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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labor to one dominated by indus...
3: ...]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development ...
5: ...developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
10: ...ncial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is t...
14: ...0 onwards, because there was a scientific and technological improvement, growth of supply of food beca... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ... alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
8: ...d chemical partner such as carbon. This process, known as [[smelting]], was first applied to metals wi...
11: ...ng this process, leading to a patterned layering known as [[pearlite]] due to its [[pearl]]-like appea...
15: ...hat the transformation to ferrite or perlite does not have time to take place. The transformation int...
19: ...s so critical to the end result, this process is known as '''[[tempering]]''', source of the term '''t... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
11: ...ng it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting
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21: ...one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with polic...
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29: After the Supreme Court announced the legalization of same-sex marriage follow... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...4]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], [[USA]] was the most popular and...
5: ... a show that also included [[Ma Rainey]], who did not teach Bessie to sing but probably helped her dev...
7: ...ncluded some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], ...
9: ...t the recording industry out of business, and the advent of talking pictures, which did [[vaudeville]] in....
11: ... for an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have Bess... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ...der of [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventism]]. Most of her life she lived and worked in th...
9: ... of God, and preparing the world for the Second [[Advent]], or second coming of [[Christ]].
11: ...the Christian Church (the Body of Christ) and did not contribute to the unity among Christians. She ev...
17: ...mon was struck in the face with a rock thrown by another school girl. The trauma put her in a coma for...
27: ... first vision was a depiction of the [[Millerites|Adventist]] people following Jesus, marching to the city... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...e department store where she worked. That led to another short movie, which was seen by comedy directo...
19: Having achieved enormous success as a silent [[movie star]], she was ...
21: ...larity was waning, did not fare as well after the advent of sound and his [[career]] faltered.
23: ...n for always having a closed set to all visitors. No one could watch as her scenes were shot. Garbo ap...
25: ...n film|1935]], but she insisted on being cast in another screen version of [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy's]] c... - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
12: In a normal [[human]] adult male, the GI tract is approxi...
21: ***'''[[ileum]]''', (not to be confused with the [[ilium]], or hipbone). ...
39: ...ly mechanical, as relatively large parts of food (now called "bolus") are minimized into smaller porti...
51: ... parts so that the body can use them to build and nourish cells and to provide energy.
69: ...is process include undigested parts of the food, known as fiber, and older cells that have been shed f... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = lightgreen | name = Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)}}
2: ... [[Image:Haw2_242_rose.jpg|250px]] | caption = Magnolia [[flower]]}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = '''Magnoliophyta'''}}
8: [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]] - Dicots<br>
9: [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]] - Monocots<br> - Engraving (3556 bytes)
13: Before the advent of [[photography]], engraving used to reproduce o...
15: ... stamp]]s were engraved, although the practice is now mostly confined to particular countries, and/or ...
18: ...|thumb| An example of an ornately-engraved Conn tenor saxophone by Jason DuMars]] - Cartography (10500 bytes)
1: ...zed cartography. Most commercial quality maps are now made with map making [[software]] that falls int...
7: The oldest known map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The ...
9: ... major development in mapmaking occurred with the advent of [[geometry]], which was first used in [[Babylo...
11: ...(most of whom would not be known today had Strabo not mentioned them). [[Thales]] of Miletus (c. [[6th...
13: ...ecame the basis of [[mathematics]], was the first notable person to say that the earth was a sphere. [... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...lomatic recognition from selected states, but are not UN members. For more information, see [[United N...
5: ... as the '''United Nations Organization''', or '''UNO'''. But by the 1950s, English speakers were refer...
11: *[[UN Economic and Social Council]]
20: ...rnational peace and security and international economic and social cooperation. These proposals were d...
24: ...onths later on [[June 26]]. [[Poland]], which was not represented at the conference, but for which a p... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ... ''cor de chasse'' or hunting horn, and has been known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, a...
4: ...is named ''Horn'' ([[German language|Gr.]]), ''corno'' (plural ''corni'') ([[Italian language|It.]]), ...
14: ... finally made the horn a true melodic instrument, not simply limited to a harmonic series, and some of...
16: ...these three valves, the player could play all the notes reachable in the horn's range.
21: ... make with his or her [[embouchure]] from note to note became increasingly precise. An early solution... - First Intermediate Period of Egypt (2409 bytes)
2: ...ry between the end of the [[Old Kingdom]] and the advent of the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]]... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...v Republic of Macedonia]], and [[Albania]] to the north; and with [[Turkey]] to the east. The waters o...
32: ...)|28th]])<br>$21,017 ([[List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita|28th]])
50: ...av Republic of Macedonia]] and [[Albania]] to the north and by [[Turkey]] to the east. The [[Aegean Se...
52: ...ven to be especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Northern Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Gr...
57: ...accent is written *before* the accented syllable, not after the accented vowel-->. This name is also ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ... Europe. Portugal is bordered by [[Spain]] to the north and east and by the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the ...
5: ...century|16th centuries]], Portugal was a major economic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portugue...
7: ...[[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a cle...
15: ...th of the Douro river among some other tribes. {{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ...
17: ...tugal - A Forma磯 do Territ'', page 135, "Cronologia"}} - Sickle (1231 bytes)
3: ... for harvesting [[cereal|grain]] crops before the advent of modern [[harvesting]] machinery. It consists o... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...tered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]]...
4: ...nclude the periods of the [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] and [[History of Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]]...
6: ...lympic Games]] in [[776 BC]], but most historians now extend the term back to about [[1000 BC]]. The t...
8: ...eek civilization as a continuum running until the advent of [[Christianity]] in the [[third century]] AD.
15: ..." and [[Jerome]]'s "Chronicon", contain brief chronologies and king lists for this period. The history... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] |
12: Governor = [[Linda Lingle]] |
25: ...leutian Standard Time Zone|Hawaii]]: [[UTC]]-10/ (no daylight saving time) |
37: ...ulation of 1,211,537 people. [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] is the largest city and the state capital. - Sport (14061 bytes)
1: ...se is what characterises sport, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess.
17: ...r accessibility. These trends continued with the advent of mass media and global communication. Professio...
18: Not only has professionalism helped increase the pop...
28: * Human-assisted ([[Cycling]], [[rowing]], [[canoeing]], ...)
51: ...e Coubertin]]: "The most important thing . . . is not winning but taking part? are typical expressions... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
1: ...phere), as well as the connected processes and phenomena.
3: ...rater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedal...
5: ...e the [[scientific method]], while astrologers do not.
7: ==Divisions of astronomy==
8: ...s are now more easily determined, and modern astronomy concerns itself much more with trying to observ...
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