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- Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
28: ...ch has come to delineate the interior of the city from the surrounding suburbs. This has given rise to...
33: ...stern & Atlantic Railroad]], for lines connecting from [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Chattanoo...
38: ... of the economy away from agriculture and a shift from the "Old South" attitudes of slavery and rebell...
41: ... commuted in 1915, riots broke out in Atlanta and Frank was [[lynching|lynched]].
43: ...ters for Disease Control]] was founded in Atlanta from the old Malaria Control in War Areas offices an... - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
32: ...e perfect opportunity to exercise their religious freedom.
34: ...olders who purchased much of the surrounding land from Stacy's family. This name later was shortened t...
42: ...on Makes, the World Takes" displayed on the Lower Free Bridge just north of the [[United States Highwa...
52: ...st ongoing renovation project has caused backlash from city residents and officials seeing as how Tren...
58: ...owever, overall Trenton is still predominately [[African-American]]. - Columbus, Ohio (27104 bytes)
6: ...is the [[county seat]] of [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin County]]. It also extends into [[Delaware C...
20: county = [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin]], [[Delaware County, Ohio|Delaware]],<br> ...
35: ... in Delaware, [[Capital University]] in Bexley, [[Franklin University]], the [[Columbus College of Art...
48: ...wn that resembles jumbled blocks, or a train yard from overhead. The convention center was designed b...
53: ...entally), so house numbers increase with distance from downtown. This rigid street grid breaks down th... - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (37869 bytes)
7: ...ity in the nation, according to a [[2003]] report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The city's population o...
61: ...rom [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 3.89% from two or more races. 16.15% of the population we...
67: ...utskirts of the city is quick and mostly gridlock-free because of the city's interstate system (Mayor ...
73: ...homa City to Edmond, and [[Interstate 235]] spurs from I-44 in North Central OKC into downtown Oklahom...
87: [[Image:downtown_OKC_from_deep_duece.jpeg|left|Skyscrapers of Downtown Ok... - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
4: ...nearby [[Great Salt Lake]], the city is separated from the lake's shore by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]...
15: ...an isolated area to practice their religion, away from the persecution they had faced in the East. Upo...
22: ...Salt Lake]]. A railroad was connected to the city from the Transcontinental Railroad in [[1870]] makin...
24: ...bating inner-city decay. The city lost population from the [[1960s]] through the [[1980s]], but recove...
31: ...jor construction projects were initiated. Local [[freeway]]s were expanded and repaired and a [[light ... - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
7: ...me, Soviet-era management practices, a decaying infrastructure, and inefficient supply systems hinder ...
9: ... Economic policy was made according to directives from the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Commu...
13: ...e fulfilled. Responsibility for production flowed from the top down. At the national level, some seven...
19: ...od. But other fundamental parts of the economic infrastructure, such as commercial banking and authori...
21: ...ake it difficult to convert economic measurements from rubles to dollars to make statistical compariso... - Roller coaster (14862 bytes)
9: ... lower as some mechanical energy is lost due to [[friction]]. Then the train goes down again, and up, ...
15: ..., it uses whatever method is available to keep it from entering. This can cause a [[cascade]] effect w...
17: ...es regarding when to release a newly-loaded train from the station. One common pattern, used on rides...
21: ...first loop track was probably also built in Paris from an English design in 1846, with a single-person...
23: ...of the "lift hill." By [[1912]], the first [[underfriction]] coaster was developed by [[John Miller (e... - Crochet (5214 bytes)
3: ...k.'' It describes the process of creating fabric from a length of cord, yarn, or thread with a hooked...
7: ...ed entirely of loops and is only secured when the free end of the strand is pulled through the final l...
10: ...cecrochet1800s.jpg|frame|right|Irish lace crochet from the 1800's]]
12: Some theorize that crochet evolved from traditional practices in Arabia, South America,...
14: ...o the tambour hooks used in tambour embroidery in France in the seventeenth century, and contend that ... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
8: ...le, a typical rail car can hold up to 125 tons of freight with this and the weight of the car on two f...
9: ...0-70% less energy to transport a given tonnage of freight (or given number of passengers), than does [...
11: ...le tracked rail line can carry more passengers or freight in a given amount of time than a four-laned ...
15: ...save money (see [[Beeching Axe]]). Conversely, US freight railways have consolidated and become more e...
22: ... system on which to run. This system includes [[infrastructure]] such as tracks, [[railroad switch]]es... - Harp (23216 bytes)
2: ...and [[strings (music)|strings]]. Some, known as ''frame harps'', also have a forepillar; those lacking...
4: Harps are found in [[Africa]], [[Europe]], [[North]] and [[South America]]...
8: ...rp and modern concert harp. ''Public domain image from Websters Dictionary 1911.'' <small>([[Media:Har...
