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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...t of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufactur...
3: ...wth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power gen...
5: ...red to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|no...
10: ...he accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumula...
12: ...h often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...mbers of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ...list]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ...at "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practiti...
8: ...nacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), Protestan...
10: ...ble|biblical]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of a... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...den Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
9: ...f state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
14: ...eft|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
15: ... of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of Denmark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary...
17: ...t the time of her birth, she was third in the [[Order of succession to the British throne|line of succ... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...tandwell]] near [[Matlock, England|Matlock]] in [[Derbyshire]], now based in [[Cowes]], [[Isle of Wigh...
8: ...]), and subsequently MacArthur was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for services to spor...
12: ...d unveiled in [[January]] [[2004]], was specially designed by Nigel Irens and Benoit Cabaret for her t...
14: ... attempt in [[2004]] to break the west–east transatlantic crossing time failed by around one and a quarter ...
18: ...thur was also made an honorary [[Lieutenant Commander]] of the [[Royal Naval Reserve]] on the same day... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
1: ...ts center. In [[1965]], The Gambia became independent from the [[British Empire]]. [[Banjul]] is its...
2: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
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10: ..."center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of The Gambia|In Detail]])
27: | '''[[List of Presidents of The Gambia|President]]''' - Republic of the Congo (9324 bytes)
14: ... = [[President of the Republic of the Congo|President]] <br> [[Prime Minister of the Republic of the ...
15: leader_names = [[Denis Sassou-Nguesso]] <br> [[Isidore Mvouba]] |
19: area_magnitude = 1 E11 |
26: population_density = 8.6 |
27: population_density_rank = 213 | - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...rping the planes' wings ([[Wright brothers]]). Modern planes are controlled by [[computer]]s, which c...
15: ... also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design would not have flown.
17: ... for powered flight until the [[gasoline]] engine designed by the Wright Brothers.
19: ...d understanding of the relationship between altitude and the atmosphere. - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
9: *[[1822]] - [[Denmark Vesey]] executed
11: *[[1823]] - [[Monroe Doctrine]] declared
13: *[[1824]] - First presidential nominating [[political convention]]
14: ...ndrew Jackson]] and [[Henry Clay]] in [[U.S. presidential election, 1824|election of 1824]]; Adams imm...
15: *[[1824]] - ''[[Gibbons v. Ogden]]'' cements Congressional control over [[interst... - Scorpion (12441 bytes)
11: ...brate]] animal with eight legs belonging to the order ''Scorpiones'' in the class [[Arachnida]].
14: The scorpion body is divided into 2 main segments the cephalothroax and the a...
20: ...e which holds a pair of venom glands, and the hypodermic aculeus, the barb used to inject the venom. ...
26: ...ger (tarsus). The size of the pedipalps is highly dependant on the species, however a general trend is...
28: ...usands of chemosensors that allow the scorpion to detect minute chemical signals in their environment;... - Airline (29546 bytes)
1: ...tography of Air Kenya, Kenya Africa. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
11: ...it greater freedom, in steps that are usually decades apart. This pattern has not been completed for a...
13: ...uenced by macroeconomic activity in the markets under study. These patterns are highly seasonal, and o...
15: ...ions, but certainly areas where deregulation provided more competition and greater pricing freedom res...
17: ...upgrades they ordered to respond to the increased demand. Since 1980, the industry as a whole has not ... - Ionosphere (19365 bytes)
8: ...alance between these two processes determines the degree of ionization present at any given time.
10: ...e also mechanisms that disturb the ionosphere and decrease the ionization. There are disturbances suc...
14: ...imum solar activity. With an active sun electron density values are a factor of 10 higher.]]
19: ...] of 121.5 [[nanometre]](nm) ionizing [[nitric oxide]] (NO). In addition, when the sun is active with...
22: ...ow far it can reflect radio waves. On the night side of the Earth, the solar wind drags the ionosphere... - Pre-Columbian (867 bytes)
1: ...decades or even centuries after Columbus first landed in [[1492]] CE.
