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- Formula One (29650 bytes)
2: ... Prix|2004]] [[Monaco Grand Prix]], one of the nineteen annual Formula One races]]
7: ..., on custom-constructed courses or closed-off street circuits.
9: ...rope]], which undoubtedly remains its leading market, but races have also been held in the [[Americas]...
22: ...rrari]]. Though [[Stirling Moss]] was able to compete with him regularly, Fangio is remembered for dom...
26: ...nwealth]] drivers won twelve world championships between [[1962]] and [[1973]]. - Computer (32773 bytes)
16: ...lved by computers, and in doing so founded [[theoretical computer science]].
20: ... brain which recognizes that those patterns form letters and numbers, and attaches meaning to them. A...
22: ==Etymology==
24: ...ers were introduced by the OED2 to differentiate between the different types of machine. These qualifi...
26: ...ter]]" for definitions, translations and detailed etymology. - Ship (18843 bytes)
2: ...'ship''' is a large, sea-going [[watercraft]], sometimes with multiple decks. A ship usually has suffi...
10: ...erchant ships for the purpose of tolls, taxation, etc.
14: ...neer]]s to derive a fairly simple [[formula]] to determine the position of a line on the side of any s...
21: ...]], followed in [[Europe]] by the 45-foot [[PS Comet]] of [[1812]]. Steam propulsion progressed consid...
25: ...wer or [[motor]]s; one exception, ''[[Queen Elizabeth 2]]'' of [[1968]], started with steam turbines b... - Forest (3705 bytes)
4: ...e carbon-sink, oxygen-release, habitat, and soil-retention functions. Therefore, Earth's forests const...
8: ... canopy, which allows some sunlight to penetrate between the trees (see also: [[savanna]]).
17: ...n terms of leaf longevity of the major species (whether they are [[evergreen]] or [[deciduous]]). [[B...
25: {{Commons|Forest}} - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
19: population_note = 7,533,384 ([[metropolitan area|metro area]]) |
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35: The first [[Europe]]ans to settle in San Francisco were the [[Spain|Spanish]], i...
37: ...came a [[Underground culture|counterculture]] magnet in the second half of the 20th century. It was a ... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...[447 BC]] and the building was substantially completed by [[438 BC]], but work on the decorations cont...
11: ...e curves is to make the temple look even more symmetrical than it actually is.
13: ...etres on the east and west ends, and of 110 millimetres on the sides.
19: ...r possession of the land of [[Attica]]. [[Metope|Metopes]] ran along the outer frieze of all four side...
23: ...ient [[Greek temple]]s appeals to the modern aesthetic, the Parthenon, like all ancient buildings, was... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
4: ... [[Ides of March]] was the catalyst for a second set of civil wars, which marked the end of the [[Roma...
6: ...life are recorded by later historians such as [[Suetonius]], [[Plutarch]], and [[Dio Cassius|Cassius D...
15: ...he dangers of letting Caesar live. According to Suetonius, the dictator in relenting on Caesar’s...
17: ...us, he played a pivotal role in the siege of [[Miletus]]. During the course of the battle Caesar showe...
19: ...ability to speak better than Caesar?" Aiming at rhetorical perfection, Caesar traveled to [[Rhodes]] i... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...tional Socialist German Workers Party]] (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
22: ...propaganda during the Second World War when pamphlets bearing the phrase "Heil Schicklgruber" were air...
24: ... in the [[15th century]] and were not allowed to return until well after Maria Schicklgruber's alleged...
25: ...h school (''Realschule'') in Linz, he failed completely and had to repeat the grade. His teachers repo...
35: ... shelter]], and by the beginning of [[1910]] had settled permanently into a house for poor working men... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ... Independence''', was a [[war]] fought primarily between [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] an...
5: ...of a scene painted by A.M. Willard in the late nineteenth century that came to be known as ''The Spiri...
15: ...urse of the war. Fewer than 20,000 of these ever set foot in America. The war was far from Britain's g...
19: ... Europe, the war was often regarded as a scuffle between the poorer part of the British military and E...
23: ...served in northern American militias from the outset, but this was forbidden in the South, where slave... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
20: ...,857 ([[List of metropolitan areas by population|metropolitan area]]) |
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37: ...leave little evidence of their existence. Their diet was dominated with [[acorn]]s taken from the plen...
