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- January 2 (10888 bytes)
1: ...ear in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 363 days remaining (364 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spa...
20: ...kefeller]] unites his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[trust]].
22: ... C. Ball]] of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: [[Railroad chronometers]]. - Anthropology (23191 bytes)
20: ...ed national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new in...
22: ...se are the conditions of life with which people today must contend, but they have their origins in pro...
30: ...– from other species), and as a particular adaptation to local conditions that takes the form of...
35: ...tinue to be popular targets for anthropologists today.
44: ...ew' and an approach to field work that became standard in the field. - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...ct system of time measurement (''ed.'' see [[calendar]] for other measurements).
14: ..., event initiation or just to display the time of day.
43: ...s Cathedral]] installed a ‘horologe’—the word still used in French for large clocks....
47: ...ivided into four equal parts making the clocks readable to the nearest 15 minutes.
107: * [[Time standard]] - Okapi (2836 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Artiodactyla]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Giraffidae]]}}
12: ... = Okapia johnstoni | author = [[P.L. Sclater]] | date = [[1901]]}}
15: ...one of the two remaining species of family Giraffidae, the second being the [[Giraffe]]. It is native ... - DNA (29095 bytes)
14: ...ld you don't master ''only'' contained scientific data -- that would be frustrating, wouldn't it?
35: ...e a sample of DNA for inclusion in a computerized database. This has helped investigators solve old c...
143: ...ich biologists view as an [[adaptation (biology)|adaptation]].
149: ...y would otherwise. As a result, such species may adapt more rapidly to avoid extinction. The result wo...
153: ...only accepted after the structure of DNA was elucidated by Watson and Crick, which they published in [... - Rhodes (9349 bytes)
10: ...luding the site of the ancient— and modern— commercial harbor. The main air gateway ([http...
12: ... inhabited, covered with [[pine]] forests and abundant fauna including the Rhodian [[deer]] and [[peac...
17: ...d the [[Telchines]], and associated Rhodes with [[Danaus]]; it was sometimes nicknamed ''Telchinis''. ...
19: ... cities were named for their three sons. The ''rhoda'' is a pink [[hibiscus]] native to the island.
23: ...s superintended by the Athenian architect [[Hippodamus]]. However the Peloponnesian War had so weaken... - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
8: ...t ''abstract'' quantities, like [[time]] -- [[Day|days]], [[Season|seasons]], [[Year|years]]. From co...
15: ...[[land measurement]] and later [[astronomy]]. Nowadays, mathematics derives much inspiration from the ...
25: ...em]] every (strong enough) axiom system has undecidable formulas so a final axiomatization of mathemat...
33: ...r fields: to logic and other simpler systems (foundations) and to the empirical systems of the various...
35: ... that generalize the properties possessed by everyday numbers. Long standing questions about [[ruler-a... - Orangutan (5406 bytes)
1: ... color = pink | name = Orangutans}}<br/>{{StatusEndangered}}
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordata]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Hominidae]]}}
9: ...rity | author = [[Daniel Giraud Elliot|Elliot]] | date = [[1912]]}}
10: ...ienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacepede|Lacepede]] | date = [[1799]]}} - Butterfly (9348 bytes)
12: ** [[Hesperiidae]]<br>
14: ** [[Swallowtail Butterfly|Papilionidae]]<br>
15: ** [[Pieridae]]<br>
16: ** [[Brush-footed butterfly|Nymphalidae]]<br>
17: ** [[Lycaenidae]]<br> - Economics (30960 bytes)
17: ...t good macroeconomics has solid microeconomic foundations. In other words, its premises ought to have ...
22: ...statistical techniques to the study of [[economic data]]. [[Computational economics]] relies on mathem...
25: ...s naturally from microeconomics – but has today effectively established itself as a separate, th...
27: ... field where people are faced with alternatives – [[education]], [[marriage]], [[health]], etc. ...
38: ...competitive [[market]]s. It is one of the most fundamental economic [[model (economics)|models]], ubiq... - Microbiology (4238 bytes)
1: ...]es, [[prokaryote]]s and simple [[eukaryote]]s. Today, most of the work in microbiology is done using ...
