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Revision as of 15:44, 3 August 2007

August 2007

A view of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a holy site in Islam

Islam (Arabic: الإسلام al-islām) "obediance (or submission) to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the world's second largest religion.


Moses smashes the tablets.

Moses or Móshe (מֹשֶׁה, Hebrew), was the Hebrew liberator, prophet and lawgiver, who according to the Bible, and the Qur'an (by his Arabic name Musa), freed the Hebrew slaves from Egypt and at Mount Sinai provided the them with the Mosaic Law, or Torah, including the Ten Commandments.


Great Seal of the United States

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states and the District of Columbia located primarily in central North America.


Ecologists study ecosystems such as this section of the Salobra River in the Pantanal area of Brazil.

Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment.

June 2007

Isabella of Castile

Isabella of Castile (April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504) was queen of Castile and Aragon and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, were responsible for establishing the foundation for the political unification of Spain that occurred during the reign of their grandson, Carlos I of Spain.


Nervous system. Courtesy of 3DScience.com

The human body is the physical manifestation of a human being, including the chemical elements, cells, and extracellular materials and the organization of these materials into tissues, organs, and systems.


The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.


A map of countries of Europe, where the ideal of the "nation-state" arose.

In general discussion, a nation-state is variously called a "country," a "nation," or a "state."

July 2007

An allosaurus skeleton

Broadly defined, evolution is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time.


The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

Trees are the largest plants. They are not a single taxon (unit of biological classification) but include members of many plant taxa.


A view of Machu Picchu, "the Lost city of the Incas," now an archaeological site.

The Inca Civilization (called Tawantinsuyu in modern spelling, and Quechua, or Tahuantinsuyu in old spelling), was an empire located in South America from 1438 c.e. to 1533 c.e.


Map of the division of the states during the Civil War

The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil War (1861–1865), fought in North America between 24 mostly northern states of the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states.

May 2007

Great Tit, Parus major

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous (egg-laying) vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and a bony beak without teeth.