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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
4: ... in the minds of many [[science fiction]] authors hundreds of years before it was actually feasible. S...
6: ...t. The [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] museum in [[Huntsville, Alabama]] next to [[Redstone Arsenal]] d...
13: ...3]], [[1957]]. The first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vostok 1]], carrying [[Yuri Gagari...
27: [[Image:China_(223).jpg|right|thumb|The [[UN]] and [[Flag of the People's Republic ...
28: ... became only the third country on Earth to send a human into space independently on October 15, 2003 w... - Cave (10592 bytes)
2: [[image:Lavacaveexit.jpg|thumb|300px|The outside world viewed from a cave]]
3: ...atural underground void large enough for an adult human to enter. Some scientists stipulate that it mu...
10: ...ge:Lava tube at Craters of the Moon NM-750px.JPG|thumb|300px|Lava tube cave at [[Craters of the Moon N...
22: [[Image:Ice cave.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Ice cave in Big Four Glacier, [[Big Four Mounta...
34: [[Image:HallOfTheMountainKings.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Speleothem]]s in Hall of the Moun... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
18: | Justinian builds the church of [[Hagia Sophia]] (Αγία ...
32: | The Church in Rome breaks with the Church in Constantinople.
35: ...V is defeated by the [[Seljuk Turks]] at the [[Battle of Manzikert]]. Most of Asia Minor is lost. The...
46: ...r, [[Romulus Augustus]], was forced to abdicate, thus leaving to the emperor in the Greek East sole im...
67: [[Image:Tetrarch_system.PNG|thumb|200px|frame|right|Map of Roman empire after Dio... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...works]] (e.g. [[Hollingbury]] Castle, [[Maiden Castle]]).
2: ... the dwelling, resulting in many un-castlelike castles and ''[[chaux]]''.
4: Castles also figure prominently in [[History of Japan|Ja...
5: ...rague_castle2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Prague Castle Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Cl...
6: ==Purpose of castles== - Tree (23723 bytes)
2: [[Image:coastredwood.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The [[conifer]]ous [[Coast Redwood]], the...
8: [[Image:Raunkiaer.jpg|250px|right|thumb|An [[oak]] tree in [[Denmark]]]]
9: ...d [[family (biology)|families]] of plants. Trees thus show a wide variety of growth form, leaf type an...
31: ...dwood]] ''Sequoia sempervirens'': '''112.83 m''', Humboldt Redwoods State Park, [[California]] ([http:...
41: ...t 1.5 m above ground; in most cases this makes little difference to the measured girth. On sloping grou... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: [[image:Darlingtonia_californica.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''[[Darlingtonia]]'': note the smal...
41: ...y known as trumpet pitchers. ''S. purpurea'' (the huntman's cup) has a more cosmopolitan distribution.
66: [[image:Brocchinea.jpg|thumb|200px|left|''[[Brocchinia]]'': a carnivorous br...
134: ...the lobes (which are held under tension) to snap shut. This whole process takes less than
136: ... leaf's having a simple memory: for the lobes to shut, two [[stimulus|stimuli]] are - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
1: [[image:Francis_Bacon.jpg|thumb|250px|Sir Francis Bacon]]
2: ...Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
8: ...icholas, a member of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose si...
14: ...esults) were erroneous. His reverence for [[Aristotle]] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian phi...
21: ...]]). He wrote on the condition of parties in the church, and he set down his thoughts on philosophical... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
1: [[image:socrates.png|thumb|250px|right|Socrates]]
5: ...Potidaea]], the [[Battle of Delium]] and the [[Battle of Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)...
9: ... time when [[Athens]] was seeking to recover from humiliating defeat, the Athenian public court was in...
27: ...o not stop the whole day settling down all over. Thus such another will not easily come to you, men, b...
31: :''Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: "Does teaching consist in... - Mars (27704 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mars.jpg|thumb|right|Mars, with polar ice caps visible.]]
2: [[Image:Mars NPArea-PIA00161 modest.jpg|thumb|right|North Polar region with icecap. (Courtesy...
13: ...t there must be (or have been within the last few hundred years) a source of the gas on the planet. [...
20: ..._mars_opportunity_rock_water_150_eng_02mar04.jpg|thumb|left|Microscopic rock forms indicating past sig...
35: [[Image:MarsTopoMap-PIA02031 modest.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Topographic map of Mars, courtesy NA... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and the [...
