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  1. Religion (72319 bytes)
    19: ...ivist philosophy]], and [[agnosticism]], which do not appeal to authority or personal experience in co...
    21: ...hysical claims as necessary to explain natural phenomena at a fundamental level.
    23: ...itual, and a spiritual person may be religious or non-religious.
    25: ... see [[approaches to distinguishing religion from non-religion]].
    31: *Beliefs regarding the existence (or non-existence) and nature of [[Deity]] (or Deities) ...
  2. Lightning (33113 bytes)
    12: ...g stretching out; he then brought his hand close enough to the key and a spark jumped the gap. The rai...
    16: ... open, parts of his clothes singed, the engraver knocked out, the doorframe of the room split, and the...
    22: ...duce enough ice crystals usually fail to produce enough charge separation to cause lightning.
    26: ...trees and tall buildings. If the e-field is high enough a discharge can initiate from the ground. Thi...
    28: ...anic eruptions]]{{ref|usgs_hvo}}<sup>,</sup>{{ref|noaa_galgunggung}}, or can be caused by violent fore...
  3. Kangaroo Facts (16137 bytes)
    16: [[Western Grey Kangaroo|''Macropus fuliginosus'']]
    23: ...joey|joeys]]''. The [[collective nouns|collective noun]] for kangaroos is a ''mob''.
    28: ...ntinent. A large male can be 1.5&nbsp;m(4.5 feet) tall and weigh 85&nbsp;kg(187 lbs).
    29: ...garoo]]''' (''Macropus giganteus'') is less well-known than the red (outside of Australia), but the mo...
    30: ...'''[[Western Grey Kangaroo]]''' (''Macropus fuliginosus'') is slightly smaller again at about 54&nbsp...
  4. Abacus (7218 bytes)
    8: ...inese abacus is typically around 20 cm (8 inches) tall and it comes in various widths depending on the a...
    20: device is not beads on wires than the drawing used in this ent...
    26: ... to millions. The beads in the shorter grooves denote fives&mdash;five units, five tens, ''etc.'', es...
    35: ...(first) one bead from the upper deck and (later) another bead from lower deck in each column of the C...
    39: ...y the tutor. The soroban is about 8 cm (3 inches) tall. The beads on a soroban are usually shaped as a ...
  5. Petrarch (10447 bytes)
    6: ...s. Petrarch spent much of his early life at [[Avignon]] and nearby [[Carpentras]], where his family mo...
    8: ...eritage." Disdaining what he believed to be the ignorance of the era in which he lived, Petrarch is cr...
    10: ... the time, it was unusual to climb a mountain for no other reason than the experience itself. Therefor...
    12: ...1361]]. Francesca married [[Francescuolo da Brossano]] (who was later named executor of Petrarch's tes...
    17: ...ere'' ("Song Book"). She may have been [[Laure de Noves]], the wife of [[Hugues de Sade]] and an ances...
  6. Cassowary (5017 bytes)
    16: ...also have small cassowary populations: it is not known if these are natural or the result of the trade...
    22: *'''Northern Cassowary''' ''C. unappendiculatus'' of New...
    26: ... the far north [[Queensland]] [[rain forest]]s is not well understood.
    30: ...ern Cassowaries are 1.5 to 1.8 m (5&frac12; feet) tall and weigh about 60 [[kilogram]]s (130 pounds). Th...
    32: Normally cassowaries are very shy but when cornered ...
  7. Dik-dik (3106 bytes)
    13: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Dik-dik| author = [[Peter Simon Pallas...
    16: ... and weigh 3–5&nbsp;kg. They have an elongated snout and a soft coat that is gray or brownish above ...
    22: ...| shrubs]], but prefer [[foliage]] that is not so tall as to obstruct their sight lines.
    25: Dik-diks live in [[monogamous]] pairs in fixed [[Territory (animal) | ter...
    28: ...and [[berry | berries]]. They prefer to be semi-[[nocturnal]], feeding mostly at night, especially rig...
  8. Ape (10931 bytes)
    9: {{Taxobox_norank_entry | taxon = [[Catarrhini]]}}
    10: {{Taxobox_superfamilia_entry | taxon = '''Hominoidea'''}}<br>{{Taxobox_authority | author = [[John...
    17: ...e are two [[family (biology)|families]] of '''hominoids''':
    19: ... including the Lar and the Siamang, collectively known as the "lesser apes"
    20: ...zee]]s, [[orangutan]]s, and humans, collectively known as the "great apes".
  9. Coyote (4265 bytes)
    12: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Canis latrans | author = [[Thomas Say|...
    15: ...tes may occasionally assemble in small packs, but normally hunt alone. Coyotes live an average of abou...
