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- Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
7: ..." align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:DeGaullePortrait.jpg|180px]]
42: ... of [[tank]] battles and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored and aviation forces. He was th...
45: ... was a family of rich entrepreneurs from the industrial region of Lille in [[French Flanders]]. Born i...
47: ...herland, equal to her religious piety"). Although traditionalist and [[monarchist]], the family was le...
50: ...aduated in [[1912]] and decided to join an [[infantry]] regiment when he could have joined an elite co... - Condor (7828 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[bird|Aves]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Accipitriformes]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[New World vulture|Cathartidae]]}} - Scorpion (12441 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Arthropod]]a}}
6: {{Taxobox_subphylum_entry | taxon = [[Chelicerata]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Arachnida]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = '''Scorpiones'''}} - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
1: [[Image:Wave.jpg|thumb|250px|The tsunami that struck [[Mal靝 in the [[Maldives]] on [[December 26]...
4: ...very long [[wavelength]] (often hundreds of kilometres long), which is why they generally pass unnotic...
10: ...ch is too small to create a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of gener...
14: ...s sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Similarly, a violent ...
18: ...er, as energy from falling debris or expansion is transferred to the water into which the debris falls... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
2: ...]] team based in [[Chicago]]. They are in the Central Division of the [[National League]].
5: ...experienced players. The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' tried to call the team the ''Spuds'' around this tim...
6: ...ballpark:''' [[Wrigley Field]], 1060 W. Addison Street, Chicago, IL 60613-4397.
20: ... side of the city. The [[Great Chicago Fire]] destroyed the club's ballpark, uniforms and other posse...
22: ...ulbert]], was leading the formation of a new and stronger organization, the [[National League]]. - History of the world (21975 bytes)
7: ...Ice Age]], when temperate regions of today were extremely inhospitable. Yet, humans had colonized near...
12: ...h as [[Australian Aborigines|Aborigines]] of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did...
14: ...uch as [[writing]] and extensive [[trade]] were introduced.
16: ...ocieties in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece]] and central [[Turkey]]. In China, proto-urban societies may...
21: ...] region, [[Middle East]] and [[China]] saw the introduction of [[iron]] tools and weapons. The Americ... - High jump (8613 bytes)
2: The '''high jump''' is an [[athletics]]/[[track and field]] event in which competitors must ju...
6: ...p to 5'6" measured. Early jumpers used either a straight on approach or a ''scissors'' technique. In...
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57: ...btaining the most economical clearance to date. Straddle-jumper Charles Dumas broke the elusive 7' (2...
59: ...g international high jump competitions. The last straddler to set a world record was the late Vladimir... - Ship (18843 bytes)
4: ... the point of carrying four or five masts, also introduced the fore and aft rig to larger vessels, so ...
14: ...Because different types of water, (summer, fresh, tropical fresh, winter north Atlantic) have differen...
19: ...] that fought in the [[Peloponnesian War]] used [[trireme]]s, as did the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] conte...
21: ...ht ratio down. He had achieved publicity by demonstrating it unofficially in the 100-foot [[Turbinia]]...
23: ...n in manning owing to the removal of the need for trimmers and of stokers in the old-fashioned numbers... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...ortant center of commerce (especially the [[spice trade]]) and [[art]] in the [[Renaissance]].
6: ... being [[Genoa]], [[Pisa]], and [[Amalfi]]). Its strategic position at head of the Adriatic made Venet...
8: ...was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of the [[Brenner pass]] from Verona in 1178, op...
10: ...itime commercial empire, the Republic acquired control of most of the islands in the [[Aegean Sea|Aege...
12: ... of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the men, supplies, and (especially) war ho... - Mellotron (7426 bytes)
1: ...yboard [[electronic musical instrument|musical instrument]] originally developed and built in [[Birmin...
3: ...ectable sounds (per changeable taperack) such as strings, cello, and the famous eight-voice choir. The...
6: ...st commercially available keyboard-driven tape instruments were built and sold by California-based Har...
8: ...under the name Novatron. A small number of the instruments were assembled and sold by [[EMI]] under li...
