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- Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
1: ... on [[March 17]], [[1972]] in [[Selma, Alabama]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[soccer]] player. ...
3: ...r. She later moved to [[Northern Virginia]] to finish her high school career, living with relatives un...
5: ...Conference|her conference]] in goals with 103, assists with 72, and total points with 278.
7: ...hlete of the year five years in a row ([[1994]]-[[1998]]), she was elected [[Most Valuable Player|MVP]] ...
11: ...argest building on their corporate campus after this star, and that same year she, Chastain, [[Kate Ma... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...sle of Wight]]. She is best known as a solo long-distance [[Yachting|yachtswoman]] who, on [[February ...
4: ...ansome's]] ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'' books and is the Patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust which owns...
6: She was named [[1998]] [[British Telecom]]/[[Royal Yachting Association]] Yachtsm...
8: ...ently MacArthur was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for services to sport.
10: ...world record attempt for a crewed yacht in ''Kingfisher 2'', but was thwarted by a broken mast in the ... - Christy Martin (2947 bytes)
1: ...iner [[Jim Martin]] and promoted by [[Don King]], is nicknamed ''The Coal Miners Daughter''.
3: ...he faced [[Andrea DeShong]], who beat her by a decision in five rounds.19 wins in a row followed, incl...
5: ... front of [[Showtime]] cameras. Martin got the decision, and after that bout, she began to gain more c...
7: ...[[2002]], she beat [[Mia St. John]], also by a decision in ten.
11: ...alf without a fight, she returned, in [[Lula, Mississippi]], knocking out [[Lana Alexander]] in the se... - Shirley Muldowney (1811 bytes)
2: ...rash in [[1984]] but returned to the circuit in [[1998]] when she set a NHRA speed record. Muldowney ret...
6: ...[moniker]], stating: "There is no room for [[bimboism]] in drag racing."
8: Shirley Muldowney is married to [[Rahn Tobler]], who was her [[crew ch... - Katarina Witt (1117 bytes)
1: ...or [[Playboy Magazine|''Playboy'' Magazine]] in [[1998]]. Recently, she has been admitted to the [[World... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ... United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]]. She is a member of the [[Democratic Party]].
6: ... in a [[Methodist]] family in [[Park Ridge, Illinois]]. Her father ran a drapery-making business and ...
8: ..._States%29|Democratic Party]] and writing her thesis on radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
10: ...ambridge, Massachusetts. She joined the staff advising the [[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary|Ju...
12: ... and Vince Foster, who worked in the Clinton Administration as a deputy counsel for a brief time befor... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = '''Magnoliophyta'''}}
7: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = [[Class ...
12: ...ant]]s are called [[gymnosperm]]s; here the ovule is not enclosed at pollination.
15: ==History==
16: ...er [[Robert Brown]] had established in 1827 the existence of truly naked ovules in the [[Cycadophyta|C... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ... basic themes of the revolution are readily recognised.
3: ...matical]], [[mechanics|mechanical]], and [[empiricism|empirical]].
5: == Existence of the revolution ==
7: ...e rancor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental di...
9: ...derstood and practiced in the modern world; there is no concern here with "other narratives" or altern... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...id sugar onto a cold surface. The resulting solid is amorphous, not crystaline like the sugar was orig...
3: ...be [[amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word...
5: The remainder of this article will be concerned with a specific type of...
9: ...perties lead to a great many uses of glass. Glass is, however, brittle and will break into sharp shard...
13: ...] ([[Silicon|Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), which is the same chemical compound found in [[quartz]], o... - Process (6114 bytes)
1: ..., possibly taking up [[time]], [[space]], [[expertise]] or other [[resource]], which produces some out...
4: ...odic a process is the more useful it is as the basis of a [[clock]]. Below are a few specific example...
5: *The [[Bessemer process]] is a way of producing [[steel]].
7: *[[Evolution]] is a ''natural process'' which explains the origin o...
