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  1. Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
    9: ...nie Elizabeth Parker''' was born [[October 1]], [[1910]], in [[Rowena, Texas]], the second of three chil...
    15: ...ow''' was born on [[March 24]], [[1909]] (perhaps 1910, according to some reputable sources{{ref|blanche...
    23: ...for this killing. Fellow inmate [[Ralph Fults]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a sc...
    25: ...d to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamil...
    27: ...nd Fults were arrested. She claimed to have been kidnapped, and a grand jury failed to indict her. Hav...
  2. Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
    1: <div style="float:right;width:200px;margin-left:5px"><center>[[Image:AimeeSem...
    7: ... she was the daughter of James Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout [[Methodism|Methodist]], and Mildr...
    11: ...Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div>
    13: .... Robert Semple died of the disease on August 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave birth to a daughter, Ro...
    21: <div style="float:right;width:312px;margin-left:5px;text-align:center">[[Imag...
  3. Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
    4: ...or]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
    11: ...ation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She ...
    13: ...isters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls. After a few months training...
    15: ..., becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep impressio...
    24: .... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] cal...
  4. Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
    8: ...he young girl enjoyed the game, and her father decided to train her further in the sport. His training...
    16: ...ed in outfits covering nearly all of the body. Staid Brits also were in shock at the boldness of the F...
    34: ...teur player, Suzanne Lenglen played what many consider to be her most memorable match. In a February [...
    42: ... of the US Open from 1912 to 1914, was 35 and considered to be past her prime, although she had reache...
  5. Chromosome (12667 bytes)
    1: ...Centromere</font>. The point where the two chromatids touch, and where the microtubules attach. (3) Sh...
    2: ... detail by [[Walther Flemming]] in [[1882]]. In [[1910]], [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]] proved that chromosomes...
    8: ...sts as [[plasmid]]s. The distinction between plasmids and chromosomes is poorly defined, though size a...
    19: ...romatids. Once the cells have divided, the chromatids are uncoiled and can function again as chromatin...
    23: ...'Table 1:''' Examples of chromosome numbers (diploid).</caption>
  6. Relic (11473 bytes)
    1: ...well as many other developed religious systems besides that of [[Christianity]]. Relics are an import...
    7: ...ch]] of [[Warfhuizen]]. The bone fragment in the middle is from saint Boniface himself, the little fol...
    9: ...e tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages.
    17: ...virtus'' inhabited images of the pagan gods, the "idols" of our museums and archaeology, and destroyin...
    26: ...t are enshrined in churches and cathederals worldwide must be at least a finger or small bone, etc.
  7. Concertina (3686 bytes)
    9: ...|thumb|Anglo concertina mad by C. Jeffries around 1910. Note three rows of buttons.]]
    10: ...hand through a leather strap, with the thumbs outside of the strap and the palms resting on wooden bar...
    13: ...ote. A scale in most keys alternates between one side and the other. The English concertina is typical...
    16: ... English concertinas have button layouts that provide low notes in the left hand, high notes in the ri...
    20: ... In the [[United States]], particularly in the [[Midwest]], the term "Concertina" often refers to the ...
  8. Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
    1: .... [[Ca-Al-rich inclusions]] - the oldest known solid constituents within [[meteorites]] which are form...
    6: ... the future beyond the end of humankind. One who did was [[Aristotle]], who thought the Earth and [[un...
    9: ...st to undertake this exercise, suggesting in the mid-[[18th Century]] that the Earth had been created ...
    11: Lomonosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [...
    13: Very few of their colleagues paid them much mind. Many left the question of the age...
  9. South Africa (40100 bytes)
    3: ... Party]] began introducing the policy of [[apartheid]] after winning the general election of [[1948]];...
    11: ...ulations are not as such that they require nationwide recognition.
    13: ...tion from other Africans, have their own cultural identity based on their [[hunter-gatherer]] societie...
    17: ... racial barriers, even though it is not the most widely spoken language by population. Afrikaans has b...
    19: ...uages, despite having official status, are being sidelined in favour of English. The reigning trend in...
  10. Botswana (22276 bytes)
    2: ... 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
    8: | align="center" width="140px" | [[image:Botswana_flag_large.png|125px...
