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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...itain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effic...
12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
19: |[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
27: ...first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the se...
31: ...isor]] during his first term. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female ...
34: ...f Journalism at [[Columbia University]], writes, "Birmingham had one notably rich black family, the Gastons, w...
37: ...air]] was killed in the bombing of the primarily African-American [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing... - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
3: ...r World No. 1 woman [[tennis]] player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, she defected to the [[United St...
13: ...stralian Open]] to [[Evonne Goolagong]] and the [[French Open]] to [[Chris Evert]]. After losing to Ev...
17: ... [[Tracy Austin]]. She won both Wimbledon and the French Open in [[1982]].
19: ... in December at that time). She then won the 1984 French Open to hold all four Grand Slam singles titl...
23: In the three years from 1985 to [[1987]], Navrátilová reached the wom... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...se they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...h the trains in one direction, and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train ...
11: ...en safer to locate the train's power systems away from passengers. This was particularly the case for ...
14: ...solescence cycles'' - separating the motive power from the payload-hauling cars means that either can ...
17: ... fuel, or they may take [[Power (physics)|power]] from an outside source. It is common to classify loc... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
56: ...r, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The ...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: The [[British Isles]] is a term frequently used to refer to the [[archipelago]] whic...
71: ...nce]] of [[Ulster]], immediately opted out of the Free State and to remain in the UK. The nomenclature... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
5: ...he [[Lunar Society]]. Many of his papers are in [[Birmingham Central Library]].
14: ...ted a business in [[Soho, Birmingham|Soho]], near Birmingham, with [[Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his impr...
38: ...Bloye]], and a school named in his honour, all in Birmingham.
40: ... Greenock (2 in Greenock, Finnart Campus and Waterfront Campus) and a campus in Largs. - Alabama (10792 bytes)
16: LargestCity = [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] |
59: ...the province of Carolina. Nevertheless, when the French took over [[Louisiana]] they also took over t...
61: The state of Alabama seceded from the Union and became a [[Confederate States of ...
71: ...ico]]. Alabama generally ranges in [[elevation]] from [[sea level]] at [[Mobile Bay]], to a little mo...
88: -26.9% [[African American|Black]] - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...ited States]] and [[Britain]] would open a second front on the European continent; but the Allied inva...
11: ...er [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet First S...
13: ...came to be called the [[Oder-Neisse Line]]. Aside from a few minor adjustments, this would be the "iro...
15: ...autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for the allegiance of t...
17: ...emerge intact—and even greatly strengthened from an economic perspective—was the United St... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
36: ...ake Michigan]], which in turn is believed to come from the [[Chippewa]] Indian word ''meicigama'', mea...
40: Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century. In [[1701]], ...
55: ...Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], [[France]], were probably the first white men to see [...
68: ...appointed by the U.S. President who selected them from eighteen persons chosen by the people. The Coun...
71: *[[1837]] Admitted as a free state into the union (the 26th state), it was a... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
24: ...]]- [[NJ Transit]] takes over [[Clocker]] service from [[Amtrak]]
38: ...SS Indianapolis]], [[USS Birmingham (SSN-695)|USS-Birmingham]], [[USS New York City (SSN-696)|USS-New York Cit...
41: ...rnor [[John Rowland]] is scheduled to be released from the federal [[prison]] in [[Loretto, Pennsylvan...
73: ...ropean Constitution]] (although 2005 is possible, from statements made by minsters, 2006 is more likel... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: [[Image:Shakespeare.jpg|frame|right|William Shakespeare ([[National Portrait...
8: ...tp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakespeare quotations from Shakespearean plays], the [[List of titles of w...
31: ...re.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Shakespeare's signature, from his will]]
33: ...company took its name, like others of the period, from its aristocratic sponsor, the [[Lord Chamberlai...
35: ...aker for his landlord's daughter. Legal documents from 1612, when the case was brought to trial, show ... - Mellotron (7426 bytes)
1: ... instrument]] originally developed and built in [[Birmingham]], [[England]] in the early [[1960]]s.
