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- Erosion prediction (2827 bytes)
1: ...d on fitting or improving RUSLE parameters. Aside from a few new deterministic gully erosion models, t...
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- List of elements by symbol (14812 bytes)
39: <tr><td>Fr</td><td>[[francium]]</td><td>87</td><td></td></tr>
114: ...><td>[[tungsten]]</td><td>74</td><td>(German ''Wolfram'')</td></tr>
139: ...rancium]]</td><td>87</td><td>Current symbol is '''Fr'''.</td></tr>
140: <tr><td>Fr</td><td>[[florentium]]</td><td>61</td><td>Discred...
179: ...td>87</td><td>Discredited claim to discovery of [[francium]].</td></tr> - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Brain (22060 bytes)
9: .... The brains of arthropods and cephalopods arise from twin parallel nerve cords that extend through t...
11: The brains of craniates develop from the anterior section of a single dorsal [[neura...
20: ...ers are [[congenital]]. [[Tay-Sachs disease]], [[Fragile X syndrome]], [[Down syndrome]], and [[Toure...
38: ...derstand the nervous system, including the brain, from a biological perspective. [[Psychology]] seeks...
41: ... which are the mass changes in electrical current from the cerebral cortex, but can only detect change... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
19: ...d the [[circle of Willis]]. Blood is then drained from the brain through a [[brain sinuses|network of ...
21: ...he dense fluid protects the brain and spinal cord from shock; a brain that weighs 1,500 g in air weigh...
23: ...tes the soft tissues of the brain and spinal cord from the hard surrounding bones (skull and vertebrae...
25: ...dicine, [[childbirth]] was a dangerous event that frequently resulted in the death of the mother. The...
33: ...e [[neocortex]] with incoming sensory information from the [[brain stem]]. Powerful emotional pathways... - Science (19868 bytes)
15: ...ions, rules, practices, etc. and that transitions from one paradigm to another generally does not invo...
30: An especially fruitful theory that has withstood the test of time ...
39: ...ic method]] that can serve to distinguish science from non-science.
56: ...s to desire or which is 'best'. What one projects from the currently most reasonable scientific hypoth...
58: ...eme cases relativity allow us to predict anything from the effect one moving billiard ball will have o... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
4: The name "volcano" has its origin from the name of [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]], a god of f...
18: ...'[[Volcanic cones]]''' or [[cinder cone]]s result from eruptions that throw out mostly small pieces of...
41: ...tive" volcano. The lifespan of a volcano can vary from months to several million years, making such a ...
43: ...to note that the span of recorded history differs from region to region; in the [[Mediterranean]], rec...
47: ...tone as extinct. In fact, because the caldera has frequent earthquakes, a very active geothermal syste... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...r [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scien...
11: ...fic data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ...ccount of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found i...
27: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
52: ...oration by bringing together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world. - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
10: ...' goes back to the book ''Meteorologica'' (dating from about [[340 BC]]) by [[Aristotle]], who combine...
14: ...Franklin]]'s kite experiments with [[lightning]]. Franklin was also the first American to keep accurat...
18: ...d]]. These were solved when [[Luke Howard]] and [[Francis Beaufort]] introduced their systems for clas...
20: ...]], introducing the idea of [[front (meteorology)|front]]s, that is, sharply defined boundaries betwee...
26: ...sable tool for studying a wide range of phenomena from forest fires to [[El Ni. - Tornado (14220 bytes)
3: ...nnel-shaped]] [[cloud]]. The word "tornado" comes from the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] or [[Portugues...
8: ...ly, though tornadoes over water ([[waterspout]]s) frequently are observed forming in the absence of co...
10: ...n (the mesocyclone) is often a lower area of rain-free cloud and can be seen as a rotating "[[wall clo...
12: ...usually form in sweeps north and jet streams come from the west, creating a situation in which the sto...
32: ...dar]] wind speed data, or [[empirical]]ly derived from structural damage compared to engineering data.... - Erosion (6998 bytes)
4: ...y be simultaneous, erosion is to be distinguished from [[weathering]], which is the decomposition of r...
9: ...il, the steepness of the slope, and ground cover (from vegetation, rocks, etc.).
17: ... the ocean. The [[sediment]] originates primarily from water erosion in the [[Loess Plateau]] region o...
19: ...es within a moving fluid. Erosion can also occur from non-abrasive fluid mixtures. [[Cavitation]] is...
24: ...rt of the erosional process, as it moves material from higher elevations to lower elevations where tra... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
4: ...color="black" | [[image:neptune.jpg|250px|Neptune from Voyager 2]]<br><small><font color="white">Click...
