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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
13: Achieving orbit is a prerequisite for going anywhere else, such as to the ...
24: ...tioned in December 1990. The agency is led by its president, who reports to the Minister of Industry.
47: On [[July 29]], [[1958]], President Eisenhower signed the [[National Aeronautic...
194: {{Commons|Category:Space exploration}} - Cave (10592 bytes)
25: ...anywhere with rock which is soluble, and are most prevalent in [[limestone]], but can also form in othe...
35: ...alcium carbonate formations produced through slow precipitation, including the most common and well-kno...
60: ...ouclier]] cave in [[France]] (1733m) and the [[Lamprechtsofen Vogelschacht]] Weg Schacht in [[Austria]]...
73: ...For the less adventurous, a number of the world's prettier and more accessible caves have been converte...
76: {{Commons|Cave|Cave}} - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...><small>Emblem of the [[Palaeologus]] dynasty, as preserved today at the entrance of the Ecumenical Pat...
51: ...istory without drawing attention to their ancient presecessors. Standardization of the term did not occ...
53: ...us who was motivated, at least partly, to re-interpret Roman history in different terms. Nevertheless, ...
96: ...nks to the efforts of [[Byzantine Empress Irene|Empress Irene]], the [[Second Council of Nicaea]] met i...
100: ...]. During these years the Empire held out against pressure from the Roman church to remove Patriarch [[... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...y in Britain it has also referred to [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] [[earthworks (engineering)|earthworks]]...
12: ...ose defensive look was probably built merely to impress, and inside the castle is geared towards family...
17: ...man lords constructed castles across England to impress, control and conquer. During the [[Investiture ...
48: ...nd by these strongholds subdue their equals and oppress their inferiors. They heap up a mound as high a...
52: ...tadel, and the latter the walled enclosure, which preserved more strictly the meaning of the Roman cast... - Tree (23723 bytes)
48: # [[Taxodium|Montezuma Cypress]] ''Taxodium mucronatum'': '''11.42 m''', [[�...
60: ...third or fourth place, and [[Taxodium|Montezuma Cypress]] ''Taxodium mucronatum'' is also likely to be ...
67: # [[Alerce]] ''Fitzroya cupressoides'': 3622 years
212: ...]], or "dodo tree", ''Sideroxylon grandiflorum'', previously ''Calvaria major''
245: * [[Cupressaceae]] ([[Cypress]] family) - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...balloon', and the colourless patches that confude prey trapped inside ]]A '''carnivorous plant''' is a ...
13: *Pitfall traps ([[pitcher plant]]s), which trap prey in a rolled leaf that contains a pool of digesti...
14: *Flypaper traps, which trap prey using a sticky mucilage;
15: *Snap traps, which trap prey with rapid leaf movements;
16: *Bladder traps, which suck in prey with a bladder that generates an internal vacuum... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
12: ... he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him ...
21: ...ountry, and service to the church. Knowing that a prestigious post would aid him toward these ends, in ...
25: .... To console him for these disappointments Essex presented him with a property at Twickenham, which he...
29: ...he showed an ungrateful and indecent eagerness in pressing the case against his former friend and benef...
33: ...he enjoyment of a large income; but old debts and present extravagance kept him embarrassed, and he end... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
11: According to the version of his defense speech presented in Plato's ''Apology'', Socrates' life as t...
37: {{commons|Socrates}}
50: .... M. Hare, and Jonathan Barnes, Oxford University Press, NY, 1998.
51: ...y short introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: ...haped, possibly being captured [[asteroid]]s. The prefix '''areo-''' refers to Mars.
6: ...row pointing out from behind it), is a stylized representation of the god [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]]' sh...
11: ...n [[March 2004]] by the [[Mars Express Orbiter]], present measurements state a average methane concetra...
13: ...s that it is being rapidly broken down (and so is presumably also continually being released to the atm...
