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- Spinning mule (12067 bytes)
2: ...In 1890, a typical cotton mill would have over 60 mules, each with 1320 spindles.
6: * pressure to compete with cotton [[calico]]s from India.
9: Two systems were developed from the spinning wheel: the [[Spinning wheel|Simple...
11: ...perceived threat to their livelihood: there were frame-breaking riots and, in 1811-3, the [[Luddism]]...
13: ...finer and stronger yarn. The [[ring spinning|ring frame]], originating in New England in the 1820s was...
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- Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...[1891]]–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and a...
5: ...d [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
9: ...ica of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's G...
22: ...dvocate [[William Bradford Huie]]. Her detachment from the wider [[American Civil Rights Movement (189...
29: *''[[Mules and Men]]'' ([[1935]]) - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...y in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
19: ...ted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Ni...
33: ...anizing patient care. Although she met resistance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly im...
35: ...making the inspections, she then transferred to a mule cart, and was reported to have escaped serious in...
45: ...r030502 CBC story: 'Florence Nightingale suffered from bipolar disorder'] - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...rested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he'd failed to return ...
19: ... most prevalent story is that it was through his friend Clarence Clay. Clarence's sister, Bonnie's si...
23: ...ts]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake."
25: ...s, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamilton]] and others. He r...
27: ...ecause the gang was finally reduced to stealing [[mule]]s for transportation in the Texas farm country. ... - Alto saxophone (1789 bytes)
2: ...e fourth in size of the sax family which consists from smallest to largest of [[sopranissimo saxophone...
4: ...notes (the altissimo register), however, are less-frequently mastered.
8: ...harlie Parker]], Phil Woods, Art Pepper, [[Marcel Mule]], [[Lee Konitz]], [[Julian Cannonball Adderley|"...
10: ...iter. New alto saxophones range greatly in price from hundreds of dollars to several thousands. - Zebra (3444 bytes)
17: ...s, acting as a means to distinguish an individual from all of the others in slight variations of the s...
22: ... distributed across much of southern and eastern Africa. It, or particular subspecies of it, have also...
25: ...[Mountain Zebra]] (''Equus zebra'') of southwest Africa tends to have a sleek coat with a white belly ...
29: ...and a long, narrow head making it appear rather [[mule]]-like. It is a creature of the semi-arid [[grass...
34: ** [[Donkey]] or African Ass, ''Equus asinus'' - List of U.S. state mammals (3603 bytes)
48: | [[Missouri]] || [[Missouri mule]] || || || [[Missouri fox trotting horse]]
82: ...l)<BR />[[Texas longhorn]] (large)<BR />[[Mexican free-tailed bat]] (flying) || || || - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]] - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
8: ... the spindle end to the wheel end on a horizontal frame, and the operator could roll it back and forth...
16: ...ing jenny with [[Richard Arkwright]]'s [[spinning frame]] and again dramatically increasing yarn produ... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Desert (21206 bytes)
18: ...ey should be designated as specifically different from the simple definition of a desert: a place whe...
20: ...s an [[ice cap]] if the temperature remains below freezing year-round, rendering the land almost compl...
22: ... other areas are arid by virtue of being very far from the nearest available sources of moisture (this...
28: ...orld's largest desert, the [[Sahara]] of [[North Africa]], which has experienced temperatures as high ...
32: ... These deserts are in interior [[watershed]]s far from oceans and have a wide range of annual temperat... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
21: ...inian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]].
27: ...n the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
29: ...the Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south.
51: ...ror of the Romans) which was now reserved for the Frankish monarch, but as "Imperator Graecorum" (Empe...
61: ...re, particularily in the [[acritic songs]], where frontiersmen (ακρίτε&#... - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: During that time, the area has gone from a [[Spain|Spanish]] outpost of interest primari...
13: ...S)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the...
25: ====Francisco de Ulloa====
26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]]
28: ...ved by the renewal of those stories, Cortés sent Francisco de Ulloa out with three small vessels. He ... - Deer (6737 bytes)
14: ...Cervidae'''. A number of broadly similar animals, from related families within the [[order (biology)|o...
