[Freeciv-Dev] Wonders help texts -- corrected

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I have corrected a few minor errors in the line endings of my helptext
patch, and re-diffed with diff -u .
This diff applies to buildings.ruleset from the default rulesets for CVS
of July 13, 2000.

Mark

--- buildings.ruleset.org       Fri Jul 14 13:05:01 2000
+++ buildings.ruleset   Sun Jul 16 18:44:33 2000
@@ -1269,6 +1269,23 @@
 Entire map becomes visible for the player who owns it. \
  It allows all players to start building spaceship parts (assuming\
  they have researched the necessary technologies).\
+\n\n
+\"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\"\
+\n                                      -- Niel Armstrong\
+\n\n
+The first manned mission to the moon set down on July 20, 1969.\
+ Niel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the first steps by humans on another\
+ planetary body. \
+\n\n
+The manned program began in January, 1967, with the failed Apollo 1\
+ mission. That spacecraft burned on the launchpad during a pre-flight test,\
+ claiming the lives of astronauts Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Edward White, and\
+ Roger Chaffee.\
+\n\n
+The program continued after the landing (Apollo 11), and in the last three\
+ Apollo missions (15-17), astronauts made use of Lunar Rover Vehicles to\
+ extend the area of their explorations. Apollo 17, the last manned moon\
+ mission, left the moon on December 14, 1972.\
 ")
 
 [building_asmiths_trading_co]
@@ -1292,6 +1309,19 @@
 helptext       = _("\
 City improvements which would normally have an upkeep of 1 are free\
  of upkeep, for all cities.\
+\n\n
+\"Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of\
+ the society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote\
+ the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends\
+ only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by\
+ an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.\"\
+\n                                   -- Adam Smith\
+\n\n
+Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the great early theorists of Capitalism.\
+ The Scottish philosopher wrote \"On the Causes of the Wealth of Nations\",\
+ which lays out his theories. The best-known part of his theory is that\
+ of the invisible hand, which guides the actions of many people seeking\
+ their own self interest to produce the good of society.\
 ")
 
 [building_colossus]
@@ -1315,6 +1345,26 @@
 helptext       = _("\
 Each square around the city where this wonder is built that is already\
  generating some trade produces one extra trade resource.\
+\n\n
+\"To you, O Sun, the people of Dorian Rhodes set up this bronze statue\
+ reaching to Olympus when they had pacified the waves of war and crowned\
+ their city with the spoils taken from the enemy. Not only over the seas,\
+ but also on land did they kindle the lovely torch of freedom.\"\
+\n                                       -- Dedicatory inscription\
+\n\n
+The Colossus of Rhodes stood only 56 years, but still earned a place in\
+ the list of Wonders of the Ancient World. \"Even lying on the ground, it\
+ is a marvel,\" remarked Pliny the Elder. It stood at the entrance\
+ to the harbor of the Mediterranean island of Rhodes, Greece.\
+\n\n
+The construction of the Colossus, dedicated to Helios, the sun god, took 12\
+ years and was finished in 282 B.C. An earthquake hit Rhodes in about 226\
+ B.C., breaking the knee of the Colossus. Although Ptolemy III Eurgetes\
+ of Egypt offered to cover restoration costs, after consulting an Oracle,\
+ the Rhodians rejected his offer. For almost a millenium, its remains\
+ lay alongside the harbor until the Arab invasion of A.D. 654. The fragments\
+ were sold to a Syrian Jew, and reportedly were carried there on the backs\
+ of 900 camels.\
 ")
 
 [building_copernicus_observatory]
@@ -1337,6 +1387,20 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Boosts science production by 50% in the city where it is built.\
+\n\n
+\"Of all discoveries and opinions, none may have exerted a greater\
+ effect on the human spirit than the doctrine of Copernicus.\"\
+\n                        -- Goethe
+\n\n
+Nicholaus Copernicus (1473-1543), a Polish mathematician, became famous\
+ for his book \"De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium,\" published\
+ posthumously. In the book, Copernicus describes the universe as\
+ centered on the sun, rather than the earth, as most scientists held.\
+\n\n
+His work was actually based on mathematical calculations rather than\
+ personal observations -- his system removed many of the complexities\
+ of the Ptolemaic system. Nonetheless, this work laid the groundwork\
+ for the scientific revolution.\
 ")
 
