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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
4: ...s of exactly how that would be done. During the [[20th century]], with the development of adequate pr...
6: ...space capsule trainers, and the original [[Apollo 16]] space capsule.
8: See also: [[The Blue Marble]], a [[1972]] image taken during the [[Apollo program]]
11: ... space usually used is that space begins 100 km (62 miles) above Earth's surface. The United States s...
13: ...], carrying [[Yuri Gagarin]] on [[April 12]] [[1961]]. - Cave (10592 bytes)
22: ...r, [[Big Four Mountain]], [[Washington]], ca. [[1920]]]]
30: ...rainwater and [[groundwater]] charged with CO<sub>2</sub> ([[carbonic acid]]) and naturally occurring...
42: ...'s exposed limestone - more than 1,000,000 km<sup>2</sup> - has hardly been explored underground.
43: [[Image:Seneca_Caverns.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Fracture blocks in Seneca Caverns, Ohio, USA]...
58: ...Optimisticeskaja]] system in the [[Ukraine]], at 214km. - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
1: ...in: 0.5em 0 1em 1em; background: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-...
2: ...ig><big>'''ΡΩΜΑΝΙΑ'''</big></big>
4: ...965;τοκρατορία</big></big>
7: ...span=2 align=center | [[Image:Byzantine eagle.JPG|280px]]<br/><small>Emblem of the [[Palaeologus]] dy...
15: | [[527]] || Justinian I becomes emperor. - Castle (27805 bytes)
2: ...pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15th century, their "castle" designations, relics o...
5: [[Image:Prague_castle2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Prague Castle Image provided by [http://c...
7: [[Image:Ireland_coast.jpg|280px|thumb|right|Castle found along the coast of I...
14: ... [[Hugh of Abbeville]] in the last decades of the 10th century illustrates this:
17: ...[Investiture Controversy]] in Germany during the 11th century, and the resulting decline of the Germa... - Tree (23723 bytes)
2: [[Image:coastredwood.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The [[conifer]]ous [[Coast Redwood]], the tal...
3: ...es are long-lived. A few species of trees grow to 100 m tall, and some can live for several [[millenn...
8: [[Image:Raunkiaer.jpg|250px|right|thumb|An [[oak]] tree in [[Denmark]]]]
30: ... claims of trees of 114 m, 117 m, 130 m, and even 150 m, are now largely disregarded as unreliable, f...
31: ... [[Coast Redwood]] ''Sequoia sempervirens'': '''112.83 m''', Humboldt Redwoods State Park, [[Californ... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: [[image:Darlingtonia_californica.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''[[Darlingtonia]]'': note the small en...
6: ...irst well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
66: [[image:Brocchinea.jpg|thumb|200px|left|''[[Brocchinia]]'': a carnivorous bromel...
101: ...sundew]] genus (''[[Drosera]]'') consists of over 100 species of active flypapers, whose
104: bending 180° in only a minute or so. Sundews are extrem... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
1: [[image:Francis_Bacon.jpg|thumb|250px|Sir Francis Bacon]]
2: ...8]], and created '''Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his ...
10: ...inity College, Cambridge]], in 1573 at the age of 13, living for three years there with his older bro...
16: On June 27, 1576, he and Anthony were entered ''de societate ma...
18: ... he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn in 1579. - Socrates (7975 bytes)
1: [[image:socrates.png|thumb|250px|right|Socrates]]
2: ...ράτης}} Sōkrá´Ĥamp;#275;s) was a Greek ([[Athens|Athenian]]) [[philosop...
25: ...t they infect the soul with evil.'' (''Phaedo'', 91)
37: {{commons|Socrates}}
45: ...ww.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=2747 Aristotle's writings] - Mars (27704 bytes)
2: [[Image:Mars NPArea-PIA00161 modest.jpg|thumb|right|North Polar region with ic...
6: Its symbol, ♂ (a circle with a small arrow pointing out from b...
8: ...h as it is on earth: 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds.
11: ...nts state a average methane concetration of about 10 [[Parts per million|ppb]] (see [[#references|ref...
15: ...hat were photographed by the Opportunity rover in 2004. - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: Starting in the late [[16th century]], the [[England|English]] began to co...
4: ...hat sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different colonies found them...
