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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ction machines for manufacturing in other industries.
3: ...ut [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-po...
5: ...[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
9: ==Causes==
10: ...on]] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
2: subject_name=Diana, Princess of Wales|
3: image_name=Diana, Princess of Wales.jpg |
11: ...at title, as it would imply that she was a [[princess]] by [[birthright]] rather than by marriage.
13: ...biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...he world. To her admirers, Diana, Princess of Wales was a [[role model]] — after her death, the... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ... wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number o...
7: ...t and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family and friends. At around this time s...
10: ... the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
12: ===''Little Earthquakes''===
13: ...anying singles were "Me and a Gun", "Silent All These Years", "China", "Winter" and "[[Crucify (song)|... - Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
3: ...ast]]. She holds the record for most [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals at 18 (9 gold medals, 5 silver m...
7: ...nze medal in the now discontinued team event with portable apparatus. Keleti also won six medals, but won fo...
9: ... a stunning margin of 9 points. Latynina also successfully defended her floor title, while winning sil...
11: ... third time in a row. A silver medal and two bronzes in the other apparatus events brought her total o...
13: ... of [[Russia]], and lives (as of [[2004]]) in her estate near the town Semenovskoye, [[Moscow Oblast|M... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ... Mask of La Roche-Cotard]] in [[France]], now suggests that Neanderthal humans may have developed a so...
9: ...corated by someone and used as a figurine, regardless of how it may have been formed. [http://news.bbc...
11: ===Mesolithic===
12: ...t. Patterns on utilitarian objects, like the paddles from [[Tybrind Vig]], [[Denmark]], are known as w...
15: ...s and vessels decorated with patterns made by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord a... - Map (10223 bytes)
3: ...model|two-dimensional, geometrically accurate representation]] of a three-dimensional space. The scie...
7: ...outh-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ...alem]] at the center of the world, and in some cases, related the "body" of the Earth to the body of C...
11: ...y by [[Jorge Luis Borges]] and [[Adolfo Bioy Casares]], generally known in [[English language|English]...
13: ...ergency services providers, and other local agencies. Many national surveying projects have been carr... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
2: ...a [[musical keyboard|keyboard]], the smallest representative of the [[organ (music)|organ]] family.
4: ...ivilisation had reed instruments. It has been suggested that they may have existed in ancient Egypt.
10: ...wn through the hole in the holder, the reed vibrates, producing sound.
16: ...ch is given by the reed itself and not through a resonator tube (as opposed to [[woodwind instrument]]...
18: Some of these characteristics are true for the sheng and some ... - Harmonium (4268 bytes)
1: [[Image:CP_010_N.jpg|thumb|right|Pakrashi's Professional Harmonium]]
3: that uses a pressure bellows.
5: ...better. They were also used in many pioneer churches in the U.S., where the harmonium was used for ac...
7: ...n common (though disused) in both private and ecclesiastical ownership.
13: ...c]], as well as being commonly found in Indian homes. - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
1: ...n organ to be purely decorative, with the real pipes behind them.]]
3: ...r]] through [[wood]] or [[metal]] [[organ pipe|pipes]].
5: ...organs having tens of thousands. All but the smallest have more than one [[musical keyboard|keyboard]]...
7: ...ey are also found in town halls, and in arts centres intended for the performance of [[classical music...
9: ==Styles of pipe organ== - 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]] - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
2: ...of at least 25 people and the imprisonment of scores more. [[Witch trial]]s were held in [[Europe]] se...
4: ... possessing them, and therefore of being [[witch]]es or [[warlock]]s in league with [[Satan]].
6: ...setts|Malden]], [[Charlestown, Massachusetts|Charlestown]], [[Billerica, Massachusetts|Billerica]], [[...
9: ...ted them. At last the girls began to blurt out names.
13: ...ate form of government, there was no way to try these women. None of them were tried until late May, w... - Sundial (16148 bytes)
6: A '''sundial''' measures [[time]] by the position of the [[sun]].
7: The most commonly seen designs, such as the 'ordinary' or standard garden su...
8: ...un changes, the time indicated by the shadow changes.
9: However, sundials can be designed for any surface where a fixed object casts a...
11: Most sundial designs indicate [[solar time|apparent solar time]]. - Metronome (3057 bytes)
2: A '''metronome''' is a device that produces a regular [[pulse (music)|pulse]], usually used t...
4: ...gh the extremely fast markings he put on some pieces lead some modern scholars to suspect his metronom...
6: ... general tempo intended by the composer. Many pieces give a tempo indication at the top of the manuscr...
8: ...pe of metronome is the wind-up metronome, which uses a weight on the end of a rod to control the tempo...
10: ...on forms range from simple credit-card sized devices to the complicated "Dr. Beat", manufactured by Bo... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
7: ...is a [[Roman numerals|Roman numeral]] 10). The latest version of Mac OS is [[Mac OS X v10.4]], which w...
12: ...n]]s, a [[desktop]], etc. This metaphor is sometimes called the WIMP model for '''W'''indows, '''I'''c...
16: * Long file names, with [[whitespace]] and no [[file extension]].
19: ... Aesthetic and ergonomic industrial "All in One" design that reduced clutter.
20: * Separation of a program's code from its resources to allow localization, etc. - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
2: ... of terms relating to algorithms and data structures]]
17: [[120 reset]] --
36: [[320xx microprocessor]] --
58: [[5ESS Switch]] --
90: [[Acceptance, Test Or Launch Language]] -- - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...dustrial production in the United States and the rest of the world, but also had such tremendous influ...
6: ... saw a self-propelled vehicle, a steam powered thresher, for the first time.
8: ...estinghouse]] company to service their steam engines. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in [[1888]] F...
10: ...lled vehicle named the [[Quadricycle]], which he test-drove on [[June 4]] of that year.
12: ...901. Ford was forced out of the company by the investors, including [[Henry M. Leland]] in 1902, and t... - Mellotron (7426 bytes)
3: ... pre-recorded accompaniment music (in various styles) on the left keyboard. The tape banks for the lat...
6: Although tape samplers had been explored in research studios (e.g., [[Hugh LeCaine]]'s [[1955]] k...
8: ...rs later, following financial and trademark troubles, the Mellotron name became unavailable and later ...
10: ...s and among the early Mellotron owners are [[Princess Margaret]], [[Peter Sellers]], [[King Hussein]] ...
12: ...nerated sounds in the days before polyphonic synthesizers. - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
4: ...mical instrument and analog computer. Its many uses include finding and predicting the positions of t...
8: ...Some astrolabes have a narrow ''rule'' which rotates over the rete, and may be marked with a scale of ...
10: ...e of one day. The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of the modern [[planisphere]].
12: ...d along its length, so that the altitude (in degrees) of the star could be read ("taken") from the gra...
16: ...us Contractus]]). The mathematical background was established by [[Al-Battani]] in his treatise ''Kita... - Psaltery (953 bytes)
2: ...wed. The instrument is usually small enough to be portable; its shape and range vary.
6: ...ts/opus/opus213e.html#Opus4 Discussion of psalteries, with image] from the exhibition [http://www.civi... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...eration|A new constitution]], creating a strong presidency, was approved by referendum in December [[1...
4: ...w constitution, the two branches continued to represent fundamentally opposing visions of Russia's fut...
8: ...ght" to secede from the union. Russia was the largest of the union republics in terms of territory and...
10: ...with substantial blocs of pro-reform representatives.
12: ...n June 1991, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 percent of the vote.
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