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- Badminton (12494 bytes)
3: ... (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles) and is played indoors.
5: ...ilar to that of [[tennis]] and/or [[volleyball]]. Players at opposite ends of the court aim to hit a [...
7: ...n can be made to Squash which also has the same explosive starts.
18: ... of carbon fiber composite ([[graphite reinforced plastic]]). Carbon fiber has an excellent strength t...
20: ...b]] of [[tension]]. Players' personal preferences play a strong role in string selection. - Formula One (29650 bytes)
9: ...a]]. New races in [[Bahrain]] and [[China]], one planned for [[2005]] in [[Turkey]], and others discu...
24: ...n's superiority, and it quickly and permanently replaced the front-mounted engine model.
28: ...aluminium sheet chassis called a [[monocoque]] in place of the traditional tubular chassis; this prove...
35: ...ntributing to [[Bernie Ecclestone]]'s eventual complete financial control of the sport.
39: ...ade their way to the showroom. The FIA, due to complaints that technology was determining the outcome ... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ...uze]] at the [[University of Torino]]). Several explosions were reported at their family-owned factory...
7: ...Esperanto]]) was published in Sweden in 2003. The play has not yet (May 2003) been translated into any...
9: ...lfred Nobel is interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]].
14: ...like substance, which was a still more powerful explosive than dynamite. [[Gelignite|Blasting gelatin]...
16: ... is soluble in such mixtures. The question was complicated by the fact that it is in practice impossib... - Philo Farnsworth (6489 bytes)
11: ...r]] camera tube transmitted its first image, a simple straight line. By 1928 Farnsworth had developed...
19: ...lternate technologies such as [[liquid crystal display]]s.
25: ...ber, thereby avoiding a considerable amount of complexity.
30: [[Image:Filo_placard.JPG|thumb|The plaque on Green Street.]]
31: ...rds the end of his life due to [[alcoholism]]. A plaque honoring Farnsworth as ''The Genius of Green ... - Ship (18843 bytes)
2: ...ule of thumb]] saying (though it doesn't always apply) goes: "a boat can fit on a ship, but a ship can...
4: ... five-masted ''Preussen'' was the outstanding example but the big [[German Empire|German]] ships and [...
12: In Britain until the [[Samuel Plimsoll|Merchant Shipping Act of 1876]], ship-owner...
14: .... Hence the "ladder" of lines seen forward of the Plimsoll mark to this day.
17: Until the application of the [[steam engine]] to ships in the ea... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
45: ...ission in 1993, the telescope was restored to its planned quality, and became a vital research tool as...
58: ...unch in 1968 until 1972, well beyond its original planned lifetime of one year.
60: ...y working life, and the concurrent development of plans for the re-usable [[Space Shuttle]] indicated ...
64: ... telescope, and forced cuts in the budget for the planning stages which at the time consisted of very ...
68: ... the [[European Space Agency]]. ESA agreed to supply some of the instruments for the telescope as wel... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...ventional English-language term for an ancient people who spoke an [[Indo-European language]] and esta...
3: ...from about 1680 BC to 1200 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After...
5: ...tinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginnin...
7: ...in the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is stil...
14: ...ns at Tell El-[[Amarna]] in Egypt uncovered the diplomatic correspondence of Pharaoh [[Amenhotep III]]... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
42: ...ne]] (a [[Miwok]] Indian word meaning "western people") living in the coastal area between [[Point Sur...
44: European discovery and exploration of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] began in...
56: ...od. All of the county not in the city limits was split off to form [[San Mateo County, California|San ...
62: ...terred corpses contributed to the transmission of plague, and possibly also motivated by the opportuni...
69: ...e after the Earthquake. On July 22, 1916 a bomb exploded on Market Street during a [[Preparedness Day]... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[...
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
18: ...and privilege, he overcame a crippling illness to place himself at the head of the forces of reform. H...
22: ... conservatives. Today opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the i...
32: ...lege. He learned to ride, to shoot, to row and to play [[polo]] and [[lawn tennis]]. Frequent trips to... - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
5: ...any devoted to subjects to which mathematics is applied (such as [[theoretical computer science]] and ...
17: ... mathematicians are motivated by either the sheer pleasure of mathematical activity or by expectation ...
23: ...ures is probed by testing them on a number of examples, generally using [[computer|computers]].
31: As is the case in many scientific disciplines, the field of mathematics has been disproport...