10: ... a number of celebrities and among the early Mellotron owners are [[Princess Margaret]], [[Peter Selle... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
2: [[Image:astrolab.JPG|thumb|right|A 16th century astrolabe.]]
4: ...ocal longitude, and vice-versa; and surveying and triangulation.
6: ...ersia. p163). In the [[15th Century]], a metal astrolabe was developed by [[Abraham Zacuto]] in Lisbo...
8: ...he positions of stars, is free to rotate. Some astrolabes have a narrow ''rule'' which rotates over t...
10: ...otation represents the passage of one day. The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of the modern [[p... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
8: |'''Wavelength regime'''||optical, ultraviolet, near-infrared
32: ...le="background: #87CEEB; text-align:center;" | Instruments
34: |'''[[NICMOS]]'''||camera/spectrometer
40: |'''[[STIS]]'''||spectrometer/camera (failed)
43: ...r understanding of many fundamental problems in astrophysics. - Wood Stork (2419 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[bird|Aves]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Ciconiiformes]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Ciconiidae]]}} - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...neck and a deep round back. It evolved from an instrument originally developed in the Middle East, whi...
3: ==Description of the instrument==
5: ...ssance lute. This is a replica of a historical instrument]]
7: ...hich fact — along with the large number of strings — makes lutes tedious if not difficult ...
9: ...titute, with metal windings on the lower-pitched strings as on a classical guitar. - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
21: ...ionally, his priorities included [[NAFTA|reducing trade barriers]] and mediating the [[Northern Irelan...
23: ...achment|impeached]], on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice before a grand jury for his hand...
31: ...r his father, [[William Jefferson Blythe Jr.]], a travelling salesman who had been killed in a car acc...
40: ...ansas' [[First Lady]] raised many eyebrows in the traditionally [[conservative]] state. After only one...
42: ...ary took her husband's surname and adopted a more traditional public role as a political wife, while q... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Harry S. Truman]]
16: ...N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
18: ...cted President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. Born to wealth...
26: ...way. The Roosevelt family (see [[Roosevelt family tree]]) had lived in New York more than 200 years: [...
30: ...ly. Franklin was her only child, and she was an extremely possessive mother. Since James was a rather ... - Ionosphere (19365 bytes)
1: ...is ionized by solar radiation. It forms the inner edge of the [[magnetosphere]] and has practical import...
6: ...etic to stay fixed together in an electrically neutral molecule.
8: ...nation]] begins to take place in which a free electron is "captured" by a positive ion if it moves clo...
14: ...g minimum solar activity. With an active sun electron density values are a factor of 10 higher.]]
19: ... D layer. The frequency of collision between electrons and other particles in this region during the ... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...an world all the way to the [[Atlantic Ocean]], introducing Roman influence into what has become moder...
4: ...oman dictator|dictator]] for life, and heavily centralized the already faltering government of the wea...
9: ... its ancestry to [[Julus]], the son of the [[Troy|Trojan]] prince [[Aeneas]], who according to myth wa...
11: ...i Caesares, although of impeccable aristocratic patrician stock, were not rich by the standards of the...
19: ... Caesar?" Aiming at rhetorical perfection, Caesar traveled to [[Rhodes]] in [[75 BC]] for philosophica... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ...], [[Gaius Cassius]], [[Mark Antony]] and [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt]] to emerge victoriously as Caesar ...
5: ...finished, repaired or rebuilt almost every great structure in Rome at the time. He also reorganized th...
7: His rule is traditionally considered the greatest of the Roman E...
12: ...n [[46 BC]], Octavian took part in Caesar’s triumphal parades in Rome, earning himself some mili...
14: ...vian learned a great deal about provincial administration, warfare and political manipulation while a ... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
4: ...n]] oceans, and specifically in the straits of [[Strait of Malacca|Malacca]] and [[Singapore]], used b...
12: ...Malaysians who form the nations bracketing the [[Straits of Malacca]]. Originally a culture of seafari...
24: ...epended on whether you were the commissioning country or the object of attack. Seven nations agreed t...
34: ...ne between [[Malaysia]] and [[Indonesia]] in the Straits.
38: ... [[International waters|high seas]], inhibiting [[trade]], and endangering maritime communication were...
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