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- Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...placed on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteor...
6: ...ctually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[oceanogra...
10: ...e a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
12: ...g tsunamis, and occur where denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as ...
14: ...ying water column as sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Si... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
21: ...autonomous region of [[Italy]] and the largest [[island]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]], with an area o...
32: ...a Island]] to the north-west, and the [[Pelagian Islands]] to the south-west.
39: A network of [[motorway]]s crosses the island, much of it raised on columns due to the mount...
48: ...national airports in [[Trapani]] and the smaller islands of [[Pantelleria]] and [[Lampedusa]].
52: ...of art: many poets and writers were born on this island, starting from the [[Sicilian School]] in the ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
248: *[[Auguste Rodin]] (1840 - 1917)
271: *[[Claus Sluter]] (14th century) - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
8: ...cium]], [[iron]], and [[zinc]]. Minerals ubiquitously occur in the form of [[salts]] and [[electrolyte...
36: * 1840: [[Justus Liebig]] discovers the chemical makeup...
40: ...istiaan Eijkman]] worked with natives of [[Java (island)|Java]], who also suffered from beriberi. Eijk...
87: ...e vicious cycle is putatively fuelled by continuously high insulin/leptin stimulation and fat storage,...
101: Perhaps the most rigorously tested phytochemical is [[zeaxanthin]], a yellow... - Sam Houston (6990 bytes)
18: On May 9, [[1840]], in [[Marion, Alabama|Marion]], [[Alabama]], he...
22: ...he extension of slavery alienated the [[Texas legislature]] and other southern States, especially with... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
31: ... to run his successful campaign for the state legislature. Polk's oratory became popular, earning him ...
39: ...re in the nation. In the presidential election of 1840, Van Buren was overwhelmingly defeated by a popul...
42: ...ecisive, but on the ninth, the convention unanimously nominated Polk, who had by then obtained Van Bur...
50: ...as the [[latitude|parallel]] 54?40'. His campaign slogan became "[[Fifty-Four Forty or Fight]]."
60: ...Independent Treasury, created by the Democrats in 1840, had been abolished by the Whigs in 1841. After P... - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...who arrived in the U.S. as [[slavery|slaves]]. In slightly broader usage, the term also includes black...
15: ...[abolitionism]], which opposed the institution of slavery, culminated in the [[1860]] election of Pres...
17: ...ell as a number of other civil rights they previously had been denied. However, when [[Reconstruction]...
21: ...Roy Wilkins]], Sr. At the same time, [[Nation of Islam]] spokesman [[Malcolm X]] and, later, [[Stokely...
31: ...een the cultural imprint of [[Africa]]. The first slaves to arrive in America brought African language... - Photography (18493 bytes)
36: ...hotographs of people as Daguerre had done, and by 1840 he had invented the [[calotype]] process. He coat...
45: ...an's [[Kodak camera]] went on the market with the slogan "You press the button, we do the rest". Now ...
63: ... a positive transparency, intended for use in a [[slide projector]] or as color negatives, intended fo...
125: *[[Slide projector]] - March 18 (10594 bytes)
35: *[[1971]] - A landslide at [[Chungar]], [[Peru]] crashes into [[Lake Y...
45: ...ion in New York City. This day marks a 1426 year Islamic tradition being broken.
52: *[[1840]] - [[William Cosmo Monkhouse]], poet and critic ...
64: ...[1904]] - [[Srecko Kosovel|Srečko Kosovel]], Slovenian poet (d. [[1926]])
109: *[[1898]] - [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]], pioneering [[feminism|feminist]] (b. [[... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
42: ... (as [[New Helvetia]] or "New Switzerland") in [[1840]]. In [[1848]], when gold was discovered by [[Jam...
46: ...n [[1849]], which was recognized by the state legislature in [[1850]]. Sacramento is the oldest incorp...
50: ...ent home of the state capital in [[1854]]. Previously, the capital was located in [[San Jos鬠Californ...