13: ... close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans were...
22: ...sterious word "CROATOAN" carved on a tree. Over a hundred men, women, and children had apparently disa...
27: ...olonists had little incentive to protect their settlement or work towards its long-term growth.
29: ...ude was enough to bring the independent-minded settlers into line. He put the colonists to work, and be... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
14: ...he [[Old Testament]] scriptures, was crucified by humanity, died and was buried, only to be resurrecte...
21: ... Peter]], [[Paul of Tarsus]], and the other [[apostle]]s.
23: ...I|''titulus crucis'']] or statement of the charge hung over the condemned on the cross.
27: ...g (Isa. 53:5; John 19:1; Matt. 27:26) and general humiliation that is centred on the given references.
29: ...ions of the New Testament's [[Gospels]] and [[Epistles]]; however, the four gospels are not considered ... - Allspice (3832 bytes)
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16: ...spice''', also called '''Jamaica pepper''', '''Myrtle pepper''', '''Pimento''', or '''Newspice''', is a...
28: ...are similar in texture to [[bay leaves]] and are thus [[infused]] during cooking and then removed befo... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
42: ...as mostly known as a [[tactician]] of [[tank]] battles and an advocate of the concentrated use of armor...
45: ...m [[Normandy]] and [[Burgundy]] which had been settled in Paris for about a century, whereas his mother...
50: ...rdun]] in March 1916, and left for dead on the battlefield. Alive, he was taken prisoner by the Germans...
58: [[Image:f_ww2_DeGaulle.jpg|thumb|250px|General de Gaulle reviewing troops.]]
61: - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ...m an important family which had produced leading churchmen and politicians.
10: ...his uncle was given the command of Vordingborg Castle to which they moved, and where Tycho began a Lati...
26: ...he [[Lutheran]] clergyman of Knudstrup's village church.
27: ...man and a commoner woman lived together openly as husband and wife, and she wore the keys to the house...
28: The husband retained his noble status and privileges; th... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: [[Image:Thomas More.png|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Hans Hol...
2: ...|canonized]] in [[1935]] by the [[Roman Catholic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of ...
7: ...onk]]. For about four years he lodged at a [[Carthusian]] monastery next to Lincoln's Inn while he co...
9: ...re raised as his own her daughter by her previous husband. More provided his daughters with an excel...
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: ...e [[absolute monarchy]] and the [[Roman Catholic Church]] was forced to undergo radical restructuring....
20: [[Image:Taking of the Bastille.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The storming of the Bastille, July 14 1789]]
25: ...Paris (in part, at least, thanks to the King's tactlessness), Brienne went on the attack, attempting to...
37: ...er and Lamoignon, the keeper of the seals, did little to give guidance to the deputies, who were remand...
42: ...state, now meeting as the ''Communes'' (English: "Commons"), proceed with verification of its own powers an... - Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Stag beetles}}
2: ...e | image = [[Image:Vacalloria.jpeg|200px|Stag beetle]] | caption = }}
13: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[beetle|Coleoptera]]}}
28: ... are [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]].
30: ...hich look like the horns of a cervus. The Stag beetle is predated on by [[magpie]]s, [[badger (animal)|... - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
15: [[image:Pelican.cropped.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Brown Pelican]]The '''Brown Pelican'...
23: [[Image:Brown pelican Baja 2005.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Brown Pelican on the wing in Baja Ca...
34: {{commons|Pelecanus occidentalis}} - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
5: ...of population, with each [[U.S. state|state]] entitled to at least one seat. In the Senate, on the othe...
10: [[Image:Uscapitolindaylight.jpg|thumb|350px|right|United States Capitol]]
17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
19: [[Image:State of the Union.jpg|thumb|250px| [[George W. Bush]] delivered his annual ...
33: ...ittee on Ways and Means]]). The large states may thus appear to have more influence over the public pu... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
21: ...[Incorporated territory|territories]] are not entitled to any representation. As there are presently 50...
30: Senators are entitled to prefix "[[The Honourable|The Honorable]]" to ...
44: ...ecision is subject to appeal to the whole house. Thus, the powers of the presiding officer of the sena...
49: [[Image:Uscapitolindaylight.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Senate meets in the United Stat...
50: ...e dais is used by clerks and other officials. One hundred desks are arranged in the Chamber in a semic...
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