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- Tower of Babel (13111 bytes)
2: ... to reach the [[heaven]]s. To prevent the project from succeeding, [[God]] confused their [[language]]...
4: == From the Hebrew scriptures ==
8: ...there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon th...
11: ...wn to investigate the purpose of all this unusual enterprise. The self-confidence and unity of the people were...
13: The name "Babylon" is from Akkadian ''Bāb-ilu,'' which means, "Gate o... - Global warming (53726 bytes)
5: .../wg1/339.htm]]). Much of this uncertainty results from not knowing future CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, bu...
16: ...es including [[Brazil]], [[Canada]], [[China]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[India]], [[Italy]], [[Japan...
38: ...ly and historically, making the conclusions drawn from the data subject to disagreement. [http://www.g...
48: ...s in response to variations in "external forcing" from both human and non-human causes, including chan...
54: ...ureate]] [[Svante Arrhenius]] used the measured infrared absorption of carbon dioxide to calculate tha... - Biology (23579 bytes)
4: '''Biology''' is the [[science]] of [[life]] (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''bios'' = l...
19: ...>Biology studies the variety of life ''(clockwise from top-left)'' ''[[E. coli]]'', tree [[fern]], [[g...
38: ... tells the characteristics of the various species from which it descended—together with its gene...
62: ...existing [[organism]]s on [[Earth]] are descended from a common ancestor or ancestral [[gene pool]]. ...
64: ...hat there has been an unbroken continuity of life from the initial origin of life to the present time.... - Leatherback Sea Turtle (10187 bytes)
24: ... many unique features that distinguish it greatly from other sea turtles. Its [[metabolic]] rate is a...
28: ...mooth, blackish [[carapace]] with ridges running from head to tail. This shell is not made of [[bone...
30: ...e. Those of adults can span 270 [[centimeter|cm]] from tip to tip.
42: ...ng to reproduce. The male has to mount the female from behind and latch on in order to be able to copu...
46: ... back-fills the nest, making sure to disguise it from predators with a scattering of sand. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
3: [[Image:Voltaire.jpg|frame|Voltaire]]
4: ...y the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a [[France|French]] [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] ...
8: ...his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...nism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...Abbé de [[Châteauneuf]], a friend of François' mother, instructed him in ''les bel... - Dick Cheney (23685 bytes)
41: ...for the Humanities]] by Ronald Reagan, she served from 1986 to 1993. She is now a public speaker, auth...
43: ...e Perrys have four children. Elizabeth graduated from the [[University of Chicago]] Law School in [[1...
46: ...cided after three semesters to take some time off from Yale, on account of difficulty with his studies...
50: ... degree in [[political science]] in [[1966]] both from the University of Wyoming.
52: ...ive [[William Steiger]], a Republican congressman from Wisconsin. - Leatherback Turtles (10187 bytes)
24: ... many unique features that distinguish it greatly from other sea turtles. Its [[metabolic]] rate is a...
28: ...mooth, blackish [[carapace]] with ridges running from head to tail. This shell is not made of [[bone...
30: ...e. Those of adults can span 270 [[centimeter|cm]] from tip to tip.
42: ...ng to reproduce. The male has to mount the female from behind and latch on in order to be able to copu...
46: ... back-fills the nest, making sure to disguise it from predators with a scattering of sand. - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
5: ==Science as a social enterprise==
7: ...ndous government support and also ongoing support from the private sector. Available methods of commun...
9: ...their peers, though a number of scholarly critics from both inside and outside the scientific communit...
13: ...as created as an institution of the government of France [[1666]], meeting in the King's library. The ...
15: ...ost-Cold War era, a decline in government funding from many countries has been met with an increase of... - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
14: ... of [[Rome]] in the [[5th century]], and isolated from the rest of the world by the spread of [[Islam]...
16: ...rpretation. Given the limited scientific advances from about [[476]] to about [[1000]], this period ca...
