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- Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...74]]–[[1975|75]]); only 40–45% of the planet has been mapped.
3: ... [[caduceus]]. Before the [[5th century BC]], the planet Mercury actually had two names, as it was not r...
5: The Chinese and Japanese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Water Star'', based on the [[Five Elem...
8: ...//www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-religion-planet-nearest-to-the-sun answers.com])
10: ...[temperature]] of Mercury is 452 K, but it ranges from 90–700 K; by comparison, the temperature ... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...ian Crusade]] against the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crusades]].
7: ...ght an outlet for their violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I]] in opposing...
9: ...day Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstinence]] with prayer or alms (except duri...
18: ...n and consider how the idea of a holy war emerged from this background.'' — [[Norman F. Cantor]]
21: ... Eastern church, [[Alexius I]] expected some help from a fellow Christian. However, the response was m... - Medieval architecture (3180 bytes)
6: The [[Latin cross]] plan takes as its model the Roman [[Basilica]]. It con...
16: ...d glass]], showing stories from the [[Bible]] and from lives of [[saint]]s. The ''[[pointed arch]]'' p...
22: ...for a [[crossbow]]man to safely shoot at invaders from inside. [[crenellation|Crenelated]] walls ([[ba...
40: ...ific fortified town architecture used in medieval France - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...rded history aspects of this desire have surfaced from time to time. The most well known is the legen...
5: ...s are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, such...
15: ...d and it was constructed in the late 20th century from materials that would have been available to da ...
17: ...est. Yet there are sufficient proofs and examples from nature that such flights can take place without...
19: ...n [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois d'Arlandes]] went 5 miles (8 km) in a [[hot... - Flower (10503 bytes)
3: .... After fertilization, a flower develops into a [[fruit]] containing the seed(s).
6: ...he torus. The four main parts or whorls (starting from the base of the flower or lowest node and worki...
10: *'''''androecium''''' (from Greek ''andros oikia'': man's house) – on...
11: ...ecomes the pathway for '''pollen tubes''' to grow from pollen grains adhering to the stigma, to the ov...
13: ...ies. For example, the two subclasses of flowering plants may be distinguished by the number of floral o... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...ink area was claimed by Great Britain after the [[French and Indian War]], and the orange region was c...
2: ...ion of [[thirteen colonies]] in [[North America]] from the [[British Empire]] and the creation of the ...
4: ...he revolution originated around the time of the [[French and Indian War]] ([[1754]]–[[1763]]), a...
10: ..., if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonists in America considered...
19: ...vent that swept through all the British colonies, from New England to the Carolinas, as a common exper... - Caste (32815 bytes)
1: The word '''''Caste''''' is derived from the [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] word ''c...
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27: The [[Brahmin]]s (the word comes from [[Sanskrit]] for 'knowledge', root word Vid 'to...
29: ...e views possible) to achieve [[moksha]] - release from [[samsara]], the cycle of [[reincarnation]], an... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]],...
10: ...tters of science and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the prima...
12: ...eo's experiments, in particular the distinguished French [[History of science and technology|historian...
14: ...esearch into Galileo's unpublished working papers from as early as [[1604]] clearly showed the reality...
20: ... of the [[natural satellite|moons]] of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Galileo published a full descriptio... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...en the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 [[Northern United States|northern states...
53: ...mter]], South Carolina, Lincoln called for troops from all remaining states to recover the forts, resu...
58: ...ssion from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for gradual emancipation) in [[1863]] as [[West V...
62: ...California_and_the_Civil_War|California]] was a [[free state]] and a part of the Union. Lincoln had wo... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...rst time, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky was executed, and some of the century's...
6: ...democratic Islamic state, Turkey. Activity by the French and British forces in the eastern part of the...
8: ...nch defeat in the Franco-Prussian that would lead France to exploit a Balkan crisis as a precept for a...
10: ...attlefield, and nearly that many more on the home front due to food shortages, [[genocide]], and groun...
11: ...?E=0&O=03300083 French National Library] (Text in French language).]] - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...e:nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] ris...
6: ...ranean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|M...
8: ... a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilian...
10: ...oing economic reconstruction under the [[Marshall Plan]] and the latter becoming satellite states of the...
