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- Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes wa...
4: ...mena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ..., later advocated by [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], and opposed by the [[empiricist]] s...
11: ...in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Indre-et-Loire]], [[France]]. When he was 1 year old, his mother died of...
14: ... whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Ri... - Avocado (6755 bytes)
2: ... [[Image:Avocado.jpeg|240px]] | caption = Avocado fruit (cv. 'Fuerte'); <br/>left: whole, right: in se...
12: ...nomial_name = Persea americana| author = [[Philip Miller|Mill.]]}}
15: ...nd green skin. The avocado tree does not tolerate freezing temperatures, and so can be grown only in s...
17: ...iant [[ground sloth]]s or [[Gomphothere]]s). This fruit with its mildly toxic pit, co-evolved with tho...
21: ...fluence of [[ethylene (plant hormone)]] gas). The fruit can be left on the tree until required, rather... - Black widow spider (5745 bytes)
15: ...|red-back]] and [[brown widow spider]]. In South Africa the black widow is known as the ''button spide...
17: ...h, although most commonly red, may range in color from white to yellow to various shades of orange and...
20: ...orted in the United States between 1950 and 1959 (Miller, 1992). Black widow venom acts by causing a loca...
22: ... latrotoxins, cause a massive transmitter release from a diversity of nerve endings); a number of smal... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
7: senateleader= [[Bill Frist]]|
22: ...f the Republican Party came from the Whigs, the [[Free Soil Party]], and [[Know-Nothing movement|Ameri...
46: ...Lincoln]] in [[1860]] ended the domination of the fragile coalition of pro-slavery southern Democrats ...
48: ... in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves positions in governm...
50: ...l politics – albeit with strong competition from the Democrats, especially during the 1880s. Wit... - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...as killed on the orders of the [[Conquistador]] [[Francisco Pizarro]], marking the beginning of [[Span...
11: The foreign name '''Inca Empire''' is derived from the word '''Inca''', which means "[[Emperor]]."...
19: ... ordered Manco Capac and [[Mama Ocllo]] to emerge from the depths of [[Lake Titicaca]] and found the c...
42: ... often needed to talk his way out of potential confrontations that could have easily wiped out his par...
82: ...in a [[ceremony]] to mark their [[manhood]]. Boys from noble families were subjected to many different... - Aztec mythology (10599 bytes)
80: ...', ''Tlazolteotli'')- the goddess of purification from filth, disease or excess
143: *Miller, Mary and Taube, Karl (1993) ''An Illustrated Dic... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
2: ...ir'') formed the southern part of [[Mesopotamia]] from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until t...
5: ...adian language|Akkadian]] which belongs to the [[Afro-Asiatic languages]].
12: ...fare over water rights, trade routes, and tribute from nomadic tribes.
18: ...g it his capital, and claimed an empire extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. He is t...
24: ...l]]s, [[millet]], [[wheat]], [[turnip]]s, [[Date (fruit)|date]]s, [[onion]]s, [[garlic]], [[lettuce]],... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
1: ...ers of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] traveled from [[1846]]-[[1857]]. Today the Mormon Trail is a...
14: ...ons demanding that the Latter-day Saints withdraw from Nauvoo by May 1846. A few days later, the Cart...
17: ...e year. On April 5th, the wagon train moved west from Winter Quarters toward the Great Basin.
19: ...[Pueblo, Colorado]] and a group of Church members from Mississippi. At this point, the now larger com...
23: ...g and several other members of the party suffered from a fever, generally accepted as a “mountain fe... - Hank Aaron (72330 bytes)
23: ...best moment of his career. Aaron drilled a pitch from the [[St. Louis Cardinals|Cardinals]]' [[Billy ...
28: ...and 7th inning off of [[Johnny Antonelli]], [[Stu Miller]] and [[Gordon Jones]]. It was the only time in ...
30: ...ews]], [[Joe Adcock]] and [[Frank (Joseph) Thomas|Frank Thomas]] became the first four players ever to...
34: ...ron's home run output increased due to the hitter friendly park – later nicknamed "The Launching...
