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- Brown Bear (9756 bytes)
16: ...s of [[1 E2 kg|130–700 kg]] (300–1500 [[pound]]s). The '''grizzly bear''', the ''...
22: ...ually in mountainous areas. The brown bear ranges from [[Alaska]] east through the [[Yukon]] and [[Nor...
24: ...e 14,000 brown bears in ten separate populations, from Spain to Russia.
30: ...d may derive up to one third of their food energy from moths.
39: Though bears have been relocated to areas distant from human populations, some bears become 'hooked' o... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...approximately [[1 E7 m|19,800 km]] (12,300 miles) from [[Indonesia]] to the coast of [[Colombia]]. The...
9: ...agellan]] named the ocean. For most of his voyage from the [[Straits of Magellan]] to the [[Philippine...
18: ...]] and [[phillipsite]]. Pelagic sediments derived from seawater include pelagic red clays and the skel...
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36: ...iderable cloudiness, light fluctuating winds, and frequent calms. - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...ections, but in [[1858]] the information that [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] now had a similar theory force...
19: ...avid student of [[Robert Edmund Grant]], learning from Grant's enthusiasm for the theories of [[Jean-B...
24: ...divine design]] in nature. He got private tuition from Henslow whose subjects were maths and theology,...
32: [[Image:HMSBeagle.jpeg|thumb|right|HMS Beagle, from an 1841 watercolour by Owen Stanley]]
37: From reading [[Charles Lyell]]'s ''Principles of Geo... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
18: ...n]] with the backing of his predecessor and close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].
25: ...the [[Psi Upsilon]] [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternal organization]]. After college, he attended...
27: ... [[Treaty of Paris (1898)|1898 Treaty of Paris]]. From [[1901]] to [[1903]], Taft served as the first ...
29: ...act, it was said that an aide blacked out "pudgy" from his morning newspaper.
33: [[Image:Taft.png|left|frame|Official [[White House]] portrait of Taft.]] - Skirret (757 bytes)
3: ..., and has been grown in [[Europe]] since around [[1500]]. It is not commonly grown in [[North America]]...
5: ...usually grown from seeds, but may also be started from root divisions. Lack of moisture makes the roo... - Ancient Indian science and technology (21581 bytes)
28: ...ear conception of the abstract number as distinct from the numerical quantity of objects or spatial ex...
32: ...ician in Arabic is called ''Hindsa'' which means "from India."
38: ...ology]], like casting of a [[horoscope]]. Apart from this linkage of astronomy with [[astrology]] in...
47: ...e concept of [[atom]] in ancient India is derived from the classification of material world in five ba...
49: From ancient times, Indian philosophers believed tha... - Leatherback Turtles (10187 bytes)
22: ...aching a length of 2 metres and a weight of up to 1500 lb (600 kg). One individual male weighed 916 kg,...
24: ... many unique features that distinguish it greatly from other sea turtles. Its [[metabolic]] rate is a...
28: ...mooth, blackish [[carapace]] with ridges running from head to tail. This shell is not made of [[bone...
30: ...e. Those of adults can span 270 [[centimeter|cm]] from tip to tip.
42: ...ng to reproduce. The male has to mount the female from behind and latch on in order to be able to copu... - Snow Monkeys (3542 bytes)
15: ...ive to northern [[Japan]], although an introduced free-ranging population has been living near [[Lared...
17: ...with tail length approximately 10 cm. Males weigh from 10 to 14 kg, females, around 5.5 kg.
28: ...copy her behaviour. This trait was then passed on from generation to generation, until eventually, all... - Snowy Owls (3758 bytes)
20: ... the amount of prey available, clutch sizes range from 5 to 14 eggs, which are laid singly, approximat...
25: ... two lemmings per day, and a family may eat up to 1500 lemmings before the young birds set off to fend f... - Civilizations (30128 bytes)
1: ...ings related to human [[society]]. The term comes from the [[Latin]] ''civis'', meaning "citizen" or "...
8: ...their food from [[agriculture]], as distinguished from [[band society|band]] and [[tribe|tribal]] soci...
