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- United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
4: {{Infobox_Country|
54: ... "state", "nation", "union", etc, please first contribute to the extensive discussion of this topic on...
69: ...s since the 10th century. Wales, under English control since the [[Statute of Rhuddlan]] in 1284, beca...
71: ...art of the United Kingdom. As provided for in the treaty, Northern Ireland, which consists of six of t...
74: ... The first half of the 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The se... - Flag of West Virginia (372 bytes)
2: ... a white field with a dark blue border around the edge of the flag. The current [[flag]] was adopted by ... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...lant]], a [[shrub]] native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the [[Old World]] and the [...
4: ... in a way that gives cotton unique properties of strength, durability, and absorbency. Each fiber is m...
9: ...ake very fine lightweight [[cloth]] in areas with tropical climates for millennia. Some authorities cl...
11: ...[[sheep]]. The Indians make their clothes of this tree wool".
13: ...uage|German]] ''Baumwolle'', which translates as "tree wool". - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
11: ...phinx of Giza|Great Sphinx]], and a few hundred metres further southwest is the [[Pyramid of Menkaure]...
13: == Construction ==
15: ...a and the current "rough hewn" appearance of the structure is due to the removal of the polished white...
17: ...st-West directions. These alignments are based on true North, not magnetic North. The sides of the pyr...
22: ...ltan]] in 1356CE in order to build mosques and fortresses in nearby Cairo. - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
3: ...Image:football_iu_1996.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The striker (wearing red shirt) has run past the defender...
11: ...ople regularly play football in more than 200 countries in every part of the world. Its simple rules a...
19: ...ng a pass or through tackling the opponent who controls the ball.
28: ... in depth discussion of the history of games ancestral to association football and the parallel develo...
30: ...les resembling the modern game were produced at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] in 1848, at a meeting a... - Luxor (8772 bytes)
2: ...[Image:Luxor Market Street.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Street market in Luxor]]
11: ...grandiose plans. Several of them never came to be true, like the golden obelisk of [[Hatshepsut]], but...
13: ...ge portion of their treasures for their expensive trips in the afterlife.
18: ...st for valuable cedar wood, necessary for the construction of the holy boat of Amun, and did not fear,...
20: ...banipal]] was the first and only to attack and destroy Thebes. Doing so, he acted friendly to Egypt, k... - Set (mythology) (12196 bytes)
6: ... and ''kh'' signifying ''[[majesty]]''. The exact translation of ''Set'' is unknown for certain, but i...
10: ...ng people with [[ginger hair]], which is not an attribute that egyptians generally had, and so he beca...
12: ...ge. Since sandstorms were said to be under his control as lord of the desert, and were the main form o...
20: ... struggle for the crown. It was said that in the struggle, Set's [[testicle]]s were ripped off, explai...
29: ... interest in her, disguised herself as the more attractive Isis, but failed to gain Set's attention, a... - Hapy (2473 bytes)
3: ... land, Hapi was said to have a wife who was the patron of the land, which in [[Upper Egypt]] was [[Nek...
5: ...en ''Mu-Hapy'' and ''Kher-Hapy'', at the southern edge of egypt (it actually comes from two lakes, one o...
7: ...an area that was otherwise desert, Hapy, as its patron, symbolised fertile lands. Consequently, though...
9: Other attributes varied on the area of Egypt. In Lower Egypt... - Elephantine (3346 bytes)
1: ...d]] in the [[Nile|River Nile]], located just downstream of the First [[Cataract]] at {{coor dm|24|05|N...
5: ...]. It was a natural transshipping point for river trade, and, as an island, also provided an excellent...
6: ...h the island: he was worshipped here as part of a triad comprising him, his wife [[Satis]], and their ...
10: ...est [[nilometer|nilometers]] in Egypt, last reconstructed in [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] times and still in...
11: ...f Egypt|17th dynasty]] can be seen at the water's edge. - Al Fayyum (5562 bytes)
3: ...s]] of [[Egypt]] located in the centre of the country. Its capital is a city also called Al Fayyum.
9: ...quality. [[Olive]]s are also cultivated. [[Rose]] trees are very numerous and most of the attar of ros...
11: ...eam: one of three arches, which carries the main street and bazaar, and one of two arches over which i...
