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- New Mexico (31079 bytes)
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46: ...[1536]]. [[Fray Marcos de Niza]] enthusiastically identified the pueblos as the fabulously rich [[Seve...
52: ...ttlers arrived at the site of Albuquerque in the mid-[[1600s]]. Missionaries subjugated Native America...
54: ...t of ranching and some farming in the [[1700s]] laid the foundations for the state's still-flourishing...
62: ...er a 4 to 5 week stay in New Mexico. The Trail divided into Mountain and Cimarron Divisions southwest ... - 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]] - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
22: ... the western border of the United States, and provided U.S. farmers with vast expanses of land.
24: ... when it benefitted them, but opposed it when it did not.
28: ...ds such as cotton, indigo, and sugar were not as widely avaliable.
30: ...erence with American shipping as well as British aid to Native Americans in [[Canada]] and west of the...
34: ...s to land, but was ignored by Andrew Jackson, president at the time, in favor of his own agenda. - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...[[etymology|etymologies]], illustrations, usage guidance, and examples in sentences. Dictionaries are ...
5: ...alogous phonetic order. Words and characters in [[ideographic]] writing systems such as [[Chinese char...
23: ... English, and even the 4000 most common English [[idiom]]s and [[metaphor]]s, can be defined.
29: ...glish differences]].) Many of his prescriptions did not take hold because they were not adopted by th...
31: ...document, without judgment, usages which they consider improper or inferior sanctions those usages by ... - Art (11479 bytes)
11: ...e Renaissance, which marked a return to classical ideals and proportions. The modern era introduced mo...
15: ... captures images using light-sensitive materials. Digital art employs technology as its primary medium. Eac...
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34: <div style="float: left; width: 33%"> - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
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16: ...es/List of Ma|4,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_Presidents_of_P|5,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_U|6,]] ...
35: *[[List of digital library projects]]
63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
112: *[[Trigonometric identity|Trigonometric identities]] - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
7: Electronic musical instruments are now widely used in most styles of music.
20: ... can be simulated by many modern synthesizers and digital samplers.
27: ...is purpose, as a way of generating complex sounds digitally with the smallest number of computational opera... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...s waged by means of economic pressure, selective aid, diplomatic manoeuvre, propaganda, assassination,...
7: The Cold War is usually considered to have occurred approximately from the end o...
12: ... the world almost as much as the actual fighting did.
14: ...rly the city of [[Berlin]]. Arguably, the most vivid symbol of the Cold War was the [[Berlin Wall]]. T...
42: ...perior effectiveness, mainly due to their lead in digital computers and reluctance to spend enough money to... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
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26: ...nnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 2006|presidential election]]
27: ...nnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 2006|presidential election]]
37: ...arch 29]] - Total [[solar eclipse]] ([[Brazil]], Mid [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] ocean, [[Sahara Deser...
52: * [[July 2]] - Presidential election of [[Mexico]]. - Sundial (16148 bytes)
22: ...time zones are 360 degrees/24 hours = 15 degrees wide). Tilt the sundial so that it is oriented as if...
49: ...erials are a white marble face, with markings inlaid in black marble. Traditional styles are thick br...
55: ...ded, and hard to read. In the summer, the south side will be shaded.
63: ...One disadvantage of this design is that with a solid face, near the [[equinox]], when sun is just on t...
74: ...l bars. Fancy sundials used to have faces of inlaid stone. - Clock (10086 bytes)
16: ===Ideal uses===
18: ...erms of any physical theory would be circular. An ideal clock is more appropriately defined in relatio...
25: *An ideal clock is a clock (i.e., recurrent process) tha...
29: ... fiat. Rather, they are designated as the current ideal clock because they are currently the best inst...
33: ..., highly accurate [[marine chronometers]] in the mid-18th century. The [[Noon gun]] in [[Cape Town]] s... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: ...mb|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
2: ...uter, making it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels.
4: ...ates — on and off — it was an early form of a digital code. International Morse code is composed of six...
13: ...ed in Germany and eventually adopted as the worldwide standard as "International Morse". Morse's origi...
17: ...mits of the time made it impossible to print individual characters in a readable form, so the inventor... - Metronome (3057 bytes)
4: ... M䬺el]] copied several of Winkel's construction ideas and received the [[patent]] for the portable m...
8: ... rod swings back and forth in tempo; mechanics inside the metronome produce a clicking sound on each s...
21: Some digital metronomes, instead of making the "ching" click s... - Colorado (22240 bytes)
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38: ...il sine numine'' ([[Latin]], "Nothing without Providence") |
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56: Colors=Hide | - Hand (6764 bytes)
7: ... form to a hand, these are scientifically not considered to be so, and have other varying names, inclu...
17: * middle finger
22: ...nce of [[opposable thumb]]s. Opposable thumbs are identified by the ability to be brought opposite to ...
27: ...carpus]] or palm contains 5; the remaining 14 are digital bones.
35: ==== Digital bones ==== - Seismograph (4037 bytes)
6: ...ecord both S and P waves, but those on the other side of the Earth can only record P waves.
20: ...provides a computer with an inexpensive analog-to-digital converter.
26: ..., and a small sheet of metal mounted on the underside of the gate drags in the oil to damp oscillation... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ... written [[Arabic numerals]] system and is still widely used by merchants and clerks in [[China]] and ...
7: ...-1b.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Abacus Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
8: ...nd 20 cm (8 inches) tall and it comes in various widths depending on the application. It usually has ...
28: ...y means of beads which would probably have been slid up and down the grooves to indicate the value of ...
43: ...made with plastic pipe on on both left and right side of the frame, while that that for native Japanes... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
5: ... surname "Brahe". Apparently his contemporaries did so and the usage has persisted.
10: ...Apparently this did not lead to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived ...
18: ...d [[alchemy]]. For the rest of his life, he was said to have worn a replacement made of [[silver]] and...
33: ...er, observed that the [[parallax]] of the object did not change from night to night, suggesting that t...
51: ...tary motion|laws of planetary motion]], which provided powerful support for the [[Copernicus|Copernica... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
7: ...a racing|formula]] [[auto racing]]. It is a worldwide [[sport]], involving an annual World Drivers Cha...
9: ...South Africa]] have reinforced the sport's "worldwide" image.
16: ...nds Prix]] for results from past seasons and individual races.''
18: ...0s]]. A number of European racing organizations laid out rules for a World Championship before [[World...
24: ...al development, [[Cinquemani]]'s introduction of mid-engined cars, occurred in the [[1950s]]; [[Jack B... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...] or [[logic]]al terms. Computers are made from [[digital circuit|components]] that perform simple well-def...
14: ...dern ''digital'' computers possible, was formally identified and explored by [[Claude E. Shannon]].
16: ...solve all mathematical problems. [[Alan Turing]] identified which problems could and could not be sol...
20: ...often have difficulty understanding the important idea that the computer is only a machine, and cannot...
24: ...lifiers included [[analog (circuit)|analogue]], [[digital]] and [[electronic]]. However, from the context o...
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