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- Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
5: ...in the minor [[Western League]]. Moved to [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] in [[1900]] when that league...
6: :'''Formerly known as:''' Philadelphia Athletics ([[1901]]-[[1954]]), Kansas City A...
9: :'''Logo design:''' A stylized "A's". The team also occasio...
17: ===The Philadelphia Years (1901-1954)===
18: ...t Shibe had a ?white elephant on his hands," Mack defiantly adopted the [[white elephant]] as the team... - Mountain biking (7992 bytes)
2: ...incipally on the sporting (i.e. bicycle racing) side of this activity.
5: ...specially through real nature. Although the first thing to say about mountain bike racing is that it need...
9: ...ndustry, and the race circuit always provides an ideal testing ground for new products. Therefore ther...
10: [[Image:ShadLHTT1.JPG |thumb|A rider during a Cross Country race]]
11: ... USA. ([http://www.usdeafsports.org/2006cycling/index.html]) - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ... and [[physical cosmology|cosmology]]. He was awarded the [[1921]] [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Priz...
5: ...or a scientist. In his later years, his fame exceeded that of any other scientist in [[history of scie...
7: ... day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist.
14: ...y was [[Jew]]ish (and non-observant); Albert attended a [[Catholic school|Catholic elementary school]]...
16: ...ct. Another, more recent, theory about his mental development is that he had [[Asperger's syndrome]], ... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
1: ...:Baden-powell.jpg|thumb|Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell]]
2: ...uary 8]], [[1941]]) was a soldier, writer and founder of the world [[Scouting]] movement.
5: ...y his mother, [[Henrietta Grace]], a strong woman determined her children would succeed, of whom he wo...
7: .... He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist of some talent, and enjoyed acting. ...
11: In [[1876]], Baden-Powell joined the 13th [[Hussars]] in [[India]].... - Totem pole (20143 bytes)
2: ...humb|Totem pole in Seattle Washington. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
6: ...proposed a theory of totem pole development which describes totem poles as progressing from houseposts...
8: ...—and urged converts to cease production and destroy existing poles.
10: Totem pole construction underwent a dramatic decline at the end of the [[19th century|nineteenth ...
12: ... of dollars; the time spent carving after initial designs are completed usually lasts about a year, so... - Tarantula (17481 bytes)
83: [[Brachypelmides]]<br />
97: [[Lasiodorides]]<br />
127: '''Tarantulas''' are spiders belonging to the family Theraphosidae. They are...
129: ...g to prevent sure death, and the fearsome world-wide reputation of the tarantula was guaranteed.
131: ...antula" on them. Those spiders belong to the Suborder [[Mygalomorphae]], the Family [[Theraphosidae]] ... - Drama (12658 bytes)
1: ...eant to be read rather than staged; examples include the plays of [[Seneca]], ''[[Manfred]]'' by [[Geo...
3: ...dians applied it to the plays they wrote; [[Euripides]] is portrayed in the [[Acharnians]] of [[Aristo...
7: ... drama as an umbrella, with all of its subforms underneath it.
13: ... another character or situation gives a greater understanding of what is happening around us.
15: ...about how hard it must be to live alone. They broadened their own perceptions of the world. This all o... - Instructional design (6896 bytes)
1: ...e]], [[skills]] and [[attitude (psychology)|attitude]] to the recipient or acquirer of the instruction...
4: ...h of the foundation of the field of instructional design was laid in [[World War Two]], when the U.S. ...
6: ...treated as a separate learning goal. Training was designed to reward correct performance and remediate...
8: ...s we have). These taxonomies still influence the design of instruction.
10: ...t, or projecting into the future. Older children develop these abilities over time. - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
1: ...nconvinced or noncommittal about the existence of deities as well as other matters of [[religion]]. Th...
8: ...t he was an agnostic, but this remains subject to debate.
12: ... by Huxley to sum up his thoughts on contemporary developments of metaphysics about the "unconditioned...
14: ...o wonderful as the conservation of force or the indestructibility of matter"..
