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- Plateau (3062 bytes)
2: ...d when land has been uplifted by [[tectonic]] activity and then [[erosion|eroded]] by [[wind]] or [[wa...
19: A more complete [[:Category:Plateaus|list of plateaus]] is available.
24: ...cial till]] plain are removed by [[glacier]]s, leaving the plateau into which erosion by [[water]] inc... - List of elements by symbol (14812 bytes)
58: <tr><td>Md</td><td>[[mendelevium]]</td><td>101</td><td></td></tr>
148: <tr><td>Ku</td><td>[[kurchatovium]]</td><td>104</td><td>Proposed name for [[ruthe...
152: <tr><td>Md</td><td>[[mendelevium]]</td><td>97</td><td>Proposed name for [[berkel...
154: <tr><td>Mv</td><td>[[mendelevium]]</td><td>101</td><td>Current symbol is '''Md''...
176: ...><td>101</td><td>Temporary name given to [[mendelevium]] until the permanent name was chosen.</td></tr... - Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyt...
24: ...act is a strong [[antimicrobial]] with proven activity against [[bacterium|bacteria]] and [[fungi]]. I...
31: ...tibacterial agent: II. Mechanism of action and in vitro toxicity.'' [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entre...
32: ... of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Services]
33: .../learn/grapefruit-diet.html Grapefruit Diet]- Overview, permitted foods, diet plan, advantages and dis... - Pennsylvanian (1543 bytes)
10: [[Category:Carboniferous| ]]
14: Provides a picture of what the world at the time period... - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
160: | [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]]
172: | [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]
187: | [[Virginia]]
188: | [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]]
195: | [[West Virginia]] - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...ence for their existence. Some (circumstantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at ...
13: ...nging Gardens of Babylon: This hand-coloured engraving by the 16th-century Dutch artist Martin Heemske...
40: [[Category:Gardens]]
41: [[Category:Babylonia]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ... century, the Portuguese crown began treating the village as strategic location for [[Atlantic]] trans...
19: ...clerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Portuguese ...
21: ...o arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ...osed a republic in [[1889]]. However, plans for moving the nation's seat city to the territorial cente...
31: The city is commonly divided into the historic downtown (Centro); the touri... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: ...6th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...6th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
17: ...wegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
23: ...e [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American conti...
30: ...1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Cent... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
4: ...2500 years, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
14: ... group of ruins in the same style is found at the village of Hajjiäbäd, on the Pulwar, a good hour's...
20: ...castle built by Xerxes, bears evident traces of having been destroyed by fire. The locality described ...
26: ...their couches and passed the word along to form a victory procession [epinikion komon] in honour of Di...
30: ...ent, not indeed those whom it would be a crime to violate, but, to be sure, harlots who were accustome... - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
27: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]]
65: *[[Louis Antoine de Bougainville]]
76: *[[John Davis]]
91: *[[Vitus Bering]]
92: *[[Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern]] - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
7: ...philosophy]] has a long history. Conventionally divided into three large eras - the Ancient, Medieval ...
14: ...d from working in the fields or in productive activity, they were then free to engage in the assemblie...
20: ...ind of ignorance, that only knowledge can lead to virtue, that art should be subordinate to moral purp...
33: ...lication of [[Aristotelian logic]] proceeded by having the student memorize a rather large set of syll...
44: A broad overview would then have [[Erasmus]], [[Francis Bacon]],... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...at Frémont became the first European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited with deter...
9: ...e was re-appointed to a different post (in [[West Virginia]]), but lost several battles and resigned h...
15: ...horship in scientific names|botanical author abbreviation]] '''Frém.''' is applied to plants he descr...
22: ...[President of the United States|Presidential]] [[:Category:U.S. Republican Party presidential nominees|candi... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
8: ...wing account assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
15: ...ascus]] (then also controlled by the Mameluks), having encountered a holy man during his first trip wh...
17: ...eted the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim, and having graduated to the status of ''[[al-Hajji]]'' as ...
20: ...an he crossed the border into [[Mesopotamia]] and visited [[al-Najaf]], the burial place of the fourth...
27: ... settling down, he then immediately decided to go visit [[Oman]] and the [[Straits of Hormuz]]. This d... - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...hat smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron disso...
11: ...cementite]] to [[precipitate]] out of the mix, leaving behind iron that is pure enough to take the for...
