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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - 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... - Bone (11388 bytes)
27: Osteocytes originate from osteoblasts which have migrated into and become...
29: ...d'' surfaces. Because the osteoclasts are derived from a [[monocyte stem-cell lineage]], they are equi...
40: ... in long bones, such as limbs; the bone is formed from [[cartilage]].
46: ...of calcium and the repair of micro-damaged bones (from everyday stress). Repeated stress results in th...
54: Cut and polished bone from a variety of animals is sometimes used as mater... - Nerve (2497 bytes)
2: ...ferent]]''' nerves conduct stimulatory signals ''from'' the brain to the [[muscle]]s and [[gland]]s. ...
5: The signals cross over from the terminus to the adjacent neuron through a g...
8: ...her hand, sensory nerves (afferent) receive input from sensory organs. Nerves can also be ''mixed'', ...
10: ...to the [[central nervous system]] directly to and from the [[brain]].
13: ... when a nerve is damaged, signalling is defective from all parts of the area which the nerve receives ... - Cor anglais (2674 bytes)
3: ...ntive tone than the oboe. Its appearance differs from the oboe in that the reed is attached to a slig...
7: ... Players also risk tendinitis or carpal tunnel's from supporting the instrument's weight over for lon...
9: ...ure damage to their instrument by swabbing it out frequently.
15: ...e, the naming of the [[French horn]], which is as French as the ''cor anglais'' is English.
22: The instrument is also heard more frequently in film scores over the oboe, most likely... - Glaciology (3787 bytes)
5: ...ed from the [[Latin]] ''glacies'', meaning ice or frost.
9: ...untains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in [[continental gl...
23: ...s of ice through ablation exceeds the annual gain from [[Precipitation (meteorology)|precipitation]].
29: ; [[Fracture]] : Brittle failure (breaking of ice) under...
33: ...on of ice and rock below an ice sheet margin. The tunnel valley is what remains of it in the underlying ro... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
56: ...ontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The UK also has [[British overseas territory|o...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: The [[British Isles]] is a term frequently used to refer to the [[archipelago]] whic...
71: ...nce]] of [[Ulster]], immediately opted out of the Free State and to remain in the UK. The nomenclature... - Alaska (24727 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun |
14: Governor = [[Frank Murkowski]] |
40: ...ackground:#efefef; text-align:center;"|''The Last Frontier''
66: ...|2000]]. The name "Alaska" is most likely derived from the [[Aleut]] word for "great country" or "main...
71: ...Americas|the first Europeans to reach Alaska came from Russia]]. [[Vitus Bering]] sailed east and saw ... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
38: ...ate state in [[1792]] while the latter broke away from Virginia during the [[American Civil War]].
40: ...aylor]] round out the list of American Presidents from the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Historical footn...
46: ...America]], eventually applying to the whole coast from [[South Carolina]] to [[Maine]]. The [[London ...
48: ...overnor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[V...
50: ...a is one of the states that [[secession|seceded]] from the Union to become the [[Confederate States of... - 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... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ... Vietnam]]<br><br>[[Viet Cong|National Liberation Front<br>(Viet Cong)]]<br><br />[[Image:Viet cong fl...
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationa...
37: ...y experts consider the Vietnam War to just be one frontline in the larger [[Cold War]].
41: ...for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]], a South Vietnamese opposition movement with...
43: ...ort to maintain control of her former colony of [[French Indochina]]. - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: During that time, the area has gone from a [[Spain|Spanish]] outpost of interest primari...
10: [[Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Vall...
13: ...S)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the...
25: ====Francisco de Ulloa====
26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]] - Badger (5174 bytes)
19: ...t may be identical with the term noted below, the French blaireau being used in both senses. Typical b...
27: ...at badgers could bring bad luck. This rhyme dates from about 200 years ago:
40: ...powerful digger, but some of its behaviors differ from those of its relatives.
42: ...or rearing young, the American Badger lives apart from others of its kind. It hunts, wanders and slee...
52: ...badger dogs) are used to locate the badger in the tunnel, after which the diggers attempt to dig down to t... - Bilby (4570 bytes)
18: ... insects and their larvae, seeds, spiders, bulbs, fruit, fungi and very small animals. Most food is fo...
20: ...d moves between them, using them for shelter both from predators and the heat of the day.
24: ... [[fox (ecology)|fox]] predation, and competition from [[rabbit (ecology)|rabbit]]s. The last confirme... - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
2: ...ich he used his hood to save workers trapped in a tunnel system filled with fumes.
7: ...an for a wealthy Cincinnati landowner. Like many African-Americans of his day, Morgan had to quit scho...
17: ...ties and sororities|fraternity]] established for African Americans.
20: ...ed the smoke masks. The invention won gold medals from the International Association of Fire Chiefs an...
23: ...utomobile. He is reported to have been the first African American to own an [[automobile]]. It was Mor... - 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... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
2: ...mage:Lightmatter sanfrancisco.jpg|thumb|293px|San Francisco skyline.]]
4: official_name = San Francisco, California |
8: image_map = California map showing San Francisco County.png |
9: ..._caption = Location of the City and County of San Francisco in California |
11: subdivision_name = [[San Francisco]] | - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
39: ...he ship was below the waterline to prevent damage from cannon fire. ''Monitor'''s hull was constructed...
43: ...mand of Lt. [[John L. Worden]], arrived under tow from Brooklyn. When ''Virginia'' returned the next ...
53: ...e last U.S. Navy monitor-class warship was struck from the Navy List in [[1937]].
57: ...nitor'' was well-suited for river combat, her low free board and heavy turret made her highly unseawor...
65: ...and Atmospheric Administration]]. Many artifacts from ''Monitor'', including her turret, propeller, a... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
12: ...and the formula for drag) was wrong, had a [[wind tunnel]] built by their employee, [[Charlie Taylor]], an...
17: ...arping in the first gliders, they had to keep the front and rear posts that hold up the glider unbrace...
19: ...ine. They experimented with gliders at Kitty Hawk from 1900 through [[1902]], each year constructing a...
25: ... flights were witnessed by 4 lifesavers and a boy from the village, making it arguably the first publi...
31: ...Huffman Prairie in Dayton, inviting the press and friends and neighbors. Here they completed the first...
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