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- World War I (62979 bytes)
1: ... 1917, in the vicinity of the [[Battle of Passchendaele]]. Battle aftermath. Remains of the Chateau Wo...
2: ...henzollern]]s, who had roots of power back to the days of the [[Crusade]]s, all fell during or after t...
8: ...ree-decade long war spanning the period [[1914]]–[[1945]]. Other scholars view World War I as on...
19: ...tem, which bears a striking resemblence to modern-day and Cold War nuclear preparedness strategies, st...
22: ...serving their power. It did not solve the more fundamental problems of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Wi... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
6: |Date||[[1957]]–[[1975]]
27: !colspan="2" |'''Civilian Casualties: ''' c. 2—4 million
33: ...o decide whether Vietnam would be unified in accordance with an agreement reached at Geneva in 1954, o...
39: ...itizen]]s volunteered to join the US forces. Canada, in fact, led peace talks between the two countri...
59: ... serve as a provisional government. The following day, the Congress, at a ceremony in front of the vil... - Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
15: *[[1978]] - [[Camp David Accords (1978)]]
28: *[[1983]] - 241 [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]] killed by suicide bomb in [[Lebanon]]
30: *[[1983]] - [[United States]] invades [[Grenada]]
37: ... single session on [[Black Monday (1987)|Black Monday]] - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ..." the Southwest, Southeast, and especially [[Florida]] and [[California]] (surpassing [[New York]] as ...
6: ...[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] candidates in federal, state and local elections while th...
18: ... inflation, derided as [[stagflation]], raised fundamental questions over the future of American prosp...
20: ...]-[[1982]]), the Soviet Union improved living standards by doubling urban wages and raising rural wage...
36: ...onvention. The party also renominated [[Walter Mondale]] for vice president. - Continental shelf (2503 bytes)
3: ...her extensive area of continental shelf, the [[Sunda shelf]], which joins [[Borneo]], Sumatra, and [[J...
7: ...ver their continental shelves were claimed by the marine nations that signed the Convention on the Contine... - Shark (14021 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
20: ...ctitating membrane]] to protect the eye during predation. The sharks rely more on their superior sens...
22: ...e "large", "marine" (as in 'ocean-going') and "predatory" portions of the characterization. Sharks in...
40: ...million years ago. Most of the species we know today are as old as the [[Jurassic]] period. There ar...
42: ...en a shark that looks on first inspection to be a marine snake. - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...ct system of time measurement (''ed.'' see [[calendar]] for other measurements).
14: ..., event initiation or just to display the time of day.
33: ...n Harrison]] created the first, highly accurate [[marine chronometers]] in the mid-18th century. The [[Noo...
43: ...s Cathedral]] installed a ‘horologe’—the word still used in French for large clocks....
47: ...ivided into four equal parts making the clocks readable to the nearest 15 minutes. - Dolphin (13554 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Delphinidae'''}}
17: #any member of the family [[Delphinidae]] (oceanic dolphins),
18: ... of the families [[Delphinidae]] and [[Platanistoidae]] (oceanic and river dolphins),
24: ...]s and some related species belong to the Delphinidae family and therefore qualify as dolphins, even t... - Mammal (11782 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
15: **[[Dasyuromorphia]]
31: **[[Perissodactyla]]
32: **[[Artiodactyla]]
34: **[[Afrosoricida]] - Flood (7770 bytes)
7: ...The control of annual flooding, by dikes and by [[dam]]s, also prevents the deposition of silt on the ...
16: ...''[[tsunami]]'' article for full details of these marine floods.
22: ...lta Works]] with the [[Oosterschelde|Oosterscheldedam]] as its crowning achievement.
33: ...s a great flood caused by the breaking of the ice dams holding [[Lake Agassiz]].
34: ...oods]] of Washington, also caused by breaking ice dams. - Crustacean (6274 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_authority | author = [[Br?]] | date = [[1772]]}}
11: **Order [[Enantiopoda]]
12: **Order [[Nectiopoda]]
13: *Class [[Cephalocarida]]
14: **Order [[Brachypoda]] - Boto (5572 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Iniidae'''}}
20: '''Bouto''', '''Bufeo''', '''Dauphin de l'Amazone''', '''Inia''', '''Pink Dolphin...
42: By the precarious standards of the river dolphins, the boto is the most se...
44: ...own whether this practice is widespread enough to damage local subpopulations. Since 1988 this practic... - Angelfish (246 bytes)
5: *[[Marine angelfish]] of the family '''Pomacanthidae''', common on shallow tropical reefs. - Annelid (7780 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = '''Annelida'''}}
11: [[Acanthobdellida]]<br>
12: [[Branchiobdellida]]<br>
14: Class [[Myzostomida]]<br>
15: Class [[Archiannelida]] ([[polyphyletic]])<br> - Arthropod (9248 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = '''Arthropoda'''}}
11: **[[Arachnida]] - [[Spider]]s, [[Scorpion]]s, etc.
13: **[[Pycnogonida]] - [[Sea Spider]]s
14: *'''Subphylum [[Myriapoda]]'''
15: **[[Chilopoda]] - [[Centipede]]s - Porpoise (4431 bytes)
2: ...poise06.jpg|200px|Dall's Porpoise]] | caption = [[Dall's Porpoise]]}}
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Phocoenidae'''}}
13: ''[[Phocoenoides]]'' - Dall's porpoises
15: ...ll [[Cetacea|cetaceans]] of the family '''Phocoenidae'''; they are related to [[whale]]s and [[dolphin... - Scorpion (12441 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Arachnida]]}}
11: ...to the order ''Scorpiones'' in the class [[Arachnida]].
25: ...lso play an important part in the scorpion mating dance.
26: ...tarsus). The size of the pedipalps is highly dependant on the species, however a general trend is that...
36: ...se of killing prey. Generally, they will run from danger, or remain very still. - Blue Whale (22203 bytes)
1: ...| color = pink | name = Blue Whale}}<br>{{StatusEndangered}}
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordata]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Balaenoptiidae]]}}
14: ...usculus | author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linneus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
18: ...'Blue Whale''' (''Balaenoptera musculus'') is a [[marine mammal]] belonging to the suborder of [[baleen wh... - Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
2: ...= pink | name = Bottlenose Dolphin}}<br />{{StatusData}}
6: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Delphinidae]]}}
13: ...truncatus | author = [[George Montagu|Montagu]] | date = [[1821]]}}
19: Bottlenose Dolphins are grey, varying from dark grey at the top near the [[dorsal fin]] to very... - Oceanography (3841 bytes)
1: ...;ν'' = write), also called '''oceanology and marine science''' is the study of the [[earth]]'s [[ocea...
3: *'''biological oceanography''' or [[marine biology]], which is the study of the [[biota]] of...
5: *'''geological oceanography''', which is [[marine geology]], including [[plate tectonics]] and othe...
11: ...odern sounding in deep sea in 1840, and [[Charles Darwin]] published a paper on [[reef]]s and the form...
15: ...graphy. It also enabled the National Science Foundation to give grant money to people doing studies i...
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