Аннотация от автора: Wrestling, pronounced REHS lihng, is a sport in which two opponents try to pin (hold) each other's shoulders to a mat on the floor. Wrestlers use maneuvers called holds to grasp their opponents and control their movements...

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Аннотация от автора: Wright brothers --Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948)--invented and built the first successful airplane. On Dec. 17, 1903, they made the world's first flight in a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. With Orville at the controls, the plane flew 120 feet (37 meters) and was in the air 12 seconds. The brothers made three more flights that day. The longest, by Wilbur, was 852 feet (260 meters) in 59 seconds...

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Аннотация от автора: Wrist is the joint that connects the hand and the forearm. A person uses the wrist to move the hand up, down, and sideways. The word wrist also refers to an area of the upper part of the hand. This area includes eight small bones called carpals...

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Аннотация от автора: Wrist is the joint that connects the hand and the forearm. A person uses the wrist to move the hand up, down, and sideways. The word wrist also refers to an area of the upper part of the hand. This area includes eight small bones called carpals...

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Аннотация от автора: Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), is considered by many scholars to be the most important English romantic poet. In 1795, Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They collaborated on Lyrical Ballads (1798), a collection of poems often regarded as the beginning of the English romantic movement. Wordsworth wrote most of the poems in the book...

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Аннотация от автора: World, History of the. People have probably lived on the earth about 2 million years. But the story of world history begins only about 5,500 years ago with the invention of writing. The period before people began to write is usually called prehistory...

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