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- Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...h are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of carbon...
8: ...gen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smel...
11: ... similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at ...
13: ...ery similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it require...
15: ...t metal in [[water]] or [[oil]], cooling it so rapidly that the transformation to ferrite or perlite d... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ... of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow Germans in the government and not a sing...
11: ... to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but the pride of the [[Bourbons]] revolted against any such al...
19: ... beauty to overthrow the existing government. The idea seems to have been first suggested to her by th...
23: At midnight on the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few ...
31: ... [[Frederick the Great]] and [[Louis XV]] to get rid of Bestuzhev, which made the Russian court during... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...um|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince of Leininge...
16: ...queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the R...
20: ... royal, princely, and ducal families, his family did not use theirs. Victoria asked her staff to dete...
27: ...it was growing unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonie...
33: ...ight|A likeness of Queen Victoria appears on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stam... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ...monastery]] on the Rupertsberg at Bingen on the [[Rhine]].
8: ...sitant about writing her visions, holding them inside. She was finally convinced to write by members o...
11: During all these years Hildegard confided of her visions only to Jutta and another monk, ...
17: ...e Eugenius]] (1145-53), a rather enlightened individual who exhorted Hildegard to finish her writings....
22: ...which she created many invented, conflated and abridged words, while the music itself is monophonic, d... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ... was originally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
3: ...sponds to [[German language|German]] ''Glas,'' [[Middle English|M.E.]] ''glas,'' [[Old English languag...
13: ...Common glass''' is mostly amorphous [[silicon dioxide]] ([[Silicon|Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), whic...
22: ...ed]] wavelengths in [[fibre optic]] cables. Individual fibers are given an equally transparent claddi...
26: ...tremely sharp knives since the [[stone age]]. Obsidian collection is prohibited by law in some places... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...en to the shape of a tool has led authors to see middle [[palaeolithic]] [[hand axe]]s and especially...
9: ...mum of human [[tool]]-work, but the piece bears evidence of having been painted; "a [[greasy]] substan...
15: ...e by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord and sticks with a growing sophistication. ...
32: ...klaces whilst the introduction of [[coinage]] provided a further opportunity for artistic expression. ...
34: ... [[chariot burial]] at [[Waldalgesheim]] in the [[Rhineland]] produced many fine examples of La T讥 art ... - Mountain (4538 bytes)
1: ...d steeper than a '''[[hill]]''', but there is considerable overlap, and usage often depends on local c...
7: ...e province of Western [[North America]] and the [[Rhine]] valley.
18: ...itable, and many unique species occur on mountainsides as a result. Extreme cases are known as [[sky i... - Europe (23835 bytes)
4: ...ost part of [[Eurasia]]. It is conventionally considered a [[continent]], which, in this case, is more...
6: When considered a continent, Europe is the world's second sma...
13: ...ob'' or ''erebu'' which means "sunset". From a [[Middle East]]ern viewpoint, the sun sets over Europe:...
18: ...ges]]" to [[Renaissance]] thinkers and as the "[[Middle Ages]]" to [[Enlightenment]] and modern histor...
20: ...to vast upheaval in Europe as these revolutionary ideas propagated across the continent. The rise of d... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
66: ...cording to Murray Sayle, the world's first bear raider -- Isaac le Maire, who forced prices down by du...
70: ...administrated by the Dutch government. Only then did they become official colonies (the [[Dutch East I...
72: ...a (people)|Roma]] (gypsies), gay and lesbian individuals, and people with mental retardation and other...
75: The name [[Holland]] is widely used as being equivalent to The Netherlands; i...
79: ...rs' War]] but only after the people had turned solidly [[Roman Catholic]] as a result of the [[Counter... - Germany (46412 bytes)
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7: ...arge.png|125px|Flag of Germany]] || align=center width=130px| [[Image:Bundesadler.png|100px|Germany: C...
9: | width="130px"| ([[Flag of Germany|Flag]])
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27: |'''[[President of Germany|President]]''' || [[Horst K?r]] - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
3: ...), the [[Latin]] version of the official name, avoids choosing one of the four official languages. The...
18: ...Joseph Deiss]]<br>[[Samuel Schmid]] <small>([[President of the Confederation (Switzerland)|Pres. 2005]...
63: ... was both planned and anticipated, it ultimately didn't occur. The massive mobilization of Swiss armed...
