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- Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
7: ...m he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the p...
14: ...ism to the concept of [[God]]. What makes the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' interesting is its presentat...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the author...
23: ...he Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, bu...
25: ... volume was given to the world. The last of the letterpress was issued in 1765, but it was 1772 before... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
7: |78th Attorney General
27: ...]) was the 78th [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] of the [[United States]] ([[1993]]...
32: Reno attended public school in [[Miami-Dade County, Florid...
36: ... State's Attorney's Office. She left the state's attorney's office in [[1976]] to become a partner in ...
38: ... County). She was elected to the Office of State Attorney in November [[1978]] and was returned to off... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...nchester, Hampshire|Winchester]] to seek medical attendance, but so rapid was the progress of her mala...
9: ...ed when they were published, with [[Sir Walter Scott]] in particular praising her work: - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
10: ...ate who came from a prominent [[Boston, Massachusetts | Boston]] family and had lived in [[Paris]] as ...
14: ..., with her friend [[Louisette Bertholle]], had written a French cookbook for Americans and proposed th...
16: ...ound Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repeatedly tested re...
20: ...s. Lauded for its helpful illustrations, precise attention to detail, and for making fine cuisine acce...
22: ...ttitude and distinctively charming warbly voice, attracted the broadest audience. - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: She was born in [[Paris]] as '''Henriette Rosine Bernard''', the eldest surviving illegiti...
11: [[Image:Sarah Bernhardt.png|thumb|right|Sketch of Sarah Bernhardt]]
12: ...pictures and two biographical films in all. The latter included ''Sarah Bernhardt ࠂelle-Isle'' ([[19... - Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
3: ...medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on [[vellum]]. Beginning in the late middle ag...
7: ...ern undertaking in progress right now please see http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/
10: ... Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was hand written in Belgium, by Gerard Brils, for reading aloud ...
11: ...P in the Malmesbury Bible. The script is [[blackletter]], also known as Gothic script.]]
16: ...n illuminated manuscript, the text was usually written first. Sheets of [[vellum parchment|vellum]], ... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
9: ...E]]) of Babylonian history, was found at Nippur [http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NIP/PUB93/NSC/NSCF...
21: ...for plying the European trade routes, there was little impetus for systematic study or application of ...
34: ...ners (remote and document) and analytic stereo plotters along with visualization, image processing, sp...
41: ...is a very general type of map, the kind you might sketch on a napkin.
50: ... loud voice; whatever the native said was then written down as its name. The [[Yucat�n|Yucatan Penin... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...egend was designed to be a cautionary tale about attempting to reach heaven, similar to the [[Tower of...
13: There were many early attempts to fly, covering the full range of legend to...
15: ...namic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design would...
17: ...ome some one might know how better to utilize our sketch and cause some addition to be made so as to accom...
21: ...m engine mounted on a dirigible. Throughout the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of ... - Printmaking (6788 bytes)
11: The [[artist]] draws a sketch on a plank of [[wood]] and then uses sharp tools ...
35: ...]]s. [[line (art)|Lines]] can vary from smooth to sketchy.
50: [[Otto Dix]],
70: The stone is wetted, with water staying only on the surface not cov... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
7: He attended the [[University of Pisa]], but was forced t...
10: ...h) or other thinkers (such as [[Aristotle]]) in matters of science and to the separation of science fr...
14: ...licated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was co...
18: ...se the telescope to observe the [[sky]]. Based on sketchy descriptions of telescopes invented in the [[Net...
22: ... they would occasionally disappear; something he attributed to their movement behind Jupiter. He made ... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...an Civil War|Civil War]], the country was still bitterly divided. In the South, the Federal policy of...
7: ...United States Congress|Congress]] to resist readmitting the rebel states without first imposing precon...
11: ... (all except [[Tennessee]], which had been readmitted in [[1866]]) into 5 military districts. Governm...
19: ...o Reconstruction; this theory characterizes the settlement of that election as the "[[Compromise of 18...
