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- Des Moines, Iowa (13222 bytes)
2: ...300px|The State Capitol of Iowa, featuring its golden dome.]]
4: ...ncorporated on [[September 22]], [[1851]] as Fort Des Moines.
5: ...nes" in [[1857]]. [http://www.ci.des-moines.ia.us/departments/AC/Information/AChistoricalinfo.htm]
8: ...iver]] (from [[French language|French]] ''Rivi貥 des Moines'', i.e. "River of the Monks") and [[Racco...
9: [[Image:Iowa_state_map.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
9: founded = [[September 17]], [[1630]] |
11: ...Thomas Menino]] ([[United_States_Democratic_Party|Dem]]) |
18: density = 4,696.9|
25: ...tened from [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]]' phrase ''The Hub of the Universe''), ...
27: ...has a population of approximately 5.8 million residents. [[Greater Boston]] is one of the top-ten larg... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
30: *[[Adolf Anderssen]] (Germany, [[1818]] - [[1879]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 ...
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
2: ...us.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
6: ...es of the gods, led to a [[duality]] that we now identify as [[astrology]]. It is important to recogni...
8: ...tead must resort to detailed [[observation]] in order to make discoveries. Generally, astronomers use ...
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18: ...d classified stars by [[Apparent magnitude|magnitude]]. - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: ...s [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] –...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]]...
26: *[[Harold Alden]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1890]] – [[196...
27: *[[Hannes Alfv鮝] ([[Sweden]], [[1908]] – [[1995]]) - 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... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - July 24 (8660 bytes)
5: ...] - [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]] is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son [[King Ja...
6: *[[1701]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] founded.
7: ... [[Jacob Brown]]'s [[United States|American]] invaders.
10: ...te]] General [[Jubal Anderson Early|Jubal Early]] defeats [[United States|Union]] troops led by Genera...
13: ...blishes first account of [[Paul Bunyan]] in the [[Detroit News]]. - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ...ities. A comprehensive tribal list can be found under "[[Classification of Native Americans]]."
5: ...erms "Amerindian" and "Indian", both of which are derivatives of "American Indian" (as is "[[Amerind]]...
7: ..., some long established and many more currently under negotiation.
9: ...erican may be construed to either include or exclude the [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] of [[Canada]]...
11: ...an continent]]) are a diversity of [[Pacific Islanders]] including: [[Native Hawaiians]] (also known a... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
9: In Eastern Polynesia, navigators, in order to locate directions at various times of day and...
18: ...times of famine or difficulty, only they could trade for aid or evacuate people. The guild secrets mi...
27: === Modern methods ===
31: * [[pilotage]] - using visible natural and man made features such as [[sea mark]]s and [[beacon]]s
32: * [[dead reckoning]] - using [[compass]] and [[log]] to ... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...dubious, but it does not interfere with the above definition.
5: ...tion of the United States]], all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
9: ...re conservative interpreters of the concept would demand that the text have a physical form, usually o...
11: ...ience fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature".
15: ...gy|psychological]] insight in the delineation and development of character. - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...Alchemy can be regarded as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation o...
4: ...|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
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... - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
14: <small>(f) = federally recognized <br></small>
25: ...250,000 [[Native Americans in the United States|Federally recognized]] Cherokees, have headquarters in...
29: ...ho'' dialect, since [[Hernando de Soto (explorer)|de Soto]] was [[Extremaduran language|Extremaduran]]...
33: ...selves which means approximately this. However, modern Cherokee call themselves Cherokee, or Tsalagi.
39: ...red his great work for the Cherokee people was handed down through the [[Ah-ni-ku-ta-ni]], an ancient ... - Time (15299 bytes)
1: ...ight|thumb|230px| Clock Tower, Prague. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...difficult to provide an uncontroversial and clear definition of the nature of time. This article begin...
9: ...d years having significant variations in length. Despite its great social importance, the [[week]] is...
11: ...f time is so critical to the functioning of our modern societies that it is coordinated at an internat...
15: ...udying the [[past]]. Events in the past can be ordered in a sequence (creating a [[chronology]]), and... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
2: ... [[1876]]. However, subsequent discoveries have made it clear that Mycenae was not its chief center of...
7: ...s was shown to be untrue. The Aegean civilization developed three distinctive features.
11: ...ipt, but an earlier script [[Linear A]] remains undeciphered.
21: ...ater oblongs are entered from a long side and divided longitudinally by pillars.
23: ...ype see [[Crete]]. In spite of many comparisons made with [[Egyptian]], [[Babylonian]] and [[Hittite]]... - Electron (10516 bytes)
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54: ... The word ''electron'' was coined in 1894 and is derived from the term ''electric'', whose ultimate o... - Robert Goddard (scientist) (7533 bytes)
3: ...uld eventually come to be called the "father of modern rocketry" for his life's work.
7: ...er wrote, "how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending t...
11: ...ilosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[1911]]. By [[1914]], he was designing rocket [[motor]]s, with financial assistan...
13: ...ended in a cabbage field, but it was an important demonstration that liquid-fuel propellants were poss...
15: ...Ground]] two days before the [[Armistice]] that ended [[World War I]]. Another Clark University resea... - Magnet (13875 bytes)
4: ...n stone". [[Magnesia]] is an area in Greece where deposits of [[magnetite]] have been discovered since...
6: ...magnet]]. Permanent magnets do not rely upon outside influences to generate their field. Electromagnet...
14: ...tween'' atoms and molecules. Without long range ordering, there is no net magnetic field because the m...
16: ... great deal of order. The greater the degree of ordering within and between domains, the greater the r...
18: Long range ordering (and the resulting strong net magnetic field)... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...d in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire ...
10: ...unger brother was very fond, married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansen...
12: ... [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...ther stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: .... Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], ...
7: ...e distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[J...
13: ...te library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...; Bach was equally at home talking with organ builders and with performers.
19: ...essive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he was the first in his family to finish...
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