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- Castle (27805 bytes)
8: ...ffensive weapon, but also as a home. Castles were made by their owners for specific purposes, or evolved...
28: ...ch as a mountain pass or river estuary, and often made use of the natural geography to support the defen...
46: ...ayeux Tapestry]], and was then familiar on the mainland of western [[Europe]].
50: ...it was possible to construct castles of this type made them characteristic of the Conquest period in [[E...
52: ...where they found a natural rock stronghold which only needed adaptation, as at Clifford, Ludlow, the P... - Tree (23723 bytes)
11: ...rous]] Period; tree ferns still survive, but the only surviving horsetails are not of tree form. Later...
16: ...od]] consists of ''xylem'' cells, and [[bark]] is made of ''phloem'' and other tissues external to the v...
18: ... immediately under the bark. Endogenous trees, mainly in the [[monocotyledon]]s (e.g. [[palm tree|palm...
20: ...th ring]]s. In temperate climates, these are commonly visible due to changes in the rate of growth wit...
22: ...he branches optimizes exposure of the leaves to sunlight. - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
40: ...Sarracenia'' is the pitcher plant genus most commonly encountered in cultivation, and
104: bending 180° in only a minute or so. Sundews are extremely cosmopolit...
105: ...e continents except the [[Antarctica|Antarctic mainland]]. They are probably at their
125: There are only two snap-traps, which are believed to have had a...
162: ...ge:Genlisearepens1web.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''[[Genlisea]]'': carnivorous plants still need to attract... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
18: ... died before doing so, and Francis was left with only a fifth of that money. Having started with insu...
29: In 1596 he was made a Queen's Counsel, but missed the appointment of ...
35: ...rerogative, while retaining the confidence of the Commons. In 1613, Bacon was finally able to become attorn...
37: ... 23 counts; and so clear was the evidence that he made no attempt at defence. To the lords, who sent a c...
51: ...r will toward the good. No universal rules can be made, as both situations and men's characters differ. - Socrates (7975 bytes)
7: ...is time engaged in conversation. However, it is unlikely that Socrates was able to live off of family...
11: ... led Socrates to the conclusion that he was wise only in so far as he ''knew'' he knew nothing and str...
25: :''False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul wit...
27: ... rest of your lives you might continue sleeping, unless the god caring for you should send you another...
29: ...ne and healing, to whom such a sacrifice might be made upon the curing of a disease.) - Mars (27704 bytes)
8: ... a quarter the surface area of the [[Earth]] and only one-tenth the [[mass]] (though its surface area ...
11: ... is thin: the [[air pressure]] on the surface is only 750 [[pascal]]s, about 0.75 percent of the avera...
13: ...istributed in the atmosphere. Plans are now being made to look for other 'companion' gases that may sugg...
22: ... mineral [[goethite]], which (unlike hematite) ''only'' forms in the presence of water, along with oth...
31: ...[[Mount Everest]] and the [[Mariana Trench]]) is only 19.7 km. Combined with the planets' different ra... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
16: England made its first successful efforts at the start of the ...
22: ...nd, found no trace of the colonists, discovering only the mysterious word "CROATOAN" carved on a tree....
29: ...med [[John Smith of Jamestown|John Smith]]. Smith made himself the benevolent, if uncompromising, autocr...
37: ...]]s out of the far-flung tobacco planters. Thus, unlike in [[Puritanism|Puritan]] New England, there w...
49: ... later relocated to [[Plymouth Colony]] on the mainland, establishing that settlement on [[December 21... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
14: ...generally believe that faith in [[Jesus]] is the only way to achieve salvation and to enter into [[hea...
45: ... organization the Christian church had to deal mainly with occasional, but sometimes severe persecutio...
47: ...re paganism to the empire; Christianity was later made the officially favored religion in about [[382]] ...
54: This was only the first of several [[ecumenical council|ecumen...
56: ...the [[Middle East]], parts of [[Africa]], and had made some small inroads into the [[Far East]] as well.... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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50: .... Alive, he was taken prisoner by the Germans. He made five unsuccessful escape attempts, and was put in...
59: At the outbreak of World War II, de Gaulle was only a [[colonel]], having encountered hostility from...
61: ...n armour to retreat at [[Caumont]]. This was the only significant tactical success the French gained a...
69: ...ure the spirit of de Gaulle's position. Although only few people actually heard the speech that night ... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
16: ... accuracy obtainable. He was able to improve and enlarge the existing instruments, and construct entir...
18: ... his life, he was said to have worn a replacement made of [[silver]] and [[gold]]. Tycho's tomb was reo...
27: ...a nobleman and a commoner woman lived together openly as husband and wife, and she wore the keys to th...
53: ...philosophy and Scripture, and could be discussed only as a computational convenience that had no conne...
