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- Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
9: ...Gripping must be an even and gradual process in order to avoid bringing the car to cable speed too qui...
10: [[Image:Cable_car.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
11: ...sembles a very large pair of [[pliers]], and considerable strength and skill are required to operate t...
16: ... operation was the [[IRT Ninth Avenue Line|West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway]] in [[New York]], whi...
19: ...l for other cable car transit systems, and this model is often known as the ''Hallidie Cable Car''. - Acropolis (1763 bytes)
4: ... hill with precipitous sides, and these early citadels became in many parts of the world the nuclei of...
6: ... many in [[Asia Minor]], or even Castle Hill at [[Edinburgh]]).
10: ...b|250px|Illustration of the Acropolis, Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
12: ...he world developed other names for the high [[citadel]] or [[alcazar]], which often reinforced a natur... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ...m a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. Right: detail of a steamer]]
3: ...erley'']] leaving [[Dunoon]] on the [[Firth of Clyde]].]]
13: ==Early development==
15: ... boatmen took exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up.
17: ...t. The boat sank, and while he made an improved model he does not seem to have had much success, thoug... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
2: ...es the history of '''[[Christianity]]''' and provides links to relevant topics.
8: ...e Christian claim of exclusivity, that only its understanding of "Jewish" teaching is valid, led to an...
10: ...s [[Jesus]] (the [[Incarnation]]), and became the deliverer of both Israel and of all mankind. Christi...
29: ...t to follow what would later be called the [[Noahide Laws]] subset of the [[Law of Moses]]. The [[Dida...
32: ...[[Syria]] is the site of the earliest discovered identifiable Christian house church. - Quran (41479 bytes)
6: ... believe they were revealed) but in a different order, roughly by size, also believed by Muslims to be...
8: == The Qur'an as divided for reading and recitation ==
10: ...into four quarters. A different structure is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling ...
14: ...at time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Is...
16: ...ography soon became important sciences, and the model for the literary language remains to this day th... - Mid-Atlantic Ridge (3017 bytes)
2: ...he '''Mid-Atlantic Ridge''' is a mostly [[water|underwater]] [[mountain range]] of the [[Atlantic Ocea...
10: #[[Gough Island]] ([[Edinburgh Peak]], 909 m, at 40°20'S, 10°00'W)
13: ... Heat from the magma causes the crust on either side of the rifts to expand, forming the ridges. The r... - Elijah McCoy (4371 bytes)
5: ...ted by machinery. He studied [[engineering]] in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] from age 16 and on his return to ...
7: ...whose technological descendants continued to be widely used into the 20th century. Lubricators were a ...
9: McCoy continued to refine his devices and design new ones, and after the turn of the century a...
11: ...State Asylum]] before his death, suffering from [[dementia]].
13: ...o named a street for him. These posthumous honors demonstrated his enduring legacy. - New Year's Eve (4555 bytes)
1: ...New_year_clipart_23.jpg||thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...tion held the day before [[New Year's Day]], on [[December 31]], the final day of the year. (See [[New...
17: ...e London Eye|London Eye]]. [[Bideford]] in North Devon is also famous for its New Years celebrations.
21: ...uy Lombardo]] and his Royal Canadians would serenade the United States from the ballroom of the [[Wald...
23: ... "the big apple" like the city itself; the custom derives from the time signal that used to be given a... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...38]]. Fully aware of the likely reaction, he confided only in close friends and researched to meet ant...
6: ...nts and animals, now including mankind in ''[[The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex]]'' ...
12: ''For details see [[Charles Darwin's education]].''
17: ...ool]]''. After finishing school, Darwin went to [[Edinburgh University]] in [[1825]] to study medicine.
19: ...ation'' Charles saw [[John James Audubon]] give a demonstration of his method of using wires to prop u... - Culture of Scotland (11420 bytes)
3: ...ts of nationhood not readily defined but readily identifiable.
9: ...the islands as part of a devolution of power from Edinburgh to Shetland and Orkney.
17: ... of Scots who went on to become [[leadership | leader]]s in their fields during the 18th and 19th cent...
19: ...a Scottish university's honours [[academic degree|degree]] takes four years of study as opposed to thr...
23: ... nor the Bank of England's notes rank as legal tender (as Scots law lacks the concept), however bankno... - Axumite Kingdom (5328 bytes)
3: ...o Amlak]], who killed the last Zagwe king and founded the [[Solomonid dynasty]] traced his ancestry to...
6: ...n Northern Ethiopia). Other important cities included Adulis and Matara, in what is today Eritrea.
14: ...pices]]. It utilised its position to profit in trade between various African ([[Nubia]]), Arabian ([[Y...
20: ...vileged position in international and regional trade, but it still had relatively good relations with ...
23: The Kingdom of Aksum developed its own [[alphabet]] ([[Geez]] or Ge'ez). - Theater (structure) (5978 bytes)
1: ...es and organize the theater space as well as provide facilities for the [[actor|actors]] and the tech ...
4: ...ornate, [[cathedral]]-like structures to simple undecorated rooms or [[black box theater]]s. Some thea...
7: ...heater, common terminology has been developed to identify the different areas of a theater building:
9: *The area hidden from the audience where sets, furniture and prop...
15: ...The rear of the stage is considered up-stage This derives from the raked stage of the Greek Theater (s... - Renewable energy (27996 bytes)
1: ... Neither fossil fuels nor nuclear power are considered to be renewable. For a discussion of this, ple...
3: ... long time-scale, are exploited at rates that may deplete these resources in the near future (see: [[H...
9: ...gy use in modern societies see [[Renewable energy development]].
11: == Defining renewable ==
12: ...s energy sources that don't technically meet this definition. - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
8: ...b|left|A large artificial [[Christmas tree]] outside a shopping mall in [[Hong Kong]]]]
10: ...mas-like festivities even though they do not consider themselves Christians. Many customs, including s...
12: ...acau]] designate Christmas as a public holiday on December 25. Both are former [[colony|colonies]] of ...
14: ...become increasingly prevalent during the month of December in large urban centers of mainland China, r...
20: ... of stores and buildings are displaying Christmas decorations. - Barrister (15976 bytes)
3: ... before the superior courts of that jurisdiction. Details vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
7: ...ted with US [[trial lawyer]]s in that they do not deal with the public (or lay clients) directly, but ...
9: ..., or by local or national [[government]] or in academic institutions.
13: A barrister's dress in court depends on whether the hearing is "robed" or not. Tr...
15: ...nd there is some pressure to adopt a more "modern" style of dress, with European-style gowns...
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