67: ...d Nations]], leaving the [[Vatican]] as the last widely recognized state without full UN membership. S...
82: ...s. The [[President of the Swiss Confederation|President of the Confederation]] is elected from the sev... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...eas was the first Graeco-Roman to describe the [[Midnight Sun]], the [[Polar Aurora|aurora]] and [[Pol...
4: ...by the [[Moon]]. This discovery was known to [[Posidonius]].
6: ...tes, Land's End, Plymouth, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Iceland, Britain's east coast, Kent, ...
8: ...]] or the [[Garonne]]. Others believe that, to avoid the Carthaginian blockade, he may have stuck clos...
10: .... He circumnavigated [[Britain]], and found that tides could be very high there. He recorded the local... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: *[[366]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman Empire]].
16: *[[1870]] - Construction of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] begins.
38: *[[1955]] - [[Panama]]nian president [[Jose Antonio Remon]] is assassinated.
44: *[[1979]] - [[Sid Vicious]] goes on trial for the murder of [[Nancy...
50: ...le|ruble]]s to stem [[inflation]] and promote confidence. - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...conquering]] most of Europe; the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russ...
5: ...poleonic Wars began; the latter are sometimes considered to have begun when Bonaparte [[18 Brumaire|se...
13: ...n most European countries, the importation of the ideals of the French Revolution ([[democracy]], [[du...
14: ...y, but on the basis of human culture, origin, and ideology.
15: ... back over one and a half centuries, the European identity was rediscovered following the [[Second Wor... - Timeline of Ancient Rome (22347 bytes)
13: ...an_colleseum.jpg|thumb|Roman Colleseum. Photo provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
71: ...]/[[189 BC]] – Syrian war against the Seleucid dynasty
83: ...hine War]] against king [[Jughurta|Jughurta of Numidia]], eventually defeated and captured by [[Marius...
92: ... – [[First Mithridatic War]] against [[Mithridates VI of Pontus]]
94: * [[83 BC|83]]/[[82 BC]] – [[Second Mithridatic War]]; [[Sulla]] returns to Rome and is nomin... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
5: ...more centuries over the whole empire, although divided into the [[Eastern Roman Empire|Eastern]] and t...
19: ...itions seemed to threaten the republic - now placidly accepted one man rule.
27: *Creation of a [[civil service]] outside of the [[Roman Senate|Senatorial structure]], le...
40: ... currency|coinage]], has also provided valuable evidence about economic, social and military condition...
47: [[Image:Coliseum_rome.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ... - Trajan (7787 bytes)
1: ...n.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Emperor Trajan. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
7: ...tious parts of the empire's frontier, along the [[Rhine river]]. He took part in the emperor [[Domitian]]...
9: ... the highly respected Trajan succeeded without incident, making him the first non-[[Italy|Italian]] Ro...
15: ...zegetusa]] was destroyed, Decebalus committed suicide, and on the site of the former capital, Trajan b...
26: But he didn't stop there. Later in 116, he captured the grea... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ...is son and heir before his assassination on the [[Ides of March]]. After the years of civil war that f...
7: His rule is traditionally considered the greatest of the Roman Emperors, with the ...
12: ...my against Caesar’s orders that turned the tide of the battle and granted Caesar his last victor...
18: ... position in the Roman world, but fate, and the [[Ides of March]] would have a different plan.
23: ...c Sea]] and landed in [[Brundisium]], where he decided the safest course of action was an appeal to Ca... - Hadrian (6480 bytes)
1: ...n.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Emperor Hadrian|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
11: ...on in Upper Pannonia and eventually governor of said province. He was also [[archon]] in [[Athens]] fo...
20: ...ndered Trajan's conquests in [[Mesopotamia]], considering them to be indefensible. There was almost a ...
22: ...s Wall]] in [[Britain]], and the [[Danube]] and [[Rhine]] borders were strengthened with a series of most...
25: ....jpg|thumb|ancient Hadrian.|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ... - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
3: ... the [[Volsunga saga]]. The existence of a common identity is testified by the fact that they had a na...
10: Regarding the question of ethnic origins, evidence developed by both archaeologists and linguist...
14: ... (2-3 degrees warmer than today) deteriorated considerably, which not only dramatically changed the fl...
20: ...under the leadership of Germanic figures from outside, according to some scholars.
24: ... work on the diverse group of Germanic tribes outside of the Roman Empire.]]
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