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- Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...l-health. It is now thought she may have suffered from [[Addison's disease]], the cause of which was t...
12: ...ents in the life of the middle and upper classes, from which her subjects are generally taken. Her cha...
14: ...h she began and completed her novels is different from that of their publication. They are:
33: *Love and Freindship [sic] - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
1: ...h century]], in search of a home where they could freely practice their [[Puritan]] style of religion ...
3: The various members of the group had broken away from the [[Church of England]], feeling that the Chu...
5: ...n [[1620]] set sail on the ship ''[[Mayflower]]'' from [[Plymouth]], bound for the [[United States|Ame...
10: ...[1588]] but this was not the only nor last threat from that quarter (there were other armadas in other...
12: ...[Virginia]] granted by one of the Brewster family friends in the [[London Company]]. This grant would ... - Mayflower (4074 bytes)
2: ...[ship]] which transported the [[Pilgrim Fathers]] from [[Plymouth]], [[England]] to "[[Virginia|North ...
6: ...and]] and other European countries, principally [[France]] but also [[Norway]], [[Germany]] and [[Spai...
8: ...f the ship are unknown, but it has been estimated from its load weight and the usual size of 180-ton m...
11: ...l]]''). The first voyage of the ships departed [[Southampton]], [[England]] on [[August 5]] [[1620]], but the ...
17: ... [[April 5]], [[1621]] the ''Mayflower'' set sail from [[Plymouth Colony]] in [[Massachusetts]] on a r... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ... for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ... time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even thoug...
37: ...ime that is not offset by a number of whole hours from Greenwich Mean Time. - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ...tablishing the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the A...
9: ...ons for the future admittance of slave states and free states.
19: + [[Nat Turner]] leads a [[slave revolt]] in [[Southampton County, Virginia]]. <br>
45: |[[Frederick Douglas]] publishes his autobiography.
51: ...he [[Wilmot Proviso]] helps to consolidate the "[[free soil]]" forces. - Nairobi (2690 bytes)
2: ...ulation of around 3 million. Nairobi's name comes from the [[Maasai]] ''Enkarenairobi'', meaning "cool...
4: ...ive language while Kiswahili remains the [[lingua franca]].
6: ...apital of the [[British East Africa|British East African Protectorate]] in [[1907]] and the capital of...
10: ...dom|British]] passenger and [[mail]] route from [[Southampton]] to [[Cape Town]]. This route was served by [[fl...
18: ==Pictures of Africa== - Oceanography (3841 bytes)
1: '''Oceanography''' (from [[Ocean]] + [[Greek language|Greek]] ''γ&...
13: ...ritain, a major new research institution is the [[Southampton Oceanography Centre]]. - Airline (29546 bytes)
1: ...humb|right|250px|Photography of Air Kenya, Kenya Africa. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart....
7: The scale and scope of airline companies ranges from those with a single airplane carrying mail or c...
11: ...mpanies. This occurs as regulators permit greater freedom, in steps that are usually decades apart. Th...
15: ...ion provided more competition and greater pricing freedom resulted in lower fares and sometimes dramat...
19: ... airlines form new business combinations, ranging from loose, limited bilateral partnerships to long-t... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ...|right|thumb|240px|Left: original [[paddlewheel]] from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. Right:...
19: ...France]], by [[1774]] the Marquis [[Claude de Jouffroy]] and colleagues had made a working steamboat t...
21: ...River]], but then patent disputes dissuaded Fitch from continuing.
23: ...hile, [[Patrick Miller of Dalswinton]], near [[Dumfries]], [[Scotland]], had developed double-hulled b...
25: ...777]] at the age of 12, visited [[Britain]] and [[France]] where he built and tested an experimental s... - New York (25691 bytes)
36: ...ork State''' when there is need to distinguish it from [[New York City]].
47: ...nate has long been controlled by the Republicans. From 1984 until 2005, no budget had been passed on t...
71: New York State's borders touch (clockwise from the northwest) two [[Great Lakes]] ([[Lake Erie...
77: ... urbanized area and ever more sophisticated links from one specialty to another. Several other groups ...
79: ...Ontario is a popular attraction; the best view is from the Canadian side. The [[Hudson River]] flows s... - Tim Berners-Lee (7363 bytes)
1: [[Image:Berners-Lee.jpg|frame|right|Sir Tim Berners-Lee]]
6: ...hacking with a friend and was subsequently banned from using the university computer.
12: ...updating information among researchers. With help from [[Robert Cailliau]] he built a prototype system...
18: ... later maintained a list of other web sites apart from his own.
24: ...ch shows Berners-Lee's first goal to maintain the freedom of the Web.
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