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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... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...d unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eightee...
22: ...ork was set for the eventual heirs of Puritanism, from the "low-church" Protestant and [[evangelicalis...
26: ...Dissenters]]. [[English Dissenters]] were barred from any profession that required official religious...
28: ...nwealth period, the Church of England was removed from Royal control and reorganized to grant greater ...
32: ...nd formed individual colonies, their numbers rose from 17,800 in 1640 to 106,000 in 1700. [http://www.... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
20: ...ost recently during her [[2004]] state visit to [[France]] to commemorate the centenary of the [[Enten...
29: ...7]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast t...
33: ...t-great-grandmother. They are also both descended from [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (she being a great-...
38: ...] [[1996]]) [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Frances Spencer]] ([[1961]]–[[1997]]); married...
55: ...e's health declined during [[1951]] and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events. She vi... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...976]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[sailor]] from [[Whatstandwell]] near [[Matlock, England|Matlo...
6: ...ited Kingdom|UK]] and "Sailing's Young Hope" in [[France]].
14: ... attempt in [[2004]] to break the west–east transatlantic crossing time failed by around one and a quarter ...
16: ...eating the previous record set by French sailor [[Francis Joyon]] by 1 day, 8 hours, 35 minutes, 49 se...
18: ...-> conferred upon [[Sir Francis Drake]] and [[Sir Francis Chichester]] upon arrival home after their r... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
1: ...nter. In [[1965]], The Gambia became independent from the [[British Empire]]. [[Banjul]] is its capi...
37: | From the United Kingdom<br>[[February 18]], [[1965]]
57: ...]]. The first written accounts of the region come from records of Arab traders in the [[9th century|9t...
59: ...hants; this grant was confirmed by letters patent from [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. In [[1618]], [[King Jame...
61: ...e Great Britain possession of The Gambia, but the French retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on the nor... - Republic of the Congo (9324 bytes)
7: ...= Unit鬠Travail, Progres <br> ([[French language|French]]: Unity, Work, Progress) |
10: official_languages = [[French language|French]] |
35: established_dates = From [[France]] <br> [[15 August]], [[1960]] |
36: currency = [[CFA franc]] |
47: ...inea]]. Upon independence in [[1960]], the former French region of Middle Congo became the Republic of... - 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... - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
1: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1820]] to [[1859]]'''.
87: *[[1853]] - [[Franklin Pierce]] becomes President
103: *[[1858]] - [[Transatlantic cable]] laid - Scorpion (12441 bytes)
30: ...o more sets of lateral eyes on either side of the front of prosoma, the number varies between species....
36: ...purpose of killing prey. Generally, they will run from danger, or remain very still.
41: ... the scorpion's nerve ganglion). The myth derives from the fact that scorpions are [[ectotherms]], whe...
49: ... differences marking them off as a group distinct from their Carboniferous and recent descendants and ...
53: ...pacific bridge and with Africa by a more northern transatlantic tract of land. - 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... - Ionosphere (19365 bytes)
1: ...practical importance because it influences [[high-frequency]] (HF) (3–30[[MHz]]) [[radio propaga...
6: ...d to as the ionosphere. In a plasma, the negative free electrons and the positive ions are attracted t...
8: ...[[recombination]] begins to take place in which a free electron is "captured" by a positive ion if it ...
10: ...t. The local winter [[hemisphere]] is tipped away from the Sun, thus there is less received solar radi...
14: ... e profile.gif|right|thumb|350px|Electron density from solar ionization during the day and night durin... - Pre-Columbian (867 bytes)
8: * [[Pre-Columbian transatlantic contacts]] - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ...o Paris nonstop, he was not the first to make a [[Transatlantic flight]]. That had been done first by the crew o...
18: ...les Lindbergh flight to Brussels.ogg|title=Flight from Paris to Belgium |description= Lindbergh's flig...
26: ...12]] in [[Hopewell, New Jersey]] just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home, after a nation-wide ten w...
31: ...ed States|President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] openly questioned his loyalt...
36: ... Spirit of St. Louis]]'', recounting his non-stop transatlantic flight, won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1954. [[Dwi... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
6: .... He later attended [[Utrecht Technical School]], from which he was expelled for producing a caricatur...
8: ...e graduated with a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Zurich]].
12: ...rsity in New York City and had actually purchased transatlantic tickets, the outbreak of World War I changed his ...
16: .... He knew the cardboard covering prevented light from escaping, yet Röntgen observed that the invisi...
18: ...ng a match, he discovered the shimmering had come from the location of the barium platinocyanide scree... - Richard E. Byrd (4114 bytes)
5: ...C-4]] completed the trip; becoming the first ever transatlantic flight.
9: ...ve achieved the pole, however subsequent evidence from their diaries and mechanical analysis of their ...
15: ...ion to date. Byrd also commanded [[Operation Deep Freeze]], which established permanent Antarctic base... - Monarch butterfly (5180 bytes)
15: ... males have a spot in the center of each hindwing from which pheromones are released.
19: ...mystery. This is one of the few insects to manage transatlantic crossings. A few Monarchs turn up in the far sout...
38: ...rchives2_E.asp Incredible Journey Over Lake Erie] from [http://www.pc.gc.ca/ Parks Canada] - Samuel F. B. Morse (8859 bytes)
9: ... by painting portraits. In [[1810]], he graduated from Yale University. Morse later accompanied Allsto...
22: In September of the same year, [[Alfred Vail]], then student at [[New York University]]...
24: ... number code to a code for each letter. Whether Alfred Vail was the actual inventor of this simpler co...
26: ...ical telegraph to a scientific committee at the [[Franklin Institute]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
28: ...?" ([[Bible]], [[Book of Numbers|Numbers]] 23:23) from [[Washington, DC]] to [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. - Slavery (26455 bytes)
6: ...av</i>, which originally meant landless [[serfs]] from [[Eastern Europe]], including parts of [[Rome|t...
8: ...ll forms of slavery and similar labour systems. Unfree labour is now the preferred term of many schola...
10: ... accepted that payment of a [[wage]] signifies "[[free labour]]", with quite different disadvantages e...
16: In sweatshop labor cases, unfree labourers are often told that they are working ...
18: ...rous abuses are reported to the authorities which frequently turn a blind eye. In all countries, peop... - Potato (22889 bytes)
21: ...y than "patata". Interestingly, [[French language|French]]-speakers call the potato ''pomme de terre''...
24: ...sts believe that the potato plant originally came from the [[Andes]]. [[Pre-Columbian]] societies of t...
26: ...the potato to England, but history suggests Sir [[Francis Drake]] as a more likely candidate. In [[158...
28: ...the 18th century the potato had become popular in France, due to the advocacy of [[Parmentier | Antoin...
30: ...reland to [[Sir Walter Raleigh]], who did finance transatlantic expeditions, at least one of which made landfall ... - Monarch Butterflies (4460 bytes)
15: ... males have a spot in the center of each hindwing from which pheromones are released.
19: ...mystery. This is one of the few insects to manage transatlantic crossings. A few Monarchs turn up in the far sout...
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