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[[Image:Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France 3.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Notre Dame de Paris, western façade, seen from bottom to the top.]]'''[[Architecture]] '''is the art and technique of designing and constructing buildings to fulfill both practical and aesthetic purposes.
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It should be distinguished from both [[construction]] and [[civil engineering]]. Although there are certain building types like houses and public buildings that clearly fall inside the domain of architecture there are many other buildings and structures (for example factories, monuments, bridges, and many others) that can be seen as limit cases between architecture and engineering or architecture and art. <font size=1>[[Architecture|['''more...''']]]</font>
'''[[Bowling]]''' is an indoor sport in which a player rolls a large, heavy ball down a polished wooden lane to hit a cluster of pins in order to achieve the maximum amount of pin-falls. Although an individual person can play a game, most bowlers compete against other players as each of them tries to attain the highest number of pin-falls for that particular game.
 
Most bowling alleys today have not changed much since their initial construction many years ago, except for mechanical and computer system upgrades. Unless the alley has undergone serious renovation it is not unusual to see the original tables, chairs, fixtures, walls, and ceiling tiles. There are, however, a few very modern, "upscale" bowling alley establishments such as [http://www.bowlluckystrike.com/ Lucky Strike Lanes] where "proper" [[Bowling#Attire|attire]] and behaviors are expected. <font size=1>[[Bowling|['''more...''']]]</font>


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'''[[John Tyler]], Jr.''' ([[March 29]], [[1790]] &ndash; [[January 18]], [[1862]]) was a [[United States]] politician and the tenth [[President of the United States]] (1841-1845). He was Vice President to [[William Henry Harrison]] and succeeded him as President when Harrison died. Tyler was the first Vice President to succeed the presidency by the death of the previous president, and was given the nickname "His Accidency" by detractors.<font size=1>[[John Tyler|['''more...''']]]</font>
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'''[[Phosphorus]]''' is a chemical [[element]] with the [[atomic number]] Z = 15. Unlike other elements in group VA of the [[periodic table]], phosphorus is never found as a pure element in nature, but only in combination with other elements. It is present in all living organisms 
in the form of [[organophosphate]]s and as calcium phosphates such as [[hydroxyapetite]] (Ca<sub>10</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>6</sub>(OH)<sub>2</sub>) and [[fluoroapatite]] (Ca<sub>10</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>6</sub>F<sub>2</sub>), substances found in teeth and bones. Many cell signaling cascades in living organisms operate by a series of phosphorylation events in which a phosphate group (PO<sub>4</sub>)<sup>2&minus;</sup> is either added to a protein by a [[kinase]] or removed from a protein by a [[phosphorylase]]. <font size=1>[[Phosphorus|['''more...''']]]</font>
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Bowling is an indoor sport in which a player rolls a large, heavy ball down a polished wooden lane to hit a cluster of pins in order to achieve the maximum amount of pin-falls. Although an individual person can play a game, most bowlers compete against other players as each of them tries to attain the highest number of pin-falls for that particular game.

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Phosphorus is a chemical element with the atomic number Z = 15. Unlike other elements in group VA of the periodic table, phosphorus is never found as a pure element in nature, but only in combination with other elements. It is present in all living organisms in the form of organophosphates and as calcium phosphates such as hydroxyapetite (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) and fluoroapatite (Ca10(PO4)6F2), substances found in teeth and bones. Many cell signaling cascades in living organisms operate by a series of phosphorylation events in which a phosphate group (PO4)2− is either added to a protein by a kinase or removed from a protein by a phosphorylase. [more...]

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