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- Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...d as "ukelele", a spelling stilll used in Great Britain. The [[Hawaiian language|Hawai'ian]] spelling...
3: ...nt built in the city of [[Braga]] and named after it; the [[Brazil]]ian [[cavaquinho]] is usually tune...
5: ...nha Meets the Ukulele" returned to the ukulele to its ancestral home of Madeira Island off the coast o...
9: ...ncert, [[tenor]] (created in the 1920s), and [[baritone]] (created in the 1940s).
11: ... tuning is still used today by some known personalities in ukulele circles. - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
5: ...Robert A. Hatch of the University of Florida puts it:
7: ...reconciling dates in the Egyptian calendar with attested dates in other calendaric systems, for example,...
9: ...of these questions while others may last for eternity.
13: ...ulers and even overlapping dynasties. The possibility of a calendar reform called ''Menophres Era'' ma...
15: ...d important article has observed that Theon explicitly stated, and [[Al-Biruni]] supported him, that t... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
7: ...tes or even several whole chronologies as possibilities. Consequently, there may be discrepancies betw...
9: ...gy” that is quoted by [[David Rohl]] in ''A Test of Time'' (1995, Century).
15: ...Predynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic...
17: * The dates of Dynasties 11 to 20 are from Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relati...
18: * The dates of Dynasties 21 to 26 are from Kitchen, ''Third Intermediate Period in Egypt'' (1973... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ... the north, the [[Red Sea]] to the northeast, [[Eritrea]] and [[Ethiopia]] to the east, [[Kenya]] and ...
16: capital = [[Khartoum]] |
18: government_type = [[Authoritarian]] [[regime]] |
19: leader_titles = [[List of Presidents of Sudan|Pre...
21: largest_city = [[Khartoum]] | - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ... as Number One in its list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
4: ...he start of what has become statistically the greatest sports dynasty in history, the [[New York Yankees...
9: ... countless hours on hitting, fielding and later, pitching.
10: ...pg|thumb|right|400px|Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding up bat, in baseb...
12: ...atthias promptly switched George from catcher to pitcher to teach him a lesson. But, instead of gettin... - Florida (24937 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]] ...
10: LargestCity = [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]] |
21: DensityRank = 8<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 114.43 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 27<sup>th</sup> | - Nevada (17565 bytes)
9: ... Capital = [[Carson City, Nevada|Carson City]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]] |
21: DensityRank = 43<sup>rd</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 7.03 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 36th | - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
2: ...[Tyrannosaurus rex|T. Rex]]'' from the <br /> [[United States Department of the Interior|U.S. Departme...
7: ...y | taxon = '''Dinosauria'''}}<br>{{Taxobox_authority | author = [[Richard Owen|Owen]] | date = [[1842...
13: [[Ornithischia]]<br/>
16: ...zed [[bone]]s, [[feces]], [[trackway]]s, [[gastrolith]]s, [[feather]]s, impressions of skin and intern...
20: ..., with major new discoveries in previously unexploited regions, including [[South America]], [[Madagas... - Hoover (912 bytes)
3: ...]], [[mining]] [[engineer]], [[President of the United States]]
5: *[[Bob Hoover]], legendary [[airshow]] and test pilot, author
6: *[[Brooks Robinson]], [[United States|U.S.]] [[baseball]] player who acquired ...
7: ...oover]], inventor of the computerized telephone switching system.
16: ...blic policy]] [[think tank]] at [[Stanford University]] - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...on the moon in the [[space race]] between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].
4: ...that would be done. During the [[20th century]], with the development of adequate propulsion technolog...
10: ==Orbiting and reaching space==
11: .... The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
13: ...n orbit on [[November 3]], [[1957]]. The first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vostok 1]], ... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
1: ...ruce McCandless II]] using a manned maneuvering unit. Picture courtesy NASA]]
3: ...from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationality|32 countries]] have gone into space.