12: ... The oldest documented references to the harp are from [[30th century BC|3000 BC]] in [[Mesopotamia]] ...
24: ...(1.2 m) wide at the widest point. The notes range from three octaves below middle C to three and a hal... - Piranha (4128 bytes)
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26: In the [[Maroni River]] in [[Suriname]]/[[French Guiana]] a large kind, weighing up to five [[...
29: ...and attacks on humans are extremely rare. Natives frequently swim in piranha infested water without at...
31: ...re are, however, documented cases of people dying from other causes and then being consumed by piranha... - New Deal (82408 bytes)
2: ...ams implemented between 1933-37 under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] with the goal of relief, rec...
7: ...nses to the critical situation."<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, ''Two Lucky People'' (1998) p. 59.</ref>
11: ... Milton. [http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/friedman.php ''Interview with John Hawkins''. Right ...
13: ...y, big city machines, labor unions, European and African-American minorities (now called "ethnics"), s...
18: ... 1929–1933, unemployment in the U.S. soared from 4% of the workforce to 25%, while manufacturing... - Guitar (36953 bytes)
2: ...es [[steel]] strings and more guide dots on the [[fretboard]].]]
6: ... '''neck'''. Typically, a '''headstock''' extends from the neck for tuning.
16: ..., is a combination of two words. "''Guit''" comes from the Sanskrit word ''"Sangeeta"'' meaning "music...
17: ...n in Origin, and so are the ancestral instruments from which the Westernized guitar derrived. The word...
18: ...n of the sitar. One theory states that it evolved from a purely Indian instrument called the ''Chitra ... - Steel guitar (2051 bytes)
6: ... guitars (commonly nickel-plated brass), although frequently played using a metal (or glass) slide, ar... - Ur (11926 bytes)
3: ...erian mythology]], and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined...
9: ...e. Scholars believe that, as the climate changed from relatively moist to drought in the early [[3rd ...
15: ...roved through [[irrigation]]. His code of laws (a fragment was identified in [[Istanbul]] in [[1952]])...
19: ...the ziggurat. However the city started to decline from around [[550 BC]] and was no longer inhabited a...
33: ...vated an interesting Babylonian building, not far from the temple, and part of an ancient Babylonian [... - Sword (24928 bytes)
2: ...h German]] ''Schwert'', literally "wounding tool" from a [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-Eu...
8: [[Image:Sword of Gou Jian.jpg|frame|[[Sword of Gou Jian]] as seen on a Chinese hig...
10: ...opotamia]]. Swords from the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] from ca. [[1400 BC]] show characteristic spiral patt...
11: Sword production in [[China]] is attested from the Bronze Age [[Shang Dynasty]].
14: [[Iron]] swords became increasingly common from the [[13th century BC]]. The [[Hittites]], the... - Time (15299 bytes)
9: ...ndard [[unit]] for time is the [[SI]] [[second]], from which larger units are defined like the [[minut...
23: ... is part of a fundamental [[abstract]] conceptual framework (together with [[space]] and [[number]]) w...
27: ... think (and talk) about the world. Another way to frame this is to ask, "Can time itself be measured, ...
31: ...tention between [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]. Newton believed time was, l...
33: ...s, but rather both are elements of a systematic [[framework]] we use to structure our experience. Spa... - Wildfire (23185 bytes)
2: ...n Bernardino, California]] Mountains (image taken from the [[International Space Station]])]]
16: ...researchers discovered that exposure to [[smoke]] from burning plants actually promotes [[germination]...
18: ...erty]], particularly when they have reached urban-fringe communities, destroying many homes and causin...
30: ... of water in plants is balanced by water absorbed from the soil. Below this threshold, the plants dry ...
43: ...aft]] caused by a large wildfire will draw in air from surrounding areas. These self-generated winds c... - Virus (17572 bytes)
7: The original word comes from the [[Latin]] ''virus'' referring to [[poison]]...
14: Viruses form when molecules are assembled from [[organic compound]]s providing complex, micros...
26: ...sid may be enclosed in a lipid envelope, although frequently spherical viruses are not enveloped, and ...
29: ...sis]], the process whereby cells take in material from the external environment. After entering the ce...
43: #Lysis: Assembled viruses are released from the cell and can now infect other cells, and th... - Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
5: ...[[Tunisia]], showing the mythic triumphant return from [[India]] of the [[Greek mythology|Greek]] god ...
11: ...pread across Austria in the following years. In [[France]], the first Christmas tree was introduced in...
17: ...ober]] (which every year attracts adverse comment from much of the shopping public). The most common t...
19: ...d by soldiers from Newcastle in liberating Bergen from [[Nazi]] occupation.
24: ...In the past, Christmas trees were often harvested from wild forests, but now almost all are commercial...
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