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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...nd important aspects of space exploration was the landing of the first man on the moon in the [[space ...
6: ...ville, Alabama]] next to [[Redstone Arsenal]] displays many articles of space hardware, including a fu...
11: ...rth's surface. The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
13: ... Race]] between the two superpowers. Soviet dog [[Laika]] became the first animal in orbit on [[Novemb...
15: ...[[2004]] when [[Civilian Space eXploration Team]] launched the [[GoFast Rocket]] on a suborbital fligh... - Cave (10592 bytes)
2: [[image:Lavacaveexit.jpg|thumb|300px|The outside world viewe...
3: ... of it will not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like cli...
10: ...e at Craters of the Moon NM-750px.JPG|thumb|300px|Lava tube cave at [[Craters of the Moon National Mon...
11: ... and the surface cools down and becomes hard. The lava now flows inside its crust, until the eruption ...
12: The liquid lava inside the crust flows out and leaves a hollow ... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
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7: ...ne eagle.JPG|280px]]<br/><small>Emblem of the [[Palaeologus]] dynasty, as preserved today at the entra...
27: ...wing decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
29: | [[730]]-[[787]]; [[813]]-[[843]] || Iconoclasm controversies. This results in the loss of mos... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: A '''castle''' (from the [[Latin]] ''castellum'', diminutive of ''castra'', a m...
2: ...into pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15th century, their "castle" designations, reli...
5: ...e Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
7: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]].
10: ...e places of protection from an invading enemy, a place of retreat. This can be seen by many of the typ... - Tree (23723 bytes)
2: [[Image:coastredwood.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The [[conifer]]ous [[Coast Redwood]], the talle...
3: ...hrub]] for comparison). Compared with most other plant forms, trees are long-lived. A few species of t...
5: ... [[orchard]] crops (e.g. [[apple]]s). Trees also play an important role in many of the world's [[mytho...
7: ==Classifications==
8: [[Image:Raunkiaer.jpg|250px|right|thumb|An [[oak]] tree in [[Denmark]]]] - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...rapped inside ]]A '''carnivorous plant''' is a [[plant]] that derives some or most of its
3: ...[insect]]s and other [[arthropod]]s. Carnivorous plants usually
4: grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients,
6: ...ote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
10: ...sic trapping mechanisms exploited by carnivorous plants. These - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
1: [[image:Francis_Bacon.jpg|thumb|250px|Sir Francis Bacon]]
2: ...He was knighted in [[1603]], created '''Baron Verulam''' in [[1618]], and created '''Viscount St Alban...
4: ...entific revolution]]. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for [[science|scient...
8: ...Ann Cooke Bacon]] was the second wife of Sir Nicholas, a member of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church,...
10: ...y years, and that his health during that time, as later, was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, C... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
1: [[image:socrates.png|thumb|250px|right|Socrates]]
2: ... BC|470]] – [[May 7]], [[399 BC]]) ([[Greek language|Greek]] {{polytonic|Σωκ&r...
5: ...f Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] that Socrates was decorated f...
7: ...scientific institute with his friend Chaerophon; Plato has Socrates tell us that he once spent all of ...
11: ...o the version of his defense speech presented in Plato's ''Apology'', Socrates' life as the "gadfly" o... - Mars (27704 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mars.jpg|thumb|right|Mars, with polar ice caps visible.]]
2: ...rs NPArea-PIA00161 modest.jpg|thumb|right|North Polar region with icecap. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.)...
4: ...This feature also earned it the name of "the Red Planet." Mars has two [[Natural satellite|moon]]s ([[...
8: ... dry land because Mars lacks [[ocean]]s). The [[solar day]] on Mars is almost the same length as it is...
11: ...hin: the [[air pressure]] on the surface is only 750 [[pascal]]s, about 0.75 percent of the average on... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...ania|Pennsylvania]], the [[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Vir...
4: ...atter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different colonies foun...
9: ...ion and colonization in many ways. A revival in classical learning sparked an interest in [[geography...
11: ...pon were found to belong to an entirely different landmass. [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] quickly mounte...
13: ...sh colonies. Though these northerly lands were relatively close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had tak... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
2: '''Christianity''' is the world's largest religion. It is based on the life and teachi...
6: ...is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] translation for "Messiah". The word ''[[Christian]]'' mea...
9: #[[Roman Catholicism]] (the largest single denomination, with over one billion a...
12: ...billion followers or about 33% of the world's population.
23: ... was called the "King of the Jews" by [[Pontius Pilate]] (John 19:19–22; see Luke 16:8) on the [... - Allspice (3832 bytes)
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6: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicots | Magnoliopsida ]]}} - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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45: ... from the industrial region of Lille in [[French Flanders]]. Born in [[Lille]], de Gaulle grew up and ... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ...His twin brother was [[stillborn]] (Tycho wrote a Latin ode (Wittendorf 1994, p. 68) to his dead twin ...
10: ...stle to which they moved, and where Tycho began a Latin education until he was 12 years old.
12: ...e]] which occurred on August 21, [[1560]], particularly the fact that it had been predicted, that so i...
14: ''I've studied all available charts of the planets and stars and none of them match the others. ...
16: ...ycho's naked eye measurements of planetary [[parallax]] were accurate to the [[arcminute]]. (These mea... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: [[Image:Thomas More.png|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Ha...
2: ...hich he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and politicians.
5: ...admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ...f wearing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [[flagellation]].
9: ... More provided his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was ... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...ons in France in the popular imagination. It downplays the previous trend of absolutism and people as ...
8: ...d and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these in...
17: ...nce in public life by the ambitious professional classes.
20: [[Image:Taking of the Bastille.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The storming of the Bastille, July 14 178...
21: ...onsistent resistance from the ''[[parlement]]s'' (law courts), dominated by the "Robe Nobility," which... - Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
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11: {{Taxobox_infraclassis_entry | taxon = [[Neoptera]]}}
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17: ...ome immature birds may stray to inland freshwater lakes. After nesting, [[North America]]n birds move ...
21: ... tree. These birds nest in colonies, usually on islands. - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
3: ...rs. Congress is a [[bicameralism|bicameral]] legislature, consisting of the [[United States House of R...
5: ... is represented by two members, regardless of population. As there are fifty states in the Union, the ...
7: ...e with the upper houses of the [[bicameral]] legislatures of most other nations.
10: [[Image:Uscapitolindaylight.jpg|thumb|350px|right|United States Capitol]]
13: ...mbers are elected from each [[U.S. state]] by popular vote to serve six-year terms. Each state has equ... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...ess partisan atmosphere that is somewhat more insulated from public opinion than the House. The Senate...
4: ... both houses is necessary for the passage of legislation. The exclusive powers enumerated to the Senat...
10: ...ish Parliament]]). For example, [[John Dickinson (lawyer)|John Dickinson]] argued that the second cham...
12: ... question by Thomas Jefferson, said "we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it (from t...
14: ...The ensuing years of [[Reconstruction]] witnessed large majorities for the [[United States Republican ...
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