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- Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ...m a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. Right: detail of a steamer]]
3: ...erley'']] leaving [[Dunoon]] on the [[Firth of Clyde]].]]
13: ==Early development==
15: ... boatmen took exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up.
17: ...t. The boat sank, and while he made an improved model he does not seem to have had much success, thoug... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
6: ...]]'s crossing of [[Greenland]] in [[1888]] he decided on a life of exploration.
10: ...ica]]. Also on board was an American doctor, [[Frederick Cook]]. Cook probably saved the crew from [[s...
14: ...a success message ([[collect call|collect]]) on [[December 5]], [[1905]]. [[Nome, Alaska|Nome]] was re...
18: ...th Pole]]. On hearing in [[1909]] that first [[Frederick Cook]] and then [[Robert Peary]] claimed the ...
20: ...e change. Every member agreed to continue. Leon made the news public on October 2. - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves...
7: ...]] with a temporary [[Papal Tiara|papal tiara]] made of [[papier-m⣨靝.
9: *[[1804]] - [[Napoleonic code|Code Napol鯮]] was adopted as [[France|French]] [[civ...
19: ...en fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180
20: *[[1963]] - [[Alcatraz]], a federal [[penitentiary]] on an island in [[San Francis... - Geography of Estonia (3012 bytes)
1: ... and 59.5 [[latitude]] and 21.5 and 28.1 [[longitude]], [[Estonia]] lies on the eastern shores of the ...
3: ...[New England]]'s. [[Oil shale]] and [[limestone]] deposits, along with forests which cover 47% of the ...
7: '''Location:''' Eastern [[Europe]], bordering the [[Baltic Sea]] and [[Gulf of Finland]], b...
17: ''note:'' includes 1,520 islands in the Baltic Sea
21: ''border countries:'' Latvia 339 km, Russia 294 km - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...y studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes was one of the key thinkers of the Scienti...
2: ...ge-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descartes Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
4: ...heless, many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late [[Aristotelianism]], the revived [[Sto...
6: ...e invention of the [[calculus]] and [[analysis]]. Descartes's reflections on mind and mechanism began ...
11: On March 31, 1596, Descartes was born in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Ind... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...[[timber]], [[concrete]] or other material. The underlying support maintains the rails at a fixed dist...
8: ...he car on two four wheel support trucks. Fully loaded, the contact between each wheel and the rail is ...
9: ...air resistance]] and thus energy usage. In all, under the right circumstances, a [[train]] needs 50-70...
11: Rail transport is also one of the safest modes of transport, and also makes a highly efficient ...
15: ...t have in some times and places been reduced in order to save money (see [[Beeching Axe]]). Conversely... - Chimpanzee (10645 bytes)
17: ...Pan paniscus''), is found in the forests of the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. The boundary bet...
30: ...", however, did not occur until 1738. The name is derived from an [[Angolan]] [[Bantu language]] term ...
32: ... Europe, mainly acquired by various zoological gardens as entertainment for visitors.
34: ...to [[domestication|domesticate]] chimpanzees in order to have them work at various menial tasks (i.e. ...
36: ...ous ''Mentality of Apes'' in 1925 (which is coincidentally when Yerkes ''began'' his analyses), eventu... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
5: ...ge_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) |
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9: date_of_death=[[18 February]], [[1546]] |
10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
12: ...hings inspired the [[Protestant Reformation]] and deeply influenced the [[doctrine]]s of [[Lutheran]],... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...Alchemy can be regarded as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation o...
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8: ...] of gold and silver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and hav...
11: ...ormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and beliefs have limited validity, but if w...
13: ... both an inner meaning referring to the spiritual development of the practitioner as well as a materia... - Chumash (3016 bytes)
3: ...s]]. Modern place names with Chumash origins include: Malibu, [[Point Mugu]], [[Piru]], [[Lake Castaic...
5: ... 200, though there are now some 5,000 people who identify themselves as Chumash.
9: ...rated). The word ''čhumaš'' means "islander".
11: ...uding rock paintings ([[petroglyphs]]) apparently depicting the Chumash cosmology, can still be seen.
