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- United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...fty [[U.S. state|states]] located primarily in central [[North America]]. The United States has land b...
4: {{Infobox Country |
9: ...>([[Latin]]: "Out of Many, One")<br>''[[In God We Trust]]'' ([[1956]]–present) |
52: ...ence|Declaration of Independence]]. However, the structure of the United States was profoundly changed...
58: ...ion|Constitution]] in [[1789]], forming a more centralized [[federalism|federal]] government. Prior to... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
6: ...century]] until the [[Spanish-American War]] of [[1898]]. The [[United States]] occupied the island unti...
8: ... 12%, one of the lowest in the latin american countries.
10: ..., began carrying out the economic reforms that Castro had promised. Among other things, [[healthcare]]...
12: ... embarrasment to the newly elected Kennedy administration, and subsequently led to the Cuban Missile c...
14: ...astro allowed anyone who desired to leave the country to depart through the port of Mariel. Known as ... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...[[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and the [[Central African Republic]] to the southwest, [[Chad]] t...
7: {{Infobox Country |
60: Although [[Christianity]] had been introduced into Sudan in the third or fourth centuries...
62: ...e under [[Horatio Kitchener|Lord Kitchener]] in [[1898]]. Britain ran Sudan as two essentially separate ...
66: ...uth (African, Christian and animistic) and has a strong economic element in that economic development ... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...entral]] and [[South America|South American]] countries.<!--
6: {{Infobox Country |
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
42: time_zone = [[Central European Time|CET]]<sup>3</sup> |
44: time_zone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
39: ...ecies]] capital of the world and is the only industrial producer of [[coffee]], and [[chocolate]] in t...
44: ...er]], [[state gem]], [[state mammal]] and [[state tree]]. Included are the two statues representing H...
46: ...the [[Union Jack]] and features eight horizontal stripes representing the eight major Hawaiian Islands...
56: ... be found on high islands located in and near the tropics has resulted in a vast array of [[endemic]] ...
64: ...edatory rivals. Warfare was endemic. The general trend was towards chiefdoms of increasing size, even... - Texas (39610 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]]<br />[...
44: * [[state tree]] — the [[pecan]]
52: ...th an area of [[1 E11 m?|690,000]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]], Texas forms the second-largest...
57: Texas lies in the south-central part of the United States of America. Depending...
70: ...a]] Tribes of Texas, the [[Kickapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of... - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
27: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]]<br/>[[...
48: ...state is one of the six states on the [[Frontier Strip]].
56: ...ern Oklahoma), and Lake & Trail Country (South Central Oklahoma).
58: ...ficial" regional designations include [[Green Country]] (most often used to refer to Northeastern Okla...
60: ... Western high plains, Southwestern Tablelands, Central [[Great Plains]], - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ''Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
36: *[[Tracey Ullman|Ullman, Tracey]] (born 1959), British-born comedian
38: ...lmann|Ullmann, Liv]], (born 1938), Swedish-born actress
43: *[[Ulrich of Strassburg]], scholastic philosopher
58: ...on|Union, Gabrielle]] (born 1973) United States actress
63: ...meyer|Untermeyer, Louis]], (Treasury of Erotic Poetry) - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
24: ...[Jimmy Yancey|Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy"]] (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie musician
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall o...
64: *[[Trisha Yearwood|Yearwood, Trisha]] (born 1964), musician
68: ...egorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...sei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...of the name), the founder of Doric [[lyric]] [[poetry]], to whom was assigned the first place among th...
5: ...cman composed various kinds of poems in various metres; ''Parthenia'' (maidens' songs), hymns, paeans,...
7: ... Alcman or [[Erinna]] (''Oxyrhynchus papyri'', i. 1898). - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
6: ... term "minor planet" (or "planetoid") carries no strong suggestion about the composition of the object...
8: ...rvive passage through [[Earth's atmosphere]] and strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoro...
21: ... and on the details of the [[visible spectrum|spectrum]] of sunlight they reflect.
24: ...ilies are much "tighter" and result from the catastrophic break-up of a large parent asteroid sometime...
28: ===Spectral classification=== - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
132: *[[Ludwig Bemelmans]] ([[1898]]-[[1962]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
191: *[[Robert Brackman]] ([[1898]]-[[1980]])
201: *[[Ann Brockman]] ([[1898]] or [[1899]]-[[1943]]) - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...ortress]], usually of the [[Middle Ages]], though traditionally in Britain it has also referred to [[P...
2: ...n French a simple ''chau'' connotes a grand [[country house]] at the center of an [[estate]]. When Eur...
10: ...f protection from an invading enemy, a place of retreat. This can be seen by many of the typical featu...
11: ...in otherwise hostile territories from which to control surrounding lands.
14: ...le]] in the last decades of the 10th century illustrates this: - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
13: ...orge Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
24: ...rdeen]], (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
25: *[[Trevor Baylis]], (1937- ) — [[clockwork radio]...
29: *[[Henry Bessemer]], (1813-1898), [[England]] — [[Bessemer process]] - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...has been referred to as the "father of modern [[astronomy]]," as the "father of modern [[physics]]," a...
7: ...lty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[1610]]. During this time he explor...
10: ... the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejection of blind allegiance to aut...
12: ...deductively, and the experiments were merely illustrative thought experiments.
16: ==Astronomy== - Golgi apparatus (4223 bytes)
1: ...(biology)|vesicle]]s. Thus, it functions as a central delivery system for the cell.
3: ... reticulum]] (ER), specifically ''rough'' ER, are transported to the Golgi apparatus, where they are m...
5: ==Structure==
7: ...rane, (14) [[Exocytosis]], (15) Cytoplasm, (16) Extracellular space.]]
9: ...rds the [[plasma membrane]] (Fig. 1). The cis and trans faces have different membranous compositions. - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
3: ...an Revolutionary War|American independence]]. The treaty with the United Kingdom in [[1783]] defined t...
7: ...''[[Red River Basin]]''', acquired in [[1818]] by treaty from Great Britain
9: ...made in [[1819]] from [[Spain]], under the administration of [[John Quincy Adams]]
11: ...an War]]. After [[James K. Polk|James Polk]], a strong supporter of territorial expansion, won the pr...
13: ...Oregon Treaty]], the two countries had jointly controlled the area since 1818 - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
41: ... rules that civilians cannot be tried in military tribunals when civilian courts are available
44: *[[1867]] - [[Reconstruction]] Acts
47: *[[1867]] - [[Medicine Lodge Treaty]]
48: *[[1868]] - [[Burlingame Treaty]]
53: *[[1868]] - [[Treaty of Fort Laramie]] with [[Lakota]] nation - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...ment of much of the native population. U.S. industry expanded rapidly throughout the era; by the dawn...
4: ==Reconstruction==
5: ...ticle: [[Reconstruction era (United States)|Reconstruction]]''
7: ...m Lincoln]] had endorsed a lenient plan for reconstruction, but the immense human cost of the war and ...
9: ... government to effectively reunite the country contributed to the government's failure for many decade...
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