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- Airline (29546 bytes)
1: ...humb|right|250px|Photography of Air Kenya, Kenya Africa. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart....
7: The scale and scope of airline companies ranges from those with a single airplane carrying mail or c...
11: ...mpanies. This occurs as regulators permit greater freedom, in steps that are usually decades apart. Th...
15: ...ion provided more competition and greater pricing freedom resulted in lower fares and sometimes dramat...
19: ... airlines form new business combinations, ranging from loose, limited bilateral partnerships to long-t... - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
2: ...[Image:Cable_Car.jpg|thumb|right|Cable Car in San Francisco]]
3: [[Image:Sf_cable_car.jpg|thumb|right|A San Francisco cable car]]
9: ...le. Conversely the car is stopped by detaching it from the cable, and then applying brakes. This gripp...
16: ...nkers Patent Railway]] in [[New York]], which ran from [[1 July]] [[1868]] to [[1870]]. The cable tech...
18: ...Station.jpg|thumb|right|Machinery driving the San Francisco Cable Car]] - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
2: ...lete the more difficult eastward Pacific crossing from Australia to the [[United States]], in [[1934]]...
4: ...hnical High School]]). He was reportedly expelled from this school. At 16 he became an engineering app...
6: ...VII-3M monoplane. The flight was in three stages, from [[Oakland, California]] to [[Hawaii]], then to ...
10: ... its destination. Eighteen months later, wreckage from the aircraft was located off the south coast of...
12: ... on the Australian $20 paper note (in circulation from [[1966]] until [[1994]], when the $20 [[polymer... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...non-state actors. Piracy should be distinguished from [[privateer]]ing, which was a legitimate form o...
12: ...1.8-2]) says this happened earlier, on his return from Nicomedes's court. Velleius Paterculus (''Roman...
20: ...'', and given the responsibility of eliminating [[Frankish]] and [[Saxons|Saxon]] pirates who had been...
27: ...se in 844. Vikings even attacked coasts of North Africa and Italy. They also plundered all the coasts ...
29: ... of the [[Balearic Islands]] in the 10th century. From 824 to 961 [[Arab]] pirates in [[Crete]] raided... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
20: ...ok Strait]], which separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not gues...
22: ...s to [[Port Jackson]], for the establishment of [[Sydney]].
26: ..." was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kanga...
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32: ...mand of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began. - March 19 (9902 bytes)
10: ... days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
16: *[[1932]] - [[Sydney Harbour Bridge]] opens.
19: ...[[aircraft carrier]] [[USS Franklin (CV-13)|USS ''Franklin'']], killing 800 of her crew and crippling ...
21: ...become overseas [[departement|d鰡rtements]] of [[France]].
26: ...s]] ''[[Getz/Gilberto]]'', including ''[[The Girl from Ipanema]]'', sung by [[Astrud Gilberto|Astrud]]... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – ...
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]]) - Amusement park (17293 bytes)
9: ...r a remarkable example of a European park, dating from [[1843]] and still existing, see [[Tivoli Garde...
16: ...g the peak of the "golden age" of amusement parks from roughly the turn of the 20th century through th...
18: ...nging patterns in how people chose to spend their free time. Many of the older, traditional amusement ...
40: ...ting of the Red Sea" in [[1973]], a look at props from the movie ''[[Jaws (movie)|Jaws]]'' in [[1975]]...
42: ...s become larger than ever before, with everything from large, worldwide type theme parks such as Disne... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Platypus (21900 bytes)
22: ...s. There is substantial variation in average size from one region to another, though oddly this patter...
24: ...typus [[jaw]] is constructed somewhat differently from that of other mammals, and the jaw opening [[mu...
30: ...e reproductive system, on the other hand, differs from other placental mammals. Their paired ovaries r...
44: ...he victim. That this could be the case is evident from the symptoms of platypus envenomation.
46: ...ghout the affected [[limb]]. Information obtained from [[case study|case histories]] and [[anecdotal e... - Thylacine (4846 bytes)
23: ...ine was widespread on the mainland. After traders from the islands to the north of the continent intro...
25: ...ed dog with a stiff tail, which smoothly extended from the body like that of a [[kangaroo]]. It was ab...
38: ...ccess as they were able to extract usable [[DNA]] from the specimens. On [[February 15]] [[2005]], th... - 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... - April Fool's Day (15510 bytes)
4: ...l will be compensated by marriage to, or at least friendship with her.
9: ...ing on 1 April. In [[1582]], King [[Charles IX of France]] brought in the new [[Gregorian calendar]], ...
12: ...s of the world; it is actually the first of April from '''0000 -1200 1 April''' until '''2359 +1400 1 ...
24: ...howing the [[Swiss]] [[harvest]]ing [[spaghetti]] from [[tree]]s. A lot of people wanted spaghetti tre...
25: ...[[France]] after the [[French Revolution]]: see [[French Revolutionary Calendar]]. - Boxing Day (3345 bytes)
3: ... is that servants used to receive Christmas gifts from their employers on the first weekday after Chri...
9: ... the harbour and in spectator boats. In [[South Africa]] the 26th is also observed as a public holida...
16: .../christmas/boxing.asp The Origins of Boxing Day] (from [[Snopes.com]]) - Canyon (3965 bytes)
3: ...s originate by a process of long-time [[erosion]] from a [[plateau]] level, with a stream gradually ca...
43: The [[Blue Mountains]] west of [[Sydney]] in [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] contain m... - Miniature Fox Terrier (5533 bytes)
30: ...ometimes used in search parties, and were used at Sydney's North Head Quarantine Station as [[vermin]] ext...
37: ... for the Tenterfield Terrier differs in substance from that of the Miniature Fox Terrier, and though t... - William Henry Harrison (11790 bytes)
18: ...esentative]] and [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Ohio]]. Harrison first gained national fame a...
25: ...to successfully command an army on the [[American frontier]]. Harrison participated in Wayne's decisiv...
27: ...ent in the Northwest Territory. Harrison resigned from Congress to become governor of the newly formed...
29: ...ve American leaders. Tensions, always high on the frontier, became much greater after the [[1809]] [[T...
32: ...uckeye]], as were other tall pioneers on the Ohio frontier, as a term of endearment in respect of the ... - Humpback Whale (17123 bytes)
18: ...]] (leaping out of the water), its unusually long front fins, and its complex [[whale song]]. The Hump...
24: ...n each side of the mouth. [[Ventral]] grooves run from the lower jaw to the [[umbilicus]] about halfwa...
52: ... (music)|note]]s that vary in [[amplitude]] and [[frequency]] in consistent patterns over a period of ...
55: ... all the major [[ocean]]s, in a wide band running from about 60° S to 65° N [[latitude]]. It i...
57: ... the other large whales. The population has grown from a low point of 20,000 at the [[1966]] moratoriu... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
1: ...pic Games''', runners relay the [[Olympic Flame]] from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] to the opening cere...
3: ...e|French]] nobleman, [[Pierre de Coubertin|Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin]] in the late [[19t...
15: From that moment on, the Games slowly became more im...
25: ...t few centuries, similar events were organized in France and Greece, but these were all small-scale an...
27: ...0–1871). He thought the reason was that the French had not received proper physical education, a... - New Year's Day (5455 bytes)
17: ...s drinks [another [[Yule]] custom]." The quote is from the ''vita'' of Eligius written by his companio...
22: ... nearly a million revelers viewing the [[parade]] from the streets, with millions more around the worl...
23: ...g apple" like the city itself; the custom derives from the time signal that used to be given at [[noon...
24: ... [[Copacabana]] beach in [[Rio de Janeiro]] and [[Sydney Harbour]]
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