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- Musical genre (24851 bytes)
3: ...into genres is based more on commercial and [[marketing]] motives than musical criteria. [[John Zorn]]...
11: ...dividual genres, it is possible to group these together into a number of overlapping major groupings. ...
35: ...] are also primary jazz instruments. The [[clarinet]] and [[banjo]] were often used, especially in th...
45: ... 1960s that was not [[jazz]] nor [[blues]] but something more lightweight. The term "R&B" often refers...
51: ...ter]] tradition. Early [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] and [[punk rock]] bands formed in this period... - Bogong Moth (3176 bytes)
20: ...h moths have a wingspan of approximately 45 millimetres. Adults make lengthy migrations to spend summe...
24: ..., are also stoutly built. They feed on a wide variety of low growing plants. The name cutworm come fro... - Broad-Winged Hawks (1821 bytes)
25: ...s wait on a perch and swoop down on prey, also sometimes flying in search of prey. They mainly eat sma... - Leopards (8935 bytes)
15: ...n size from 1 to almost 2 metres long, and weigh between 30 and 70 kg. Females are typically around tw...
19: ..., it was thought that a leopard was a [[hybrid]] between a lion and a panther, and the leopard's commo...
23: ... country are wise to keep dogs caged for their safety because leopards have been known to crave dog-me...
29: ... hunter and author [[Jim Corbett (hunter)|Jim Corbett]].
34: ...most always drag their prey up to the relative safety of a tree. Leopards have been observed carrying ... - 13 colonies (4411 bytes)
2: ...Image:us flag large Betsy Ross.png|right|thumb|[[Betsy Ross]] purportedly sewed the first [[Flag of th...
14: ...Province of Massachusetts Bay]], later [[Massachusetts]] and [[Maine]]
58: ...tch colony as of 1776; [[British Honduras]], had settlements, but "unofficial" until at least a couple... - Zebra Finches (3175 bytes)
19: The [[morphology|morphological]] differences between the sub-species include differences in size. ...
23: ... in groups of several pairs. The closest bond is between the cock and the hen... these two do things s...
25: ...ornment. This ability also makes them popular as pet [[songbirds]], and they are usually found at rela... - Cuneiform (script) (7717 bytes)
4: ...and [[Ugaritic alphabet|Ugaritic]] national alphabets.
7: ... the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions.
9: ...if permanence was not called for. Many of the tablets found by archaeologists were preserved because t...
12: ...rm tablet.jpg|right|thumbnail|350px|Cuneiform tablet]]
13: ...om syllabary characters ([[kana]]) but otherwise retains a similar system. - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
1: ... Agency|ESA]]'s [[Hipparcos|Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission]] was named after him, as are the [[Hip...
3: ... he was probably the first to develop a reliable method to predict [[solar eclipse]]s. His other achi...
19: ...]. It was published by Karl Manitius (''In Arati et Eudoxi Phaenomena'', Leipzig, 1894). Hipparchus ...
27: ... in "Astronomical Cuneiform Texts" (3 vol.s; Princeton and London, 1955).
31: ...ollection of texts nowadays called "System B" (sometimes attributed to [[Kidinnu]]). Apparently Hippa... - History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
8: ...g them are [[mauve]], [[magenta]], and other synthetic [[dye]]s, as well as the widely used drug [[asp...
12: ...avior of [[gas]]es, this dispute was not finally settled until [[Jean Perrin]]'s experimental investig...
14: Well before the dispute had been settled, [[Svante Arrhenius]] had begun to investigat...
23: ..., and everyday disposable resources, by the twentieth century.
27: ...h the ambition of explaining the molecular bonds between atoms in quantum-mechanical terms. In [[1939]... - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
6: ...ies advanced in medieval science are today [[obsolete]], and partly because of the [[stereotype]] of M...
14: ...t number of different cultures that were not completely assimiliated by the Roman culture. Debilitated...
16: ...n incomplete and posed serious problems of interpretation. Given the limited scientific advances from ...
18: ...', or scientific education ([[arithmetic]], [[geometry]], [[astronomy]] and [[music]]). From the year ...
