)
    3: ...nd T1 vertebral bodies, just below the [[Adam's apple]], near the thyroid [[cartilage]] over the [[tra...
    20: ...]], for example, administering a thyroid-blocking agent such as propylthiouracil can prevent tadpoles fro...
    22: ...yroid hormone deficiency are easily treated by supplementation with synthetic thyroxine, which enables...
    24: ...y saturating the uptake mechanism with a large surplus of non-radioactive iodine, taken in the form of...
    54: == Blood supply of the thyroid ==

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