[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Wonders help texts -- corrected (PR#934)

[Davide Pagnin <nightmare@xxxxxxxxxx>]

        Hi All!
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        Hi All!
This was a message of 16 july 2000!!! With an interesting patch of
freeciv help text, on wonders of the world. I synced it with actual cvs
and corrected some typos. 
If someone appreciate this...

The original author was Mark (mark@xxxxxxxxx)

        Ciao, Davide
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diff -urN -Xfreeciv/diff_ignore freeciv.dev/data/default/buildings.ruleset 
freeciv/data/default/buildings.ruleset
--- freeciv.dev/data/default/buildings.ruleset  Mon Aug 27 13:59:00 2001
+++ freeciv/data/default/buildings.ruleset      Sun Sep  2 18:37:47 2001
@@ -1301,6 +1301,23 @@
 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                                      -- Neil Armstrong\
+\n\n\
+The first manned mission to the moon set down on July 20, 1969.\
+ Neil Armstrong and Edwin \"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]
@@ -1324,6 +1341,19 @@
 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]
@@ -1347,6 +1377,26 @@
 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]
@@ -1370,6 +1420,20 @@
 ; /* xgettext:no-c-format */
 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]
@@ -1393,6 +1457,21 @@
 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.
@@ -1416,9 +1495,23 @@
        "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]
@@ -1468,6 +1561,27 @@
 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 Philadelphus, 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]
@@ -1491,6 +1605,27 @@
     }
 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 emperor connected and extended four old\
+ fortification walls along the north of China dating from about 700 B.C.\
+\n\n\
+During the Ming Dynasty (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,
@@ -1521,6 +1656,26 @@
  (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]
@@ -1547,6 +1702,25 @@
 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\
+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]
@@ -1570,6 +1744,19 @@
 ; /* xgettext:no-c-format */
 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]
@@ -1592,6 +1779,20 @@
     }
 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]
@@ -1615,6 +1816,21 @@
 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 Emperor Henry VI.\
 ")
 
 [building_leonardos_workshop]
@@ -1637,6 +1853,23 @@
     }
 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]
@@ -1663,6 +1896,28 @@
 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]
@@ -1685,6 +1940,17 @@
     }
 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]
@@ -1707,6 +1973,24 @@
     }
 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, physicists 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 July 1945, when a nuclear bomb\
+ was exploded in the Trinity base in Arizona.\
 ")
 
 [building_marco_polos_embassy]
@@ -1729,6 +2013,17 @@
     }
 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]
@@ -1758,6 +2053,20 @@
  citizen content.  The discovery of Communism lessens the effect 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 Michelangelo\
+\n\n\
+Michelangelo 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 sybils 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]
@@ -1781,6 +2090,22 @@
     }
 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\
+ Emperor Arcadius in A.D. 398, Delphi truly shaped the history of\
+ the world.\
 ")
 
 [building_pyramids]
@@ -1803,6 +2128,27 @@
     }
 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]
@@ -1826,6 +2172,20 @@
 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]
@@ -1848,6 +2208,14 @@
     }
 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]
@@ -1873,6 +2241,20 @@
 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]
@@ -1898,6 +2280,15 @@
 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.\
 ")
 
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@@ -1924,6 +2315,37 @@
     }
 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.\
 ")
 ; NOTE: 
 ; This does not match Civ1 or Civ2, but diplomatic effects are 
@@ -1958,6 +2380,26 @@
  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

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