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  1. Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
    1: ...2-Sistine Chapel.png|250px|thumb|right|''God creates Adam'', by [[Michelangelo]]. The mural on the cei...
    2: ...esis 1.27) as Adam, depending on which part of Genesis is read and how it is interpreted. Depending on...
    10: ==Adam in Genesis==
    12: ...the Garden of Eden with many of the "lower creatures."]]
    13: ..., and gave him dominion over all the lower creatures (Gen. 1:26; 2:7).
  2. Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
    3: ...anic trench]] formation occur along plate boundaries (most notably around the so-called "[[Pacific Rin...
    6: ...:Tectonic plates.png|thumb|380px|The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of th...
    7: == Key principles ==
    8: ...dity of the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plates to undergo motion in different directions.
    10: ...ire]] being most active and famous. These boundaries are discussed in further detail below.
  3. Antarctica (14761 bytes)
    4: ...g the [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]]. It is the [[coldest place on earth]] and is almost entirely covered ...
    6: ...tains a southern continent that bears a possible resemblance to the Antarctic coast. (See also [[Histo...
    8: ...ty]] of any continent on Earth, as well as the lowest average temperature.
    15: Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front...
    24: ...idian]]. Western Antarctica is covered by the [[West Antarctic Ice Sheet]].
  4. Israel (51605 bytes)
    1: ...e from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], the [...
    13: official_languages = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Arabic]] |
    14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
    17: leader_titles = [[Prime Minister]]<br>[[President]] |
    18: leader_names = [[Ariel Sharon]]<br>[[Moshe Katsav]] |
  5. Sun (20830 bytes)
    11: ...&times;10<sup>6</sup> [[mile|mi]]) <br>(8.31 minutes at the [[Speed of Light]])
    13: ...align="left" | [[Apparent magnitude|Visual brightness]] (''V'')
    22: | 2.5&times;10<sup>17</sup> km <br>(26,000 [[light-year]]s)
    25: | 2.26&times;10<sup>8</sup> [[Julian year|a]]
    33: | [[1 E9 m|1.392]]&times;10<sup>6</sup> km<br>(109 [[Earth]]s)
  6. List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
    1: ...k of [[almanac|almanacs]], [[dictionary|dictionaries]] and [[encyclopedia]]s (or an index of them, if ...
    3: ...ormation for quick reference, not narrative articles.
    7: ...our bookmarks toolbar, allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
    9: <!-- [[Wikipedia:Page size]] suggests not to divide lists even large.
    16: ...[Special:Allpages/List_of_U|6,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_ar|7]]
  7. Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
    2: ... all of the [[Indian Ocean]] and [[Chinese art]] (especially the [[porcelain]] industry) reaching unpr...
    6: ...d the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in [[1368]], establishing his capital at [[Nanjing]] and adopting...
    8: ...Xiaoping]] are the two other peasant revolutionaries to have ruled the world's most populous nation.
    10: ...eans "Vast Military" and reflects the increased prestige of the military.
    12: ...dependent peasant landholders predominated in Chinese agriculture.
  8. Human (48024 bytes)
    7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Primates]]}}
    12: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''H. sapiens '''''}}
    15: ...bdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Subspecies}}
    21: ...uperfamily of [[Hominoidea]], with all of the [[apes]]: [[chimpanzee]]s, [[gorilla]]s, [[orangutan]]s,...
    24: ...mmunity]] is that [[human evolution]] occured in response to a need for long distance [[running]]. Hum...
  9. John Locke (14749 bytes)
    3: ...s perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
    6: ...ilosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical material taught at the Uni...
    8: ... infection. Cooper was impressed with Locke and pressed him to become part of his retinue.
    10: ...t that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
    12: ...life-threatening itself) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke with ...
  10. Dolphin (13554 bytes)
    18: #any member of the families [[Delphinidae]] and [[Platanistoidae]] (oceanic a...
    19: ...]] (toothed whales; these include the above families and some others),
    20: ...nose Dolphin]], the most common and familiar species of dolphin.
    24: ...lify as dolphins, even though they are called whales in common language.
    26: ...s of the continental shelves, and all are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid.
  11. Spice (1517 bytes)
    2: ... from other plant products used for similar purposes, such as [[herb]]s (which are green, leafy parts ...
    4: [[Image:Spices_01.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Spices at an outdoor market, Thailand. Image provided by...
