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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
4: ... in the minds of many [[science fiction]] authors hundreds of years before it was actually feasible. S...
6: ...t. The [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] museum in [[Huntsville, Alabama]] next to [[Redstone Arsenal]] d...
13: ... 1]], carrying [[Yuri Gagarin]] on [[April 12]] [[1961]].
27: [[Image:China_(223).jpg|right|thumb|The [[UN]] and [[Flag of the People's Republic ...
28: ... became only the third country on Earth to send a human into space independently on October 15, 2003 w... - List of human spaceflights (317 bytes)
1: For a detailed listing of human spaceflights, see:
3: * [[List of human spaceflights, 1961-1986]]
4: * [[List of human spaceflights, 1987-1999]]
5: * [[List of human spaceflights, 2000-present]]
9: * [[List of human spaceflights by program]] - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
1: ...image:astronaut.jpg|right|300px|thumb|U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut [[Bruce McCandless II]] using a man...
3: ...[[April 14]], [[As of 2005|2005]], a total of 443 humans had spent a total of 27,876 crew-days in spac...
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15: [[Image:ZeroG.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Astronauts on the International Space Sta...
18: ...d]] became the first [[American]] in space in May 1961. On [[July 23]] [[1980]] [[Pham Tuan]] of Vietnam... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
84: *[[Ludolf Bakhuysen]] ([[1631]]-[[1708]])
89: *[[Balthus]] ([[1908]]-[[2001]])
129: *[[Vanessa Bell]] ([[1879]]-[[1961]])
187: *[[Arthur Boyd]] ([[1920]]-[[1999]])
264: *[[Frederick Edwin Church]] ([[1826]]-[[1900]]) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
1: [[Image:Landon-IcarusandDaedalus.jpg|right|thumb|Icarus and Daedalus]]
3: Humanity's desire to fly probably dates back to the ...
9: [[Image:Ornithopter_leonardo1.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter body ]]
11: [[Image:Ornithopter_leonardo2.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter wings ]]
17: ...es greater force and less weight than exists in a human body. The science of mechanics might perhaps s... - Flower (10503 bytes)
1: [[Image:Wildflowers in Berkeley.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Wildflowers]]
6: ...' or '''receptacle'''. [[Image:4TR_44 flower.jpg|thumb|250px|Flower Clipart provided by [http://classr...
12: [[Image:3-04-08_07a.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Flower Picture provided by [http://c...
14: [[Image:Tulips 043a.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Flower Picture provided by [http://...
19: [[Image:Flower-9-28-356.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Flower Picture provided by [http://c... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
35: *[[Hugo Borchardt]] (1844-1924) German–American i...
51: *[[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynch...
64: *[[Lee DeForest]], (1873-1961) — [[triode]], amongst others
132: ...Kotelnikov]] - [[Russia]]n inventor of the [[parachute]].
178: ..., invented the Jolly Jumper baby harness with her husband, circa. [[1959]] - Human (48024 bytes)
21: ...[social]], and [[spiritual]] terms. Biologically, humans are classified as the [[species]] '''Homo sap...
24: ...response to a need for long distance [[running]]. Humans are said to be one of a short list of [[anima...
27: ...tributes. It is responsible for the complexity of human [[behaviour]], especially [[language]]. [[Curi...
30: Humans are inherently [[society|social]]. Humans create complex [[sociology|social structures]...
32: ==Beliefs about humans== - Food (24212 bytes)
1: [[Image:Foods.jpg|thumbnail|right|Food from plant sources]]
9: ...d to be, or reasonably expected to be ingested by humans whether of nutritional value or not;
19: ==Human eating habits==
23: ...o be consumed. Additionally, it is believed that humans have used fire to prepare food prior to eatin...
25: As at least ten thousand years ago, humans developed [[agriculture]], which has [[Timeli... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...addition, his conflict with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example of the con...
10: ...ction of blind allegiance to authority (like the Church) or other thinkers (such as [[Aristotle]]) in ...
14: ...d using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was consistent...
20: [[image:galileo.script.arp.600pix.jpg|thumb|200px|right|It was on this page that Galileo fi...
43: ...s his assistant saw the flash, he would open his shutter. At a distance of less than a mile, Galileo c... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
5: [[Image:Vietcong.jpg|thumb|right|[[NLF]] casualties during the [[Vietnam W...
11: [[Image:Berlinwall.jpg|thumb|right|A section of the now-defunct [[Berlin Wal...
17: ...ce]]. (Most or all of the rockets used to launch humans and satellites and to get to the [[Moon]] wer...
19: [[Image:Peacekeeper missile.jpg|right|thumb|250px|This missile, called the LG-118-A Peaceke...
