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- Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Archosauria]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Orders}}
10: [[Saurischia]]<br/>
13: [[Ornithischia]]<br/>
16: ...pressions of skin and internal organs, and "soft tissues, including blood vessels and cells lining the... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...satellite|moon]]s, and [[planet]]s. The [[Earth]] is the third planet of the Solar System. ''[[Planeta...
5: ...ought. This encyclopedia employs the following divisions:
7: *The [[Sun]] (☉) is a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] G2 [[...
18: ...Image:Solar system scale.jpg|thumb|center|550px|This illustration shows the approximate sizes of the p...
22: ... are [[Natural satellite|moon]]s. For a complete listing, see that article. - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...upiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|thumb|right|250px|This picture of [[433 Eros]] shows the view looking fr...
4: ...nfused with Adolf Erman (1854-1937), the egyptologist --->.
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "minor planet" (or "planetoid...
8: ...lly [[boulder]]-sized or smaller. The distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to surviv...
10: ...ude asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate man-made objects whic... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...helion|aphelia]] of which may be many times more distant than [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]]'s orbit. Often ...
5: ... are [[temperature|cool]] enough that [[water]] exists in a [[solid]] (rather than [[gas]]eous) [[phas...
7: == Physical characteristics ==
9: ... solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 50km across, the coma may be ...
11: ...lennia. One very famous old recording of a comet is the appearance of Halley's Comet on the [[Bayeux ... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...the boundaries of states, countries or other administrative areas.
6: ...ial term for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observa...
8: ...mdash;known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British Summer Time]] (BST).
10: The time for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
11: ...: UTC − 8 (e.g. if it is 12:00 UTC, then it is 04:00 in Los Angeles) - 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)
3: ...der the FAI definition. Those who have achieved this are said to hold [[astronaut wings]]. Astronauts ...
7: ...decessor is called a '''cosmonaut'''. "Cosmonaut" is an anglicization of the [[Russia]]n word к&...
9: ...s training begins, while in Russia, an individual is not labelled a cosmonaut until successful space f...
13: ...has actually been in space. Official English text issued by the Chinese government uses ''astronaut''.
20: ...Ross]] and [[Franklin Chang-Diaz]]. The furthest distance from Earth an astronaut has traveled was 401... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
8: ...[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
12: ...840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
13: ...([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubist]] artist - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...eavors to re-capture the [[Holy Land]] from the [[Islam|Muslims]], but some were directed against othe...
6: == Historical background ==
7: ...st certain people at certain times of the year. This was somewhat successful, but trained warriors alw...
9: ...o those who were killed in battle. Even today Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abs...
11: ...oversy. The result was an awakening of intense Christian piety and public interest in religious affair... - American football (39287 bytes)
1: ... and development of American football, see the [[history of American football]] article. For informati...
5: ...ompetitive team [[sport]]. The object of the game is to carry the ball to the opposing team's [[end zo...
7: ...utside of the United States and Canada, the sport is referred to as 'American football' or sometimes '...
11: ...alf of US television households, and is also televised in over 150 other countries. ''Super Bowl Sunda...
13: ...ademy|Air Force Academy]] player tries to thwart his progress.]] - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...ut of feathers and wax for himself and his son. His son Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax ...
5: ...omputer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, such as the [[F-117]].
13: ...ct. See [[List of early flying machines]] for a list of these. Note that there are many claims and c...
15: ...rdo also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design would not have flown.
17: ...mind an arm or leg." Swedenborg was prescient in his observation that powering the aircraft through th... - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
1: ...350px|Census Bureau map depicting territorial acquisitions and dates of statehood.]]
3: ...his is a list of '''United States territorial acquisitions''', beginning with [[American Revolutionary...
5: *The '''[[Louisiana Purchase]]''', completed [[1803]], was negoti...
9: ..., made in [[1819]] from [[Spain]], under the administration of [[John Quincy Adams]]
11: ...der [[Antonio L de Santa Anna]] warned that this would be "equivalent to a declaration of war agai... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
10: ...am<br>• Reunification of Vietnam under communist rule<br>
31: ...ary history of the United States]]<br>[[Military history of Vietnam]]
33: ...st Party of Vietnam. In [[Vietnam]], the conflict is known as '''the American War''' ([[Vietnamese lan...
37: ...th the Americans. The difficulty in this is establishing a beginning and an end. The fighting with the...
43: ... [[France|the French]], with the financial and logistical support of the United States, fought a losin... - Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
1: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1970]] to [[1989]...
7: *[[1972]] - [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]] with [[USSR]]
16: *[[1979]] - [[Three Mile Island]] nuclear accident
17: *[[1979]] - [[Iran hostage crisis]] begins
23: ...]] to protest [[1979]] [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]] - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
1: {{Ushistory}}
4: ...wing popularity of automobiles. In addition, the rise of the service sector, at the expense of industr...
6: ...rant]], anti-[[affirmative action]] stances. Non-Hispanic whites are now a minority in the nation's mo...
8: ... municipalities lost the revenues from the enterprises that had departed. In the nation's major urban ...
10: The fiscal problems of the nation's major urban centers w... - Bill Buckner (4174 bytes)
2: ...l that rolled between his legs in Game 6 of the [[1986 World Series]].
5: ...e [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] (at the age of 19) and his last game in [[1990]] (at the age of 40) with the...
7: ... Fox]], 44.9 for [[Lloyd Waner]] and 46.3 for [[Tris Speaker]]).
11: ==1986 World Series==
12: ...k for the Mets, however, it did not (as is often misremembered) end the [[World Series]]. The Met vict... - April (9790 bytes)
3: '''April''' is the [[fourth]] [[month]] of the [[year]] in the [...
5: ...eaking, the sun begins in the constellation of [[Pisces]] and ends in the constellation of [[Aries]].
7: The name is derived from the [[Latin]] ''aprilis'', either from the Latin word ''aperire'' which m...
11: ...376;). In [[Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''huhtikuu'', meaning something to do with...
20: :Whan that April with his showres soote (that is, sweet) - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (16156 bytes)
8: ...cted wide attention because of its apparent transmissibility and lethality to humans, as well as for t...
11: ...als consume tainted tissues from others with the disease. In the brain these proteins cause native cel...
13: == The BSE epidemic in British cattle ==
14: ...umber of cases reached epidemic proportions. The tissues that contain most of the pathogenic molecules...
16: ...dergo a high temperature steam boiling process, this requirement had been eased in Britain as a measur... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
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15: ...color="#c0ffff" colspan="2"| [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] [[J2000]]) - January 17 (12233 bytes)
1: '''January 17''' is the 17th day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calen...
6: ...tting the scene for the second phase of the [[English Civil War]].
7: ...e of Hanover|Hanoverian]] army at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the t...
9: ...er Brigadier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarle...
13: ...ted Kingdom|British]] force defeats a large [[Dervish]] army at the [[Battle of Abu Klea]] in the [[Su...
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