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- Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ormation of the Ca-Al-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Since the accretion time of the Earth is no...
6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretche...
11: ... [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon|Comte du Buffo...
15: ...e 1790s, the British naturalist [[William Smith (geologist)|William Smith]] pointed out that if two la...
19: In 1830, the geologist [[Charles Lyell]] took the next step and pr... - Australia (39438 bytes)
48: ...gine|Aboriginal]] and [[Torres Strait Islander]] peoples. Eastern Australia was claimed by the [[Kingd...
50: ... waterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people and [[Torres Strait Islander]]s.
54: ...cifically to the Australian continent. In 1793 [[George Shaw]] and [[James Smith (botanist)|Sir James ...
71: ...al Territory]] was formed from New South Wales in 1911 to provide a neutral place for the proposed new f...
107: == Geography and climate == - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
67: ...e United Kingdom. It finally seemed possible in [[1911]] when the [[House of Lords]] lost their veto, an...
71: ...lican concerns. The new Irish Free State was in theory to cover the entire island, subject to the prov...
73: ...idelity to [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V]] and his successors. Pro-Treaty forces, led...
77: ...fered 800 fatalities and perhaps as many as 4000 people were killed altogether. As their forces retrea...
148: == Geography == - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ...m [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local peoples, the [[Iberians]], forming the [[Celt-Iberian...
27: ...{{ref|independence}} while a war raged between [[Leon]] and [[Castile]]. Henry died and his son, [[Afo...
31: ...ictorious John was then acclaimed as king by the people.
40: ... expansion possible and led to great advances in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed b...
44: ...e of neo-gothic, neo-manueline, neo-islamic, and neo-renaissance styles. (courtesy IPPAR)]] - Flag of Arkansas (1800 bytes)
5: ...Willie Hocker of [[Wabbaseka, Arkansas]]. Around 1911, the [[Pine Bluff, Arkansas]] chapter of the [[Da... - Flag of California (3028 bytes)
3: ...pted by the [[California state legislature]] in [[1911]]. The [[flag]] of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Califo... - Flag of Colorado (1126 bytes)
4: ... was designed by [[Andrew Carlisle Johnson]] in [[1911]] and adopted by the state's General Assembly on ... - Flag of Michigan (1261 bytes)
10: The present flag, adopted in 1911, was the third state flag. The first flag feature... - Flag of North Dakota (1521 bytes)
2: ...he [[North Dakota]] legislature on [[March 3]], [[1911]], although the color was not precisely specified... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
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38: ... for the [[Native American]] [[Iowa tribe|Iowa]] people.
58: == Geography ==
69: ...st elevation (146 [[metre|m]]) is [[Keokuk, Iowa|Keokuk]] in southeast Iowa. The point of highest elev...
124: ...]], Iowa's population was estimated at 2,944,062 people. - Vermont (39851 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 14<sup>th</sup> |
40: == Geography==
44: ...the narrowest width is at 37 miles). The state's geographic center is [[Washington, Vermont|Washington...
54: ... (41 degrees Celsius), at Vermon on [[July 4]], [[1911]]; the lowest recorded temperature was –50 ...
58: ...ulation in 1500 is estimated to be around 10,000 people. - Utah (29154 bytes)
25: AdmittanceOrder = 45<sup>th</sup> |
83: ...for several thousand years; most [[archeology|archeological]] evidence dates such habitation about 10,...
130: == Geography ==
139: ...h a [[Basin and Range Province|basin and range]] geology. Small mountain ranges and rugged terrain pun...
151: ...eat Salt Lake Desert. [[Saint George, Utah|Saint George]] averages about 3 in (7.5 cm) of snow per yea... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 9<sup>th</sup> |
62: ...s out to about one Representative for every 3090 people.
68: == Geography ==
76: New Hampshire was home to the famous geological formation called the [[Old Man of the Moun...
80: ...ss of earth-forms, a [[monadnock]] signifying in geomorphology any isolated resistant peak rising from... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
73: * [[1st century]]: [[Aeolipile]]: [[Hero of Alexandria]]
111: * [[1581]]: [[Pendulum]]: [[Galileo Galilei]]
113: * [[1593]]: [[Thermometer]]: [[Galileo Galilei]]
118: * [[1609]]: [[Microscope]]: [[Galileo Galilei]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
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3: == People named U ==
25: *[[Fritz von Uhde|Uhde, Fritz von]], (1848-1911), German painter
65: ...Unwin (publisher)|Unwin, Stanley]], Publisher, [[George Allen and Unwin]]
81: *[[Leon Uris|Uris, Leon]], (1924-2003), US writer - Agathias (4785 bytes)
1: ... AD [[536]]-[[582]] [[594]]?), of [[Myrina]], an Aeolian city in western [[Asia Minor]], was a [[Greec...
5: ...inal notes on the ''Periegetes'' of [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]].
9: ...he manners, customs, and religion of the foreign peoples of whom he writes; the great disturbances of ...
11: ...of the events of which it treats" (''Enc. Brit.'' 1911). [[Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]] contrasts Agathias as ...
13: ...the re-founded Platonic (actually [[Neoplatonism|neoplatonic]]) [[Academy]] in Athens, 529, often cite... - Ptolemy II of Egypt (4048 bytes)
10: ...with the Seleucid kingdom, under [[Antiochus II Theos]] (after 260), Ptolemy sustained losses on the s...
16: [[Callimachus]], made keeper of the library, [[Theocritus]], and a host of lesser poets, glorified th...
24: {{1911}} - Ptolemy IV of Egypt (2166 bytes)
13: {{1911}} - List of painters (54090 bytes)
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian pai...
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey]] ([[1852]]-[[1911]])
69: *[[George Ault]] ([[1891]]-[[1948]])
76: *[[Constantine Andreou]] ([[1917]]-)
83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]]) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
28: His wife Alice died in [[1911]] and his son Jean died in [[1914]].
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