21: ...he cost of over 600,000 white deaths, there was little demand for further military intervention in the... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
7: ... of its modern association with [[sexually transmitted disease]]s. Some astronomers use ''[[Cytherean...
14: ...he planet's equator. This makes Venus's surface hotter than [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]'s, even thoug...
38: ...ch (approximately eight years), after which the patterns repeated (since Venus has a [[synodic period]...
46: ...e it is at [[superior conjunction]], rising and setting concomitantly with the Sun and hence lost in t...
81: ====Getting to Venus==== - DNA (29095 bytes)
3: ... DNA is [[DNA replication|replicated]] and transmitted to the offspring.
28: * The order does matter: A+T is not the same as T+A, just as C+G is not...
31: ...DNA replication|Replication]] is performed by splitting (unzipping) the double strand down the middle ...
48: ...ds.jpg|thumb|250px|DNA Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
61: ... a sequence of three nucleotides (e.g. ACT, CAG, TTT). These codons can then be translated with [[mes... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
8: ...d large [[Jew]]ish populations centered in ''[[ghetto|Juder�]]''.
24: ...tle of "Most [[Catholic King]]", and his ongoing attempts to woo the Pope to his side politically, Fer...
26: ...se threats, in August of [[1480]] the Sultan had attacked [[Italy]] itself, at the port of [[Otranto]]...
44: ... either warned or wholly judged innocent and acquitted.
55: ...isition (Monty Python)|The Spanish Inquisition]]" sketch by [[Monty Python]] ("Nobody expects the Spanish ... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
8: ... Park on 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn. [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Dodgers/dodgers.html Par...
28: ...n exaggerated version of famed circus clown [[Emmett Kelly]] to represent the Dodgers in his much-prai...
31: *[[Batting helmet]]s were introduced to Major League Base...
39: ...land in Brooklyn to build a more accessible and better arrayed ballpark than Ebbets Field. Beloved as ...
40: *When the Los Angeles city fathers attended the [[1955]] World Series looking to entice ... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
5: quotation=A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what h...
17: ...dinburgh, were all professed elocutionists. The latter has published a variety of works on the subject...
19: ... still in Scotland he is said to have turned his attention to the science of acoustics, with a view to...
21: ...large day-school for mutes at [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], but he declined the post in favor of h...
23: ...overing "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically ... by c... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
1: ...For the [[French and Indian War]] battle, see [[Battle of the Wilderness 1755]].''
3: {{Battlebox|
4: battle_name=Battle of the Wilderness
7: |image=[[Image:Battle of the Wilderness.png|300px]]
8: |caption=''Battle of the Wilderness'' by Kurz and Allison. - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
9: Cook attended [[Columbia University]] and subsequently [[N...
13: ...onary, and several years later acquiesced in the attempted publication of the dictionary as his own wo...
24: ...tch maps' markers and peak-numberings for points attained, his compass bearings, his barometer reading...
29: ...y in the Arctic. He left [[Annoatok]], a small settlement in the north of [[Greenland]], in February ...
31: ...see Osczevski (2003) "Frederick Cook and the Forgotten Pole". - Photography (18493 bytes)
2: ...ction of light. It involves recording [[light]] patterns, as reflected from [[object]]s, onto a sensit...
13: *Duration of exposure (or shutter speed)
17: ...r example brightness is aperture multiplied by shutter speed, and varying the focal length of the lens...
25: [[image:First_photo_sketch.jpg|thumbnail|Sketch of the same scene]]
45: ...t photographer processing black and white film, little has changed since the introduction of the [[35m... - Galen (5904 bytes)
3: ...us Galenus of Pergamum''' ([[131]]-[[201]] AD), better known as '''Galen''', was an [[ancient Greece|a...
10: ... the age of 20 he had become a ''therapeutes'' ("attendant" or "associate") of the god [[Asclepius]] i...
18: Galen transmitted [[Hippocratic medicine]] all the way to the ren...
28: ...stop bleeding and vigorously propagated [[blood letting]] as a treatment.
30: ...n had already written about everything. [[Blood letting]] became a standard medical procedure. The fir...
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