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- Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
1: '''Mia Hamm''' (born '''Mariel Margaret Hamm''' on [[March 17]], [[1972]] in [[Selma, Ala...
3: ...n'' by her peers, in reference to another UNC athlete, [[Michael Jordan]]. She helped take the Tar Hee...
7: ... of the year'' and the other two for ''Female Athlete of the Year''.
11: ...f|Kate Sobrero]], [[Lorrie Fair]], [[Tiffeny Milbrett]] and the rest of the women on the national team...
13: ...ive brother and original athletic inspiration Garrett, an [[Amerasian]] who died of a bone marrow dise... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
4: ...owns and operates Ransome's yacht, ''[[Nancy Blackett]]''.
6: She was named [[1998]] [[British Telecom]]/[[Royal Yachting Associatio...
12: ...into account MacArthur's 5 foot 2 [[inch]] (1.57 metre) height.
16: ...bruary 7]], [[2005]] beating the previous record set by French sailor [[Francis Joyon]] by 1 day, 8 ho...
18: On her return to the UK on [[February 8]], [[2005]], it was ... - Christy Martin (2947 bytes)
7: ...le on a 10 round decision to [[Sumya Anani]] in [[1998]]. After that, she reeled off nine more wins in a...
11: ...]], after a year and a half without a fight, she returned, in [[Lula, Mississippi]], knocking out [[La... - Shirley Muldowney (1811 bytes)
2: ...98]] when she set a NHRA speed record. Muldowney retired again after the [[2003]] season. In [[2004]],...
4: ...top fuel or funny car), no question".[http://www.metalshapers.org/nitrogeezers/Farndon%20Interview.htm...
8: ...]], who was her [[crew chief]]. After Muldoney's retirement, Tobler became crew chief for the [[Mac To... - Katarina Witt (1117 bytes)
1: ...or [[Playboy Magazine|''Playboy'' Magazine]] in [[1998]]. Recently, she has been admitted to the [[World... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
6: Hillary Rodham was raised in a [[Methodist]] family in [[Park Ridge, Illinois]]. Her ...
10: ... Nixon|Richard M. Nixon]]. It was then that she met Bernard Nussbaum, who would become the future Whi...
23: ... $1,000 investment generated $100,000 (a 10,000% return) [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politic...
27: ...nd losses were common in the volatile futures market.
31: ...ougals also operated a [[savings and loan]] that retained Hillary Clinton's legal services at Rose Law... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...wering plants, the term Angiosperm was used antithetically by botanical writers, but with varying limi...
18: ...g in the embryo-sac of flowering plants, and his determination of the correct relationships of these w...
19: [[Image:Fmarket7_012A_carnations.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Image prov...
22: ...bs and trees, and representing a much greater variety than is to be found in the other subdivision of ...
24: ...proximately 100 million years ago). By the late Cretaceous, angiosperms appear to have become the pred... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
3: ...ral philosopher]]. Not only were there major theoretical and experimental developments, but even more ...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though larg...
22: *The Earth as a magnet
24: *Kepler's laws of planetary motion (Kepler)
25: ...ons of Jupiter, lunar mountains, phases of Venus, etc. (Galileo) - Glass (26176 bytes)
20: ...an 400 [[nanometre|nm]], also known as [[ultraviolet]] light or UV, to pass. This is due to the additi...
22: ...f glass can be made so pure that hundreds of kilometres of glass are transparent at [[infrared]] wavel...
26: Glass is sometimes created naturally from volcanic [[magma]]. T...
35: ...llic additives in the glass mix can produce a variety of colors. Here [[cobalt]] has been added to pro...
37: ...roduces a less intense red, often [[marketing|marketed]] as "[[cranberry]]". [[Uranium]] (0.1 to 2%) c... - Process (6114 bytes)
22: ...A [[multitasking]] [[operating system]] switches between processes to give the appearance of simultane...
27: Different processes mix the steps together in different ways, and assign responsibility t...
29: The [[CMM]] is a [[meta-process]] that defines rigid goals up front, and...
38: ... the term process is defined as “a related set of activities conducted to the specific purpose o...
