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- Tangram (4661 bytes)
7: * 5 [[triangle]]s of various sizes,
19: The English word is built from TANG + GRAM.
21: [[Image:Tangram-man.png|framed|right]]
33: *''Adventure of the Beutiful Princess in Triangle Land'', F. Gregory Hartswick, Siman & Schuster Pu...
37: *''Geometry and Fractions with Tangrams'', Barbara Bando Irvin - 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... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
4: ...k form of ''[[Babel]],'' which is derived in turn from the [[Semitic]] form ''bab-Illu'', meaning "The...
8: ...l of [[Hammurabi]]'s empire ([[18th century BC]]) From this time onward it continued to be the capital...
43: ...ical knowledge of Babylon's topography is derived from the classical writers, the inscriptions of Nebu...
45: ...bylon Ruins Marines.jpg|thumb|200px|US Marines in front of the rebuilt ruins of Babylon (2003)]]
48: ...und on the N. and E. sides, while a third forms a triangle with the S.E. angle of the other two. W. of the [... - Shadow mask (2096 bytes)
1: ... for each [[pixel]] are generally arranged in a [[triangle|triangular]] shape (sometimes called a "[[triad (...
5: ...ess and damage to the shadow mask that can result from repeated expand/contract cycles, thus increasin... - Sulfur (18059 bytes)
48: ...olid. Although sulfur is infamous for its smell - frequently compared to rotten eggs - the odor is act...
50: ...trope]]s besides S<sub>8</sub>. Removing one atom from the crown gives S<sub>7</sub>, which is respons...
59: ...r]] and as a preservative in [[wine]] and dried [[fruit]]. Because of its flammable nature, sulfur als...
62: ...]]-like process. Sulfur is absorbed by [[plant]]s from soil as the [[sulfate]] [[ion]]. Inorganic sul...
65: ...dards increasingly require sulfur to be extracted from [[fossil fuel]]s to prevent the formation of ac... - Cymbal (7449 bytes)
9: ...simo. Cymbals are specially suited for suggesting frenzy, fury or bacchanalian revels, as in the Venus...
17: ...illed player can obtain an enormous dynamic range from such a pair of cymbals. For example, in [[Beeth...
21: ...ogether contribute to both very low and very high frequency ranges and provide a satisfying "crash-ban...
23: Clash cymbals evolved into the [[low-sock]] and from this to the modern [[hi-hat]]. Even in a modern...
29: ...lude scraping a coin or a [[triangle (instrument)|triangle]] beater rapidly across the ridges on the top of ... - Triangle (instrument) (2713 bytes)
2: ...orners by a piece of thin wire or gut, leaving it free to vibrate. It is usually struck with a metal b...
4: ... it being used in [[folk music|folk bands]]. Some triangles have jingling rings along the lower side.
6: ...gle, these early instruments were often isosceles triangles.
8: ...piece to make the triangle really prominent was [[Franz Liszt]]'s Piano Concerto No. 1, where it is us...
10: ...onary of Music and Musicians]]'' writes that "the triangle is by no means a simple instrument to play". In t... - Chemical bond (3955 bytes)
15: ...ionic structures can be understood using theories from [[classical physics]]. However, more complicate...
19: ... energies based on the AOs of the atoms they came from. Unlike pure ionic bonds, covalent bonds may ha...
33: * [[Van Arkel-Ketelaar triangle]] - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...onometric]] table, which allowed him to solve any triangle. With his solar and lunar theories and his numer...
8: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
14: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
18: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
20: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...approximately [[1 E7 m|19,800 km]] (12,300 miles) from [[Indonesia]] to the coast of [[Colombia]]. The...
9: ...agellan]] named the ocean. For most of his voyage from the [[Straits of Magellan]] to the [[Philippine...
18: ...]] and [[phillipsite]]. Pelagic sediments derived from seawater include pelagic red clays and the skel...
26:
36: ...iderable cloudiness, light fluctuating winds, and frequent calms. - Tobacco (28162 bytes)
14: ... whose roots are unclear; it is thought to derive from the [[Native American]] word "tabago," for a Y-...
