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  1. Airline (29546 bytes)
    117: ...iers usually offer straightforward, preannounced, simple prices. They can do this by quoting prices for ea...
    133: ...lative appeal of different airports and some long distance flights may need to operate from the one with the...
  2. Windmill (7108 bytes)
    16: ...e water for a home and other uses, but many had a simple spout allowing water to flow away in a trough by ...
    18: ... level. A suction tube usually continued a short distance more. This arrangement allowed wells as deep as ...
  3. Ostrich (8135 bytes)
    50: ...myth may have resulted from the fact that, from a distance, when ostriches feed they appear to be burying th...
    58: ...egg (biology)|eggs]] in a single communal nest, a simple pit scraped in the ground and about 30–60 c...
  4. Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
    64: ...es, he laboriously taught himself to walk a short distance by swiveling his torso while supporting himself w...
    140: ...t]], the U.S. Army Commander in California, whose simple attitude was that "a Jap is a Jap." Opponents of ...
  5. Catapult (3598 bytes)
    3: ...]]s using an arm to hurl a [[projectile]] a great distance. Any machine that hurls an object can be conside...
    12: ...rm, very much like a giant [[crossbow]]. A small simple version is used as a [[toy]].
  6. Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
    7: The earliest monuments consist of simple [[Tumulus|burial mounds]], the precursors to [[py...
    13: The Maya participated in long distance trade in Mesoamerica and possibly further lands. ...
    41: ... utilized to mimic the appearance and feel of the simple Maya hut. Though not an effective tool to increa...
    58: ...sentations of rulers that could be seen from vast distances. Beneath the proud temples sat the pyramids tha...
  7. Digital photography (33923 bytes)
    22: ...for some linear array type at the highest-end and simple [[web cam]]s at the lowest-end, a [[digital memor...
    50: *The ability to shoot RAW captures: in simple terms, this is the ability to have a file that co...
    70: ...eras require no batteries and, being mechanically simple, are able to operate in extreme environments.
    193: ...onger lens on a 35mm film camera shot at the same distance from the subject, the equivalent length of which ...
  8. Pinhole camera (6994 bytes)
    19: Where d is diameter, f is focus length (distance from hole to photographic film) and <math>\lambda...
    23: ...ing will definitely be in focus. Depending on the distance from the [[aperture]] to the [[film plane]], the ...
    27: ...the photographer for a particular purpose. In its simplest form, the photographic pinhole camera consists ...
    32: ...d with a sliding film holder or back so that the distance between the film and the pinhole can be adjusted....
    40: ...ll used to make the hole. The focal length is the distance from the film to the pinhole.
  9. Judaism (54799 bytes)
    160: ...Bible and what they view as the Peshat: "Plain or Simple Meaning"; and do not accept non-biblical writings...
    272: ... not based on any doctrinal dispute, although the distance did result in minor differences in practice and p...
  10. Guitar (36953 bytes)
    31: ...d designed with gears to allow finer tuning, some simpler designs simply involve wooden pegs held in place...
    41: ... nut also helps determine the '''action''' -- the distance between the fretboard and the strings.The nut's q...
    44: ...ut; once fingered, it will vibrate only along the distance between the saddle and the fret directly before t...
    65: ... of the sound like volume or tone. These at their simplest consist of passive components such as [[potenti...
    72: ... for raising or lowering the bridge to adjust the distance between the strings and the fretboard (action), a...
  11. United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
    29: ...r to censure its members; censure requires only a simple majority, but does not remove a member from offic...
    219: ...e House floor, typically travelling the one-block distance from their offices by foot or by electric trolley...
  12. Navigation (15650 bytes)
    57: ...sition. The math required for sight reduction is simple addition and subtraction, if sight-reduction tabl...
    69: ...es using the well-known speed of light to measure distance from at least three satelites. This can be accomp...
    97: ...0.2 minutes of arc, an error that translates to a distance of about 0.2 nautical miles (400 m).
    105: ... An analogous system for aircraft, [[VOR]] and [[Distance Measuring Equipment|DME]], was developed around t...
    122: *[[Great circle distance]] explains how to find that quantity if one knows...
  13. Literature (25676 bytes)
    53: ...e to any particular formal structures (other than simple [[grammar]]); "non-poetic writing," writing, perh...
    341: ...w.dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Distance_Learning/ Distance Learning]
  14. Moose (8141 bytes)
    16: ...anner. The lower prong of this fork may be either simple, or divided into two or three tines, with some fl...
    20: ... phase of the common elk in which the antlers are simpler, and recall those of the East Siberian race.
  15. Platypus (21900 bytes)
    41: Outside the mating season, platypuses live in simple burrows in the ground. After mating, though, the ...
    60: ...pulses, which would also allow for computation of distance from the difference in time of arrival of the two...
  16. Sumer (14409 bytes)
    66: Sumerians used slings and simple bows. (the [[recurve bow]] is a later invention.)
    71: ...ctices and beliefs varied widely through time and distance, with each city having its own twist on mythology...
  17. Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
    9: ... they constructed by stretching animal skins over simple wooden frames. They had outdoor hearths for cooki...
    41: ...he Bronze Age these ornaments consisted of rather simple crescents and disks of thin gold sheet. Later the...
    45: ...est, covered with a stone slab and buried a short distance below the surface. Numerous stone circles were al...
  18. Viking Age (10637 bytes)
    10: In 911, the French king, [[Charles the Simple]], was able to make an agreement with the viking ...
    52: Besides allowing the Vikings to travel far distances, their longships gave them tactical advantages i...
    58: ... from modern satellite measurements, even on long distances such as across the [[Atlantic Ocean]].
  19. Avalanche (25211 bytes)
    79: ...before beacons became available. The principle is simple - an aprox. 10m long, red cord (similar to parach...
    82: ...audible beeps that rescuers interpret to estimate distance to a victim. To be effective, beacons require som...
    84: ...tempt to give visual indications of direction and distance to victims and require less practice to be useful...
    103: ...he string would be quickly found and indicate the distance and direction to the victim.
    110: ...use the surviving witnesses failed to do even the simplest search.
  20. Gallium (9500 bytes)
    145: ...]]. Each atom has only one nearest neighbor (at a distance of 244 [[picometre|pm]]) and six other neighbors ...

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