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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labor to one...
10: ...the surplus population who could no longer find employment in [[agriculture]] into the cities to seek ...
12: ... other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often imposed tolls ...
14: ...to produce more goods to meet the needs of the people.
16: From 1430, people in Europe discovered sea routes to Asia and Amer... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ...ontrary, stuck to her revolutionary Marxist principles. In [[1893]], along with [[Leo Jogiches]] and [...
19: ... Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s party leaders...
21: ...he party leadership refused, and in [[1910]] she split off from Kautsky.
32: ...l catastrophe which even led her to briefly contemplate suicide: [[Revisionism]], which she had fought...
42: ...e Social Democratic leader, [[Friedrich Ebert]] employed nationalist militia, the [[Freikorps]], to su... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...e'''. She became celebrated especially for her exploits in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and...
7: ...zy Giżycki]] {[[1899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ... into Poland. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Pola...
26: ...ents that would lead to some of her most famous exploits.
30: Krystyna was chosen to replace SOE agent [[Cecily Lefort]], who had been capt... - Brass instrument (5234 bytes)
1: ... tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular [[resonance|resonator]]....
41: ... before about 1820. Natural instruments are still played in [[authentic performance]]s of older music,...
55: ... many as 7 or more in some cases) operated by the player's fingers that introduce additional tubing in...
61: ...yed trumpet]]. Such instruments were difficult to play and became obsolete with the invention of the v...
74: ...tension of their lips (see [[embouchure]]). Brass players call each harmonic a "partial". - Didgeridoo (7516 bytes)
5: ...orthern Australia suggests that the Aboriginal people of the Kakadu region have been using the didgeri...
7: ...ugh retailers and businesses have been quick to exploit these special names for generic tourist-orient...
9: ...are the preferred pitch of traditional Aboriginal players.
12: == Construction and Play ==
21: ...corated. A rim of [[beeswax]] may or may not be applied to the [[mouthpiece]] end. - Economy of Afghanistan (14517 bytes)
1: ... economic reform over the year of [[2005]]. The replacement of the [[opium]] trade - which can account...
18: ...esented [[December 11]], [[2005]], two million people (about 9% of the population) are engaged in [[il...
23: ...been few serious attempts to further explore or exploit them.
30: ...the skilled managers and technicians needed for implementation.
34: ... 7 million land mines and 750,000 pieces of [[unexploded ordnance]], sown mainly during the Soviet occ... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: .... It is the home of five percent of the world's [[plant]] and [[animal]] species, 80 percent of them u...
68: ...y and "Malgasization" of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a hig...
70: ...rong in [[Antananarivo]] and the surrounding high plateau.
72: ...ations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in [[August]] [[1991]] but...
74: ...nstitutions, and set an 18-month timetable for completing a transition to a new form of constitutional... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
53: ...non" and "the Sudan") and partly because of its implication that Ukraine is merely a region rather tha...
55: ...o cut" (krayaty), indicating the land the Rus' people (or Ruthenians or Ukrainians) carved out for the...
60: ...erritory of Ukraine was populated by [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] nomads called [[Scythian]]s. The King...
64: ...he southern part of the first Eastern [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] state, [[Kievan Rus']]. Its capital wa...
66: ...[[Khazars]] (a [[Turkic]] semi-[[nomad|nomadic people]] from [[Central Asia]] who adopted [[Judaism]])... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
49: ...y the latter part of that century, the various peoples of Zambia were largely established in the areas...
51: ... mid-19th century, it was penetrated by Western explorers, missionaries, and traders. [[David Livingst...
59: ...th Africa]] (ANC), and the [[South-West Africa People's Organization]] (SWAPO).
61: ...nia]]n port of [[Dar es Salaam]], built with [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] assistance, reduce...
69: ...an exploitation and stressed cooperation among people, but not at the expense of the individual. - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...and [[army]] was built, with four masted ships displacing 1,500 tons and a standing army of one millio...
10: ...o be subordinated by the scholar bureaucracy. Simply put, maintaining a strong military was essential...
14: ...or nearly a century under the Yuan dynasty were replaced by the Han Chinese. The traditional [[Imperia...
16: ...ve body under past dynasties, after suppressing a plot for which he had blamed his chief minister. Wh...
