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- Formula One (29650 bytes)
11: ...ration Internationale de l'Automobile]], and is generally promoted and controlled by [[Bernie Eccleston...
26: ...en [[Colin Chapman]] entered F1 as a chassis designer and later founder of [[Lotus (car)|Lotus]], [[Bri...
30: ...vided enormous downforce and greatly increased cornering speeds.
67: ... and their respective teams in each race. The winner of the two annual championships are the driver an...
104: ...ing the ability of barriers to safely absorb the energy of a crash. - Computer (32773 bytes)
6: ==General principles==
76: ... colloquial usage usually restricts the term to general-purpose machines.
78: ====General-purpose computers====
79: ...eoretically able to emulate, albeit slowly, any general-purpose computer that may be built in the futur...
81: ...t computer, but they all had limited utility as general-purpose problem-solving devices and their desig... - Ship (18843 bytes)
12: ... Plimsoll|Merchant Shipping Act of 1876]], ship-owners could load their vessels until their decks were ...
21: ...]]. This facilitated a generation of high-speed liners in the first half of the [[20th century]] and re...
23: ...s period too, heavy [[fuel oil]] came into more general use and began to replace [[coal]] as the fuel o...
29: ==General terminology==
52: ...approximately horizontal surfaces in the ship's general structure. Unlike flats, they are a structural ... - Forest (3705 bytes)
6: ...is too high, or mankind has intervened. Forests generally contain a large number of different tree spec...
17: ...forest]]s occupy the [[subarctic]] zone and are generally evergreen and needle-leaved. [[Temperate]] z...
25: {{Commons|Forest}}
27: ===General=== - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
79: ...ighborhood was an important publisher of [[Beat Generation]] literature. Some of the story of the evolv...
89: ... Cash" program where he plans to end the city's generous welfare policies towards the homeless and inst...
97: ...ficials were formally indicted, they were soon exonerated, but with considerable damage to their reputa...
119: ...nounced during the month of September, which is generally the warmest, most summer-like month of the ye...
227: While most cities in California are ''General Law Cities'', San Francisco is one of a few ''C... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...n of the 5th century BC. It was built under the general supervision of the sculptor [[Phidias]], who al...
13: ...tres in diameter and are 10.4 metres high. The corner columns are slightly larger in diameter. The styl...
31: ...rary to subsequent mythology, the Ottomans were generally respectful of ancient monuments in their terr...
66: {{commons|Parthenon}} - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
11: ...s|Julia]], married [[Gaius Marius]], a talented general and reformer of the Roman army. Marius became o...
15: Thus, when Sulla emerged as the winner of this civil war and began his program of proscr...
23: ...ons, since Caesar insisted on parading Marius's funeral mask. Although Caesar was very fond of both wom...
30: ...building a relationship with Rome’s great general would play into his hands later.
58: ...g relationships with Rome. For the most part, a general peace had reigned between the tribes and Rome f... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
24: ...ewish or Czech ancestors. Historians such as [[Werner Maser]] and [[Ian Kershaw]] argue this was imposs...
33: ...was more interested in the operas of [[Richard Wagner]] than in politics.
35: ... money by painting tourist postcards of Vienna scenery. His anti-Semitism during this period has been d...
45: ...Haiden, 1937). However, historian [[Sebastian Haffner]] refers to Hitler's experience at the front as h...
60: ...turmabteilung|SA]]. Another admirer was wartime General [[Erich Ludendorff]]. Hitler decided to use Lud... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ... for only a few weeks or months at a time, were generally reluctant to go very far from home, and would...
23: ...but this was forbidden in the South, where slaveowners feared arming slaves. [[John Murray, 4th Earl of...
31: ...l government]] of [[Massachusetts]]. Lieutenant General [[Thomas Gage]], already the [[commander-in-chi...
33: On the night of [[18 April]] [[1775]], General Gage sent 900 men to seize munitions stored by ...
35: ...thumb|300px|left|''The Death of [[Joseph Warren|General Warren]] at the Battle of Bunker's Hill'' ([[J... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
42: .... He hired topographical engineer [[William H. Warner]] to draft the official layout of the city. Howev...
44: ...t of Sacramento originally laid out by William Warner is situated just east and south of where the [[Am...
61: ...cal miles northeast of San Francisco) when a schooner loaded with iron and steel arrived at the wharf i...
78: ...rican Football|WLAF]] and the [[Sacramento Gold Miners]] of the [[Canadian Football League|CFL]]. At on...
