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- Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
2: [[Image:Cable_Car.jpg|thumb|right|Cable Car in San Francisco]]
3: ...mage:Sf_cable_car.jpg|thumb|right|A San Francisco cable car]]
4: ...s, where the cars are permanently attached to the cable.
7: ...le house or power house. The speed at which it moves is relatively constant, although somewhat influen...
9: ...ual process in order to avoid bringing the car to cable speed too quickly and unacceptably jarring the [[...
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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...led "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...3 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the co...
13: ...lorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans th...
15: ...and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neigh...
17: ...ntown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowada... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
2: ... [[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [[actor|actress]].
6: ... anger or resentment. Since the extraordinary success of ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'', Morissette's popu...
12: ...idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you one day an...
21: With the help of her childhood mentor [[Leslie Howe]], Morissette released "Fate Stay With Me...
23: ... to [[New York City]] to meet with record executives, an experience that she would later write about i... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...alcot.grange.750pix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Great Western Railway]] No. 6833 ''Calcot Grange'', a [[4-6...
3: ... train, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space or are rarely det...
5: ...ce is [[push-pull]] operation, where the locomotives push the trains in one direction, and are control...
7: ==Benefits of locomotives==
8: ...motive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include: - Nerve (2497 bytes)
1: ...ally imprecise since many neurons do not form nerves.
2: ...while '''[[efferent nerve fiber|efferent]]''' nerves conduct stimulatory signals ''from'' the brain t...
4: ...ion potential]]s: Rapidly traveling electrical waves, which begin typically in the cell body of a [[ne...
8: ...(afferent) receive input from sensory organs. Nerves can also be ''mixed'', containing both efferent ...
10: ...ave the spinal cord through the ventral (i.e. closest to the belly) horn. The [[cranial nerve]]s do n... - Bookbinding (7761 bytes)
4: ... handle, allowed writing on both sides of the leaves, and could be searched through more quickly.
6: ... handwritten on handmade materials, sizes and styles varied considerably, and each book was a unique c...
8: ...nding began to standardize somewhat. But page sizes still varied considerably.
14: ...ced books today tend to be of one of four categories:
16: ... and heavy books are sometimes bound with wire or cable. - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
9: ...anthem = [[Pak sarzamin shad bad]]<br>(Blessed Be The Sacred Land) |
10: official_languages = [[Urdu language|Urdu]], [[English languag...
14: ...der_titles = [[President of Pakistan|President]]<br />[[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Prime Mi...
15: leader_names = [[Pervez Musharraf]]<br />[[Shaukat...
16: largest_city = [[Karachi]] (also [[financial... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...cean|Atlantic]], such as the [[Azores Islands|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] ...
5: ...omic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the r...
7: ...cial and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
13: ''Main articles: '''[[Lusitanian|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitani...
15: ...9, "A Lusit⮩a" paragraph 1}} The [[Conii]] were established in southern Portugal for a long time. Th... - Cyperus papyrus (4281 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Cyperales]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = ''C. papyrus''}}
17: ...ys around 10-30 cm in length. This cluster resembles a feather duster when the plant is young. Greenis...
19: .... It is therefore untrue to call this plant "leafless".
21: ...esert to wet forests, tolerating annual temperatures of 20-30�C and pH of 6.0 - 8.5. Papyrus flowers... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ...tion, work, relationships and death. It also delves into the emotions of experiencing such events.
8: ...tailing the lives of [[chief]]s, [[kings]], [[tribes]], [[patriarchs]] and [[prophets]]. ...
12: ...ment]] of the [[Bible]] were biographies about [[Jesus]].
14: == Dark and Middle Ages ==
16: ...s were meant to be inspirational to people, vehicles for [[conversion]] to [[Christianity]]. - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
1: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1820]] to [[1...
