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- Malta (18511 bytes)
10: ...align=center width="140px" | ([[Flag of Malta|In Detail]])
21: |[[Valletta]]
48: |[[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Cen...
53: |'''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
69: ...ay, of which the oldest is ''Barons of Djar il Bniet and Buqana''. - Monaco (12001 bytes)
1: ...ond-smallest [[country]] in the world, wedged in between the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and [[France]] alon...
10: | width="130px"| ([[Flag of Monaco|In Detail]])
40: | [[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Cen...
44: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.mc]]
61: In [[2002]], a new treaty between France and Monaco clarifies that if there are... - Tobacco smoking (36030 bytes)
2: ...f smoking [[tobacco]] products, especially [[cigarettes]] and [[cigars]]. Tobacco smoking is considere...
6: ...he [[cigar]], and the [[smoking pipe|pipe]]. Cigarette smoking is by far the most common. Pipes and ci...
8: In the case of [[cigarette]] smoking, smoke is inhaled into the lungs. Tob...
10: ...mediate rewards, while others deny the risks altogether.
17: ...er the war, during the [[Roaring Twenties]], cigarette smoking was portrayed in advertising as part of... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
6: ...c geometry]], that bridge between algebra and geometry crucial to the invention of the [[calculus]] an...
11: ...ulosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Prytanee|Collège Royal Henr...
13: ...assau]], leader of the United Provinces of the [[Netherlands]]. His intention was to see the world and...
14: ...e profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking... - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
1: [[Image:Heloïse et d'Abélard.jpg|thumb|right|"Abaelardus and Heloï...
2: '''Pierre Abélard''' (in English, '''Peter Abelard''') or '''Abailard''' ([[1079]] – [[A...
7: ...mpiegne]], claims to have been his teacher; but whether this was in early youth, when he wandered from...
11: ...f his own at [[Melun]], then, for more direct competition, he moved to [[Corbeil]], nearer Paris.
13: ...tures of Anselm at [[Laon]]. His triumph was complete; the pupil was able to give lectures, without pr... - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
5: ... attended the seminary at [[T?n]] with the epic poet [[Friedrich H?rlin]] and the objective idealist [...
7: ...orks on the philosophy of history, religion, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy were compiled f...
9: ...tical)|freedom]] into [[Western world|western societies]] for the first time in recorded history. But ...
11: ...a advances to an infinite antithesis; that, viz. between the Idea in its free, universal form - in whi...
17: ...tion of this antithesis, is the profound task of metaphysics."'' - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - History of dance (9081 bytes)
7: ...ilosopher, [[Aristotle]], ranked dancing with [[poetry]], and said that certain dancers, with rhythm a...
10: ...e dance that we can recognize and know now is ballet, which first evolved in the renaissance of the 1...
13: ...xteenth century man believed he could attract planetary influences. Dance in itself was an imitation o...
15: ...e purpose of extolling its own greatness. The ballets took place as a part of the magnificences, huge ...
17: ...llet was performed in heavy ballroom attire, complete with wigs and masks. Because of Louis XVI, court... - Mustard (7834 bytes)
16: ...ressed to make [[mustard oil]], and the [[leaf vegetable|edible leaves]] can be eaten as mustard green...
22: ...of all the mustard seed for the international market.
26: ...as good cold flow properties and [[cetane number|cetane ratings]]. The leftover meal after pressing ou...
28: An interesting [[genetic]] relationship between many [[species]] of mustard have been observe...
32: ...came to [[Sai Baba of Shirdi]] and asked that he return the child to life, Sai Baba asked her to go ou... - Ice age (15810 bytes)
2: [[Image:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png|thumb|right|Variations in CO2, temperature ...
4: ... to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the [[North America]]n and [[Europe]]an con...
10: ...oria.edu/aberjame/histgeol/agassiz/glacial.htm]. Between 1825 and 1833 [[Jean de Charpentier]] assembl...
20: ...cles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000 and 100,000 year time scales. T...
22: ...etween summers in which the winter snow mass completely melts and summers in which the winter snow per... - Ballet (9155 bytes)
3: ...g extensions. Many [[Glossary_of_ballet_terms|Ballet techniques]] bear a striking similarity to [[fenc...
5: ...d to establish [[Italy]] as a major centre of ballet development.
