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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
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18: ...uickly became a major producer of the fruit, with plantations in [[Florida]] and [[Texas]]. In Spanish... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of St...
29: ...dging to devote her life to the service of the people of the Commonwealth and Empire.
33: ...s claim to the [[Greece|Greek]] throne and was simply referred to as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten bef...
35: ... of Edinburgh]]. Several weeks earlier [[letters patent]] had been issued so that her children would enjo...
55: ...ronation of the British monarch|coronation]] took place in [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[2 June]] [[1953]... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
24: ...d I of the Two Sicilies|HM King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily]] (1751-1825); had issue
29: ...dditionally, the army was weak and the treasury depleted due to two wars near the end of her father's ...
37: ... years later and became more closeted from her people. Her focus changed from attempting to regain Si...
39: ...rding serfs. In [[1771]], she issued the [[Robot Patent]], a reform that regulated the serf's labor payme... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
7: ...ted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of ...
13: ...In an unusual move, Curie intentionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, instead leaving i...
15: ...share two Nobel Prizes. She is one of only two people who has been awarded a [[Nobel Prize]] in two di... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...er many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skills. When Clara started school at age ...
14: ...n the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learne...
21: ...] bureaucracy in vain to bring her own medical supplies to the battlefields. Finally, in July 1862, sh...
23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in charge of the search for the missing m...
35: ... less than a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Massachusetts. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
10: ...un]] (Manassas), [[July 21]], [[1861]] and at the Patent Office Hospital in [[Washington, D.C.]] She also... - Seal (device) (5951 bytes)
6: ... Most governments still attach seals to [[letters patent]]. While many instruments required seals for val...
8: ... and is not a forgery. To seal a letter, for example, a letter writer would compose the letter, fold ...
23: ...ons have official seals, and they often have multiple seals in different sizes and styles for differen...
29: ... adhere to. East Asian paintings often bear multiple seals, including one or two seals from the artis...
38: * [[Knights Templar Seal]] - Carpet (15753 bytes)
10: ...aka double cloth, two-ply, triple cloth, or three-ply).
12: A '''hooked rug''' is a simple type of rug handmade by pulling strips of cloth ...
14: ...e of the weave at a perpendicular angle. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of th...
16: ...all coverings. Production was improved with the application of the Jacquard mechanism (see [[Jacquard ...
19: ...lve scrolling vines and regional flowers (for example, the [[Bradford carpet]]). They often incorpora... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
1: ...sters. This baritone saxophone, for example, can play lower notes than a tenor saxophone, and an [[oc...
3: ...[woodwind]] family, usually made of [[brass]] and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarin...
7: ...as first officially revealed to the public in the patent of [[1846]] (which was granted to him on [[May 17...
9: ...ssessed a new level of flexibility. This would explain why he chose to name the instrument the "voice...
11: ...n terms of Sax's patent. For the duration of the patent (1846-1866) no one except the Sax factory Paris c... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
6: Simple metal or wood reed instruments ("Maultrommel", J...
10: ...f a table top. The reed is fitted inside a holder plate, and as air is drawn through the hole in the h...
20: ... used in Europe around [[1800]] AD for organs. People used their knowledge and the standard of the con...
28: ...r each note. The instrument was copied by many people, and many variations came into existence in a ve...
29: ...s belonged to some parts or different styles. New patents continue to be granted for accordion-related inn... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
21: | '''Place of birth:'''
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...n''' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the...
44: ...]][[Confederate States of America#International Diplomacy and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small...
46: ...]. His leadership qualities were evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the ... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
59: ...sh merchants; this grant was confirmed by letters patent from [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. In [[1618]], [[King J...
73: ...renda. In late 2001 and early 2002, The Gambia completed a full cycle of presidential, legislative, an...
78: ... politicians from deposed President Jawara's [[People's Progressive Party]] (PPP) and other senior gov...
80: ...dential [[Elections_in_the_Gambia|election]] took place in [[September]] [[1996]], in which retired Co...
112: ...nts for 29% of gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 75% of the labor force. Within agriculture, pe... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
16: ...duce that the concepts and designs were readily duplicated by others. Whitney's company that produced...
18: ...hether the cotton gin, which Whitney received a [[patent]] for on [[March 14]], [[1794]], and its constitu...
22: ...on to American industry was the development and implementation of the [[American System of manufacturi...
24: ...therefore be manufactured cheaply, because the supply of goods was no longer limited by the number of ...
26: ... Ford]] and others in [[manufacturing]]. He never patented his later inventions, one of which was a [[mill... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
13: * [[1769]]: [[Patent]]ed separate condensing chamber for steam engine.
17: * [[1784]]: Patented a [[steam locomotive]].
26: ...engines that did not fall foul of his 'catch-all' patents. Boulton proved an excellent businessman, and bo...
33: ... emerging Industrial Revolution, and greatly multiplied its productive capacity. (Without it, humans m... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
56: ...t and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the co...
65: ..."[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast]]", for example, is often derided by residents of the rest of th...
79: ...ly''' have been a miracle.) [[Bus]] service is supplied by [[Connecticut Transit]], owned by the [[Con...
81: ...hey exited. A series of terrible crashes at these plazas eventually led to abandonment of the whole to...
83: ...e daily radio broadcasts of where crashes have completely blocked traffic are a fact of life for commu... - Maine (17312 bytes)
36: ...r possibility for the name 'Maine' is that the people living on islands along the coast of Maine used ...
38: ...became the [[Province of Maine]] in [[1622]] land patent. Eastern Maine north of the [[Kennebec River]] wa...
72: ... political organization into local units. For example, the [[Northwest Aroostook, Maine]] "territory" ...
90: ...ry products, cattle, blueberries, apples, and [[maple sugar]]. [[Aroostook County, Maine|Aroostook Cou...
92: Maine ports play a key role in national transportation. Around 1... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
31: * [[Plough]]s in [[Mesopotamia]]
35: * 3500 BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
80: * [[600]]: Mouldboard [[plough]] in [[Eastern Europe]]
162: * [[1797]]: [[Cast iron plow]]: [[Charles Newbold]]
201: * [[1831]]: [[Multiple coil magnet]]: [[Joseph Henry]] - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
6: ...horizontal, as they always had been, and he could place them vertically in a row.
10: ...productivity, and now the spinning jenny could supply that demand by increasing the spinner's producti...
12: ...p shop producing jennies in secret for one Mr. Shipley, with the assistance of a joiner named James.
14: Eventually, Hargreaves applied for a patent on the jenny in July 1770. By this time a number ...
16: The partnership with Shipley carried on "with moderate success" Hargreaves' ... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...ghts to and later reached an agreement with the [[Plymouth Council for New England]] which had been gr...
3: ...2 [[Pilgrims]] from the [[Mayflower]] landed at [[Plymouth Rock]] on the western shore of [[Cape Cod B...
5: ...tts Bay Colony]] got its new charter in [[1691]], Plymouth ended its history as a separate colony.
7: ... of land. On [[March 22]], 1621, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony signed a peace treaty with [[Massaso...
9: ...ristol County]], [[Plymouth County, Massachusetts|Plymouth County]], and [[Barnstable County, Massachu... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...l]] story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...s are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, su...
15: ...esign, with modern knowledge of aerodynamic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo also sketched desig...
17: ...d examples from nature that such flights can take place without danger, although when the first trials...
19: The first known human flight ever took place in [[Paris]] in [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre ...
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