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  2. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution. Beginning in Great Britain, the Industrial Revolution spread ...

  3. Auschwitz concentration camp - Wikipedia

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    Fifty kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Kraków, the site was first suggested in February 1940 as a quarantine camp for Polish prisoners by Arpad Wigand, the inspector of the Sicherheitspolizei (security police) and deputy of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, the Higher SS and Police Leader for Silesia.

  4. Fracking - Wikipedia

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    Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of ...

  5. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    One of eleven black junior colleges founded in Florida after the Brown v. Board of Educationdecision, in an attempt to show that separate but equalhigher education facilities existed in Florida. All were abruptly closed after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Kittrell College. Kittrell. North Carolina.

  6. List of industrial cities in India - Wikipedia

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    No. Place Significance 1: Bhilai: Iron and steel, power generation, cement, chemical, light and heavy industries, railway marshalling yard, fabrication and machining, electronics and electrical works

  7. Industrial Age - Wikipedia

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    The Industrial Age is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in ...

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    Best CD rates today: Get ahead of lower rates with secure, fixed yields of up to 5.10% into 2025 — Sept. 17, 2024

  9. Industrial complex - Wikipedia

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    The industrial complex is a socioeconomic concept wherein businesses become entwined in social or political systems or institutions, creating or bolstering a profit economy from these systems. Such a complex is said to pursue its own interests regardless of, and often at the expense of, the best interests of society and individuals.