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  • 91Royal Gold Cup — The Royal Gold Cup, 23.6 cm high, 17.8 cm across at its widest point; weight 1.935 kg, British Museum. Saint Agnes appears to her friends in a vision. The Royal Gold Cup or Saint Agnes Cup is a solid gold covered cup lavishly decorated with… …

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  • 92USS Upshur (DD-144) — The first USS Upshur (DD–144) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy before and during the World War II. She was named for Admiral John Henry Upshur. Upshur was laid down on 19 February 1918 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by… …

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  • 93History of robots — The history of robots date at least as far back as the ancient legends.Robotics in AntiquityLikely fictional, the Iliad illustrates the concept of robotics by stating that the god Hephaestus made talking mechanical handmaidens out of gold. cite… …

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  • 94Timeline of Russian inventions and technology records — The Hall of Space Technology in the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia. The exhibition includes the models and replicas of the following Russian inventions: the first satellite, Sputnik 1 (a ball under the… …

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  • 95Notre Dame de Mantes — The west facade of the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Mantes The medieval Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Mantes, (French: Collégiale Notre Dame de Mantes la Jolie), is a large and historically important Catholic church constructed between… …

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  • 96Iowa class battleship — The Iowa class battleships were a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940 to escort the Fast Carrier Task Forces that would operate in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Four were completed in the early… …

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  • 97Lockheed L-2000 — The Lockheed L 2000 was Lockheed s entry in a government funded competition to build the United States first supersonic transport (SST) in the 1960s. The L 2000 lost the contract to the Boeing 2707, but that competing design was ultimately… …

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  • 98Technology during World War I — The machine gun was one of the decisive technologies during World War I. Picture: British Vickers machine gun crew on the Western Front. Technology during World War I reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass production… …

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  • 99Baths of Diocletian — The basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, built in the tepidarium of the baths The Baths of Diocletian (Thermae Diocletiani) in Rome were the grandest of the public baths, or thermae built by successive emperors. Diocletian s Baths …

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  • 100B-17 Flying Fortress variants — The following is an extensive catalogue of the variants and specific unique elements of each variant and/or design stage of the Boeing B 17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. For a broader article on the history of the B 17, see B 17 Flying Fortress.… …

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