44: ...o [[mold]]s, a method far less laborious than individually forging each piece of iron from a bloom.
46: ... tools and weapons. A mass grave in [[Hebei]] province, dated to the early third century BC, contains...
48: ... a series of large blast furnaces in [[Henan]] province, each capable of producing several tons of iro... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
12: ...r, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement office...
15: ...ck Obama reelected president, Joe Biden reelected vice president.
18:
32: ...onald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president.
38: ...st person without prior military or government service to hold the office. - Phaseolus (2770 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyt...
13: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = [[Speci...
19: ''Phaseolus brevicalyx''<br/>
57: ...s'', whereas more modern sources classify it as ''Vigna radiata''.
60: [[Category:Faboideae]] - Treasury (1846 bytes)
3: ... the treasury]]. The [[U.S. Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] is the revenue agency of the [[US Departm...
27: *[[Provincial Treasurer]]
30: [[Category:Institutions of government]] - Burundi (13403 bytes)
3: Landlocked, facing population pressures and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest...
58: ...oration of democracy. After several more years of violence, a cease-fire was signed in 2003 between Bu...
64: ...ndi has been dominated in recent years by the [[civil war]] and a long [[peace process]] and move to [...
74: ...flows for 690 km (429 miles) before reaching Lake Victoria. The source of the [[Ruvyironza River]], a...
76: ... into 16 administrative [[Provinces of Burundi|provinces]]. The [[capital city]], [[Bujumbura]], has b... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
11: ...d execution, she was placed under house arrest. Having been allowed in 1984, to go back to the [[Unite...
21: ...tan's Foreign Policy which was strengthened and revitalized. Pakistan made new friends and maintained ...
24: ...he and her government have said that they only provided moral support and nothing more. The Taliban to...
32: ...n's constitution, banning Prime Ministers from serving more than two terms. This disqualifies Bhutto f...
34: ...e]] and from where she travels around the world giving lectures and keeping in touch with the Party fa... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
3: '''Virginia Woolf''' ([[January 25]], [[1882]] – ...
7: ...oolf was brought up and educated in a classically Victorian household at 22 Hyde Park Gate. In [[1895]...
9: ...ists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...he dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influential even today. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singi...
4: She was born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yo...
12: ...n]] (with [[Nelson Riddle]]'s [[orchestra]]), [[Irving Berlin]], [[Cole Porter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[J...
22: ...lifornia]], after having made some sad last [[Television|TV]] appearances. She is interred in the [[In...
46: *1958 ''[[Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...inging about with gut wrenching soul and sheer conviction. She is renowned for her soul and R&B record...
8: ...ad earned the nickname ''"The Queen of Soul"'', having become an internationally famous artist and a s...
12: ...ance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]].
18: ...ate life even more jealously and she gave no interviews for several years after that. She lives today ...
36: *[[1962]] ''[[The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin]]'' - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...d until her death. Later that year, she also met violinist [[Joseph Joachim]] who became one of her f...
9: ...urned to [[London]] in [[1865]] and continued her visits annually, with the exception of four seasons,...
14: ...o]] with violin and cello, and three Romances for violin and piano. Inspired by her husbands birthday,...
19: [[Category:1819 births|Schumann, Clara]] - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
4: Ava Lavinia Gardner was born in the small farming communit...
6: ...'' did she become known as a [[sex symbol]] and movie star. She married [[Mickey Rooney]] when she wa...
8: ... nominated, albeit in the best supporting actress category.
16: ...r is portrayed by [[Kate Beckinsale]] in ''[[The Aviator]]'' (2004), a film by [[Martin Scorsese]] abo...
71: * [[Vienna: The Years Remembered]] (1968) (short subject... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ...ter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Riccardo Scicolone and ...
7: ...kly ilustrated romantic stories) billed as "Sofia Villani" or "Sofia Lazzaro' and took part in regiona...
9: ...!]]''), her acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [...
11: ...on the [[Eugene O'Neill]] play), ''[[Houseboat (movie)|Houseboat]]'' (a romantic comedy again co-starr...
13: ...stinction of being the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-Englis... - Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
3: ...rn Virginia]] to finish her high school career, living with relatives until the rest of her family joi...
15: ...was strained by long absences (his as a military aviator, and hers in international soccer), and they ...
