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- San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
62: ...table land speculation, city leaders banned all cemeteries within the city. Burials moved to the undevelo...
64: ...ety across the Bay saved thousands. With the centennial of the disaster approaching, a city supervisor...
66: ... the rising value of real estate, all remaining cemeteries in the city were evicted to south of the city ...
77: ...dition]] and [[Japantown]] neighborhoods. His planning led to the creation of [[Embarcadero Center]],...
93: ...ing backlash resulted in a progressive majority winning control of the Board of Supervisors in the [[2... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
27: ...d geography of Mesoamerica, the extent of site planning appears to have been minimal; their cities hav...
29: ...ter wells, or ''[[cenotes]]'', the city grew by connecting great plazas with the numerous platforms th...
41: ...he case of terraces and smaller structures, to 45 meters in the case of great temples and pyramids. A fl...
48: ...y limestone platforms of typically less than four meters in height where public ceremonies and religious ...
117: ... different systems persist today: raised fields connected by canals can be seen on aerial photographs,... - Hybrid vehicle (47544 bytes)
6: ...o a [[generator]] (merely the electric motor(s) running in generator mode[[electric motor|Electric mot...
14: ...arine]]s, which operate in essentially the same manner as hybrid electric cars. However, in this case...
20: ... their European diesel engines to Toyota. Toyota announced model year [[2005]] hybrid versions of the ...
22: ...will be built in Kentucky, USA. Also, [[Nissan]] announced the release of the [[Nissan Altima|Altima]]...
55: ...ry) in cold regions. In 2004 Railpower had been running pilots in the US with the so called Green Goat... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
6: Röntgen was born in [[Lennep]] (now a part of [[Remscheid]]), Germany, to a ...
12: ...United States (in [[Iowa]]) and at one time he planned to emigrate. Although he accepted an appointme...
16: ...tubes. By late 1895 these investigators were beginning to explore the properties of [[cathode ray]]s ...
18: ...öntgen noticed a faint shimmering from a bench a meter away from the tube. To be sure, he tried several...
22: ...misrepresents his investigative powers; he had planned to use the screen in the next step of his exper... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
22: ..., although a portion of the city (the [[1909]] [[annex]]) is located in [[DeKalb County, Georgia|DeKal...
24: ...vement]] and served as the host city for the Centennial [[1996 Summer Olympics]].
28: ... the suburbs OTP (Outside the Perimeter). The Perimeter is Atlanta's equivalent to the [[Capital Beltway]...
33: ...Georgia|Athens]]. The terminus was originally planned for [[Decatur, Georgia|Decatur]], but its citiz...
45: ...media and from presidential candidate [[John F. Kennedy]]. Despite this incident, Atlanta's political ... - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (37869 bytes)
23: area = 1,608.8 [[square kilometer|km²]] (621.2 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
36: ...the city has a total area of 1,608.8 [[square kilometer|km²]] (621.2 [[square mile|mi²]]). 1,57...
67: ...aries such as mountains or oceans, Oklahoma City annexed huge swaths of land in the 1960s, leading to ...
73: ...s World Airport, [[U.S. 77 Broadway Extension]] connects Central Oklahoma City to Edmond, and [[Inters...
90: ...d best arts festival in the nation, (April), the annual [http://www.downtownokc.com Downtown Salute] (... - Molecular nanotechnology (10344 bytes)
10: ...Nano prefix for the number of subdivisions of a [[meter]]. Such a product is likely to have around a sex...
39: ...PAO would used the principle of phased-array millimeter technology but at optical wavelengths. This woul...
55: ...velopment of nanotechnology. These include the banning of free-foraging self-replicating pseudo-organ... - Allemande (1374 bytes)
3: ...ke [[Johann Jakob Froberger|Froberger]] and [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] followed suit in their alle...
7: ...came to be used for a new type of dance in triple meter; [[Carl Maria von Weber|Weber's]] ''Douze alleman... - Guitar (36953 bytes)
15: ...itar. Excavated in Susa, [[Iran]]. Dated 3rd Millennium BC.]]
65: ...t consist of passive components such as [[potentiometer]]s and [[capacitors]], but may also include speci...
68: ...ow the string vibrations to resonate. Trying to connect two thin pieces of wood at a 90 degree angle i...
85: ...e diameter the ''heavier'' the string is (with thinner strings being ''lighter''). Heavier strings req...
121: ...ed guitar is not a loud instrument, that is, it cannot compete with other instruments commonly found i... - Ziggurat (6043 bytes)
1: ...vels of [[mathematics]] and construction which spanned several terraced stories and were topped with a...
11: ...tures. The final stage consisted of a 15 [[metre|meter]] hardened [[brick]] encasement constructed by [[...
15: ...f ziggurats date from the end of the third [[millennium]] BC and the latest date from the 6th century ...
21: ...ge:Lib.jpg|left|thumb|<center>The University of Tennessee Hodges Library.</center>]][[Image:Sacramento...
23: ...ennessee]] central library, in [[Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]]. Another would be the ''ziggurat by the ri... - Wombat (7860 bytes)
17: ...rt-legged and muscular [[bear]] approximately 1 [[meter]] in length, and with a mere nubbin of a [[tail]]...
