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1. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
   1: ...f more production machines for manufacturing in other industries.
   3: ...growth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power ...
   5: ... often compared to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up it...
   7: ... [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in the second half of the [[19th century]].
   10: ... But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine.
2. Steel (28384 bytes)
   1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
   3: ....1 percent [[carbon]]; ironically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iro...
   5: ...sses of steels in which carbon is replaced with other alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is u...
   8: ...ast 6000 years (since the [[Bronze Age]]). Since the oxidation rate itself increases rapidly beyond 80...
   10: ...ngVolt Iron Ore Pellets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel p...
3. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
   17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
   19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
   34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
   38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
   41: ...son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
4. Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
   1: ...who flew the [[Soyuz T-7]] in [[1982]], becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after [[Valen...
   3: ...vehicular activity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes.
5. Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
   1: ...appointed professor at [[Stockholm University]], the third woman in [[Europe]] to become a professor.
   3: ...racy, a Hungarian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Matthias...
   5: ...ation and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
   7: ...fying" the enormous effort that was put into the theory).
   9: ...lder sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her.
6. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
   3: ...ory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
   5: ...final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path".
   7: ...group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
   9: ...a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]'...
   11: ...diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
7. Actinium (7046 bytes)
   1: ...-- Here is a table of data; skip past it to edit the text. -->
   20: | [[Chemical series]] || [[Actinide]]s
   56: ...[[Kelvin|K]] (1050 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1922 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
   63: | [[Heat of vaporization]] || n/a [[kilojoule per mole|k...
   65: | [[Heat of fusion]] || 62 kJ/mol
8. Jewellery (4234 bytes)
   5: ...[[13th century]]. Further tracing leads back to the Latin word "jocale", meaning plaything.
   7: ...[[crucifix]] in the form of jewellery, or, as is the case in many Western cultures, [[marriage|married...
   14: ...om the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to the [[Renaissance]].
   22: * 3000 BC - [[The Middle East]] employ semi-[[mass-production]]
   23: * [[2000 BC]] - First signs of the ''swagging'' technique
9. Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
   2: ...reece]]), and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]],...
   4: ...were so different from later Greek cultures that they should be classed separately.
   6: ...period is classed [[History of Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic]].
   8: ... running until the advent of [[Christianity]] in the [[third century]] AD.
   10: ...century|18th]] and [[19th century]] Europe and [[The Americas]].
10. Montana (14119 bytes)
    11: Capital = [[Helena, Montana|Helena]] |
    32: HighestElev = 3,901 |
    38: ...anching]]-based, with some agricultural crops ([[wheat]], [[barley]], [[sugar beet]]s) and a significa...
    40: ...chweitzer]]), Democratic-controlled legislature (the [[Montana State Legislature]]), and one Democrati...
    42: ... Montana|USS ''Montana'']] was named in honor of the state.
11. New Mexico (31079 bytes)
    31: HighestElev = Wheeler Peak, 13,161 ft, 4,014 |
    38: ...[[Spain|European]] [[Spanish language|Spanish]], the state's name would be spelled ''Nuevo M骩co''.
    44: ...00s]], constructing small towns in the valley of the [[Rio Grande]] and pueblos nearby.
    46: ...lley led to long-standing hostility that impeded the Spanish conquest of New Mexico.
    50: ... governor of the new [[Province of New Mexico]]. The Native Americans at [[Acoma, New Mexico|Acoma]] r...
12. Silk Road (23757 bytes)
    1: ...man]] geographer [[Ferdinand von Richthofen]] in the [[19th century]].
    3: ...atolia into the [[Mediterranean Sea]] or through the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Africa]].
    5: ...overed the whole distance between [[Europe]], or the [[Middle East]], and [[China]], by land.
    7: ...on the Silk Road was completed in [[1992]], when the international railway communication [[Almaty]] - ...
    11: ... [[horse]]s around [[4000 BC]]. Domestication of the [[Bactrian camel]] followed later.
13. Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
    1: ...ef]], which commemorates [[Trajan]]'s victory in the [[Trajan's Dacian Wars|Dacian Wars]]. Its design ...
    3: ...lumn weighs 53.3 tons which had to be lifted to a height of ca. 34 m.
    5: ...ared in the [[Middle Ages]]. On December 4 1587, the top was crowned by [[Pope Sixtus V]] with a bronz...
    9: ...e first (101-102), and the top half illustrating the second (105-106).
    11: ... a variety of different perspectives are used in the same scene, so that more can be revealed (e.g. a ...
14. Medieval music (31843 bytes)
    3: ...naissance]] is admittedly arbitrary, 1450 is used here.
    7: ...oward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration.
    9: ...system is weak, and rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natura...
    11: ...mental accompaniment has developed by the end of the era.
    14: ...y]], is currently subject to conjecture (see [[authentic performance]]).
15. Pope Lucius I (1549 bytes)
    3: ...decessor [[Pope Cornelius]], and he also was banished soon after his consecration, but succeeded in ga...
    6: ...his predecessor [[Pope Cornelius]] in preferring the milder view on allowing restoration of lapsed pen...
    8: Tradition claims that he was martyred in the persecution of [[Valerian (emperor)|Valerian]], b...
    10: ...d]]. It is among the few relics to have survived the [[Reformation]] in Denmark.
    12: He is commemorated on [[March 4]].
16. Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
    1: ... former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle Intern...
    42: ... inspired a new constitution¹ and was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] from [[1...
    45: ...r's side was a family of rich entrepreneurs from the industrial region of Lille in [[French Flanders]]...
    47: ...reyfus affair]] the family distanced itself from the more conservative natonalist circles and supporte...
    50: ...eld. Alive, he was taken prisoner by the Germans. He made five unsuccessful escape attempts, and was p...
17. Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
    2: ...owntown.jpg|thumb|right|475px|Phoenix Uptown (northern skyline) in 2004, looking north ]]
    4: ...City|city]] and largest [[metropolitan area]] in the state of [[Arizona]], [[United States]]. Phoenix...
    5: ... a [[2004]] US Census estimation, Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Pe...
    6: * the 14th largest metropolitan area of the United States, with a population of 3,251,876 (20...
    7: ...e largest capital city by area and population in the U.S. (including [[Washington, DC]])
18. Russia (28007 bytes)
    2: ...d in population, following [[China]], [[India]], the [[United States]], [[Indonesia]], [[Brazil]], [[P...
    4: ...991]]. In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (...
    6: ...luence is notable, but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
    13: ...s the [[Merya]], the [[Muromian]]s and the [[Meshchera]].
    15: ... centuries]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperous, due t...
19. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    1: ...opher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabeticall...
    13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
    21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
    25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
20. Toltec (2981 bytes)
    1: ...Their language, [[Nahuatl]], was also spoken by the [[Aztec]]s.
    3: ...ecially evident at the city of [[Chichen Itza]]. Their pottery has been found as far south as [[Costa ...
    5: ...f mass [[human sacrifice]] as later practiced by the Aztecs.
    7: ...tecs claimed to descend from Toltec ancestry via the sacred city of [[Colhuacᮝ].
    9: ...ater when it was burned by [[HernᮠCort鳝] and the Spanish [[conquistador]]es.

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