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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and ... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...n from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[log...
7: ...ome and includes the Greek philosophers such as [[Plato]]. The Medieval period runs until roughly the ...
12: ...ruth was no more than opinion and for teaching people to argue fallaciously to prove whatever conclusi...
14: ...thens had a direct [[democracy]]. It's known from Plato's writings that many sophists maintained schoo...
16: ...d truth. He wrote nothing, but inspired many disciples. He was executed in [[399 BCE]] on the charge t... - 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. [[... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...s an extensive '''traveller''' or [[exploration|explorer]], whose account documents his travels and si...
6: ...tional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the worl...
8: ... – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn Juzayy). In places the things he claims he saw or did are probab...
15: ...bron]], [[Jerusalem]], and [[Bethlehem]], for example – and the Mameluke authorities put special...
17: ... days, he then journeyed on to Mecca. There he completed the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim, and ha... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labor to one...
10: ...the surplus population who could no longer find employment in [[agriculture]] into the cities to seek ...
12: ... other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often imposed tolls ...
14: ...to produce more goods to meet the needs of the people.
16: From 1430, people in Europe discovered sea routes to Asia and Amer... - Steel (28384 bytes)
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...
26: ...recovered from meteorite falls allowed ancient peoples to manufacture small numbers of iron artifacts. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
26: ...[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heav...
28: ... the prelates and peers who knelt before her and, placing their hands on her crown, swore allegiance t...
31: ...nce with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treat...
40: ...omising childhood. With her marriage agreement in place, she was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at th...
42: ...[[Scots Language|Scots]]. She also learned how to play two instruments and learned prose, horsemanship... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened mon...
11: ...se of the peasant revolt. This process reached completion in [[1775]]. The reform created provinces an...
17: ...bsburg]] League. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and ...
19: In [[1764]] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatows...
21: ...n Empire's European holdings after the Polish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Cr... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
18: ... show in the United States. The show is usually split between call-in segments and monologues by Limb...
20: ...read support and attention in [[1998]] when he complained that some radio stations were shortening his...
22: ...rty (which he had earlier alienated by breaking a pledge not to raise [[tax]]es). President [[George W...
26: ...oo late in the evening in many markets. (In many places it was aired at 1:30 AM or even later.)
30: ...tted that the changes in his voice were due to complete [[post-lingual hearing impairment|deafness]] i... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth'''
35: ...sical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/s...
41: ...h the goal of becoming a concert [[pianist]]. Her plans changed when she attended a course on internat...
77: ...ush named Rice's deputy, [[Stephen Hadley]], to replace her as National Security Advisor. On January 7...
83: ...ervice with the National Security Council. On the plane trip over, she related comments critical of Pu... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
25: ...ered to be a prestigious appointment made to accomplished lawyers. Subsequent holders of the title hav...
37: ...ucceed her to the Irish presidency, so Robinson replaced McAleese in the Campaign for Homosexual Law R...
41: ...st preserved Viking sites. Though Robinson and people who in the past might never had supported her ca...
55: ...eform (abolished censorship in the 1960s, for example), and he was seen as a near certainty to win the...
57: ==Lenihan campaign implodes== - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ... years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. A...
9: ...m William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic in the Brownsville...
15: ...he time, the largest private international family planning organization.
19: ...ion, which legalized birth control for married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year st...
24: ...sence of regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she cont... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
8: ...ere not accepted as members of the University, simply as 'students of Girton and Newnham Colleges', t...
12: ...o similar research). Unfortunately, Randall had implied that Franklin alone would be working on DNA, a...
18: ... should have been working together. It has been implied by Wilkins himself that this situation may wel... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...ct professor starting in 1954. Following the example of her instructor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concen...
14: ...d begun to discuss the problems faced by young people (especially women) as they pass through adolesce...
18: ...tudy among a small group of [[Samoa]]ns -- 600 people -- in which she got to know, lived with, observe...
28: ...the same ethnocentric sexual puritanism as the people Boas and Mead once shocked. In 1983, the [[Ameri...
33: ...e high-population density areas were not, for example, present in the same way in Oksapmin, West Sepik... - Apple (20408 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = lightblue | name = [[Apple]]}}
2: ...i apple.jpg|200px|Fuji apple]] | caption = Fuji apple}}
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4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}} - Botany (8977 bytes)
1: ...athology|diseases]], and [[evolution]] of [[plant|plants]].
9: ... or function ([[plant physiology|physiology]]) of plant life.
11: ...nd microbes are no longer considered to be in the plant kingdom. However, attention is still given to ...
13: ...rough [[photosynthesis]]. A good understanding of plants is crucial to the future of human societies a...
20: ...his and other relationships between plants and people. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...nge class]] [[steam locomotive]], at [[Bristol Temple Meads]] station, Bristol, England]]
3: ...red locomotives, and may be referred to as [[multiple unit]]s or [[railcar]]s; the use of these self-p...
12: ...should the locomotive break down, it is easy to replace it with a new one. Failure of the motive power...
14: ...e payload-hauling cars means that either can be replaced without affecting the other. At some times, l...
21: ... or [[oil]]. Because of the steam engine, some people took to calling the steam locomotives themselves... - Respiratory system (5107 bytes)
24: ...sult of the elastic recoil of lung tissue. A simple [[:wikibooks:Constructing school science lab equ...
42: ==Respiratory system in plants==
43: ...air]] can penetrate only skin deep. However, most plants are not involved in highly metabolic activiti...
46: ...|metric units]], about half a [[metre]]). Many people fear big bugs, and they should be comforted by t... - Immune system (14564 bytes)
6: ...[[mammal]]s) have immune systems of increasing complexity.
13: ...The [[mannan-binding lectin pathway]] of the [[complement system]], for instance, recognizes [[mannose...
15: ...s virally infected by reading the [[peptide]]s displayed on its MHC molecules. During their developmen...
23: ...s that recognize a broad spectrum of pathogens. [[Plant]]s and many lower animals do not possess an ad...
25: ...organisms that lack adaptive immunity such as the plant ''[[Arabidopsis thaliana]]'', the fly ''[[Dros... - Brain (22060 bytes)
5: ...n neurons. The [[human brain]] is particularly complex and enlarged.
9: ...y [[complex]] brains: the [[arthropod]]s (for example, [[insect]]s and [[crustacean]]s), the [[cephalo...
11: ... known as [[allocortex]] (Martin, 1996). More complex vertebrates like mammals have developed six-lay...
25: ...the brain. [[Artificial intelligence]] seeks to replicate brain function (although not necessarily bra...
30: ...rimental) artificial vision for deaf and blind people, and [[brain pacemaker]]s are now common to regu...
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