3: Microbiologists have made many fundamental contributions to [[biology]] and [[medicine...
11: ...strating that adaptive mutations arise from [[preadaptation]] rather than directed mutation. For this ... - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: ...ably with '''[[faith]]''' or '''belief system'''—is commonly defined as [[belief]] concerning th...
2: ...roperly described as a "religious organization" – that is, an organization of people that suppor...
10: ...hence interpreting "religion" as "returning to bondage."
17: ...tices that have the function of addressing the fundamental questions of human identity, ethics, death ...
21: ...as necessary to explain natural phenomena at a fundamental level. - Meditation (26064 bytes)
7: ...y]], meditation can induce — or is itself — an [[altered state of consciousness]].
20: ...serve simply as a means of relaxation from a busy daily routine, or even as a means of gaining insight...
43: ...as some resemblance with "choiceless awareness" — the kind of meditation that [[J. Krishnamurti]...
53: ...eported to have communicated with [[God]]. The 40 days following his [[baptism]] were spent in such a ...
58: ... repressed in him. Many of his techniques involve dancing too. But the meditaion technique is not medi... - Dentistry (9670 bytes)
13: ...y the [[American Dental Association]][http://www.ada.org/prof/ed/specialties/definitions.asp] and requ...
15: ...l courses" that typically last for one to several days. There are restrictions on allowing these denti...
24: ...ormation contained in the [[Edwin Smith Papyrus]] dates as early as [[3000 BC]] and includes the treat...
26: ... history of dentistry refer to the ''[http://www.idakerala.org/dentistryhome.asp Indian Dental Associa...
32: ===Dentistry in Canada=== - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...hemia]] (now [[Czech Republic]])) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer...
8: ...leman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark|Danish]] King's court. [[Beate Bille]], Tycho's moth...
10: ...ter wrote that when he was around two, his uncle, Danish nobleman [[J? Brahe]], ''... without the know...
18: ...rrelled with Parsbjerg. A subsequent duel (in the dark) resulted in Tycho losing the bridge of his nos...
26: ...in Knudstrup Tycho fell in love with [[Kirsten J?sdatter]] who was a commoner, her father, Pastor Jorg... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpeg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci]]
2: '''Leonardo da Vinci''' ([[April 15]], [[1452]] – [[May 2]], [[1519]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] ...
7: ...an [[illegitimate child]]. His father, Ser Piero da Vinci was a young [[lawyer]] and his mother, Cate...
9: ...therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's n...
12: ... the greatest of all Andrea's pupils was Leonardo da Vinci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never ... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
1: [[Image:Giordano_Bruno.jpg|thumb|Giordano Bruno]]
3: '''Giordano Bruno''' ([[1548]] – [[February 17]] [[1600]]), a.k.a. '''Bruno Nol...
7: ...nt Domenico near [[Naples]]. In [[1572]] he was ordained a priest.
9: ...ys of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A.D. and to be associ...
10: ...umb|left|200px|Woodcut illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are ... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...y (observation)|discoveries]] ever, and is the fundamental starting point of modern [[astronomy]] and ...
10: ...ara]], he met his teacher [[Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed h...
14: In [[1497]] his uncle was ordained the bishop of Warmia and Copernicus was named...
22: ...bing his ideas about the heliocentric hypothesis—available to his friends. From there he continu...
24: ...Teutonic Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Ol... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...gan during a historical period they called the "[[Dark Ages]]"). This movement also provided a framewo...
12: The boundaries of the Enlightenment cover much of the 17th c...
14: ...sh axiomatic philosophy and absolutism as the foundations for knowledge and stability. Epistemology, i...
18: ...view may seem overreaching to some in the present-day, where belief is that human beings apprehend a t...
20: ... "laws" which governed its behavior were understandable. The notion of a "clockwork god" or "god the w... - Ape (10931 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordata]]}}
10: ..._authority | author = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]] | date = [[1825]]}}
13: [[Hylobatidae]]<br>
14: [[Hominidae]]
19: *the family [[Hylobatidae]] consists of 12 species of [[gibbon]]s, includi...
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