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- Great Depression (16069 bytes)
1: ... global [[economics|economic]] [[recession]] (or "depression") that ran from [[1929]] to [[1941]]. It...
4: ...sion" was that it is by far the largest sustained decline in industrial production and productivity fr...
5: ... to the cultural period, often called simply "The Depression", and to the political response to the ec...
7: ...b|[[Dorothea Lange]]'s ''Migrant Mother'' depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on [[...
9: ==Causes of the Great Depression== - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...nancier [[Bernard Baruch]] in April 1947 during a debate on the [[Truman Doctrine]].
7: ...d in good part by arming or funding surrogates, a development that lessened direct impact on the popul...
9: ...ic Missile Treaty]]). U.S.-Soviet relations would deteriorate once again in the late 1970s and early [...
11: ...e:Berlinwall.jpg|thumb|right|A section of the now-defunct [[Berlin Wall]], a symbol of the Cold War-er...
12: ...da wars between the United States and the USSR. Indeed, it was far from certain that a global nuclear ... - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
1: [[Image:LBJMLK.jpg|thumb|250px|right|President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.]]
2: ...o citizens. When those grants were later found inadequate, '''civil rights movements''' emerged as the...
4: ...odations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or s...
8: ...nship'. The term [[Human rights]] refers to a broader concept.<br>
12: ...and laws of those states in which that person resides as a citizen. <br> - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
11: *[[1901]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] becomes [[President]]
12: *[[1901]] - [[US Steel]] founded by [[John Pierpont Morgan]]
25: *[[1903]] - Department of Commerce and Labor created
38: *[[1908]] - [[Ford Model T]] appears on market
40: *[[1908]] - [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] established - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...n and instead encouraged the decoration of Alcibiades. During such campaigns, he also showed his extra...
7: ...ates that he teaches for a living, paid by his students, and that he thinks this is the most important...
9: ...g and everyone, and apparently it offended the leaders of this time. He was found guilty as charged, a...
11: ...hy for much longer than this and include [[Parmenides]], [[Anaxagoras]], [[Prodicus]], the priestess [...
15: See [[Trial of Socrates]] for more detail and background about Socrates' trial and exec... - Face (3212 bytes)
10: ...tch]] between the [[bicuspid]] [[teeth]] to the side of the chin will cut the exit of the second divis...
13: ...ris palpebrarum muscle. On everting the lids the delicate conjunctival membrane is seen, and between ...
18: On the side of the face the facial artery may be felt pulsati...
19: ...work called the pes anserinus, after which it divides into five branches (temporal,zygomatic, buccal, ... - Sundial (16148 bytes)
7: ...en designs, such as the 'ordinary' or standard garden sundial, cast a shadow on a flat surface marked ...
9: However, sundials can be designed for any surface where a fixed object casts ...
11: Most sundial designs indicate [[solar time|apparent solar time]].
12: Minor design variations can measure standard and daylight ...
14: Sundials are known from ancient Egypt, and were developed further by other cultures, including the [... - Embryo (1444 bytes)
3: ... in its earliest stage of [[developmental biology|development]].
7: ...yo is called a foetus at a more advanced stage of development and up until [[childbirth|birth]] or hat...
19: ...tabases/resources/humdevchart.html Chart of human development] - Meditation (26064 bytes)
3: ...me calm and focused. Several major religions include ritual meditation; however, meditation itself nee...
5: ...se is the receipt of spiritual insights and new understanding.
10: ...t-clipart-9029.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
12: ...and some people use repetitive activities such as deep breathing, humming or chanting to help induce a...
16: Besides the physical factors related to meditation perha... - Flood (7770 bytes)
1: ...er", the word is applied to the inflow of the [[tide]], as opposed to the outflow or "ebb".
2: ... history is treated badly as [[Deluge (mythology)|Deluge in mythology]].
5: ...]fall does occur, it can sometimes result in a sudden flood of water filling dry streambeds known as a...
7: ...e rich farmlands and can result in their eventual depletion. The annual cycle of flood and farming was...
10: ...ntries, such as [[Bangladesh]], due to their extended periods of [[rainfall]]. - Kangaroo Facts (16137 bytes)
18: ... The term ''kangaroo'' is sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to all members of the macropod fa...
