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- 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 === - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
1: {{transport}}
3: ...pon cross-sectional beams (termed "[[Railroad_tie|sleeper]]s" or "[[railroad tie|tie]]s") of [[timber]...
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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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
19: ...], Rio de Janeiro became much more useful port to transport out the wealth than farther [[Salvador da Bahia|S...
38: ...A view of Ipanema from Corcovado. The [[Cagarras Islands]] can be seen on the background]]
63: ...ousing. The worst of these poorer areas are the [[slum]]s and [[shanty town]]s known as ''[[favela]]s'...
71: ...he Redeemer statue's arm. The name in English translates to "Christ's armpit", and was chosen for that...
125: [[sl:Rio de Janeiro]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
7: ...xplored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]...
11: ...e]]s, exploitation of the Americas by Europe, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him fo...
13: ...s surname. The Latin roots of his name can be translated "Christ-bearer, Dove". Columbus' signature re...
27: ...ent a year on a ship bound towards [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visi...
35: ...a Islands]] and owned one of them ([[Porto Santo Island]]), but died when Felipa was a baby, leaving h... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
22: ...ufacturing. People earned a lot of money form the slave trade, so there was capital for the industrial...
55: ...castings for a lathe bed, where components had to slide together, the production of flat surfaces by m...
57: ...ine manufacturers. The [[planing machine]], the [[slotting machine]] and the [[shaping machine]] were ...
59: ...degree of [[interchangeability]]. The lessons Maudslay learned about the need for stability and precis...
61: Maudslay made his name for his lathes and precision meas... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
20: ...n Wettin''). Queen Victoria's papers record her dislike of the name. Though rarely publicly used, Wet...
27: ... of 1837]]), and in [[Jamaica]], the colonial legislature had protested British policies by refusing t...
41: ...ade her first journey by train, travelling from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) t...
43: ...h sentence was commuted to [[penal transportation|transportation for life]]. Prince Albert felt that the atte...
46: ...]'s [[coup d'鴡t|coup]] in France without previously consulting the Prime Minister. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
29: ...Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]]...
47: ...sman in [[1967]], and was then promoted to shadow Transport and finally Education before the 1970 [[general e...
61: ...he Conservative Party. Thatcher had to act cautiously in converting the Conservative Party to her [[mo...
69: ...o political status for republican prisoners, famously declaring "Crime is crime is crime; it is not po...
73: ...in economic and entrepreneurial terms than previously. Though many suffered as a result of this policy... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
6: ...ing in [[1881]], Stanton, Anthony and [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]] published the first of three volumes of ...
12: ...d University]] Library, and in editions of the newsletter ''The Revolution.'' Stanton suggested that s...
14: ...ovements. Henry Stanton was a journalist, an antislavery orator, and, after their marriage, became an...
16: ...th C. Stanton (AP-69)]], a [[World War II]] troop transport, was named for her. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
7: ...nied him to Washington and was hired by the [[Air Transport Command]]'s ferrying division. She then convince... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
20: ...[World War II]], she worked as a ferry pilot with Transport Auxiliary and, on January 5, 1941, whilst flying ... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
8: ...ying lessons at [[Roosevelt Airfield]] on [[Long Island]]. A natural, she was quickly flying solo and ...
12: ... taking them to England where they joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Following America's entry into the War... - Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
40: .... The attractive mottle of the leaves of [[Lady's Slipper]]s from temperate zones (''[[Paphiopedilum]]...
71: ...ynsepal]]), while the lip has taken the form of a slipper. In ''[[Masdevallia]]'' all the sepals are f...
73: ... of the anther cap, is the '''[[rostellum]]''', a slender beaklike extension.
78: *The ''[[Paphiopedilum]]s'' (Lady Slippers) have a deep pocket that traps visitors, wi...
79: ...linia. The filaments of the pollinia have, during transport, taken such position that the waxy pollen are abl... - Apple (20408 bytes)
25: Other species that were previously thought to have made contributions to the genome...
34: ...lity to disease, or poor tolerance for storage or transport. Few old cultivars are still produced on a large ...
109: ...quate pollination are small and misshapen apples, slowness to ripen, and low seed count. Well pollina...
111: ...slope for air drainage, but not on a south facing slope (in the northern hemisphere) as this will enco...
113: ...apples near a body of water gives an advantage by slowing spring warm up, which retards flowering unti... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
25: ... dynamometer car) reached 126 mph (203 km/h) on a slight downhill gradient down Stoke Bank on [[3 July...
29: ...]] lines in Germany which form part of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables reta...
45: ...umber 43. The unpowered carriages were simultaneously reclassifed as individual coaches - the number o...
60: Diesel-hydraulic locomotives are slightly more efficient than diesel-electrics, but w...
82: ...hird-rail locomotives are operated by the [[Long Island Rail Road]] and [[Metro-North Railroad]] betwe... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
10: #Transport of [[hormone]]s.
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.
71: ...This work with its essentially correct exposition slowly convinced the medical world. Harvey was not a... - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
39: ..."bolus") are minimized into smaller portions, and slight amounts of chemical processing takes place, e...
59: ...a narrowing and then propels the narrowed portion slowly down the length of the organ. These waves of ...
65: ...hird task of the stomach is to empty its contents slowly into the small intestine.
81: ===Absorption and transport of nutrients=== - Artery (6875 bytes)
21: ... together to form larger vessels, each helping to transport wastes, [[oxygen]]-poor red blood cells and surro...
25: ...ly the result of an arterial system that has been slowly, progressively compromised by years of deteri... - 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...
20: ...and [[reflex]] [[coughing]] and [[sneezing]] to dislodge mucus contaminated with dust particles or mic...
54: ..., a [[transmembrane]] protein responsible for the transport of chloride ions. This causes huge amounts of muc... - Kidney (12846 bytes)
9: ...evel T12 to L3, and the right kidney usually lies slightly lower than the left in order to accommodate...
20: ... cotransport and [[countercurrent exchange|countertransport]] mechanisms. The final solution is then excreted...
39: ...have numerous [[mitochondria]], enabling [[active transport]] to take place by the energy supplied by [[adeno...
93: ...c condition characterized by abnormal and dangerously high levels of urea, creatinine, various body wa... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
19: ... accessible genetic material and become a compact transport form. Eventually, the two matching [[chromatid]]s...
188: ...s do not cause disease in carriers, such as [[translocations]], or [[chromosomal inversions]], althoug...
192: ...ms are decreased muscle tone, asymmetrical skull, slanting eyes and mental retardation. - Cycling (1157 bytes)
1: ...s a [[recreation]], a [[sport]], and a means of [[transport]] across land. It involves riding [[bicycle]]s, [...
4: '''Utility cycling and slow recreation'''
5: * [[Bicycle transportation engineering]] - 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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