 [building_cure_for_cancer]
@@ -1360,6 +1424,21 @@
 helptext       = _("\
 This stunning technological achievement makes one unhappy\
  citizen content in all cities.\
+\n\n
+\"After excision, even when a scar has formed, none the less the\
+ disease has returned.\"\
+\n               -- Celsus, a Roman physician\
+\n\n
+Cancer is a group of many related diseases. All forms of cancer\
+ involve out-of-control growth and spread of abnormal cells.\
+\n\n
+Because of this growth, cancer cells accumulate and form tumors that\
+ may compress, invade, and destroy normal tissue. Cancer may also\
+ spread to new areas of the body through the blood or the lymph.\
+\n\n
+Cancer has afflicted humanity throughout recorded history. Some of\
+ the earliest evidence is found among fossilized bone tumors, human\
+ mummies in ancient Egypt, and ancient manuscripts.\
 ")
 ; NOTE:
 ; In Civ2 this makes 1 content citizen happy in all cities.
@@ -1383,9 +1462,23 @@
        "Give_Imm_Adv", "None", 2
     }
 helptext       = _("\
-Charles Darwin's voyage sparked the discovery of the evolution\
- of the species, which inspired greater confidence in science.\
- Gives two immediate technology advances.\
+Gives two immediate technology advances.\
+\n\n
+\"Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most\
+ exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the\
+ production of the higher animals, directly follows.\"\
+\n               -- Charles Darwin\
+\n\n
+Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was an English naturalist. After receiving his\
+ degree as a clergyman in the Church of England, he accepted an invitation\
+ to serve as an unpaid naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle, which departed\
+ on a five-year scientific expedition to the Pacific coast of South\
+ America on December 31, 1831.\
+\n\n
+From the work on this voyage, Darwin published (in 1859) his most famous\
+ book, \"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection\". The\
+ work outlined his theory of evolution, which challenged contemporary\
+ beliefs and inspired further advances in science.\
 ")
 
 [building_eiffel_tower]
@@ -1434,6 +1527,27 @@
 helptext       = _("\
 The civilization which builds the Great Library gets every advance\
  that at least two other civilizations have achieved.\
+\n\n
+\"As for the books you mention, here is my reply. If their content is in\
+ accordance with the book of Allah, we may do\
+ without them, for in that case the book of Allah more than suffices.\
+ If, on the other hand, they contain matter not in\
+ accordance with the book of Allah, there can be no need to preserve these.\ 
+ Proceed, then, and destroy them.\"\
+\n                          -- Amr Ibn el-As\
+\n\n
+Founded by Ptolemy I Soter (367?-283 B.C.), the Great Library of Alexandria\
+ was greatly embellished\
+ and enhanced by Ptolemy II Philadelphius, who endowed it with the ambitious 
mission of\
+ procuring a copy of every existing book.\
+\n\n
+There is enormous disagreement about the actual fate of the Great Library. One 
story says\
+ that many or most of the scrolls caught fire from a blaze that spread when 
Julius\
+ Caesar burned the entire Ptolemaic fleet in the harbor in 48 B.C. The 
Library, however,\
+ experienced renewed splendor during imperial times. Gibbon lays the blame\
+ on a Christian mob in 391 after paganism was outlawed. In any case, the final 
blow\
+ was struck by the Arab general Amr Ibn el-As in 641. It is said that the 
remaining\
+ books and scrolls fed the stoves of Alexandria for another six months.\
 ")
 
