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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...e '''Mendeleev periodic table''', is a tabular display of the known [[chemical element]]s. First creat...
3: ...laying the chemical elements|other methods for displaying the chemical elements]] for more details or ...
9: ...ry]] (IUPAC). The IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral systems as they confu...
14: ==Other methods for displaying the chemical elements==
17: ...iodic table (big)|big table]] provides the basics plus full element names. - 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. [[... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of St...
29: ...dging to devote her life to the service of the people of the Commonwealth and Empire.
33: ...s claim to the [[Greece|Greek]] throne and was simply referred to as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten bef...
55: ...ronation of the British monarch|coronation]] took place in [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[2 June]] [[1953]...
64: ... in some cases, such as [[South Africa]], she has played an important role in retaining or restoring g... - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
6: ...he empire at her own discretion for ten years, displaying great firmness and sagacity in her governmen...
8: ... former of these, held in [[786]] at [[Constantinople]], was frustrated by the opposition of the soldi...
12: ...or was carried back to the palace at [[Constantinople]]; and there, by the orders of his mother, his e...
14: ...ges and [[monastery|monasteries]] has given her a place among the [[saint]]s of the Eastern Orthodox c... - 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: ...al, but in his busy and pregnant intelligence the scheme became transformed. Instead of a mere reproductio...
25: ...al for a vaster enterprise than they had at first planned; [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] was persuaded t... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...d English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] an...
27: ...g [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne...
31: ...er, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
33: ...lish service. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He ...
37: ... were removed from the ecclesiastical bench and replaced by appointees who would submit to the Queen'... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
31: ..., her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands ...
33: ...At the same time the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union...
36: ...derman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
47: ...sexuality]], and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...l [[Monarchy|monarchies]], of European overseas exploration, the invention and diffusion of printing, ...
6: ...Germanic]] and later [[Slavic Peoples|Slavic]] peoples. The era of the migrations has historically bee...
8: ...ntagel]] in [[Cornwall]] had managed to obtain supplies of Mediterranean luxury goods well into the 6t...
12: ...conquerors were soon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction...
14: ...tianity or with classic Roman culture. Warrior people such as the [[Vikings]] were still capable of ca... - List of dinosaur classifications (7586 bytes)
38: ** †Family [[Plateosauridae]]
46: **** †Family [[Diplodocidae]]
76: == Another scheme ==
96: ...osaurus]], [[Tarbosaurus]], [[Gorgosaurus]], [[Daspletosaurus]]'')
112: **** [[Plateosauridae]] (e.g. ''[[Plateosaurus]]'') - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
7: ...ers and navigators, until the time of the great explorations. They were also adopted in the Arab world...
11: ...grand scheme. He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew, in a grid th...
13: ...:Ptolemys_system.jpg|thumb|300px|Ptolemy System Explained. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
16: ...300, after the text was rediscovered by [[Maximus Planudes]].
18: ...ugh copies containing many scribal errors, and people have always been adding or improving the topogra... - Serpent (instrument) (2056 bytes)
1: ...] scheme of [[musical instrument classification]] places it alongside [[trumpet]]s.
3: ... range varies according to the instrument and the player, but typically covers a range from two [[octa...
5: ...riginal models still survive, and it is sometimes played as part of historically [[authentic performan...
7: ...horn''', which is essentially the same, but is simpler in shape, consisting of a tube folded back on i... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...[Western Australia]] – and astronomers' and planetologists' estimates of the age of the [[solar ...
4: ...ntists such as [[Martin Luther]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today co...
6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretched ...
9: ...ew [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scientific basi...
13: ... of the age of the Earth to creation tales, or simply assumed that the Earth always had been, always w... - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...name ''Africa terra'' — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern...
37: ...[[Prester John]], [[14th century]] [[European]] explorers arrived in Africa.
51: ...side by side with no buffer between them. For example, the [[Congo River]], although it appears to be ...
53: ...hat had substantial European populations, for example [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], systems of se...
55: ...the region later. The terms to the indigenous peoples eventually came to describe a persons economic ... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...eviously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christopher Columbus]],...
3: The Age of Exploration was rooted in new technologies and ideas g...
5: ==Exploration by land==
6: ...ccurate world maps prior to the age of European exploration]]
7: ... between Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city ... - Sub-Saharan Africa (3920 bytes)
1: ...[[ecology]] of the region. However, if strictly applied, this term would exclude [[South Africa]], whi...
7: ... part of Africa. According to this classification scheme, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa are: - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ...[[European Union]] and [[NATO]]. Usually known simply as the '''United Kingdom''' or the '''UK''', it ...
64: ...) has been proposed, but is little used outside diplomatic circles.
69: ...land was on the brink of economic ruin and was deeply unpopular with the broader Scottish population.
71: ...nd]]. This was also an unpopular decision, taking place just after the unsuccessful United Irishmen Re...
74: ...he 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witnessed ... - Conflict (3579 bytes)
2: ...bility between two or more people or groups of people, which is sometimes characterised by physical [[...
5: ...going state of hostility between two groups of people.
20: *intra-state conflict (for example: [[civil war]]s, [[election]] campaigns)
23: ...sis. For example, conflict within a work team may play out the dynamics of a broader conflict in the o...
25: ...concern for the outcomes of the other party. This scheme leads to the following hypotheses: - Alaska (24727 bytes)
69: Alaska was probably first settled by people who came there across the [[Bering Land Bridge]]...
75: ...the Union on January 3, 1959. In [[1976]], the people of Alaska amended the state's constitution, esta...
77: ...ones was reduced to two, with the entire mainland plus the inner Aleutian Islands going to UTC −...
87: One scheme for describing the state's geography is by labeli...
88: ... with towns, cities, and [[petroleum]] industrial plants; - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
10: ... assert that even [[Socrates]] was among his disciples.
16: ...olytheism]] of the time could not tolerate such explanation, and the enemies of Pericles used the supe...
22: ...mological theory of Anaxagoras in an intelligible scheme.
27: ... [[Aristotle]]), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name ...
28: ...alities, to the prehistoric stage, they were multiplied endlessly in number, by reducing their size th... - Animal (16429 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
6: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
7: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Phyla}}
11: [[Trichoplax|Placozoa]]<br>
31: Superphylum [[Platyzoa]]<br>
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