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- Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...ersal and, as the map below shows, the shapes of time zones can be quite irregular because they usually...
4: [[image:Timezones.png|thumb|400px|Standard Time Zones of the World by the CIA]]
6: ...today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerl...
8: ... in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British Summer Time]] (BST).
10: The time for a location is given relative to UTC. Some exa... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: The '''geologic time scale''' is used by [[geologist]]s and other scie...
3: ...e in each period. Different spans of time on the time scale are usually delimited by major [[geology|ge...
7: ...re recognized faunal stages than defined geologic time units.
9: ...ones based on [[trilobita|trilobites]]. The same timespan is split into [[Tommotian]], [[Atdabanian]] a...
11: ==History of the time scale== - Time (15299 bytes)
3: ...n philosophical and scientific issues relating to time.
5: ...motion have long served as standards for units of time - such as the apparent motion of the sun across t...
9: ...ay are "non-SI" units, but ''are'' officially accepted for use ''with'' the International System. The...
11: ...iversal Time]] (UTC) which is the basis for civil time.
15: ... important systems of periodization is [[Geologic time]], which is a system of periodizing the events th...
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
43: ...om [[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[1810]]<br>[[September 27]], [[1821]] |
46: time_zone = |
48: time_zone_DST = varies |
64: ...them. For them all the highly-civilized arts, sculpture, architecture, engraving, feather-mosiac work,...
68: On [[September 16]], [[1810]], independence from Spain was ... - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...mple of political stablity in the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin Am...
41: <br /> [[September 15]], [[1821]]
46: | '''[[Time zone]]'''
47: | [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] -6
61: In [[Pre-Columbian]] times the [[Native American]]s in what is now [[Costa ... - List of elements by symbol (14812 bytes)
53: <tr><td>Kr</td><td>[[krypton]]</td><td>36</td><td></td></tr>
70: <tr><td>Np</td><td>[[neptunium]]</td><td>93</td><td></td></tr>
80: <tr><td>Pt</td><td>[[platinum]]</td><td>78</td><td></td></tr...
127: ...>[[actinon]]</td><td>86</td><td>Name given at one time to an isotope of [[radon]] identified in the deca...
128: ...>93</td><td>Discredited claim to discovery of [[Neptunium]].</td></tr> - Pennsylvanian (1543 bytes)
3: The '''Pennsylvanian''' is a [[Geologic Timescale|geologic (sub)period]] lasting from roughly ...
5: ...the [[United States]] in Middle [[Pennsylvanian]] time.]]
6: ...ne]]s, it is treated as a full fledged [[Geologic Timescale|geologic period]] between the [[Mississippia...
14: Provides a picture of what the world at the time period. - Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
7: ...stimated to have been 134 m (440 ft) high, at the time one of the tallest man-made structures on Earth. ...
9: ...of modern optics and reflective technology in the time period in which the lighthouse existed. Probably ...
17: ...uilding was finished during the reign of his son, Ptolemy II Philadelphos.
20: ...sappeared in [[1480]], when the then-Sultan of Egypt, [[Qaitbay]], used the rubble to help build a for... - History of China (45919 bytes)
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itse...
14: ..., and one of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. F...
24: ... the Shang), is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang.
42: ...inese empire by pushing back the [[Xiongnu]] (sometimes identified with the [[Huns]]) into the steppes o... - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
6: ...] and the [[Elamite Empire|Elamites]]. During the time of the [[Persian Empire]] of [[Sassanid]]s this a... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...edon]] has been beyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
8: ...akshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to be the tomb of [[Darius Hystaspis]], concer...
12: ...II]]. [[Xerxes II]], who reigned for a very short time, could scarcely have obtained so splendid a monum...
18: ...it was probably under this king, with whom the sceptre passed to a new branch of the royal house, that...
27: :(5) Promptly many torches were gathered. Female musicians w... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
20: ... apply concepts to the world, and that these concepts are in a significant way more real, or more basi...
22: ...some B are C." This syllogism fails if set A is empty.
27: ... worthy of study. One continuing interest in this time was to prove the existence of God, through logic ...
29: ...sed first cause, and this is God. Aquinas also adapted this argument to prove the goodness of God. Eve...