125: ...ummers. The area usually has low humidity. Rain generally falls only between November and March, with t... - Boise, Idaho (9777 bytes)
92: ...a large complex in Boise which specializes in scanners and printers and is one of the largest employers...
100: {{Commons|Boise|Boise}} - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
29: ... the Governor's mansion. It was used as a market commons for over six years. Although an expensive Governo...
37: ...l Commissioners, and the Board of County Commissioners. Through the Klan, Stephenson ruled over the Sta...
39: ...on to a mostly African-American crowd in a poor inner-city Indianapolis neighborhood. While rioting br...
41: ...troduced in the 2005 legislative session of the General Assembly which would have further consolidated ...
47: ...mbol.) Four diagonal streets pass through the corners of the Square but stop one to five blocks (depen... - Lansing, Michigan (6961 bytes)
50: ...ld later found [[Oldsmobile]], which became a [[General Motors]] division in [[1908]].
56: * [[General Motors]] has several manufacturing plants in an...
84: {{commons|Lansing, Michigan}} - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
24: ... recent government officials has been combating inner-city decay. The city lost population from the [[1...
40: ...rley's Canyon]] opens up at the very southeast corner of the city proper near [[Canyon Rim, Utah|Canyon...
55: ...uth and east-west. Its origin is the southeast corner of [[Temple Square]], the block containing the [[...
95: |Van Blair Turner||2nd district||2007
123: ...b|suburban]] economic competition, resulting in inner-city decay. Large family sizes and low housing va... - Russia (28007 bytes)
37: In the mid and late 1980s General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] introduced [[gl...
67: ... islands) and an [[exclave]] (at the southeast corner of the Baltic Sea).
108: ...he former Soviet economy was, Russian people in general after the mid 1950's lived much better than the...
118: ...t for over 80% of exports, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world prices. In recent years, h...
176: {{Commons|Russia}} - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
15: ...story of my experiments with truth" reveals his inner persona and reflections on his early life.
29: At this point in his life, Gandhi was a mild-mannered, diffident, politically indifferent individual....
33: ... Indian protesters finally forced South African General [[Jan Christian Smuts]] to negotiate a compromi...
42: ... the campaign of mass civil disobedience. Now vulnerable, Gandhi was arrested on [[March 10]], [[1922]...
48: ...itish Government agreed to set all political prisoners free in return for the suspension of the civil d... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
34: ...from human passions. The work was closed with a general "Review and Conclusion," in direct response to ...
62: ... problems that often waylaid self-sufficient beginners, his interest was limited to geometry and he nev...
68: ...ch, so as to put his critics off the scent. No sooner had Wallis publicly refuted the solution than Hob...
70: ...''Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty, Manners and Religion of Thomas Hobbes''. In this biograp...
80: ...e ''Leviathan''." ({{Web reference|title=House of Commons Journal Volume 8|work=British History Online|URL=... - Native American (42651 bytes)
19: ...] and [[genetics|genetic]] evidence, scientists generally agree that most Native Americans descend from...
65: ...ed in [[1778]]. In [[1779]] Congress sent Major General [[John Sullivan]] on what has become known as t...
72: Conflicts generally known at the time as "[[Indian Wars]]" broke ...
87: ...rican]] population. A law passed by the state's General Assembly recognized only two races, "white" and...
95: ...overnment. [[Tribal sovereignty]] has become a cornerstone of American [[jurisprudence]], and at least ... - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
3: ...able ore to be mined, however, was [[borax]]; a mineral used to make [[soap]] and an important industri...
9: ...range]]s. These and adjacent valleys follow the general trend of [[Basin and Range]] topography with on...
41: ...mong the largest in the world and are rich in [[mineral]]s, such as [[borax]] and various [[salt]]s and...
60: ...e source of borax. The primary source of borate minerals gathered from Death Valley's playas is the 6-4...
63: ...ver. One was an out of work [[Ireland | Irish]] miner named Jack Keane and the other was a one-eyed Bas... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
31: ...]]. It is only this righteousness that makes a sinner just before God. Terms like ''[[penance]]'' and ...
39: ...the clergy. Because he believed that they also exonerated deeds ''not yet committed'', they also encour...
53: ...uld be better informed" and then (Nov. 28) to a general [[Ecumenical Councils|council]]. Luther now dec...
61: ...ed the priesthood of all meaning other than the general priesthood taught in the Bible, and cast doubt ...
66: ...reunion with the Bohemians; besides demanding a general reform of public morality and denying transubst...
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