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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...and machine manufacture. It began in [[England]] with the introduction of [[steam engine|steam power]]...
3: ...hnological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered [[ship]]s, and ...
5: ...hen mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
10: ...tion of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is the [[scientific revolution]]...
12: ...ther nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often imposed tolls an... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...up to 5.1 percent [[carbon]]; ironically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[c...
5: ...steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled,...
8: ...ke copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy co...
11: ...pearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]].
13: ...cal composition. As such, it requires extremely little thermal [[activation energy]] to form. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
26: ...[[Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
34: ...ms, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
37: ...drew Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...#1072; Евге́ньевна Сав...
3: ...e first woman to perform a [[Extra-vehicular activity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...she was appointed professor at [[Stockholm University]], the third woman in [[Europe]] to become a pro...
3: ...garian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Matthias Corvinus o...
9: ... on [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] and practiced his favourite piano work, [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s...
11: ... took calculus it came to her very quickly, as if it had always been there.
13: ...Vasilievich Krukovsky]], a self-taught eccentric with especial fondness for mathematics. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ervatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...ing|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final exa...
7: ...d Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Ar...
9: ...T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
11: ...nternationale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemor... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
56: ...Kelvin|K]] (1050 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1922 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
69: | [[Velocity of sound]]
74: | [[Electronegativity]] || 1.1 ([[Pauling scale]]) - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...namental devices worn by persons, typically made with [[gem]]s and [[precious metal]]s. [[Costume jew...
3: ...[necklace]]s, rings, and [[earring]]s, as well as items like hair ornaments or [[Body piercing jewelry...
7: ...an also be symbolic, as in the case of [[Christianity|Christians]] wearing a [[crucifix]] in the form ...
9: ...every (if not every) human culture, on every inhabited continent. Personal [[adornment]] seems to be a...
27: * 2500 BC - The intentional addition of [[silver]] and copper to gold. - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...en known as [[Ionia]]), [[Sicily]] and southern [[Italy]] (known as [[Magna Graecia|Great Greece]]), a...
4: ... civilizations (from about [[1600 BC]] to about [[1100 BC]]), while others argue that these civilization...
6: ...xtend the term back to about [[1000 BC]]. The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period...
8: ... continuum running until the advent of [[Christianity]] in the [[third century]] AD.
10: ...ics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during th... - Montana (14119 bytes)
7: Flower = [[Bitterroot]] |
11: Capital = [[Helena, Montana|Helena]] |
13: LargestCity = [[Billings, Montana|Billings]] |
14: Governor = [[Brian Schweitzer]] |
23: DensityRank = 48<sup>th</sup> | - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
9: Motto = Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes) |
10: Capital = [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] |
11: LargestCity = [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]] |
12: Governor = [[Bill Richardson (politician)|Bill Richardson]] |
22: DensityRank = 45<sup>th</sup> | - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ... [[Antioch]], [[Syria]], as well as other points. Its influence carries over on to [[Korea]] and termi...
3: ...gh [[Antioch]] in Southern Anatolia into the [[Mediterranean Sea]] or through the [[Levant]] into [[Eg...
5: ...robably conducted over sections of the routes and it is probable that merchants and travellers very ra...
11: ... domesticated as early as circa [[11th century BC|1100 BC]], and the [[nomads]] of the vast Eurasian [[s...
13: ...avel immense distances without arousing the hostility of more settled peoples. - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
1: ...tory in the [[Trajan's Dacian Wars|Dacian Wars]]. Its design has inspired numerous [[victory column]]s...
3: ...s access to a viewing platform at the top. The capital block of Trajan's Column weighs 53.3 tons which...
5: ...4 1587, the top was crowned by [[Pope Sixtus V]] with a bronze figure of [[St. Peter]], which remains ...
9: ...l. The relief portrays Trajan's two victorious military campaigns against the [[Dacia]]ns; the lower h...
11: ...he imagery is not realistic as the sculptor pays little attention to perspective. Often a variety of d... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
3: ...beginning of the [[Renaissance]] is admittedly arbitrary, 1450 is used here.
7: ... general trend in Medieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration.
9: ...m cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natural declamation, is most co...
17: .... The line, once it had its mode, would remain in it until another ligature indicated a change. A Ger...
18: [[Image:Lute_guitar.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Lute Guitar. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com... - Pope Lucius I (1549 bytes)
6: ... milder view on allowing restoration of lapsed penitents.
8: Tradition claims that he was martyred in the persecution...
10: ...declared patron of the Danish region [[Zealand]]. It is among the few relics to have survived the [[Re... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
7: ...lign="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:DeGaullePortrait.jpg|180px]]
40: ...Gaulle''''', was a [[Military of France|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de...
42: ...ch left a major influence in subsequent French politics.
47: ...uring the [[Dreyfus affair]] the family distanced itself from the more conservative natonalist circles...
49: ==1912–1940: Military career== - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
4: ...ropolitan area]] in the state of [[Arizona]], [[United States]]. Phoenix ranked:
5: ... city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] with 1.5 million people
6: ... largest metropolitan area of the United States, with a population of 3,251,876 (2000 census)
7: * the largest capital city by area and population in the U.S. (including [[...
8: * the eighth-fastest growing metropolitan area in the U.S. (2000 census) - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...pulation, following [[China]], [[India]], the [[United States]], [[Indonesia]], [[Brazil]], [[Pakistan...
13: ...d gradually merged with [[Slavs]]. The Slavs constituted the bulk of the population from the [[8th cen...
15: ...d was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
17: ...and Duchy of [[Lithuania]] and [[Poland]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russi...
19: ...at affected the rest of the country. Nevertheless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}} - Toltec (2981 bytes)
3: ...eavy, especially evident at the city of [[Chichen Itza]]. Their pottery has been found as far south as...
5: .... Thus the Toltecs seem to have introduced the habit of mass [[human sacrifice]] as later practiced by...
7: ...d to descend from Toltec ancestry via the sacred city of [[Colhuacᮝ].
9: ...]], which did not fall until centuries later when it was burned by [[HernᮠCort鳝] and the Spanish [...
11: ...r after a "dark age" in Central Mexico, together with some references by the Maya. Toltec rulers are s...
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