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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
6: ...f aircraft. The [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] museum in [[Huntsville, Alabama]] next to [[Redstone Ar...
15: ...st Rocket]] on a suborbital flight, the first amateur space flight. On [[June 21]], [[2004]], [[SpaceS...
28: ...e only the third country on Earth to send a human into space independently on October 15, 2003 when Yan...
30: ===European Space Agency===
31: ...une 14]], [[1962]]. Although it was officially an inter-governmental space organization during the spac... - Cave (10592 bytes)
40: ...]], and [[Antarctica]], but are found widely in [[Europe]], [[Asia]], and [[North America]].
47: ...found in the caves and are fed by detritus washed into the caves, and by the feces of bats and other ca...
60: ...easured from its highest entrance to its lowest point) is [[Voronya Cave]] ([[Abkhazia]], [[Georgia (co...
69: ...hese people. [[Cave painting]]s are of particular interest. One example is the Great Cave of Niah, whic...
73: ...ier and more accessible caves have been converted into [[show cave]]s, where artificial lighting, floor... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
13: | The Empire is permanently split into Eastern and Western halves, following the death ...
46: ...his death in 395, with the division of the empire into Western and Eastern halves. Others place it yet ...
51: ...th century when French authors such as [[Montesquieu]] began to popularize it. Hieronymus himself was ...
53: ...ry in different terms. Nevertheless, this was not intended in a demeaning manner since he ascribed his ...
63: ...57;ες (Hellenes), a trait that survived into the early [[21st century]] and still persists to... - Castle (27805 bytes)
2: ..."castle" designations, relics of the [[feudalism|feudal]] age, often remained attached to the dwelling...
4: ...[[History of Japan|Japanese history]], where the feudal [[Daimyo]] inhabited them.
8: ...by their owners for specific purposes, or evolved into new purposes over time:
10: ...is can be seen by many of the typical features of European castles - e.g. portcullises, battlements an...
12: * Lastly castles evolved into residences for the monarch or lord who built the... - Tree (23723 bytes)
18: Trees may be broadly grouped into ''exogenous'' and ''endogenous'' trees according...
32: # [[Coast Douglas-fir]] ''Pseudotsuga menziesii'': '''100.3 m''', Brummit Creek,...
34: # [[Giant Sequoia]] ''Sequoiadendron giganteum'': '''93.6 m''', Redwood Mountain Grove, Califor...
35: ... [[Eucalyptus regnans|Australian Mountain-ash]] ''Eucalyptus regnans'': '''92.0 m''', Styx Valley, [[T...
41: ... use the average between the highest and lowest points of ground. Some of the inflated old measurements... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
16: ...ich suck in prey with a bladder that generates an internal vacuum; and
17: *Lobster-pot traps, which use inward pointing hairs to force prey to move towards a digestiv...
47: ...nzymes such as [[protease]]s and [[phosphatase]]s into the digestive
53: Insects (mostly ants) get into the chamber ''via'' the opening, which is undern...
55: exits, until they eventaully fall into the tube. Prey access is increased by the 'fangs... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
12: ...et the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the young ...
21: In the fragment ''De Interpretatione Naturae Prooemium'' (written probably...
23: ...ship of the Star Chamber, a valuable appointment, into the enjoyment of which, however, he did not ente...
25: ...licitor in 1595. To console him for these disappointments Essex presented him with a property at Twick...
29: ...r treason in 1601; and Bacon was one of those appointed to investigate the charges against him, and exa... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...y hardiness, walking without shoes and a coat in winter.
31: ...ough the field of my own knowledge, and then by pointing out analogies to what I know, persuade me that...
37: {{commons|Socrates}}
48: * ''An Introduction to Greek Philosophy'', J. V. Luce, Thame...
49: * ''Introduction to Philosophy'', Jacques Maritain - Mars (27704 bytes)
6: ...s symbol, ♂ (a circle with a small arrow pointing out from behind it), is a stylized representat...
13: The presence of methane on Mars is very intriguing, since as an unstable gas it indicates tha...
15: ... to the other with the change between summer and winter, giving rise to Earth-like [[frost]] and large ...
