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- Cassowary (5017 bytes)
16: ...ey also eat [[fungi]], [[snail]]s, [[insect]]s, [[frog]]s, [[snake]]s and other small animals. Lifespa...
28: ...ch]] and [[Emu]] are larger). "Cassowary" derives from the [[Malay language|Malay]] name ''kesuari''.
30: Adult Southern Cassowaries are 1.5 to 1.8 m (5½ feet) tall and weigh about 60 [[kilogram]]s ...
34: ...e eggs measure about 90 by 140 mm (3½ by 5½ inches) — only [[ostrich]] and [[emu]]...
36: ...ities. This has caused conflict particularly with fruit growers. However, in some locations such as [[... - Blue Whale (22203 bytes)
23: ...known when the members of these families diverged from each other.
32: ...e body. These pleats assist with evacuating water from the mouth after lunge feeding (see feeding belo...
34: ...blow (up to 12 m, typically 9 m) that can be seen from several kilometres on a calm day. Its [[lung]] ...
36: ...tled. The degree of mottling varies substantially from individual to individual. Some may have a unifo...
44: ...he biggest Blue Whale ever found. Most data comes from Blue Whales killed in [[Antarctic]] waters duri... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...ble. Yet, humans had colonized nearly all the ice-free parts of the globe by the end of the Ice Age, s...
12: ...of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did not use agriculture until relatively mode...
14: ...y. However, these civilisations were so different from one another that they almost certainly must hav...
29: ...their territory through conquest and colonisation from the beginning of the [[5th century BCE]]. By th...
31: ...ed control. The pressure of [[barbarians]] on the frontiers hastened the process of internal dissoluti... - Maasai (4392 bytes)
2: ...obably one of the most familiar tribes of [[East Africa]]. Despite the growth of modern civilisation, ...
6: ...ir domesticated cattle with them. Although other African tribes organised themselves into civilisation...
8: ...heir "property". The huts of the Maasai are built from dried cattle dung, and certain sacred rituals i...
10: ...asai ''morani'' (warrior-youth) leap into the air from a standing position, in order to demonstrate th...
14: ...k [[Swahili]], the ''[[lingua franca]]'' of East Africa. - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
6: ...city of [[Mainz]], as the son of a merchant named Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, who adopted the surnam...
14: ...ny) to Strassburg (then a part of Germany, now in France and called Strasbourg) around 1430. Knowing t...
19: At the 1455 [[Frankfurt Book Fair]], Gutenberg demonstrated the po...
23: ...is doubtful that any copies were ever sold at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
31: ...ntions are sometimes considered the turning point from the [[Middle Ages|Mediaeval Era]] to the [[Earl... - Extinction (15793 bytes)
4: ...xtinct species. ''Daughter species'' that evolve from a parent species carry on most of the parent sp...
8: ...4 extinctions have been recorded since the year [[1500]] (the arbitrary date selected to define "modern"...
17: ...e species in question must be identified uniquely from any daughter species, as well as its ancestor s...
32: ...roducing individuals and make [[inbreeding]] more frequent. The [[founder effect]] can cause rapid, i...
39: ...fern]] that depends on dense shade for protection from direct sunlight can no longer survive with no f... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
9: [[Image:Dielectric.png|frame|The electrons in the molecules shift toward th...
14: :<math>C = \frac{Q}{V}</math>
32: :<math>i(t) = C \frac{dv(t)}{dt}</math>
34: The [[impedance]] in [[frequency domain]] can be written as
36: :<math>Z = \frac{1}{j \omega C} = - j X_C </math> - Swimming (22854 bytes)
5: ...le]]s, and by kicking the legs to push water away from the body.
13: ...n side-to-side on most swimmers. This reduces the frontal cross-section, reducing drag further, and al...
15: ...he cube of the speed) of an equal amount of torso frontal area.
26: ...ed in [[1873]] by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from [[Native American]]s.
33: ...00 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m. Events are held in yards at distances of ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
59: *[[Benvenuto Cellini]] (1500 - 1571)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865) - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...s cared for by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the ...
