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- Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
3: ...tion of a [[cursor]] on the [[computer display|display]].
5: ... be either ''mice'' or ''mouses''. See [[English plural]] for more information.
13: ...t ultimately, the mouse won out because of its simplicity and convenience.
15: ...[[1970]] for a ''"X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System"''. At the time, Engelbart intended tha...
17: ...us mouse.jpg|200px|thumb|left| An Apple Macintosh Plus's Mouse, 1986]] - Global warming (53726 bytes)
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11: Use of the term "global warming" generally implies a human influence — the more neutral ter...
16: ... [[United States]] [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/displaypagedoc.asp?id=13057].
25: ...e. The unsmoothed, annual value for 2004 is also plotted for reference.]]
38: ...a is not in dispute, the records suffer from incomplete coverage, geographically and historically, mak... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
4: ... {{Greek myth (Olympian)}}after her alleged birth-places in [[Cyprus]] and [[Cythera]], respectively. ...
16: ...s the original oracular goddess ("Dione" being simply "the goddess," etymologically an equivalent of "...
18: ...ntatively came ashore at [[Cytherea]], a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Pe...
20: ...respectively (homosexuality being more divine for Plato).
25: ...[[Troy]] to [[Paris]], but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time,... - Moon (37975 bytes)
47: ! align="left" | [[Argument of the perihelion|Argument of perigee]]
197: ...due to [[libration]]. Most of the far side was completely unknown until the era of [[space probe]]s. T...
201: ...guishing feature of the far side is its almost complete lack of ''[[lunar mare|maria]]'' (singular: ''...
211: ...he [[ecliptic]] and not in the Earth's equatorial plane.
213: ...real month]] being the time it takes to make a complete orbit with respect to the stars, about 27.3 da... - Hafnium (9162 bytes)
166: == Applications ==
170: *as the electrode in [[plasma cutting]] because of its ability to shed elec...
174: ...program, both on technical and moral grounds (the argument is that though a hafnium bomb might be infeasible...
185: ...tain this metal are rarely encountered by most people and the pure metal is not normally toxic but all... - Iodine (11416 bytes)
142: ...n tetrachloride]], or carbon disulfide to form purple solutions (It is only slightly [[solubility|solu...
144: == Applications ==
154: ...otassium iodide]] (KI) tablets can be given to people in a nuclear disaster area. KI prevents the body...
156: *[[Nitrogen triiodide]] is an explosive, too unstable to be used commercially, but i...
160: ...tois added too much sulfuric acid and cloud of purple vapor rose. Curtois noted that the vapor crystal... - Silicon (13233 bytes)
44: ...ductor]] devices, and [[silicone]]s, the latter a plastic substance often confused with silicon. Silic...
49: == Applications ==
50: ...ment]]. Silicon is a very important element for [[plant]] and [[animal]] life. [[Diatom]]s extract sil...
56: ...ich are used in electronics and other high-tech applications.
58: ...sed in applications such as artificial [[breast implant]]s and contact lenses. - Democracy (24363 bytes)
2: ... government can be classified as such. This can apply to a multitude of government systems as these co...
4: ...;alpha;; the term therefore means "rule by the people."
10: ...ght to vote. However, the ancient Athenian vote applied to making decisions directly, rather than voti...
25: *or most simply through falsification of the results
27: Historical examples of this include the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] under... - U.S. Electoral College (46986 bytes)
8: ...United States is indirect, for which voting takes place every four years on [[U.S. Election Day|Electi...
10: ...Nebraska since [[1996]], though neither has ever split its electoral votes.
14: ...from that state; if a state delegation is evenly split that state is considered as abstaining). This v...
16: ...tie-breaking vote if the Senate should be evenly split on the matter.
25: ...he state has in Congress. No federal officer or employee, including Senators and Representatives, may ... - Stamp Act 1765 (7443 bytes)
2: ... commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards in the [[13 colonies|American colonies...
8: ... viewed as an equitable source of income. Taxes applied to all forms of legal documents. The rate of ...
22: ...it was "unreasonable and inconsistent, for the people of Great Britain to grant to His Majesty the pro... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ... He is credited with being one of the first to apply [[calculus]] to [[physics]].