29: ... by notable [[Scholastics]] such as [[Robert Grosseteste]], [[Roger Bacon]], [[Albertus Magnus]], and ... - Geography1 (26085 bytes)
2: ...they have changed and come to be. As "the bridge between the human and physical sciences," geography i...
5: ...ear=2006 }}</ref> As space and place affect a variety of topics such as economics, health, climate, pl...
7: ...s...are not geography... know by heart a whole gazetteer full of them would not, in itself, constitute...
9: ...nd human geography and looks at the interactions between the environment and humans.<ref name="Hayes-B...
29: ...[environmental geography]] is emerging as a link between the two. Human geography can be divided into ... - Ice Age (15809 bytes)
1: [[Image:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png|thumb|right|Variations in CO2, temperature ...
3: ... to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the [[North America]]n and [[Europe]]an con...
9: ...oria.edu/aberjame/histgeol/agassiz/glacial.htm]. Between 1825 and 1833 [[Jean de Charpentier]] assembl...
19: ...cles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000 and 100,000 year time scales. T...
21: ...etween summers in which the winter snow mass completely melts and summers in which the winter snow per... - Invertebrate (1366 bytes)
5: ...ology" to be found. This reflects the bias in society and also in [[zoology]] towards larger, more com... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...anking nobleman, [[Antonio de Mendoza]]. Cortés returned to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully bu...
10: ... latter two were most commonly used during his lifetime, but the former shortened form has become comm...
18: After two years, Cortés, tired of schooling, returned home to Medellín, much to the irritation of...
20: ...ir description of a sixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life...
26: ...ai, and Seville, listening to the tales of those returning from the Indies, who told of discovery and ... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
5: ...s [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between the death of [[Louis XIV of France]] and the ...
9: ...ce of power away from the west and create new competition in Europe other than France, England, and Sp...
13: In a strictly aesthetic analysis, the 18th century is generally conside...
17: ...aint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]. [[Russia|Russian]] [[capital]] unt...
33: * [[1741]]: [[Russia]]ns begin settling the [[Aleutian Islands]]. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...s [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between the death of [[Louis XIV of France]] and the ...
6: ...n prominence. Philosophers were dreaming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of ea...
8: ...18th century, it would radically change human society and the geology of the surface of the earth.
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in the [[Battle of Poltava]]]]
22: ...aint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]. [[Russia]]n [[Capital (political)|... - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
4: ...]: [[Seed drill]]: [[Jethro Tull (agriculturist)|Jethro Tull]]
7: * [[1710]]: [[Thermometer]]: [[Ren頁ntoine Ferchault de R页mur]]
9: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
22: * [[1777]]: [[carding|Card teeth making machine]]: [[Oliver Evans]]
35: * [[1791]]: [[Artificial Teeth]]: [[Nicholas Dubois De Chemant]] - September 23 (7397 bytes)
13: ...- [[Lewis and Clark Expedition|Lewis and Clark]] return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.
15: *[[1846]] - Discovery of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] by French astronomer [[Urbain Le Verri...
19: *[[1912]] - First [[Mack Sennett]] "Keystone Comedy" is released.
24: *[[1962]] - The [[Jetsons]] aired for the first time.
26: *[[1973]] - [[Juan Peron]] returns to power in [[Argentina]] - Vincent van Gogh (11980 bytes)
2: ...[[suicide]]. He had little success during his lifetime, but his posthumous fame grew rapidly, especia...
4: ...er-Muller Museum]] in [[Otterlo]] (also in [[the Netherlands]]), has a considerable collection of Vinc...
6: ...ay 15]], [[1990]], his ''[[Portrait of Doctor Gachet]]'' was sold for $82.5 million at [[Christie's]],...
11: ...ollection of letters they sent each other. These letters have been preserved and were published in [[1...
13: ...t in [[Ramsgate]] in [[Kent]], [[England]], then returned to [[Amsterdam]] to study theology in [[1877... - Drawing (17083 bytes)
2: ... a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots, superficially speaking the subject ...
7: ...olored-pencil compositions as "paintings". In nineteenth century usage, "drawing" also encompassed wa...
10: ...nary pencils, then moistened with a wet brush to get various effects. There are also oil-based pastels...
26: There are a variety of different techniques that experience has prov...
29: ...re "toothy" paper will hold the drawing material better. Thus a courser material is useful for produci...
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