7: *[[1820]] - [[Maine]] becomes a state
8: *[[1821]] - [[Missouri]] becomes a state
9: *[[1822]] - [[Denmark Vesey]] executed
13: *[[1824]] - First presidential nominating [[political convention]] - Lightning rod (7638 bytes)
1: ...nclude '''lightning conductor''', '''lightning arrester''', '''lightning discharger''', and '''lightni...
3: ==Construction and uses==
4: ...so during storms. If the underground cable will resist [[corrosion]] well, it may be covered in [[sal...
6: ...ns usually have a web of the lighter conductor wires covering the whole plant.
8: ...o be unsatisfactory for protecting taller structures, as it is possible for lightning to strike the si... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
2: ...cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes are observed during a night-time thunderstorm.]]
8: ==History of lightning research==
10: ...h lightning. [[Benjamin Franklin]] endeavored to test this theory by using a spire which was being ere...
14: ...milar experiments in [[France]], Franklin had suggested the original high-object-with-some-spark-gap i...
16: ... room split, and the door itself torn off its hinges. - Oceanography (3841 bytes)
1: ...mistry|chemical]] and [[physics|physical]] processes. There are five major divisions within the scienc...
5: ...y]], including [[plate tectonics]] and other studies of the ocean floor;
7: ...ature-salinity structure, [[ocean surface wave|waves]], and currents).
11: ...of North Atlantic telegraph cable confirmed the presence of a [[mid-ocean ridge]].
13: ... School of Oceanography. In Britain, a major new research institution is the [[Southampton Oceanograph... - Computer hardware (4023 bytes)
1: ...s or operates on, and the [[software]] that provides instructions for the hardware to accomplish tasks...
2: ...issue that computer users need to concern themselves with.
4: ...mputer ([[personal computer]], PC) consists of a desktop or tower case ([[chassis]]) and the following...
5: ...ds the [[Central processing unit|CPU]], Random Access Memory and other parts, and has slots for expans...
6: ... the computer doesn't have to take the time to access the hard drive to find something. More RAM can c... - Ship (18843 bytes)
2: ... refers to [[submarine]]s as "boats"). Compare [[vessel]].
4: ...] ships and [[barque]]s were built partly for [[prestige]] reasons.
6: ...lated to sailors, particularly customs and practices at [[sea]]. '''Naval''' is the adjective pertaini...
10: ...[[volume]] rather than weight, and are used when describing merchant ships for the purpose of tolls, t...
12: ...eir vessels until their decks were almost awash, resulting in a dangerously unstable condition. Additi... - Train (10331 bytes)
3: ...50px|An illustration of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [http://classroomclipart.com Class...
7: ...ion for the train may come from a variety of sources, but most often from a [[locomotive]] or self-pro...
9: ...st''' is used to describe the group of rail vehicles which make up a train.
11: ==Types of trains==
13: ... Trains can also be hauled by horses, pulled by a cable, or run downhill by gravity. - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
2: [[Image:Cable_Car.jpg|thumb|right|Cable Car in San Francisco]]
3: ...mage:Sf_cable_car.jpg|thumb|right|A San Francisco cable car]]
4: ...s, where the cars are permanently attached to the cable.
7: ...le house or power house. The speed at which it moves is relatively constant, although somewhat influen...
9: ...ual process in order to avoid bringing the car to cable speed too quickly and unacceptably jarring the [[... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
29: footnotes = |
31: ...nds in the bay and the [[Farallon Islands]] 27 miles offshore in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
33: .... census data show that San Francisco has the highest population density of any major U.S. city aside ...
37: ...isco's "rebirth" from the ashes of the fire that resulted from the quake. Long enjoying a [[Bohemiani...
39: ... recognized landmarks include the [[San Francisco cable car system]], the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] and the ... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=William Jefferson Clinton
4: | order=42nd President
15: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
16: | vicepresident=[[Al Gore]]
19: ...States]] from [[1993]] to [[2001]]. Before his Presidency, Clinton served five terms as the [[Governo...
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