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- 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... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
6: ...coholism|drinker]] throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ...]. The band signed a deal with independent [[Mainstream Records]] and recorded an eponymously titled a...
20: ...she was able to record her vocal over the backing track.
30: ...nd sense of humour, her liberated stance and her strident, hard-living "one of the boys" image all com...
32: ... few broadly-defined roles -- the gentle, guitar-strumming 'folkie' (e.g. [[Judy Collins]], [[Joni Mit... - 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... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
1: ...demy Award]] winning [[Australia|Australian]] [[actress]], [[producer]], and [[singer]].
3: The family returned to Australia when Nicole was four years old, when Tony Kid...
8: ...was diagnosed with breast cancer, as Kidman concentrated on her family responsibilities until her moth...
10: ...s, notably including the [[soap opera]] ''[[A Country Practice]]'', the mini-series ''[[Vietnam (minis...
13: ...r, and lived in [[Los Angeles, California]], [[Australia]], [[Colorado]], and [[New York]]. - Map (10223 bytes)
3: ...p is a [[2D geometric model|two-dimensional, geometrically accurate representation]] of a three-dimens...
5: ==Introduction==
7: ...e [[Catal Huyuk]] settlement in south-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200...
9: ... "body" of the Earth to the body of Christ. By contrast, navigational (or "Portolan") charts of the Me...
11: ...with this map and states that "we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...y the [[dulcian]], the bassoon is a part of orchestral, concert band, and chamber music literature. It...
6: ...It was, like the modern instrument,frequently constructed of maple, with thick walls to allow finger-h...
8: ...ed, the word began to be used to refer to this instrument in particular.
10: ...e great improvements in the playability of the instrument. A Dutch painting, "Der Fagottspieler", in t...
12: ==Construction and characteristics== - Flora (plants) (3124 bytes)
4: [[Image:FG_90.jpg|thumb|right|Flower Illustration. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
12: ... (that may or may not be weedy), and native and introduced non-weedy species that are agriculturally u...
13: [[Image:FG_97A.jpg|thumb|right|Flower Illustration. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
16: ==Flora treatises ==
18: Traditionally floras are [[book]]s, but some are now... - Inca mythology (10365 bytes)
10: ...cause his reckless and cruel behavior angered the tribes that they were attempting to rule. (''[[huaca...
12: ...en created as a ploy to bring the powerful Aymara tribes into the fold of the Tawantinsuyo.
14: ...rsions of the legend, the young Manco jealously betrayed his older brothers, killed them, and then bec...
30: ...es onto the doll; this was believed to caused the user to receive what he desired.
31: ...and [[lightning]]"; aka ''Apu Illapu'', Ilyap'a, Katoylla) was a very popular [[weather]] god. His holi... - Sickle (1231 bytes)
1: [[Image:SickleUser wb.png|thumb|right|300px|Using a sickle]]
3: ...d. The inside of the curve is sharp, so that the user can swing the blade against the base of the crop,...
16: * '''SS-25 Sickle''' is the [[NATO reporting name]] for the [[RT-2PM Topol]] [[inter... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ''Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: .... Usually the instrument will have some way of controlling the sound, such as by adjusting the [[pitch...
3: ...order between sound effects and actual musical instruments is often hazy.
5: ...les, and tape. Most notably, he wrote [[Po譥 ɬectronique]] for the Phillips pavilion at the Brussels...
7: Electronic musical instruments are now widely used in most styles of music...
9: == Early electronic musical instruments == - Artemis (11271 bytes)
3: ...he was known as [[Diana (goddess)|Diana]]. In [[Etruscan mythology]], she took the form of [[Artume]]...
11: ... was able to kill him with a bough, picked from a tree in the forest.
15: ...ter puberty), they were asked to lay all the accoutrements of virginity (toys, dolls, locks of their h...
25: ...often presumed that defeated peoples become a substratum beneath that of their conquerors. It seems p...
31: ... childbirth. Her brother [[Apollo]] exhibited contradiction as well, as he was a god of healing who b... - Sundial (16148 bytes)
17: [[Image:EquatorialSundial.JPG|thumbnail|right|Equatorial Sundial]]
45: The nodus may be the tip of a gnomon with an arbitrary (usually horizontal or vertical) orientation[h...
49: ...rble face, with markings inlaid in black marble. Traditional styles are thick bronze to prevent corro...
51: It is traditional for a sundial to have a motto.
53: === Equatorial or Equinoctial[http://www.sundials.co.uk/tbeq... - DNA (29095 bytes)
3: ...tion]], DNA is [[DNA replication|replicated]] and transmitted to the offspring.
5: ... and in other multi-cellular [[organism]]s, by contrast, most of the DNA is located in the [[cell nucl...
8: ...ronic devices and computers, but what are the electronic properties of DNA? Is junk DNA only molecular...
10: PLEASE, PLEASE try to refrain from transforming this section into another highly-accura...
12: ...) is also to be avoided. --[[User:Lexor|Lexor]]|[[User talk:Lexor|Talk]] - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: [[Image:Morse_sam.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http:...
2: ...wave|CW]] (continuous wave) [[amateur radio]] operators. Morse code is the only digital [[modulation]] ...
4: ...al (e.g. a flashing light). Because Morse code is transmitted using just two states — on and off —...
7: # intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes withi...
17: ..., and when the current was removed the receiver retracted the armature, so that portion of the tape wa... - Finger (2398 bytes)
3: ...on is the [[thumb]], with its [[flexor]] and [[rotators]] comprised in the hand itself.
13: ...''the third finger'' means the middle finger in anatomy, not the ring finger as in daily English.
15: ... [[human body]], the fingertips have a high concentration of [[nerve ending]]s, equipping them as cent...
19: ...illion]] 03:33, 10 May 2005 (UTC)--> [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mnewlimb.html] - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: An '''abacus''' is a calculation tool, often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wire...
5: ...n abacus in principle, though has a different construction.
7: ...Image:Abacus-1b.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Abacus Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Cla...
10: ...sion (mathematics)|division]], [[addition]], [[subtraction]], [[square root]] and [[cube root]] operat...
18: ...his image is a 2004 photograph of the Mainz reconstruction of the - Compass (8275 bytes)
3: ... device greatly improved maritime trade by making travel safer and more efficient.
5: ...or [[astrocompass]] can also be used to ascertain true North.
11: ..., and hanged the magnetic needle with one single strain of silk with a bit of wax attached to the cen...
15: :''The navigator knows the geography, he watches the stars at nig...
20: ...monk, [[Nicholas of Lynne]], who served as a navigator due to his competence and knowledge in the "magn... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...enience of the solver, although in many widely distributed American crosswords such as the ''[[New Yor...
8: ...ain]] and [[Australia]], have a [[lattice]]-like structure, with a higher percentage of black squares,...
10: ...the grid should have 180-degree rotational [[symmetry]], so that its pattern appears the same if the p...
12: ...' crosswords have simple designs and are not symmetric.
14: ...f. In both cases, no two puzzles are alike in construction, and the intent of the puzzle authors is to... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
4: ...d personal computer to popularize the [[graphical user interface]] (GUI), a revolutionary event in compu...
7: ...c OS under that name). In [[March 2001]], Apple introduced a modern and more secure [[Unix]]-based suc...
9: From its inception, the Macintosh has introduced or popularized a number of innovations adop...
11: Innovations introduced or popularized with the original Macintosh:...
12: * A [[graphical user interface]] (GUI) consisting of [[icon]]s, a [[de...
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