18: ... the human intellect flounders at once out of its depth.".. - Democritus (3967 bytes)
1: [[Image:democritus_bust.jpg|thumb|Bust of Democritus]]
3: ...cluding later [[Aristotle]], argued against this. Democritus was among the first to propose that the u...
5: ...arising, in others failing. There are some worlds devoid of living creatures or plants or any moisture...
7: ...ghing.jpeg|left|thumb|[[Hendrick ter Brugghen]], "Democritus Laughing" (1629)]]
9: ...he void" and (as he identified "the void" with "nothing") the void does not exist and cannot be "moved in... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
1: ...Image:erasmus.jpg|thumbnail|Erasmus. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
2: '''Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus''' (also '''Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam''') ([[October 27]], pro...
6: ... he was cared for by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then give...
8: ...in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in the stirring days of King...
10: ... but, as it proved, sufficient, rewards of independent literary activity. From [[1506]] to [[1509]] he... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Richard M. Nixon
4: | order=37th President
7: | preceded=[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
8: | succeeded=[[Gerald R. Ford]]
11: | dead=dead - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4: | order=32th President
7: | preceded=[[Herbert Hoover]]
8: | succeeded=[[Harry S. Truman]]
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[New York]] - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
1: ...g|right|thumbnail|300px|Mayan Temple Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
5: ...1000 BCE. There is some disagreement about the borders and difference between the early Maya and their...
9: Eventually, the Olmec culture faded after spreading its influence into the [[Yucatan...
11: ...which depict rulers along with hieroglyphic texts describing their [[genealogy]], [[war]] victories, a...
13: ...ssibly further lands. Important trade goods included [[cacao]], [[salt]], and [[obsidian]]; see also:... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ... years of civil war that followed, Octavian would defeat such enemies as [[Marcus Brutus]], [[Gaius Ca...
5: ...[police force]] and the world's first [[fire brigade]]. He finished, repaired or rebuilt almost every ...
7: ...borders he established to become the [[natural borders]] for the Empire for over 400 years. His surnam...
10: ...ble but undistinguished family of the equestian order on [[September 23]], [[63 BC]]. His father was t...
12: ...y against Caesar’s orders that turned the tide of the battle and granted Caesar his last victory... - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...lberto Santos-Dumont]]<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the archives of the [[Smi...
2: ...was a [[Brazil | Brazilian]] aviation pioneer. He designed, built, and flew many [[balloon]]s as well ...
3: In addition, He made the first
5: That aircraft, designated
9: - Photography (18493 bytes)
2: ...rough [[mechanical]], [[chemical]] or [[digital]] devices commonly known as [[camera]]s.
4: ==Image forming devices==
5: ...mera]] or [[camera obscura]] is the image forming device and [[photographic film]] or a digital storag...
9: The controls include:
14: ... [[Macro photography|macro]], [[Wide-angle lens|wide angle]], or [[Zoom lens|zoom]]) - Depth of field (8291 bytes)
1: ..._dof.jpg|thumb|260px|An example of fairly shallow depth of field]]
2: ... focus, but focus falls off gradually on either side of that distance, so there is a region in which t...
4: ... However, the most important factor is the actual degree of error in relation to the area of film expo...
6: ... nearer will produce the image of a disk whose border is known as "[[circle of confusion]]." The diame...
8: ...ars sharp while the areas in front and behind the depth of field appear blurry.]] - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...y studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes was one of the key thinkers of the Scienti...
2: ...ge-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descartes Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
4: ...heless, many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late [[Aristotelianism]], the revived [[Sto...
6: ...e invention of the [[calculus]] and [[analysis]]. Descartes's reflections on mind and mechanism began ...
11: On March 31, 1596, Descartes was born in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Ind... - Molecular nanotechnology (10344 bytes)
1: ...ith the systems engineering principles found in modern macroscale factories. Its most well-known expos...
3: ... we actually wanted, with the other species discarded as waste. Nanotechnology could therefore offer m...
10: ...e.pl?sid=03/10/29/2017242][http://www.azonano.com/details.asp?ArticleID=56]
15: ...d render inert specific viruses. Another is the idea of [[self-healing]] structures, which would repa...
17: ...le: a photosensor could passively measure the incident light and discharge its absorbed energy as elec...
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