44: ... often to combat atheism or other unbelief, by adopting the idea of material reality, and the [[dualis... - Bjarni Herjulfsson (982 bytes)
1: ... seemed to have taken any interest in them at the time.
3: ...in [[Newfoundland]]. This is the first known attempt at settlement by Europeans in the Americas (if no... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
5: ...hool of thought believes Arthur to have lived sometime in the late [[5th century]] to early [[6th centur...
11: ...eltic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into [[...
25: ...ose of this story would be to promote popular acceptance of the new [[Christianity|Christian faith]] b...
37: ...umphed over the Saxons, their common enemies. [Chapter 38, Footnote 138]</blockquote>
41: ...he tales surrounding Arthur were independently adapted from [[Breton]] oral traditions, spread through... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
5: ...o the Americas by a variety of peoples throughout time; see '''[[Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
31: ...her Bartolomeo worked as a mapmaker in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] a...
41: ...times claimed that the reason Columbus had a hard time receiving support for this plan was that European... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
8: ...44]], and his wife travelled with him for a brief time at his insistence and over the protests of the Mo...
14: ...as, and to publish a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which ...
19: ...ed as a failure in many British newspapers of the time, and Livingstone experienced great difficulty in ...
22: ...[1866]], Livingstone returned to [[Africa]], this time to [[Zanzibar]] (now part of [[Tanzania]]), where... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...Cartier''' ([[December 31]], [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|exp...
5: ...alo is recognized by its frequent appearance in baptismal registers as godfather or witness.
13: ...or [[northwest passage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he...
17: ...ed to the chief). He sailed upriver for the first time and reached the site of present-day [[Québec Cit...
33: ...-Malo]] on his third voyage with five ships. This time, any thoughts of finding a passage to the Orient ... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...school of [[Fiqh]], or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a [[Qadi]] or judge. However, he is best known a...
4: ...ation '''Shams ad-Din''', a title or honorific at times given to the names of scholars particularly in t...
6: ... his adventures. The title of this intial manuscript may be translated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contem...
11: Born in [[Tangier]], [[Morocco]] some time between 1304 and [[1307]], at the age of (approxi...
25: ...ear before embarking on a second great trek, this time down the [[Red Sea]] and the [[Eastern African]] ... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
1: ...nsylvania]], [[New Jersey]], [[Delaware]] and sometimes [[Maryland]]. Today these areas are described as...
5: ..., strawberries, and cherries. Since water was sometimes impure, all members of the family drank [[milk]]...
13: ...as popular among both women and men. From time to time, acrobats, tightrope walkers, and showmen exhibit... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
14: ... recovery from the disorder in the early medieval times, and there was development in agriculture and tr...
30: ...called [[industrial espionage]], with modern concepts of automatic illegality.
36: ...gs. Foreign printed sources such as the ''[[Descriptions des Arts et Metiers]]'' and Diderot's ''[[Enc...
48: ...rmed to protest against industrialization and sometimes [[sabotage]]d factories.
53: ...chanical parts of early textile machines were sometimes called 'clock work' due to the metal spindles an... - Steel (28384 bytes)
11: ... As carbon-rich austenite cools, the mixture attempts to revert to the ferrite phase, resulting in an ...
13: ... [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the strength of ferrite. Martensite has a very ...
15: ...ransformation to ferrite or perlite does not have time to take place. The transformation into martensit...
19: ...re ductile and fracture-resistant metal. Because time is so critical to the end result, this process is...
26: ...he first signs of iron use come from [[Ancient Egypt]] and [[Sumer]], where around [[4000 BC]] small i... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...m for themselves, and the word was always a descriptor of a ''type'' of religious innovation, rather t...
8: ...yes of the Puritans, this had made doctrine unacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[M...
10: ...belief that all existing churches had become corrupted by practice, by contact with pagan civilization...
14: ...ure and liturgy that the monarchy required. Attempts by the [[bishop]]s of the Church of England to e...
26: ...f Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the attempt to introduce a [[Divine right of kings]] to Charl... - Cottage industry (368 bytes)
3: ...used for people working from their home on a part time basis. Primarily used for manufactoring, these wo...
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