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- Archery (18991 bytes)
25: Targets are marked with 10 evenly spaced concentric rings, which have score values...
63: Flight Archery can only take place where space permits since archers com...
72: ... that certain types of game, often [[deer]], may only be taken with a bow. In other localities, specia... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
45: ...sed the poorer independent teams to struggle not only to remain competitive, but to stay in business. ...
53: ...one]] tires (Ferrari, Jordan and Minardi are the only teams that don't use [[Michelin]]). Fernando Alo...
72: ...and [[NASCAR]]. In its early years, F1 teams commonly constructed their engines as well. It has since ...
74: ...], purchase their engines from larger teams. The only remaining commercial engine-manufacturer is [[Co...
76: ...eted in [[1950]], and during the [[2004]] season only ten teams remained on the grid, each fielding tw... - Halloween (18290 bytes)
2: ...n much of the [[Western world]], though most commonly in the [[United States]], [[Ireland]], [[Scotlan...
20: ...al)|black magic]], or mythical [[monster]]s. Commonly-associated Halloween characters include [[ghost]...
53: ... to be hoaxes, and the few that were real caused only minor injuries, but many parents were under the ...
68: ...tinguished all other fires. Each family then solemnly lit their hearth from the common flame, thus bon...
75: ...cotland, Ireland and the North of England. It is only in the last decade that it has become popular in... - Triceratops (4523 bytes)
- Capacitor (29664 bytes)
72: Unlike capacitors that use a bulk dielectric made fro...
80: ... very low impedance at low frequencies. However, unlike aluminum electrolytics, they are intolerant of...
94: *In a capacitor [[microphone]] (commonly known as a condenser microphone), the diaphragm ...
103: ...es, unlike conventional batteries which last for only a few hundred or thousand recharge cycles. But c...
122: Capacitors are commonly used in [[Power supply|power supplies]] where th... - Ionosphere (19365 bytes)
19: ...million collisions per second. The D layer is mainly responsible for absorption of HF radio waves, pa...
22: ...cular [[oxygen]] (O<sub>2</sub>). This layer can only reflect radio waves having frequencies less than...
28: ...into one layer at night, and in the presence of sunlight (during daytime), it divides into two layers,...
47: ...that will hit the Earth with hard X-rays on the sunlit side of the Earth. They will penetrate to the ... - Helicopter (20080 bytes)
5: ...e off]] and [[landing|land]] vertically. Subject only to refuelling facilities and load/altitude limit...
19: ...cept that instead of moving the entire aircraft, only the wings themselves are moved. The helicopter's...
29: ...power available for forward flight. This is commonly known as slip-streaming and can occur while in a...
70: ...rge loads. The Belvedere had a production run of only 26 and went into [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] service...
82: ...n the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] it is commonly and properly referred to as the '''[[flight deck... - Film speed (5065 bytes)
- Pinhole camera (6994 bytes)
55: * [http://home.online.no/~gjon/pinhole.htm Pinhole Photography, Jon ... - Russia (28007 bytes)
23: ...ll of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less functional Christian state on the E...
60: ... and [[Pacific Ocean]]s, as well as more or less inland seas such as the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]], [[Blac...
71: ... with the following countries: [[Norway]] and [[Finland]],
72: ...jacent Countries|countries on its shores]] from Finland to Estonia and including the port of St. Peter...
83: ... minor island of [[Big Diomede]] is separated by only a few miles from [[Little Diomede]], a part of t... - Cigarette (11302 bytes)
2: ...ed end, inserted in the mouth. The term, as commonly used, typically refers to a tobacco cigarette.
48: ... where the age is 18). However, the minimum age only concerns the purchase of tobacco, not use. - Ice age (15810 bytes)
4: ...ion we are still in an ice age (because the [[Greenland]] and [[Antarctic]] ice sheets still exist). M...
22: ...utions through time. Due to the positions of Greenland, Antarctica, and the northern portions of Euro...