6: ...ilt and sold by California-based Harry Chamberlin from [[1948]] through the 1970s.
8: ...tronics, which produced the first Mellotrons in [[Birmingham]], [[England]]. Bradmatic later took on the name ...
14: ...were a [[roadie]]'s nightmare -- heavy, bulky and fragile. The tape banks were also notoriously prone ...
22: ...rough their prime, including solo work by [[Edgar Froese]]. - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
2: ...[Image:Cable_Car.jpg|thumb|right|Cable Car in San Francisco]]
3: [[Image:Sf_cable_car.jpg|thumb|right|A San Francisco cable car]]
9: ...le. Conversely the car is stopped by detaching it from the cable, and then applying brakes. This gripp...
16: ...nkers Patent Railway]] in [[New York]], which ran from [[1 July]] [[1868]] to [[1870]]. The cable tech...
18: ...Station.jpg|thumb|right|Machinery driving the San Francisco Cable Car]] - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
28: ...ch has come to delineate the interior of the city from the surrounding suburbs. This has given rise to...
33: ..., for lines connecting from [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Chattanooga]], [[Macon, Georgia|Macon]], and...
38: ... of the economy away from agriculture and a shift from the "Old South" attitudes of slavery and rebell...
41: ... commuted in 1915, riots broke out in Atlanta and Frank was [[lynching|lynched]].
43: ...ters for Disease Control]] was founded in Atlanta from the old Malaria Control in War Areas offices an... - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...still called '''lawn tennis''', to distinguish it from [[real tennis]] (also known as ''royal tennis''...
10: [[image:tennis_court.png|right|frame|The dimensions of a tennis court, in [[feet]]....
18: ...'' can encompass many different surfaces, ranging from old-fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt...
20: ... though both originally used grass courts - the [[French Open]] uses clay courts, and [[Wimbledon cham...
80: ...rn''. For a number of years the small, apparently frail 1920s player [[Bill Johnston]] was considered ... - Uranium (27752 bytes)
165: *beta (tetragonal) stable from 667.7 °C to 774.8 °C
166: *gamma (body-centered cubic) from 774.8 °C to melting point - this is the mos...
170: ...up>233</sup>U isotope is also fissile and is made from <sup>232</sup>[[thorium]] by [[neutron]] bombar...
184: ...natural uranium, because the [[mineral]] material from which they are made is typically high in uraniu...
191: ... was found to be [[radioactivity|radioactive]] by French physicist [[Henri Becquerel]] in [[1896]], wh... - Collie (2588 bytes)
12: ...irst exhibited as "Scotch Sheep-Dogs" in the 1860 Birmingham (England) dog show.
15: ...roducers. The sable color on these dogs can range from a light blonde color to a deep reddish-brown, w...
18: * Coleen from [[Road Rovers]]
19: * Laddie from [[The Simpsons]] - Staffordshire Bull Terrier (6063 bytes)
39: ...red for bull-baiting, lion and dog fighting in [[Birmingham]], [[England]] by [[James Hinks]] in the mid-1800...
51: ...ggressive tendencies. It is wise to avoid such confrontations, bearing in mind the strength and fearle...
56: ...t last long as most of the members never returned from the trenches of the [[World War I|First World W...
62: ...are placed in a pin and left unattended. Anything from bugs to rattle snakes are killed by the dogs, a... - Spiro Agnew (8986 bytes)
42: ... [[Vice President of the United States]], serving from [[1969]] to [[1973]] under President [[Richard ...
45: ...own in the local Greek community. His mother was from [[Virginia]].
47: ...He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in France and Germany.
51: Upon his return from the war, Agnew tranferred to the evening progra...
57: ...ounty Executive [[Christian H. Kahl]] dropped him from the Zoning Board. Agnew loudly protested and d... - List of U.S. states' largest cities (4566 bytes)
7: ...a]] || [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]]
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