18: ...duced into [[New Zealand]] in early 1900s (a gift from United States President [[Theodore Roosevelt]])...
20: Deer differ from other ruminants in that they have [[antler]]s i...
26: ...hoots, young leaves, fresh grasses, soft twigs, [[fruit]], [[fungi]], and [[lichen]]s.
32: ...eer, and how they can be hunted with Dogs," taken from "Livre du Roy Modus," created in the [[14th Cen... - Horse (38916 bytes)
19: ...[[Evolution of the Horse|evolution of the horse]] from the very early (around 55 million years ago) ''...
21: ...less than 180 degrees to each side, overlapped in front and leaving a blind spot in the rear). Even do...
23: ... harem of his own, having separated female equids from another stallion's band.
28: ...ence for the [[domestication of the horse]] comes from [[Central Asia]] and dates to about [[30th cent...
40: ...sive selective breeding that took place in Europe from the middle ages onwards, giving us a picture of... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
1: {{MLB Athletics franchise}}
5: ...ed:''' [[1893]], as the [[Indianapolis, Indiana]] franchise in the minor [[Western League]]. Moved to...
15: == Franchise history ==
18: The Athletic franchise was formed in [[1901 in sports|1901]], one...
20: The new league recruited many of its players from the existing National League, persuading them t... - African American (19830 bytes)
1: ...t Africa|West]] and [[sub-Saharan Africa]]. Many African Americans also have [[Europe]]an and/or [[Nat...
6: ...e [[whites]], [[Asian|Asians]] or [[Semites]] of African origin.
10: ... metropolitan areas in 2000. With over 2 million African American residents, [[New York City]] had the...
12: ==African-American history==
13: ''Main article: [[African-American history]]'' - Yellowstone National Park (23738 bytes)
25: ...own Bear|grizzly bears]] and [[wolf|wolves]], and free-ranging herds of [[American Bison|bison]] and [...
29: ...ng previous [[ice age]]s and by [[river]] erosion from the [[Yellowstone River]].
32: ...ople incorrectly believe that the yellow color is from [[sulfur]]).
39: Mountain man [[Jim Bridger]] later returned from an 1857 expedition to the park's area and told ...
44: ...ed States|U.S. Congress]] to withdraw this region from public auction. Then on [[March 1]], [[1872]] P... - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
3: ...ndustrial [[compound (chemistry)|compound]]. [[20-Mule Teams]] were famously used to transport this ore ...
6: ... and low points in Death Valley National Park.png|frame|A slice through the highest and lowest points ...
8: [[Image:Wpdms shdrlfi020l death valley.jpg|frame|left|Death Valley and environs]]
36: ...ns front as a result. This type of canyon results from the relatively fast uplift on this mountain ran...
38: ...le rainfall). Annual average precipitation varies from 1.90 inches (48 mm) overall below sea level to ... - Puma (9263 bytes)
15: ...nt''', and '''painted cat'''. The word puma comes from the [[Quechua language]]. In the [[United State...
23: ...g 110 [[Degree (angle)|degree]]s of [[latitude]], from the southern [[Yukon]] Territory (in [[Canada]]...
37: ...run as fast as 30 mph (50 km/h), jump 20 ft (6 m) from a standing position, vertically leap 8 ft (2.5 ...
42: ...²) on average; however their ranges can vary from as much as 370 mile² (1,000 km²) to a...
49: ...the traditional prey of the puma, the [[Mule Deer|mule deer]], to [[habituation|habituate]] to urban are... - Culture of Spain (17671 bytes)
12: ...ommunity inside the two Castilles; the two north African autonomous cities of [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]...
41: ...the summer to an outdoor ''terrasa'' much farther from the center of town than their indoor winter loc...
44: ...specially since the [[1975]] death of [[Francisco Franco]], Spain has become increasingly European; Pr...
46: Franco's death ended a decades-long regime of censor...
55: ...m of the day in Spain remains relatively distinct from the European norm. Many shops and some museums ...
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