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  1. 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 ===
  2. 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: Rail transport is also one of the safest modes of transport, and also makes a highly efficient use of space: ...

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  1. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    15: ...ortugal]]. For centuries, the settlement was commonly called S㯠Sebasti㯠- or even St. Sebastian - i...
    19: ...], Rio de Janeiro became much more useful port to transport out the wealth than farther [[Salvador da Bahia|S...
    21: ...accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their...
    31: The city is commonly divided into the historic downtown (Centro); the...
    44: ... Urca ("Morro da Urca"), and offers views second only to Corcovado mountain. The tallest mountain in t...
  2. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
    9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
    46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
    69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
    91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World...
  3. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
    1: ...y [[coal]]) and powered [[machine|machinery]] (mainly in [[textile]] [[manufacturing]]). The developme...
    34: ...f Arts, Manufactures and Commerce]] or, more commonly, [[Society of Arts]] published an illustrated vo...
    65: ...g needed, and thus goods in these materials made only a small proportion of the output.
    83: ... the scientific reasons for the improvement were only discovered later. His family followed in his foo...
    98: ==Transportation==
  4. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    12: ...ingen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Pala...
    14: ...n in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language o...
    35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not...
    39: ...tween Victoria and Prince Albert. Albert was not only the Queen's companion, but also an important pol...
    43: ... to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was loaded only with paper and tobacco, his crime was still puni...
  5. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    27: ... United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 2005]] to serve in that position. ...
    33: ...even less popular [[Community Charge]], more commonly known as the [[poll tax]]. At the same time the ...
    47: ...sman in [[1967]], and was then promoted to shadow Transport and finally Education before the 1970 [[general e...
    69: ...al Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] and [[INLA]] prisoners in [[Northern Ireland|Northern Irela...
    73: ...h for that media catch-phrase- the U-turn- I can only say this: You turn if you want to. The lady's no...
  6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
    16: ...th C. Stanton (AP-69)]], a [[World War II]] troop transport, was named for her.
  7. Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
    7: ...nied him to Washington and was hired by the [[Air Transport Command]]'s ferrying division. She then convince...
  8. Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
    14: ... pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a flight of t...
    20: ...[World War II]], she worked as a ferry pilot with Transport Auxiliary and, on January 5, 1941, whilst flying ...
  9. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    10: ...ace because officials restricted entrants to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relen...
    12: ... taking them to England where they joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Following America's entry into the War...
    16: ...n [[1951]] with the French Air Medal. She is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[...
  10. Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
    31: *the seeds can, under natural circumstances, only germinate in [[symbiosis]] with specialized fung...
    36: ...p in atmospheric humidity or exposure to direct sunlight. Between these two extremes, there is a whole...
    67: ...ile Asian orchids are multicolored. Some orchids only grow one flower, others sometimes more than a hu...
    71: ... whorl. The medial petal is usually modified and enlarged (then called the '''[[labellum]]''' or lip),...
    79: ...linia. The filaments of the pollinia have, during transport, taken such position that the waxy pollen are abl...
  11. Apple (20408 bytes)
    25: ...g in climates unsuitable for ''M. domestica'', mainly for increased cold tolerance.
    34: ...lity to disease, or poor tolerance for storage or transport. Few old cultivars are still produced on a large ...
    107: ...arry the pollen. [[Honeybee]] hives are most commonly used, and arrangements may be made with a commer...
  12. Locomotive (16705 bytes)
    29: ...]] lines in Germany which form part of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables reta...
    34: ...to do so. Therefore this type of transmission is only suitable for low-powered [[Switcher|shunting]] l...
    43: ...n from Chicago, Illinois to [[Denver, Colorado]] only cost [[United States dollar|US$]]14.64 (in 1934]...
    60: ... remain dominant in some European countries. The only diesel-electric locomotives of the Deutsche Bund...
    93: ...r]] (or shunter) locomotives. These categories mainly depend on manoeuvrability, traction power and sp...
  13. Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
    10: #Transport of [[hormone]]s.
    20: ...le'' circulation. The heart of fish is therefore only a single pump (consisting of two chambers). In a...
    25: ...nutrients, water and oxygen without the need of a transport system.
    61: ... they were filled with air and that they were for transport of air.
  14. Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
    67: ...the stomach, including the nature of the food (mainly its fat and protein content) and the degree of m...
    81: ===Absorption and transport of nutrients===
    126: *The first organ is the ''tongue'' which is only present in the phylum [[Chordata]].
    127: ...gus''. It is instead called a ''crop''. It is an enlargement of the esophagus used to store food and e...
  15. Artery (6875 bytes)
    3: ...lled the ''intima''. This layer is made up of mainly [[endothelial cell]]s. Just deep to this layer ...
    17: ...[[hemoglobin]] molecules have typically given up only 1 of the 4 oxygen molecules, a venous saturation...
    21: ... together to form larger vessels, each helping to transport wastes, [[oxygen]]-poor red blood cells and surro...
  16. 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...
    54: ..., a [[transmembrane]] protein responsible for the transport of chloride ions. This causes huge amounts of muc...
  17. Kidney (12846 bytes)
    20: ... cotransport and [[countercurrent exchange|countertransport]] mechanisms. The final solution is then excreted...
    37: ...The next portion of the tubule is the [[loop of Henle]], which leads to the [[distal convoluted tubule...
    39: ...have numerous [[mitochondria]], enabling [[active transport]] to take place by the energy supplied by [[adeno...
    47: The site where the ascending loop of Henle touches the afferent arteriole, is called the [[...
    94: *[[Hydronephrosis]] is the enlargement of one or both of the kidneys caused by o...
  18. Chromosome (12667 bytes)
    2: ...d called [[metaphasic]] chromosomes. This is the only natural context in which individual chromosomes ...
    19: ... accessible genetic material and become a compact transport form. Eventually, the two matching [[chromatid]]s...
    122: ...tive cells) which are [[haploid]] [n] (they have only one set of chromosomes). Gametes are produced by...
    185: ...l number of [[unclonable]] gaps. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/]
  19. 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]]
  20. Textile (4228 bytes)
    74: ... [[kite]]s, [[sail]]s, [[parachute]]s and other [[transport]] use. Early [[airplane]]s used cloth as part of ...

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