40: ...]. Processes of the same nature are classified together into a [[Process Model]]. - Ocarina (3914 bytes)
2: The '''ocarina''', sometimes called the '''sweet potato''', is a [[woodwind|wind instrument]]. It ...
13: ...s means that the technique of [[overblowing]] to get a range of higher pitched notes is not possible w...
18: ...]], ''[[Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' in [[1998]], and ''[[Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' in ...
22: ...res prominently in the theme from the 1966 [[spaghetti western]] ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]].... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...ets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet.
4: Clarinets are made from specially chosen varieties of [[wood]] or, in the case of some student in...
6: ...person who plays the clarinet is called a [[clarinetist]].
11: ...ements made to the fingering systems of the clarinet over time have enabled the instrument to be very ...
12: The Bass Clarinet has a very deep and loud tone. It is often only ... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...ge|Hawai'ian]] spelling ''''ukulele''' is also sometimes seen.
5: ...nd Son Reunion: the Braguinha Meets the Ukulele" returned to the ukulele to its ancestral home of Made...
11: ...(re-entrant), so it is [[pitch (music)|pitch]]ed between the E- and A-strings. In the past, it was not...
13: ...or can be tuned either way, and in C tuning is sometimes tuned with the G-string an octave lower, so i...
42: ...n diameter; at the front it is about 10 cm in diameter. - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ... considered the longest river in the world, but whether the Nile is actually longer than [[South Ameri...
20: ...m equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile, from Ethiopia. Both branches formed on the western flank...
24: [[Lake Victoria]], which lies between [[Uganda]], [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]] is con...
30: ...u; the rest of the year the great rivers draining Ethiopia to the Nile (Sobat, Blue Nile, and Atbara) ...
36: ...tary is the [[Atbara River]], which originates in Ethiopia north of Lake Tana, and is approximately 80... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...grated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boy...
24: ... [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. ...
26: ...ngregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[17... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...n era traditionally seen as dominating the years between the [[War of 1812]] and the [[American Civil ...
22: Born in a backwoods settlement in the [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws ar...
51: ...gle, Jackson succeeded in destroying the Bank by vetoing its [[1832]] recharter by Congress and withdr...
55: ...the issue, which developed into a bitter rivalry between the two men. Particularly famous was an incid...
57: ...overnment considered itself weak in dealing with determined opposition by an individual state. - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
33: ...y|Democratic]]<br/>(elected on National Union ticket)
42: ...ory policies towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a b...
54: ...nt of the United States on the National Union ticket headed by Republican Abraham Lincoln in [[1864]] ...
58: ===Cabinet=== - Volcano (27295 bytes)
2: ... very active) on the [[solar system]]'s rocky planets and moons, on [[Earth]] at least, this phenomeno...
12: ...te that the terms ''felsic'' and ''mafic'' are sometimes substituted by the older chemistry terms "aci...
15: ...Olympus Mons]] is a shield volcano on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], and the tallest mountain in the known so...
24: ...es are usually situated either at the boundaries between [[tectonic plates]] or over [[hot spot]]s. Vo...
41: ...veral million years, making such a distinction sometimes meaningless when compared to the lifespans of... - Africa (35389 bytes)
3: ...after [[Asia]]. At about 30,244,050 [[square kilometre|km²]] (11,677,240 [[square mile|mi²]]...
5: ==Etymology==
18: ...thmus of Suez]] and the [[Red Sea]] the boundary between [[Asia]] and Africa. As [[Europe]]ans came to...
24: ...r outline an area, of c. 30,244,050 [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]] (11,677,240 [[square mile|mi<s...
37: ...es ever formed. Other [[civilization]]s include [[Ethiopia]], the [[Nubian kingdom]], and the kingdoms... - Australia (39438 bytes)
14: ...ames = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Michael Jeffery]]<br>[[John Howard]]|
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48: ... Great Britain|British]] in 1770, and officially settled as a British colony on [[January 26]], [[1788...
50: ...bited island]], [[Boigu Island]], is about 5 kilometres from Papua New Guinea. This has led to a compl...
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