36: ... in sports|1966]] off [[Bob Priddy]] of the [[San Francisco Giants]]. On [[August 23]] he homered to ... - List of Major League Baseball players (29066 bytes)
92: *[[Frank Baker|Frank "Home Run" Baker]] β
261: *[[Frank Chance]] β
276: *[[Fred Clarke]] β
315: *[[Frankie Crosetti]]
380: *[[Fred Dunlap]] - Hammond organ (5160 bytes)
5: ...rgan used [[additive synthesis]] of [[waveform]]s from [[harmonic series]] to generate its sounds. As ...
19: ...d Organ: Beauty in the B'', Mark Vail, pub Miller Freeman 1997. (238 pages) ISBN 0879304596.
31: * [[Joey DeFrancesco]]
56: * [[Freddie Roach]] - Red deer (16671 bytes)
26: ...atus and mating call of the elk is also different from that of the red deer, in that the elk "bugle" a...
28: ...]. The bulls may have as many as 50 cows to keep from other less fortunate males.
33: Apart from man, [[European Brown Bear|bears]], [[wolf|wolv...
50: ...eparation of [[Africa]]n [[lion]]s (Panthera leo) from various Asiatic [[tiger]]s (Panthera tigris), b...
65: ...tern [[Tennessee]] was shot in [[1849]]. The last free wapiti in [[Iowa]] were recorded in [[1871]]. - Chinese River Dolphin (4152 bytes)
14: ... Lipotes vexillifer | author = [[Gerrit S. Miller|Miller]] | date = [[1918]]}}
17: ... River Dolphin''' (''Lipotes vexillifer'') is a [[freshwater dolphin]] found only in the [[Yangtze Riv...
21: ...e [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] established the Freshwater Dolphin Research Centre as a branch of th...
31: ...as located at the Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology from [[1980]] to [[July 14]], [[2002]]. Qiqi was dis... - Gary Gaetti (2969 bytes)
3: ...st their projected regular third baseman, [[Keith Miller]], to injury, and had been playing struggling roo...
5: Following the 1995 season, Gaetti signed as a free agent with the Cardinals, where he enjoyed two ... - Benjamin Harrison (11469 bytes)
26: ...was a member of the [[fraternities and sororities|fraternity]] [[Phi Delta Theta]], and graduated in [...
28: ... to the [[United States Senate]], where he served from [[March 4]], [[1881]], to [[March 3]], [[1887]]...
40: ...liam McKinley]] and Senator [[Nelson W. Aldrich]] framed a still higher tariff bill; some rates were i...
42: ...with the Treasury surplus, the tariff was removed from imported raw sugar; sugar growers within the Un...
77: ...torney General]]||align="left"|'''[[William H. H. Miller]]'''||align="left"|1889–1891 - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
22: ...evelt was a fifth cousin of the later President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. They are the only cousins t...
27: ... and other ailments. It is believed he attended [[Friends Seminary]], a private [[Quaker]] school on [...
30: *From 1869 to 1870 his family toured [[Europe]] and s...
31: *From 1872 to 1873 the Roosevelt family traveled in [...
34: ... [[German language|German]] and [[French language|French]] while the family was in Dresden, remarked; ... - Spiro Agnew (8986 bytes)
42: ... [[Vice President of the United States]], serving from [[1969]] to [[1973]] under President [[Richard ...
45: ...own in the local Greek community. His mother was from [[Virginia]].
47: ...He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in France and Germany.
51: Upon his return from the war, Agnew tranferred to the evening progra...
57: ...ounty Executive [[Christian H. Kahl]] dropped him from the Zoning Board. Agnew loudly protested and d... - Broccoli (4962 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:Fractal Broccoli.jpg|240px]] | caption = Broccoli}}
22: ...nged in a tree-like fashion on branches sprouting from a thick, edible stalk. The large mass of flower...
30: The word ''broccoli'' comes from the Latin ''brachium'' and Italian ''brocco'' m...
31: Image:Fresh-broccoli-on-white-background.jpg
37: ...er with a wide circle of European correspondents, from whom he got packets of seeds for rare vegetable... - Desert Pupfish (2156 bytes)
12: ...prinodon salinus | author = [[Gerrit Smith Miller|Miller]] | date = 1943}}
23: ...tonball Marsh Pupfish''' ('''''Cyprinodon salinus milleri'''''), threatened - Pupfish (2156 bytes)
12: ...prinodon salinus | author = [[Gerrit Smith Miller|Miller]] | date = 1943}}
23: ...tonball Marsh Pupfish''' ('''''Cyprinodon salinus milleri'''''), threatened
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