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- San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
31: ...es several islands in the bay and the [[Farallon Islands]] 27 miles offshore in the [[Pacific Ocean]]....
46: ...e out and a naval force under Commodore [[John D. Sloat]] took it in [[1846]] in the name of the [[Uni...
53: ...mise of 1850]] was igniting a fierce fight over [[slavery]]. Disgusted by increasing corruption and cr...
58: ...the San Francisco cholera epidemic, the state legislature devolved this responsibility to the counties...
62: ...table land speculation, city leaders banned all cemeteries within the city. Burials moved to the undevelo... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
11: ...t archaeological remains include the carved stone slabs usually called ''stelae'' (the Maya called the...
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: ...of food production. It was formerly believed that slash and burn (swidden) agriculture provided most o...
125: ...ese sites and this region were inhabited continuously by independent Maya until after the final Spanis... - Hybrid vehicle (47544 bytes)
12: ...} program in September 29, 1993 that involved Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, USCAR, the DoE, and othe...
22: ...Hybrid | Camry Hybrid]] has been announced and is slated to launch in late Spring as a 2007 model. It ...
67: ...e [[regenerative braking]] to recover energy when slowing down the vehicle. This simply involves runn...
90: [[General Motors]], [[BMW]], and [[DaimlerChrysler]] are working together on a so-called [[Two-Mod...
110: ..." initiative is under way, and global warming legislation has been enacted. - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
18: ...öntgen noticed a faint shimmering from a bench a meter away from the tube. To be sure, he tried several...
20: ...s first notes. In the following weeks he ate and slept in his laboratory as he investigated many prop... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
28: ... the suburbs OTP (Outside the Perimeter). The Perimeter is Atlanta's equivalent to the [[Capital Beltway]...
34: [[Image:Atlanta1864.jpg|thumbnail|left|A slave auction house on Whitehall St., before Sherman...
38: ...ure and a shift from the "Old South" attitudes of slavery and rebellion.
53: .... Though now somewhat offset by the [[urban heat island]] effect, this still results in a climate more...
60: ...g;C) and afternoons around 89 °F (32 °C), slight breezes, and typically a 20–30% chance ... - 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...
61: ..., 0.07% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 5.28% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other rac...
156: *Mayfair and Belle Isle
157: Mayfair and Belle Isle are a pair of middle class, mid century neighbor... - 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...
53: ...what chances exist that one's car could spontaneously mutate into a wild car, run off-road and live in... - Allemande (1374 bytes)
3: ...imented with the allemande, shifting to quadruple meter and ranging more widely in tempo. German compose...
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)
17: ...me for these lutes, that is, ''qitara,'' is obviously rooted in Persian. The name "guitar" was first i...
44: ... of the neck. It is flat on classical guitars and slightly curved crosswise on acoustic and electric g...
48: ...orward, and changes in humidity can warp the wood slightly. The truss rod allows the neck to be adjust...
52: ...sely, the ability to change the pitch of the note slightly by deliberately bending the neck forcibly w...
65: ...t consist of passive components such as [[potentiometer]]s and [[capacitors]], but may also include speci... - Ziggurat (6043 bytes)
1: ... Zanbil]] in western [[Iran]], which has miraculously survived despite a devastating 8 year [[Iran-Ira...
11: ...tures. The final stage consisted of a 15 [[metre|meter]] hardened [[brick]] encasement constructed by [[... - Wombat (7860 bytes)
17: ...rt-legged and muscular [[bear]] approximately 1 [[meter]] in length, and with a mere nubbin of a [[tail]]...
21: Wombats have an extraordinarily slow metabolism, taking around 14 days to complete d...
25: ...ain districts as far north as the south of [[Queensland]], but is declining in Western [[Victoria (Aus...
29: ...of the park in 2000, but captive breeding and translocation programs have been abandoned for the time ...
