2-XL
1970s - 1990s Educational Toy
- Reading time
- 7 min
- Complete text
- 10981 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 83%
Knowledge reading in English
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839 matching articles
Hand embroidery machine
, Industriekultur Museum Neuthal, Switzerland The hand embroidery machine is a manually operated embroidery machine. It was widely used in the Swiss embroidery industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth cent
- Reading time
- 8 min
- Complete text
- 13107 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 82%
My Kitchen Rules series 3
Season of television series
- Reading time
- 11 min
- Complete text
- 16678 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 82%
The Scooby-Doo Project
1999 live-action/animated television special
- Reading time
- 7 min
- Complete text
- 10767 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 82%
Canada's Greatest Know-It-All
2012 Canadian TV series or program
- Reading time
- 15 min
- Complete text
- 22450 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 82%
Brodal queue
Optimal data structure for priority queue operations
- Reading time
- 10 min
- Complete text
- 17709 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 81%
The Amazing Race Vietnam 2013
Season of television series
- Reading time
- 16 min
- Complete text
- 26127 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 81%
TMS9918
Video display controller
- Reading time
- 14 min
- Complete text
- 21998 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 81%
Carriage
Generally horse-drawn means of transport
- Reading time
- 10 min
- Complete text
- 16160 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 80%
Stane Street
Roman road in southern England
- Reading time
- 11 min
- Complete text
- 17331 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 80%
Henry Alonzo House
American inventor (1840–1930)
- Reading time
- 12 min
- Complete text
- 19527 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 80%
BVG Class C
service workshop The BVG Class C was a series of Grossprofil (wide profile) cars used on the Berlin U-Bahn after 1926. In comparison to the previously built Class B, these 18 meter long cars were about five meters longer
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- 7 min
- Complete text
- 10792 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 80%
HMS Tiger (1913)
Battlecruiser of the Royal Navy
- Reading time
- 15 min
- Complete text
- 23467 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 80%
Apollo 6
1968 American Saturn V rocket test flight
- Reading time
- 9 min
- Complete text
- 14157 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 80%
MasterChef Thailand season 3
Season of television series
- Reading time
- 12 min
- Complete text
- 17431 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 80%
USS Trigger (SS-237)
United States Navy submarine
- Reading time
- 15 min
- Complete text
- 22695 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 80%
LNER Gresley Classes A1 and A3
Class of 4-6-2 pacific locomotive designed by Sir Nigel Gresley
- Reading time
- 18 min
- Complete text
- 30297 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 80%
SS Pennsylvania (1872)
SS Pennsylvania was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1872. The first of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels and the lead ship in her class, Pennsylvania and her three sister ship
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- 7 min
- Complete text
- 10328 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 79%
HMS Lord Clive
World War I British monitor
- Reading time
- 10 min
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- 15628 characters
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- 79%
Rimutaka Incline
Rail line in Wellington, New Zealand
- Reading time
- 13 min
- Complete text
- 20987 characters
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- 79%
GWR 5700 Class
Class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives
- Reading time
- 21 min
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- 35409 characters
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- 79%
Loom
Device for weaving textiles
- Reading time
- 22 min
- Complete text
- 35435 characters
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- 79%
Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
German WWI two-seat fighter floatplane
- Reading time
- 7 min
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- 10902 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 79%
King of the Ring (1993)
World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event
- Reading time
- 12 min
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- 18809 characters
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- 79%
Steamroller
Steam powered road roller
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- 7 min
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- 11191 characters
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- 79%
Macintosh 128K/512K technical details
The original Macintosh was a relatively simple machine, now of interest for its simplicity and for the fact that it was the first computer produced by Apple under the name Macintosh. The Macintosh used standard off-the-s
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- 7 min
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- 10776 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 79%
Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō
Light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Reading time
- 9 min
- Complete text
- 13945 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 78%
Cöln-class cruiser
Class of light cruisers of the German Imperial Navy
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- 7 min
- Complete text
- 10054 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 78%
SS Ohio
American oil tanker; used by the UK to resupply Malta during WWII
- Reading time
- 11 min
- Complete text
- 16259 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 78%
SMS König Wilhelm
Armored frigate of the German Imperial Navy
- Reading time
- 10 min
- Complete text
- 14798 characters
- Dictionary coverage
- 78%