58: ...es many boaters, who can make day trips to nearby sloughs or go all along the Delta to the [[San Franc...
78: ... Sacramento Knights of the [[CISL]] and later [[WISL]]. The [[Sacramento Solons]], a [[Pacific Coast L... - Springfield, Illinois (6768 bytes)
25: ... the capital of Illinois in [[1837]], and the Legislature convened here for the first time in [[1839]]...
45: ..., 0.03% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.47% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other rac... - Jackson, Mississippi (21073 bytes)
29: ... has not lasted to the present day. The state legislature first met in Jackson on [[December 23]], 182...
33: ...n was first linked with other cities by rail in [[1840]]. Unlike [[Vicksburg, Mississippi|Vicksburg]], [...
39: ...kenridge]]. On July 16, 1863, Confederate forces slipped out of Jackson during the night and retreate...
41: ...m [[1839]] to [[1903]]. There the Mississippi legislature passed the ordinance of secession from the U...
67: ..., 0.01% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.19% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other rac... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
44: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]]-[[1087]])
105: *[[Ladislaus Bortkiewicz]] (Poland/Russia/Germany [[1868]] ...
260: *[[Franc Forstneric]] (Slovenia, [[1958-]])
317: *[[John Hammersley]] - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
42: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]] – [[1087]])
67: *[[Antonin Becvar]] ([[Slovakia]], [[1901]] – [[1965]])
94: ...|John Alfred Brashear]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1840]] – [[1920]])
104: *[[S. W. Burnham|Sherburne Wesley Burnham]] ([[1838]] – [[1921]])
113: *[[James Carpenter]] ([[Britain]], [[1840]] – [[1899]]) - Johann Gottfried Galle (1693 bytes)
4: in [[1851]] he moved to Breslau (now [[Wrocław]]) to become professor of a...
6: ...pan from [[December 2]],[[1839]] to [[March 6]],[[1840]]. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
7: ...ture notes of his students and published posthumously.
11: ...ntroduction to ''The Philosophy of History'' (translated by J. Sibree) Hegel says: ''"Philosophy shows...
29: ...in Friedrichsstrasse, in Berlin in the 1830's and 1840's. In this environment, some of the most influent...
38: ...l]] and [[Robert Brandom]] (sometimes, half-seriously, referred to as the [[University of Pittsburgh|P...
51: ...(''[[Ph䮯menologie des Geistes]]'' Sometimes translated as ''Phenomenology of Mind'') [[1807]] (See [... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
162: *[[Monroe Beardsley]], (1915-1985)
167: *[[Jacob Sigismund Beck]], (1761-1840){{fn|R}}
490: *[[Miroslaw Dzielski]], (1941-1989)
652: *[[Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki]] (1530-1607)
705: *[[Eduard Hanslick]], (1825-1904){{fn|R}} - Harp (23216 bytes)
42: ... in 1809 and 1840 respectively. A reprint of the 1840 edition is now available from [[Dover Publication...
76: ...nd lighter tension than other harps, and so has a slightly (four to five notes) lower pitch. It does ...
107: ...s packing materials with the door open a crack to slowly accommodate the harp to the temperature and h... - Ice age (15810 bytes)
10: ...ed it in his book ''ɴude sur les glaciers'' of [[1840]].
24: ...s of ice cores and ocean sediment cores unambiguously show the record of glacials and interglacials ov...
93: ...l near [[Syracuse, New York]] is now dry. [[Long Island]] was formed from glacial till, and the waters... - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
33: ...for themselves is ''Ah-ni-yv-wi-ya'' (literal translation "these are all the human people"). Most nati...
39: ...by [[Sequoyah]]. For years, many people wrote transliterated Cherokee on the Internet or used poorly i...
89: ...ef [[John Ross (Cherokee chief)|John Ross]], c. [[1840]]]]
101: ...Holland Thomas, a white store owner and state legislator from [[Jackson County, North Carolina]] helpe...
118: ...], a tribal newpapers which has operated continuously since 1828, and publishes editions in both Engli...
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