Search results
|
|
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #41.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br /...
62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]]...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India...
69: ... by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entir...
72: ... the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Em... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
43: | From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[August 31]], [[1...
66: ...wly-built [[Putrajaya]]</small><br> <small>2. 020 from [[Singapore]]</small>
76: The earliest recorded Malay kingdoms grew from coastal city-ports established in the [[10th ce...
78: ...by a prince (Parameswara) from Palembang who fled from the island Temasek (now known as Singapore). Wi...
82: ...formed. These settlements were collectively ruled from the [[British East India Company]] seat of gove... - Malawi (22306 bytes)
1: ... remains unclear; it is held to be either derived from that of southern tribes, or noting the 'glitter...
7: national_motto = Unity and Freedom |
35: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[July 6]], [[1964]] ...
49: ...similar to peoples living today in the [[Horn of Africa]]. At another site, dated 1500 BC, the remains...
51: ...f traders, mostly from [[Glasgow]], formed the [[African Lakes Company]] to supply goods and services ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... the country's early history, stemming as it does from the Roman name ''Portus Cale'', a possibly mixe...
15: ...C]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local ...
17: ...Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the [[Conii]]. Over decades, the R...
25: ...s. From there they aimed to reconquer their lands from the [[Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Ar...
27: ...r of the Iberian Peninsula, faced new competition from other regions. The lords of the cities of [[Coi... - Honey (11666 bytes)
4: ... fluid produced by [[bee]]s and other [[insect]]s from the [[nectar]] of [[flower]]s. "The definition ...
8: ...ure content is too low. Natural, raw honey varies from 14% to 18% moisture content. As long as the moi...
17: *[[Fructose]]: 38%
29: ...licacy]] for its unique flavour. [[Manuka]] honey from [[New Zealand]] is said by some to have more sp...
31: ...ece]] is famous for [[wild thyme]] honey, as is [[France]] for [[lavender]] and [[Black locust|acacia]... - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
7: ...These names are also used to distinguish the game from other sports known as "[[football]]". <!-- Plea...
11: ...rope]], [[Latin America]], and increasingly in [[Africa]] — football evokes great passions and p...
17: ...g|thumb|250px|A goalkeeper dives to stop the ball from entering his goal.]]
19: ...he ball close to their feet); by passing the ball from team-mate to team-mate; and by taking shots at ...
21: Football is generally a free-flowing game with the ball in play at all times... - Arkansas (11679 bytes)
42: ...me, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to t...
44: ...d States]] as a [[slave state]]. Arkansas seceded from the Union on [[May 6]], [[1861]] during the [[...
50: ...ic Party|Democrat]], was convicted of felony mail fraud as part of the [[Whitewater Scandal]]. This l...
54: ...cted separately from the governor and thus can be from a different political party.
70: ... Mississippi. The Grand Prairie is slightly away from the Mississippi river in the southeast portion ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...British possession after France's defeat in the [[French and Indian War]]. For many years, rightful co...
44: ...north to south, is 159 miles. Its greatest width, from east to west, is 89 miles (the narrowest width ...
52: ...particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and climate conditions unique ...
58: ...ing the era Native Americans migrated year-round. From [[1000 BCE]] to [[1600|1600 CE]] was the Woodla...
60: ..., [[1609]], [[French colonization of the Americas|French explorer]] [[Samuel de Champlain]] claimed th... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
36: ... the most famous of all [[state motto]]s: "[[Live free or die]]".
51: ... modern [[Republican Party]] by [[Amos Tuck]] and friends. New Hampshire grew as a hotbed of [[Aboliti...
58: ...ther [[John H. Sununu]] was governor of the state from [[1983]]–[[1988]]. [[List of New Hampshir...
60: ...ampshire)| Executive Council]] that is a holdover from the [[Governor's Council]] of the Colonial era....
66: ...ermont]] voted on [[March 2]], [[2004]] to secede from [[Vermont]] and join New Hampshire—a larg... - Acrosome (814 bytes)
1: ...f of its head. It is a cap-like structure derived from the [[Golgi apparatus]]. In [[Eutheria|Eutheri...