9: ...rrier]]<br> [[John Couch Adams]]<br> [[Johann Gottfried Galle|Johann Galle]]
136: ...orbit]], Neptune is sometimes the furthest planet from the [[Sun]]. Neptune is named after the [[Neptu...
142: Orbiting so far from the sun, Neptune receives very little heat. Its...
146: ...set at least 0.55 radii (about 13,500 kilometers) from the planet's physical center. Comparing the mag... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
120: '''Pluto''' is the ninth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in our [[solar system]]. Because Pl...
126: ...eone else did". Soon suggestions began to pour in from all over the world. Constance Lowell, [[Perciva...
128: ...tia Burney]], at the time an eleven-year-old girl from [[Oxford, England|Oxford]], [[England]]. Over t...
140: ...o speeds up due to the gravitational acceleration from the Sun, stays ahead of Neptune, and pulls ahea...
146: ...the case of Pluto, the star dimmed out gradually. From the rate of dimming, the atmosphere was determi... - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
1: ...bstraction]] and [[logic|logical]] [[reasoning]], from [[counting]], [[calculation]], [[measurement]],...
8: ...[Day|days]], [[Season|seasons]], [[Year|years]]. From counting, naturally followed [[arithmetic]] (e....
15: ...s from [[string theory]]. The mathematics arising from this immediately has relevance for the subject ...
23: ...ians wanted their theorems to follow mechanically from a few simple incontrovertible truths and for th...
28: ... That is, mathematical knowledge exists separate from the physical world. - Economics (30960 bytes)
1: '''Economics''' (deriving from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words οί...
7: ..., and economists have also studied topics ranging from marriage to the death penalty and optimal polit...
9: ...or good prices while sellers put forth their best front in [[Chichicastenango]] Market, [[Guatemala]]....
15: ...a macro-economic view of the economy, but does so from a strictly constructed microeconomic viewpoint.
25: ... – as its body of results emerges naturally from microeconomics – but has today effectivel... - Religion (72319 bytes)
10: The word religion is thought to derive from one of two combinations of Latin roots. The fi...
25: ...sion, see [[approaches to distinguishing religion from non-religion]].
38: *An ethical framework, including a definition of activities whic...
53: ... Commandments]] of the [[Old Testament]], flowing from the beliefs rather than being defined by the be...
54: ...xt|texts they hold as sacred]] uniquely different from other writings, and which records or is the bas... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ...court. [[Beate Bille]], Tycho's mother, also came from an important family which had produced leading ...
14: ...ect with the aim of mapping the heavens conducted from a single location over a period of several year...
22: ...burg, where he built a great quadrant, Basel, and Freiburg. He was informed about his father's illness
33: ...hat the [[parallax]] of the object did not change from night to night, suggesting that the object was ...
43: ...narch|King]] [[Frederick II of Denmark and Norway|Frederick II]] of [[Denmark]] and [[Norway]], impres... - Extinction (15793 bytes)
4: ...xtinct species. ''Daughter species'' that evolve from a parent species carry on most of the parent sp...
17: ...e species in question must be identified uniquely from any daughter species, as well as its ancestor s...
32: ...roducing individuals and make [[inbreeding]] more frequent. The [[founder effect]] can cause rapid, i...
39: ...fern]] that depends on dense shade for protection from direct sunlight can no longer survive with no f...
57: ...phen Jay Gould]] and [[Niles Eldredge]].{{ref|TimeFrames}} - Information (13474 bytes)
6: ...formation to animals. The colored light reflected from a flower is too weak to do much photosynthetic ...
12: ...at information is something that can be extracted from an environment, e.g., through observation or me...
16: ...e information produced when one message is chosen from the set" is the base two [[logarithm]] of <math...
30: ...representation, one can predict a broader pattern from a limited number of observations (inference) or...
32: ...re, a quantity of information is totally distinct from its medium. - Yellowstone National Park (23738 bytes)
25: ...own Bear|grizzly bears]] and [[wolf|wolves]], and free-ranging herds of [[American Bison|bison]] and [...
29: ...ng previous [[ice age]]s and by [[river]] erosion from the [[Yellowstone River]].
32: ...ople incorrectly believe that the yellow color is from [[sulfur]]).
39: Mountain man [[Jim Bridger]] later returned from an 1857 expedition to the park's area and told ...
44: ...ed States|U.S. Congress]] to withdraw this region from public auction. Then on [[March 1]], [[1872]] P...
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