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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...tlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built...
17: ...lo'' (Castle Hill). Therefore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwa...
19: ...y French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jean-Fran篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Ni...
21: ...ed suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ... year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a. - Cairo (12536 bytes)
6: ...invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are e...
26: The current location of Cairo was too far from the ancient course of the Nile to support a cit...
28: ...t]], which lay close to an ancient Egyptian canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.
30: ...Abbasid]]s, and contains the first [[mosque]] in Africa.
32: ... settlement grew into a small city. The [[North Africa]]n [[Shiite]] [[Fatimid]] Dynasty conquered Eg... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
14: * The Roman era from [[80 BC]] until the arrival of the Arabs in [[6...
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (y...
16: * The modern city from [[1798]] (red).
21: ...ects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away.
23: ...ehind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile mouths. An Egyptia... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ... allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
178: *[[List of largest optical refracting telescopes]]
363: *[[Historical African place names]]
371: *[[List of toponyms]] (with names derived from a place or region)
398: *[[List of fruits]] - 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... - Train (10331 bytes)
7: ...ay come from a variety of sources, but most often from a [[locomotive]] or self-propelled [[multiple u...
19: Freight trains comprise wagons or trucks rather than...
21: ... [[United States]], it is quite common for a long freight train to be headed by three, four, or even f...
23: ...ns can also be mixed, hauling both passengers and freight, see e.g. [[Transportation in Mauritania]]. ...
31: ...almost all were powered by [[steam locomotive]]s. From the [[1920s]] onwards they began to be replaced... - Prague (7962 bytes)
14: ...roximately 1.2 million people. (It can be derived from jobs statistics, however, that an additional 30...
26: Prague suffered from serious [[2002 European flood|flooding in Augus...
30: ... pristine and varied collections of architecture, from [[Art Nouveau]] to [[Baroque]], [[Renaissance]]...
35: * Various places connected to [[Franz Kafka]]
47: * [[Zizkov cemetery]], location of Franz Kafka's grave - 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]] - Amusement park (17293 bytes)
9: ...r a remarkable example of a European park, dating from [[1843]] and still existing, see [[Tivoli Garde...
16: ...g the peak of the "golden age" of amusement parks from roughly the turn of the 20th century through th...
18: ...nging patterns in how people chose to spend their free time. Many of the older, traditional amusement ...
40: ...ting of the Red Sea" in [[1973]], a look at props from the movie ''[[Jaws (movie)|Jaws]]'' in [[1975]]...
42: ...s become larger than ever before, with everything from large, worldwide type theme parks such as Disne... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
8: ...le, a typical rail car can hold up to 125 tons of freight with this and the weight of the car on two f...
9: ...0-70% less energy to transport a given tonnage of freight (or given number of passengers), than does [...
11: ...le tracked rail line can carry more passengers or freight in a given amount of time than a four-laned ...
15: ...save money (see [[Beeching Axe]]). Conversely, US freight railways have consolidated and become more e...
22: ... system on which to run. This system includes [[infrastructure]] such as tracks, [[railroad switch]]es... - Antalya (20816 bytes)
7: ...mpos]], [[Adrasan]] and [[Kekova]] can be reached from the sea by Blue voyagers.
16: Records from the [[Hittite]] period (when the first recorded...
22: ...had entered the sovereignty of [[Lydia]]n Kingdom from 7th century BC. The reign of the kingdom of Lyd...
24: ...talya had reached beyond the city walls. Starting from 7th century, the Muslim Arabs had started to be...
31: ...y a wall and the gates of the walls are closed on Friday nights. The Greeks live in a different neighb... - Wheelchair (2999 bytes)
10: ...22 -24 inches) and two small 8 inch wheels in the front. - Fencing (20753 bytes)
7: ...ased to be an article of everyday dress after the French Revolution, they continued to be used in warf...
9: ... of fencing from different countries, notably the French and Italian schools. This state of affairs en...
24: ...l, hence the name. The guard separates the handle from the blade and provides protection for the hand.
27: [[Image:foilfen.gif|frame|right|A foil fencer. Valid target (the torso)...
28: The modern [[Foil (sword)|foil]] is descended from the training weapon for the [[small-sword]], th... - Oslo (11319 bytes)
33: ...ological research has uncovered Christian burials from before [[1000]], evidence of a preceding urban ...
41: ...es to be a source of considerable controversy and friction. Numerous attempts at decentralization has ...
43: ...veral successive bursts of construction both in infrastructure and building mass, as the authorities k...
45: ...port for not developing it. Parts of Oslo suffer from congestion, but it is the only European capital...
48: ...by [[Knut Hamsun]] in his novel ''Sult'' (Hunger) from [[1890]] (cinematized in 1966 by Henning Carlse... - Yoga (18820 bytes)
7: The word Yoga originates from the [[Sanskrit]] word "Yuj" ("to yoke") and is ...
38: ...as the Supreme Lord, to [[Arjuna]], a warrior and friend who is loathe to go to battle that would invo...
65: ...tricate geometric figures) and rituals that range from simple murti (statue representations of deities...
68: ...des the shisya (student) through yogic discipline from the beginning. When doing yoga, the student is ...
76: [[Swami Rama Tirtha]], who came from a deep yoga tradition in the Himalayas of India...
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