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  1. Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
    18: LandArea = 178,023 |
    26: AdmittanceDate = [[November 16]], [[1907]] |
    27: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] <small>(town of [[Kenton, ...
    111: ...ita]]) [[Quapaw]], [[Caddo]] and [[Osage]]. Descendants of these peoples still live in the state.
    141: ...tial treatment to ex-slaves in land disputes. The Dawes Act excluded the Five Civilized Tribes.
  2. Agathias (4785 bytes)
    5: ...umber of short love-poems in epic metre, called ''Daphniaca''. He also put together an anthology of e...
    7: ...he eunuch [[Narses]], against the [[Goths]], [[Vandals]], [[Franks]] and [[Persians]].
    9: ...aluable authority for the period he describes." &mdash;[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01204b.htm''Ca...
    11: ...s improbable that he could have been at that late date a genuine pagan." (''Catholic Encyclopedia'') ...
    13: ...ocument in the history of [[freedom of thought]]&mdash; to [[Edessa]], where just a century later the ...
  3. Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
    4: ...nic|&Mu;&#8051;&gamma;&alpha;&sigmaf; &#7944;&lambda;&#8051;&xi;&alpha;&nu;&delta;&rho;&omicron;&sigma...
    6: ... tradition in which he appears as a towering legendary [[hero]] in the tradition of [[Achilles]].
    13: ===The ascendance of Macedon===
    14: ...as]] for his father's murder, stating that it was Darius who had been bragging to the rest of the Gree...
    23: ...xander left Caria in the hands of [[Ada of Caria|Ada]], the sister of Mausolus, whom [[Orontobates]] h...
  4. Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
    2: '''Anaxagoras''' (c. [[500 BC]]&ndash;[[428 BC]]), a [[Greece|Greek]] [[philosopher]]...
    12: ...ature and his superiority to ordinary weaknesses&mdash;traits which legend has embalmed.
    50: ...ss in snow; how otherwise could it be turned into dark water?
    57: ...ssed from him to Aristotle, to whom it seemed the dawn of sober thought after a night of disordered dr...
  5. Anaxilaus (348 bytes)
  6. Anaximander (3421 bytes)
    1: ...#961;&#959;&#962;''') ([[610 BC]]/[[609 BC|609]]&ndash;c. [[547 BC]]) was the second of the physical p...
    10: ... and limitless body there sprung a central mass &mdash; this earth of ours, cylindrical in shape, pois...
    14: ...imary substance. Nor could any of the other candidates, so Anaximander postulated the [[apeiron]] as ...
  7. Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
    1: '''Pythagoras''' ([[580s BCE|582 BCE]] &ndash; [[496 BCE]], [[Greek language|Greek]]:
    23: ...aneous material to the original teaching. Even today, scholars cannot definitively identify the "real...
    28: ...h the phrase ''autos ephe'' ("he himself said") &mdash; emphasizing the essentially oral nature of his...
    39: ...ts central commitment to '''First do no harm''' &mdash; has its roots in the oath of the Pythagorean B...
    54: ...orum VIII'' (''Lives of Eminent Philosophers'') &mdash; [http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlpy...
  8. Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
    5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
    7: ...obox_authority | author = [[Richard Owen|Owen]] | date = [[1842]]}}
    12: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Theropoda]]<br/>
    20: ...the link between dinosaurs and their living descendants, the 9,000+ [[species]] of modern [[bird]]s [h...
    27: ...out of fear or trepidation at their size and formidable arsenal.
  9. History of the United States (21226 bytes)
    30: ... well as British aid to Native Americans in [[Canada]] and west of the Mississippi. Westerners and Sou...
    34: ...n, president at the time, in favor of his own agenda.
    38: ...go]] in 1848 ceded Texas (with the Rio Grande boundary), California, and New Mexico to the United Stat...
    43: ...and pro slave sentiments that still exist to this day.
    47: The next four years were the darkest in American history, as the nation tore itse...
  10. Chemistry (12553 bytes)
    23: == Fundamental concepts ==
    61: ..., [[valence bond theory]] and the concept of [[oxidation number]] can be used to predict molecular str...
    68: ...an be continuous instead of having a discrete boundary, in this case the matter is considered to be in...
    84: The most fundamental concept in chemistry is the [[law of conser...
    88: [[John_Dalton|Dalton]]'s [[law of multiple proportions]] says that...