18: ... to those found on the ocean floors of Earth. One interesting theory, published in [[1999]] is that the...
22: ...(journal)|Science]]'' that "Liquid water was once intermittently present at the Martian surface at Meri... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
8: ===Europe===
9: ...ded during the Middle Ages. At the same time, the intellectual growth of the Renaissance led to the dev...
11: ...attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe began to revive, it became clear that the fir...
13: ...d taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans were concerned, they were still free for t...
27: The venture was financed and coordinated by a [[joint stock company]] - the [[London Virginia Company]]... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
8: ...iefs and sects. Christianity is generally grouped into three main branches, which split from one anothe...
14: ...is the only way to achieve salvation and to enter into [[heaven]], and that salvation is a gift given b...
21: ... early Christian doctrine was taught by [[Peter|Saint Peter]], [[Paul of Tarsus]], and the other [[apos...
34: ...r the first three centuries aided by the relative internal peace and good roads of the [[Roman Empire]]...
35: * via [[Egypt]] into [[North Africa]], [[Sudan]] and [[Ethiopia]] - Allspice (3832 bytes)
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25: ... the 16th century. It was slowly introduced into Europe after that. It is still almost exclusively g... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ...or the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle International Airport]]''
31:
45: ...s his mother's side was a family of rich entrepreneurs from the industrial region of Lille in [[French...
47: ...ent at home, and from an early age, de Gaulle was introduced by his father to the major [[conservative]...
50: ...de Saint-Cyr]] (the French equivalent of [[West Point]]). He graduated in [[1912]] and decided to join ... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: .... For purposes of [[publication]], he owned a [[printing press]] and [[paper mill]]. His best known ass...
8: ...tendorf 1994, p. 68) to his dead twin which was printed as his first publication in 1572). He also had ...
12: ... Tractatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis and [[Regiomontanus]]' De...
18: ...A consequence of this was that Tycho developed an interest in [[medicine]] and [[alchemy]]. For the res...
22: ...uncle Jorgen Brahe, had already died in 1565 of pneumonia after rescuing [[Frederick II of Denmark]] f... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...holic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and politicians.
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive...
19: ...l man of letters in his communications with other European humanists. The humanistic project embraced...
27: ...y that More, a devout and conservative Christian, intended to offer the communist, non-Christian Utopia...
36: ...orced Wolsey to resign as Lord Chancellor and appointed Thomas More in his place in [[1529]]. Henry th... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
8: ...e monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these initially allied groups would beco...
13: * Resentment of the [[seigneurial system]] by peasants, wage-earners, and, to a...
25: ...editors on whom the French treasury depended to maintain its day to day operations to withdraw their lo...
42: ... orders to join them, but made it clear that they intended to conduct the nation's affairs with or with...
53: ... of the military joined the mob; others remained neutral. - Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
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28: ... are [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]].
30: ...ugh several [[instar]]s in the process. At this point it buries itself in the soil for about 3 months, ... - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
12: ...s occidentalis | author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = 1766}}
17: ...coasts in flocks, returning to warmer waters for winter.
28: *''Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis'' Linnaeus, 1766
34: {{commons|Pelecanus occidentalis}} - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
7: ... Court of the United States|Supreme Court]], to maintain [[armed forces]], and to declare [[war]]. Inso...
17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
19: ...is annual [[State of the Union address]] to a [[joint session of Congress]] on January 28, 2003 in the ...
26: ...e activities of Congress can also be found on the internet, on the legislative database [[THOMAS (datab...
33: Each house of Congress has the power to introduce [[legislation]] on any subject dealing with... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...ent]] must ratify treaties and make important appointments "with the Advice and Consent of the Senate" ...
12: ...on by Thomas Jefferson, said "we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it (from the The H...
16: ...majorities. At the same time the Senate descended into a period of irrelevance that stood in sharp cont...
18: ...mocratic parties, respectively. The Democrats appointed their first official leader, [[Oscar Underwood]...
29: ...ws authorizing the Governor to make temporary appointments.<!--http://www.senate.gov/reference/referenc...
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