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• Fallout shelter
  ...game)|''Fallout'' series]] of computer games depicts the remains of human civilization after an immensely destructive nuclear war, and as such heavily features a
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• Acetic acid
  [[Vinegar]] was known early in civilization as the natural result of air exposure of [[beer]] and [[wine]], as acetic a
  41 KB (5,915 words) - 16:49, 27 September 2010
• Bicentennial of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...]]. Finally, the ''Britannica's'' view of itself as the ''summa'' of all [[civilization]] can be gleaned from its publisher Bill Benton's speech. ...he Presidency of the ''Britannica''...The continuing projection of Western civilization in terms of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' is a paramount requirement of
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• Donald Mackenzie Wallace
  ...iving in Russia from early 1870 until late 1875, Wallace found the Russian civilization far more interesting than his original Ossetes. Wallace returned to England
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...h | year = 1911 | title = Civilization | url = http://1911encyclopedia.org/Civilization | encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica | edition= 11^th editio
  94 KB (12,721 words) - 13:31, 19 September 2010
• Joseph McCabe
  ...storical/joseph_mccabe/big_blue_books/book_10.html Fascist Romanism Defies Civilization]''
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• Propædia
  ...Civilization to AD 1540 '''9.5.2''' Meso-American Civilization to AD 1540
  41 KB (5,585 words) - 13:32, 19 September 2010
• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...">''Brethren of Purity'', Nader El-Bizri, an article in ''Medieval Islamic Civilization, an Encyclopedia'', Vol. I, p. 118-119, Routledge (New York-London, 2006).
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• Paper
  *Needham, Joseph (1986). ''Science and Civilization in China: Volume 5, Chemicals and Chemical Technology, Part 1, Paper and Pr ...uin, '"Paper and Printing," vol. 5 part 1 of Needham, Joseph ''Science and Civilization in China:''. Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 0521086906. (also pub
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• Designed materials
  ...t for a material to suit the service performance is almost as old as human civilization. So far [[Materials engineering|materials engineers]] have developed a seri
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• Rock (geology)
  The prehistory and history of civilization is classified into the [[Stone Age]], [[Bronze Age]], and [[Iron Age]]. Alt
  6 KB (850 words) - 10:09, 20 September 2010
• Petroleum
  ...[industries]], and is of importance to the maintenance of industrialized [[civilization]] itself, and thus is critical concern to many nations. Oil accounts for a
  69 KB (9,885 words) - 10:12, 20 September 2010
• Metallurgy
  ...pert in [[hydraulic mining]] methods well before the Chinese, or any other civilization of the time.{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}}
  14 KB (1,922 words) - 10:13, 20 September 2010
• Metals of antiquity
  ...pon which modern [[civilization]]—at least [[Western culture|Western civilization]]—was founded.{{Fact|date=May 2009}}
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• Gunpowder
  ...of active ingredients for each [[tablet]].<ref>Molerus, Otto. "History of Civilization in the Western Hemisphere from the Point of View of Particulate Technology,
  51 KB (7,447 words) - 10:15, 20 September 2010
• History of clothing and textiles
  The inhabitants of the Indus Valley Civilization used cotton for clothing as early as the 5th millennium BC – 4th millenni ...n the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the great [[civilization]]s of China, Egypt, [[Mesopotamia]], [[Persia]], the Indian subcontinent, a
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• Roman concrete
  ...bs "Roman Concrete and the Roman Architectural Revolution", ''Ceramics and Civilization Volume 3: High Technology Ceramics: Past, Present, Future'', edited by W.D. ...Roman Concrete and the Roman Architectural Revolution,” ''Ceramics and Civilization Volume 3: High Technology Ceramics: Past, Present, Future'', edited by W.D.
  9 KB (1,309 words) - 10:20, 20 September 2010
• Tyndall stone
  ...ve Building]] in [[Regina, Saskatchewan|Regina]], the [[Canadian Museum of Civilization]] in [[Hull, Quebec|Hull]], and the [[The Fairmont Empress|Empress Hotel]]
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• Steel
  ...art 3 563g">{{cite book|author=Needham, Joseph|year=1986|title=Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics|publisher=Taipei: *Gernet, Jacques (1982). ''A History of Chinese Civilization''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  44 KB (6,419 words) - 10:22, 20 September 2010
• Building material
  ...yramids]] in Egypt, the [[Aztec]] pyramids and the remains of the [[Inca]] civilization.
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