  11. Space (10661 bytes)
    1: :''This article is about '''space''' &mdash; the scientific and philosophical concept. For ...
    4: * One view of space is that it is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a set of [[dimen...
    6: ... A contrasting view is that space is part of a fundamental [[abstract]] mathematical [[concept]]ual fr...
    8: ...s, but treats both as features of [[spacetime]] &ndash; a conception that challenges intuitive notions...
    24: ...an be considered 'space'. In particular, the boundary between space and [[Earth's atmosphere]] is con...
  12. Astronomy (13970 bytes)
    3: ...onomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed by the crew of [[Apollo 11]] a...
    8: ... the actual physical nature of celestial objects&mdash;what makes them "tick".
    10: ...onal astronomy is concerned mostly with acquiring data, which involves building and maintaining instru...
    15: ...hotographed by [[Mars Global Surveyor]], the long dark streak is formed by a moving swirling column of...
    71: ... the motions of the naked-eye objects. The [[Rigveda]] refers to the 27 [[constellations]] associated ...
  13. Asteroid (24334 bytes)
    30: ... shape]] was developed by [[Clark R. Chapman]], [[David Morrison]], and [[Ben Zellner]]. These propert...
    67: ...t. Multiple pairs could be taken over a series of days. Second, the two [[film]]s of the same region w...
    98: ...heir provisional designation, e.g. [[(29075) 1950 DA]].
    103: ...such names started to run out, others were used &mdash;famous people, literary characters, the names o...
    120: ...] by [[243 Ida]] and its moon [[Dactyl (asteroid)|Dactyl]], all of which were imaged by the [[Galileo ...
  14. Comet (30542 bytes)
    9: ... tail, pointed in slightly different directions &mdash; dust being left behind in the comet's orbit (s...
    15: ...like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary surfaces allows them to absorb ...
    29: ...0," the "Great September Comet of 1882," and the "Daylight Comet of 1910." After [[Edmund Halley]] de...
    31: ...0 comets and is conducting a contest to guess the date of its 1000th comet discovery.{{hnote|SOHO (200...
    45: ... things being very limited.{{hnote|Sagan, pp. 23&ndash;24}} However, the Aristotelean viewpoint proved...
  15. Weather (2398 bytes)
    2: ...se phenomena over a period of time of up to a few days. The average weather over a longer period is kn...
    8: ...redict short term weather changes more than a few days in advance, though weather forecasters large an...
  16. List of themed timelines (11300 bytes)
    119: * Canada
    237: * [[Timeline of Governmental Accounting Standards - US]]
    243: * [[2001 anthrax attack/Florida timeline]]
    245: * [[Timeline of the Enron scandal]]
    261: ...ic (1900-1949)|Timeline of trends in music (1900&ndash;1949)]]
  17. Dictionary (22415 bytes)
    2: ...[etymology|etymologies]], illustrations, usage guidance, and examples in sentences. Dictionaries are m...
    33: ..., ''sometimes offensive'' or ''nonstand'' (nonstandard.) [[American Heritage Dictionary|''American He...
    35: ...d the language is being changed and created every day. As [[Jorge Luis Borges]] says in the prologue ...
    47: ...t dictionaries known, and which is still extant today in an abridged form, is one written in [[Latin]]...
    56: ...oning implicit in the defining process of any standard dictionary.
  18. Art (11479 bytes)
    3: ... as painting, sculpture, music, literature, film, dance, and more.
    5: ...o refer to visual art, literature, music, dance &mdash; the ''[[fine arts]]''. However, such distincti...
    11: ...art]] is created by all from about the first birthday.
    74: ... be, 'my five-year old could have painted that' &mdash; implying that the work is somehow less worthy ...
    80: ...res both human emotions and ways to arouse them &mdash; and ''good'' art brings something new and orig...
  19. List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
    7: ... from [http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.html#sort_table here] (control-click the "sort ...
    54: == [[Standard]]s ==
    55: *[[List of standards topics]] (these could easily be cross-referenc...
    56: *International Standards
    57: **[[List of ISO standards]]
  20. Space exploration (14877 bytes)
    11: ...s sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
    22: ... is the government department responsible for Canada's space programme.
    28: ...hing 14 orbits before returning to Earth the next day.
    33: ...hich has grown to be a much bigger organisation today.
    44: ...rmed [[October 1]], [[2003]], by the merger of NASDA, the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan and t...

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