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- Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ...s, which are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of...
8: ...rtant that smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iro...
11:
17: ...n this case, expansion occurs. Internal stresses from this expansion generally take the form of [[com... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...ngland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Somet...
9: ...th impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fa...
11: ...the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...as addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wive...
18: ...th Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appointed to Elizabeth... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ...
38: ...he [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]], known as the [[Spanish Civil... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[African American]] [[gospel music|gospel]] [[singer]]...
3: ...er mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down he...
5: .... Kennedy]]. She also sang at the funeral of her friend, [[Martin Luther King, Jr]]. The late [[1960... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
1: [[Image:Baritonesax.jpg|right|frame|Saxophones of different sizes play in differen...
7: ...legated to military bands--this despite his great friendship with the influential Parisian composer [[...
16: ...instrument to learn, especially when transferring from other woodwind instruments, though a great amou...
20: ... number of saxophones being commercially produced from materials other than brass. Silver, copper and ...
28: ...3, for example. Some players make their own reeds from 'blanks', but as this is time-consuming and usu... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
29: ...d grassy plains and temporary lakes that resulted from seasonal rains. The people who settled there mu...
31: ...xture of [[Europe]]an, [[Middle East]]ern, and [[Africa]]n''").
48: ...retation of the process. Poorly embalmed bodies (from the Late Period) are often black and very britt...
50: ...erent way to treat your Pharaoh. The answer came from the [[Nile]].
54: ...es. They became so good at this that one example from the [[Fifth dynasty of Egypt|5th Dynasty]] of a... - 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]] - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...rded history aspects of this desire have surfaced from time to time. The most well known is the legen...
15: ...d and it was constructed in the late 20th century from materials that would have been available to da ...
17: ...est. Yet there are sufficient proofs and examples from nature that such flights can take place without...
19: ...n [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois d'Arlandes]] went 5 miles (8 km) in a [[hot...
21: ...[1852]]. Henri Giffard flew 15 miles (24 km) in [[France]], with a steam engine mounted on a dirigible... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
53: *[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau|Jacques Cousteau]], [[France]] — [[Aqua-Lung|aqualung]]
56: ...illiam Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas...
88: *[[William Friese-Greene]], (1855-1921) — [[cinematograph... - Anaconda (3939 bytes)
28: ...urinus'' (formerly called ''Boa murina'') differs from Boa by the snout being covered with shields ins...
38: ...ted the snake measured some 18.9 meters (62 feet) from snout to tail.
40: ...mits regarding the maximum size of snakes when confronted with specimens that defied the generally-acc... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...erical]] or [[logic]]al terms. Computers are made from [[digital circuit|components]] that perform sim...
24: ...logue]], [[digital]] and [[electronic]]. However, from the context of the citation, it is obvious thes...
39: *[[Mainframe|Mainframe computer]]
51: ...uter development means new uses for computers are frequently found and current definitions quickly bec...
54: ... purely [[electronic]] computers were constructed from [[thermionic valve]]s (tubes). In the [[1950s]]... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
1: [[Image:AlfredNobel.jpg|thumb|200px|Alfred Nobel]]
3: '''Alfred Bernhard Nobel''' ([[October 21]], [[1833]], [[...
5: ...borg]], and a disastrous one in [[1864]] killed Alfred's younger brother [[Emil Nobel|Emil]] and sever...
7: Less well-known is the fact that Alfred Nobel was also a playwright. His only play (''[...
9: Alfred Nobel is interred in the [[Norra begravningspla... - Drama (12658 bytes)
1: ... examples include the plays of [[Seneca]], ''[[Manfred]]'' by [[George Gordon Byron]], and ''[[Prometh...
3: Drama is a [[Greek]] word meaning `action', drawn from the Greek verb dran, `to do'. Greek tragedians...
13: ...articipants to not only learn facts as they would from a book or in a classroom, but to enter the worl...
17: ...o schools as an alternative to just reading facts from a book.
21: ...he origins of Athenian tragedy and comedy are far from clear. We must understand that drama began for ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fré¤İric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - The Star-Spangled Banner (15265 bytes)
3: ...ledBanner2.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Percy Moran drew Francis Scott Key reaching out towards the flag in [...
4: ...d [[sheet music]]. Copies such as these were sold from a catalog of Thomas Carr's Carr Music Store in ...
6: ...s]]. The [[lyrics]] were written in [[1814]] by [[Francis Scott Key]], a 35-year-old [[lawyer]] and am...
9: ...ater Upper Marlboro, Maryland|Upper Marlboro]], a friend of Key's who had been captured in [[Washingto...
15: ... popular [[England|English]] drinking song dating from around [[1800]], written by [[John Stafford Smi... - Pug (5400 bytes)
65: ...e. [http://www.pugs.org/health/PDEslideshow_files/frame.htm].
66: ...igns. [http://www.petplace.com/articles/artPrinterFriendly.asp?conID=22694].
74: *Percy from [[Pocahontas (1995 movie)]]
75: *Algy from [[Rubert the Bear]]
79: A Pug named Frank appeared in the popular movies ''[[Men in Blac... - Tobacco (28162 bytes)
14: ... whose roots are unclear; it is thought to derive from the [[Native American]] word "tabago," for a Y-...
16: ...f of a cigar or three cigarettes; however, only a fraction of the nicotine contained in these products...
26: ...e Americans]], and also soon led to the use of [[African slaves]] for cheap labor.
28: ... the colony's first black slaves as well as women from England in [[1619]].
39: ...ed with branches to protect the young plants from frost damage. These plants were left to grow until a... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...[Iran]]. The Elamite period is considered to last from ca. [[2700 BC]] to [[539 BC]], with a preceding...
10: ...cial name [[Khuzestan|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which mea...
19: ...C]]. But we can only really trace Elamite history from records dating to beginning of the [[Akkadian E...
57: ...anced with federalism must have suffered, and the fraternal, sectional strife that so weakened Elam in...
60: ...ng the sack of Susa in 647 BCE. Here, flames rise from the city as Assyrian soldiers topple it with pi... - History of Ancient Egypt (27975 bytes)
29: ...d grassy plains and temporary lakes that resulted from seasonal rains. The people who settled there mu...
31: ...xture of [[Europe]]an, [[Middle East]]ern, and [[Africa]]n''").
48: ...retation of the process. Poorly embalmed bodies (from the Late Period) are often black and very britt...
50: ...erent way to treat your Pharaoh. The answer came from the [[Nile]].
54: ...es. They became so good at this that one example from the [[Fifth dynasty of Egypt|5th Dynasty]] of a... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calenda...
4: ..., [[July 14]], [[1789]], an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the ...
6: ...urope embraced enlightenment ideals, but with the French revolution, they were on the side of the coun...
8: ...became a major power worldwide with the defeat of France in the Americas in the 1760s and the conquest...
21: ...]]-[[1715]]: [[Camisard|Camisard Rebellion]] in [[France]].
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