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- Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
6: ...atic]]s, grace smells one can say little with confidence about his life and teachings. Pythagoras and...
13: ...] recitations occurred before and after sleep to aid the memory.
19: ...rian]]. According to [[Ovid]], Pythagoras once said, "As long as man continues to be the ruthless des...
21: ...ain from beans" would, therefore, mean merely "Avoid politics".
23: ...aching. Even today, scholars cannot definitively identify the "real" Pythagoreans. - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small a...
4: ...e|Greek]] ''asteroeides'', ''aster'' "star" + ''-eidos'' "form, shape"), was coined in [[1802]] by Sir...
6: ...not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...ike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmosphere.
10: ...t include asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate man-made object... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...omets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and v...
5: ...[[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
9: ... rather than an orbital trajectory. While the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is gen...
11: ...dually vanish out of sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or...
17: ...ons]] fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and molecules. In these coll... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
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63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
112: *[[Trigonometric identity|Trigonometric identities]]
122: *[[List of satellites which have provided data on the magnetosphere]] - List of human spaceflights (317 bytes)
4: * [[List of human spaceflights, 1987-1999]] - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...AI definition. Those who have achieved this are said to hold [[astronaut wings]]. Astronauts from at l...
9: ... [[Norman Thagard]] became the first American to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle, argu...
11: ... travellers are called '''spationauts''' (a [[hybrid word]] formed from the Latin ''spatium'', "space"...
20: ... [[As of 2005]], the most spaceflights by an individual astronaut was seven, a record held by both [[J...
24: ... United States, persons selected as astronaut candidates receive silver [[Astronaut wings]]. Once they... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-)
144: *[[George Biddle]] ([[1885]]-[[1973]])
149: *[[Henry Billings]] ([[1901]]-[[1987]])
162: *[[David G. Blythe]] ([[1815]]-[[1865]]) - Macau (16856 bytes)
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40: ... [[Special Administrative Region]] of the PRC. Residents of Macau mostly speak [[Cantonese Chinese|Can... - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ... built since the [[3rd century BC]] against the raids of [[Ethnic groups in Chinese history|nomadic tr...
3: The Wall stretches over a formidable [[1 E6 m|6,350 km]] (3,946 [[mile]]s), from [...
5: ...but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their [[horses]...
26: ...ll had no laws written to protect the Wall nationwide. However, Beijing has enacted local legislation ...
46: == Materials == [[Image:InsideGWWatchtower.jpg|thumb|left|125px|Watchtower inte... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
4: ...ant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei]].
9: ... [[witchcraft]]. Born prematurely, Johannes is said to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite...
11: ...im to turn to the world of ideas, as well as an abiding religious conviction, for solace.
19: ...ler, inviting Kepler to assist him at Benatek outside Prague. After Tycho's death, Kepler was appoint...
23: ...that their hexagonal nature was due to cold, but did not ascertain a physical cause for this. The ques... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...s waged by means of economic pressure, selective aid, diplomatic manoeuvre, propaganda, assassination,...
7: The Cold War is usually considered to have occurred approximately from the end o...
12: ... the world almost as much as the actual fighting did.
14: ...rly the city of [[Berlin]]. Arguably, the most vivid symbol of the Cold War was the [[Berlin Wall]]. T...
44: ... and some even auctioned them off to the highest bidder. - Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
6: *[[1972]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1972]] (including [[Watergate]] b...
10: *[[1974]] - [[Richard Nixon]] resigns Presidency over [[Watergate]]
11: *[[1974]] - [[Gerald R. Ford]] becomes President (by [[succession]] rather than [[election]])
12: *[[1976]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1976]]
13: *[[1977]] - [[Jimmy Carter]] becomes President - Michigan (29427 bytes)
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42: ...d due to a boundary dispute with Ohio, with both sides claiming a 468 square mile (1,210 km?) strip of...
48: [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]], the second-largest city in Michigan, is also ...
50: ... southern U.S. states. Still, with 10 million residents, Michigan remains a large and influential sta...
60: ...ded the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The U.S. did not take control of the territory until 1796. - Cloud (9947 bytes)
15: * where air flows up the side of a [[mountain]] and cools as it rises higher i...
18: ... small droplets suspended. As well, conditions inside a cloud are not static: water droplets are const...
22: ...ce crystals in a cloud interact to produce the rapid growth of ice crystals, which precipitate from th...
28: ...s'' means piled up). These two cloud types are divided into four more groups that distinguish the clou...
45: ===Middle clouds (Family B)=== - Bill Buckner (4174 bytes)
1: ...:TN_baseball.jpg|frame|125px|Baseball Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
7: ... placed second in the category (1979, 1981, 1983, 1987). For his career he averaged 20.7 AB/K (compared ...
12: ...n astonishing comeback for the Mets, however, it did not (as is often misremembered) end the [[World S...
24: ...essional baseball he moved his family to [[Boise, Idaho]], where he invested in real estate: one of th...
26: ... Ball" was later auctioned for $93,000. The high bidder was [[Charlie Sheen]]. The ball is now in the ... - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (16156 bytes)
8: ...nd mouth]] and [[rinderpest]], BSE has attracted wide attention because of its apparent transmissibili...
11: ...[[prion]] proteins carry the disease between individuals and cause deterioration of the [[brain]]. BSE...
13: == The BSE epidemic in British cattle ==
14: ...to the feed, and so the number of cases reached epidemic proportions. The tissues that contain most of...
16: ...er European countries like Germany required the said animal byproducts to undergo a high temperature s... - Zoology (5641 bytes)
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25: ...onary biology]] of both animals and plants is considered in the articles on [[evolution]], [[populatio...
35: ...e superficial morphography until today no one considers a study of animal form of any value which does...
37: ...eal basis of zoological knowledge throughout the Middle Ages. It was Wotton's merit that he rejected t... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
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120: ...tune but with a circle in the top center for the middle spoke.
126: ...had already been allotted to the numerous [[asteroid]]s. Virtually all the female names had been used ...
128: ...nomer colleagues in America. After favourable consideration which was almost unanimous, the name Pluto...
134: ...ger than any [[minor planet]] in the main [[asteroid belt]], or any minor planet so far discovered in ... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
27: ...966]] - A [[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52]] bomber collides with a [[KC-135]] jet tanker over [[Spain]], dr...
28: ...[United States Navy]] diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg.
29: * [[1973]] - [[Ferdinand Marcos]] becomes "President for Life" of the [[Philippines]].
30: ...] releases ''[[Blood on the Tracks]],'' often considered one of his best albums.
34: ...ud]] missiles into [[Israel]] in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...y [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]], a holiday when gifts were exchanged. There are 364 days r...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered by [[Giuseppe Piazzi]...
42: *[[1937]] - [[Anastasio Somoza]] becomes [[President of Nicaragua]].
49: ...f the Italian Republic]], but refuses to be a candidate for the first constitutional election the foll...
52: ...nt of the Republic of Cuba]], is overthrown by [[Fidel Castro]]'s forces.
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