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- Mathematics (24164 bytes)
1: ...bstraction]] and [[logic|logical]] [[reasoning]], from [[counting]], [[calculation]], [[measurement]],...
8: ...[Day|days]], [[Season|seasons]], [[Year|years]]. From counting, naturally followed [[arithmetic]] (e....
15: ...s from [[string theory]]. The mathematics arising from this immediately has relevance for the subject ...
23: ...ians wanted their theorems to follow mechanically from a few simple incontrovertible truths and for th...
28: ... That is, mathematical knowledge exists separate from the physical world. - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...gust 27]], [[1521]]) was a [[Dutch School (music)|Franco-Flemish]] composer of the [[Renaissance music...
6: ...ance]], probably in the service of [[Louis XII of France|Louis XII]] for most of the time, and he like...
8: ...ich is written on a ''[[cantus firmus]]'' derived from the musical letters in the Duke's name. While ...
10: ...e]] on the present-day border between Belgium and France, becoming provost of the cathedral there. Du...
14: ...riting in the [[1580s]], was still using examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; and hi... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
6: ...term "Christ" to describe Jesus, which is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] translation for "M...
8: ...lly grouped into three main branches, which split from one another in disputes over doctrine:
14: ... but not [[Restorationism]]) derive their beliefs from the conclusions reached by the Council of Nicea...
29: ...stles and other followers claimed that Jesus rose from the dead, and set out to [[preach]] the new mes...
35: * via [[Egypt]] into [[North Africa]], [[Sudan]] and [[Ethiopia]] - Meditation (26064 bytes)
7: From the point of view of [[psychology]], meditation...
20: ...ces. It may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a busy daily routine, or even as a means of gai...
32: ...rgy and spirits that can protect the practitioner from misfortune.
41: ... loss. This in turn can gradually free one's mind from the attachment to the impermanent that is the r...
53: ...icult one of struggle and [[temptation]]. [[Saint Francis]] would also retreat to the wilderness in is... - Pope Hilarius (5932 bytes)
1: ...' (also '''Hilarus''', '''Hilary''') was [[Pope]] from [[461]] to [[February 28]], [[468]]). He was ca...
8: ...ld leave his diocese without a written permission from his metropolitan, with a right of appeal to the...
10: ...amertus that, if in the future he did not refrain from irregular ordinations, his faculties would be w...
16: ...he Apostle, to whom he attributed his safe escape from the Council of Ephesus, are due to him, thus sa... - Pope Vitalian (785 bytes)
1: ...us''' (died [[January 27]], [[672]]) was [[Pope]] from [[657]] - [[672]].
3: ... acted with cautious reserve, refraining at least from express condemnation of the ''Typus'' of [[Cons... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...istery (Florence)|Baptistery]] gates in [[1402]], from which Ghiberti emerged victorious over [[Filipp...
10: ...gradual maturation is visible. It can be followed from a [[Gothic]] stiffness of attitude and draping ...
14: ...m life with all their angularities and deviations from the lines of beauty.
23: ...]]. At the time of its creation, it was the first free-standing [[nude]] statue since ancient times. C... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
12: ...ered either radially or in concentric circles. ''Free form'' crosswords have simple designs and are n...
18: [[French language]] crosswords are smaller and not nec...
20: ...apitalizable letter in the intersecting clue. In French-language puzzles, [[diacritic]]s are omitted ...
27: ...o in a foreign language. For example, '''ETE''' (French for "summer") might be clued as '''"Summer, i...
86: ...words'']created by David Andersen, uses headlines from newspapers as a part of the clue. This enables ... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
1: [[Image:MacOKXTigerCover.jpg|Mac OS X Tiger front cover|thumb|260px|[[Mac OS X v10.4]], "Tiger"]...
4: ...ed after the [[McIntosh]], a variety of [[apple]] fruit favored by [[Jef Raskin]]. The original 128k M...
9: From its inception, the Macintosh has introduced or ...
20: * Separation of a program's code from its resources to allow localization, etc.
58: ...at not only utilized the 68000, but speeded it up from 5 MHz to 8 MHz; it also had a 384 by 256 bitmap... - Computer hardware (4023 bytes)
1: ...he physical parts of a computer, as distinguished from the data it contains or operates on, and the [[...
18: ...he most common type of removable media, cheap but fragile.
34: * [[Sound card]] - translates signals from the system board into analog voltage levels, an... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
12: ...b|200px|Young Einstein before the Einsteins moved from Germany to Italy.]]