60: ...ications on the principle that the [[planets|heavenly bodies]] undoubtedly influenced (yet did not det... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
12: ... Roman Emperor|Charles V]], More was knighted and made undertreasurer in [[1521]]. As secretary and per...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive...
27: ...g controversial political matters freely. It is unlikely that More, a devout and conservative Christi...
36: ...mbrace the Protestant teaching that the Pope was only the [[Bishop of Rome]] and therefore had no auth...
39: ...that the marriage of Henry to Catherine had been unlawful. But as Henry began to deny the authority o... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
8: ...d come under the influence of the ideas of [[the Enlightenment]]. As the revolution proceeded and as p...
10: Certainly, causes of the revolution must include all of th...
14: * The rise of [[the Enlightenment|enlightenment]] ideals.
25: ... refused to endorse his measures, insisting that only a truly representative body — preferably t...
27: ...sed his position not to propose new reforms, but only to prepare for the meeting of the nation's repre... - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
7: ...f the federal government. The Congress, however, only possesses those powers enumerated in the Constit...
15: ...wo-year terms from [[Congressional district]]s. Only the non-voting delegate from Puerto Rico (known ...
17: ...e Canadian House of Commons, the British House of Commons, and the German [[Bundestag]], approximately 15 p...
33: ...nature. In that event, a [[conference committee]] made up of members from both houses must work out a co...
64: ... a judge or court before being imprisoned —unless necessary in time of rebellion or invasion - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
4: ...t of the [[Connecticut Compromise]], a compromise made at the [[History of the United States Constitutio...
25: ...olutions censuring members; [[censure]] requires only a simple majority and does not remove a senator ...
30: ...ittees, and have more staffers. The prestige commonly associated with the Senate is reflected by the b...
42: ...presides over very few Senate debates, attending only on important ceremonial occasions (such as the s...
52: Senate procedure depends not only on the rules, but also on a variety of customs a... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
39: ... were primarily developed for the track and later made their way to the showroom. The FIA, due to compla...
45: ...sed the poorer independent teams to struggle not only to remain competitive, but to stay in business. ...
53: ...one]] tires (Ferrari, Jordan and Minardi are the only teams that don't use [[Michelin]]). Fernando Alo...
72: ...and [[NASCAR]]. In its early years, F1 teams commonly constructed their engines as well. It has since ...
74: ...], purchase their engines from larger teams. The only remaining commercial engine-manufacturer is [[Co... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...Computer program|programming]]) a computer can be made to represent some aspect of a problem or part of ...
14: ...d into mathematical ones). This basic idea, which made modern ''digital'' computers possible, was formal...
20: ...standing the important idea that the computer is only a machine, and cannot "think" or "understand" th...
29: ...d afford them and were considered so exotic that only a handful would ever be required to satisfy glob...
51: ... such as [[differential analyzer]]s, are not commonly included in such lists. Other classification sch... - Ship (18843 bytes)
27: ...t safety and waste disposal. It has become usual only in large [[aircraft carrier]]s and in [[submarin...
30: ...on]]s or [[flotilla]]s. [[Convoy]]s of ships commonly occur.
52: ...zontal surfaces in the ship's general structure. Unlike flats, they are a structural part of the ship.
117: ...with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost.
118: ...g vessel with three or more masts, square-rigged only on the foremast. - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
31: ...tion. It is a [[consolidated city-county]] (the only one in California) situated at the northern tip ...
62: ... it rats infected with [[bubonic plague]]. Mistakenly believing that interred corpses contributed to t...
66: ... remain, whose 30,000 deceased residents are the only permitted within the city to this day.
71: ... [[World War II]], San Francisco was the major mainland supply point and port of embarkation for the w...
81: ...t is that the [[Church Of Satan]] was founded and made its headquarters in San Francisco in [[1966]]. - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
17: [[image:ac.parthenon4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Only a few sculptures remain on the Parthenon.]]
19: ...es both internally and externally. These survive only in part, but there are good descriptions of most...
27: ...igion for close to a thousand years. It was certainly still intact in the 4th century AD, by which tim...
33: ...ny fell to the ground and their pieces were later made souvenirs. After this the building fell into disu...
45: ... the Greek government and the city of Athens have made some progress on these issues, but the future of ... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
13: ...he Marius party through family connections. Not only was he Marius' nephew, he was also married to Co...
30: ...ws which were designed to grant Pompey the Great unlimited powers in dealing with Cilician Pirates in ...
32: ...ung Senator, and Crassus’ support certainly made it an achievable task for Caesar. All the while, ...
40: [[63 BC]] was an especially difficult year, not only for Caesar, but for the [[Roman Republic]] itsel...
44: ...aesar to miss his chance to run for Consul and he made a fateful decision. In the summer of 60 BC, Caesa...
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