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- 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... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ... for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ... time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even thoug...
37: ...ime that is not offset by a number of whole hours from Greenwich Mean Time. - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
8: ...ary]] (e.g. a dictionary containing the 2000 most frequently used words in the English language).
23: ...f the simplest meanings of the simplest concepts. From these, other concepts can be explained and defi...
29: ...rds: ''prescriptive'' or ''descriptive''. The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' (OED) is ''descriptive'', ...
31: ...agreement. But the softening of usage notations, from the previous edition, for two words, ''ain't'' ...
42: ...rovide the basis for all lexicographic decisions, from the selection of entry words, over the choice o... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...r [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scien...
11: ...fic data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ...ccount of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found i...
27: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
52: ...oration by bringing together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world. - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...ian Crusade]] against the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crusades]].
7: ...ght an outlet for their violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I]] in opposing...
9: ...day Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstinence]] with prayer or alms (except duri...
18: ...n and consider how the idea of a holy war emerged from this background.'' — [[Norman F. Cantor]]
21: ... Eastern church, [[Alexius I]] expected some help from a fellow Christian. However, the response was m... - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: A '''castle''' (from the [[Latin]] ''castellum'', diminutive of ''ca...
2: ...expanded into pleasure dwellings and power houses from the late 15th century, their "castle" designati...
10: ...st and foremost castles were places of protection from an invading enemy, a place of retreat. This can...
11: ...e weapons, built in otherwise hostile territories from which to control surrounding lands.
14: ...nd control of a region. A castle was a stronghold from which a lord or baron could control surrounding... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ... Oxford|Christ Church]], [[University of Oxford | Oxford]]. There he met [[Robert Boyle]], and gained empl...
12: ... balance spring also regulates the flow of energy from the mainspring of a timepiece. It coils and unc...
27: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/ric.martin/vectis/hookeweb/robe...
29: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/iw.history/hooke/face.htm The F... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...n also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of diffe...
25: ...later life, to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events.
31: ...ience). Newton argued that this should exempt him from the normal ordination requirement, and [[Charle...
36: ...'s ideas, Newton was so offended that he withdrew from public debate. The two men remained enemies un...
38: ...hristianson is not clear on what Newton concluded from this--> - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...en the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 [[Northern United States|northern states...
53: ...mter]], South Carolina, Lincoln called for troops from all remaining states to recover the forts, resu...
58: ...estern counties of Virginia organized a secession from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for...
62: ...California_and_the_Civil_War|California]] was a [[free state]] and a part of the Union. Lincoln had wo... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...rst time, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky was executed, and some of the century's...
6: ...democratic Islamic state, Turkey. Activity by the French and British forces in the eastern part of the...
8: ...nch defeat in the Franco-Prussian that would lead France to exploit a Balkan crisis as a precept for a...
10: ...attlefield, and nearly that many more on the home front due to food shortages, [[genocide]], and groun...
11: ...?E=0&O=03300083 French National Library] (Text in French language).]] - Ohio (19444 bytes)
42: ...ries]]. During the [[18th century]], the [[France|French]] set up a system of trading posts to control...
44: ...e [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]], the French ceded control of Ohio and the old Northwest t...
46: ...ited the [[American colonies|American colonists]] from settling in Ohio Country. British control of th...
48: ...lished slavery in the coming two generations, the free states would be known as Northern States. The N...
74: ...distinctive regional dialect set this section off from the rest of the state and, unfortunately, creat... - Mississippi (15114 bytes)
40: ... western boundary. The name itself probably comes from [[Native American]] words with various spelling...
46: ...d territory|organized]] on [[April 7]], [[1798]], from territory ceded by [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georg...
48: ...10]], [[1817]]. It was the second state to secede from the Union as one of the [[Confederate States of...
56: ... record of single-party dominance. For 116 years, from 1876 to 1992 Mississippians only elected [[Unit...
67: ...he ten Judges of the Court of Appeals are elected from five districts (two Judges per district) for ei... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
1: [[Image:aristotle.jpg|right|framed|Aristotle (sculpture)]]
10: ...alogue itself which guides the interlocutors away from the paths to truth. The soul alone can have kno...
12: ...wrote dialogues early in his career, no more than fragments of these have survived. The works of Arist...
17: ...ing his ''Ethics'': detail from the [[Vatican]] [[fresco]] ''[[Raphael Rooms|The School of Athens]]'',...
19: The history of Aristotle's works from the time of his death until the [[1st century B... - Plato (17363 bytes)
8: ...nsists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -- [[Alfred North Whitehead]], Process and Reality, 1929]]
12: ...es"; however, his [[nickname]], Plato, originated from wrestling. Since "Plato" means ''broad'', it pr...
18: ...s]]... some however say that it received its name from an ancient hero." (Robinson, Arch. Graec. I i 1...
29: ...hereas his later writing increasingly breaks away from the views of his former teacher. In the middle ...
31: ... dialogue distances both Plato and a given reader from the philosophy being discussed; one can choose ... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
6: ...ined admission to the college of [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. The dean of the college at the time was [[John...
8: ...ooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], who had come to Oxford seeking treatment for a liver infection. Cooper w...
14: ...ter become Essay. Two extant Drafts still survive from this period.
16: ...x]], where he had lived in the household of [[Sir Francis Masham]] since [[1691]].
24: ...ing theological viewpoints. He recoiled, however, from what he saw as the divisive character of some n... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...elium]] and the [[Battle of Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] tha...
7: ...hanes, he managed a scientific institute with his friend Chaerophon; Plato has Socrates tell us that h...
9: ... At a time when [[Athens]] was seeking to recover from humiliating defeat, the Athenian public court w...
11: ...g and strived for knowledge. Historical accounts from varied sources, while questionable, suggest tha...
50: ...C. C. W. Taylor, R. M. Hare, and Jonathan Barnes, Oxford University Press, NY, 1998. - Zoology (5641 bytes)
37: ...Englishman]], [[Edward Edward Wotton]], born at [[Oxford]] in [[1492]], who practised as a [[physician]] i... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...itius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
18: ... decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]], were burned in 1755.
20: Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had b...
24: ...easons, the dodo probably fattened itself on ripe fruits at the end of the wet season to live through ...
27: ...sness, made it easy prey. The name ''dodo'' comes from the archaic [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
120: '''Pluto''' is the ninth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in our [[solar system]]. Because Pl...
126: ...eone else did". Soon suggestions began to pour in from all over the world. Constance Lowell, [[Perciva...
128: ...ble, one morning her grandfather, who worked at [[Oxford University]]'s [[Bodleian Library]], was reading ...
140: ...o speeds up due to the gravitational acceleration from the Sun, stays ahead of Neptune, and pulls ahea...
146: ...the case of Pluto, the star dimmed out gradually. From the rate of dimming, the atmosphere was determi... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: A '''clock''' (from the [[Latin]] ''cloca'', "[[bell]]") is an inst...
43: ...ll used in French for large clocks. It is derived from the Greek ''hora'' meaning ‘hour’ a...
47: ...ive in any quantity are mid-[[16th century]] ones from the metalworking towns of [[Nuremberg]] and [[A...
120: * Edey, Winthrop. French Clocks. New York: Walker & Co., 1967.
122: ...ol. III. Edited by Charles Joseph Singer, et. al. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957, pp. 648-675.
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