20: ...e school to let him go with a medical note from a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-...
22: ...r Maja was to later marry their son Paul, and his friend [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughte...
26: ...ed his scientific interests with a group of close friends, including Mileva. He and Mileva had a daugh...
37: ... that, in each case, Einstein boldly took an idea from theoretical physics to its logical consequences... - Train (10331 bytes)
7: ...ay come from a variety of sources, but most often from a [[locomotive]] or self-propelled [[multiple u...
19: Freight trains comprise wagons or trucks rather than...
21: ... [[United States]], it is quite common for a long freight train to be headed by three, four, or even f...
23: ...ns can also be mixed, hauling both passengers and freight, see e.g. [[Transportation in Mauritania]]. ...
31: ...almost all were powered by [[steam locomotive]]s. From the [[1920s]] onwards they began to be replaced... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...s cared for by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the ...
8: ...in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in t...
10: ...e Press|Aldus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Ital...
12: ...]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe.
14: ...ull of contradictions. Erasmus held himself aloof from all entangling obligations; yet he was in a sin... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
23: ...-grandfathers had immigrated to the United States from [[Ballyporeen]], [[Ireland]] in the [[1860s]]....
25: In [[1920]], after years of moving from town to town, the family settled in [[Dixon, Il...
29: ...the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none of ...
31: ...games, getting only the bare outlines of the game from a ticker and relying on his imagination and sto...
35: ...] in the film ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'', from which he acquired the nickname ''the Gipper'', ... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ...2002]].) Although Lindbergh was the first to fly from New York to Paris nonstop, he was not the first...
18: ...les Lindbergh flight to Brussels.ogg|title=Flight from Paris to Belgium |description= Lindbergh's flig...
26: ...12]] in [[Hopewell, New Jersey]] just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home, after a nation-wide ten w...
31: ...ed States|President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] openly questioned his loyalt...
38: ...snapshots and more than a hundred letters written from him to her mother. She disclosed the affair in ... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
17: ...arping in the first gliders, they had to keep the front and rear posts that hold up the glider unbrace...
19: ...ine. They experimented with gliders at Kitty Hawk from 1900 through [[1902]], each year constructing a...
25: ... flights were witnessed by 4 lifesavers and a boy from the village, making it arguably the first publi...
31: ...Huffman Prairie in Dayton, inviting the press and friends and neighbors. Here they completed the first...
33: ..., and was often met with skepticism. The [[Paris, France|Paris]] edition of the ''[[International Hera... - Information (13474 bytes)
6: ...formation to animals. The colored light reflected from a flower is too weak to do much photosynthetic ...
12: ...at information is something that can be extracted from an environment, e.g., through observation or me...
16: ...e information produced when one message is chosen from the set" is the base two [[logarithm]] of <math...
30: ...representation, one can predict a broader pattern from a limited number of observations (inference) or...
32: ...re, a quantity of information is totally distinct from its medium. - March 18 (10594 bytes)
7: *[[1229]] - [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]] declares himself ...
14: *[[1871]] - President of the [[France|French]] government [[Thiers]] orders evacuation of ...
18: ...ng a failed [[United Kingdom|British]] & [[France|French]] naval attack on the [[Dardanelles]].
19: ...Belarus]]. Government of [[Ukraine]] emigrates to France. Famine kills millions of Russians.
25: ... [[Alps]] and agree to form an alliance against [[France]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
1: ...ramento from Riverwalk.JPG|thumb|175px|Sacramento from near the Sacramento River]]
2: ... [[1848]] by [[John Sutter, Jr.]] Sacramento grew from [[Sutter's Fort]], which was established by Sut...
36: === The lost frontier ===
37: ...entiful [[oak]] trees in the region and by eating fruits, bulbs, seeds, and roots throughout the year.
41: === From pioneers to gold fever === - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
46: ...water from the Salt River. Their name is derived from the [[Pima]] (Akimel O'otham) phrase, ''Ho Ho K...
49: ... and others from Wickenburg had dug a short canal from the Salt River and founded a small farming colo...
53: ...'', memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins left by the Hohokam.
61: ...Hotel now stands. Miss Nellie Shaver, a newcomer from Wisconsin, was appointed as the first female sc...
65: ...nment. The bill was signed by Governor [[John C. Fremont]] on [[February 25]], [[1881]]. Phoenix wa...
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