46: ...ween the mathematical mind and that of other disciplines. One goes as follows: - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]])
572: *[[Michel Plancherel]] (Switzerland, [[1885]] - [[1967]]) - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...through the eighth century. They in turn were displaced by a group of Scandinavians, the [[Varangian...
15: ...be applied to the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|10th]] to [[1...
17: ... of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Uk...
23: ... their territories. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less fu...
37: ...he struggle. It is estimated that over 200,000 people have died in this conflict. Minor conflicts also... - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
1: ...]] - [[November 14]], [[1831]]) was a [[German people|German]] [[philosopher]] born in [[Stuttgart]], ...
9: ...ons inherent in the preceding movement''. For example, the French Revolution for Hegel constitutes the...
13: ...nciple of it and the other form is its specific application to the actual events in history. He contin...
19: ...vidual case. To do so would involve comparing examples of events of history with their archetypal form...
21: ...e called "deliberately confusing") his work is perplexing for modern audiences because he had an organ... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ... to an early rift between Christianity and the temple priesthood, and later rabbinic Judaism.
12: ...music]] in hymns and prayer, and [[ascetic]] disciplines such as [[fasting]] and [[alms|almsgiving]]. ...
40: *[[Polycarp]], bishop of Smyrna and disciple of [[John the Evangelist]]
64: ...ced by [[Nestorius]], a [[patriarch of Constantinople]])
73: ...adherents. This was observed quite early, for example, the second century [[Celsus]] (whose words are ... - Geyser (14881 bytes)
4: ...e to ongoing mineral deposition within the geyser plumbing, exchange of functions with nearby hot spri...
6: ...ied [[nitrogen]] have been observed on [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]]'s moon [[Triton (moon)|Triton]]. T...
14: ...rough the geyser's vent, some water overflows or splashes out, reducing the weight of the column and t...
22: ...ut very few with geysers. This is because in most places, even where other necessary conditions for ge...
24: ...sinter, or [[geyserite]], along the inside of the plumbing systems. Over time these deposits cement th... - Puzzle (1711 bytes)
1: ...:PuzzleExample.jpg|right|thumb|An example of a simple puzzle.]]
2: ...onks used to write [[mathematical puzzle]]s on temple walls: see [[sangaku]].
34: * [[Word play]]
38: *Creative Puzzles of the World, 1980, Plenary Publications International - New Deal (82408 bytes)
2: ...lass conflict. The opponents of the New Deal, complaining of the cost and the shift of power to Washi...
7: ...ation."<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, ''Two Lucky People'' (1998) p. 59.</ref>
11: ...market.<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, ''Two Lucky People'' (1998) p. 59.</ref> Sixty years later Friedma...
15: ...l laws. By 1942, the Supreme Court had almost completely abandoned its "judicial activism" of strikin...
18: ...orldwide economic crisis. In 1929–1933, unemployment in the U.S. soared from 4% of the workforce... - Cuban Missile Crisis (13015 bytes)
1: ...ion]] and the [[United States]] over the Soviet deployment of [[nuclear weapon|nuclear missiles]] in [...
5: The U.S. had begun to deploy fifteen [[Jupiter IRBM]] (intermediate-range ba...
7: ...tain kind of equality could be quickly reached by placing missiles in Cuba. Soviet MRBMs on Cuba, with...
9: ... there were no missiles in Cuba, nor any plans to place any, and that the Soviets were not interested ...
19: ...th a range of 4,000 km (2,400 statute miles). The planned arsenal was forty launchers, an increase in ... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] |
10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
12: ...gs inspired the [[Protestant Reformation]] and deeply influenced the [[doctrine]]s of [[Lutheran]], [[...
14: ...f the [[German language]] and added several principles to the art of [[translation]]. Luther's [[hymn]...
26: ... to monastic life, the effort to do good works to please [[God]] and to serve others through prayer fo... - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
7: ...our sectors, one for each, although Berlin was completely surrounded on all sides by the Soviet sector...
11: ... in effect an [[exclave]] of [[West Germany]], completely surrounded by East Germany. West Berlin's pr...
13: ...ed workers were already leaving the east (for example, on one day the entire Mathematics Department of...
19: ...During the construction of the Wall [[National People's Army|NVA]] and [[Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklas...
21: ...sides were deeply distressed: many families were split, many East Berliners were cut off from their jo...
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