 [building_great_wall]
@@ -1457,6 +1571,27 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Works as a City Wall in all cities.\
+\n\n
+\"It was done in this way: gangs of twenty workers were formed who had to\
+ accomplish a length, say, of five hundred yards of wall, while a similar gang\
+ built another stretch of the same length to meet the first.\
+ But after the junction had been made the construction of the wall was not 
carried\
+ on from that point, let us say, where this thousand\
+ yards ended; instead the two groups of workers were transferred to begin\ 
+ building again in quite different neighbourhoods. Naturally\
+ in this way many great gaps were left, which were only filled in gradually\
+ and bit by bit, some, indeed not till after the official\
+ announcement that the wall was finished.\"\
+\n                                   --Franz Kafka
+\n\n
+The Great Wall of China was built by Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emporer of 
China\
+ during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.). After subjugating and uniting China\
+ from seven warring states, the emporer connected and extended four old 
fortification\
+ walls along the north of China dating from about 700 B.C. \
+\n\n
+During the Ming Dynasy (1368-1644), the wall was enlarged to 6,400 km and 
renovated,\
+ with watch-towers and cannons being added. The Great Wall is\
+ visible from Earth orbit, but, contrary to popular opinion, not from the 
moon.\
 ")
 ; NOTE:
 ; Civ2 also doubles attack -vs- barbs,
@@ -1487,6 +1622,25 @@
  (that is, a total of 3).  In the unlikely event where there are no\
  content citizens to get the effect of Hanging Gardens, the wonder\
  applies to unhappy citizens (making them content instead).\
+\n\n
+\"The approach to the Garden sloped like a hillside and the several parts of\
+ the structure rose from one another tier on tier... On all this, the earth\
+ had been piled... and was thickly planted with trees of every kind that, by\
+ their great size and other charm, gave pleasure to the beholder... The water\
+ machines [raised] the water in great abundance from the river, although\
+ no one outside could see it.\"\
+\n                            -- Diodorus Siculus\
+\n\n
+There is some debate over whether the Hanging Gardens of Babylon ever actually\
+ existed. Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 B.C.) is credited with building them. It 
is said\
+ that he build them to please his wife or concubine, who came from the 
mountainous Media.\
+ Greek poets wrote about them based on the descriptions of Alexander the 
Great's\
+ soldiers. The gardens are included in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.\
+\n\n
+Archeologists today are still struggling to gather enough evidence to make a 
final\
+ conclusion about the location of the gardens, their irrigation system, and 
their\
+ true appearance. Some now theorize that Senaherib may have been the actual 
constructor,\
+ some hundred years earlier.\
 ")
 
 [building_hoover_dam]
@@ -1513,11 +1667,27 @@
 helptext       = _("\
 Works as if you had a Hydro Plant in every city.  (This reduces\
  pollution and increases the effects of Factories and Mfg. Plants.)\
-\n\n\
+\n\n
 Like a Hydro Plant, the Hoover Dam can only be built in a city\
  which is next to (or on) a Mountain or River tile.  However, its\
  effect is applicable to the whole of your civilization (regardless\
  of whether a city is next to, or on, a Mountain or River tile).\
+\n\n
+\"As President, Herbert Hoover took an active part in settling the engineering\
+ problems and location\
+ of the dam in Black Canyon; was required by the Project Act to obtain\
+ power and water contracts\
+ adequate to assure some $200,000,000 of revenues before\
+ construction was begun; settled the difficult and controversial questions\
+ involved in the allocation of the power, and made the revenue\
+ contracts which Congress required; and proclaimed the Boulder Canyon\
+ Project Act to be in effect on June 25, 1929.\
+\n   -- House Resolution restoring name \"Hoover Dam\" to this monument\
+\n\n
+Built in the midst of the Depression in only five years, Hoover Dam was the\
+ largest dam of its time. Its construction in arid, barren land was a true\
+ engineering marvel. It is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at the base.\
+ 2700 miles of wiring carry electricity generated by the dam to Los Angeles.\
 ")
 
