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  1. Locomotive (16705 bytes)
    25: ...es such as Germany and the United States attained speeds very close to this, and this is generally believ...
    32: ...ore the [[first world war]] which saw a number of simplex diesel systems built for the war, a small number...
    43: ...er maintenance costs. The fuel for one early high-speed run from Chicago, Illinois to [[Denver, Colorado]...
    45: ...igh-speed diesel-electric train called the [[High Speed Train]] or HST. This train consists of two [[Brit...
    47: ...eached a speed of 143 mph, although the operating speed of the production HST in service is 125 mph (200 ...
  2. Eye (21834 bytes)
    1: ... organs are found in a variety of creatures. The simplest eyes do nothing but detect whether the surround...
    11: ...among the [[arthropod]]s and are composed of many simple facets which give a pixelated image (not multiple...
    15: Some of the simplest eyes, called [[ocelli]], can be found in animal...
    16: Jumping spiders have simple eyes that are so large, supported by an array of ...
    73: ...t, another green light, and lastly blue light. In simple terms, this allows human beings to see [[RGB colo...
  3. Harmonica (21752 bytes)
    174: ... interesting warbling tonal variation on the very simple waveform of the basic ten- or twelve-hole diatoni...
    195: ...harmonicas include tiny four-hole instruments and simple plastic models of a conventional size.
    201: ...harmonica then became very popular because of its simple construction (you can easily learn it alone) and ...
    217: ...d highly distorted solos are going at a breakneck speed. His influence is heavy on modern blues and rock...
  4. Berimbau (11944 bytes)
    56: ...er leads the singing, which is made easier by the simple rythm and little variation that he plays, and add...
    58: ...s the Gunga. For instance, while the Gunga play a simple, eight-unit pattern "tsh-tsh, ding, dong, dong", ...
    66: ... any definite rythmic pattern to a toque name, to speed of exectution, and to the type of Capoeira game i...
  5. Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
    63: Abraham Lincoln shared a bed with [[Joshua Fry Speed]] from [[1837]] to [[1841]] in Springfield. A rec...
    106: ...ly that even were the Constitution construed as a simple contract, would it not require the agreement of a...
    154: ...rate states, and throughout the war Lincoln urged speedy elections under generous terms in areas behind U...
    224: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[James Speed]]'''||align="left"|1864–1865
  6. Desert (21206 bytes)
    18: ... be designated as specifically different from the simple definition of a desert: a place where evaporatio...
    95: ... records are commonly established on [[Bonneville Speedway]], a race track on the Great Salt Lake hardpan...
  7. Sun (20830 bytes)
    11: ...p>6</sup> [[mile|mi]]) <br>(8.31 minutes at the [[Speed of Light]])
    128: ...E15 s|226 Ma]] (226 million years). The [[orbital speed]] is 217 km/s, i.e. 1 light-year in ca. 1400 year...
    168: ...s the only part of the Sun cool enough to support simple molecules such as [[carbon monoxide]] and [[water...
  8. History of science (41710 bytes)
    29: ...omical information in a systematic manner through simple observation. Though they had no knowledge of the...
    78: ...rvation by [[Edwin Hubble]], in [[1929]] that the speed at which galaxies recede positively correlates wi...
    93: ...[amino acid]]s, could themselves be built up from simpler molecules in a [[simulation]] of primordial [[pr...
    117: ...uced the occurrency of [[puerperal fever]] by the simple experiment of requiring physicians to wash their ...
  9. Meteorology (19082 bytes)
    12: ...Halley]]. The [[anemometer]] for measuring [[wind speed]] was constructed in [[1667]] by [[Robert Hooke]]...
    18: ...xchange of weather information with unprecedented speed.
    60: ...nd separate it into groups based on direction and speed. For each group, the wind is simulated using comp...
    61: ... then averaged according to the frequency of that speed and direction 'bucket', giving the average wind o...
    64: ...essure (although this can be neglected), and wind speeds. The smaller the chunk sizes, the closer the res...
  10. Flag (13245 bytes)
    3: ...s formal end the distinction between a flag and a simple cloth banner is blurred. Generally, a piece of cl...
