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- Pope Silvester II (8276 bytes)
1: ...e]] (see [[List of French popes|list]]), reigning from [[999]] until his death in [[1003]].
5: ... the [[Auvergne (province)|Auvergne]] region of [[France]]. Around [[963]], he entered the monastery o...
11: ... supporting [[Hugh Capet]]. Capet became king of France, ending the [[Carolingian]] line of kings.
13: ...egate to France who temporarily suspended Gerbert from his episcopal office. Gerbert sought to show th...
27: ...Gerbert was aware of the pursuit, and hid hanging from a wooden bridge, where, suspended between heave... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ''This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris...
10: | [[President of France]]
13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[...
40: ...|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de_Gaulle.ogg|pronunciation of his name}}...
42: ...ism]], which left a major influence in subsequent French politics. - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...to [[France]] to obtain terms from [[Louis XII of France|Louis XII]] for continuing the war against [[...
33: ...y, he was hoping that a strong ruler would emerge from the [[Medici]] family, uniting Italy by expelli...
35: ...man Titus Livy. Machiavelli comments on passages from Livy's history and analogizes them to situation...
48: *''Ritratti delle cose di Francia,'' [[1510]]
51: *''Andria,'' comedy translated from [[Terence]], 1513 (?) - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...rk for the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution]]s, the Latin American independenc...
14: ...ne. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ...d by the ideas of [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]...
18: ...ies. If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw th...
20: ...figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]] with the axiomatic approach of Desca... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...atholic Church]] in [[Western Europe]]. The main front of the reformation was started by [[Martin Lut...
16: * Reformation in [[France]] -- [[Huguenot]]s, [[Pierre Viret]]
20: ...West. These frustrated reformist movements ranged from [[nominalism]], modern devotion, to [[humanism]...
22: ...he exercise of their authority. In [[England]], [[France]], and [[Spain]] the move toward centralizati...
24: ...onomy. Woolen manufacturing greatly expanded in [[France]], [[Germany]], and the [[Netherlands]] and n... - Blue Whale (22203 bytes)
23: ...known when the members of these families diverged from each other.
32: ...e body. These pleats assist with evacuating water from the mouth after lunge feeding (see feeding belo...
34: ...blow (up to 12 m, typically 9 m) that can be seen from several kilometres on a calm day. Its [[lung]] ...
36: ...tled. The degree of mottling varies substantially from individual to individual. Some may have a unifo...
44: ...he biggest Blue Whale ever found. Most data comes from Blue Whales killed in [[Antarctic]] waters duri... - Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
19: ...t the underside. This makes them hard to see both from above and below when swimming. The elongated up...
21: ... length from 2 to 4m (6 to 13 feet) and in weight from 150 to 650kg (330 to 1430 pounds) with males be...
23: ...y)|homologous]] to the forelimbs of land mammals (from which dolphins and all other [[cetacea]]ns evol...
33: ...nded them for forty minutes, preventing an attack from the shark, as they returned to shore. (See [6]...
43: ...s louder; the dolphins adjust by turning down the volume of the emitted sounds. (This is in contrast to th... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
4: '''Ocean''' (from [[Oceanus|Okeanos]], a Greek god of sea and wat...
6: ... [[archipelago]]s into the following five bodies, from the largest to the smallest: the [[Pacific Ocea...
12: ... last few million years movement of the [[Africa|African Continent]] has closed the straight off entir...
14: ...e area of the World Ocean is 361 million km?, its volume is 1370 million km?, and its average depth is 379...
51: ...s may have once had internal oceans that have now frozen, such as [[Triton (moon)|Triton]]. The planet... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
12: ...b|200px|Young Einstein before the Einsteins moved from Germany to Italy.]]
20: ...e school to let him go with a medical note from a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-...
22: ...r Maja was to later marry their son Paul, and his friend [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughte...
26: ...ed his scientific interests with a group of close friends, including Mileva. He and Mileva had a daugh...
37: ... that, in each case, Einstein boldly took an idea from theoretical physics to its logical consequences... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...ong with possibly [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]], and [[Leonhard Euler|Euler]...
12: ...ns the length of the segment parallel to the axis from the vertex to the base. The vertex must be so ...
22: ... [[sphere]] are in the same ratio to the area and volume of a circumscribed straight [[cylinder]], a resul...
24: ... level when it was immersed would be equal to the volume of the crown, and the decrease in the weight of t...
26: Apart from general physics, he was an [[astronomer]], and ... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
6: ...by his parents, William and Mary Ford, immigrants from [[County Cork]], [[Ireland]]. He was the eldes...