7: == History of ballet ==
9: ... Patisson 1582.png|300px|thumb|Engraving of a Ballet before Henri III and his Court, in the Gallery of...
11: ...y dances. Lully soon branched out into op鲡-ballet, and a school to train professional dancers was a... - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...bber [[Tennis ball|ball]] covered in felt over a net into the opponent's [[tennis court|court]]. In s...
3: ...ympic]] sport that is played at all levels of society and by all ages in many countries around the wor...
10: ...ht|frame|The dimensions of a tennis court, in [[feet]].]]
12: ...feet 6 inches (1.07 m) high at the posts, and 3 feet (914 mm) high in the center.
18: ...fferent surfaces, ranging from old-fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt to wooden gymnasium sur... - List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
1: ..., in the top few in doubles, quarterfinalists or better in a [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] tourna...
6: *[[Pieter Aldrich]] - [[:Category:South African tennis pl...
33: *[[Arnaud Boetsch]] ([[1968]]-) - (France)
36: ...898]]-[[1994]]) - (France) - one of the "Four Musketeers"
38: ...895]]-[[1978]]) - (France) - one of the "Four Musketeers" - List of female tennis players (8364 bytes)
16: * [[Carling Bassett-Seguso]] (Canada)
17: * [[Chantal Beetham]] (Canada)
18: * [[Petra Begerow]] (Germany)
20: * [[Iveta Benesova]] (Czech Republic)
30: * [[Bettina Bunge]] (Germany) - Neanderthal (12705 bytes)
33: ...rly [[20th century]], but the former spelling is retained in [[English language|English]] and in [[sci...
35: ...ed in English, the term may get an anglicised /θ/ or an original /t/, depending on the speaker.
37: ... there was a vigorous professional debate about whether Neanderthals should be classified as ''Homo ne...
43: ...nderthal man shown in the Neandertal museum in [[Mettmann]]]]
47: ...fest in modern humans, particularly among certain ethnic groups. Nothing is known about the skin colo... - Petroglyph (5591 bytes)
1: [[Image:Petrolyphs2.jpg|thumb|250px|Petroglyphs on the Big Island, Hawaii.Image provided ...
2: [[Image:Petrolyphs.jpg|thumb|250px|Petroglyphs on the Big Island, Hawaii.Image provided ...
3: ...yph Point-4-750px.JPG|thumb|250px|Petroglyphs on Petroglyph Point]]
4: ...ainted to make them more visible. It is unknown whether they were originally painted.]]
6: A '''Petroglyph''' is an [[image]] recorded on [[stone]], ... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...wear wooden crosses, half a metre long by half a metre wide, around their necks. Although Christians w...
9: Together with the [[Knights Templar]], who were formed ...
15: ...e their new home. His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309...
17: ... Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
19: ...h the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, ... - Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
3: ... The underside of the mouse houses a device that detects the mouse's motion relative to the flat surfa...
15: ...use in one hand, and type on a five-key chord keyset with the other.
19: ...980s]] and [[1990s]]. The Xerox PARC group also settled on the modern technique of using both hands t...
24: ...ct the relative motion of the mouse on a wide variety of surfaces (and in turn translating the movemen...
26: ... the surface the mouse is operating on. Changes between one frame and the next are processed by the [... - Timeline of the French Revolution (9550 bytes)
9: ...ir]] results in the discrediting of [[Marie Antoinette]]
34: * [[May 5]]: Meeting of the [[Estates-General of 1789|Estates-Gener...
37: ...hird Estate/National Assembly are locked out of meeting houses by royal decree; [[Tennis Court Oath]] ...
44: * [[July 15]]: [[Lafayette]] appointed Commander of the National Guard
64: * [[February 28]]: [[Day of Daggers]]; [[Lafayette]] orders the arrest of 400 armed aristocrats at... - Jean Fouquet (2536 bytes)
2: '''Jean Fouquet''' (or '''Jehan Fouquet''', [[1420]] - [[1481]]) was a [[France|French]] ...
6: ...IV]], and that upon his return to France, whilst retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the...
10: ...[altarpiece]]s were for the first time brought together from various parts of Europe, at the exhibitio...
12: One of Fouquets most important paintings is the [[diptych]], for...
14: ...erlin wing of the [[Melun altarpiece]]. From Fouquet's hand again are eleven out of the fourteen minia...
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