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- Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ... consists of is something that is still debated today.
8: ... major kinds: [[musica universalis]], [[musica mundana]], [[musica instrumentalis]]. Of those, only th...
12: ...h are very much in vogue in [[Western society]] today.
14: ...relatively new invention then, and it is understandable that the mathematical or physical relationship...
21: ...ical instrumental metric composition, and popular dance music are. However, from a European influenced... - Geography (8541 bytes)
13: ...geographic detail, and more solid theoretical foundations. This period is also known as [[Great Geogra...
70: ... shape the human society. It examines how humans adapt themselves to the land and to other people, and...
92: ...jpg|thumb|250px|right|Desert, near Las Vegas, Nevada . Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com ...
102: ...alists must understand [[computer science]] and [[database]] systems. GIS has so revolutionized the fi... - Map (10223 bytes)
7: ...n south-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ... the same period are remarkably accurate. Even today, maps can be powerful rhetorical tools beyond th...
13: Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today, and form a subset of navigational maps, which a...
49: ... computer. Much of cartography, especially at the data-gathering survey level, has been subsumed by [[...
59: ... a curve may eventually result in a series of standard geometric figures such as straight lines or arc... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
3: ...red from [[measurement]] and can be stored in a [[database]], from which it can be extracted for a var...
7: The oldest known map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The oldest ma...
9: ...m the Kassite period ([[14th century BCE|14th]] – [[12th century BCE|12th centuries BCE]]) of Ba...
11: ... of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
21: ...pping tended toward diagrammatic as well, since cadastral needs generally were met by descriptions of ... - History (5192 bytes)
- Science (19868 bytes)
6: ...jective, empirically testable, and "predictive" — they predict empirical results that can be che...
16: ...d empiricism makes a crucial error of reasoning — the '''epistemic fallacy'''. This is the mista...
30: ...t is nevertheless conceivable that they will some day be supplanted. Younger theories such as [[string...
32: ...evidence is presented. Even the most basic and fundamental theories may turn out to be imperfect if ne...
52: ...es or replaces it in light of new observations or data. - Society (6217 bytes)
- War (7002 bytes)
14: ...s forcefully defended by the Indian leader [[Mohandas K. Gandhi]] (called "Mahatma" or "Great One").
16: ...war has not always been held as widely as it is today. Many thinkers, such as [[Heinrich von Treitsch...
18: Today, some see only [[just war]]s (which also cause s... - Nile (13738 bytes)
2: ...[Africa]]|the [[Mediterranean]]||[[Uganda]] - [[Sudan]] - [[Egypt]]}}
8: ...from the word ''Neilos'' (Νειλος), a Greek name for the Nile. A...
12: ...m its halfway mark at the [[Atbara River]] in [[Sudan]] all the way to the [[Mediterranean Sea]].
14: If the remote headstream — the Ruvyironza — is taken as the beginning and followed to the ...
24: [[Lake Victoria]], which lies between [[Uganda]], [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]] is considered to be... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1801]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1809]]
7: | preceded=[[John Adams]]
9: | date of birth=[[April 13]], [[1743]]
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1826]] - Continent (6440 bytes)
30: ...is usually taught in the [[United States]], [[Canada]] and [[Australia]], while the geological 6-conti...
45: ...t there are many [[microcontinent]]s as well: [[Madagascar]], the [[Seychelles]] (or, more accurately,... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...k]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λογος (''logos'', "wo...
14: ...cookers, transport of [[ore]]s, extraction of [[soda]], [[sulfur]] and [[alum]], and administrative is...
26: ...out the Earth's history and are still occurring today. In contrast, [[Catastrophism|catastrophism]] is...
29: ...ianism, which influenced the thought of [[Charles Darwin]].
44: ...ked in much the same way over geologic time. A fundamental principle of geology advanced by the 18th c... - Glaciology (3787 bytes)
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29: ...ss raised when movement is too rapid to be accommodated by creep. It happens for example, as the centr...
30: ...eak|Horn]] : Spire of rock, also known as a pyramidal peak, formed by the [[headward erosion]] of thre... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...cult to define. This article describes the modern dating methods used to arrive at the age of the Eart...
4: ...s Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today continue to defend [[young earth creationism]] (...
25: ... seemed much too short to be plausible. [[Charles Darwin]], who had studied Lyell's work, had proposed...
27: In a lecture in [[1869]], Darwin's great advocate, [[Thomas Huxley|Thomas H. H...
31: ... friction]] to give the Earth its current 24-hour day, and concluded that Thomson was on the right tra... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...[oceanic trench]] formation occur along plate boundaries (most notably around the so-called "[[Pacific...
10: ...of Fire]] being most active and famous. These boundaries are discussed in further detail below.
14: == Types of plate boundaries ==
15: ...es.png|thumb|right|350px|Three types of plate boundary.]]
16: ...rface phenomena. The different types of plate boundaries are: - Earth (30908 bytes)
21: ...n by mass [http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/er.cgi?s=erda.cgi?n=547] is:
86: ...[aluminium]] silicate rocks. The crust-mantle boundary occurs as two physically different events. Firs...
120: ...utes and 4.091 seconds ([[sidereal day|1 sidereal day]]) to rotate around the axis connecting the [[no...
122: ...ith respect to the stars at a rate of ca. 1 °/day, i.e. a Sun or Moon diameter every 12 hours east...
126: ...e Sun and the stars at a rate of roughly 12 °/day, i.e. a Moon diameter every hour eastward. - Volcano (27295 bytes)
2: ...east, this phenomenon tends to occur near the boundaries of the [[plate tectonics|continental plates]]...
21: ...or global weather pattern changes. Potential candidates include [[Yellowstone National Park]] and [[La...
24: Volcanoes are usually situated either at the boundaries between [[tectonic plates]] or over [[hot spo...
96: ...anic object in the solar system, due to [[tides|tidal]] interaction with Jupiter. It is covered with v...
111: ...ike on its south side. Photo credit: USGS Digital Data Series]] - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
34: ... and British claims; claimed [[1943]] as [[AntᲴida Argentina]], one of the four departments of [[Tie...
36: ...h Claims; claimed [[1940]], as [[comuna de AntᲴida]], one of the two municipalities of [[AntᲴica C...
46: ...?W; overlapped Norwegian claim; claimed [[1939]]–[[1945]] as [[New Schwabenland]]
47: *[[South Africa]]: claimed [[1963]]–[[1994]]
61: * [[Comandante Ferraz Station]], [[King George Island]] ({{co... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
8: ...Imārāt al-‘Arabīyah al-Muttahidah'''</big>
21: ...yle="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationUnitedArabEmirates.png]]
61: ... [[Sharjah]], [[Dubai]], and [[Umm al-Qaiwain]] — merged to form the United Arab Emirates. They ...
67: ...Zayed Al Nahayan]] was elected president the next day.
71: ...rincipalities to a modern state with a high [[standard of living]]. The country's per capita GDP is no... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ... tip of the [[Balkan peninsula]]. It has land boundaries with [[Bulgaria]], the [[Former Yugoslav Repu...
50: ...e''', ({{lang-el|Ελλάδα}}, {{lang|el|''Elláda''}} ([[IPA]]: [{{IPA|e̞ˈlaða}}]), or {{lang|el...
52: ...], [[Northern Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Greece is a [[developed nation]], member of the...
59: ...Chinese language|Chinese]] {{lang|zh|希臘}} (Mandarin: Xīlà, Cantonese: Hei-laap).
65: ...ion|Minoan]] and the [[Mycenae]]n. After this, a Dark Age followed until around [[800 BC]], when a ne...
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