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• Hydroelectric
  ...> This was approximately 20% of the world's electricity, and accounted for about 88% of electricity from renewable sources.<ref name="REN21-2006">[http://ww ...an operating September 30, 1882, in Appleton, Wisconsin, with an output of about 12.5 kilowatts. The Vulcan Street Plant powered two paper mills and a house
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• Stinging nettle
  ...eal environment for stinging nettles. This seems particularly evident in [[Scotland]] where the sites of [[croft (land)|croft]]s razed during the [[Highland Cl ...back to 1986, when two neighbouring farmers attempted to settle a dispute about who was responsible for controlling the weed. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://ww
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• William Smellie (encyclopedist)
  ...rinter]], Fellow of the [[Royal Society]], the [[Society of Antiquaries of Scotland]] and [[natural history|naturalist]]. He was friends with [[Robert Burns]] ...publication. Wherever this intention does not plainly appear, neither the books nor their authors have the smallest claim to the approbation of mankind".
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• Archibald Constable
  '''Archibald Constable''' (24 February 1774 – 21 July 1827) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[publisher]], [[bookseller]] and [[stationer]]. ...seller, but in 1795 he started in business for himself as a dealer in rare books. He bought the ''Scots Magazine'' in 1801, and [[John Leyden]], the orienta
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• William Robertson Smith
  ..., and minister of the [[Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900)|Free Church of Scotland]]. He was an editor of the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and contributor ...t was a furore in the [[Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900)|Free Church of Scotland]], of which he was a member. As a result of the heresy trial, he lost his p
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• James Browne (writer)
  '''James Browne''' (1793 – April 1841), [[Scotland|Scottish]] man of letters, was born at [[Whitefield, Perthshire|Whitefield] ...'Critical Examination of Macculloch's Work on the Highlands and Islands of Scotland'' (1826), ''Aperçu sur les Hieroglyphes d'Egypte'' (Paris, 1827), a ''Vind
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• Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
  | foundation = [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] ({{Start date|1768}}) | num_employees = About 400 (300 in Chicago, 100 worldwide)<ref name="employees">{{cite journal| la
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...vately held company. Articles are aimed at educated adults, and written by about 100&nbsp;full-time editors and more than 4,000&nbsp;expert contributors. It ...286}}</ref> It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, and grew in popularity and size, its third edition (1797) and supplement (
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...al History'' of [[Pliny the Elder]], the latter having 2493 articles in 37 books. Encyclopedias were published in Europe and China throughout the [[Middle A ...tannica'' was published under the [[pseudonym]] "A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland", possibly referring to the many gentlemen who had bought subscriptions.<re
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• Encyclopædia Perthensis
  ...e use of all other English books of reference''" was published in [[Perth, Scotland]] by [[C. Mitchel and Co]]. It has twenty-three [[octavo|8vo]] volumes with .... This is presumably the same man referred to in the [[National Library of Scotland]]'s [[Scottish Book Trade Index]] as James Morison ''printer'' though his d
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• Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
  ...& Edinburgh. The work is a companion to Wilson's ''[[Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland]]'', published in parts between 1854 and 1857. ...h also accesses [[Francis Hindes Groome|Groome's]] ''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland'' and the Bartholomew ''Gazetteer of the British Isles''. However, it shoul
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• Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland
  The '''Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland''' is a [[topography|topographical]] [[dictionary]] first published in part .../www.maybole.org/history/Gazatteer/gazetteer.htm The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland Volume II (Gordon-Zetland)] at maybole.org (accessed 5 November 2007)</ref>
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• Dictionary of Australian Biography
  The average length of the biographies is about 640 Words, and Serle classified them roughly into the following twelve gro ...ose included in the book were born in [[England]], 27% in Australia, 12% [[Scotland]], 8% [[Ireland]], 1% [[Wales]] and the last 5% were from the rest of the w
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• Chambers's Encyclopaedia
  ...4, 8,320 pages. The index of matters not having special articles contained about 1,500 headings. The articles were generally excellent, more especially on [ {{Scotland-stub}}
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• Asphalt
  ...ss: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead |publisher=Barnes & Noble Books |location=New York, NY |year=2001 |pages= 196–197|isbn=0-7607-7151-0}}</r ...eiden]], Netherlands |publisher=E.J. Brill |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eckUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA24&dq=asphalt+claridge&hl=en&ei=EnURTLy9JI2lcYWSmPAH&s
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• Gunpowder
  ...rotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World'', Perseus Books Group: 2005, ISBN :0465037224, 9780465037223: 272 pages</ref> ...rotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World'', Perseus Books Group, ISBN :0465037224, 9780465037223, page 22</ref>
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• Fulling
  '''Fulling''' or '''tucking''' or '''walking''' ("waulking" in [[Scotland]]) is a step in [[woollen]] [[Textile manufacturing|clothmaking]] which inv ...that all parts of it were milled evenly. However, the cloth was taken out about every two hours to undo plaits and wrinkles. The 'foot' was approximately
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• Factories Act 1961
  | territorial_extent=England and Wales, Scotland<ref name="S185">S.185</ref> ...submit | publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann | id=ISBN 0750654937 }} ([[Google Books]])
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• Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963
  territorial_extent=England and Wales, Scotland<ref name="S91">S.91</ref>| ...submit | publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann | id=ISBN 0750654937 }} ([[Google Books]])
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• Asbestos
  ...tances. Chrysotile has been used more than any other type and accounts for about 95% of the asbestos found in buildings in America.<ref name=wdnr>{{cite web ...ned worldwide, in 11 or 12 countries. Russia was the largest producer with about 40.2% world share followed by China (19.9%), Kazakhstan (13.0%), Canada (10
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