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- Goat (6283 bytes)
13: ...re widely scattered throughout [[Eurasia]] and [[Africa]].
26: ... is closely related to the [[sheep]], but differs from it in that the tail is shorter and the hollow h...
32: ...] that goats eat everything; this probably arises from the fact that they tend to chew (but not eat) a...
35: ... has associated goats with [[Satan]]. A common [[superstition]] in the [[Middle Ages]] was that goats whispered... - Monitor Lizards (2106 bytes)
23: ...snakes]] (Serpentes) are believed to have evolved from a [[sister group]] to the Varanidae.
27: ...nitors.asp Wildwatch], the name actually resulted from a mishearing of the [[Arabic (language)|Arabic]... - Storks (8536 bytes)
18: ...es are [[bird migration|migratory]]. Storks eat [[frog]]s, [[fish]], [[insect]]s, [[worm]]s, and small...
54: * [[African Openbill Stork]], '' Anastomus lamelligerus ...
80: ...x]]. This habit was derived from the once popular superstition that storks be the harbingers of happiness and pr... - History of science in early cultures (11033 bytes)
3: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
7: <!-- Useful resources from which to draw are http://www.worldwideschool.or...
9: From their beginnings in [[Sumer]] (now [[Iraq]]) ar...
11: ... towards [[rational]] science, moving away from [[superstition]] and [[belief]]; the Mesopotamian [[astronogy]] ...
16: ...he motions of the sun and the moon. In a treatise from the [[6th century]], a summary of five astronom... - History of psychology (8127 bytes)
1: ...ine, and borders on various other fields, ranging from [[physiology]] and the [[neuroscience]]s to [[s...
5: ...ant to turn away disease-causing demons and other superstition, it also evidences ''a long tradition of empirica...
7: From its inception, a great deal of work in [[philos...
16: ...ations of human thought and behaviour, freeing it from the realms of philosophy and theology, founding...
20: ...vidual's [[unconscious]] and [[sexuality]]. While Freud's work remains scientifically controversial - ... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
41: ...any songs and TV drama series presented Christmas from a lover's point of view, for example '[[Last Ch...
48: ...banese Muslims celebrate Christmas with Christian friends. A poll showed that around two thirds of th...
49: ...open all night for praying and people go to visit friends and families, often to villages in the mount...
54: ...ël]]". Most of Christmas Greetings are spoken in French like "[[Joyeux Noel|Joyeux Noël]]" or Englis...
62: ...rch Centre (also assistant parish priest of [[St. Francis Xavier]]'s Church) has lodged a formal compl... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ... the form of [[theory|theories]]. [[Prediction]]s from these theories are tested by [[experiment]]. If...
6: ... of methods for scientific inquiry is indivisible from the development of science.
7: ...ons created to cast out diseased demons and other superstition, there is evidence of traditional empiricism.
9: ...hilosophical ideas of this time were mostly freed from the constraints of everyday phenomena and commo...
13: ...dent ''verification''. In the [[17th century]], [[Francis Bacon]] attempted to describe a rational pro... - Ascension (3367 bytes)
2: ...sion Day is always [[Thursday]] (the fortieth day from [[Easter]]); in some churches (especially in th...
9: == Superstitions ==
60: *According to [[Wales|Welsh]] superstition, it is unlucky to do any work on Ascension Day.
62: ...[[livestock]], especially [[cattle]], will suffer from [[disease]].
65: *Those suffering from [[goitre]] should bite into the bark of a peach... - Axe (10109 bytes)
5: ...at, and throwing-axe (the [[Frankish]] axe or ''[[francisca]]''), cf [[tomahawk]].
16: ...ad Axes in general, this pattern may vary greatly from one to the next. The main, identifiable, featur...
21: ... squaring off timber to make large joints in wood framed buildings and for making blanks for greenwood...
22: ... tip on opposite face, in various handle-lengths, from 14 inches (35 cm) to 36 inches (90 cm).
27: ...nd at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|thumb|Iron age axe head from [[Gotland]]]]
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