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- Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
11: ...st steam operated railway opens, carrying freight from a [[Colliery]] to a [[river port]].
29: *[[1888]] [[Frank J. Sprague|Frank Sprague]] installs the "trolleypole" [[trolley...
41: ...[1979]] High speed [[TGV]] trains introduced in [[France]], TGV trains travel at an average speed of 2...
43: ...d speed record for an electric train, is set in [[France]] by a TGV, which reaches a speed of 515 ... - Rowing (20818 bytes)
22: ...t, often with thousands of spectators for events. From the first [[Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race|Univ...
26: ... the [[United Kingdom]], the [[United States]], [[France]], [[Canada]], [[Germany]], [[Australia]] and...
30: ...made from [[wood]], shells are almost always made from a [[composite material]] (usually [[graphite-re...
46: ... qualifying for the next round. The losing boats from each heat may be given a second chance to quali...
48: ...nd race against the clock. Distances usually vary from 2,000 m to 7,000 m (although some races are ove... - Musical notation (19883 bytes)
1: ...sician. A score can be constructed (laboriously) from a complete set of parts and vice versa.
3: ...matic scale]], and duration is shown in beats and fractions of a beat.
8: ...f musical notation was practiced by the Egyptians from the 3rd millennium BC and by others in the Orie...
10: ... until approximately the [[4th century]] AD; many fragments of compositions using this notation surviv...
12: ...n as [[Visigothic neumes]], but its few surviving fragments have not yet been deciphered. - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
41: ...any songs and TV drama series presented Christmas from a lover's point of view, for example '[[Last Ch...
48: ...banese Muslims celebrate Christmas with Christian friends. A poll showed that around two thirds of th...
49: ...open all night for praying and people go to visit friends and families, often to villages in the mount...
54: ...ël]]". Most of Christmas Greetings are spoken in French like "[[Joyeux Noel|Joyeux Noël]]" or Englis...
62: ...rch Centre (also assistant parish priest of [[St. Francis Xavier]]'s Church) has lodged a formal compl... - Adolescence (13933 bytes)
4: ...ned tied to physical milestones. The word derives from the [[Latin]] verb ''adolescere'' meaning "to g...
15: ...'''tween''' has the same meaning. This word comes from the age being ''between'' that of a young child...
23: ... in the English language: that is to say, someone from the age of thirteen to the age of nineteen. The...
27: ...s well as cultural, economic, and systemic [[disenfrachisement]].
29: ...s illustrated wide discrepancies in the rates of African American and Latino youth incarceration in co... - Nautical chart (2955 bytes)
4: ...e chart to be used at sea or plotted on the chart from measurements taken at sea.
6: ...ween the line joining the two points and the line from one of the points to the north. - Modern architecture (3868 bytes)
4: ...utes Modern architecture itself, depending on the frame of reference of the historian.
19: ...s style - free plan, universal space, walls freed from the function of load bearing, cantilevers, glas...
21: ...duals ([[Le Corbusier]], [[Mies van der Rohe]], [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], [[Walter Gropius]]), movements... - Value (6452 bytes)
18: ...objects or things and that value derived entirely from the psychology of market participants.
52: ...Greed) is the core from which we operate or react from. Societies have values that are shared between... - Van (road vehicle) (3679 bytes)
5: ...ween a dry van, used to carry most goods, and a refrigerated van (a "reefer") used for cold goods. A r... - Opera (25153 bytes)
2: [[Image:GarnierOperaParis.jpg|frame|The foyer of [[Charles Garnier (architect)|Cha...
5: ...are accompanied by a [[musical ensemble]] ranging from a small instrumental ensemble to a full symphon...
7: ...ten part of an opera performance, particularly in France.
13: ...ntly performed of the genre in a context separate from its accompanying play, and has been transcribed...
20: ...n. A later work by Peri, ''[[Euridice]]'', dating from 1600, is the first opera score to have survived... - Vote (6234 bytes)
2: ...ge:Presidential-election-word-wall-animation.gif||frame|left|Vote. Animation provided by [http://class...
38: ...stream" options. However it is difficult to tell from the vote alone whether one positively inclined ...
52: *[[Suffrage]] - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
5: ...ody. The land forming the original District came from the states of Virginia and Maryland, but only t...