41: ...ats in fiction and cartoons are often depicted as sluggish, irritable and dumbwitted. - Literature (25676 bytes)
21: ...of measures consisting of patterns of stresses ([[meter (poetry)|metric feet]]) or of patterns of differe...
27: ...lton|Milton]], consists of unrhymed [[iambic pentameter]]s. Some languages prefer longer lines; some shor...
53: ...e formal features of words (rhymes, alliteration, meter). But one need not mark the distinction precisely...
64: ...ng to concern themselves with verse structure translates often into a more complex [[plot]] or into on...
123: ::The [[Slave narrative]] - Ur (11926 bytes)
50: ...go though the site area. There are a few about 25 meter high steel poles near the Great Ziggurat that see...
73: ...ar'' means "built of bitumen". Mukayyar is variously transcribed as Mugheir, Mughair, Moghair, Muqayy... - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
21: ...ain candidate for its location was around the perimeter of the city. Besides, America had been caught of...
51: ...a (Helmstadt), Bravo (Dreilinden), and, most famously, [[Checkpoint Charlie]] (Friedrichstraߥ).
55: ...ber 3, 4 and 5, [[1964]]; and two escapes made by sliding along aerial runways (one by two men, one by...
69: ... followed, people began arriving at the wall with sledgehammers and physically demolishing it, section...
87: ...by heavily armed soldiers of East Germany. Previously, graffiti was exclusively on the western side. - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
1: ...ael]]s and [[Brythonic]] tribes of the [[British Isles]]) did transmit at least vestigial remnants of ...
12: ...to a divinity called [[Teutates]], which they translate as ?tribal spirit? (*teuta is believed to hav...
36: !align="left" bgcolor="slategray" colspan="2"|Topics in Celtic mythology
96: ...plural as Morrigna), but she was also known variously as Nemain (Panic) and Badb Catha (Raven of Battl...
110: His weapons were the throwing-spear and sling, and in Ireland a festival called the [[Lughna... - Sword (24928 bytes)
10: ... allowed a firm grip, and prevented the hand from slipping onto the blade when executing a stab. [[Bro...
18: ...ng existed in ancient times, including, most famously, [[pattern welding]]. Over time, different metho...
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34: ...a sword of the hand and to prevent the sword from slipping out.
49: ...rld War II]] during which Japanese and [[Pacific Islanders]] also occasionally used swords, but by the... - Trebuchet (7499 bytes)
7: ...be more correct to describe them as a scaled-up [[sling]].
12: ...ng time, a trebuchet's rate of fire was extremely slow, often not more than a couple of shots an hour....
14: ... to the top of its arc, the free end of the sling slips from the hook, and the missile flies free. Th...
19: ...moving the channel in which the missile and sling slide in the base of the frame.
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...
32: ...hip_museum/index.shtml The Viking Ship Museum in Oslo] - Troy (22846 bytes)
5: ...mes. The Roman city of Celeia (now [[Celje]] in [[Slovenia]]) has been referred to by some writers as ...
10: ...]]. Elektra raised Dardanus in her palace on the island of [[Samothrace]]. King [[Tros]] called the pe...
24: ...f Scamander, some 3000 years ago, were some 5 kilometers further inland, pouring into a bay that has sinc...
28: ... Greek historians placed the [[Trojan War]] variously in the [[12th century BC|12th]], [[13th century ...
82: ...er defences of a much larger city than had previously been suspected. - Ernest Shackleton (9537 bytes)
23: ... recovered. There is some suggestion that Scott disliked Shackleton's popularity in the expedition and...
26: ...ion. Shackleton's base camp was built on [[Ross Island]] at Cape Royds, approximately 20 miles (40 km...
28: ...[[Mount Erebus]], the active [[volcano]] of Ross Island; the location of the [[Magnetic South Pole]] b...
36: ...our journey. The 22 men who remained on Elephant Island were rescued by the Chilean ship ''Yelcho'' af...
55: ...l take place on [[Grytviken]], [[South Georgia]] Island instead. Shackleton was buried there on March...
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