12: *[[Protein biosynthesis]] - Ocarina (3914 bytes)
2: ...exceptions composed of inexpensive [[plastic]]s exist.
4: ==History==
5: ... [[Germany|German]] ocarina-makers to use the [[Meissen]] blue and white "[[onion pattern]]" as the ex...
8: ...f the entire cavity (which is not pipe-shaped). This has different acoustical physics from a pipe. Tec...
11: ...on an ocarina is largely irrelevant -- their size is the most important factor. - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: The '''clarinet''' is a [[musical instrument]] in the [[woodwind]] fami...
4: ... generate the instrument's sound. (See ''Characteristics of the Instrument'')
6: ...rson who plays the clarinet is called a [[clarinetist]].
8: ==Characteristics of the instrument==
11: ...very agile; there are few restrictions to what it is able to play. - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...iian language|Hawai'ian]] spelling ''''ukulele''' is also sometimes seen.
3: ...d in D-G-B-D, a G-major chord. The Madeiran raj㯠is tuned D-G-C-E-A, in other words. the D and G stri...
5: ...d to the ukulele to its ancestral home of Madeira Island off the coast of North Africa. Flora Fox, a g...
7: ... Nunes, was Bill Tapia's neighbor. He sold Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...ne are a little brighter and louder. This tuning is still used today by some known personalities in u... - Nile (13738 bytes)
4: ...6;يل ''an-nīl''), in [[Africa]], is one of the two longest [[river|rivers]] on [[Eart...
8: ...upsilon;πτος), which itself is the source of the name "Egypt".
12: ...oint from which the length of a river is measured is not always agreed upon. The Nile carries far le...
14: ...nning and followed to the Mediterranean, the Nile is approximately 6695 km (4160 miles) long. Measuri...
20: ...he western flanks of the East African Rift, which is the southern African part of the [[Great Rift Val... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ...sh;[[1801]]) [[President of the United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth Preside...
22: ...gland]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...t, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: ...[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, Joh... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ... Jackson became the symbol of an era in American history — sometimes called the "'''Age of Jacks...
22: ...on Bonaparte]] for his willingness to contest British military supremacy.
24: ...came a colonel in the state militia, which began his military career.
26: ...f New Orleans]] on [[January 8]], [[1815]], made his national reputation and he advanced in rank to Ma...
28: His subsequent political rise was rapid. He was elected to both houses of [[Co... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
32: | '''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
42: ...[[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with the Congressional Republicans, leading t...
45: ... never attended any type of school; his wife has historically been credited with teaching him to read ...
86: ...stmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[William Dennison]]'''||align="left"|1865–1866
105: ...se, was run by the North. Johnson's public criticisms of Congress provoked much talk of impeachment o... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
2: ...inental plates]]. However, important exceptions exist in '''[[hotspot (geology)|hotspot volcanoes]]'''...
3: ...0px|Smoking Bromo and Semeru volcanoes on [[Java (island)|Java]] in [[Indonesia]].]]
5: The study of volcanoes is called [[vulcanology]] (or ''volcanology'' in som...
10: .... [[Mount Pel饝] on the island of [[Martinique]] is another example.
12: ...misleading, however, and are slowly falling into disuse. - Africa (35389 bytes)
3: ... [[square mile|mi²]]) including its adjacent islands, it covers 20.3 percent of the total land ar...
8: ...al [[Carthage]], corresponding to modern-day [[Tunisia]].
16: ...k is datable to about the [[first century]], so this cannot really be the origin of the name.
18: ...] as [[Prime Meridian]] and made the [[Suez Canal|isthmus of Suez]] and the [[Red Sea]] the boundary b...
24: ...40 [[square mile|mi<sup>2</sup>]]), including the islands. - Australia (39438 bytes)
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13: ...neral]]<br>[[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] |
27: established_events=-[[Commonwealth of Australia Constituti...
28: established_dates=From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 J...
47: <!-- [[Australian English]] please. -->
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