 [building_isaac_newtons_college]
@@ -1540,6 +1710,19 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Boosts science production by 100% in the city where it is built.\
+\n\n
+\"If I have seen further than other men, it is only because I have stood\
+ on the shoulders of giants.\"\
+\n                -- Sir Isaac Newton\
+\n\n
+Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) is one of the greatest physicists of all time.\
+ He is credited with the theory of gravity, the laws of motion, and the\
+ invention (simultaneously with Leibniz) of calculus.\
+\n\n
+In his \"Principia Mathematica,\" he expounds his theories. The mathematician\
+ and physicist Lagrange described the Principia as the greatest production\
+ of the human mind, and said he felt dazed at such an illustration\
+ of what man's intellect might be capable.\
 ")
 
 [building_js_bachs_cathedral]
@@ -1562,6 +1745,19 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Makes two unhappy citizens content in every city.\
+\n\n
+\"His feet seemed to fly across the pedals as if they were\
+ winged, and mighty sounds filled the church.\"\
+\n            -- Constantin Bellermann\
+\n\n
+Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was one of the greatest composers of all 
time.\
+ His music marks the summit of traditional polyphony. In 1723\
+ he became Cantor at St. Thomas' church in Leipzig, where he remained for the\
+ rest of his life. \
+\n\n
+Bach's music is noted for its mathematical precision, especially in the fugues\
+ and canons, some of which he did not write out in full, only providing 
\"hints\"\
+ for the reader to reconstruct the piece as he originally intended it.\
 ")
 
 [building_king_richards_crusade]
@@ -1585,6 +1781,21 @@
 helptext       = _("\
 Adds one extra shield resource on every square around the city\
  where it is built.\
+\n\n
+\"Dieu Le Volt : God wills it!\"\
+\n                    -- Pope Urban II\
+\n\n
+The Crusades were called by various Popes and kings to permit Christians free\
+ access to the Holy Land, which had been taken by Muslims. In some cases,\
+ however, the ideals that enlightened the calling of the crusades did not\
+ shine through in the execution.
+\n\n
+The First Crusade was called by Pope Urban II in 1095 in a field in Clermont 
Ferrand.\
+ Richard the Lion Heart (1157-1199) learned of the loss of Jerusalem to 
Saladin\
+ in 1183 and soon took up the cross of the crusades. In 1189 he was crowned 
king\
+ and began to raise funds for the Third Crusade. His crusade made its way to 
the\
+ gates of Jerusalem, but then had to turn back because of the death of Emporer\
+ Henry VI.\
 ")
 
 [building_leonardos_workshop]
@@ -1607,6 +1818,21 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Upgrades one obsolete unit per game turn.\
+\n\n 
+\"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in\
+ cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the\
+ vigour of the mind.\"\
+\n                                             -- Leonardo Da Vinci\
+\n\n
+Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was a true Rennaisance man. He stood out as a 
painter,\
+ a writer, and an inventor. His sketchbook contains images of many inventions 
that\
+ would only be realized many years later, such as the helicopter. His most 
famous\
+ painting, the Mona Lisa, can be viewed in the Louvre Museum in Paris.\
+\n\n
+Leonardo was left-handed. He undertook his journals in \"mirror writing\", not 
as a way\
+ of keeping the contents secret as it is easily read. Rather, it is believed 
that he just\
+ didn't care to write as a mode of communication. The notes were for himself 
and he\
+ wrote them in the way that was most natural to him.\
 ")
 
