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  1. 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...
  2. 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 ...
  3. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
    248: *[[Auguste Rodin]] (1840 - 1917)
    271: *[[Claus Sluter]] (14th century)
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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]]
  9. 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. [[...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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]]
  14. 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]])
  15. 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]].
  16. 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 [...
  17. 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}}
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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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