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- Steamboat (11603 bytes)
8: ...e prefix "'''PS'''". The term ''steamer'' is occasionally used, out of nostalgia, for [[diesel]] motor...
15: ...wered or not is unclear. River boatmen took exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up.
21: ...nd in [[1790]] a third boat ran a series of excursions on the [[Delaware River]], but then patent disp...
23: ...rth and Clyde canal were thwarted by fears of erosion of the banks, development was taken up both in [...
25: ...en called the [[PS Clermont|''Clermont'']]). In [[1807]] this steamboat began a regular passenger boat s... - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...entured servants]] and the estimated 10 to 11 million Africans who arrived in the U.S. as [[slavery|sl...
9: ...SA 2000 black density.jpg|thumb|200px|2000 population density]]
10: ...ew York City]] had the largest black urban population in the United States in 2000. Among cities of 10...
15: ...raham Lincoln]], and was one reason for the secession of the [[Confederate States of America]] which l...
17: ... with it a wave of lynchings and other vigilante violence. - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
1: ...) was the first [[United States]] overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.
3: ...merica, but was roughly a decade after the expedition of [[Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)|Alexander Ma...
5: ...m the men and shared the leadership of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain" ([http:/...
7: ...and Clark feel that she could aid them in translation, but they thought that when they got to that par...
9: The expedition followed the Missouri through what is now [[Kans... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
47: *[[George Atwood]] (Britain, [[1746]] - [[1807]])
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]])
128: *[[Eugenio Calabi]], (United States) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
117: *[[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] a.k.a. Jean-Dominique Cas...
172: *[[Giovanni Battista Donati]], ([[Italy]], [[1826]] &nda...
206: *[[Camille Flammarion]] ([[France]], [[1842]] – [[1925]]) - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...ly of [[steel]], generally mounted upon cross-sectional beams (termed "[[Railroad_tie|sleeper]]s" or "...
8: ...]s of the train may roll with a minimum of [[friction]]. As an example, a typical rail car can hold up...
9: Trains also have a small frontal area in relation to the load they are carrying, which cuts down o...
13: ...any countries. In [[Asia]], for example, many millions use trains as regular transport in [[India]], [...
15: ... to having receipts equal costs (see [[Transportation in South Korea]]). Similarly, passenger rail in ... - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
1: ...s Rousseau|Rousseau]], and by the [[French Revolution]]. Many consider Hegel's thought to represent t...
5: ...hree watched the unfolding of the [[French Revolution]] and collaborated in a [[critique]] of the [[id...
7: ...of other works on the philosophy of history, religion, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy were ...
9: ...g power of rational [[government]] and the revolutionary ideals of freedom and equality.
11: ... contrasted form of abstract introversion, reflection on itself, which is formal existence-for-self, p... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
30: *[[Giorgio Agamben]]
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{...
97: *[[Ariston of Chios]], (fl. 250 BC){{fn|R}}
131: *[[Alain Badiou]], (born 1937)
170: *[[Vissarion Belinsky]], (1811-1848){{fn|R}} - July 24 (8660 bytes)
9: ...f travel, [[Brigham Young]] leads 148 [[Mormon]] pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the esta...
10: ...son Early|Jubal Early]] defeats [[United States|Union]] troops led by General [[George Crook]] in an e...
11: ...state]] to be readmitted to the [[United States|Union]] following the [[American Civil War]].
22: ...tates|Americans]] by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have ...
24: ... - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in [[Moscow]], US vice-president [[Richard Nixon... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra)
25: | '''[[Population]]'''
26: | ''ca'' 40 million
34: | '''[[Fall of the Ottoman Empire|Dissolution]]'''
41: ...The [[Ottoman Flag|flag]] of the later Ottoman period</small> - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...ury, they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ... known as the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation". The [[German Empire]] of 1871–1918 was o...
7: ...given at the beginning of the sections and subsections. The [[History of Germany since 1945]] continue...
