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- Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
1: [[Image:Florence Nightingale - Project Gutenberg 13103.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|A y...
7: ...led woman, Florence rebelled against the expected role for a woman of her status, which was to become ...
9: ... in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...m of the [[Poor Laws]], extending far beyond the provision of medical care.
15: == Rejection of marriage proposal == - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...ench and [[United Kingdom|British]] women's game from [[1919]] to [[1926]], winning 25 [[Grand Slam (t...
8: ...hen she played on the tennis court at the family property in [[Marest-sur-Matz]]. The young girl enjoy...
10: ...925.) She lost to reigning champion [[Marguerite Broquedis]] in a closely fought three-set match: 5&nd...
14: ...; and met seven time winner [[Dorothea Douglass|Dorothea Douglass Chambers]] in the final. The close m...
18: ...(playing with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after their opponents withdrew. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...]] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|table sugar]] is melted and cooled rapidly by d...
3: ...to describe [[amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used...
9: ... brittle and will break into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely,...
16: ==Properties and Uses==
18: ...to other shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the [[Verrerie of Brehat]] in [[Brittany]].]] - Stained glass (3937 bytes)
2: ...oto provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]
4: ...oto provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]]
7: ...rimary colors, but today almost any color can be produced.
9: ...aracteristics that, even for the same color, can provide surprising results.
11: ...re then [[Soldering|soldered]] together to create windows, panels, and/or lampshades incorporating colorful... - Iconography (7643 bytes)
4: ... painted by [[Luke the Evangelist|St Luke]], who probably knew them. In the case of the various [[Hind...
6: ...d events depicted. It was also reckoned that the prohibition in the [[Old Testament]] scriptures again...
8: ... [[archetype]], [[icon]]s are kissed, carried in procession, and venerated.
11: ...ne]] was tortured, and the axe, laid close to the roots in the [[icon]] of [[John the Baptist|St John]...
13: ...the heads of holy individuals while it is absent from those who are not [[Christian]]s. This nimbus is... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...a]]. Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed to remove or amend this requirement, but non...
16: ...e served two full terms: [[Dwight Eisenhower]], [[Ronald Reagan]], and [[Bill Clinton]]. Incumbent Pre...
19: ...e person receiving the greatest number of votes (provided that such a number was a majority of elector...
21: ...mendment XII]] in [[1804]] changed the electoral process by directing the electors to use separate bal...
25: ...ess is concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
1: ...beyond the atmosphere), as well as the connected processes and phenomena.
3: ....crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daed...
5: ...omers embrace the [[scientific method]], while astrologers do not.
7: ==Divisions of astronomy==
8: ...cts are now more easily determined, and modern astronomy concerns itself much more with trying to obse... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...her languages. Many dictionaries also provide [[pronunciation]] information, word derivations, histor...
5: ...(Chinese character)|strokes]], overall shape, or pronunciation of each character. Due to the nature of...
8: ...empts to cover only a limited selection of words from a speech community is called a [[minimizing dict...
14: ...rder, or [[Romanization|romanized]] and sorted in Roman alphabetical order.
17: ...d dictionary]]), or their coverage may be more narrow, in that they cover one particular subject field... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
1: ...a]]s (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
7: ...allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
10: ...ease use the new section editing feature if your browser
35: *[[List of digital library projects]]
44: *[[List of unsolved problems]] - Anemometer (11426 bytes)
1: ...the rigging that runs around the perimeter of the roof.]]
3: An '''anemometer''' (from Gr. ἄνεμος, wind,...
7: ...n many official publications have often been in error by nearly 50%.
9: ...s vertical, but with this subdivision the axis of rotation must be parallel to the direction of the wi...
11: ...s now fairly certain that these high values are erroneous, and due, not to the wind, but to faulty des... - Medieval architecture (3180 bytes)
2: ...oto provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]'''Medieval architecture''' is a ter...
6: ...tecture|Byzantine style]] of domes and a [[Greek cross]] (resembling a plus sign), centering attention...