19: ...to the [[FIFA 100]], a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players selected by [[Pel靝 and commiss...
21: ...tional goal; she has long held the record in that category for any player, male or female. This match also m... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
10: ...d her autobiography, which was republished in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting ...
33: == Trivia ==
34: ...e was featured in the [[Jeopardy|Final Jeopardy]] category on [[June 15]], [[2005]] as ''In 1938, at age 25,... - Raspberry (2847 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyt...
33: [[Category:Fruit]]
34: [[Category:Rubus]] - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
8: ...urging of Professor Alan Schechter, her political views turned left, joining the [[Democratic_Party_%2...
10: ...Cambridge, Massachusetts. She joined the staff advising the [[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary|J...
12: ...ey General during the Clinton Administration, and Vince Foster, who worked in the Clinton Administrati...
20: ...rds of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, Legal Services, and the Children's Defense Fund. She also, fr...
25: ... was a good client. The firm was later fined for violating Chicago Mercantile Exchange rules governin... - Digestion (4206 bytes)
20: ...]. Secretion of gastrin is stimulated by food arriving in stomach. The secretion is inhibited by low [...
29: [[Category:Digestive system]]
30: [[Category:Metabolism]] - Immune system (14564 bytes)
3: It is often divided into the two sections of innate and adaptive i...
6: ...me. While study of the bacterial immune system provides useful insights into immunology, higher organi...
8: ... foreign [[pathogen]]s (such as [[virus (biology)|viruses]], [[bacterium|bacteria]], [[parasite]]s), s...
15: ...body, it is destroyed by forced [[apoptosis]], leaving behind T cells that can be safely released into...
18: ...o pathogens changes during the lifetime of an individual, seem to have appeared somewhat abruptly in [... - Human brain (15406 bytes)
5: ==Overview==
9: ...us system to stimulus, that sense events in the environment and that monitor the condition of the body...
15: ...elencephalon, with only the [[medulla oblongata]] visible as it merges with the [[spinal cord]].
21: ...in air weighs only 50 g when suspended in CSF. (Livingston, 1965). Fluid movement within the brain is ...
25: ... the animal kingdom. Female humans have large pelvic openings to accommodate the birth of large-heade... - Pulmonary alveolus (8193 bytes)
1: ...tomical structure that has the form of a hollow cavity. In the lung, the alveoli are spherical outcro...
34: ...s the systemic venous blood which enter the lungs via the [[pulmonary arteries]].
58: ...ficult to prevent once started, due to the sensitivity of lung tissue to radiological exposure.
60: ... the patient cannot draw enough oxygen from his environment, then he may need supplemental oxygen.
62: [[Category:Respiratory system]] - Vegetable (2464 bytes)
3: [[Image:Rome_8341b.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip...
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12: ...[Image:Bos3Mvc-017f.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip...
15: ... word was used as a noun refering directly to the category of plants. - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
50: Grass script is notorious for its economy of individual penstrokes. Quite often different characters ...
54: ... Chinese characters have been affected by seal carving, since simplification of characters has often b...
78: [[Category:Calligraphy]]
79: [[Category:Chinese language]]
80: [[Category:Japanese language]] - Relic (11473 bytes)
7: ...soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet." It is cited to estab...
13: ====Romano-Christian [[daemon]]s and the "virtue" of relics====
14: ... Gregory's constant usage of ''"sanctus"'' and ''"virtus"'', the first with its familiar meaning of "...
15: ...supernatural. In a practical way the second word [virtus] is the more important. It describes the unca...
17: ...ans, pagans and pagan gods, and heretics. False ''virtus'' inhabited images of the pagan gods, the "id... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...specially if this is his or her [[profession]]. Evidence indicates that humans have been painting for...
4: ...marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
14: [[:Category:Artistic techniques|Painting technique]]s include...
20: *[[Pointillism]] (aka divisionism, 'stippling')
34: ...l working characteristics of the paint, such as [[viscosity]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying... - List of dinosaur classifications (7586 bytes)
7: ...er;) is used to indicate taxa with [[extinct|no living members]].