21: ... mouth of the Endeavour River in the harbour of modern [[Cooktown]] for almost 7 weeks repairing their...
22: ....jpg|thumb|250px|left|Picture of a Kangaroo, provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
23: ...nd wallabies. The belief that it means "I don't understand" is a popular [[myth]] that is also applied...
29: ...iganteus'') is less well-known than the red (outside of Australia), but the most often seen, as its ra... - Dentistry (9670 bytes)
1: :''This article is about the dental profession. For tooth care, see [[oral hygie...
3: ...tracted, not, one would have thought, such a very desirable ''exempla''.
5: ...dental terms([http://www.dentallaw.co.uk/whatwedo_dentaladvice_terms1.asp]).
7: ... of Dental Surgery) or B.D.Sc degree (Bachelor of Dental Science).
9: ...r with the G.D.C. ([http://www.gdc-uk.org General Dental Council]), and meet their requirements as the... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...written [[Arabic numerals]] system and is still widely used by merchants and clerks in [[China]] and e...
7: ...1b.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Abacus Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
8: ...computation. The beads are usually rounded and made of a hard wood. The beads are counted by moving ...
10: ...ools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do [[multiplication]], [[division (math...
20: device is not beads on wires than the drawing used i... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
1: ...ami that struck [[Mal靝 in the [[Maldives]] on [[December 26]], [[2004]].]]
2: ...fects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
4: ... [[ocean]]; it simply has a much smaller [[amplitude]] (wave heights) offshore, and a very long [[wave...
6: ...re not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[o...
10: ... tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami. - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
5: ...in the minor [[Western League]]. Moved to [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] in [[1900]] when that league...
6: :'''Formerly known as:''' Philadelphia Athletics ([[1901]]-[[1954]]), Kansas City A...
9: :'''Logo design:''' A stylized "A's". The team also occasio...
17: ===The Philadelphia Years (1901-1954)===
18: ...t Shibe had a ?white elephant on his hands," Mack defiantly adopted the [[white elephant]] as the team... - Italy (17022 bytes)
3: The independent countries of [[San Marino]] and the [[Vatican C...
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24: |'''[[President of Italy|President]]''' || [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]] - Plant cell (2762 bytes)
6: ...e of [[chitin]], and [[prokaryotes]], which are made of [[peptidoglycan]].
7: * The [[plasmodesmata]], linking pores in the cell wall that allow...
11: ... parts of a living plant's tissue are selectively dead so they can serve the plant without consuming v...
16: ...dary wall as well. These two major parts are what determines the function of each individual plant cel...
19: *[[Epidermis (botany)|Epidermis]] - the outer most covering of a plant. - Arithmetic (2254 bytes)
5: ...ect. Arithmetic is performed according to an [[order of operations]].
7: ...r fraction]]s), and [[real number]]s (using the [[decimal]] place-value system known as [[algorism]]) ...
11: ...lects this usage, as do such phrases as ''first order arithmetic'' or ''arithmetical algebraic geometr...
24: <!-- *[[algorism]] (included above) -->
25: <!-- *[[order of operations]] (ditto) --> - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...s law]]. Some electrical effects are discussed under [[electrical phenomenon]] and [[electromagnetism...
8: ...ian]] walls, such as the [[Dendera light]]. Other devices discovered in Egyptian and other archaeologi...
10: ...tist)|William Watson]], experimenting with the Leyden jar, discovered in [[1747]] that a discharge of ...
11: ...:Electricity clipart.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
12: ... frequently) or [[Ebenezer Kinnersley]] of [[Philadelphia]] (less frequently) who created the conventi... - Fern (7930 bytes)
13: ...hyta''', formerly known as Filicophyta. A fern is defined as a [[vascular plant]] that does not produc...
25: ...zome]]: Creeping [[Plant stem|stem]], sometimes underground, absorbs [[nutrient]]s, anchors plant
27: ** Spores develop on surface (usually underside)
38: ... occurred in the late [[Cretaceous]], when many modern families of ferns first appeared.
40: ...tionally been grouped in the Class Filices, but modern classifications assign them their own division ...
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