    8: ...speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spices.
    10: ...s quick to describe to investors the many new spices available there.
    13: *[[List of herbs and spices]]
  12. Mellotron (7426 bytes)
    3: ... pre-recorded accompaniment music (in various styles) on the left keyboard. The tape banks for the lat...
    6: Although tape samplers had been explored in research studios (e.g., [[Hugh LeCaine]]'s [[1955]] k...
    8: ...rs later, following financial and trademark troubles, the Mellotron name became unavailable and later ...
    10: ...s and among the early Mellotron owners are [[Princess Margaret]], [[Peter Sellers]], [[King Hussein]] ...
    12: ...nerated sounds in the days before polyphonic synthesizers.
  13. Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
    1: ...doctrine of [[gnosis]] and [[Gnosticism]]&mdash;these are religious concepts that are not generally re...
    3: ...o such knowledge. Agnosticism in both cases involves [[philosophical scepticism|scepticism]] toward re...
    8: ... the works of [[David Hume]], especially ''Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'', that he was an agn...
    12: ...e some time before that date. In a letter to Charles Kingsley (September 23, 1860) he discussed his vi...
    14: ... wonderful as the conservation of force or the indestructibility of matter"..
  14. Hittites (17910 bytes)
    1: ...eople who spoke an [[Indo-European language]] and established a kingdom centered in [[Hattusa]] (the m...
    3: ...y disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived until around 700 BC.
    5: ...the reconstructed [[Hittite language]]. The Hittites should be distinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", ...
    7: ... the 19th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still ...
    9: The Hittites were also famous for their skill in building and ...
  15. Judaism (54799 bytes)
    2: ...ding [[Christianity]] and [[Islam]]. For all of these reasons, Judaism has been a major force in shapi...
    8: ...alogy|genealogical]], not religious, but all of these, in [[dialectic]]al tension."
    11: ... Do not have any other gods before Me. Do not represent [such] gods by any carved statue or picture of...
    14: ...To turn from these beliefs is to deny God and the essence of Judaism.
    15: ...x]]es, and any forms of paintings or artistic representations of God. One must not bow down to or serv...
  16. Ur (11926 bytes)
    1: ...land in present-day [[Iraq]], south of the Euphrates on its right bank at {{coor dm|30|95|N|46|5|E|}},...
    3: ...eity]] in [[Sumerian mythology]], and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the br...
    9: ...ly [[3rd millennium BC]], the small farming villages of the Ubaid culture consolidated into larger set...
    11: ...shed by the king [[Mesannepada]] (or Mesanepada, Mes-Anni-Padda).
    15: ...the surviving works of Sumerian literature describes the death of Ur-Nammu and his journey to the unde...
  17. Tower of Babel (13111 bytes)
    2: ...to explain the existence of many different languages and [[race]]s.
    4: == From the Hebrew scriptures ==
    8: ...d this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do....
    11: ...obtain for themselves a name. God came down to investigate the purpose of all this unusual enterprise....
    15: ... that some language was the original one and the rest were corruptions. This has been the case with He...
  18. Day (6866 bytes)
    6: ... rises and sets, but amounts to almost seven minutes at least.
    8: ... exact moment, and the interval between two sunrises or two sunsets, depends on the geographical posit...
    10: ...ependent on the geographical longitude, and to a lesser extent on the time of the year. The length of...
    12: ... the average speed of the real Sun, but this removes the variation over a year as the Earth runs its o...
    17: ...th century when [[railroad]]s with regular schedules came into use, a common clock time has been defin...
  19. Sidon (4751 bytes)
    1: ...coast, about 25 miles north of [[Tyre]] and 30 miles south of the capital [[Beirut]]. Its name means ...
    4: ... of its craftsmen in producing glass and purple dyes. It was also from here that a colonising party we...
    6: ...of the Sidonians." In this inscription the gods [[Eshmun]] and [[Baal|Ba&#8216;al]] Sidon 'Lord of Sid...
    8: ...Jesus]]. [[Herod the Great]] visited Sidon; both Jesus and [[St Paul]] are said to have visited it (se...
    10: ...e [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]]. The remains of the orig...
  20. Silver (15157 bytes)
    18: | [[Chemical series]]
    24: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
    30: ...gn="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0" | '''Atomic properties'''
    56: ...="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0" | '''Physical properties'''
    76: | [[Vapor pressure]]

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