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• Umbria
  ...ated on it: the Tiber itself thus is not a major factor in the history and human geography of Umbria. The same cannot be said of the Tiber's three principal
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• Engineering
  ...ies [[science|scientific]] and [[technology|technical]] knowledge to solve human problems. Engineers use imagination, judgment,reasoning and experience to a * [[Henry Petroski|Petroski, Henry]], ''To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design'', Vintage, 1992
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• Capri
  ...e first displays of [[fossils]]. More modern excavation s have showed that human presence on the island can be dated back to the [[Neolithic]] and the [[Bro
  12 KB (1,768 words) - 00:21, 8 August 2009
• Three wheeler
  A '''three wheeler''' is a [[vehicle]] with three [[wheel]]s, either "human or people-powered vehicles" (HPV or PPV or [[velomobile]]s) or [[engine|mot
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• Units of measurement
  ...ctical use of '''units of [[measurement]]''' have played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to this day. Disparate [[systems of measureme ...ed to some extent or other. Often they were based on the dimensions of the human body.
  12 KB (1,936 words) - 17:54, 7 July 2011
• Sequential manual transmission
  ...ing all torque transfer. In auto racing, this process is slow and prone to human error; hence the development of the sequential transmission. A true sequent
  7 KB (1,143 words) - 23:27, 3 July 2009
• Architecture
  ...cture may be seen as a ''subjective [[Map (mathematics)|mapping]]'' from a human perspective (that of the ''user'' in the case of abstract or physical artif Early human settlements were essentially [[rural]]. As surplus of production began to o
  15 KB (2,153 words) - 08:12, 8 October 2009
• Industrial design
  ...es design with considerable engineering and technology awareness alongside human factors—a "Total Design" approach, promoted by the late [[Stuart Pugh
  6 KB (794 words) - 12:02, 8 October 2009
• Fornasari
  ...the passion for cars, but also a valuable asset of technical know-how and human knowledge.
  5 KB (651 words) - 22:02, 29 November 2011
• Mediterranean Sea
  ...diterranean Sea has been known by a number of alternative names throughout human history. It was, for example, commonly called ''[[Mare Nostrum]]'' (Latin,
  8 KB (1,097 words) - 07:35, 9 August 2009
• Salami
  ...so involves fermentation with [[lactic acid bacteria]], which are safe for human ingestion. The acid produced by the bacteria makes the meat an inhospitable
  7 KB (1,151 words) - 16:22, 12 September 2009
• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  ===Human power and environmental power hybrids=== Many land and water vehicles use human power combined with a further power source. Common are parallel hybrids, e.
  22 KB (3,527 words) - 09:10, 7 October 2009
• Moonraker
  ...to the space station. They would live there until Earth was safe again for human life; these people would be the seed for a "new master race". ...inted out that he and his girlfriend do not live up to Drax's standard for human 'perfection', aids Bond by helping him and Dr. Goodhead escape the station
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• Engineering mechanics
  * H. Petroski, "To Engineer Is Human", St. Martins, 1985.
  10 KB (1,246 words) - 09:54, 26 October 2009
• History of the bicycle
  Vehicles for human [[transport]] that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date ...n 1818 which was the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine commonly called a [[velocipede]], nick-named [[hobby-hors
  34 KB (5,162 words) - 18:37, 23 April 2009
• Mopeds
  ...equire pedals, thus making them a form of [[hybrid transport]], using both human power and machine power. Because of their small size, many jurisdictions c
  11 KB (1,720 words) - 23:52, 11 September 2009
• Michael Jekot
  ...of Lawrence Braun as a mix of historic accuracy with a sense of motion and human interaction.
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• Car battery
  ...e should be taken when changing acid as acid can have a negative effect on human skin.
  10 KB (1,612 words) - 20:21, 6 July 2009
• Lipari
  ...of local archaeological retrievals; its disparate sections relating to the human history of the entire Aeolian Islands from prehistoric to classical times,
  7 KB (1,059 words) - 10:39, 2 October 2009

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