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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
6: ...e Shuttle Enterprise]], a Concorde and scores of aircraft. The [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] museum in...
15: ...aunch of an object into space. The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn s...
19: ...[[1994]], directs one of the youngest space programs. Brazil's space program is the most advanced in S...
40: ... satellite Launch Vehicle). Most of ISRO's programs are geared towards nation building, though there ...
53: ...al space research, construction, and launch programs. Launches are conducted in Kazakhstan, Russia, a... - Cave (10592 bytes)
28: <!-- nothing to do with speleothems, which can be in any size passage -->
42: ...gdom|UK]] etc.). It is likely that many more systems remain to be discovered, especially in [[China]],...
45: ...e authors use separate terminology for aquatic forms (i.e., [[stygobite]]s, [[stygophile]]s, [[stygoxe...
47: ...obites are among the most extraordinary of organisms. Troglobitic species often show a suite of chara...
69: ... shelter, burial, or as religious sites. Since items placed in caves are protected from the climate an... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
46: ...letian]] (284-305) due to the administrative reforms he introduced, dividing the empire into a ''pars ...
51: ...ontesquieu]] began to popularize it. Hieronymus himself was influenced by the rift caused by the 9th c...
53: ...ly, to re-interpret Roman history in different terms. Nevertheless, this was not intended in a demeani...
61: Byzantines identified themselves as Ρωμαίοι...
63: ...oman occupation]] Greeks continued to identify themselves as both Ρωμαίο... - Castle (27805 bytes)
17: ...ed as local warlords staked claims to minor kingdoms from behind newly-built castles.
42: ...f [[catapults]], [[siege engines]], [[battering rams]] and later [[mortar (weapon)|mortar]] and [[cann...
46: ...crob]]. The essential feature of this type was a circular mound of earth surrounded by a dry ditch and ...
48: ...ing much given to feuds and bloodshed, fortify themselves ... and by these strongholds subdue their eq...
61: ...re vulnerable than a uniform curved surface. Château Gaillard fell to [[Philip Augustus]] in [[12... - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ...or comparison). Compared with most other plant forms, trees are long-lived. A few species of trees gro...
16: ...ranch]]es, [[twig]]s and [[leaf|leaves]]. Tree stems consist mainly of support and transport tissues (...
18: ...ly in the [[monocotyledon]]s (e.g. [[palm tree|palms]]), grow by addition of new material inwards.
30: ...f 5% to 15% above the real height. Historical claims of trees of 114 m, 117 m, 130 m, and even 150 m, ...
38: ...round the trunk, and pulling it taut to find the circumference. Despite this, U.K. tree author [[Alan M... - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
8: ==Trapping mechanisms==
10: There are five basic trapping mechanisms exploited by carnivorous plants. These
54: the balloon, and once inside, tire themselves out trying to escape from these false
76: ...ficiency of the traps by intoxicating the prey items.
167: ...e prey to move in a particular direction. Prey items entering the spiral entrance that - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
18: ...money and became habitually in debt. To support himself, he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn...
21: ...wo years he worked quietly at Gray's Inn giving himself seriously to the study of law, until admitted ...
23: ...on of Mary Queen of Scots. About this time he seems again to have approached his powerful uncle, the ...
31: ...as knighted in [[1603]], and endeavoured to set himself right with the new powers by writing his ''Apo...
35: ...rerogative, while retaining the confidence of the Commons. In 1613, Bacon was finally able to become attorn... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...all time), she was considered a shrew. Socrates himself attested that he, having learned to live with ...
25: :''False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.'' (''Ph...
27: ...g arousing by some gadfly; in this way the god seems to have fastened me on the city, some such one wh...
37: {{commons|Socrates}} - Mars (27704 bytes)
6: Its symbol, ♂ (a circle with a small arrow pointing out from behind it)...
20: ...50_eng_02mar04.jpg|thumb|left|Microscopic rock forms indicating past signs of water taken by ''[[Oppor...
22: ...[[goethite]], which (unlike hematite) ''only'' forms in the presence of water, along with other eviden...