15: ... cloud]]s [http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20041213a/merb_sol290_clouds-B313R1... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ...sh]] government on issues of [[taxation]] and [[representation]].
13: ... The lands that now make up the [[United States]] presented themselves as an attractive place for these...
35: ...s were abundant, this allowed the plantations to spread out. Thus, individual workers on the plantation...
37: ...e Chesapeake region was that Virginia society was predominantly secular. The lucrative tobacco business...
56: ...inomianism]], her conviction that everyone's interpretation of the word of God was equally correct. Lik... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
27: ...l. According to Christians, the [[Old Testament]] predicted the death and humiliation of Jesus as recor...
29: ...d that Jesus rose from the dead, and set out to [[preach]] the new message. The original apostles may h...
34: ...thys]], a symbol of Christianity.]] Christianity spread rapidly over the first three centuries aided by...
39: ...t the central message of Christianity could be re-presented in ways more appropriate for Gentiles. Both...
47: ...r with Rome, the Christians struggled under the oppresive [[Sassanid|Sassanids]], who tried to revive t... - Allspice (3832 bytes)
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31: ... can also an ingredient in commercial [[sausage]] preparations and [[curry powder]]s. Allspice is comm... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ''This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airpo...
10: | [[President of France]]
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42: ...>1</sup> and was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] from [[1958]] to [[1969]]. His [[Ideology...
45: ...ereas his mother's side was a family of rich entrepreneurs from the industrial region of Lille in [[Fre... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...urposes of [[publication]], he owned a [[printing press]] and [[paper mill]]. His best known assistant ...
12: ...ly the fact that it had been predicted, that so impressed him that he began to make his own studies of ...
33: ...ns of the astronomical appearance, writing in the preface to ''De Stella Nova'': "''O crassa ingenia. O...
43: ...y|Frederick II]] of [[Denmark]] and [[Norway]], impressed with Tycho's 1572 observations, financed the ...
47: ...s; [[weather]] forecasting; and astrological interpretations of significant astronomical events such as... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ... VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s claim to be the supreme head of the [[Church of England]], a decision w...
9: ...n, but More raised as his own her daughter by her previous husband. More provided his daughters with ...
14: ... British House of Commons|Speaker of the House of Commons]]. He later served as high steward for the unive...
34: ...on]], daughter of the Spanish king, as a means of preserving the English alliance with [[Spain]]. At t...
39: ... fully devoted to Henry and to the cause of royal prerogative, initially cooperated with the king's new... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...ance in the popular imagination. It downplays the previous trend of absolutism and people as subjects a...
25: ...ing that only a truly representative body — preferably the [[Estates-General]] of the Kingdom, co...
27: ...only to prepare for the meeting of the nation's representatives.
33: ... 1614 Estates had consisted of equal numbers of representatives of each estate, and voting had been by ...
35: ...an by provinces — need be determined by the precedent of 1614. Necker, speaking for the governme... - Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
28: ... are [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]].
30: ...ok like the horns of a cervus. The Stag beetle is predated on by [[magpie]]s, [[badger (animal)|badger]... - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
34: {{commons|Pelecanus occidentalis}} - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
3: ...United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] (the "[[Lower House]]") and the [[Uni...
5: ...In the Senate, on the other hand, each state is represented by two members, regardless of population. A...
7: ...rned, the Senate is fully equal to the House of Representatives. The Senate is not a mere "chamber of r...
13: ...e to serve six-year terms. Each state has equal representation in the Senate because at the Constitutio...
15: ...United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] currently has 435 seats for voting Me... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...gnificantly, the [[President of the United States|President]] must ratify treaties and make important a...
4: ...) are more extensive than those of the House of Representatives (the "[[lower house]]").
6: ...ton, D.C.]], the national capital. The House of Representatives convenes in the south wing of the same ...
10: ...unicameral body in which each state was equally represented. The inefficacy of the federal government u...
12: ...torial saucer to cool it (from the The House of Representatives)". <!--Sources are in references sectio...
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