8: ...in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in t...
10: ...e Press|Aldus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Ital...
12: ...]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe.
14: ...ull of contradictions. Erasmus held himself aloof from all entangling obligations; yet he was in a sin... - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...ud]]. The words 'lute' and 'oud' are both derived from [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''al‘ud'', "th...
7: ...wood, somewhat tapered, that are held in place by friction in holes through the ''peg box''. (There ar...
9: ... be replaced frequently. A few additional partial frets of wood are usually glued to the body of the i...
11: .... The courses are numbered sequentially, counting from the highest pitched, so that the ''chantrelle''...
15: ...s. (Some modern players use a simple loop of yarn from the tuning head around the player's neck and ba... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ... with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC the Hittite polity disi...
5: ... language]]. The Hittites should be distinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhab...
7: ...rchs (Bible)|Patriarch]]s up to [[Ezra]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian capt...
14: ...I]] and his son [[Akhenaton]]. Two of the letters from a "kingdom of Kheta", apparently located in the...
15: ...the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of t... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led ...
5: ...e commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery an...
6: ... an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeat...
11: ...arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
13: - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ...2002]].) Although Lindbergh was the first to fly from New York to Paris nonstop, he was not the first...
18: ...les Lindbergh flight to Brussels.ogg|title=Flight from Paris to Belgium |description= Lindbergh's flig...
26: ...12]] in [[Hopewell, New Jersey]] just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home, after a nation-wide ten w...
31: ...ed States|President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] openly questioned his loyalt...
38: ...snapshots and more than a hundred letters written from him to her mother. She disclosed the affair in ... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...non-state actors. Piracy should be distinguished from [[privateer]]ing, which was a legitimate form o...
12: ...1.8-2]) says this happened earlier, on his return from Nicomedes's court. Velleius Paterculus (''Roman...
20: ...'', and given the responsibility of eliminating [[Frankish]] and [[Saxons|Saxon]] pirates who had been...
27: ...se in 844. Vikings even attacked coasts of North Africa and Italy. They also plundered all the coasts ...
29: ... of the [[Balearic Islands]] in the 10th century. From 824 to 961 [[Arab]] pirates in [[Crete]] raided... - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
2: ...e [[London Science Museum]]. In [[1991]], working from Babbage's original plans, a [[Difference Engine...
8: ... might have done." The second was an Oxford tutor from whom Charles learned enough of the Classics to ...
10: ...Herschel]], [[George Peacock]], and several other friends formed the [[Analytical Society]].
23: *Francis Moore Babbage (born [[1 June]] [[1821]])
29: ...Wilhelm Schickard]], [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]]. He first discussed the principles o... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...with tapping into that wealth, as well as with [[Africa]] in general, and with the legend of [[Prester...
7: ... and granted Henry a "royal fifth" of all profits from trading within the areas discovered as well as ...
11:
15: ... to Europeans on the unpromising desert coast of Africa, although the [[Periplus]] of the Carthaginian...
17: ...[1460]] the Portuguese had explored the coast of Africa as far as present-day [[Sierra Leone]]. - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...ish flag. Most notably, in [[1497]], he set sail from [[Bristol]] on his ship the ''[[Matthew (ship)|...
10: ...urther one is from the [[equator]], so the voyage from western [[Europe]] to eastern Asia would be sho...
12: ...Henry VII of England]] gave him a grant "full and free authoritie, leave, and power, to sayle to all p...
16: ...-largest seaport in England, and during the years from [[1480]] onwards several expeditions had been s...
20: ...nd]]). He sailed to [[Dursey Head]], [[Ireland]], from where he sailed due west to Asia - or so he tho... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
5: ...lieve he was born of poor parents "around 1498 or 1500," and then worked for his keep in the home of a p...
10: ...venture (two or three ships), and stood to profit from any trade or treasure.
12: On [[June 27]], [[1542]], Cabrillo set out from Navidad (now [[Acapulco]]) in [[New Spain]]. On... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - )
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