60: ... Europe into the system of mutual defense pacts, thus providing safeguards against subversion or neutr... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
37: ...strategic bombing]] (''see'' [[Operation Rolling Thunder]]) of [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam|North ...
61: ... nor an established liberated base area and army. Hue fell in a manner similar to Hanoi, with the take...
65: ...o be reserved for the VNQDD and 20, for Viet Nam Phuc Quoc Dong Minh Hoi, regardless of the results of...
72: ...rench colonial army at the [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]] in 1954, the French military withdrew, and the ...
74: ...pport the faltering French forces at [[Dien Bien Phu]]. On whether to sortie an air strike in support... - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
10: *[[1951]] - General [[Douglas MacArthur]] fired by Truman for invading China
20: ...The-problem-we-all-live-with-norman-rockwell.jpg|thumb|Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With...
23: *[[1954]] - Fall of [[Dien Bien Phu]]; French lose control of [[Vietnam]]
31: *[[1956]] - US refuses to support the [[Hungarian Revolution]]
49: *[[1961]] - [[John F. Kennedy]] becomes President - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...sians became rivals over the development of [[Manchuria]]. Tsarist Russia, unable to compete industria...
11: ...eaders at Yalta: British Prime Minster [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roos...
17: ...ilt capitalist Europe that could again serve as a hub in world affairs. [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] had ...
20: ..., [[East Germany]], and [[Bulgaria]]. [[Winston Churchill]], long a staunch [[Anticommunism|anticommu...
26: ...ked on an impressive, provocative move that would humiliate the Soviets internationally: flying suppli... - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ivan iss.jpg|thumb|right|325px|[[Hurricane Ivan]] viewed from the [[International Spa...
4: == Hurricanes ==
6: ...'' (or '''tropical storm''', '''typhoon''', or '''hurricane''', depending on strength and location) is...
9: ...rge, rotating area of [[cloud]]s, [[wind]] and [[thunderstorm]] activity. The primary energy source of...
10: [[Image:Hurricane-viewed-from-space.jpg|thumb|400px]] - Plato (17363 bytes)
1: [[Image:Delphi Platon statue 1.jpg|thumb|Statue of a philosopher, presumely Plato, in [[...
8: [[Image:Plato.png|thumb|"The safest general characterization of the Eur...
16: ...es in Plato's notion of [[the Forms]] (sometimes thus capitalized; see below); by [[Anaxagoras]], who ...
24: ...ch foreshadow modern debates between [[David Hume|Hume]] and [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], and has been take...
33: ... mouth of unsympathetic characters, e.g. Thrasymachus in ''[[Republic (Plato)|The Republic]]''. - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
16: ...%, and its visual light albedo is even greater. Thus, despite being closer to the Sun than Earth, the...
18: ...g any surface details from the [[Optical spectrum|human eye]]. The temperature at the tops of these cl...
21: [[Image:Venus globe.jpg|thumb|left|[[Radar]] image of the surface of Venus, c...
27: ...rably younger (though still not less than several hundred million years for the most part). This sugge...
36: ...cuments]], from the [[Babylon]]ian library of [[Ashurbanipal]] around [[1600s BC|1600 BC]], is a 21-ye... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
5: * [[1562]] - [[France]] recognized the [[Huguenot]]s under the [[Edict of St. Germain]].
22: ...h]] diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]] disappears in [[Hungary]] while in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] custody.
25: ...$2 million from an armored car in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
51: *[[1811]] - [[Joshua A. Norton]], Emperor of the United States and Pr...
62: *1899 - [[Nevil Shute]], author (d. [[1960]]) - January 2 (10888 bytes)
25: ...he [[Russia]]n fleet surrenders at [[L?ou|Port Arthur]], [[China]].
35: ...ted States Navy]] opens a [[blimp]] base at [[Lakehurst, New Jersey]].
80: *[[1942]] - [[Hugh Shelton]], American Chairman of the Joint Chief...
88: *[[1961]] - [[Gabrielle Carteris]], American actress
89: *[[1961]] - [[Todd Haynes]], American film director - Cambodia (32076 bytes)
14: leader_names = [[Norodom Sihamoni]] <br> [[Hun Sen]] |
59: ...d after the founder of that tribe, [[Kambu Svayambhuva]]. The French name for Cambodia was ''Cambodge'...
90: [[Image:Bayon Angkor Relief1.jpg|right|thumb|280px|A [[Khmer Empire|Khmer]] army going to wa...
100: [[Image:Phnom_Penh_French_Colonial.jpg|right|thumb|280px|French colonial buildings in [[Phnom Penh...
102: ...luding the next king. Norodom and his successors thus assumed the role of figureheads and heads of the...
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