18: ...7. Spain's fascist government lead by [[Francisco Franco]] was a great asset in trade to the Axis powe... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...-intensity military operations and full-scale war from [[1947]] until the collapse of the Soviet Union...
7: ...usually considered to have occurred approximately from the end of the alliance between the U.S. and th...
12: ...ertain that a global nuclear war would not result from smaller regional wars, which heightened the lev...
14: ...ty controlled by [[West Germany]] and the Allies) from [[East Berlin]] and the territory of [[East Ger...
17: ... United States but also the [[United Kingdom]], [[France]], West Germany, and several other [[European... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ... Vietnam]]<br><br>[[Viet Cong|National Liberation Front<br>(Viet Cong)]]<br><br />[[Image:Viet cong fl...
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationa...
37: ...y experts consider the Vietnam War to just be one frontline in the larger [[Cold War]].
41: ...for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]], a South Vietnamese opposition movement with...
43: ...ort to maintain control of her former colony of [[French Indochina]]. - Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
15: *[[1933]] - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] becomes President
25: *[[1933]] - [[Frances Perkins]] appointed [[United States Secretar...
28: *[[1933]] - [[Japan]] and [[Germany]] withdraw from [[League of Nations]]
56: *[[1937]] - [[Japan]]ese planes sink [[Panay]] in [[China]] - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...een." Further along their line of march, they confronted a much larger group of militia at a bridge i...
7: ...nd [[Continental Congress]], with representatives from 13 of the [[United_Kingdom|British]] [[colonies...
9: ...rson]]. However, Jefferson's work was reviewed by Franklin at length and then submitted to the Congres...
11: ... States with a great wilderness empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, and incl...
21: ...Seven Years' War]] and in North America, as the [[French and Indian War]], in 1763, Britain had emerge... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
7: ...nment. [[Abraham Lincoln]] had endorsed a lenient plan for reconstruction, but the immense human cost of...
9: ...nforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
11: ...that had been established under Abraham Lincoln's plan were abolished; the first Reconstruction Act stat...
15: ...tion|fifteenth]], which extended the franchise to freed citizens. The fourteenth amendment was oppose...
21: ...id ultimately provide an institutional basis for African-American political mobilization and organizat... - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
7: ...concerning the [[United States]] troops returning from [[World War I]], "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down O...
16: ...ch saw dramatic improvements in housing and urban planning. The boom was reflected by the extension of ...
27: ... sale or use of a substance was considered so far from the accepted powers of the U.S. Federal Governm...
42: ...ase in sustained demand. Fixed exchange rates and free convertibility gave way to a compromise—t...
46: ...st); and other signposts of economic health—freight carloads, industrial production, wholesale p... - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...ited States]] and [[Britain]] would open a second front on the European continent; but the Allied inva...
11: ...er [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet First S...
13: ...came to be called the [[Oder-Neisse Line]]. Aside from a few minor adjustments, this would be the "iro...
15: ...autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for the allegiance of t...
17: ...emerge intact—and even greatly strengthened from an economic perspective—was the United St... - History of the United States (1964-1980) (21973 bytes)
11: ..." ad, which featured a little girl picking petals from a daisy in a field, counting the petals, which ...
15: ...vil rights]] divided conservative southern whites from the rest of the party (see [[Dixiecrat]]).
20: ...e proposed, they continued to have strong support from both of the United States' major political part...
27: ...Viet Minh]] (led by [[Ho Chi Minh]]) defeated the French colonial army in [[1954]], the colony was gra...
29: ...]) was formed as a [[guerrilla]] movement drawing from the South Vietnamese peasantry and working clas... - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ...facilitated demographic shifts to the "frontiers" from the more industrialized states in the Northeast...
8: ...economic base as municipalities lost the revenues from the enterprises that had departed. In the natio...
14: ...ss African Americans have grown more marginalized from the mainstream of U.S. society than their count...
18: ...tered confidence in the presidency. International frustrations, including the fall of [[South Vietnam]...
22: ...d by [[Moscow]], were spreading rapidly across [[Africa]], [[Southeast Asia]], and [[Latin America]]. ...
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