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- Utah (29154 bytes)
76: ...Salt Lakers|Utahns]]. Salt Lake City hosted the [[2002 Winter Olympics]], which gave a significant boost...
83: ...n about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Some left [[petroglyph]]s and [[pictography|pictograph]]s which e...
87: ...up led by two [[Roman Catholic]] priests—sometimes called the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition&mda...
91: ===Mormon settlement===
92: [[Mormon]] settlers first came to the [[Salt Lake Valley]] on [[... - Texas (39610 bytes)
41: * [[state flower]] — the [[bluebonnet]] (''Lupinus texensis'')
52: ...ith an area of [[1 E11 m?|690,000]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]], Texas forms the second-larges...
70: ...ckapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of Texas. For more information...
74: ...lony of [[New Spain]]; see [[Spanish Texas]] for details.
76: ...eza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas. - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
8: Nickname = Palmetto State |
42: ...declared its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government on March 15, 1776. On [[Feb...
44: ...mes Buchanan]] took little action, preferring to let the newly-elected President [[Abraham Lincoln]] d...
48: ... two bodies -- called the "General Assembly" -- meets in the South Carolina State House. The Judicial ...
87: ...Baptist]] (47% of the total state population), [[Methodist]] (16%), [[Presbyterian]] (4%). - Oregon (26551 bytes)
36: ... Range]] - form the two boundaries of the [[Willamette Valley]], one of the most fertile and agricultu...
49: ...iver. Fort Astoria was the first permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the [[War of 1812]], the [[B...
53: ... United States and [[British North America]] was set at the [[49th parallel]]. The [[Oregon Territory]...
55: Settlement increased due to the [[Donation Land Claim...
57: In the [[1880s]], railroads enabled marketing of the state's [[lumber]] and [[wheat]], as we... - West Virginia (24258 bytes)
46: ...[[Virginia]]. Considerable disagreements existed between those in the western part of Virginia and pla...
48: ...counties were lost during the war.[http://www.ls.net/~newriver/va/vasecesh.htm] This new state was adm...
50: ...ginian government's debt. The issue was finally settled in [[1915]], when the [[United States Supreme...
60: ... legislators gathering periodically for interim meetings to discuss issues which will see debate durin...
72: The state is sometimes referred to as The Mountain State, which is a... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
39: ...n by the Dutch in 1654 and incorporated into New Netherland.
41: ...h Civil War]]: [[George Carteret|Sir George Carteret]] and [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stra...
43: ... English Crown [[George Carteret|Sir George Carteret]], Jersey's Royalist Governor, was gifted a large...
45: ...es were united under a royal, rather than a proprietary, governor.
57: ...er [[Charles Cornwallis]] at the [[Battle of Princeton]]. - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...easons, some people in other parts of the U.S. sometimes mistake it for a part of Mexico. Both [[Engl...
50: ...n the Rio Grande in [[1598]], the first European settlement in the future state of New Mexico. O p...
52: ...argas Zapata]] reestablished Spanish control and returned Spanish colonists in [[1692]].
54: ...loping Santa Fe as a trade center, the returning settlers founded the old town of [[Albuquerque]] in [...
60: ...rbade them to trade. Trader [[William Becknell]] returned to the United States in [[November]] [[1821]... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
13: ...antong|Xuantong, Qian]], ([[1887]]-[[1939]]), phonetician
29: ...rancis Quarles|Quarles, Francis]], (1592-1644), poet
30: ...Quarrie|Quarrie, Don]], (born 1951), Jamaican athlete
40: ...een|Queen, Ivy]], born (1972), "The Queen of Reggaeton"
43: ...aymond Queneau|Queneau, Raymond]], (1903-1976), poet - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
7: *[[U Thant]], UN Secretary General
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
19: *[[Joze Udovic|Udovic, Joze]], (1912-1986), poet
33: *[[Sabine Ulibarr�libarr�Sabine]], American poet
53: *[[Sigrid Undset|Undset, Sigrid]], (1882-1949), ''Kristin Lavransdatter'' - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
28: *[[Zal Yanovsky|Yanovsky, Zal]] (1945-2002), of [[Lovin' Spoonful]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...e part of [[Great Britain]], circumnavigating it between 330 and 320 BCE. Pytheas was the first Graeco...
4: ...to fix latitude and understood the relationships between tides and phases of the Moon. In northern [[S...
6: ...land, Britain's east coast, Kent, [[Helgoland]], returning finally to Marseille.
10: ...g to the [[British Isles]] as the "Isles of the Pretani."
12: ... parts of the [[Norway|Norwegian]] coast, the [[Shetland Islands]] and [[Faroe Islands]] have also bee... - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
16: ...[[million years ago]] (Mya) at the end of the [[Cretaceous]] period. Dinosaurs are known from both fos...
18: ...ehistoric reptile, like the [[pelycosaur]] ''[[Dimetrodon]]'', the winged [[pterosaur]]s, and the aqua...
20: ...s]], which rigorously analyzes the relationships between biological organisms, has also proved tremend...
34: ...escendants of a single common ancestor ([[paraphyletic]] taxa). Paleontologists mostly use [[cladistic...
38: ...]; some [[biped]]al, others [[quadruped]]al. For details on the various types of dinosaurs, see 'Class... - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
2: ...ions for [[witchcraft]] in [[1692]] in [[Massachusetts]], the result of a period of factional infighti...
4: ...icularly [[Abigail Williams]], [[Ann Putnam]], [[Betty Parris]] and [[Mary Walcott]], accused other to...
6: ...assachusetts|Marblehead]], and [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]].
9: ...nd then newly possessed children [[Ann Putnam]], Betty Hubbard, Mercy Lewis, Susannah Sheldon, Mercy S...
11: ...s black in modern historical and fictional interpretations of the trials, there is no evidence that sh... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
5: ''For details, see the main [[Pre-Colonial America]] articl...
7: ... dominated the area until the influx of European settlers in the early [[17th century]].
10: ''For details, see the main [[Colonial America]] article.''
15: ''For details, see the main [[History of the United States ...
20: ''For details, see the main [[History of the United States ... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ... is the third planet of the Solar System. ''[[Planetary system]]s'' are a more generic term for [[star...
3: ==Planets In the Solar System==
5: The wide variety of objects that exist in the Solar System fall i...
8: *The [[planet]]s of the Solar System are those nine bodies trad...
9: **[[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] (☿) - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|thum...
4: ...m to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/...
6: ...r system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...nd strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmosph...
10: ...teroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate man-made objects which have... - List of themed timelines (11300 bytes)
9: * [[Astronautics]] | [[Planetology]]
11: ** [[Timeline of rocket and missile technology]]
12: ** [[Timeline of planetary exploration]]
61: * [[Meteorology]] | [[atmospheric sciences]] | [[climatol...
62: ** [[Timeline of meteorology]] - Planet (8450 bytes)
1: ...around other stars, the problem of defining a planet has become rather more acute.
3: Planets are believed to form from a collapsing [[nebula]...
7: ...naming planets and their features is known as planetary nomenclature.
9: ===Planets in the Solar System===
10: [[Image:Solare_Planeten99.jpg|framed|Planets in approx. scale of size, but not distance. Note... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...ating the [[universe]] known as the [[scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces these [...
4: ...n]] saw the inception of the modern [[scientific method]] to guide the evaluation of [[knowledge]]. Th...
6: ...nquires about other areas of knowledge, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavi...
11: ... what science ''is'', how it ''functions'', and whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. T...
13: ...re can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of investigation.
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