9: ...ring the [[15th century|15th]] and [[16th century|16th]] centuries, Europe emerged from the [[Middle ...
13: In the [[16th century|16th]] and [[17th century|17th]] centuries, a new generation of colonial powe...
16: ... its first successful efforts at the start of the 17th century for several reasons. During this era,... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
12: ...'s largest single [[religion]], with an estimated 2.0 billion followers or about 33% of the world's p...
14: ...conclusions reached by the Council of Nicea in [[325]] C.E., known as the [[Nicene Creed]]. This desc...
21: ...ing to [[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 11:19 and 11:26 in the [[New Testament]], Jesus' followers were ...
23: ...[[Pontius Pilate]] (John 19:19–22; see Luke 16:8) on the [[INRI|''titulus crucis'']] or stateme...
27: ...ash;64), whipping (Isa. 53:5; John 19:1; Matt. 27:26) and general humiliation that is centred on the ... - Allspice (3832 bytes)
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18: ...sweet pepper that measures 3 to 4 inches long and 2 to 3 inches wide. The flesh of this pimiento -- t...
22: It reportedly scores between 100 and 500 su on the [[Scoville scale]] of hotness...
25: ...sh explorers in Jamaica near the beginning of the 16th century. It was slowly introduced into Europe... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
4: ...margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-siz...
7: ...enter" colspan="2" | [[Image:DeGaullePortrait.jpg|180px]]
13: ...om [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[1969]]
22: | [[November 22]], [[1890]]
28: | [[November 9]], [[1970]] - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...strup]], [[Denmark]] – [[October 24]], [[1601]] [[Prague]], [[Bohemia]] (now [[Czech Republic]]...
8: ... which was printed as his first publication in 1572). He also had two sisters, one older ([[Kirstine ...
10: ...where Tycho began a Latin education until he was 12 years old.
12: ...r, the [[eclipse]] which occurred on August 21, [[1560]], particularly the fact that it had been pred...
14: ...d of several years.'' -Tycho Brahe, [[1563]] (age 17). - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: [[Image:Thomas More.png|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[...
2: ...itor]]. More was [[canonization|canonized]] in [[1935]] by the [[Roman Catholic Church]], in which h...
5: ...mitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ... [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the rest of his life he continued t...
9: ...en by his first wife, Jane Colt, who died in [[1511]]. He remarried almost immediately, to a rich wi... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...world. It covers the years between [[1789]] and [[1799]], in which [[democracy|democrats]] and [[repu...
20: ...350px|thumb|The storming of the Bastille, July 14 1789]]
21: ...o became Controller-General of the Finances in [[1783]], pursued a strategy of conspicuous spending ...
27: ...e [[1614]]. Brienne resigned on [[August 25]], [[1788]], and Necker again took charge of the nation'...
30: ===The Estates-General of 1789=== - Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
2: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:Vacalloria.jpeg|200px|Stag beetle]] | caption = }}
28: ... are [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]]. - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
12: ...| author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = 1766}}
15: ...alis'' <small>†</small>) is the smallest (42"-54") member of the [[pelican]] family.
23: ...United States]] and [[California]] in the early [[1970s]].
28: ...''Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis'' Linnaeus, 1766
33: ...rotected by the [[Migratory Bird Treaty]] of [[1972]]. - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
5: ...fifty states in the Union, the Senate consists of 100 members. Each Senator, who is elected by the wh...
13: The [[United States Senate|Senate]] currently has 100 seats, one-third being renewed every two years;...
15: ... number is fixed by statute at 435 ([[Public Law 62-5]]).
17: ...mons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 percent of members have law degrees.
19: ...to a [[joint session of Congress]] on January 28, 2003 in the House chamber.]] - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ... as a result, the total membership of the body is 100. Senators serve for six-year terms, which are s...
10: ...use of Lords as possible."<!--Harpers, May 2004, 42-->
12: ...ts full implementation was set for [[March 4]], [[1789]]. However, the Senate could not begin work un...
14: ...ty|Democratic]] President [[Andrew Johnson]] in [[1868]] for political purposes; the trial ultimately...
16: ...egislatures; they achieved their objective in [[1913]] with the ratification of the [[Seventeenth Ame...
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