 [building_lighthouse]
@@ -1633,6 +1859,27 @@
 Gives all sea units 1 additional movement point and eliminates the\
  risk of losing Triremes on the high seas.  Makes all new sea units\
  veterans (for all cities).\
+\n\n
+\"Sostratus, the son of Dexiphanes, the Cnidian, dedicated this to the Savior 
Gods,\
+ on behalf of those who sail the seas.\"\
+\n                          -- Dedicatory inscription\
+\n\n
+The Lighthouse of Alexandria was the only one of the Seven Wonders of the 
Ancient World\
+ that had a practical use. For sailors, it ensured a safe return to the Great 
Harbor. It\
+ was the tallest building in the world, and the reflection from its mirror 
could be\
+ seen 50 km off-shore.\
+\n\n
+The project was conceived by Ptolemy I Soter around 290 B.C., but was 
completed in the\
+ reign of his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Sostrastus, a contemporary of 
Euclid, was\
+ the chief architect, and the calculations for the structure were carried out 
in the\
+ Great Library. For centuries, the Lighthouse was used to mark the harbor. It 
is even\
+ depicted on Roman coins.\
+\n\n
+When the Arabs conquered Egypt, they maintained the lighthouse for some time.\
+ They moved the capital to Cairo, however, and when the mirror to the 
lighthouse was\
+ mistakenly taken down, it was never replaced. Earthquakes in 956, 1303, and 
1323\
+ successively reduced the structure to rubble. Finally, in 1480, the Sultan 
Qaitbay\
+ built a fortress on the site of the lighthouse using the fallen stone and 
marble.\ 
 ")
 
 [building_magellans_expedition]
@@ -1655,6 +1902,18 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Gives all sea units 2 additional movement points.\
+\n\n
+\"The voyage thus ended was doubtless the greatest feat of navigation that has\
+ ever been performed, and nothing can be imagined that would\
+ surpass it except a journey to some other planet.\"\
+\n                                           -- John Fiske\
+\n\n
+Ferdinand Magellan (1480?-1521) discovered that the Atlantic and Pacific 
Oceans meet, and plotted\
+ a course to take a voyage around the world. He died in the course of making\
+ the voyage he is known for. The voyage was completed by Juan Sebastián del 
Cano.\
+ The ship's trip around the world took slightly more than three years, 
arriving\
+ in Seville on September 9, 1522.\
+
 ")
 
 [building_manhattan_project]
@@ -1677,6 +1936,23 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Allows all players with knowledge of Rocketry to build Nuclear units.\
+\n\n 
+\"A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port,\
+ might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the\
+ surrounding territory.\"\
+\n                                           -- Albert Einstein\
+\n\n
+On October 9, 1939, a letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to U.S.\
+ President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, warning of the possibility of nuclear\
+ weapons. Meanwhile, in Great Britain, physisists began to analyze the 
possibility\
+ of fast fission of uranium. Through 1940 and 1941, work accelerated in the 
U.S.,\
+ even though official support was lacking.\
+\n\n
+In June, 1942, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took over the project of 
development\
+ of an atomic bomb, code-naming it the \"Manhattan Engineer District,\" or 
Manhattan\
+ Project. The project was headed up by Col. Leslie Groves, who pushed the 
project\
+ forward. The collaboration of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer led to eventual success 
in\
+ September 1945, when a nuclear bomb was exploded in the Trinity base in 
Arizona.\
 ")
 
 [building_marco_polos_embassy]
@@ -1699,6 +1975,18 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 The player who owns it gets an embassy with all players.\
+\n\n
+\"I did not tell half of what I saw, because no one would have believed me.\"\
+\n                   -- Marco Polo\
+\n\n
+The great explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324) travelled throughout the east.\
+ In 1271, his family brought him to the court of Kublai Khan in China,\
+ when he was only 17.\ 
+ In 1280 he made an overland journey from Uzbekistan to\
+ China. Two years later, he made a second journey. His family left China in 
1292\
+ as escorts for a Mongol Princess. In 1298, he was taken prisoner in the 
battles\
+ between Venice and Genoa. He is reputed to have dictated \"The Travels of 
Marco\
+ Polo\" from that prison cell.\
 ")
 
 [building_michelangelos_chapel]
@@ -1728,6 +2016,21 @@
  citizen content.  The discovery of Communism lessens the affect of\
  a Cathedral, reducing by one the number of unhappy citizens made\
  content.\
+\n\n
+\"Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.\"
+\n                               -- Last words of Michaelangelo\
+\n\n
+Michaelangelo Buonarroti (1495-1564) was a sculptor and painter from Florence.\
+ Though he preferred to consider himself a sculptor, he is well-known for\
+ his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a work that took him\
+ four years to complete. The ceiling depicts the creation of the world\
+ and the fall of Adam and Eve. Images of prophets and sybills line\
+ the sides. The chapel is dominated by his fresco of \"The Last\
+ Judgment.\"
+\n\n
+The Vatican has undertaken a massive restoration project to return\
+ these masterpieces to their original vibrant colors, muted by centuries\
+ of soot and oil.\
 ")
 