18: ...ic]], [[geometry]], [[astronomy]] and [[music]]). From the year [[787]] on, [[decree]]s began to circu...
20: ...e rebirth of the interest in speculative inquiry; from this interest would follow the rise of the [[Sc...
27: ...the texts of the ''ancients'' and started a new infrastructure which was needed for scientific communi... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18: ...f reform. His family and close friends called him Frank. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR ...
20: ...nal organization to preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
22: ...nd his failure to advance [[civil rights]] for [[African Americans]]. Some conservatives such as [[Ron...
26: ...matter of great pride to his great-great-grandson Franklin. - Space Shuttle program (41074 bytes)
4: ...capacity to recover satellites and other payloads from orbit and return them to Earth, this capacity h...
16: ...e [[X-20 Dyna-Soar]]. In several instances groups from both worked together to investigate the state o...
27: ...k to adjust for the launching point rotating away from it while in polar orbit — in a 90 minute ...
35: ...e [[1970s]] this was high enough that the payback from the development had to happen very quickly or t...
43: ...ced in an external tank instead of internal tanks from the previous designs. This allowed a larger pay... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ... the form of [[theory|theories]]. [[Prediction]]s from these theories are tested by [[experiment]]. If...
6: ... of methods for scientific inquiry is indivisible from the development of science.
9: ...hilosophical ideas of this time were mostly freed from the constraints of everyday phenomena and commo...
13: ...dent ''verification''. In the [[17th century]], [[Francis Bacon]] attempted to describe a rational pro...
15: ...h wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying. Now this has never been don... - Water (15217 bytes)
3: '''Water''' (from the [[Old English language|Old English]] word '...
5: ...[cloud]]s, [[rain|rain water]], [[river|rivers or freshwaters]], and [[sea ice]]. On the planet, water...
13: ...f (water)|runoff]], water is continuously flowing from one form to another, in what is called the '''[...
15: ...appropriately lit, water drops in the air can [[refract]] the beautiful colors of a [[rainbow]].
21: ...y seas and the putrid [[swamp]]s, and we like the fresh pure water of a mountain spring. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12500 bytes)
1: ... was admired by later composers and his works are frequently played today.
11: ...birth. Mozart received intensive musical training from his father, including instruction in both the [...
19: ...in performance, then wrote it out in its entirety from memory, only returning a second time to correct...
23: ...e was so taken by the sound created by [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s [[glass harmonica]] that he composed se...
29: ...1784–1858) or [[Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart|Franz Xaver Wolfgang]] (later a minor composer himse... - Karl Marx (38076 bytes)
1: [[Image:Kmarx.jpg|frame|right|Karl Marx]]
2: ...s of class struggle, summed up in the famous line from the introduction to the ''[[The Communist Manif...
7: ... in [[Germany]]). His father Herschel, descending from a long line of [[rabbi]]s, was a lawyer and his...
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18: ...nsorship was in place, and non-Lutherans suffered from religious discrimination. - Dairy farming (1849 bytes)
2: ...ing''' is a class of [[agriculture|agricultural]] enterprise, raising female [[cattle]] for long-term producti...
4: ..., to reduce the transmission of infection arising from the close quarters in which dairy cattle are ty...
6: ... [[trade barriers]] to protect domestic producers from foreign competition. In large countries, dairy...
8: ...fornia]]. In [[Europe]], [[Denmark]], northern [[France]] (particularly [[Normandy]]), and [[Switzerl... - Lawyer (33471 bytes)
14: It is frequently said that there are more lawyers ''[[per ...
18: ...quire that the applicant have earned a law degree from an [[American Bar Association]]-accredited [[la...
20: ...century, but gradually withdrew it under pressure from bar associations.
22: ...atent bar." Legal ethics rules prohibit lawyers from using the title "patent attorney" unless they a...
74: ...ican lawyers are very credential-oriented. Apart from the minimum requirements of a J.D. and admissio...
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