13: ...thsonian]] in [[Washington D.C.]] and the [[Mus饠de l’Homme]] (Museum of Mankind) in [[Paris, F... - Viking (18085 bytes)
4: ... [[Northmen|Norse]] seafaring [[warrior]]s who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, the [[British Isles]...
12: ...right|250px|A composite image made from several sides of the [[Ledberg Runestone]] having illustration...
13: ...ory is filled with tales of Vikings and their plundering.
33: ... [[fornyr𩳬ag]] from the [[H? Runestone]] in Sweden, raised by a man who mourns the loss of all his ...
43: ...'KᲩ var𠡴 Dundee/֤di.'' (Kari so was in [[Dundee]]/at the point of [[Zealand]] (?)) - Ernest Shackleton (9537 bytes)
6: ...0px|During the Discovery expedition, Shackleton made the first balloon flight over Antarctica]]
18: ...t famous advertisements in the Times of London in December 1901: "''Men wanted for hazardous journey. ...
21: ... were 480 statute miles from the Pole. Shackleton developed [[scurvy]] on the return trip and Dr. Wils...
28: Accomplishments of the expedition included the first ascent of [[Mount Erebus]], the active...
30: ...ckleton remarked: "<i>Better a live donkey than a dead lion.</i>" - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
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25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
39: | [[van der Waals radius]] || 185 pm
47: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) || '''+-3''',5 (mildly [[acid]]ic) - Lent (7959 bytes)
3: ...nder of this article will discuss Lent as it is understood and practiced in Western Christianity, exce...
5: ...[Easter Sunday]]. The dating of [[Easter]], which determines that of Lent, is discussed [[Easter#The_d...
9: ...elebrates the [[resurrection of Jesus]] after his death on the [[True Cross|Cross]], Lent is concerned...
13: ... part of Lent proper, constituting a "Lenten Prelude" instead. Because Lent is a season of grief that ...
15: ...h|Roman Catholic]] Mass, the [[Gloria in Excelsis Deo]] is not sung during the Lenten season, disappea... - Ununoctium (3103 bytes)
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30: ...|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
31: ...3</sub> etc) as well as [[chloride]]s and [[fluoride]]s.
41: ...w.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Uuo/index.html WebElements.com - Uuo] - Chemical formula (5472 bytes)
1: ...element|element]] by its [[chemical symbol]] and identifies the number of atoms of such element to be ...
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6: ...ple molecule consisting of one [[carbon]] atom bonded to four [[hydrogen]] atoms has the chemical form...
12: ...that a double bond connects the atoms on either side of them.
16: ...hree carbon atoms, with the middle carbon atom bonded to another carbon: - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
15: ...ar [[Wurzen]], in [[1839]] the line reaches [[Dresden]].
17: * [[1853]] Passenger train makes in debut in [[Bombay]], India
21: *[[1863]] World's first [[underground railway]] opened in [[London]].
22: ...on proves rare for steam locomotives but is the model for most future diesel and electric locomotives.
27: ...lectric railway demonstrated at the [[Berlin]] Trades Fair. - Testosterone (11221 bytes)
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37: |bgcolor="#dfefff"|+110?2° - Roman road (3913 bytes)
2: ...ructing straight roads often resulted in steep grades relatively impractical for most economic traffic...
4: ... of becoming mud in clay soils. The [[legion]]s made good time on these roads, and some are still used...
6: ...o Rome". Roman roads were designed that way to hinder provinces organising resistance against the Empi...
15: ...e [[Atlantic Ocean]] across [[Toulouse]] and [[Bordeaux]],
16: ...here it joins to the [[Via Augusta]] at the [[Col de Panissars]]. - Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
1: '''Franz Xaver von Baader''' ([[March 27]], [[1765]] – [[May 23]], [...
3: ...Germany, and for four years, 1792–1796, resided in [[England]].
5: ...dern philosophy in his letter to the Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia]] entirely alienated Schelling.
7: ...me of the lectures delivered there he published under the title ''Spekulative Dogmatik,'' 4 parts, 182...
9: ...Eckhart, [[Paracelsus]] and Boehme. Our existence depends on the act that we are cognized by God (''co...
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