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  1. Government (12596 bytes)
    53: ...]] - [[Cicero]] - [[Saint Augustine]] - [[Thomas Aquinas]]
    56: ... [[Johann Gottfried von Herder]] - [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] - [[John Stuart Mill]] - [[Karl Marx]] -...
    100: ...opeland's method]] - [[D'Hondt method]] - [[Droop quota]] - [[Election threshold]] - [[Hamilton metho...
    103: ...election]] - [[Protest vote]] - [[Push poll]] - [[Qualified Majority Voting]] - [[Recall election]] -...
    109: ...itical parties|Political parties by country]] - [[Index of political parties|Political parties by name]]
  2. Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
    10: ...ceded Galileo, [[William Gilbert]], did not use a quantitative approach. However, Galileo's father, [...
    12: ...f acceleration of falling bodies, for instance, required accurate measurements of time, which appeare...
    14: ...ated the particular results that led to the time-squared law (Drake, 1973).
    39: ...ered, starting from rest, is proportional to the square of the time (This law is regarded as a predec...
    41: ...f the [[amplitude]]. While Galileo believed this equality of period to be exact, it is only an approx...
  3. India (27950 bytes)
    5: ...d in the [[Mahabharata]], as an official name of equal status. A third name, '''[[Hindustan]]''' ({{l...
    46: ...on. All governments formed since [[1996]] have required party coalitions, with no single majority pa...
    68: [[Image:InfosysHQFrontView.jpg|thumb|270px|[[Information Technology...
    69: ...ndia]] and the [[Bombay Stock Exchange]]. While a quarter of Indians still live below the [[poverty l...
    95: India has a rich and unique cultural heritage, and has actively preserved i...
  4. Mathematics (24164 bytes)
    1: '''Mathematics''' is the study of [[quantity]], [[structure]], [[space]] and [[change]]...
    8: ...peoples also recognized how to count ''abstract'' quantities, like [[time]] -- [[Day|days]], [[Season...
    10: ...Perhaps [[prehistoric]] peoples first expressed [[quantity]] by drawing lines in the ground or scratc...
    27: ==Queen of science==
    28: ...phy is the handmaiden of theology and theology is queen of the sciences". If one considers [[science...
  5. Economics (30960 bytes)
    1: ...)|positive]] when it attempts to explain the consequences of different choices given a set of [[assum...
    5: ...s)|economic models]] in order to predict the consequences of decisions or events, it also analyses th...
    14: ...g in the face of scarcity and the allocation consequences of these decisions.
    15: ...loyment]] and [[inflation]]. Note that [[general equilibrium]] theory combines concepts of a macro-ec...
    22: ...[[econometrics]], which applies statistical techniques to the study of [[economic data]]. [[Computati...
  6. Christianity (47078 bytes)
    39: ...ictions and the concept of purity, [[sabbath]], [[quartodecimanism]]) pejoratively called [[judaize|j...
    52: The question of Jesus's divinity was central to early C...
    56: ...ch]] of [[Constantinople]] as the "[[First among equals]]" of the numerous bishops in charge of its [...
    58: ...erceived doctrinal error and novelty in Rome. Key questions in the Reformation controversy are summed...
    145: ...g divine scripture, such as the Bible, Torah, and Qur'an. Christians generally do not view themselves...
  7. Drought (2106 bytes)
    1: ...ater]] availability falls below the statistical requirements for a region. Drought is not a purely p...
    6: ...ion, due to soil conditions or agricultural techniques.
    7: ... the water reserves available in sources such as aquifers, lakes, and reservoirs falls below the stat...
    9: ...the word is used by urban planners, it is more frequently in the sense of hydrologic drought.
    11: ...ght can have significant economic and social consequences. The most famous example of this was seen i...
  8. Garlic (12167 bytes)
    3: ...</sub>H<sub>10</sub>S<sub>2</sub>). When eaten in quantity, garlic may be strongly evident in the din...
    45: &quot;The people in places where the simoon is frequent,&quot; says [[Mountstuart Elphinstone]] (''An Acco...
    76: The types differ not only in culinary qualities, but in storage potential. Under good st...
    91: * While culinary quantities are generally safe, do not take garlic i...
    109: *[http://herbsociety.org/garlic/index.php Garlic: An Herb Society of America Guide]
  9. Ankle (1079 bytes)
    13: ....about.com/cs/ankle/a/ankleindex.htm Ankle injury index - about.com]
  10. Thumb (3123 bytes)
    2: ...etacarpal joint and so can complete the sometimes quite delicate task of grasping objects by pressing...
    25: ...tips of thumb and second finger ([[forefinger]]/[[index finger]]) holding a pill or other small item, or ...
    31: ...e]]s today, which in its turn was one of the consequences of the gradual [[pithecanthropoid]] and [[a...