    9: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Bostwanaarms22.PNG]]
    11: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Botswana|In Detail]])
    12: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Botswana|Full size...
  11. Gabon (7342 bytes)
    1: ...e [[Gulf of Guinea]]. Ruled by [[autocratic]] presidents since independence from [[France]] on [[Augus...
    2: ... 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
    7: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Gabon flag large.png|125px|Fl...
    8: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:gabonarms22.PNG]]
    10: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Gabon|In Detail]])
  12. Portugal (61755 bytes)
    20: ...e Consolidation of the Monarchy in Portugal|Consolidation of the kingdom]]'''''
    29: ...143]], Portugal was formally recognized. Afonso, aided by the [[Templar Knights]], continued to conque...
    47: ... despite having no son and heir to the throne, decided to go personnaly into battle, where he was slai...
    57: ...strikes, harsh relations with the Church, and considerable economic problems aggravated by a disastrou...
    59: ...ed, with negative impact for the country image. Evidence exists that the regime was trying (albeit slo...
  13. California (63989 bytes)
    35: Width = 402.5 |
    45: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=06487414661+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
    107: ...can portion, Baja (lower) California was later divided into the states of [[Baja California]] and [[Ba...
    111: ...ivil War]], California officially entered on the side of the North, but there was significant support ...
    113: ...ular, were widely grown, and the foundation was laid for the state's prodigious agricultural productio...
  14. Iowa (24205 bytes)
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    50: ...61 resulted in a few shots finding Iowa soil; a raid into Davis and Van Buren counties by Confederate ...
    52: ...oval of war-time farm subsidies. Total recovery didn't happen until the [[1940s]].
    54: ...r decline of family farms in Iowa and around the midwest, and was marked by a sharp drop in the state'...
    69: ...an elevation of the state is 335 [[metre|m]]. Considering the size of the state (145,743 [[square kilo...
  15. Kansas (21369 bytes)
    28: Width = 211 mi; 340 |
    37: ...aning "People of the south wind", is a [[Midwest|midwestern]] [[U.S. state|state]] in the [[United Sta...
    48: ...1863]], [[William Quantrill]] led ''Quantrill's Raid'' into [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]] destroying m...
    52: ...senhower|President Eisenhower]], presidential candidates [[Bob Dole]] and [[Alf Landon]], [[Amelia Ear...
    55: {{Template:MetaSidebar|250px|#ffffaa|right|[[Kansas state symbols|St...
  16. Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
    30: Width = 420 |
    38: ...[[United States]], located in the [[U.S. Midwest|Midwest]].
    51: ...nd by 14,000 votes to Democratic presidential candidate [[John Kerry]], both of whom lost the national...
    53: ...mineral is [[Galena]] otherwise known as lead sulfide which reflects Wisconsin's early mining history....
    61: ... acres (800,000 m&sup2;) of land on the far west side of the city. Madison is also home to the [[Vilas...
  17. Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
    30: Width = 355 |
    46: ...ry of the Cross Timbers, to the plains and semi-arid regions of Western Oklahoma and the Oklahoma panh...
    63: ...ado alley'), because of the cold and warm air colliding.
    137: ...is land that can be owned by no man," the judge said, and after that the panhandle was referred to as ...
    141: ... with the tribes to divide Indian lands into individual holdings. Under the allotment system, tribal ...
  18. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
    54: ...d]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
    70: ...Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
    99: ...280s]]: [[Glasses|Eyeglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]]
    119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
  19. List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
    10: *[[Raoul Ubac|Ubac, Raoul]], (1910-1985), painter
    22: ..., (1921-1999), 2nd [[Aikido Doshu|doshu]] of [[aikido]]
    23: ... Morihei]], (1883-1969), Japanese founder of [[aikido]]
    24: ..., (born 1951), 3rd [[Aikido Doshu|doshu]] of [[aikido]]
    31: ...Sergeyevna Ulanova|Ulanova, Galina Sergeyevna]], (1910-1988), Russian ballerina
  20. Comet (30542 bytes)
    3: ...omets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and v...
    5: ...[[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
    9: ... rather than an orbital trajectory. While the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is gen...
    11: ...dually vanish out of sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or...
    17: ...ons]] fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and molecules. In these coll...

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