42: ...l layout of the city. However, a bitterness grew between the elder Sutter and his son as Sacramento be... - Boise, Idaho (9777 bytes)
11: mayor = [[David Bieter]] |
12: area = 165.7 [[square kilometre|km²]] (64.0 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
17: metro pop = 332,000 |
26: ...etropolitan area]]. Boise's elevation is 2,842 feet.
30: ... mayors of Boise|Mayor of Boise]] is [[David H. Bieter]]. - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
11: mayor = [[Bart Peterson]] |
12: area = 966.3 [[square kilometre|km²]] (373.1 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
17: metro pop = 1.5 million |
29: ...ny|German]] architect [[Bruno Schmitz]], was completed on the site in [[1901]].
31: ...Canal]] to the [[Ohio River]], completing a link between [[Lake Erie]] in the State of Ohio with the p... - Lansing, Michigan (6961 bytes)
15: area = 91.3 [[square kilometer|km²]] (35.2 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
20: metro pop = 455,836|
29: ...here the [[Grand River (Michigan)|Grand River]] meets the [[Red Cedar River (Michigan)|Red Cedar River...
33: ..., the city has a total area of 91.3 [[square kilometre|km²]] (35.2 [[square mile|mi²]]). 90...
39: ... 35.8% are [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 17.0% have a female householder with no husba... - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
2: ...,743. The Salt Lake City-[[Ogden, Utah|Ogden]] [[metropolitan area]], defined as [[Salt Lake County, U...
15: ...ed in the East. Upon arrival their religious prophet [[Brigham Young]] reportedly stated, "This is the...
17: ... The [[United States]] [[Congress]] rebuffed the settlers in [[1850]] and established the [[Utah Terri...
19: [[Image:Salt_lake_city_main_street_c1920_pc.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Salt Lake City circ...
20: ... found that it had been evacuated. This division set up [[Camp Floyd]] approximately 40 mi (65 km) sou... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...''Rossiya'' or ''Rossija''), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern [[Europe]] and...
4: ...oviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR).
6: ...ble, but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
13: ...vading [[Goths]], [[Huns]], and Turkic [[Avars]] between the third and sixth centuries CE. The Iranian...
19: ...rthern part of Russia together with [[Novgorod]] retained some degree of autonomy during the time of t... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
18: ...ting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance between members of various creeds and sects. He was b...
20: ... which he viewed as "a land of philosophers and poets, the very centre of civilization."
22: ...ect spelling of the verb in the UK and Indian varieties of English --->
23: ...ans he met were members of the [[Theosophical Society]], which had been founded in 1875 by [[H.P. Blav...
25: ...rning to Rajkot to make a modest living drafting petitions for litigants but was forced to close down ... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...homas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[Nati...
12: ...cted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommended...
14: ... was exposed to European scientific and critical methods during the tour in contrast to the [[scholast...
16: ...r debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he consid...
20: ...ng treatise, how Men were moved to enter into society, and argued how this must be regulated if Men we... - Native American (42651 bytes)
1: ...[Sioux]] in traditional dress including [[war bonnet]], about 1908]]
3: ... number of distinct [[tribe]]s, [[state]]s, and [[ethnic group]]s, many of them still enduring as poli...
5: ...Canada]]). The latter share their cultural and genetic commonality with other arctic peoples not nativ...
7: ... Canadians who belong to the same cultural and genetic mega-group of Amerindians mentioned above. The ...
19: ...] from [[Siberia]] across the [[Bering Strait]], between 17,000–11,000 years ago. - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
1: ...he [[Death Valley Pupfish]] - a survivor of much wetter times.
3: ...ey, helping to make it famous and the subject or set of numerous [[book]]s, [[radio]] programs, [[tele...
5: ...ay. Valleys filled with sediment and, during the wet times of [[ice age]]s, with [[lake]]s, such as [[...
7: ==Geographic setting==
38: ...flash flood]]s which remodel the landscape and sometimes create ephemeral very shallow lakes. - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ...ns and church bodies). His call to the Church to return to the teachings of the [[Bible]] resulted in ...
19: ...ing risen from the [[peasantry]], his father was determined to see his son ascend to [[civil service]]...
23: ... [[lightning bolt]] struck near to him as he was returning to school. Terrified, he cried out, "Help,[...
26: ... to serve others through prayer for their souls. Yet peace with God escaped him. He devoted himself to...
28: ... Bachelor's degree in the ''[[Sentences]]'' by [[Peter Lombard]] (the main textbook of theology in the...
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