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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...ding [[outer space|space]] endeavors. One of the most famous and important aspects of space exploratio...
19: ...est space programs. Brazil's space program is the most advanced in South America. It suffered a major s...
40: ...GSLV]] (Geostationary satellite Launch Vehicle). Most of ISRO's programs are geared towards nation bui...
43: ===Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency===
44: ...er of NASDA, the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan and the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Sc... - Cave (10592 bytes)
6: ...tion of chemical processes, tectonic forces and atmospheric influences.
11: ...re formed through volcanic activity. They are the most common primary caves. Lava flows downhill and th...
13: The most important lava tubes are found on [[Hawaii]] ([[...
25: ...]], [[lava]], [[sandstone]], and [[gypsum]]. The most common process of cave formation is karstificati...
35: ... in caves are called [[speleothem]]s. The world's most spectacularly decorated cave is generally regard... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
24: | The [[Lombard]] invasion results in the loss of most of Italy.
27: ...t and Egypt. In the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as wel...
29: ...clasm controversies. This results in the loss of most of the Empire's remaining Italian territories, a...
35: ...[[Seljuk Turks]] at the [[Battle of Manzikert]]. Most of Asia Minor is lost. The same year, the last ...
51: ...mans. The [[Donation of Constantine]], one of the most famous [[forgery|forged]] documents in history, ... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...[Fortification|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often applied to a small self-contained [[fortre...
4: ...les also figure prominently in [[History of Japan|Japanese history]], where the feudal [[Daimyo]] inha...
10: * First and foremost castles were places of protection from an invadi...
30: ...y survive through to the modern day; they are now mostly considered monuments.
59: ...nce, while the fortress was made strongest on the most exposed front. The idea of the flanking towers (... - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ...unk (see [[shrub]] for comparison). Compared with most other plant forms, trees are long-lived. A few s...
11: ...[flowering plant]]s in the [[Cretaceous]] Period. Most species of trees today are [[flowering plant]]s ...
24: ...ruces are trees. [[Bamboo]]s by contrast, do show most of the characteristics of trees, yet are rarely ...
27: ...er]], though a different species in each case; in most measures, the second to fourth places are also h...
30: ... U.S. Eastern Native Tree Society] has shown that most older measuring methods and measurements are unr... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...rous plant''' is a [[plant]] that derives some or most of its
22: most [[sundew]]s, whose leaves undergo rapid growth, ...
39: which are endemic to [[Florida]] (for the most part) and [[California]] respectively.
40: ''Sarracenia'' is the pitcher plant genus most commonly encountered in cultivation, and
51: the operculum is balloon-like, and almost seals the opening to the tube. This balloon-like... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: '''Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans''' ([[January 22]], [[1561]] – [[April 9]], [[1626]]...
31: ...dern scholars speculate that he may have been a homosexual.
35: ...rerogative, while retaining the confidence of the Commons. In 1613, Bacon was finally able to become attorn...
37: ...ve the King's favor, and in 1618 was appointed by James to the position of [[Lord Chancellor]]. In hi...
38: ...d guilty to bribery charges in order to save King James from a political scandal stated : - Socrates (7975 bytes)
7: ...d by his students, and that he thinks this is the most important art or occupation. According to Arist...
13: Socrates is probably the most influential thinker and philosopher of his time....
37: {{commons|Socrates}}
49: * ''Introduction to Philosophy'', Jacques Maritain - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: ... ([[Phobos (moon)|Phobos]] and [[Deimos (moon)|Deimos]]) which are both small and oddly-shaped, possibl...
8: ...lacks [[ocean]]s). The [[solar day]] on Mars is almost the same length as it is on earth: 24 hours, 39 ...
10: ===Atmosphere===
11: ...[2003]], [[methane]] was also discovered in the atmosphere by Earth-based [[telescope]]s, and possibly ...
13: ...mpanion' gases that may suggest which sources are most likely; in the Earth's oceans biological methane... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and the [[convict]]s of [[Province of G...
11: ...ies"]] would benefit immensely. It was in this atmosphere that [[Christopher Columbus]] left Spain on ...
