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  1. Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
    5: ... be mouse like. In popular usage, the plural can be either ''mice'' or ''mouses''. See [[English plu...
    13: ...hin or nose --- but ultimately, the mouse won out because of its simplicity and convenience.
    15: ...Engelbart received [[patent]] US3541541 on [[November 17]], [[1970]] for a ''"X-Y Position Indicator F...
    24: ...uting power grew cheaper, it became possible to embed more powerful special-purpose [[image processing...
    26: ...f the surface the mouse is operating on. Changes between one frame and the next are processed by the ...
  2. Global warming (53726 bytes)
    3: '''''Global warming''''' is a term used to describe an increase over [[time]] of the [[Historical tem...
    5:
    16: ... [[France]], [[Germany]], [[India]], [[Italy]], [[Japan]], [[Russia]], the [[United Kingdom]] and the ...
    18: ...g methods, or studying paleoclimatic change might believe that current climate change is natural. How...
    19: ...www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686 Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on ...
  3. Andes (13210 bytes)
    3: ...e:Andes Chile Argentina.jpg|thumb|300px|The Andes between [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]]]]
    5: ...00 km (300 miles) wide in some parts (widest between 18° to 20°S latitude), and of an average h...
    6: ...coast, being broken up at its beginning into a number of islands and afterwards forming the western bo...
    8: ...the Earth's surface most distant from its center, because of the [[equatorial bulge]]. The Andes canno...
    12: ...e beneath the South American plate. The boundary between the two plates is marked by the Peru-Chile [...
  4. Red deer (16671 bytes)
    1: {{Taxobox begin | color = pink | name = Wapiti}}<br/>{{StatusC...
    3: {{Taxobox begin placement | color = pink}}
    17: ...see ''[[Elk]]''). ''Wapiti'' is the [[Shawnee (tribe)|Shawnee]] name for this animal meaning 'white ru...
    24: ... they attract. Rival stags challenge opponents by bellowing and walking in parallel. If neither stag b...
    33: ...es]]. [[Coyote]]s and [[american Black Bear|black bears]] sometimes prey on the fawns.
  5. Sheep (9256 bytes)
    1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Sheep}}
    3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
    35: ...[staple]] length and degree of [[crimp]] in the fiber. Major wool breeds include [[Merino sheep | Meri...
    48: ...nity|Christian]] [[faith]]s, since [[Abraham]], [[Jacob]], [[Moses]], and [[King David]] all worked as...
    57: ...ome places, like [[Sardinia]], sheep-breeding has become the principal and characteristic activity.
  6. Dog (69384 bytes)
    3: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Domestic Dog}}<br />{{...
    5: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
    17: ...[pack hunter]]s; this similarity in their overall behavioral design accounts for their trainability, p...
    19: ...es that they have earned the [[sobriquet]] "man's best friend".
    23: ...s are evolved to tolerate a carnivorous diet much better than humans are, and are not susceptible to m...
  7. Island (4674 bytes)
    6: ...la'' (which is not etymologically related), Latin being considered a more prestigious language at the ...
    9: ...] off [[Europe]], [[Sumatra]] and [[Java (island)|Java]] off [[Asia]], [[New Guinea|Papua]] and [[Tasm...
    11: ...hen a continent is [[rift (geology)|rift]]ed. The best example is [[Madagascar]] off Africa. The [[Ker...
    21: ...ich is the world's largest volcanic island, and [[Jan Mayen]]&mdash;both are in the Atlantic.
    23: ...waii]] to [[Kure Atoll|Kure]], which then extends beneath the sea surface in a more northerly directio...
  8. Declaratory Act (2406 bytes)
    1: ...es were mainly used to finance war debt which had been accumulated during a recent series of wars, par...
    7: :AN ACT for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's domi...
    9: ... plantations upon the crown of Great Britain: ... be it declared ...,
    11: ... consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, had, h...
    13: ...wn into question, are, and are hereby declared to be, utterly null and void to all intents and purpose...
  9. Chile (39914 bytes)
    1: ... [[South America]] occupying a long coastal strip between the [[Andes]] mountains and the [[Pacific Oc...
    39: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 18]], [[1810]]<br>[[February 12]], [[1818]] |
    64: ...al potential of Chile's central valley, and Chile became part of the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]].
    66: ... land to the south, and permitted increased trade between colonists and Mapuches.
    68: ...r to the deposed king&mdash;was formed on [[September 18]], [[1810]]. The [[junta]] proclaimed Chile a...
  10. American Bison (6740 bytes)
    1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = American Bison}}<br />...
    4: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
    18: ... herd and defense. Bison mate in August and September; a single reddish-brown calf is born the followi...