 [building_oracle]
@@ -1751,6 +2054,22 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Doubles the effect of Temples, in all cities.\
+\n\n
+\"Know thyself.\"\
+\n              -- The Oracle\
+\n\n
+Delphi lies on the slopes of Mount Parnassus in Greece. There, dwelt the 
Oracle,\
+ who gave the advice of Apollo to those who sought her. Her answers, however,\
+ were always vague and difficult to comprehend. Only Socrates is said to have\
+ received a straight answer -- when he asked if he was the wisest person\
+ in the world, she responded, \"Yes.\"\
+\n\n
+The Mycenaeans settled in Delphi in about 1500 B.C, and the Delphic sybils\
+ were already famous. At that time, the shrine was dedicated to Gaea.\
+ According to the myth, Apollo killed Python on this slope around 1000 B.C.,\
+ and installed his own oracles. Until the shrine was destroyed by the 
Christian\
+ Emporer Arcadius in A.D. 398, Delphi truly shaped the history of\
+ the world.\
 ")
 
 [building_pyramids]
@@ -1773,6 +2092,27 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Counts as having a Granary in every city.\
+\n\n
+\"Man fears Time, yet Time fears the Pyramids.\"\n\
+                    -- Arab Proverb\
+\n\n
+The only one of the Seven Wonders from the list compiled by\
+ Herodotus to survive to modern times. The largest of the pyramids,\
+ that of Khufu (Cheops), was built in the Fourth Dynasty around the\
+ year 2560 B.C. in Giza, a necropolis for ancient Memphis. The\
+ construction is believed to have taken 20 years, and the completed\
+ monument served as a tomb for the Pharaoh.\
+\n\n
+We know but little of Khufu himself, as the pyramid had been looted\
+ long before modern archeologists explored it.\
+\n\n
+Throughout history, various names have been applied to the pyramids,\
+ for example, \"The Granaries of Joseph\" and \"The Mountains of Pharaoh\".\
+ There are enough stone blocks in the three pyramids at Giza to build a\
+ 3 m high, 0.3 m thick wall around the whole of France. The area of the\
+ base of the pyramid is equal to that of St. Peter's Cathedral in\
+ the Vatican together with the cathedrals of Florence, Milan, Westminster,\
+ and St. Paul's in London.\
 ")
 
 [building_seti_program]
@@ -1796,6 +2136,20 @@
 helptext       = _("\
 Boosts science production in each city with a Library by 50%. \
  (Counts as having a Research Lab in all of your cities.)\
+\n\n 
+\"What do we need to know about to discover life in space?\"\
+\n                                         -- Frank Drake
+\n\n
+The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence is an ongoing attempt\
+ to communicate with (or at least detect) life outside our solar system.\
+ Using radio telescopes and missions to outer space, the project\
+ hopes to prove that we are not alone.\
+\n\n
+The scientist Frank Drake conceived of an approach to bound the terms\
+ involved in estimating the number of technological civilizations that\
+ may exist in our galaxy. The Drake equation (1961), which identifies specific\
+ factors that may play a role in the development of such civilizations,\
+ is a generally accepted tool to examine these factors.\
 ")
 
 [building_shakespeares_theatre]
@@ -1818,6 +2172,14 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Makes all unhappy citizens content, in the city where it is located.\
+\n\n
+\"All the world's a stage, and we are merely players...\"
+\n        -- William Shakespeare
+\n\n
+William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is the greatest English playwright. He 
produced his\
+ works under Queen Elizabeth and King James. His plays run the gamut from 
comedy\
+ to tragedy to history. He was one of the proprietors of the Globe Theater\
+ in London, built in 1599.\
 ")
 