25: ...vilization is a complex society, as distinguished from simpler societies. Everyone lives in a society...
41: ...namely [[Mehrgarh]] and [[Harappa]]) and [[West Africa]], where ancient peoples grouped together to f...
49: ...ereal]] crops (see [[West Africa#Prehistory|West Africa: Prehistory]]). In [[Ancient Egypt]], [[mortar... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
7: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
13: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
17: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
19: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - History of science in early cultures (11033 bytes)
3: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
7: <!-- Useful resources from which to draw are http://www.worldwideschool.or...
9: From their beginnings in [[Sumer]] (now [[Iraq]]) ar...
11: ...n trend towards [[rational]] science, moving away from [[superstition]] and [[belief]]; the Mesopotami...
16: ...he motions of the sun and the moon. In a treatise from the [[6th century]], a summary of five astronom... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...[Iran]]. The Elamite period is considered to last from ca. [[2700 BC]] to [[539 BC]], with a preceding...
10: ...cial name [[Khuzestan|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which mea...
19: ...C]]. But we can only really trace Elamite history from records dating to beginning of the [[Akkadian E...
26: *Middle Elamite period: 1500 BC – 1100 BC (Anzanite dynasty until the Ba...
57: ...anced with federalism must have suffered, and the fraternal, sectional strife that so weakened Elam in... - Woodwork (12397 bytes)
9: ...m a sanctuary at the source of the [[Seine]] in [[France]].
13: ...uscript of Lu Ban"), although it was written some 1500 years after his death. This book is filled largel...
22: ...d with a convoluted, complex grain, usually taken from cancerous growths on trees
28: ...tch: the section of a tree where a branch divides from the trunk, or the trunk divides in two; typical...
43: * fretsaw: a saw with a very fine toothed blade used f... - Palestine (region) (604 bytes)
1: ...#1512;ץ־ישראל''' '''[[Eretz Yisrael]]'''; [[Arabic language|Ar... - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
5: ...earliest surviving corpus of Persian carpets come from the [[Safavid]] dynasty (1501-1736) in the 16th...
10: ...more than a few pieces of worn-out rugs. And such fragments do not help very much in recognizing the c...
26: ...f carpet production in Persia were in [[Tabriz]] (1500-1550), [[Kashan]] (1525-1650), [[Herat]] (1525-16...
28: The majority of carpets from Tabriz have a central medallion and quartered c... - Caracol, Belize (1913 bytes)
1: ...ch]] and [[San Ignacio Cayo]], at an elevation of 1500 feet (460 m) above sea-level, in the foothi... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ...ttle Stephen") of North African origins, possibly from [[Azemmour]], [[Morocco]]. He is mentioned in ...
5: ...can parents or was brought to Azemmour from west Africa by the trans-Saharan slave trade. He was conve...
8: ...ng so Estevanico became the first person born in Africa known to have set foot in what is now the [[co...
10: ...ause his medicine gourd was trimmed with feathers from an [[owl]], a bird that symbolized death to the... - Adolescence (13933 bytes)
4: ...ned tied to physical milestones. The word derives from the [[Latin]] verb ''adolescere'' meaning "to g...
15: ...'''tween''' has the same meaning. This word comes from the age being ''between'' that of a young child...
23: ... in the English language: that is to say, someone from the age of thirteen to the age of nineteen. The...
27: ...s well as cultural, economic, and systemic [[disenfrachisement]].
29: ...s illustrated wide discrepancies in the rates of African American and Latino youth incarceration in co... - Lava (9992 bytes)
6: ...oehoe|Pāhoehoe]]''''' in [[Wiktionary]], the free dictionary</div>
9: ...liquid]] at very high [[temperature]]: typically from 700C to 1200C (1300F to 2200F). However, the [[...
11: ...ma was apparently in a short account written by [[Francesco Serao]] of the eruption of [[Vesuvius]] wh...
19: ... or '''‘A‘a''' ([[Hawaiian English]], from [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]]: ''‘a&lsqu...
21: ...the advancing flow. This produces a layer of lava fragments both at the bottom and top of an ‘a&...
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