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- History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
2: ...ion of particular countries see [[History of rail transport by country]].
6: ...y remained the only practical overland mechanized transport for well over 100 years.
9: ...to mines, they were in use in Britain for surface transport by the early 1600s. By the early [[1700s]], the w...
16: ...ing the time required for personal travel and for transport of goods. Evans specified that there should be se...
26: ===Electric Railways revolutionalize urban transport === - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
1: {{transport}}
3: '''Rail transport''' refers to the land [[transport]] of passengers and goods along '''railways''' or...
8: ...is more comfortable than most other forms of land transport and saves energy.
9: ...y greater loads per [[axle]]/wheel than in [[road transport]].
11: ...le tracked rail line can carry more passengers or freight in a given amount of time than a four-laned ...
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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: ...], Rio de Janeiro became much more useful port to transport out the wealth than farther [[Salvador da Bahia|S...
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. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - 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... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
4: ... of the women's rights movement and was, with her friend [[Lucretia Mott]], the primary organizer of t...
6: ...t of three volumes of the ''[[History of Woman Suffrage]]'', an anthology of writings about the moveme...
12: ...e found, at least in part, in the elevation and enfranchisement of women. She was also a strong criti...
16: ...th C. Stanton (AP-69)]], a [[World War II]] troop transport, was named for her. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
7: ...nied him to Washington and was hired by the [[Air Transport Command]]'s ferrying division. She then convince... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: Having graduated with a BA Economics from the [[University of Sheffield]], Johnson went t...
6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first Briti...
8: ...n in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia. She left [[Croydon]] on [...
10: ... [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] ...
12: ...he flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regai... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...nt) and Ira Pittman, a poor mill worker who moved from town to town in search of work. As a child, Bes...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled...
10: ..., and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made up ...
12: ... taking them to England where they joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Following America's entry into the War...
16: ... is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique Internationale]].... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
16: ... language|Greek]] ''orchis'', meaning 'testicle', from the appearance of subterranean tuberoids in som...
23: ...restrial]] [[plant]]s, retrieving their nutrients from the soil. This group includes all [[Europe]]an ...
40: ...ctive mottle of the leaves of [[Lady's Slipper]]s from temperate zones (''[[Paphiopedilum]]'') is caus...
47: ..."one-footed") growth. The new shoots grow upwards from a single stem, originating in the end bud of th...
48: ...the rhizome may start its growth again, this time from an 'eye', or undeveloped bud, thereby causing t... - Apple (20408 bytes)
16: ...]], and is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Table apples are of the species ''M. domesti...
27: ...ples, picked in late autumn and stored just above freezing have been an important food in [[Asia]] and...
32: ... allow [[pesticide]]s to penetrate the top of the fruit), and popular flavor.
34: ...around the world to preserve such local heirlooms from extinction.
39: ...e]]s are typically too tart and astringent to eat fresh, but they give the beverage a rich flavor that... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...se they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...h the trains in one direction, and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train ...
11: ...en safer to locate the train's power systems away from passengers. This was particularly the case for ...
14: ...solescence cycles'' - separating the motive power from the payload-hauling cars means that either can ...
17: ... fuel, or they may take [[Power (physics)|power]] from an outside source. It is common to classify loc... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
10: #Transport of [[hormone]]s.
22: All circulatory systems frequently employ [[countercurrent exchange]] system...
25: ...nutrients, water and oxygen without the need of a transport system.
30: ...eries are [[blood vessel]]s that carry blood away from the heart. Veins are blood vessels that return...
35: ...se of [[carbon dioxide]] and the uptake of oxygen from the air. The now oxygenated blood returns to t... - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
4: The GI tract differs substantially from animal to animal. For instance, some animals h...
45: ... of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the [[mouth]] to the [[anus]] (see figure). Ins...
59: ...ese waves of narrowing push the food and fluid in front of them through each hollow organ.
67: ...the small intestine and dissolved into the juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, the content...
69: ...own as fiber, and older cells that have been shed from the mucosa. These materials are propelled into ... - Artery (6875 bytes)
1: ...are muscular tubes that carry [[blood]] flow away from the [[heart]] to the [[biological tissue|tissue...
3: ...nd elastic tissue. The outermost layer (furthest from the flow of blood) is known as the ''[[tunica a...
15: ... binding sites have bound oxygen. Blood returning from the lungs, via the 4 pulmonary veins, to the le...
17: ...ting hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen). Returning from the body to the right atrium, [[hemoglobin]] mo...
19: ...t [[systemic]] artery. It receives blood directly from the left ventricle of the heart via the aortic ... - Pulmonary alveolus (8193 bytes)
16: ...ant molecules exchanged, other gases will also be transported between the alveoli and blood in relation to th...
18: ...ce of the alveolar walls to gas diffusion. Thus, transport of carbon monoxide is 'diffusion limited'. Gases...
23: ... higher because carbon dioxide enters the alveoli from the pulmonary capillaries.
54: ..., a [[transmembrane]] protein responsible for the transport of chloride ions. This causes huge amounts of muc...
60: ...degree that the patient cannot draw enough oxygen from his environment, then he may need supplemental ... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
3: ..., the kidneys filter wastes (especially [[urea]]) from the [[blood]] and excrete them, along with [[wa...
13: ...idneys_from_behind.jpg|thumb|250px|Kidneys viewed from behind with spine removed]]
20: ... cotransport and [[countercurrent exchange|countertransport]] mechanisms. The final solution is then excreted...
22: ...corpuscle]]), and a [[renal tubule]] that extends from the renal corpuscle.
26: ...space called "Bowman's space", which is separated from blood in the glomerulus by three layers: - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
1: [[image:chromosome.png|frame|'''Figure 1:''' Chromosome. (1) <font color="#...
5: ...e [[centromere]], with one or two arms projecting from the centromere. The ends of the chromosomes are...
17: [[image:chromatin_chromosome.png|frame|none|'''Figure 2:''' Different levels of DNA c...
19: ... accessible genetic material and become a compact transport form. Eventually, the two matching [[chromatid]]s...
37: <td>[[Drosophila melanogaster|Fruit fly]]</td> - Cycling (1157 bytes)
1: ...s a [[recreation]], a [[sport]], and a means of [[transport]] across land. It involves riding [[bicycle]]s, [...
5: * [[Bicycle transportation engineering]]
29: * [[Offroad cycling]] - Textile (4228 bytes)
1: ... Materials such as [[fiberglass]], which are made from fibers dispersed in a [[matrix]] of another mat...
8: Textiles can be made from a variety of materials. The following is a part...
21: *[[Coir]]: the fibre from [[coconut]]s.
27: *[[Linen]], made from [[flax]]
33: ===Derived from plant products===
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