14: ...ion, as reported by classic [[geographer]]s and [[traveller]]s" ([http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/0532...
16: ...Fayyum portraits]] make up the richest body of portraiture to have survived antiquity. They provide us... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
50: Fish = [[Trout|Arizona Trout]] |
56: Tree = [[Palo Verde]] |
61: Fossil = [[Petrified wood]] |
62: StateRock = [[Petrified wood]] |
72: Ships = U.S.S. Arizona (Destroyed 1941) | - California (63989 bytes)
16: TradAbbreviation = Calif. |
45: ...waisgate?WAISdocID=06487414661+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
55: Fish = [[Golden Trout]]; marine - [[Garibaldi (fish)|Garibaldi]] |
60: Tree = [[Sequoia|California Redwood]] |
76: MusicalInstrument = none | - Maine (17312 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Pine Tree State |
38: ..., when it was moved to the more geographically central city of [[Augusta, Maine|Augusta]].
45: ...ratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] in four straight elections, casting its votes for [[Bill Clin...
51: ...inner in each of the state's two congressional districts.
64: ...ich is the northern terminus of the [[Appalachian Trail]]. - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
27: TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] |
47: ...isconsin's first European explorer. The French controlled the area until [[1763]], when it was ceded t...
51: ...e other, [[Joseph McCarthy|Joe McCarthy]], the controversial anti-communist censured by the Senate dur...
53: ...consin was an important mining state. When Indian treaties opened up southwest Wisconsin to settlement...
79: ... of the state, the [[Central Plain (Wisconsin)|Central Plain]] possesses some unique sandstone formati... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
42: ... followed by French Huguenots. The Carolina upcountry was settled largely by Scotch-Irish migrants fro...
52: ...ving minors under the age of seventeen, excepting traffic and game law violations. Some criminal charg...
54: ...gistrate's Court, Municipal Court, and the Administrative Law Judge Division. The state has sixteen ju...
73: The 5 largest ancestry groups in South Carolina are [[African American]...
101: ...rs are navigable up to the fall line, providing a trade route for mill towns. - Nebraska (13662 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] (easte...
36: ... gets its name from a [[Native American]] ([[Otoe tribe|Oto]]) word meaning "flat water", after the [[...
45: ...ir homes out of [[sod]] because they found so few trees on the grassy land.
61: ...[[governor]]'s veto with a 3/5ths majority, in contrast to the 2/3rds majority required in some other ...
65: ... the idea that there is but one class. If this be true, there is no sense or reason in having the same... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...[Polar ice]], and the first to mention [[Germanic tribes]].
4: ...he trip may have been underwritten by a wealthy patron. Pytheas estimated the circumference of Great B...
6: ...ruction of the journey Pytheas documented has him traveling from Marseille in succession to Bordeaux, ...
8: ...ade, known to have taken place around the time he travelled.
12: ...rians. Pytheas says Thule was an agricultural country that produced [[honey]]. Its inhabitants ate fru... - Ecosystem (2598 bytes)
5: ...ith coherent and stable flows only to be a bit restrictive.
9: ... the death of many of its native species. The abstract notion of [[ecological health]] attempts to me...
22: *[[Edge effect]]
29: *[[Trophic level]] - Solar system (21174 bytes)
7: ...Sun]] (☉) is a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] G2 [[star]] that contains 99.86% of the...
8: ...anet]]s of the Solar System are those nine bodies traditionally labelled as such:
18: ...lar system scale.jpg|thumb|center|550px|This illustration shows the approximate sizes of the planets r...
20: [[Image:Portrait de famille (1 px = 1000 km).jpg|thumb|center|5...
29: **[[Trojan asteroid]]s are located in either of Jupiter'... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
1: ...ronaut.jpg|right|300px|thumb|U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut [[Bruce McCandless II]] using a manned maneu...
3: ...st [[Timeline of astronauts by nationality|32 countries]] have gone into space.
7: By convention, a space traveller employed by the [[Russian Aviation and Spa...
9: ...essful space flight. On [[March 14]], [[1995]] astronaut [[Norman Thagard]] became the first American...
11: European (outside of the [[UK]]) space travellers are called '''spationauts''' (a [[hybrid ...
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