4: ... the egg cell, and digestive enzymes are released from the sperm to digest the zona pellucida and give... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
4: ...olitical influence, both of which he surrendered, from a fear that they would hinder his search after ...
9: ...and admire him and the poet [[Euripides]] derived from him an enthusiasm for science and humanity.
13: ...t philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry from [[Ionia]] to [[Athens]].
15: ...]]; the heavenly bodies were masses of stone torn from the earth and ignited by rapid rotation.
16: ... as a means of attacking him in the person of his friend. - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...ography|geographer]] and [[exploration|explorer]] from the [[Phocaean]] colony [[Massilia]] (today Mar...
6: ... the journey Pytheas documented has him traveling from Marseille in succession to Bordeaux, Nantes, La...
8: ...d closed the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] to all ships from other nations. Some historians therefore believ...
12: ... of [[cereal|grain]] and honey. Unlike the people from southern Europe, they had [[barn (building)|bar...
30: *Frye, J. & Frye H. (1985) ''North to Thule: An imagined narrati... - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
2: ...ption = Skull of ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex|T. Rex]]'' from the <br /> [[United States Department of the In...
16: ...of the [[Cretaceous]] period. Dinosaurs are known from both fossils and nonfossils including [[fossil]...
20: ...on|classifying]] dinosaurs, which are still known from a spotty [[fossil record]].
34: ...are [[morphology|morphologically]] quite distinct from their reptilian ancestors, and referring to bir...
42: ...mong those that are recovered, very few are known from complete skeletons and even impressions of soft... - Cretaceous (7391 bytes)
1: ...divisions of the [[geologic timescale]], reaching from the end of the [[Jurassic]] period (about 146 [...
6: ...eous-Tertiary extinction event]]. The Cretaceous (from [[Latin]] ''creta'', for chalk) was named for t...
10: ...ceous|Upper]] subdivisions. The [[faunal stage]]s from youngest to oldest are:
57: ...eustatic sea level]]s worldwide. To the north of Africa the [[Tethys Sea]] continued to narrow. Within...
69: ...he Cretaceous proceeded faced growing competition from the [[adaptive radiation]] of [[bird]]s, and by... - Desert (21206 bytes)
18: ...ey should be designated as specifically different from the simple definition of a desert: a place whe...
20: ...s an [[ice cap]] if the temperature remains below freezing year-round, rendering the land almost compl...
22: ... other areas are arid by virtue of being very far from the nearest available sources of moisture (this...
28: ...orld's largest desert, the [[Sahara]] of [[North Africa]], which has experienced temperatures as high ...
32: ... These deserts are in interior [[watershed]]s far from oceans and have a wide range of annual temperat... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
31: ... evolution]]: the study of the evolution of stars from their formation to their end as a stellar remna...
49: In astronomy, [[information]] is mainly received from the detection and analysis of [[electromagnetic...
56: ...to eliminate noise (electromagnetic interference) from the atmosphere.
64: ...ight is heavily absorbed by [[water vapor]], so infrared observatories have to be located in high, dry...
66: ...d (except for a few wavelength "windows") [[Far infrared astronomy]], so observations - Solar system (21174 bytes)
26: **[[Planetesimal]]s, from which the planets were originally formed, are s...
30: **[[Meteoroid]]s are asteroids that range in size from roughly boulder sized to particles as small as ...
34: ... belt and [[scattered disk object]]s in the outer fringes.
36: ...Sedna]], with a highly elliptical orbit extending from about 76 to 928 AU, does not obviously fit in e...
37: ... Some of the dust is likely [[interstellar dust]] from outside the Solar System. - Sun (20830 bytes)
10: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>Earth
21: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>[[Milky Way]] core
55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
122: ...onally referred to as '''Sol''' to distinguish it from other "suns". Planet [[Earth]] [[orbit]]s the ...
128: ...istance of about 25,000 to 28,000 [[light-year]]s from the [[galactic centre]], completing one revolut... - Planetary system (2476 bytes)
5: ... theories today argue that planetary systems form from a [[solar nebula]].
7: ...ary systems around [[pulsar]]s have been inferred from slight variations in the period of the pulses o...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).