18: ...rd at Detroit Fairgrounds in [[1911]] with driver Frank Kulick. In 1913, Ford attempted to enter a rew...
20: ...ndicate that the concept and its development came from employees Clarence Avery, P.E. "Ed" Martin, [[C...
24: ...me, Henry and Edsel purchased all remaining stock from other investors, thus becoming sole owners of t...
26: ...g not available with the Model T. Despite urgings from Edsel, Henry steadfastly refused to incorporate... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
6: ...city of [[Mainz]], as the son of a merchant named Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, who adopted the surnam...
14: ...ny) to Strassburg (then a part of Germany, now in France and called Strasbourg) around 1430. Knowing t...
19: ... of the printing press by selling copies of a two-volume Bible (Biblia Sacra) for 300 florins each. This w...
23: ...is doubtful that any copies were ever sold at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
31: ...ntions are sometimes considered the turning point from the [[Middle Ages|Mediaeval Era]] to the [[Earl... - Hot air balloon (8769 bytes)
1: ...ntgolfier brothers]]' invention in [[Annonay]], [[France]] in [[1783]]. The first manned flight was m...
9: ...icist named [[Pilⴲe de Rozier]] and the Marquis Francois d'Arlandes successfully petitioned for the ...
24: ...lled a [[Rozier]] balloon after its creator, Jean-Fran篩s Pilⴲe de Rozier.
35: ... that the envelope can achieve maximum inflation (volume) before standing erect. Once the balloon is upri...
39: ...has landed, the envelope is deflated and detached from the basket. The envelope is then packed into it... - Ship (18843 bytes)
10: ...fferent tonnage definitions exist; most measure [[volume]] rather than weight, and are used when describin...
14: ... the Plimsoll mark to indicate the safe depth (or freeboard above the surface) to which a specific shi...
19: ... Actium]]. The use of large numbers of [[cannon]] from the [[16th century]] meant that maneuverability...
21: ... [[condenser]], which reduced the requirement for fresh water, and the multiple expansion engine, whic...
41: ... The bows is a term for the head of the vessel or front of the ship. Compare [[prow]], a more poetical... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
9: [[Image:Dielectric.png|frame|The electrons in the molecules shift toward th...
14: :<math>C = \frac{Q}{V}</math>
32: :<math>i(t) = C \frac{dv(t)}{dt}</math>
34: The [[impedance]] in [[frequency domain]] can be written as
36: :<math>Z = \frac{1}{j \omega C} = - j X_C </math> - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...s cared for by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the ...
8: ...in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in t...
10: ...e Press|Aldus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Ital...
12: ...]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe.
14: ...ull of contradictions. Erasmus held himself aloof from all entangling obligations; yet he was in a sin... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
4: ...text-align:center;" | The Hubble Space Telescope, from the [[Space Shuttle Discovery]] during the seco...
8: ...avelength regime'''||optical, ultraviolet, near-infrared
45: ...h, it was found that the main [[mirror]] suffered from [[spherical aberration]], severely compromising...
54: ...be that a space-based telescope could observe [[infrared]] and [[ultraviolet]] light, which are strong...
58: ...observations of [[star]]s and [[galaxy|galaxies]] from its launch in 1968 until 1972, well beyond its ... - Glacial motion (2558 bytes)
5: ...at''' occurs when a glacier ablates more material from its terminus than it transports into that regio...
7: ... there has been a striking decline in the overall volume of glaciers worldwide.
13: ..., rocks that were dragged by a glacier many miles from their bedrock origin.
17: ...tion and the landforms that result requires tools from many different disciplines: [[physical geograph... - Photosynthesis (9830 bytes)
3: ...early all living things depend on energy produced from photosynthesis for their nourishment, making it...
6: ...ygen]] gas. The energy for these processes comes from photosynthesis. For instance, the over-all equ...
13: ...ant, [[wax]]y [[cuticle]], that protects the leaf from excessive absorption of light and evaporation o...
16: Algae range from multicellular forms like [[kelp]] to [[microsco...
18: ...chloroplasts are now considered to have developed from them. The other photosynthetic bacteria have a... - Elephant (13277 bytes)
2: ...age = [[Image:Elephant_th.jpg|250px]] | caption =African Elephant reaching for leaves, in Kenya}}
13: ** ''[[Loxodonta africana]]''
21: ...Elephant]] (which were collectively known as the African Elephant) and the [[Asian Elephant]] (formerl...
33: ...y feeding them preground food. The molars of the African elephant are [[Molar_(tooth)|loxodont]], henc...
35: ...aking mud baths, showering one another with water from the trunk, and rolling in dust. The skin can th...
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