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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ces from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to creat...
7: ...d; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
11: ...ite]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in ...
14: ...d during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Sh...
18: ...u Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Crocus (3680 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
9: ...taxon = '''''Crocus''''' }} {{Taxobox authority new | authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]}}
15: ...growing naturally from the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] (where crocuses appear in [[Minoan civilization|Mino...
17: ...die from a unseasonable "post-winter" frost or snowfall.
20: ...atin adjective ''crocatus'', meaning saffron yellow. - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Andrew Jackson]]
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
14: | wife=[[Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams]]
16: | vicepresident=[[John Caldwell Calhoun]]
18: ...d States|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First L... - Set (mythology) (12196 bytes)
2: ...ishably from ''th'' that the greeks spelt it this way, as '''Seth'''.
6: ...in, but is usually considered to be either ''(one who) dazzles'' or ''pillar of stablity'', one conne...
8: ...uce is long, firm, and releases a milky substance when rubbed, an [[innuendo]] clearly referring to t...
10: ... were red, including people with [[ginger hair]], which is not an attribute that egyptians generally ...
12: ...|19]] and [[Twentieth dynasty of Egypt|20]]), Set was identified as various [[Canaan]]ite storm deiti... - Thoth (5655 bytes)
1: ...Greeks with their god [[Hermes]], with whom Thoth was eventually combined, as [[Hermes Trismegistus]]...
3: ...oth gained prominence, and millions of [[ibis]]es were mummified and buried in his honour.
5: ...aid to be the secretary and counsellor of Ra, and with [[Maഝ] stood next to Ra on the nightly voyag...
7: ...[[precession|precess]] by 1/360th of a cycle (360 was used as the number of degrees in a circle since...
9: ...as a close companion of [[Astennu]], a name which was occasionally used to refer to Thoth himself. He... - Ammonius Hermiae (1773 bytes)
1: ...], and the son of [[Hermias]] or Hermeias, a fellow-pupil of [[Proclus]]. He taught at [[Alexandria]]...
3: ...taries on [[Plato]] and [[Ptolemy]] are lost, but we have:
5: ...gories'' (Venice, 1503 fol.), the authenticity of which is doubted by Brandis;
6: ...in Aristot. Graeca''. The special section on fate was published separately by J. C. Orelli, ''Alex. A...
9: ...eparately, with Latin translation and scholia, at Leiden, 1621, at Helmstadt, 1666, and at Paris, 1850. - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
1: ...yle of religion and live according to their own laws.
3: ...ced many of them to move on, this time to the New World.
5: ...United States|Americas]]. These people became known as the [[Pilgrims|Pilgrim Fathers]].
7: [[Image:Pilgrimworkers.jpg|thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http:/...
8: ...nt began to comply and the exiles decided that it was time to leave. - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...of thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[Vi...
7: ... to "drop out" for financial reasons. However, he was offered a position on its faculty in [[1589]] a...
10: ...e oldest known non-linear relation in physics, between the tension and the pitch of a stretched strin...
12: ...w was arrived at deductively, and the experiments were merely illustrative thought experiments. - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
3: '''Jan van Eyck''' (c. [[1385]]–[[1441]]) was a [[15th century]] [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[paint...
5: ...longed to the [[Van Eyck]] family of painters and was a younger brother of [[Hubert van Eyck]].
7: ...n, Hubert admitted him into partnership, and both were made court painters to [[Philip the Good|Phili...
9: ...servant of his prince, who never treated him otherwise than graciously.
11: ...g extra pay for secret services at [[Leiden]], drawing his salary at [[Bruges]], yet settled in a fix... - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...attraction or repulsion is given by [[Coulomb's law]]. Some electrical effects are discussed under [...
3: ...he [[SI]] unit of electricity is the [[coulomb]], which has the abbreviation "C". The symbol ''Q'' i...
6: ...language|Greek]] ''ēlektron'' = "[[amber]]", which came from an old [[root (linguistics)|root]] ...
8: ... electrical devices on [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] walls, such as the [[Dendera light]]. Other devices...
10: ...n [[1747]] that a discharge of static electricity was equivalent to an [[electric current]]. - Egyptian soul (5527 bytes)
2: ...e soul, including those of animals, and of gods, was thought to inhabit a body (named the ''Ha'' (''...
5: ...ased enemies of the state, such as [[Akhenaten]], were studiously hacked out of monuments.
7: == Sheut (shadow) ==
8: ...ow, nor the shadow without the person. The shadow was represented as a small human figure painted com...
12: ... thought to be created by [[Chnum]] on a potter's wheel, or passed on to children via their father's ... - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
1: ... Iron Age forebears, which were often recorded in written form during the [[Middle Ages]].
4: ...cord anything of religious significance [http://www.simplyscottish.com/readingroom/history/gaelic_dru...
6: ...ere first recorded by Christian [[monks]], albeit without most of their original religious meanings.
9: ...er is in charge of the skies, and Mars influences warfare. In addition to these five, he mentions tha...
11: ====The Problem with Caesar?s ?Equivalent? Roman Gods==== - Helium (36603 bytes)
2: {| width="250" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing=...
7: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | <br>'''He'''<br>[...
44: | 0.152 [[watt|W]]/([[metre|m]]·[[kelvin|K]])
74: | [[van der Waals radius]]
83: {| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" - Bluebuck (1913 bytes)
1: ...ink | name = Bluebuck Facts}}<br/>{{StatusExtinct|when=ca.[[1800]]}}
15: ...s more widespread during the last [[Ice Age]]. It was probably a selective feeder, preferring high-qu...
17: ...may have derived from a mixture of black and yellow hairs. - Leyden jar (3953 bytes)
3: The '''Leyden jar''' was the original [[capacitor]], developed in the [[...
7: ...d at the surface of the elements, at the boundary with the dielectric.
10: ...x|Leyden jars, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden [http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/]]]
12: ...separation of charge in a dielectric. Their work was a precursor to the development of the leyden ja...
14: ...ce the jar was named after [[Leiden]], the home town of the [[university]].
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