20: ...ommendations to the throne), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records. - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ... large-scale [[genocide|civilian massacres]] took place. Four dynasties, the [[Habsburg]]s, the [[Roma...
4: ...selves (see [[#Diplomatic and political origins|Diplomatic and political origins]] below).
8: ... a general war. Scholars have also cited German diplomatic ineptitude as well as a tremendous tide of ...
13: ==Diplomatic and political origins==
16: ...he war's real origins lie further back, in the complex web of alliances and counterbalances that devel... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
8: |Place||[[Southeast Asia]]
37: ...the Vietnam War, the conflict between US and [[People's Army of Vietnam|NVA]] troops, not to have begu...
41: ...namese government and partly as a counter to [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] influence in the r...
47: ...rican [[Declaration of Independence]], and a band played "[[The Star Spangled Banner]]." Ho had hoped...
50: ...without generous American support in Indochina, a ploy Secretary of State [[Dean Acheson]] accurately ... - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
6: ...m mentality in this growing region conflicted sharply with the concerns of the so-called [[Rust Belt]]...
8: ...d departed. In the nation's major urban areas unemployment increased, expanding demand for social serv...
14: ...ban areas, housing prices have been driven up, displacing poor residents. The processes of gentrificat...
18: ...rol international affairs. The energy crisis, unemployment, and inflation, derided as [[stagflation]],...
20: ...ing large quantities of consumer goods and home appliances. Soviet industrial output increased by 75%,... - Microbiology (4238 bytes)
1: ...virus (biology)|virus]]es, [[prokaryote]]s and simple [[eukaryote]]s. Today, most of the work in micro...
11: ...to the virus. <!-- can someone write this more simple? -->
15: ...ns produced vary widely, some of them are for example [[antibiotic]]s.
16: ... of anaerobic fermentation, in which different simple organic molecules are produced. This gave rise t...
41: *[http://people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/DHB.html Deep Hot Biosphe... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...ple as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
25: ...mpted in the meanwhile to go ahead with Calonne's plans. When the measures were opposed in the ''Parl...
37: ...w demanded that credentialling itself should take place as a group. Negotiations with the other estat...
42: ...]], an assembly not of the Estates but of "the People". The National Assembly's first act was to pass ...
53: ...]], banished the reformist minister Necker and completely reconstructed the ministry. Much of Paris, p... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...hat perform simple well-defined functions. The complex interactions of these components endow computer...
4: ...iscipline which studies the theory, design, and application of computers is called '''[[computer scie...
6: ==General principles==
10: ... the physical phenomena being exploited. For example, electron flows might be used to model the flow ...
12: ... operations on that information are reduced to simple [[Boolean algebra]]. - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
2: ...' [[List of programmers]], [[List of computing people]], [[List of computer scientists]], [[computer s...
19: [[16-bit application]] --
34: [[32-bit application]] --
75: [[8514 (display standard)]] --
107: [[APL programming language]] -- - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ... progressed, tools became far more refined and complex. At some point, humans had begun using [[fire]]...
7: ...mankind to [[North America]] and [[Oceania]] took place at the climax of the most recent [[Ice Age]], ...
12: ...]], and the [[Indus River|Indus Valley]]. Some peoples, such as [[Australian Aborigines|Aborigines]] o...
14: ...cities with high levels of social and economic complexity. However, these civilisations were so differ...
16: ...he [[2nd millennium BCE]] saw the emergence of complex state societies in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece... - Extinction (15793 bytes)
2: ...arise and thrive when they are able to find and exploit an [[ecology|ecological]] [[niche]] — an...
6: ...ct species have evolved into new species; for example the extinct ''[[Eohippus]]'' (an ancient horse-l...
15: ...troduction]] to the wild through use of carefully planned [[breeding program]]s.
25: ...when an otherwise healthy species is wiped out completely, as when toxic pollution renders its entire ...
32: ...ual-based speciation and is the most dramatic example of a population bottleneck. - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Tampico, Illinois]]
13: | place of death=[[Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California | ...
25: ...n was [[baptism|baptized]] in his mother's [[Disciples of Christ]] church in Dixon, and in [[1924]] he...
29: ...for the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none...
31: ...d. Reagan smoothly improvised a fictional play-by-play (in which hitters on both teams fouled off pitc...
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