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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
11: ...tates sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
15: ...tion Team]] launched the [[GoFast Rocket]] on a suborbital flight, the first amateur space flight. On ...
43: ===Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency===
44: ...er of NASDA, the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan and the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Sc...
47: ...]], [[1958]], NASA consisted mainly of the four laboratories and some 8,000 employees of the governmen... - Cave (10592 bytes)
30: ...[[groundwater]] charged with CO<sub>2</sub> ([[carbonic acid]]) and naturally occurring [[organic acid...
35: Limestone caves are often adorned with calcium carbonate formations produced through slow precipitatio...
47: ...s the endangered [[Alabama cave shrimp]], live in bodies of water found in the caves and are fed by de...
49: ...oxenes, as they roost in caves by day and forage above ground at night.
51: ...ns tend to be isolated from one another, caves harbor a number of [[endangered species]], such as, for... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
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51: ...ts in Italy thereby renouncing their eastern neighbours as true Romans. The [[Donation of Constantine]...
59: ... of religious heretics often lived on or near the borderlands, the [[Armenians]] being the only sizeab...
63: ...tion]] Greeks continued to identify themselves as both Ρωμαίοι (Rom...
74: ...sius I]] (also called "the great"), who had ruled both beginning in [[392]]. In [[395]] he gave the tw... - Castle (27805 bytes)
4: ...les also figure prominently in [[History of Japan|Japanese history]], where the feudal [[Daimyo]] inha...
12: ... them. This can best be seen in castles such as [[Bodiam Castle]] in [[Kent]], whose defensive look wa...
26: ... communities grew, it became necessary to provide both a larger and stronger fortification, which woul...
46: ...o a [[parish]], was erected at this period on the border of [[Herefordshire]] and [[Shropshire]] by [[...
48: ...her a citadel, which looks down on the whole neighbourhood". St John, bishop of Terouanne, died in [[1... - Tree (23723 bytes)
11: ...setail]]s, which grew in vast forests in the [[Carboniferous]] Period; tree ferns still survive, but t...
16: ...basic parts of a tree are the [[root]]s, [[trunk (botany)|trunk]](s), [[branch]]es, [[twig]]s and [[le...
22: ...g [[water]] and [[nutrients]] from the [[soil]]. Above ground, the trunk gives height to the leaf-bear...
24: ...nition of a tree, but all spruces are trees. [[Bamboo]]s by contrast, do show most of the characterist...
30: ...able, often producing exaggerations of 5% to 15% above the real height. Historical claims of trees of ... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
5: especially [[nitrogen]], such as acidic [[bog]]s and rock outcroppings.
19: ...fied as active or passive. For example, there are both passive flypapers,
48: fluid at the bottom of the pitcher: ''Heliamphora'' relies on bac...
59: the pitcher is borne at the end of a tendril, which grows as an ext...
61: ''N. rajah'', will also occasionally take small mammals and... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...and created '''Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
6: Francis Bacon was born at York House, Strand [[London]].
18: ...oney. Having started with insufficient means, he borrowed money and became habitually in debt. To sup...
21: ...pretatione Naturae Prooemium'' (written probably about 1603) Bacon analyses his own mental character a...
23: ...in urging the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. About this time he seems again to have approached his... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ..., a midwife. He was married to [[Xanthippe]], who bore him three sons. By the cultural standards of th...
11: ...eek out the wise men of Athens, questioning them about their knowledge of good, beauty, and virtue; fi...
15: ...ial of Socrates]] for more detail and background about Socrates' trial and execution.
27: ...rge and well-bred horse, by its size and laziness both needing arousing by some gadfly; in this way th...
37: {{commons|Socrates}} - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: ...|Phobos]] and [[Deimos (moon)|Deimos]]) which are both small and oddly-shaped, possibly being captured...
6: Its symbol, ♂ (a circle with a small arrow pointing ...
11: ...urements state a average methane concetration of about 10 [[Parts per million|ppb]] (see [[#references...
18: ...stain an Earth-like atmosphere by transporting carbon rich rocks to the surface, while the presence of...
22: ...aining forms of sulfur, iron or bromine such as [[jarosite]]. This and other evidence led a group of 5... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and the [[convict]]s of [[Province of G...
9: ...t in [[geography]] and an intellectual curiosity about the world that had subsided during the Middle A...
25: ...after the recently enthroned [[James I of England|James I]] - very nearly became the next in the strin...
27: ... were seeking individual wealth. A lack of social bonds in the community was further excabarated by th...
29: ...orts of an enigmatic figure named [[John Smith of Jamestown|John Smith]]. Smith made himself the benev... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
12: ...on]], with an estimated 2.0 billion followers or about 33% of the world's population.
14: ...ersons with one substance) became human on earth, born as [[Jesus]] pursuant to the [[Old Testament]] ...
27: ...ed in the [[New Testament]]. Examples include the book of [[Isaiah]] that alludes to the slapping (Mat...
29: ...Seventy Apostles|70]], including [[James the Just|James Adelphos]], Mark, Luke, [[Mary Magdalene]], et...
31: ...e traditions also credit him as the writer of the book of [[Epistle to the Hebrews|Hebrews]]. The [[Go... - Allspice (3832 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}} - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[1969]]
45: ...ndustrial region of Lille in [[French Flanders]]. Born in [[Lille]], de Gaulle grew up and was educate...
54: ...om experiences from WWI, he published a number of books and articles on the reorganisation of the army...
59: ...ry through the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]] due to his bold views. After the German breakthrough at [[Sedan... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...ot yet distinct) and [[alchemist]]. He had [[Uraniborg]] built, which became an early "[[research inst...
8: ... and [[Beate Bille]]. His twin brother was [[stillborn]] (Tycho wrote a Latin ode (Wittendorf 1994, p....
10: ...nd 1552 his uncle was given the command of Vordingborg Castle to which they moved, and where Tycho beg...
12: ...rchased an [[ephemeris]] and books such as [[Sacrobosco]]'s Tractatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmogr...
22: ...t quadrant, Basel, and Freiburg. He was informed about his father's illness - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...d nation whose political system he described in a book published in [[1516]]. He is chiefly remembere...
5: Born in Milk Street, [[London]], Thomas More was the...
7: ...legal career in order to become a [[monk]]. For about four years he lodged at a [[Carthusian]] monast...
9: ...n who was several years his senior. His new wife bore him no children, but More raised as his own her...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...s subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
8: ...s power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these initially...
13: ...sants, wage-earners, and, to a lesser extent, the bourgeoisie
15: * An unmanageable national [[debt]], both caused by and exacerbating the burden of a gros...
21: ...st despotism, as well as from court factions, and both ministers were ultimately dismissed. [[Charles... - Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox phylum entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}} - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
9: Both Houses of Congress meet in the [[United States ...
17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
19: ...n address]] to a [[joint session of Congress]] on January 28, 2003 in the House chamber.]]
26: ...s Congress were televised for the first time on [[January 3]], [[1947]]. Proceedings of the general Co...
33: ...h houses must work out a compromise acceptable to both sides before the bill becomes the law of the la... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...es. The Senate is regarded as a more deliberative body than the House of Representatives; the Senate i...
4: ...e. The Constitution provides that the approval of both houses is necessary for the passage of legislat...
10: ...les of Confederation]], Congress was a unicameral body in which each state was equally represented. Th...
12: ...erative body than the House of Representatives. [[James Madison]] described the Senate's purpose as "A...
14: ...ion, culminated in the South's defeat and in the abolition of slavery. The ensuing years of [[Reconstr...
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