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June 17, 2015, 02:37:03 PM
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With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts of 31 U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains


Oil painting of Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap
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June 17, 2015, 02:03:28 PM
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American leaders began to advocate the removal of the tribes to land west of the Mississippi River.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River


The beginning of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca (2004)
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June 16, 2015, 03:37:27 PM
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The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company became one of the largest and most successful medicine show operators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickapoo_people


Kickapoo people building a Winter House in the town of Nacimiento Coahuila, México, 2008
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June 15, 2015, 05:56:53 PM
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Rather, the person called a charlatan is being accused of resorting to quackery, pseudoscience, or some knowingly employed bogus means of impressing people in order to swindle his victims by selling them worthless nostrums and similar goods or services that will not deliver on the promises made for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine


A horse drawn Bromo Seltzer wagon.
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June 14, 2015, 07:52:21 PM
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The former is pursued by historians of the physical sciences who have examined the subject in terms of protochemistry, medicine, and charlatanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan


Hieronymous Bosch paints a scene of a Renaissance mountebank fleecing credulous gamblers.
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June 13, 2015, 04:56:53 PM
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The word was originally an alchemist's term for the extraction of metals from minerals, the ending -urgy signifying a process, especially manufacturing: it was discussed in this sense in the 1797 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy


Kimiya-yi sa'ādat (The Alchemy of Happiness) – a text on Islamic philosophy and spiritual alchemy by Al-Ghazālī (1058–1111).
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June 13, 2015, 04:50:09 PM
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Recent advances in metallurgy ("Air-hardening steel") have created tubing that is not adversely affected, or whose properties are even improved by high temperature welding temperatures, which has allowed both TIG & MIG welding to sideline lugged construction in all but a few high end bicycles. More expensive lugged frame bicycles have lugs which are filed by hand into fancy shapes - both for weight savings and as a sign of craftsmanship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy


Georgius Agricola, author of De re metallica, an important early work on metal extraction
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June 13, 2015, 04:41:18 PM
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Single-piece carbon fiber bicycle frames are sometimes described as monocoques however as most use the components to form a frame structure (even if molded in a single piece), these are frames and not monocoques, and the bike industry continues to refer to them as framesets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_frame


A penny-farthing photographed in the Škoda Auto Museum in the Czech Republic.
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June 13, 2015, 04:41:00 PM
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The Via Praetoria on that side might take the name Via Decumena or the entire Via Praetoria be replaced with Decumanus Maximus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decumanus_Maximus


Decumanus Maximus in Palmyra in Syria
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June 13, 2015, 04:36:20 PM
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The art of setting out a military camp or constructing a fortification traditionally has been called "castramentation" since the time of the Roman legions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castra


A sanitary channel at Potaissa, Dacia (modern Romania). It is placed cross-slope with a slight decline and then exits down-slope.
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June 13, 2015, 04:33:35 PM
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During World War II, Gibraltar's civilian population was evacuated (mainly to London, England, but also to parts of Morocco, Madeira and Jamaica) and the Rock was strengthened as a fortress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortification


The well preserved Bulgarian medieval fort Baba Vida.
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June 13, 2015, 04:23:21 PM
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Victory was towed to Gibraltar after the battle, and on arrival the body was transferred to a lead-lined coffin filled with spirits of wine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar


The last of Gibraltar, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau.
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June 13, 2015, 03:36:23 PM
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The British admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson called Trincomalee "the finest harbour in the world", while the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger called the city "the most valuable colonial possession on the globe, as giving to our Indian Empire a security which it had not enjoyed from its establishment" and the harbour "the finest and most advantageous Bay in the whole of India".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson


Emma Hamilton, Nelson's mistress and mother of his daughter Horatia, in a 1782–84 portrait by George Romney, depicting Emma at the height of her beauty
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June 11, 2015, 03:26:21 PM
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The destruction of the Koneswaram temple of Trincomalee in 1624 and Ketheeswaram temple accompanied by an extensive campaign of destruction of five hundred Hindu shrines, the Saraswathi Mahal Library, many Buddhist temples and libraries and forced conversion to Roman Catholicism of Hindus and Buddhists conducted by the Portuguese upon their conquest of the Jaffna kingdom to the north of the island and Kingdom of Kotte in the south stand out as brutal consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trincomalee


Procession of Koneswaram idol pooja in Trincomalee city
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June 11, 2015, 03:05:24 AM
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The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist by Bartholomeus Strobel is also an allegory of Europe in the time of the Thirty Years War, with portraits of many leading political and military figures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War


Soldiers plundering a farm during the thirty years' war by Sebastian Vrancx.
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June 10, 2015, 02:48:24 PM
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Some teachers, especially when addressing more general audiences, or mixed groups of Muslims and non-Muslims, make extensive use of parable, allegory, and metaphor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory


Salvator Rosa: Allegory of Fortune, representing Fortuna, the Goddess of luck, with the horn of plenty
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June 06, 2015, 07:24:13 PM
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Use in religious rites among the Sufi branch of Islam led to coffee's being put on trial in Mecca: it was accused of being a heretical substance, and its production and consumption were briefly repressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism


The tomb of Sheikh Rukn-ud-Din Abul Fath located in Multan, Pakistan. The city of Multan is known for various Sufi Saint tombs, as they call it the City of Saints
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Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.
June 01, 2015, 07:33:23 PM
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Over time, the company expanded the size, shapes and materials of these consumer products, primarily used for carrying coffee on the go and carrying liquids on camping trips to keep them either hot or cold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee


Over the door of a Leipzig coffeeshop is a sculptural representation of a man in Turkish dress, receiving a cup of coffee from a boy
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June 01, 2015, 02:25:09 PM
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The reduction of convection provides the thermal insulation of thermos bottles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask


A cryogenic storage dewar of liquid nitrogen, used to supply a cryogenic freezer
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Re: Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.
June 01, 2015, 02:20:28 PM
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Finally, a Merlin 1C vacuum variant is used on the Falcon 9 second stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum


A glass McLeod gauge, drained of mercury
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