25: ...after the recently enthroned [[James I of England|James I]] - very nearly became the next in the strin...
27: ...d by the fact that all the initial colonists, and most of the additional colonists, were male. Without ...
29: ...orts of an enigmatic figure named [[John Smith of Jamestown|John Smith]]. Smith made himself the benev... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
6: ...w Command'''" of Jesus (see [[Christian Love]]). Most Christians ( not all see [[Jonadabs]] ) believe ...
14: ...g [[Catholicism]], [[Orthodox Christianity]], and most forms of [[Protestantism]], but not [[Restoratio...
29: ...Seventy Apostles|70]], including [[James the Just|James Adelphos]], Mark, Luke, [[Mary Magdalene]], et...
39: ...nd [[Gentile]] converts who observed the [[Law of Moses]] (including [[circumcision]], dietary restrict...
49: ...hopries as far away as [[India]], [[Java (island)|Java]], and [[China]]. - Allspice (3832 bytes)
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16: '''Allspice''', also called '''Jamaica pepper''', '''Myrtle pepper''', '''Pimento''...
22: ... and 500 su on the [[Scoville scale]] of hotness (most often used for [[chile peppers]])
25: ... that. It is still almost exclusively grown in [[Jamaica]], although some other Central American coun...
28: Allspice is most commonly sold as whole dried fruits or as a powd... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[1969]]
42: Prior to [[World War II]], he was mostly known as a [[tactician]] of [[tank]] battles a...
56:
65: That same day he took the most important decision in his life, and also in the ...
69: ...uths to mouths. To this day it remains one of the most famous speeches in French history. - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
33: ...hat the phenomenon was something in the Earth's atmosphere. Tycho, however, observed that the [[paralla...
38: ...even the nearest stars are much more distant than most astronomers of the time believed possible.
55: ... greater [[altitude]] than the real one, due to atmospheric [[refraction]], and he worked out tables fo...
63: ...l]] alchemy associated with [[Paracelsus]], was almost as long-standing as his study of [[astrology and...
75: ... that Tycho did not die from urinary problems but most likely from [[mercury (element)|mercury]] poison... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
9: ... Jane Colt, who died in [[1511]]. He remarried almost immediately, to a rich widow named Alice Middlet...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive...
27: ...operty|private property]] does not exist and an almost complete [[religious toleration]] in practiced. ...
48: ...itimate head of the church. This testimony was almost certainly false, but on the strength of it the j...
59: ...husiastic persecution of heretics). Biographer [[Jasper Ridley]] goes much further, describing More a... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
21: ...roller-General of Finances 1774–1776) and [[Jacques Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777&n...
35: ...ommittee of Thirty", a body of liberal Parisians, mostly noblemen, began to agitate against this, argui...
42: ...state, now meeting as the ''Communes'' (English: "Commons"), proceed with verification of its own powers an...
55: ...ivil)|pr鶴t]] des marchands'' (roughly, mayor) [[Jacques de Flesselles]] of treachery; his assassinat...
81: ... become clearer. The [[aristocracy|aristocrat]] [[Jacques Antoine Marie Cazal賝] and the abb頛[Jean-... - Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
28: ... are [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]].
30: ... during late May to the beginning of August being most active in the evenings. Females lay their eggs i... - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
19: ...[cooperative fishing]] from the surface. It dines mostly on [[herring]]-like fish. Groups of these bird...
23: ...g|thumb|200px|left|Brown Pelican on the wing in Baja California]]Pesticides like [[DDT]] and [[dieldri...
34: {{commons|Pelecanus occidentalis}} - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
7: ...upper houses of the [[bicameral]] legislatures of most other nations.
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...
81: ...o preside when the vice president is absent. The most powerful person in the Senate is not the preside... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...ted in the Constitution not granted to the House; most significantly, the [[President of the United Sta...
10: ...ed that the second chamber should "consist of the most distinguished characters, distinguished for thei...
12: ...erative body than the House of Representatives. [[James Madison]] described the Senate's purpose as "A...
14: ...ted by the populous North. Sectional conflict was most pronounced over the issue of slavery, and persis...
16: ...senators had long and distinguished careers, with most serving but for a single term. The corruption of...
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