    22: ...val concludes with a ceremonial enactment of this behavior, to "ensure the return of the buffalo in th...
    24: ...he calf has an entirely white coat. It is not to be confused with [[albino]], since [[pigment]] still...
  11. Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
    2: '''Charles Robert Darwin''' ([[12 February]] [[1809]]&ndash;[[19 ...
    4: ... at university. Five years on [[the Voyage of the Beagle]] brought him eminence as a [[geology|geologi...
    8: ...'s pre-eminence, he was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], close to [[Sir William Herschel]] and [[Sir I...
    15: ...fifth of six children of [[Robert Waring Darwin|Robert]] and [[Susannah Wedgwood|Susannah]] Darwin (''...
    17: ... died when he was only eight and the next year he became a boarder at the ''[[Shrewsbury School]]''. A...
  12. William R. King (5588 bytes)
    3: ...test-serving person to occupy that office without becoming President ([[John Tyler]] was the shortest-...
    5: ...8]] and located in [[Cahawba, Alabama]], where he became a planter.
    7: ...28]], [[1834]], and [[1841]], serving from [[December 14]], 1819, until [[April 15]], [[1844]], when h...
    9: ...tion officially designating King County's name to be in honor of Reverend Dr. King. This has caused so...
    11: King returned to his plantation, "King's Bend", Alabama, and died there. He was interred in ...
  13. Squash (fruit) (4665 bytes)
    1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = lightgreen | name = Squash}}
    3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = lightgreen}}
    26: ... the cornstalk providing support for the climbing beans, and shade for the squash. The squash vines pr...
    28: Besides the fruits, squash seeds, blossoms, and tend...
    32: ...blames for the abortion, but the fix proves to be better pollination not fungicide.
  14. Commons:Template:Newpagelinksmain (1176 bytes)
    5: ...wpagelinksmain|Look for Newpagelinksmain]] in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, an...
    7: ...rge], otherwise please wait and check again later before attempting to recreate the page.
    8: ... article under this title previously, it may have been deleted. See [[Wikipedia:Candidates for speedy ...
  15. Human societies (6587 bytes)
    2: A '''society''' is a group of human beings distinguishable from other groups by mutual i...
    8: ... is defined as a [[network]] of [[relation]]ships between [[entity|entities]]. A ''society'' is also s...
    10: ...Implicit in the meaning of society is that its members share some mutual concern or interest in a comm...
    15: ...Industrial]] and [[Post-Industrial]] societies to be separate from traditional agricultural societies.
    18: ...rth, death, sickness, or disaster, like-minded members of that community will rally others in that soc...
  16. Golden Eagles (3752 bytes)
    1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Golden Eagle}}
    3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
    15: ...s of prey]] in the world. Like all [[eagle]]s, it belongs to the family [[Accipitridae]].
    17: ...Asia]], [[North America]], North [[Africa]] and [[Japan]]. In most areas this bird now is a mountain-d...
    19: ...tinct since the early 20th Century. 35 birds have been released into the wild since [[2001]].
  17. Lemurs (4235 bytes)
    1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Lemurs}}
    3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
    20: ...eflective eyes. It is generically used for the members of the four lemuriform families, but it is also...
    22: ... kilogram [[Indri]]. The larger species have all become extinct since humans settled on Madagascar, a...
    26: ... limited because of the lemurs' limited range and because Madagascar is desperately poor. Currently, ...
  18. Stag Beetles (3702 bytes)
    1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Stag beetles}}
    2: ...mage | image = [[Image:Vacalloria.jpeg|200px|Stag beetle]] | caption = }}
    3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
    13: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[beetle|Coleoptera]]}}
    28: ... are [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]].
  19. Watergate (19196 bytes)
    5: ...ter, he returned and discovered that the tape had been replaced. Wills then contacted the D.C. police.
    7: ...], [[Virgilio Gonzᬥz]], [[Eugenio Mart�z]], [[James W. McCord, Jr.]] and [[Frank Sturgis]] &mdash;...
    9: ...esident with Nixon's advantage in the polls would be so foolhardy or unethical as to risk association ...
    11: ...d he along with his colleague [[Carl Bernstein]], began an investigation into the burglary. Most of wh...
    15: ...er, but at the time it caused the collapse of Ellsberg's trial due to evident government misconduct.
  20. Flying shuttle (5068 bytes)
    4: ==Before the flying shuttle==
    5: ...if the width of the fabric exceeds that which can be reasonably reached across (typically {{convert|60...
    8: ...ard called the "race" runs along the front of the beater, from side to side, forming a track on which ...
    10: ...eds to be reloaded, so fabrics of great width can be woven; but more importantly, the movements needed...
    12: ... important was the fact that this mechanism could be automated and powered; all the operator needed to...

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