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- Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...still called '''lawn tennis''', to distinguish it from [[real tennis]] (also known as ''royal tennis''...
10: [[image:tennis_court.png|right|frame|The dimensions of a tennis court, in [[feet]]....
18: ...'' can encompass many different surfaces, ranging from old-fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt...
20: ... though both originally used grass courts - the [[French Open]] uses clay courts, and [[Wimbledon cham...
80: ...rn''. For a number of years the small, apparently frail 1920s player [[Bill Johnston]] was considered ... - List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
1: The following lists male [[tennis]] players from over the years who have been ranked in the top ...
6: ...- [[:Category:South African tennis players|South Africa]] - doubles specialist
7: *[[Fred Alexander]] ([[1880]]-[[1969]]) (United States)
24: ...]] ([[1941]]-) ([[:Category:French tennis players|France]]) - one of the "Handsome Eight"
33: *[[Arnaud Boetsch]] ([[1968]]-) - (France) - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...alvados, France|Falaise]], [[Normandy]], now in [[France]], William succeeded to the throne of England...
14: ...rp his place. King [[Henri I of France|Henry I of France]] knighted him at the age of 15. By the time ...
23: ...ade the promise under duress and so may have felt free to break it.
34: ...acing [[History of the English Language#Period of French Domination|English]] as the language of the r...
38: ...e first two large Xs) on the Accord of Winchester from 1072.'']] - Fluorine (8588 bytes)
34: '''Fluorine''' (from L. ''fluere'', meaning "to flow"), is the [[che...
45: ... such as [[Teflon]], and in [[halon]]s such as [[Freon]]. Other uses:
49: ...luorine is used in the production of [[uranium]] (from the hexafluoride) and in more than 100 differen...
50: ...ed extensively in [[air conditioning]] and in [[refrigeration]]. [[Chlorofluorocarbon]]s have been ban...
62: ...s due to its extreme reactivity - it is separated from its compounds only with difficulty and then it ... - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
48: ...the [[world economy]]. Structural components made from aluminium are vital to the [[aerospace]] indust...
58: ...so coated with a thin layer of aluminium, but are front coated to avoid internal reflections even thou...
82: ...lue if people started producing this bright metal from clay. Therefore, instead of giving the goldsmit...
86: ...in bauxite ore and successfully extracted it. The Frenchman [[Henri Saint-Claire Deville]] improved W?...
88: ...t process]] in [[1886]] made extracting aluminium from minerals cheaper, and is now the principal meth... - Uranium (27752 bytes)
165: *beta (tetragonal) stable from 667.7 °C to 774.8 °C
166: *gamma (body-centered cubic) from 774.8 °C to melting point - this is the mos...
170: ...up>233</sup>U isotope is also fissile and is made from <sup>232</sup>[[thorium]] by [[neutron]] bombar...
184: ...natural uranium, because the [[mineral]] material from which they are made is typically high in uraniu...
191: ... was found to be [[radioactivity|radioactive]] by French physicist [[Henri Becquerel]] in [[1896]], wh... - Timeline of chemical element discovery (10490 bytes)
31: ...7]] - [[Cobalt]] discovered by [[Georg Brandt]]. From the [[German language|German]] word ''kobalt'' ...
33: ... [[Nickel]] isolated from [[niccolite]] by [[Axel Fredrik Cronstedt]].
34: ...[[1753]] - [[Bismuth]] discovered by [[Claude Geoffroy Junine]]
36: ... [[Hydrogen]] discovered by [[Henry Cavendish]]. From the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''hud? (wate...
39: **[[Oxygen]] discovered by [[Joseph Priestley]]. From the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''oxus'' (ac... - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
2: ... Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the [[Western Roman Empire]] ([[5th ...
4: (The corresponding adjective, from the Latin ''medius aevus'', is spelled '''''med...
8: ...ern European historians. That term has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotyp...
10: ... lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise o...
14: ...oon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction between the cult... - Fall of the Western Roman Empire (2775 bytes)
10: ...Brown (historian)|Peter Brown]], have turned away from the idea that the Roman Empire "fell". They see... - Copepods (3800 bytes)
24: ...ic [[animal]]s living in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat, a form of [[plankton]], specific...