3: ...tec]] and [[Maya civilization|Maya]]) and the [[Andes]] ([[Tahuantinsuyu|Inca]], [[Moche]], etc).
8: * [[Pre-Columbian transatlantic contacts]] - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], the son of [[Sweden|Swedish]] immigrants. He grew up in [[Little Fal...
11: ...[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] later that same year.
13: ... voice on behalf of aviation activities until his death. He served on a variety of national and intern...
15: ...onsumption. These innovations are the basis of modern intercontinental air travel.
17: {{multi-video start}} - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
2: ...entific and medical references to him are found under this spelling.
6: ...ute of Martinus Herman van Doorn]]. He later attended [[Utrecht Technical School]], from which he was ...
8: In [[1865]], he attended the [[Utrecht University|University of Utrecht]]...
12: ...rsity in New York City and had actually purchased transatlantic tickets, the outbreak of World War I changed his ...
16: ... cardboard screen painted with barium platinocyanide when it was placed close to the aluminium window.... - Richard E. Byrd (4114 bytes)
5: ...C-4]] completed the trip; becoming the first ever transatlantic flight.
9: ...their claim. Nonetheless, this trip earned Byrd widespread acclaim, enabling him to secure funding for...
12: ... emergency supplies in order to achieve the altitude of the Polar Plateau. However, the flight was suc...
15: ...pedition to date. Byrd also commanded [[Operation Deep Freeze]], which established permanent Antarctic...
17: ==Awards and decoration== - Monarch butterfly (5180 bytes)
19: ...mystery. This is one of the few insects to manage transatlantic crossings. A few Monarchs turn up in the far sout...
23: ...s, and many such animals avoid consuming it. This defense is shared by the similarly distasteful (and ...
25: ...his point, hormonal changes occur, leading to the development of a butterfly. Fourth, the mature butte...
31: ...rotected species and to restore its habitat are underway.
37: ...h] of the [[Univeristy of Kansas]] [[Entomology]] Department - Samuel F. B. Morse (8859 bytes)
1: ...b|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...nventing the electric [[telegraph]] and [[Morse code]].
9: ...an painter. While at [[Yale University]], he attended lectures on [[electricity]] from [[Benjamin Sill...
11: ...f that same year, Morse's wife, Lucretia, died suddenly. She was buried before he returned to New Have...
13: ...ing [[telegraph]] and [[Morse code|dot-and-dash code system]] (a signalling [[alphabet]]) in his [[ske... - Slavery (26455 bytes)
3: ==Definitions==
4: The [[1926 Slavery Convention]] described slavery as "...the status or condition of ...
6: ...y synonymous with slavery, because serfs are considered to have had some rights.
8: ...preferred term of many scholars, because of the wide variety of ambiguities which may be attached to w...
10: ... Many [[left wing]] thinkers have discussed the idea of "[[wage slavery]]", although it is generally ... - Potato (22889 bytes)
16: ...t important non-[[cereal]] crop, and grow world-wide. Growers cultivate thousands of different varieti...
18: ...ato" to distinguish the two, a reference to the widespread cultivation of potatoes in [[Ireland]] in t...
21: ...anguage|French]]-speakers call the potato ''pomme de terre'', meaning literally "apple of earth". ([[D...
24: ...hat the potato plant originally came from the [[Andes]]. [[Pre-Columbian]] societies of this region (p...
28: ...oyee of King [[Louis XV]]. Today, potatoes grow widely in Europe, especially in North European Plain c... - Monarch Butterflies (4460 bytes)
19: ...mystery. This is one of the few insects to manage transatlantic crossings. A few Monarchs turn up in the far sout...
23: ...s, and many such animals avoid consuming it. This defense is shared by the similarly distasteful (and ...
25: ...his point, hormonal changes occur, leading to the development of a butterfly. Fourth, the mature butte...
31: ...rotected species and to restore its habitat are underway.
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