41: ...s can change and significantly redistribute the sunlight received by the Earth. Of particular importa...
48: ...rth has entered a mode of climate behavior where only the 2nd or 3rd cycle triggers an ice age. This ... - Glacier (6999 bytes)
3: ...voir of fresh [[water]] on [[Earth]], and second only to the [[ocean]]s as the largest reservoir of to...
5: ...can calve underwater, causing the iceberg to suddenly explode up out of the water. The [[Hubbard Glaci...
25: ...ssively lower as one approaches the poles. [[Greenland]] and [[Antarctica]] are heavily glaciated, to... - Origami (9154 bytes)
3: ...[[paper folding]]. In English, the term properly only refers to the art of paper folding in Japan. How...
5: Origami only uses a small number of different folds, but they...
71: ...://www.thekhans.me.uk/phpBB2/ Origami Forum] The Online Origami Forum. - Guitar (36953 bytes)
44: ...ctly before the finger). Fretboards are most commonly made of [[rosewood]], [[ebony]], and [[maple]].
48: ...d both forward and backward (most truss rods can only be loosened so much, beyond which the bolt will ...
50: ...th, 15th, 17th, 19th, and 21st frets, and double inlays on the 12th, sometimes 7th, and (if present) 2...
57: ...rengthened with internal bracing, decorated with inlays and purfling, and subjected to a lot of abuse.
72: ...imes incorrectly referred to as a "tremolo bar"--unlike the change in pitch that the whammy bar produc... - The Star-Spangled Banner (15265 bytes)
4: ...Store in [[Baltimore]]. Currently this is one of only ten copies known to exist, and is housed in the ...
6: ...king song ''[[To Anacreon in Heaven]]'', but was only made the national anthem by a [[Congress of the ...
47: ...down the scale as the song is normally done. And unlike many of the artists who turn it into a "perfor...
100: Note that under most circumstances only the first stanza is played.
112: ...n preforming an acoustic "Star-Spangled Banner." Only available as a streaming audio] - Platypus (21900 bytes)
14: ..., and one of the four extant [[monotreme]]s, the only mammals that lay [[egg (biology)|eggs]] instead ...
30: ... Although the platypus has two separate ovaries, only the left one is functional. The other is primiti...
41: ...ed, wet leaves. After the eggs hatch, the mother only leaves the burrow for short periods of time to f...
49: ...orth as the base of the [[Cape York Peninsula]]. Inland, its distribution is not well known: it is ext...
72: ...in captivity. This is a very difficult task, and only a few young have been successfully raised since ... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
12: ...]]'' (21e - 25d) and his ''[[Critias]]'' are the only written accounts of Atlantis; in these Plato giv...
20: ...nd described a class of [[earthquake]]s that suddenly, by a violent motion, opened up huge mouths and ...
23: ...world: it showed an inner continent, a compact mainland surrounded by sea, and this was surrounded by ...
36: ...ct that is absent in Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat to the Greeks), and describ...
38: ...e references to this, and the myth was published only posthumously, in the ''[[Silmarillion]]'' ([[197... - Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
5: ...untry with a drifting sheet of ice. It is highly unlikely that there were any humans in the country at...
25: ...s of size and importance. They are distributed mainly throughout the north and east of the country, th...
39: ...s 370 tonnes of copper during the Bronze Age. As only about 0.2% of this can be accounted for in excav...
91: ...h Ptolemy calls ''Eblana'', has often been mistakenly identified with the city of [[Dublin]] on accoun...
106: ...Ireland was the [[Goidelic]] or Gaelic invasion. Unlike the previous invaders, the Goidels spoke a Q-C... - Climate change (15859 bytes)
23: ...In the last 600 million years of Earth's history only the Carboniferous Period and our present age, th...
36: ...lass of feedback mechanisms simply predicts that only some of the human emitted carbon dioxide will re...
108: * [http://www.euronet.nl/users/e_wesker/climate.html Climate change, a bri...
123: [[nl:Klimaatverandering]]
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