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- Agathias (4785 bytes)
5: ...umber of short love-poems in epic metre, called ''Daphniaca''. He also put together an anthology of e...
7: ...he eunuch [[Narses]], against the [[Goths]], [[Vandals]], [[Franks]] and [[Persians]].
9: ...aluable authority for the period he describes." —[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01204b.htm''Ca...
11: ...s improbable that he could have been at that late date a genuine pagan." (''Catholic Encyclopedia'') ...
13: ...ocument in the history of [[freedom of thought]]— to [[Edessa]], where just a century later the ... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...e Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 painting, is the largest church in C...
17: ...1585]] by order of [[Pope Sixtus V]]. The obelisk dates back to the [[13th century BC]] in [[Egypt]], ...
20: ...ontana, who was probably the best engineer of the day. Fontana built the lantern the following year, a...
29: ...lly operated since [[1931]], with its oldest bell dating to [[1288]].
43: MCMLXXXIII – MCMLXXIV<br> - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
30: ... shape]] was developed by [[Clark R. Chapman]], [[David Morrison]], and [[Ben Zellner]]. These propert...
67: ...t. Multiple pairs could be taken over a series of days. Second, the two [[film]]s of the same region w...
98: ...heir provisional designation, e.g. [[(29075) 1950 DA]].
103: ...such names started to run out, others were used —famous people, literary characters, the names o...
120: ...] by [[243 Ida]] and its moon [[Dactyl (asteroid)|Dactyl]], all of which were imaged by the [[Galileo ... - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ... tail, pointed in slightly different directions — dust being left behind in the comet's orbit (s...
15: ...like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary surfaces allows them to absorb ...
29: ...0," the "Great September Comet of 1882," and the "Daylight Comet of 1910." After [[Edmund Halley]] de...
31: ...0 comets and is conducting a contest to guess the date of its 1000th comet discovery.{{hnote|SOHO (200...
45: ... things being very limited.{{hnote|Sagan, pp. 23–24}} However, the Aristotelean viewpoint proved... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...ite irregular because they usually follow the boundaries of states, countries or other administrative ...
4: [[image:Timezones.png|thumb|400px|Standard Time Zones of the World by the CIA]]
6: ...ve. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time...
8: ... the remainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British...
12: *[[Toronto, Ontario|Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]: UTC − 5 (e.g. if it is 11:00 UTC, then i... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
11: ...s sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
22: ... is the government department responsible for Canada's space programme.
28: ...hing 14 orbits before returning to Earth the next day.
33: ...hich has grown to be a much bigger organisation today.
44: ...rmed [[October 1]], [[2003]], by the merger of NASDA, the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan and t... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...riner 10]] ([[1974]]–[[1975|75]]); only 40–45% of the planet has been mapped.
8: (This Data comes from [http://www.answers.com/topic/mercur...
10: ...ure]] of Mercury is 452 K, but it ranges from 90–700 K; by comparison, the temperature on Earth ...
12: Surprisingly, radar observations taken in 1992 indicated that there ...
16: ...rrain. In addition, Mercury has "significant" [[tidal bulge]]s, raised by the [[Sun]] (the Sun's tides... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Albania (24647 bytes)
45: | '''[[National Day]]''' || [[28 November]]
49: ...k (currency)|Lek <small>(Lk)</small>]] = 100 [[qindarka]] ("cents")
72: ...ient Albanian writers such as Budi, Blanco and Bogdano. We first learn of Albanians in their native la...
85: ...uthern Macedonia and the southern part of present-day Albania. This process was completed over the [[s...
100: ... the Italian capitulation of September [[1943]] – found some collaborators to fight local nation... - India (27950 bytes)
23: ...secular]] democracy barring a brief period from [[1975]] to [[1977]] during which the then [[Prime Minis...
46: ...]] and with several mostly-regional parties. The NDA, led by the BJP, currently forms the main opposit...
53: ... two scientific bases in [[Antarctica]] – [[Dakshin Gangotri]] and [[Maitri]], but has made no t...
61: ...]]), the [[Brahmaputra]], the [[Yamuna]], the [[Godavari]], and the [[Krishna River|Krishna]]. The riv...
79: ...ion within the highly diverse Indian population today. Its biggest [[metropolitan]] agglomerations are... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...''Johannes Kepler''' ([[December 27]], [[1571]] – [[November 15]], [[1630]]), a key figure in th...
6: In 1975, nine years after its founding, the College for S...
9: ...hen Johannes was 17. His mother, an inn-keeper's daughter, had a reputation for involvement in [[witc...
33: ...on was inconsistent with that data. Using Tycho's data, Kepler was able to formulate three laws of pla...
35: ...he five intervals between the six known planets — [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], [[Venus (planet)... - Endoplasmic reticulum (5319 bytes)
36: ... is present in [[muscle]] cells and is specially adapted for calcium ion storage and release. This pro...
38: In [[striated muscle]] it is specially adapted to surround the [[myofibrils]], forming triad...
48: ...]] for his discovery of these signal sequences in 1975. The N-terminus (one end) of a [[polypeptide]] ch... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
6: |Date||[[1957]]–[[1975]]
27: !colspan="2" |'''Civilian Casualties: ''' c. 2—4 million
33: ...s of North and South Vietnam. The war ended in [[1975]] with a communist victory and the unification of...
37: ...h the American troops until the fall of Saigon in 1975. Many more people separate the 29-year conflict i...
39: ...itizen]]s volunteered to join the US forces. Canada, in fact, led peace talks between the two countri... - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ..." the Southwest, Southeast, and especially [[Florida]] and [[California]] (surpassing [[New York]] as ...
6: ...[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] candidates in federal, state and local elections while th...
8: ... [[New York City]] barely averted bankruptcy in [[1975]].
18: ... inflation, derided as [[stagflation]], raised fundamental questions over the future of American prosp...
20: ...]-[[1982]]), the Soviet Union improved living standards by doubling urban wages and raising rural wage... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
3: ...the "[[Evening Star]]", and when it is visible in dark skies it is by far the brightest [[star]]-like ...
5: ...vilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have been know...
14: ... the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat.
18: ...ture, listed in the table, refers to cloud tops — the surface temperature is never below 400°...
21: [[Image:Venus globe.jpg|thumb|left|[[Radar]] image of the surface of Venus, centered at 180... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
1: ...year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 348 days remaining (349 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
9: ...]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutena...
13: ...h]] army at the [[Battle of Abu Klea]] in the [[Sudan]].
30: * [[1975]] - [[Bob Dylan]] releases ''[[Blood on the Track... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... holiday when gifts were exchanged. There are 364 days remaining (365 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
10: ...0]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
1: ...ear in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 363 days remaining (364 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spa...
20: ...kefeller]] unites his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[trust]].
22: ... C. Ball]] of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: [[Railroad chronometers]]. - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: {{dablink|This article covers the History of Californi...
3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied for mi...
11: ...re among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciatio...
13: ...s. Tribes in the [[Sierra Nevada (US)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] tre...
36: ...irst European to explore the coast of the present day State of California was Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo... - Flood (7770 bytes)
7: ...The control of annual flooding, by dikes and by [[dam]]s, also prevents the deposition of silt on the ...
16: ...slip on continental shelf'') may all engender a tidal wave called a [[tsunami]] that causes destructio...
22: ...lta Works]] with the [[Oosterschelde|Oosterscheldedam]] as its crowning achievement.
33: ...s a great flood caused by the breaking of the ice dams holding [[Lake Agassiz]].
34: ...oods]] of Washington, also caused by breaking ice dams.
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