5: ...es of the newly invented [[calculus]]. He was completely [[blindness|blind]] for the last seventeen y...
12: ...ntia analytice exposita'' ("Mechanics or motion explained with analytical science"—that is, calc...
18: ...ler continued to be very productive, despite a complete loss of vision, due to his extraordinary power...
20: ... [[Legendre]] that often he would write down a complete mathematical proof between the first and the s... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
6: ...inued his research and wrote a series of books on plants and animals, now including mankind in ''[[The...
19: ... March [[1827]] Darwin made a presentation to the Plinian society of his discovery that black spores o...
22: ...clergymen who saw it as part of their duties to explore the wonders of God's creation.
24: ...aley]] which included the [[Teleological argument|argument of divine design]] in nature. He got private tuit...
26: ...t Cambridge till June and following Henslow's example and advice he was in no rush to take holy orders... - Woodrow Wilson (31322 bytes)
11: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Staunton]], [[Virginia]...
13: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Washington, D.C.]]</td>...
25: ...[[University of Virginia]] for one year. After completing and publishing his dissertation, ''Congressi...
28: ... rampant. Instead of focusing on individuals in explaining where American politics went wrong, Wilson ...
34: ...Government," his best known political work, as an argument for a parliamentary system, but Wilson was impres... - Henry A. Wallace (8151 bytes)
10: ... [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. His inauguration took place on [[January 20]], [[1941]], for the term endi...
12: ...e]]. The two differed on how to handle wartime supplies.
14: ...d out a positive vision for the war beyond the simple defeat of the [[Nazis]]. The speech, and the boo...
18: ...s and provide safe working conditions for their employees, and it committed the United States to payin...
24: ...eptember [[1946]], when [[W. Averell Harriman]] replaced him because Truman regarded Wallace as too cr... - Tomato (10085 bytes)
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4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
6: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
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17: The '''tomato''' is a plant in the [[Solanaceae]] or [[nightshade]] family... - United States Declaration of Independence (23184 bytes)
2: ...] in the [[United States]]. The document is on display in the [[National Archives and Records Administ...
10: ...out, as was a lengthy criticism of the British people and parliament. His draft was presented to the ...
26: ...a government neglects its duties, [[people|the people]] have a right to change or abolish it and form ...
30: ...r, repeated crimes and abuses require that the people revolt
34: ...ependence and powers as a sovereign nation, and a pledge by the signers to support the Declaration wit... - European-influenced classical music (18917 bytes)
8: ...works are best understood in the context of their place in musical history, for many this is essential...
10: ...val]], generally before 1450. Chant, also called plainsong or [[Gregorian Chant]], was the dominant f...
11: ...erized by greater use of instrumentation and multiple melodic lines
18: ...uch as classical, romantic, or modern. So for example, [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]'s ''Classical Sy...
22: ...he most famous classical composers. For a more complete overview see [[Graphical timeline for classica... - Africanized Bee (13350 bytes)
3: ... migratory pattern in response to lowered food supply.
11: ...y be determined only by examination of a large sample. They are descended from 26 [[Tanzania|Tanzanian...
14: ... and it is difficult to estimate how many more people may have died than would have in the absence of ...
22: ... for early [[Pollination management|pollination]] placement, such as is required for the production of...
25: ...nalysis on micro-measurements of a substantial sample. One problem with this test is that there is als... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ... the past few centuries. In antiquity, the few people who were able to engage in natural inquiry were ...
9: ... publishing process, as well as the internal disciplinary limitations to the scientific publication pr...
11: ...ed the first scientific community; founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[Giambattista della Porta]]. The...
13: The Academia Secretorum Naturae was replaced by the [[Accademia dei Lincei]], founded in [...
24: ...scale'' of the commentary or the information: the argument and logic of a discovery would be limited to what... - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
2: ...ith the study of nature, including practical disciplines, the mathematical sciences, and [[natural phi...
4: ...ture as a coherent system of laws that could be explained in the light of reason.
6: ...however, were suddenly interrupted by the [[Black Plague]] and are virtually unknown to the lay public...
14: ...pestry of rural populations and semi-[[nomad]] peoples. The political instability and the downfall of ...
16: ...ltures|antiquity]], sources which were often incomplete and posed serious problems of interpretation. ...
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