7: ...institutions. All of this has made Washington the frequent focal point of massive political demonstrat...
48: ...h their [[constituent]]s by distancing themselves from the negative image of an out-of-touch centraliz...
56: ...nce exempt from local property taxes, the city is frequently cash-strapped. Public services in the ci...
81: ... with work contributed by such noted figures as [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] and [[Daniel Burnham]]. Howe... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
9: ...|thumbnail|300px|Jerusalem and the Old City. View from the Mount of Olives]]
16: ...mbnail|150px|[[Archaeology|Archaeological]] ruins from [[King David]]'s time]]
30: ...G|right|thumb|150px|Sack of Jerusalem. A fragment from the [[Arch of Titus]], Rome.]]
34: ...stricting some Jewish practices. Angry at this affront, the Judeans again revolted led by [[Bar Kokhb...
36: ...city, except under a brief period of Persian rule from 614-629. - Karl Marx (38076 bytes)
1: [[Image:Kmarx.jpg|frame|right|Karl Marx]]
2: ...s of class struggle, summed up in the famous line from the introduction to the ''[[The Communist Manif...
7: ... in [[Germany]]). His father Herschel, descending from a long line of [[rabbi]]s, was a lawyer and his...
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18: ...nsorship was in place, and non-Lutherans suffered from religious discrimination. - Population (1881 bytes)
- Epistemology (18628 bytes)
1: '''Epistemology''', from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''episteme''...
7: ...stic attitude might believe that she will recover from her illness quickly, but even if this belief tu...
9: Knowledge, therefore, is distinguished from true belief by its '''justification''', and muc...
41: ...meaning of the terms it contains, and so it seems frivolous to ask for a justification for saying it i...
45: ... Kant]], and later given a more formal shape by [[Frege]]. [[Wittgenstein]] noted in the ''[[Tractatus... - Aspirin (9960 bytes)
1: [[Image:Aspirin.png|frame|A very old bottle of Aspirin]]
34: ...nd chills. The Reverend [[Edmund Stone]], a vicar from Chipping Norton in [[Oxfordshire]] [[England]],...
36: ... form in [[1828]] by [[Henri Leroux]], a [[France|French]] pharmacist, and [[Raffaele Piria]], an [[It...
38: ...ses. In 1897 one of the researches in the [[Bayer|Friedrich Bayer & Co.]] in [[Germany]], derivatized ...
46: ...is composed of a- (from the acetyl group) -spir- (from the ''spiraea'' flower) and -in (a common endin... - Temperature (22519 bytes)
6: ...ure difference does exist, heat will tend to move from the ''higher'' temperature system to the ''lowe...
8: ...ease in temperature corresponds to a loss of heat from the system. On the microscopic scale this heat ...
15: ...ype and quantity of [[thermal radiation]] emitted from a surface. One application of this effect is th...
21: ...ot really used much in practice, but is important from a theoretical standpoint is the '''gas thermome...
32: ...that the wind increases the rate of heat transfer from the body, resulting in a larger reduction in bo... - Lauren Bacall (3967 bytes)
5: ... debut in [[1944]]. Her stage surname is derived from her mother's [[Romania]]n maiden name.
7: ...l his death in [[1957]], and to [[Jason Robards]] from [[1961]] until their divorce in [[1969]]. She i...
17: ...ements for the [[Tuesday Morning]] discount store franchise.
22: *''[[Two Guys from Milwaukee]]'' ([[1946]]) (Cameo)
36: *''[[North West Frontier]]'' ([[1959]]) - List of HIV-positive people (8891 bytes)
19: *[[Geoffrey Burridge]], ([[1949]]-[[1987]]), [[Britain|Brit...
23: *[[Cyril Collard]], ([[1957]]-[[1993]]), [[France|French]] writer/actor/director of ''Les Nuits fauves...
34: *[[Richard Frank]], ([[1953]]-[[1995]]), American actor (''Anyt...
35: *[[Leonard Frey]], ([[1938]]-[[1988]]), Acted in [[Fiddler on t...
41: *[[Ofra Haza]], ([[1957]]-[[2000]]), [[Israel|Israeli]] ...
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