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- Lightning (33113 bytes)
35: ...m several different objects simultaneously, with only one connecting with the leader and forming the d...
65: ... One special type of intracloud lightning is commonly called an anvil crawler. Discharges of electric...
71: ... which is nothing more than a leader stroke with only one return stroke.
93: ...s date back to at least [[1886]]. However, it is only in recent years that fuller investigations have ...
133: ...fficient energy strike the atmosphere on average only once per 50 seconds per square kilometer. Measu... - Seismograph (4037 bytes)
6: ...es, but those on the other side of the Earth can only record P waves.
14: ...gists generally prefer a vertical seismograph if only one instrument is possible. - Cattle (12844 bytes)
17: ...le, genetic testing of the Dwarf Lulu breed, the only humpless "''Bos taurus''-type" cattle in Nepal, ...
21: ...e is then called a '''bullock''' or '''steer''', unless kept for draft purposes, in which case it is c...
35: ...orrect; cattle are totally colour-blind, and can only see in greyscale. The main source of this rumour...
52: ...ring pumps, and [[wagon]] drawing. Oxen were commonly used to skid logs, and sometimes are still in lo... - Horse tack (8580 bytes)
35: ... have very precise control of the horse; usually only very advanced horses and riders use double bridl...
95: *Irish martingale: Unlike the previous two martingales, this does not co... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
3: A '''banknote''' (more commonly known as a '''bill''' in the [[United States]] a... - Bird ringing (5302 bytes)
- Golf (35905 bytes)
12: ....) For the shortest holes a good player requires only one stroke to hit the ball to the green. On long...
40: ...eams of two players each, in which each team has only one ball and players alternate playing it. For e...
57: ...sition where it has come to rest after a stroke, unless a rule allows or demands otherwise (Rule 13-1)...
60: *a ball may only be replaced by another if it is destroyed, lost,...
73: *Parkland courses: typical inland courses, often resembling traditional British ... - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
5: ... [[Hockey stick|stick]] with a blade that is commonly curved at one end. Players may also redirect the...
19: ... typically two ''linesmen'', who are responsible only for calling offside and icing violations, and on...
40: ...iods'' of twenty minutes each, the clock running only when the puck is in play. In international play,...
48: ...t players may instead wear a visor that protects only their eyes, or no mask at all; however, some pro...
55: ...n interesting historical footnote, one of Lord Stanley's sons was instrumental in instituting ice hock... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
14: ...different from one another that they almost certainly must have been independent in origin. At this ti...
16: ...gence of complex state societies in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece]] and central [[Turkey]]. In China, p...
39: ...as almost all of [[Eurasia]]'s landmass, missing only [[western Europe]] and [[Japan]].
48: ...o one of the most remarkable forces growing from only a few followers to become the basis of a series ... - Shot put (2126 bytes)
- Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
23: ...deavoured to produce a telephone which would not only send musical notes, but articulate speech. With ...
25: ... range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the eighteen patents granted in his n...
39: ...otice of a patent application) of a similar kind only 2 hours after Bell had filed for his patent.
55: ...[decibel]] (dB), equal to 0.1 B, became more commonly used.
62: ...art. The sender consisted of a mirror directing sunlight onto the mouthpiece, where the light beam was... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...ffordable [[automobile]]s. This achievement not only revolutionized industrial production in the Unit... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
14: ...ng History Museum in Lyon, France.Gutenberg certainly introduced efficient methods into book productio...
26: ...vestments. Fust sued, and the court's ruling not only effectively bankrupted Gutenberg, it awarded con...
38: ...chment|vellum]], 1 copy of the [[New Testament]] only on vellum, 48 substantially complete integral co... - Airline (29546 bytes)
15: ...ates are not consistent in all regions, but certainly areas where deregulation provided more competiti...
26: ...achusetts|Boston]] to [[London]]. Pan Am was the only U.S. airline to go international before the 1940...
34: ...try began with [[Lufthansa]] in [[1926]], which, unlike other airlines at the time, became a major inv...
54: ...acity offerings, often swamping the new startup. Only [[America West Airlines]] Airline has remained a...
72: ...een hundreds of airlines start up (sometimes for only a brief operating period). This has produced far... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
72: Unlike capacitors that use a bulk dielectric made fro...
80: ... very low impedance at low frequencies. However, unlike aluminum electrolytics, they are intolerant of...
94: *In a capacitor [[microphone]] (commonly known as a condenser microphone), the diaphragm ...
103: ...es, unlike conventional batteries which last for only a few hundred or thousand recharge cycles. But c...
122: Capacitors are commonly used in [[Power supply|power supplies]] where th... - Ice skating (4786 bytes)
1: ...ut boots, tied to regular [[footwear]]). It is mainly done for [[recreation]] and as a [[sport]].
16: ...that a small child can skate on the ice as frictionlessly as a much heavier adult ice skater. The pres...
18: ...film]] of liquid water ranging in thickness from only a few molecules to thousands of molecules on top...
32: ...oonrijden or "fancy skating" (schoonrijden.rinkes.nl)] - Softball (19057 bytes)
30: ...ce is equidistant from home plate at all points, unlike the outfield fence in baseball, which is usual...
62: ...gloves, made of leather or similar material, but only the catcher and first baseman may wear mitts; mi...
74: ...batting second. Seven innings constitute a game, unless extra innings are required to break a tie.
78: ... falls to the ground anywhere in foul territory (unless two strikes have already been called) or if th...
90: ...der holding the ball touches a base which is the only base towards which the batter may run before the... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
18: ...olabe|treatise on the astrolabe]] for his son, mainly based on [[Messahalla]]. The same source was tra... - Lute (15915 bytes)
7: ...ility for the ''fretboard'' beneath the strings. Unlike most stringed instruments, the fretboard is mo...
9: ...historically made of ivory or bone, now more commonly of plastic. The frets are made of loops of gut t...
11: ...h the highest-pitched course usually consists of only a single string, called the ''chantrelle'' (Fren...
35: ...ound in museums or private collections. They are only rarely found in music stores, and generally must...
37: The lutes most commonly encountered today are the 8-course tenor lute in... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...#1495;תי or ''HTY'' in the consonant-only [[Hebrew language|Hebrew script]]), which are al...
37: ... written in the [[17th century BC]] but survived only as copies made in the [[14th century BC|14th]] a...
46: ... For this reason, all the kings' reigns passed mainly by struggles and wars with neighbouring Assyrian...
156: ...ple, and believe that the similarity in names is only a coincidence. In order to stress this distincti...
159: ...ew]] word for the Hurrians (''HRY'' in consonant-only script) became the name of the Hittites (''HTY''...
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