29: ...er, uncovering a surface of layered rocks, and forms again in winter. An extinct [[shield volcano|shie...
41: ... and [[Johann Heinrich M䤬er]] selected a small circular feature as a reference point when they produc... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ...18th century]], these different colonies found themselves more closely united than ever before, at odd...
13: ...at now make up the [[United States]] presented themselves as an attractive place for these new powers ...
22: ... resupply ship, delayed for several years by circumstances in England, found no trace of the colonists...
29: ...ohn Smith of Jamestown|John Smith]]. Smith made himself the benevolent, if uncompromising, autocrat of...
44: ...the [[Church of England]]. But whereas the Pilgrims sought to leave the Church of England, the Purita... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
14: ...olicism]], [[Orthodox Christianity]], and most forms of [[Protestantism]], but not [[Restorationism]])...
23: ...esus was a descendant of [[Judah]] who declared himself to be the long awaited [[Messiah]] ([[Gospel o...
39: ...s who observed the [[Law of Moses]] (including [[circumcision]], dietary restrictions and the concept o...
41: ... great writers of Christianity, [[Tertullian]], sums this up in a rhetorical address to a Roman govern...
64: ...ons of the [[Bible]] and other forces led to schisms in Christianity over the millennia, but all branc... - Allspice (3832 bytes)
3: <!-- If you add picture, put it in the commons with name Pimenta dioica.jpg --> - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
47: ...ced itself from the more conservative natonalist circles and supported [[Alfred Dreyfus]].
52: ...land|Polish army]]. He fought and distinguished himself in fighting near the river [[Zbrucz]] and rece...
146: But de Gaulle offered to accept some of the reforms the demonstrators sought. He again considered a r...
220: ...nt Casanova]] - Minister of Veterans and War Victims
240: ...nd Michelet]] - Minister of Veterand and War Victims - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
28: ... could not inherit their father's name, coat of arms, or landed property. (Skautrup 1941, pp. 24-5)
53: Tycho himself was not a Copernican, but proposed a system in...
57: ...on trigonometric identities that predated logarithms.
65: ...]] and [[astrology]] together with a pair of emblems bearing the mottoes: ''Despiciendo suspicio'' - "...
75: ...is hair and hair-roots. Tycho may have poisoned himself unintentionally by imbibing some mercury-conta... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
7: ...[Franciscan]] order. Perhaps because he judged himself incapable of [[celibacy]], More finally decide...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive...
39: ...gan to deny the authority of the Pope, More's qualms grew.
53: ... death, and the dignity with which he conducted himself during his imprisonment, trial, and execution,... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
21: ...), dominated by the "Robe Nobility," which saw themselves as the nation's guardians against despotism,...
25: ...prove new taxes. The King, seeing that Calonne himself was now a liability, dismissed him and replace...
27: ...es. He used his position not to propose new reforms, but only to prepare for the meeting of the natio...
33: ...agistrates were not specifically aware of the "forms of 1614" when they made this decision, this provo...
35: ...y head was left for the meeting of the Estates themselves. But the resentments brought forward by the... - Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
28: ... are [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]]. - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
34: {{commons|Pelecanus occidentalis}} - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
5: ...aggered so that approximately one-third of the terms expire every two years.
13: ...te in at least one house of Congress. Because terms are staggered, every state will have a ''junior''...
15: ...] by [[first past the post]] to serve two-year terms from [[Congressional district]]s. Only the non-v...
17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
133: ...legislation to members, and individual members themselves may initiate bills. After introduction, bill... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...Senate is smaller and its members serve longer terms, allowing for a more collegiate and less partisan...
23: ...lection every two years. The staggering of the terms is arranged such that both seats from a given sta...
30: ...wer of them, and because they serve for longer terms, represent larger constituencies (except for Hous...
46: ...ndle routine police work, while the Sergeant-at-Arms main deals with administrative oversight of techn...
50: ...ndred desks are arranged in the Chamber in a semicircular pattern; the desks are divided by a wide cent...
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