    57: ...w flag is used to indicate caution requiring slow speed and a red flag requires racers to immediately sto...
    77: A flagpole, or flagstaff, can be simple supports made of wood or metal. If it is taller ...
    80: ...ay require more complex support structures than a simple pole, such as guy wires, or to be built as a mast...
  11. Kiln (1778 bytes)
    2: ... lumber kilns are also partially depressurized to speed the drying process and reduce fuel usage. Kilns a...
    8: ...t fired pottery|pit firing]]) happened in several simple stages. Heat was conserved more efficiently arou...
  12. Cell (biology) (28190 bytes)
    27: ...karyote|Prokaryotic]]''''' cells are structurally simple. They are found only in single-celled and [[Colo...
    56: Prokaryotic genetic material is organized in a simple circular DNA molecule (the bacterial [[chromosome...
    73: ...ve [[enzyme]]s, naturally occurring proteins that speed up biochemical processes. For example, lysosomes ...
    141: |[[Binary fission]] (simple division)
  13. History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
    30: ...Crazy Horse]], the [[Sioux]] were skilled at high-speed mounted warfare. The Siousx were new arrivals on ...
    117: ...on skilled workers. His objectives were "pure and simple": increasing [[wage]]s, reducing hours and improv...
  14. Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
    38: !align="left"| [[Avg. Orbital Speed]]
    41: !align="left"| Max. Orbital Speed
    44: !align="left"| Min. Orbital Speed
    136: ...termining the mass for the Pluto-Charon system by simple application of [[Kepler's laws of planetary motio...
    140: ...f Neptune's about to catch up to Pluto. But Pluto speeds up due to the gravitational acceleration from th...
  15. Abacus (7218 bytes)
    10: ...quare root]] and [[cube root]] operations at high speed.
  16. Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
    29: Stargell, speedy [[Omar Moreno]] and power-hitting but ostentatio...
    33: ... has lost almost all of his power and much of his speed following a broken leg in [[1999 in sports|1999]]...
    39: ...NC Park]], in [[2001 in sports|2001]]. Due to its simple, unpretentious concept and strategic usage of the...
  17. Computer (32773 bytes)
    3: ... from [[digital circuit|components]] that perform simple well-defined functions. The complex interactions ...
    12: ...all operations on that information are reduced to simple [[Boolean algebra]].
    73: ...ance of many computers is largely dictated by the speed with which they can read and write values to and ...
    79: ...apacity of the computer, the size of program, the speed of program execution, and the reliability of the ...
    142: ...mputer only has a limited number of well-defined, simple instructions, but they are not ambiguous. Typica...
  18. Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
    16: ...red a slow learner, possibly due to [[dyslexia]], simple [[shyness]], or the significantly rare and unusua...
    59: ...which require a medium such as water or air. The speed of light was thus fixed, and ''not'' relative to ...
    63: ...d relative to each other, and the rule that the [[speed of light]] is the same for every observer. Specia...
    68: ...at rest (''E'') equals its mass (''m'') times the speed of light (''c'') squared:
    95: ...be equivalent, not only those moving at a uniform speed. In general relativity, gravity is no longer a fo...
  19. Ship (18843 bytes)
    14: ...and engaged some [[engineer]]s to derive a fairly simple [[formula]] to determine the position of a line o...
    19: ...ne conflicts because of their maneuverability and speed. The [[Greece|Greek]] [[Navy|navies]] that fought...
    21: ...n [[1897]]. This facilitated a generation of high-speed liners in the first half of the [[20th century]] ...
  20. Train (10331 bytes)
    15: ...e [[atmospheric railway]]s, [[monorail]]s, [[high-speed rail]]ways, [[Magnetic_levitation_train|maglev]],...
    17: ...ld, particularly [[Japan]] and [[Europe]], [[high-speed rail]] is utilized extensively for passenger trav...
    39: ...e [[Trans-Siberian railway]] are usually not high-speed.
    41: ...forces acting on passengers and permitting higher speeds on curves in the track with greater passenger co...
    45: ... trains for use in conurbations. Double deck high speed and sleeper trains are becoming more common in Eu...

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