16: ...f of a cigar or three cigarettes; however, only a fraction of the nicotine contained in these products...
26: ...e Americans]], and also soon led to the use of [[African slaves]] for cheap labor.
28: ... the colony's first black slaves as well as women from England in [[1619]].
39: ...ed with branches to protect the young plants from frost damage. These plants were left to grow until a... - Percussion instruments (2780 bytes)
8: ...tom-tom]], [[timbales]], [[triangle (instrument)|triangle]], [[vibraslap]], [[washboard]], [[whip (instrum...
10: ...f themselves, such as the [[triangle (instrument)|triangle]]. The [[tambourine]] is both membranophone and i... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...onometric]] table, which allowed him to solve any triangle. With his solar and lunar theories and his numer...
7: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
13: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
17: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
19: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - History of science in early cultures (11033 bytes)
3: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
7: <!-- Useful resources from which to draw are http://www.worldwideschool.or...
9: From their beginnings in [[Sumer]] (now [[Iraq]]) ar...
11: ...n trend towards [[rational]] science, moving away from [[superstition]] and [[belief]]; the Mesopotami...
16: ...he motions of the sun and the moon. In a treatise from the [[6th century]], a summary of five astronom... - Holocaust (53541 bytes)
6: ...estimates by historians of the exact number range from five million to over six million. Other groups ...
10: The word ''holocaust'' originally derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word ''[[holokaust...
16: The term has been frequently used to reference nuclear war, and in the...
20: ...azi Holocaust which taken together distinguish it from other [[genocides in history]].
24: ...dge, and renowned [[Psychiatry|psychiatrist]] [[Alfred Hoche]], the work was key to the formulation of... - Bicycle (44267 bytes)
3: ...cle]]'' features oversized tires, a sturdy frame, front shock absorbers, and handlebars oriented perpe...
5: ...[land vehicle]] with two [[wheel]]s attached to a frame, one behind the other. First introduced in [[1...
13: ...up by [[Louis Baudry de Saunier]], a 19th century French bicycle historian.
15: ... rode his [[1816]] machine while collecting taxes from his tenants. He patented his ''draisine'', a nu...
17: ... could push more firmly, and further enlarged the front wheel to increase the potential for speed. Sho... - Capricornus (6733 bytes)
5: ...tion)|Cancer]]. Its brighter stars are found on a triangle whose vertices are Giedi (α), Deneb Algedi ...
19: ...nty. Some ancient sources claim that this derives from the sun "taking nourishment" while in the const...
30: ...diac]] ([[December 22]] - [[January 19]]) differs from the astronomical constellation and the Hindu as...
49: [[fr:Capricorne (constellation)]] - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ...he first historical data we have from the city is from the middle of the IX Century, when [[Mohamed I]...
18: ...sh Indies]], but Madrid controlled Seville. Aside from a brief period, 1601 - 1606, when [[Philip III ...
20: ...have a lasting impact on French rule in Spain and France's image in Europe in general.
24: ...rero Blanco would continue the dictatorship after Franco's death--contribute to lead the country towar...
26: ...se of left-wing and republican ideology) accepted Franco's wishes of being succeedled by [[Juan Carlos... - Tetrapod (26290 bytes)
28: ...describing the earliest tetrapods, which radiated from the [[Sarcopterygii]], or "lobe-finned" [[fish]...
33: ...the late Devonian, land [[plant]]s had stabilized freshwater habitats, allowing the first [[wetland]] ...
35: ...itus]]. The universal tetrapod characteristics of front [[limb]]s that bend backward at the [[elbow]] ...
37: The evolution of the air-breathing [[lung]] from the primitive [[swim bladder]] of lobe-finned f...
39: ...ely from lower [[jaw]] material. All of them were from the European-North American [[supercontinent]] ... - Area (2688 bytes)
13: [[Imperial unit]]s, as currently defined from the metre:
24:
31: ...ht circular cylinder and cone formulae were taken from R.S. Aggarwal's Mathematics for Class 8-->
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