 [building_statue_of_liberty]
@@ -1843,6 +2205,20 @@
 Allows you to choose any government, including those that have not yet\
  been researched by your civilization, and without the transition\
  period of Anarchy.\
+\n\n 
+\"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses\
+ yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your\
+ teeming shore. Send these, the homeless,\
+ tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.\"
+\n                                     -- Inscription
+\n\n
+The Statue of Liberty was a gift of France to the United States in\
+ commemoration of the first centennial of independence from England.\
+ It was built by Frederic August Bartholdi, inspired in part by the\
+ Colossus of Rhodes. The statue is made of copper over a steel skeleton.\
+ Assembly in the United States was completed in 1886. Standing on Ellis\
+ Island in New York Harbor, it was the first sight of freedom for millions\
+ of immigrants.\
 ")
 
 [building_sun_tzus_war_academy]
@@ -1868,6 +2244,15 @@
 All your new ground units become veterans (for all cities). \
  The chance of a unit becoming a veteran after a battle increases\
  from 50% to 100%.\
+\n\n
+\"In essence, the art of war is the art of life.\"\
+\n                 -- Sun Tzu\
+\n\n
+Sun Tzu was a Chinese general from about 500 B.C. His collection of essays 
entitled\
+ \"The Art of War\" constitutes the first known treatise on the subject.\
+ The most fundamental principle of his teaching is that all war is based on\
+ deception. His ideas spread to the rest of Asia and Japan. Since the 
mid-1970's\
+ they have become known in the West as well.\
 ")
 
 [building_united_nations]
@@ -1894,6 +2279,37 @@
     }
 helptext       = _("\
 Units regain two extra hitpoints per turn.\
+\n\n
+\"We the peoples of the United Nations, determined\
+ to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,\
+ which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to\
+ mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights,\ 
+ in the dignity and worth of the human person,\
+ in the equal rights of men and women and of nations\
+ large and small, and to establish conditions under which\
+ justice and respect for the obligations arising from\
+ treaties and other sources of international law\
+ can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better\
+ standards of life in larger freedom,\
+ and for these ends to practice tolerance and live together\
+ in peace with one another as good neighbours, and\
+ to unite our strength to maintain international peace\
+ and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles\
+ and the institution of methods, that armed force shall\
+ not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ\
+ international machinery for the promotion of the economic\
+ and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine\
+ our efforts to accomplish these aims.\
+\n                -- U.N. Charter, Preamble\
+\n\n
+Formed after the atrocities of World War II, the United Nations\
+ seeks to advance the cause of humanity in all countries.\
+ Its first General Assembly was held in 1946. All member states have\
+ a delegate (though those from Switzerland and the Holy See do not\
+ have a vote), and address issues of international concern.\
+\n\n
+In times of international dispute, the U.N. often sends in peace-keeping\
+ troops on loan from the various member states.\
 ")
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  reduces unhappiness for military units outside the city by 2 under\
  Democracy and 1 under Republic.  This wonder has no effect under\
  other governments.)\
+\n\n 
+\"Remember the Ladies.\"
+\n                -- Abigail Adams, 1776\
+\n\n
+Beginning in the early 1800s, women in the United states began to press\
+ for the right to vote. The movement took off under the direction of\
+ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others. In 1848, the first\
+ women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York.\
+\n\n
+In 1866, Stanton and Anthony formed the American Equal Rights Association,\
+ an organization for white and black women, dedicated to universal\
+ suffrage. The 14th Amendment (1868) extends the right to citizenship\
+ to former slaves, but specifically states that citizens are males.\
+\n\n
+In 1913, activists held a suffrage parade, which brought further momentum.\
+ The efforts slowed down with the advance of World War I, as the activists\
+ took to the factories to fill vacant spots left by soldiers. However, this\
+ proved to be the necessary impetus: in 1919, Congress approved the right to\
+ vote for women, and in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was 
ratified.\
 ")
 ; NOTE:
 ; For Civ2 this should reduce unhappiness by one for *each* unit