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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
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: ...nition of space usually used is that space begins 100 km (62 miles) above Earth's surface. The United...
13: ...], carrying [[Yuri Gagarin]] on [[April 12]] [[1961]].
15: ...light, the first amateur space flight. On [[June 21]], [[2004]], [[SpaceShipOne]] became the first pr... - Cave (10592 bytes)
22: ...ier, [[Big Four Mountain]], [[Washington]], ca. [[1920]]]]
42: ...one - more than 1,000,000 km<sup>2</sup> - has hardly been explored underground.
58: ...Optimisticeskaja]] system in the [[Ukraine]], at 214km.
60: ...tsofen Vogelschacht]] Weg Schacht in [[Austria]] (1632m) are the current second and third deepest cav...
76: {{Commons|Cave|Cave}} - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
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2: ...ig><big>'''ΡΩΜΑΝΙΑ'''</big></big>
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18: ...of [[Hagia Sophia]] (Αγία Σοφία/Holy Wisdom)
26: | [[634]]-[[641]] - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ... self-contained [[fortress]], usually of the [[Middle Ages]], though traditionally in Britain it has a...
2: ...pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15th century, their "castle" designations, relics o...
11: * Secondly castles were offensive weapons, built in otherwi...
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)
3: ...es are long-lived. A few species of trees grow to 100 m tall, and some can live for several [[millenn...
18: ...rees (all [[conifer]]s, and all [[dicotyledon|broadleaf]] trees), grow by the addition of new wood out...
24: ...ize or shape of individual specimens. A spruce seedling does not fit the definition of a tree, but all...
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, [[Califor... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
6: ...irst well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
55: ...the operculum), which give the plant its name. Seedling ''Sarracenia'' species also have long, overhan...
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...
162: [[image:Genlisearepens1web.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''[[Genlisea]]'': carniv... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
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.
21: ...n [[Dorset]], and subsequently for [[Taunton]] ([[1586]]). He wrote on the condition of parties in th... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
25: ...t they infect the soul with evil.'' (''Phaedo'', 91)
37: {{commons|Socrates}}
50: ...and Jonathan Barnes, Oxford University Press, NY, 1998.
51: * Taylor, C. C. W. (2001). ''Socrates: A very short introduction''. Oxford... - Mars (27704 bytes)
2: [[Image:Mars NPArea-PIA00161 modest.jpg|thumb|right|North Polar region with ic...
4: ...eimos (moon)|Deimos]]) which are both small and oddly-shaped, possibly being captured [[asteroid]]s. T...
11: ...nts state a average methane concetration of about 10 [[Parts per million|ppb]] (see [[#references|ref...
13: ...s in patches, which suggests that it is being rapidly broken down (and so is presumably also continual...
15: ...ess/opportunity/20041213a/merb_sol290_clouds-B313R1_br.jpg] of water-ice that were photographed by th... - 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: ...y about the world that had subsided during the Middle Ages. At the same time, the intellectual growth ...
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)
21: ...rding to [[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 11:19 and 11:26 in the [[New Testament]], Jesus' followers wer...
23: ...[[Pontius Pilate]] (John 19:19–22; see Luke 16:8) on the [[INRI|''titulus crucis'']] or stateme...
27: ...uke 23:63–64), whipping (Isa. 53:5; John 19:1; Matt. 27:26) and general humiliation that is cen...
31: ... a noteworthy authority in his own right (Acts 28:16–22) considering that the Jews of Rome soug...
34: ...symbol of Christianity.]] Christianity spread rapidly over the first three centuries aided by the rela... - Allspice (3832 bytes)
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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: ...win which was printed as his first publication in 1572). He also had two sisters, one older ([[Kirsti...
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)
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: ...lmost immediately, to a rich widow named Alice Middleton who was several years his senior. His new wi...
12: ...More was knighted and made undertreasurer in [[1521]]. As secretary and personal advisor to King Hen... - 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)
28: ... are [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]].
30: ...m summer months it emerges to fly off (somewhat badly due to their size), find a mate and die. Stag Be... - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
12: ...| author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = 1766}}
23: ...United States]] and [[California]] in the early [[1970s]].
28: ...''Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis'' Linnaeus, 1766
33: ...s protected by the [[Migratory Bird Treaty]] of [[1972]].
34: {{commons|Pelecanus occidentalis}} - 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;...
17: ...mons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 percent of members have law degrees.
24: ...s first session of Congress on [[November 17]], [[1800]].
26: ... televised for the first time on [[January 3]], [[1947]]. Proceedings of the general Congress are now... - 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: ...litical meeting)|Constitutional Convention]] in [[1787]]; all states except [[Rhode Island]] agreed t...
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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