28: ...]] and catch with their feeding legs single cells from the water. Some scientists say they form the l...
38: ...] (38 mm) feeding on copepods - the fish approach from below and catch each copepod individually. In t... - Koalas (10448 bytes)
20: ...t part of the bear family. The word "koala" comes from an [[aboriginal]] word meaning "does not drink"...
22: ...re found all along the eastern coast of Australia from near [[Adelaide]] to the base of the [[Cape Yor...
26: ...ales]] as ''P. cinereus cinereus''. The variation from one form to another is continuous, and there ar...
30: ...hildren]] delight in imitating) that can be heard from almost a [[kilometre]] away during the breeding...
35: ...nlarged to extract the maximum amount of nutrient from the poor quality diet. Much of this is done thr... - Sea Slugs (4331 bytes)
20: '''Infraorder''' [[Anthobranchia ]] <br />
21: '''Infraorder''' [[Cladobranchia]]
28: ... characterised by a single gill behind the heart, from which the subclass derives its name ([[Greek la...
54: **Infraorder Anthobranchia F鲵ssac, 1819
55: **Infraorder Cladobranchia Willan & Morton, 1984 - Painting of the United States (3965 bytes)
3: ... of settlement brought the transcendent beauty of frontier landscapes to painters' attention.
7: ...bstract painters promoted by the photographer [[Alfred Stieglitz]] ([[1864]]-[[1946]]) at his Gallery ...
17: ... [[Buckminster Fuller]], [[Louis Sullivan]] and [[Frank Gehry]]. - Addax (1956 bytes)
16: ...x stands about a metre at the shoulder and weighs from sixty to a hundred and twenty kilograms. Their ...
18: ...dax herds contain both males and females and have from two to twenty animals, though they had more in ... - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ... contexts, ranging from the sub-nuclear particles from which all ordinary matter is made ([[particle p...
12: The culture of physics research differs from the other sciences in the separation of [[theor...
15: ...mulation of new theories. Likewise, ideas arising from theory often inspire new experiments. In the ab...
34: | [[Boltzmann's constant]], [[Entropy]], [[Free energy]], [[Heat]], [[Partition function (stati...
42: ...lence principle]], [[Four-momentum]], [[Reference frame]], [[Spacetime]], [[Speed of light]] - Vincent van Gogh (11980 bytes)
11: ...ng friendship, would join the company later. This friendship is amply documented in the large collecti...
18: ... of [[color]], favoring dark tones, set him apart from his teacher.
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27: ...to enhance the brilliance of each. A lovely quote from one of his letters: "I want to use colors that ...
30: ... left ear, which he gave to a startled prostitute friend. Gauguin left in December 1888. - Cellulose acetate (4564 bytes)
23: * made from a renewable resource: reforested trees.
39: Acetate is derived from [[cellulose]] by deconstructing wood pulp into ... - Drawing (17083 bytes)
2: ...of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. These marks m...
5: ...ing'') on previous layers so that light reflected from below the surface comes through, or color strok...
29: ...variety of different sizes and qualities, ranging from newspaper grade for practice up to high quality...
35: ...seful are tracing paper, a circle compass, ruler, frisket film, fixative, and drafting tape. Certain '...
37: ...ve models, or a landscape or other scene. Drawing from a picture can be easier in some respects as the... - Lithography (5288 bytes)
6: Lithography, from the Greek words for "stone" and "to write," was...
22: ...ucing the effect of drawings. Famous artists like Francisco Goya and later, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,...
37: ...t the time, the most complete range of line color from white to black.
39: ...st's lithographs" that sparked a flood of (mostly French) artists who dabbled in lithography, includin... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
19: * [[January 7]] - [[Alferd Pecker]] is released from prison after serving 18 years for [[Cannibalism...
38: ...]] after serving three years for [[embezzlement]] from the First National Bank in [[Austin, Texas]].
72: * [[January 16]] - [[Frank Zamboni]], American inventor (d. [[1988]])
74: * [[January 27]] - [[Willy Fritsch]], actor (d. [[1973]])
113: * [[July 31]] - [[Jean Dubuffet]], French painter (d. [[1985]])
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