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In Philip Reeves' [[Mortal Engines]] and [[Predator's Gold]], '''Traction Cities''' are vast metropolises built on tiers that move on gigantic caterpillar tracks. These cities hunt smaller cities which in turn hunt towns which in turn also hunt static settlements in a practice known as [[Municipal Darwinism]]. There are also aquatic equivalents called ''Raft-Cities'' which travel in the oceans hunting smaller raft suburbs and small islands. A few Raft Cities are Puerto Angeles, Grimsby and Marsailles. There is also a Traction city that travels in the skies called Airhaven which travels around the world trading. Traction cities included London, Paris, Panzerstadt-Bayreuth, Tumbridge Wheels, Wolverinehampton, Arkangel and Anchorage. These municipalities were formed after the [[Sixty Minute War]] which resulted in the deaths of millions, a barren earth and the loss of most technological knowledge. After the war, many people and their municipalities were mobilised into vast tiers that move on caterpillar tracks. Their worst enemy is the [[Anti-Traction League]] which opposes Municipal Darwinism and Traction cities.

In [[HTML]] and [[XHTML]], the '''<code>blockquote</code>''' [[HTML element|element]] defines a [[block-quote|block quotation]] within the text. The syntax is <code>&lt;blockquote&gt;blockquoted text goes here&lt;/blockquote&gt;</code>.

The '''<code>blockquote</code>''' element is used to indicate the quotation of a large section of text from another source. Using the default HTML styling of most web browsers, it will indent the right and left margins both on the display and in printed form.

It should be noted that in many [[Wiki]] [[Wikitext|markup languages]], this is different from the use of an initial colon in a paragraph, which may be translated into an HTML <code>dd</code> element enclosed within a <code>dl</code> element. (That is a 'data definition' within a 'definition list', without there being any preceding 'data term' or <code>dt</code> element). Other [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] techniques may alternatively be applied. In any case, the intention is usually only to indent the left margin.

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