17: *** †Division [[Carnosauria]]
18: **** †Subdivision [[Spinosauroidea]]
21: **** †Subdivision [[Allosauroidea]]
24: *** Division [[Coelurosauria]] - Cycling (1157 bytes)
26: * [[:Category:Cyclists|Category:Professional cyclists]]
35: [[Category:cycling]] - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
1: [[Image:Woodcarvings of cranes.jpg|right|thumb|Artists can use wood...
2: ...rking''' is the process of building, making or carving something using [[wood]].
3: [[Category:Skills]]
7: ...mitive human beings. Indeed, the development of civilization was closely tied to the development of in...
9: ...ite]] of [[Fellbach-Schmieden]] in Germany has provided fine examples of wooden animal statues from th... - Process (6114 bytes)
1: ...[process management]], [[process theory]], and [[:Category:Nature]].
8: ... the universe by God would be an example of a ''divine process''. (generally assumed to be a singular...
10: *[[civics|Civic]] [[governance]] and [[conflict resolution]]
38: ...process is defined as “a related set of activities conducted to the specific purpose of product ...
49: <td valign=top> C. Rolland. A Comprehensive View of Process Engineering. Proceedings of the 10th... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
8: ..., [[musica]] was part of the mathematical [[quadrivium]] - [[arithmetic]]s, [[geometry]], [[astronomy]...
12: ...ic thought]] - ranging from [[astrology]] to believing certain [[minerals]] have certain beneficiary e...
17: ...t they do have words for instrumental versus improvised forms (''kantun''), European and nonMapuche mu...
21: ...han]] is not considered music, but classical improvised song, classical instrumental metric compositio...
31: ...ined by the neutral and/or esthesic levels). This view is often used to argue that some kinds of organ... - Geography (8541 bytes)
1: [[Image:Environment_09.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip...
13: ...tury|16th]] and [[17th century|17th centuries]] revived a desire for both accurate geographic detail, ...
53: *[[environmental science]]
62: [[Image:Adriatic_sea.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip...
63: .... It also includes [[landscape ecology]] and [[environmental geography]]. - United Nations (29685 bytes)
3: UN membership is open to all "peace-loving states" that accept the obligations of the [[UN...
5: ...as transferred to the UN as it was founded by the victorious powers in the war as a condition of the [...
20: ...ted Kingdom]], the [[United States]], and the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] met to elaborate the plans at the ...
24: ...mdash; [[Republic of China]], [[France]], the [[Soviet Union]], [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United S...
26: ... agencies located in [[Geneva]], [[The Hague]], [[Vienna]], and elsewhere. - Euphonium (3735 bytes)
1: [[Category:Brass instruments]] - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
11: ...elow the B). This tuning was very popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension...
65: [[Category:String instruments]]
66: [[Category:Hawaiian music]] - Egypt (18830 bytes)
62: Egypt is famous for its [[Ancient Egypt|ancient civilization]] and some of the world's most stunning a...
67: ... country' or 'a state'. The name '''Egypt''' came via the Latin word ''Aegyptus'' derived from the anc...
69: ...for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa [[3...
73: ...sportation hub; however, the country also fell heavily into debt. Ostensibly to protect its investment...
77: ... Pyramids of Giza are at the heart of Egypt's thriving tourism industry.]] - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
13: | place of death= [[The Hermitage]], [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]
16: | vicepresident= [[John C. Calhoun]] (1829-1832) [[Mar...
18: ...he [[War of 1812]] and the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].
22: ...er, the irate redcoat slashed him with a sword, giving Jackson the scars (and intense hatred for the B...
26: His service in the [[War of 1812]] was conspicuous for its ... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
10: ...r><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Kinderhook (village), New York|Kinderhook, New York]]</td></tr>
18: <tr><td>'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>[[Richard M. Johnson]]<...
25: ...y 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
29: ...f his nephew, [[De Witt Clinton]]), [[Robert R. Livingston]] and Aaron Burr. Federalist control after ...
41: ... [[Vice President of the United States of America|vice-president]]; but he shrewdly kept out of the ac... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ... [[politician]] who served as the twenty-eighth [[Vice President of the United States of America]] und...
9: == Vice Presidency ==
11: ...[[1912]], was reelected in [[1916]] and served as Vice President until [[1921]]. It is said that Mars...
13: ...re this, Presidents had made a habit of using the Vice President (who serves as President of the Senat...
15: ...ilson and Marshall became the first President and Vice President team to be re-elected since [[James M...
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