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- Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
3: ...ld have their portraits painted. Homes in the country could be made of logs and chinked with moss or m...
5: ...tews. Pies were made from gathered raspberries, strawberries, and cherries. Since water was sometimes...
7: ...re used to make a dye. Yellow came from butternut tree bark; red came from the roots of the madder her...
9: ... Printing and publishing were also very important trades.
11: ...r children reading skills and religious lessons. Basic arithmetic was the only other education. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...oduction machines for manufacturing in other industries.
3: ...ine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power generation]].
7: The term industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste...
10: ...h the accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accum...
12: ...hich often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...ontent can be made harder and [[tensile strength|stronger]] than iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. O...
8: ... material with limited uses on its own. Iron is extracted from [[ore]] by removing the oxygen by combi...
11: ...ementite-ferrite mixture. Cementite is a stochiometric phase with the chemical formula of Fe<sub>3</su...
13: ...cal chemical composition. As such, it requires extremely little thermal [[activation energy]] to form...
15: ...place. The transformation into martensite, by contrast, occurs almost immediately, due to a lower act... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...mme of [[privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed...
31: ...ge-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands of [[northern England]], and increa...
36: ...hen the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] won control of Grantham Council in [[1945]], Roberts was no...
38: ...|Oxford]] from [[1944]] where she studied [[chemistry]]. She became Chairman of the [[Oxford Universit...
45: ...g and Land. She moved to the Shadow [[HM Treasury|Treasury]] Team after [[1966]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...n opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]...
5: ...n [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the...
7: ...h outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...trol Review and Birth Control News''. She also contributed articles on health for the [[United States ...
11: ...ided basic information about such topics as [[menstruation]], but also acknowledged the reality of sex... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...ment that valued education. Her parents believed travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 yea...
6: ...nnsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and the slow pace...
8: ...int copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
12: ...d that her colors were too bright and that her portraits too accurate to be flattering to the subject.
18: Shortly after her triumphs with the [[impressionism|impressionists]], ... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...ce" Zinovievna Rosenbaum''', was a popular and controversial [[United States|American]] [[philosopher]...
19: ... Party of the Soviet Union|Communist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There i...
22: ...er basic living-expenses. While working as an [[extra]] on [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s ''[[King of Kings]]'...
26: ...mpany]] publishing house. Despite these initial struggles ''The Fountainhead'' was successful, bringi...
31: ...]] of egoism and individualism. Rand also had a strong dislike for [[mysticism]], [[religion]], and c... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...nting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], A...
2: ...tury]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]], became a...
7: ...the following years. In [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disi...
10: ...Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...cumstances) and brought her through Burgundian-controlled territory to Chinon. She was said to have c... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Asparagales]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Orchidaceae'''}} - Botany (8977 bytes)
9: ...oncerned with the classification ([[taxonomy]]), structure ([[anatomy]]), or function ([[plant physiol...
11: ...are usually covered, somewhat superficially, in introductory botany courses.
20: ... [[agriculture]], and botany provides some of the basic science to understand how to minimize their impac...
25: ...ng [[maize]]. These are a few examples that demonstrate how botanical research has ongoing relevance t...
28: ...h originally came from the [[bark]] of [[willow]] trees, is just one example. There may be many [[drug... - Testicle (6183 bytes)
3: ...fort to protect them in a fight) and they also contract during orgasm.
5: ...ly due to differences in the vascular anatomical structure on the right and left sides. It is thought ...
13: ...forming and endocrine, are under control of gonadotropic hormones produced by the anterior [[pituitary...
18: ==Structure==
19: ...thra, where the [[prostate]], through muscular contractions, ejaculates the sperm, mixed with other fl... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
6: Following are some basic functions of the human circulatory system:
7: #Delivery of [[oxygen]] and [[nutrient]]s to all parts of the body.
10: #Transport of [[hormone]]s.
22: ...diffusion]] of chemicals into or out of the bloodstream.
25: ...nutrients, water and oxygen without the need of a transport system. - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
2: ... [[food]], [[digest]]s it to extract energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste.
4: The GI tract differs substantially from animal to animal. ...
8: ...atomy-illustrations.htm Anatomy Pictures and Illustrations]
10: == Basic anatomy of the human alimentary canal ==
12: ...GI tract is approximately [[1 E0 m|7 and a half metres]] long (25 [[feet]]) and consists of the follow... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
1: [[image:Brain.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of the Human Brain courtesy of [http://class...
3: ...the [[central nervous system]] and the primary control center for the [[peripheral nervous system]].
9: ...cular as well as profoundly developed protypical structures of the [[brain stem]]. But the human brain...
15: ... is visible at the back of the brain. Brain stem structures are almost completely enveloped by the cer...
21: ...SF) which also fills spaces called [[ventricle|ventricles]] inside it. The dense fluid protects the br... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
5: == Basic [[anatomy]] ==
9: The kidneys are retroperitoneal, which means they lie behind the [[per...
14: ===Structural details===
20: ... cotransport and [[countercurrent exchange|countertransport]] mechanisms. The final solution is then e...
24: ...owman's capsule wall to produce the glomerular filtrate, which enter the kidney tubule. Blood leaves t... - Mammary gland (2185 bytes)
4: The basic components of the mammary gland are the [[alveoli...
9: ...ibits it. [[Prolactin]], which is stimulated by estrogen, acts on the mammary glands to produce milk (...
11: ...evelop in [[pregnancy]], where rising levels of estrogen and [[progesterone]] cause further branching ...
13: ...w days later due to a reduction in circulating oestrogens and progesterone. - Connective tissue (1646 bytes)
1: ...sive [[extracellular matrix]]. There are several basic types:
3: ...cyte]]s embedded in a mineralized extracellular matrix, and functions for general support.
6: ...here it provides cushioning. The extracellular matrix of cartilage is composed primarily of [[chondro...
7: ... [[blood plasma]], which transports dissolved [[nutrient]]s, [[hormone]]s, and [[carbon dioxide]] in t... - Body cavity (2315 bytes)
1: ...[[Phylum (biology)|phyla]]) that incorporate a central body cavity, known as a '''coelom'''. The coelo...
9: ... thought that the coelom may have evolved from gastric pouches ("stomachs" sort of) in [[cnidaria|cnid... - Ploidy (4598 bytes)
1: ...m]] and [[oocyte]]s) are haploid. In contrast, tetraploidy (four sets of chromosomes), a type of [[po...
26: ...ost forms of aneuploidy in humans are lethal, but trisomy (three copies) of the sex chromosome (the ca...
31: ...xamples is the so called [[Triangle_of_U|Brassica triangle]] where three different parent species have... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
3: ==Traditional beehives==
4: ...humb|Traditional manufacture of ''skeps'' from [[straw]] in [[England]]]]
5: ...h or without frames, and finally replaced by Langstroth equipment.
7: Honey from traditional hives was typically extracted by ''pressing'' - crushing the wax honeycomb...
9: ...inspected for disease or [[parasite]]s without destruction of the honeycomb and usually the colony.
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