    37: ...t works like an opposable thumb. This &quot;thumb&quot; is not really a finger (like the human thumb ...
  11. Hand (6764 bytes)
    14: ...ing with the one closest to the thumb, has a colloquial name to distinguish it from the others:
    16: * index finger, pointer finger, or forefinger
    59: ...hese form the [[anatomical snuff box]]. Also, the index finger and the little finger have an extra extens...
  12. Finger (2398 bytes)
    8: # [[index finger]], pointer finger, or forefinger
    15: ... have a high concentration of [[nerve ending]]s, equipping them as centers of [[tactile]] [[The sense...
  13. Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
    10: ...ecraft summarized in ''The Prince'', and was consequently driven out of Italy. Machiavelli's public l...
    15: ...y because the Catholic church put the work in its Index &ndash; a list of books against the faith.
    23: ...actually divorces them. '''Politics becomes technique'''!
    25: ...: they came into a research not driven by their unquenchable thirst for truth but their need to justi...
    86: ...s.org/reference/archive/machiavelli/works/art-war/index.htm &quot;The Seven Books on the Art of War&quot;] at the [...
  14. Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
    9: ... [[memory]]; he wrote books on [[mnemonic]] technique, which [[Frances Yates]] contends may have been...
    11: ...of [[Plato]]. Other influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio...
    13: ... he left Naples to avoid the attention of the [[Inquisition]]. He left [[Rome]] for the same reason a...
    17: ...inhabited by intelligent beings (see the [[Drake equation]]). These two works are jointly known as hi...
    21: ...Henry Fagot' whose reports to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spy master, have been found in su...
  15. El Salvador (12362 bytes)
    34: ...countries by area|Ranked 149th]] <br /> 21,040 [[square kilometre|km&sup2;]] <br /> 1.5%
    65: ... over the heated [[Football World Cup|World Cup]] qualifying series taking place between the two coun...
    67: ...at assured political and military reforms; death squad activity was virtually eliminated. However, th...
    69: ...ople. On [[February 13]], [[2001]] a second earthquake killed 255 people.
    76: ...bsolute majority vote. A second round runoff is required in the event that no candidate receives more...
  16. Archery (18991 bytes)
    42: ...the 40cm and 60cm faces arranged in a line or an equilateral triangle.
    50: The flag is 12 inches square and is fixed to a stick. The flag should be a...
    76: A bow requires substantially more training than a rifle to ...
    84: ...unching projectiles. Archery was practised in antiquity on every continent except Australia, demonstr...
    96: ...sbow]], while dating from classical times, became quite popular during the Middle Ages. While it took...
  17. Auto racing (15302 bytes)
    8: ...t he was disqualified because his car was not a required four-seater.
    23: ...ulations. Extensive use of aluminium alloys was required to achieve light weight, and in the case of ...
    96: ...bars and large bumpers at either end made out of square section steel.
    104: ...sing an index, and cars running faster than their index &quot;break out&quot; and lose.
    175: ...driver of the car with the indicated number is disqualified or will not be scored until they report t...
  18. Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
    22: After the [[1875]] season, Chicago acquired several key players, including pitcher [[Alb...
    24: With a beefed-up squad, the White Stockings cruised through the N.L.'...
    35: ...son. As with 1880, extrapolating is statistically questionable, but the Cubs' 116-36 season of 1906 p...
    37: ... indelicate nickname from having lost most of his index finger in farm machinery when he was a youngster....
    50: The fourth line is sometimes misquoted as also reading &quot;Tinker to Evers to Chance&quot;....
  19. Architect (6342 bytes)
    6: ... requirements for other [[professional]]s, with requirements for practice varying greatly from place ...
    8: ...is the [[Pritzker Prize]]. It is considered the equivalent of the [[Nobel Prize]] for architecture. ...
    11: ...erring to a licensed professional, the word is frequently used in a broader sense to define someone w...
    14: ...ass a series of exams, and pay an annual fee to acquire and maintain a license to practice.
    19: ...s. Some states, such as California and Hawaii, require supplemental exams in addition to the ARE. O...
  20. Sodalite (4894 bytes)
    29: | [[Refractive index]]|| 1.48 - isotropic (sodium light)
    47: ...y enjoyed as an ornamental [[gemstone|stone]]. Opaque to very seldom transparent, sodalite is a membe...
    54: ...r to lazurite and lapis lazuli, sodalite is never quite comparable, being a royal blue rather than [[...
    56: ...dalite exhibiting [[tenebrescence]]: when freshly quarried, it is a violet to red colour and graduall...
    61: ...: [[Bancroft, Ontario]] and [[Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec]] in [[Canada]]; and [[Litchfield, Maine]] a...

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