    17: ...]]). Coyotes have moved into most of the areas of North America formerly occupied by [[wolf|wolves]], ...
    20: ...s a reddish tint to its coat. A coyote's ears and nose appear long and pointed, especially in relation...
    22: The Northeast Coyote and the Cape Cod Coyote is thought ...
  10. Tsunami (29462 bytes)
    2: ...unami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
    4: ...ometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in the...
    6: ...d its usage is discouraged by [[oceanographer|oceanographers]].
    10: ...s of [[water]], such as an [[earthquake]], [[volcano|volcanic eruption]], [[landslide]] or [[meteorite...
    12: ...lates slip under continental plates in a process known as subduction.
  11. World Series (40101 bytes)
    1: ...pionship series of [[Major League Baseball]] in [[North America]], played in [[October]] after the end...
    3: ...d Sox]]. The Red Sox won the series four games to none, earning their first World Series Championship ...
    7: ...s finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild card]] receive them, because th...
    9: ... Japanese or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded.
    11: ...'New York World'' for the relevant years revealed no evidence of the supposed sponsorship. (For detai...
  12. High jump (8613 bytes)
    6: ...over the bar, the Irish-American gained a more economic clearance and took the world record to 6'5-5/8...
    49: at:1984 shift:(22,2) text:[[Ludmilla_Andonowa]]_2,07_m
    50: at:1986 text:[[Stefka_Kostadinova]]_2,08_m
    51: at:1987 text:Stefka_Kostadinova_2,09_m
    55: Another American, M.F. Horine, developed a yet more e...
  13. Ship (18843 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Genoa 139a.jpg||thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http:...
    2: ...mast]]s) which a boat requires to become a ship. (Note that one refers to [[submarine]]s as "boats"). ...
    4: ... this was not part of the definition. The same economic pressures which increased sizes to the point o...
    6: ... come to be more particularly associated with the noun '[[navy]]'.
    14: ... of water, (summer, fresh, tropical fresh, winter north Atlantic) have different densities, subsequent...
  14. Cactus (4931 bytes)
    5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
    6: ...{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
    14: ...here from 1,500 to 1,800 species. Cacti are well-known natives of the [[Americas]], mostly in [[desert...
    16: ...plants. This means that they are native only in [[North America]] and [[South America]]. There is howe...
    18: ...n the Old World, even a few with spines, they are not cacti because they lack [[areole]]s. These speci...
  15. Termite (5655 bytes)
    16: [[Rhinotermitidae]]<br>
    19: {{Taxobox section binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Earthlife | author = [http://www.earth...
    22: ...te]] regions. They are of great biological and economic interest.
    27: ...like nozzle. In some colonies, the queen becomes enormous and quite helpless through the expansion of ...
    31: Termites cannot themselves digest the wood that they consume. In...
  16. Wood Stork (2419 bytes)
    12: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Mycteria americana | author = [[Carolu...
    14: ...The Wood Stork is the only stork that breeds in [[North America]].
    20: The adult is a large bird, typically 1m tall with a 1.5 m wingspan. It appears all white on th...
  17. San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
    19: population_note = 7,533,384 ([[metropolitan area|metro area]]) ...
    29: footnotes = |
    31: ...ty]] (the only one in California) situated at the northern tip of the [[San Francisco Peninsula]] that...
    44: ...name of [[Yerba Buena]] in [[1822]], when what is now the downtown area was first settled by William R...
    48: ... Buena Cove, granted to the city by military governor [[Stephen Watts Kearny]] in 1847.
  18. Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
    5: | date1=[[November 22]], [[1963]]
    31: ... and Lucy Baines, born in [[1947]]. It should be noted that Johnson loved to give everything his own ...
    33: ...rk on weekends; he worked as much as they did, if not more.
    41: ... in a special election against the sitting [[governor of Texas]], [[radio]] personality [[W. Lee O'Dan...
    51: ...t Commander Johnson, in order to obtain personal knowledge of combat conditions, volunteered as an obs...
  19. Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
    1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    14: | wife=[[Eleanor Roosevelt]]
    18: ...s called him Frank. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR (disambiguation)|FDR]]."
    20: ...rs dispute this claim arguing that Roosevelt's economic policies actually slowed recovery. In the buil...
    30: ...achusetts]] in [[1621]]. Her mother was a Lyman, another very old American family. Franklin was her on...
  20. Roman architecture (3399 bytes)
    3: ... on the [[Doric order]] and the Composite being a tall order with the floral decoration of the [[Corinth...
    5: ~Innovation started in the [[1st century BC|first centu...
    7: ... century]] and in the Roman home joined the well known [[mural]] in decorating floors, walls, and [[gr...
    9: ...cy, can still be seen throughout [[Europe]] and [[North America]] in the arches and domes of many [[go...

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