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- Maryland (22654 bytes)
53: ...nry]]. It was during this bombardment that [[the Star Spangled Banner]] was written by Francis Scott Ke... - Texas (39610 bytes)
8: Nickname = Lone Star State |
43: ...dash; '''The Lone Star State''' (after the single star on several historical flags of Texas, including t...
143: ...]" holding aloft a five-point Texas [[pentagram | star]]. Like several other southern state capitols, i...
512: **[[San Antonio Silver Stars]]
514: **[[Dallas Stars]] - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
8: Nickname = North Star State |
43: ... include ''Land of 10,000 Lakes'' and the ''North Star State''.
70: ...[United States Republican Party|Republican]], who started his term on [[January 6]], [[2003]]. The gove...
75: ...ial districts, with 257 judges. Most state cases start in the trial courts.
247: ...os|State motto]] – L'ɴoile du Nord (“Star of the North”) - Montana (14119 bytes)
185: *In the movie '[[Star Trek: First Contact]]', Montana is the location o... - Nebraska (13662 bytes)
83: ...ets in Lincoln (where it is marked by a red brick star).
195: * [[Lincoln Stars]], [[United States Hockey League]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
251: ...: Mechanical [[submarine]]: [[Narc�Monturiol i Estarriol]]
305: ...in pen, nor even "first practical fountain pen". Started manufacture in 1883, too.
346: * [[1899]]: [[Automobile self starter]]: [[Clyde J. Coleman]]
378: * [[1911]]: [[Automobile self starter]] (perfected): [[Charles F. Kettering]]
509: * [[1981]]: the [[Xerox Star]] is the first computer to feature a [[WIMP (comp... - Agathocles of Bactria (7452 bytes)
38: ...st coin of Agathocles, with stupa surmounted by a star, and possibly [[Trisula]] symbol. - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
4: ...imates. There is some evidence he used the [[Pole Star]] to fix latitude and understood the relationship...
8: The start of Pytheas's voyage is already a mystery. The [[... - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
20: ...s.uga.edu/~rfreeman/GEOL3350_'4HistoryDinoSt.htm] started in the 1970s, and was triggered in part by [[J...
177: ...''[[One Million Years BC]]'' ([[1966]]) (famously starring [[Raquel Welch]] in a fur bikini). [[Ray Har... - Animal (16429 bytes)
94: ...y symmetric and exclusively marine, such as [[sea star]]s, [[sea urchin]]s, and [[sea cucumber]]s. The ...
123: ...], [[sloth]], [[snake]], [[spider]], [[squid]], [[starfish]], [[turtle]], [[whale]], [[wolf]], [[yak]], ... - Space (10661 bytes)
90: ...ents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the who...
92: ... the final frontier." - [[Gene Roddenberry]], ''[[Star Trek]]''
98: Only the start of space, the road to suns." - [[F.R. Scott]], '... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
8: ...largely of [[astrometry]], measuring positions of stars and planets in the sky. Later, the work of [[Joh...
12: ...tronomy, Planetary Sciences); by subject, such as star formation or cosmology; or by the method used for...
29: *[[Stellar astronomy]]: the study of the stars.
31: ...tellar evolution]]: the study of the evolution of stars from their formation to their end as a stellar r...
33: ...dition and processes that led to the formation of stars in the interior of gas clouds, and the process o... - Constellation (3718 bytes)
4: ...as [[Big Dipper]]) and the [[Little Dipper]]. The stars in a constellation or asterism rarely have any a...
6: The grouping of stars into constellations is essentially [[wiktionary:...
14: ... be in a constellation, and the number of visible stars in a constellation to be managably small.
20: ==Star names==
21: ...ames, see [[Star designation]]s and the [[list of stars by constellation]]. - Solar system (21174 bytes)
1: ...anetary system]]s'' are a more generic term for [[star]]s and the objects that orbit around them.
7: ... a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] G2 [[star]] that contains 99.86% of the system's [[mass]].
43: ...would have collapsed into a disk, with the [[protostar|protosun]] accreting at the centre. As the proto...
45: ...the giant planet spiralling in towards the parent star. Any terrestrial planets which had previously ex...
49: ...ight year]]s containing approximately 200 billion stars, of which our Sun is fairly typical. - Sun (20830 bytes)
122: A '''sun''' is the [[star]] at the center of a [[solar system]]. Our sun i...
124: ... is called ''its'' sun, and stars in a [[multiple star system]] are referred to as the "suns" of bodies ...
128: ... but far smaller than a [[blue giant]] star. A G2 star is on the main sequence, and has a lifetime of ab...
140: ... modeling|analytic]] and [[computer modeling]] of stars, and [[helioseismology]], the study of sound wav...
144: ...lium]], producing the heat that drives the entire star. About 8.9×10<sup>37</sup> [[proton|protons... - Planetary system (2476 bytes)
1: ...'''planetary system''' consists of at least one [[star]] and various [[orbit]]ing objects (such as [[ast...
5: ...ormation]]. Some early theories involved another star passing extremely close to the sun, and drawing m...
7: ...uld see them escape the gravitational hold of the star. One theory is that existing stellar companions ...
12: ...tary system discovered around a [[main sequence]] star, found to be so in April 1999
13: * [[PSR B1620-26]] - the first multistar planetary system discovered - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...|late March]] of the same year, to describe their star-like appearance; the other then-known planets all...
56: ...ed that hand-drawn sky charts be prepared for all stars in the [[zodiac]]al band down to an agreed-upon ...
58: ...f [[Palermo]], in [[Sicily]]. He discovered a new star-like object in [[Taurus]] and followed the displa...
67: ... The location would be measured relative to known star locations [http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/About/Peo...
103: ...rom [[Graeco-Roman mythology]], but as such names started to run out, others were used —famous peo... - Comet (30542 bytes)
21: ... the Sun's hypothetical companion star [[Nemesis (star)|Nemesis]]; or an unknown [[Planet X]].
41: ...Some authorities interpret references to "falling stars" in [[Gilgamesh]], [[Book of Revelation|Revelati...
83: ...t comets are made of. The [[Stardust (spacecraft)|Stardust spacecraft]], launched in February [[1999]],... - List of themed timelines (11300 bytes)
29: ** [[Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae]]
289: * [[Timeline of Star Trek]]
290: * [[Dates in Star Wars]] (features timeline) - Planet (8450 bytes)
1: ...er 150 planet-sized objects in orbit around other stars, the problem of defining a planet has become rat...
3: ...otostar]] in a dense protostellar disk before the star's core ignited and its [[solar wind]] blew remain...
50: ... to the terrestrial planets; planets orbiting the stars [[Mu Arae]], [[55 Cancri]] and [[GJ 436]] which ...
52: ...lass of hot Jupiters that orbit so close to their star that their atmospheres are slowly blown away in a...
58: ...planets cause very small "wobble effect" on their star. Discoveries of smaller planets will require radi...
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