10: ...ermania]], [[Germania Inferior]], [[Germania Superior]]''
15: ... the [[Roman Empire]], giving way to the Romanisation of the left bank of the Rhine. Roman forts were ... - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
39: <u>First Nations</u>: 3,500
45: Killed in action: 2,260 <br>
46: Wounded in action: 4,505 <br>
54: ...ent in the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. [[Napoleon's invasion of Russia]] in 1812 is also sometimes referred t...
56: ...dditionally, many [[Native Americans]]/[[First Nations]] fought in the war for reasons of their own. - Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
3: ...arked by a passionate patriotic devotion to the Union.
7: ...were [[poverty|poor]], but dedicated to his education and thus not only hired private tutors to teach ...
9: ...c "declamations" that were a feature of the education system at the time. Indeed, despite his later su...
11: ...gal practice in [[Boscawen, New Hampshire]]. In [[1807]] his father took over the Boscawen firm when Web...
17: ...f Representatives]] on the strength of his opposition to the [[War of 1812]]. He served two terms in t... - Potassium (12496 bytes)
9: <div align="right"><small>[[Periodic table (standard)|Full table]]</small></div></t...
17: <td>[[periodic table series|Series]] </td><td...
19: ...k|Block]]</td><td>[[group 1 element|1(IA)]], [[period 4 element|4]], [[atomic orbital|s]]</td></tr>
35: <td>[[Electron configuration]] </td><td><nowiki>[</nowi...
39: <td>[[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) </td><td>1 ... - Ruthenium (10241 bytes)
11: <div align="right"><small>[[Periodic table (standard)|Full table]]</small></div>
20: | [[Transition metal]]s
22: ...p|Group]], [[periodic table period|Period]], [[periodic table block|Block]]
23: | [[group 8 element|8]], [[period 5 element|5]], [[d-block|d]]
45: | [[Electron configuration]] - Sodium (8714 bytes)
3: {{Elementbox_groupperiodblock | group=1 | period=3 | block=s }}
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14: {{Elementbox_heatfusion_kjpmol | 2.60 }}
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22: {{Elementbox_ionizationenergies4 | 495.8 | 4562 | 6910.3 }} - Gong (10121 bytes)
1: ...'' is any one of a wide variety of metal [[percussion]] instruments. The term is Malayu-Javanese in or...
3: ...'''Bowl gongs''' are bowl-shaped, and rest on cushions. Gongs are made mainly from [[bronze]] or [[bra...
9: ...y different ways, not all of them strictly percussion. The rim may be rubbed with the finger, for exam...
11: ==Traditional suspended gongs==
18: ...ce is slightly concave when viewed from the direction to which the rim is turned. The centre spot and ... - Mandrill (3466 bytes)
2: ...age = [[image:mandrill.jpg|200px|Mandrill]] | caption=}}
12: ...author = [[Frederic Cuvier|F. Cuvier]] | date = [[1807]]}}
23: ...ed]]. The situation is exacerbated by [[deforestation]] causing Mandrill [[habitat]]s to disappear.
25: The [[gestation]] (pregnancy) time for Mandrills is 6-7 months a...
29: == Reproduction == - Timeline of chemical element discovery (10490 bytes)
59: ...covered by [[Charles Hatchett]], later renamed [[Niobium]]
67: *[[1807]]
74: *[[1811]] - [[Iodine]] discovered by [[Bernard Courtois]]
132: ...d by [[Dale R. Corson]], [[K.R.Mackenzie]], [[Emilio G. Segr蝝
134: ... [[Arthur C. Wahl]], [[Joseph W. Kennedy]], [[Emilio G. Segr蝝 - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
9: *[[1807]] First paying passenger service on the Oystermou...
13: ... rail transport, and large scale railway construction begins in Britain, and then spreads throughout t...
18: ...anapolis]]' Union Station, the first "[[union station]]" in the world, opened by the [[Terre Haute and...
22: ...gotiate tighter curves in the track. This innovation proves rare for steam locomotives but is the mod...
31: ...[Trans-Siberian railway]] in [[Russia]]. Construction completed in [[1904]]. [[Webb C. Ball]] establis...
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