8: ===Romanesque===
9: ''Main article: [[Romanesque architecture]]''
11: ...l vaults, cruciform piers supporting vaults, and groin vaults. - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, destroying the wings and causing Icarus to fall into the...
5: ...ngs ([[Wright brothers]]). Modern planes are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that ...
15: ...etation of his design, with modern knowledge of aerodynamic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo als...
17: ...l the [[gasoline]] engine designed by the Wright Brothers.
19: ...r "rage" in Europe in the late [[18th century]], providing the first detailed understanding of the rel... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
19: ...adline by which the small remainder of non-metric road distance signs in the [[Republic of Ireland]] m...
21: ... Requirement of television stations in the US to broadcast analog signals are lifted.
23: ...y 1]] - 30 Cities across the [[Canada|Canadian]] Province of [[Quebec]] will be reconstituted, as the ...
24: ...]- [[NJ Transit]] takes over [[Clocker]] service from [[Amtrak]]
26: * [[January 15]] - First round of the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Finnish president... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...y read by humans without a computer, making it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice...
13: ... to use in the United States, became known as Railroad or [[American Morse code]], and is now very rar...
17: ...ent was transmitted, the receiver's electromagnet rotated an armature, so that it began to scratch a m...
23: ... language that is ''heard'', instead of one read from a page[http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/learncw/][... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
2: ...le cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes are observed during a night-time thunderstorm....
6: ...arge channels rapidly heats and expands the air, producing lightning's characteristic [[thunder]] soun...
10: ...jar]]s and other instruments, a number of people proposed that small scale sparks shared some similari...
12: ...ose fibers on the string stretching out; he then brought his hand close enough to the key and a spark ...
16: ...d, the engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the door itself torn off its hinges. - Cockroach (5997 bytes)
2: ... | caption = ''Madagascan Hissing Cockroach<br> (Gromphadorhina portentosa).<br> This insect is 8 cm (...
5: {{Taxobox phylum entry | taxon = [[Arthropoda]]}}
19: ...es are much bigger. When infesting buildings, cockroaches are considered [[pest]]s.
22: ...ssociation with human dwellings and widely found around garbage or in the kitchen.
24: ...their [[abdomen]]; the egg case of the German Cockroach holds about 30-40 long, thin eggs, packed like... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...e]], and his plays are continually performed all around the world. Shakespeare was among the very few ...
6: ...ays]] attributed to him are often uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of ...
8: ...p://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakespeare quotations from Shakespearean plays], the [[List of titles of wo...
12: ...individual whose life can be clearly mapped out through the study of considerable historical evidence.
14: ... also the [[Feast Day]] of [[Saint George]], [[patron saint]] of England. - Bat (disambiguation) (977 bytes)
3: * The [[bat]], a flying mammal of the order Chiroptera.
4: ...et bat|cricket]], [[baseball bat|baseball]] and [[rounders]].
7: ...[The Bat!]], an [[e-mail]] client for [[Microsoft Windows]].
9: * ".bat", the filetype extension for [[Microsoft Windows]] [[batch file]]s.
10: * [[Bat (roller coaster)|Bat]], a model of [[roller coaster]]. - Bat (13851 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = '''Chiroptera'''}}
10: [[Pteropodidae]]<br />
19: [[Antrozoidae]]<br />
22: [[Thyropteridae]]<br />
29: ...ly bats are capable of true flight. The name ''Chiroptera'' can be translated as ''Hand Wing'', as the... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
1: [[Image:MacOKXTigerCover.jpg|Mac OS X Tiger front cover|thumb|260px|[[Mac OS X v10.4]], "Tiger"]]
7: ...named [[Mac OS X]] (the "X" is a [[Roman numerals|Roman numeral]] 10). The latest version of Mac OS is...
9: From its inception, the Macintosh has introduced or popularized a number of innovations adopt...
11: Innovations introduced or popularized with the original Macintosh: ...
20: * Separation of a program's code from its resources to allow localization, etc.
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