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- 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...
35: ...rerogative, while retaining the confidence of the Commons. In 1613, Bacon was finally able to become attorn...
107: ...t.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/bacon_francis.html Online editions of Bacon's works] - 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...
37: {{commons|Socrates}} - 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...
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...
44: ... belief by some that life existed on Mars, due mainly to observations by [[Percival Lowell]] of [[Mart... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
22: ...nd, found no trace of the colonists, discovering only the mysterious word "CROATOAN" carved on a tree....
29: ... a harvest, named the winter the Starving Times. Only a third of the colonists survived the first wint...
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...
51: ...ing of [[1621]]. Later that year, the colonists enlisted the aid of [[Squanto]] and [[Samoset]], two ... - 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...
54: This was only the first of several [[ecumenical council|ecumen...
58: ...us Christus]]'' (Christ alone—is Jesus the only mediator between humanity and God, or do the Chu...
62: ... governed by avowed [[atheism|atheist]]s, though only [[Albania]] was officially atheistic. Adherents ... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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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 ...
75: ...his partners in the war. "France has no friends, only interests" is one of his best-remembered stateme... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
16: ... accuracy obtainable. He was able to improve and enlarge the existing instruments, and construct entir...
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...
65: ...n the grounds of correspondences between the heavenly bodies, terrestrial substances (metals, stones e... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
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...
48: ...d of the church. This testimony was almost certainly false, but on the strength of it the jury voted ... - 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...
64: ... a judge or court before being imprisoned —unless necessary in time of rebellion or invasion
65: * Pass laws that condemn persons for crimes or unlawful acts without a trial ([[attainder]]) - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
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...
54: ...Senate, a quorum is always assumed to be present unless a [[quorum call]] explicitly demonstrates othe... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
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...
76: ...eted in [[1950]], and during the [[2004]] season only ten teams remained on the grid, each fielding tw... - Computer (32773 bytes)
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...
56: ...mplementation technologies is not exhaustive; it only covers the mainstream of development. Historical...
73: ... Originally [[computer storage|memory]] was used only for intermediate values but in the [[1940s]] it ... - 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...
85: ... [[Dan White]], murdered San Francisco's first openly gay elected official, Supervisor [[Harvey Milk]]... - 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...
50: ...some scholars have argued that the Parthenon was only ''used'' as a treasury. While this opinion was f...
66: {{commons|Parthenon}} - 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: ...a young Senator, and Crassus’ support certainly made it an achievable task for Caesar. All the w...
40: [[63 BC]] was an especially difficult year, not only for Caesar, but for the [[Roman Republic]] itsel...
49: ...d to Pompey’s veterans. Doing so would not only alleviate the problem of the unemployed mob in R... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
20: ...is' niece and third wife. Of these six children, only Adolf and his younger sister [[Paula Hitler|Paul...
37: ...World War I]] in August [[1914]], he immediately enlisted in the [[Bavaria]]n army.
45: ...efers to Hitler's experience at the front as his only education and suggests he did have at least some...
52: ...he war, Hitler remained in the army, which was mainly engaged in suppressing [[socialist]] uprisings b...
62: ...cle into a propaganda stunt. Hitler was allotted unlimited amounts of time to present his arguments to... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ... use of local [[militia]]. Militiamen served for only a few weeks or months at a time, were generally ...
23: ...er shortages, Washington lifted the ban on black enlistment in the Continental Army in January 1777. A...
59: ... and [[Manhattan]], thus allowing Howe to engage only one half of the American army at a time.
71: ...it for duty, and would be reduced to 1,400 after enlistments expired at the end of the year. Spirits w...
97: ...-the-scenes maneuvering, laid the whole matter openly before Congress. His supporters rallied behind h... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
37: ...ved in this area for perhaps thousands of years. Unlike the settlers that would eventually make Sacram...
56: ...rojects were funded though taxes levied on goods unloaded from boats and loaded onto rail cars in the ...
103: ... a result, the greater metropolitan area sprawls only four miles west of downtown (as [[West Sacrament...
125: ...a usually has low humidity. Rain generally falls only between November and March, with the rainy seaso...
135: Alkali Flat, Boulevard Park, Campus Commons, CSUS, Dos Rios Triangle, Downtown, East Sacramen...
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