21: ...et to any enemy who follows the wombat into its tunnel. - Literature (25676 bytes)
21: ... and they may or may not utilise [[rhyme]]. One cannot readily characterise [[poetry]] precisely. Typi...
23: ...ic of Gilgamesh]]'' (dated from around [[4th millennium BC|3000 B.C.]]), parts of the [[Bible]], and t...
25: ...], the [[limerick (poetry)|limerick]], or the [[sonnet]], for example. A haiku must have seventeen syl...
27: ...lton|Milton]], consists of unrhymed [[iambic pentameter]]s. Some languages prefer longer lines; some shor...
53: ...not mark the distinction precisely, and perhaps cannot do so. Note the classifications: - Ur (11926 bytes)
3: ...iggurat is a temple of [[Nanna (Sumerian deity)|Nanna]], a [[deity]] in [[Sumerian mythology]], and ha...
9: ...ing. Ur by this time was considered sacred to [[Nanna]], the [[moon]] [[god]] in [[Sumerian mythology]...
11: ... by the king [[Mesannepada]] (or Mesanepada, Mes-Anni-Padda).
17: ...his event. Later [[Babylon]] captured the city. Nanna was known to the Babylonians as ''Sin''. The Bab...
26: ...ubilees]]'' states that Ur was founded in 1687 ''Anno Mundi'' (year of the world) by 'Ur son of Kesed,... - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
7: ...n]], was deep within the area which Allied war planners expected to be overrun by the [[Soviet]] army ...
11: ...tion was a key factor in the decision to make [[Bonn]] the capital of West Germany in preference to ei...
21: ...ain candidate for its location was around the perimeter of the city. Besides, America had been caught of...
23: ...ade polite protests, at length, via "the usual channels", but without fervour, even though it was a vi...
27: ...with 1362 officers and men each. On 16 August, Kennedy had given the order for them to be reinforced.... - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
12: ...a tidy schema which equates deity and role in a manner that is quite unfamiliar to the colloquial lite...
43: ...]], [[Rudianos]], [[Sabrina]], [[Segomo]], [[Sequanna]], [[Sirona]], [[Smertios]], [[Sucellos]], [[Sul...
47: ...[Lir]], [[Luchtaine]], [[Lugh]], [[Macha]], [[Manannan mac Lir]], [[Miach]], [[Midir]], [[Mog Ruith]],...
51: ...[[Emer]], [[Ferdiad]], [[Fergus mac Roich]], [[Fionn mac Cumhail]], [[Lughaid Stronghand]], [[Oisin]],...
55: ...n]], [[Penarddun]], [[Pryderi]], [[Pwyll]], [[Rhiannon]], [[Taliesin]], [[Twm Shon Catti]] - Sword (24928 bytes)
10: ...blades became possible, from the early [[2nd millennium BC]]. The hilt at first simply allowed a firm ...
34: ...d [[1300]], in concert with improved [[armour]], innovative sword designs evolved more and more rapidl...
36: ...ver increasing sword sizes (mostly due to the beginning of the decline of plate armor and the advent o...
44: .... The [[France|French]] [[martial art]] ''[[la canne]]'' developed to fight with canes and swordstick...
61: ...allowing it to retain its strength, in the same manner as an [[Beam (structure)|"I" beam]] in construc... - Trebuchet (7499 bytes)
14: ... is released, the arm pulls the sling out of a channel in the base of the frame. When the ball moves ...
19: ...ts from side-to-side can be made by moving the channel in which the missile and sling slide in the bas...
37: ... example, the [[Punkin Chunkin]] competition, an annual competition to throw pumpkins for distance, ha...
39: ... competitors build a small trebuchet (maximum one meter square footprint, 75cm high) and fire projectiles... - Longship (3972 bytes)
5: ...w design allowed navigation in waters of just 1 [[meter]] depth, a rapid deployment on sandy shores in ca...
34: ...tage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center in Moorhead, Minnesota]
37: ... in Festschrift Untermann, ed Heidermans et al., Innsbruck, 1993. - Troy (22846 bytes)
7: ...[Germany|German]] archeologist [[Heinrich Schliemann]] excavated the area. Later excavations revealed ...
24: ...f Scamander, some 3000 years ago, were some 5 kilometers further inland, pouring into a bay that has sinc...
30: ...een the location of Troy as identified by Schliemann (and other locations such as the Greek camp), the...
36: ...– Troy IV: early [[Bronze Age]] ([[3rd millennium BC]])
50: The first city was founded in the [[3rd millennium BC]]. During the Bronze Age, the site seems to... - Ernest Shackleton (9537 bytes)
21: ...ons, food was foolishly in short supply; the personnel on long treks were usually underfed by any sens...
36: ...]] to seek help. This remarkable journey in a 6.7 meter boat (the ''[[James Caird (boat)|James Caird]]'')...
60: ...irected by [[Charles Sturridge]] and starring [[Kenneth Branagh]] as the explorer. The same story is ...
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