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- Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...ce. Comets typically move in highly [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits, the [[aphelion|aphelia]] of which m...
9: ...tational interactions, falling into extremely elliptical orbits that bring them very close to the [[Su...
13: ...Cometorbit.png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]]
17: ...d molecules. In these collisions, the ions will capture one or more electrons leading to emission of X...
21: ... explain why comets get perturbed into highly elliptical orbits, including close approaches to other [... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
50: ...he Germans. He made five unsuccessful escape attempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retali...
56: ...smissed de Gaulle's theories with the notable exception of [[Paul Reynaud]] who would later play a maj...
69: ...ons of Frenchmen were refugees on the road), excerpts of the speech appeared in French newspapers the ...
82: ...he President of the provisional government from September [[1944]] but resigned on [[January 20]], [[1...
87: ... active politics, though the RPF lingered until September [[1955]]. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
25: ...s tactlessness), Brienne went on the attack, attempting to disband the parlements entirely and collect...
31: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[August 8]], [[1788]] &ndash...
33: ... of the opposition that the government would attempt to gerrymander an assembly to its liking. In ord...
35: ...nd that the Third Estate itself was the nation, kept these resentments alive.
40: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[June 17]], [[1789]] –... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
13: ...y, and several years later acquiesced in the attempted publication of the dictionary as his own work.
24: ...ed McKinley subsequently can verify, Cook's descriptions of the summit ridge bear no resemblance to th...
29: ...ed to the [[Arctic]] in 1907. He planned to attempt to reach the [[North Pole]], although his intenti...
37: Cook intermittently claimed he had kept copies of his sextant navigational data and in 19...
39: ...bly dual fraudulent claims, of Cook and Peary prompted [[Roald Amundsen]] to take particularly extensi... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
14: ...order to learn Arctic survival skills and soon adopted their dress. From them he learned to use [[sled...
20: Amundsen told no one of his change of plans except his brother Leon and the officer on board Fram. H...
24: ...r equipment. During the winter at Framheim they kept busy improving the equipment, particularly the sl... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
233: *[[Eratosthenes]] (Ptolemaic Egypt, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C.]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}} - Inca road system (6879 bytes)
8: ...ult and treacherous for the Spanish in their attempts to conquer the Inca Empire. Unaccustomed to the... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...n the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to vis...
9: ...ted by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it ...
15: ...[County of Tripoli]] and when [[Akko|Acre]] was captured in [[1291]] the order sought refuge in the [[...
17: ... in the [[15th century]], one by the Sultan of Egypt in [[1444]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[148...
29: ...st the entirety of their fleet was destroyed or captured in what is now known as the [[Battle of Lepan... - Ernest Shackleton (9537 bytes)
21: ...or choices and preparation and the pervading assumption that all obstacles could be overcome with pers...
36: ...ean ship ''Yelcho'' after three other failed attempts on [[August 30]], [[1916]] (22 months after depa...
38: ...photography. Expedition journals were carefully kept and are preserved to this day. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
27: * [[1707]]: [[Mount Fuji]] erupts in Japan.
47: * [[1719]]: Spanish attempt to restart the [[Jacobite rising#The Rebellion/Ri...
88: * [[1740]]: British attempt to capture [[St. Augustine, Florida]] but lose to the Spa...
94: ...t the [[Jacobite Rising#1744 French invasion attempt|Jacobite rebellion]] fails
105: ...English and English allies. The North American chapter of the [[Seven Years' War]].
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