7: ...d by the [[Russian Aviation and Space Agency]] or its [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] predecessor is called a ...
9: ...dictated by political reasons. However in the United States, the term "astronaut" is typically appli...
11: ... the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, the United States of America. - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...erifiable [[empirical knowledge]], a global community of [[scholar]]s, and a set of [[technique]]s for...
4: ...any place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of science.
6: ...conception). [[Technology]] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects a...
11: ...''is'', how it ''functions'', and whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. The [[sociology...
15: ...ommunity and those in the social sciences or humanities (for example, the "[[Science wars]]"). - Earth science (5396 bytes)
2: ...], [[chemistry]], and [[biology]] to build a quantitative understanding of the principal areas or ''[[...
4: ...[Rock (geology)|rocky]] parts of the Earth (or [[lithosphere]]) including the planet's [[Earth's core|...
12: ...ke an interdisciplinary approach and thus do not sit comfortably in this scheme:
18: ...ve]]'' and ''[[negative feedback]]'' between constituent systems:
22: ...e [[climate]] in terms of the interaction of the litho-, hydro-, atmo-, cryo-, and bio- spheres. - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
2: ...ns in the late [[4th millennium BC]], cuneiform writing began as a system of [[pictography|pictographs...
4: ...d the [[Old Persian]] and [[Ugaritic alphabet|Ugaritic]] national alphabets.
7: ...ative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of im...
11: ...ians was unintuitive to the [[Semitic language|Semitic]] speakers. This fact, before Sumerian civiliz...
13: ...ce to classical [[Japanese language|Japanese]], written in a [[Chinese language|Chinese]] derived scri... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...of Babel]] story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...ol planes have advanced significantly as well. Initially planes were controlled by moving your entire...
9: ...er_leonardo1.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter body ]]
11: ...er_leonardo2.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter wings ]]
15: ...iderable amount of interpretation of his design, with modern knowledge of aerodynamic principles in mi... - Geography of the United States (15104 bytes)
15: Latitude:<br>
16: Longitude:
46: <tr><td colspan=2 align=center><small>'''Maritime Claims'''</small></td></tr>
53: Territorial Sea:</small></td><td><small>12 [[nautical mi...
57: ...ka]]) are contiguous and form the [[continental United States]]. - Human (48024 bytes)
2: ... = Image of a man and a woman,<br> sent to space with the [[Pioneer 11]] mission}}
21: ... belonging to the superfamily of [[Hominoidea]], with all of the [[apes]]: [[chimpanzee]]s, [[gorilla]...
24: ...e of a short list of [[animal]]s with such a capacity.
26: <!-- this paragraph is is about the mind and its products -->
27: ... of these perspectives. [[Art]], [[music]] and [[literature]] are often used in expressing these conce... - India (27950 bytes)
1: ...second most populous]] [[country]] in the world, with a [[population]] of over [[1 E9|one billion]], a...
3: ...y has grown significantly, in its economic and military roles, regionally as well as globally.
5: ... due to domestic disputes over how representative it is as a national signifier.
11: [[Stone Age]] rock shelters with paintings at [[Bhimbetka]] in [[Madhya Pradesh]]...
13: ...ies of invasions from [[Central Asia]] followed, with the successive establishment in the northern Ind... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...[[1991]]. The term was popularized by the U.S. political adviser and financier [[Bernard Baruch]] in A...
5: ...ecame an ever-important arena of superpower competition.]]
7: ...e conflicts, the major powers, particularly the United States, operated in good part by arming or fund...
9: ...n in 1991, Russia lost the superpower status that it had won in the Second World War.
12: ...s between the United States and the USSR. Indeed, it was far from certain that a global nuclear war wo... - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
1: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1950...
5: *[[1950]] - [[McCarran Internal Security Act]]
7: *[[1950]] - National Security Council Memo 68
8: ...Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution|22nd Amendment]]
9: *[[1951]] - [[Mutual Security Act]]
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