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- Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...killing him. The legend was designed to be a cautionary tale about attempting to reach heaven, simila...
5: The modern history of aviation has had several broad trends. [[Aircraft]] desi...
15: ...lew. However, a considerable amount of interpretation of his design, with modern knowledge of aerodyna...
17: ... or leg." Swedenborg was prescient in his observation that powering the aircraft through the air was t...
19: ...ding the first detailed understanding of the relationship between altitude and the atmosphere. - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...entions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
23: ...ird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]]
25: ...[Trevor Baylis]], (1937- ) — [[clockwork radio]]
56: ...ullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
63: ...ph Day]] --(1855-1946) Two Stroke Internal Combustion Engine - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ... of [[mass production]] to the process of [[invention]].
5: ... which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
10: ...d tavern keeper who would marry Nancy Matthews Elliott.
12: ...ould become a rebel joining the [[MacKenzie Rebellion]] that sought Canadian independence. The revolt...
14: ...], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Milan, Ohio]]. That town was enjoying an economic boom. Sam'... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] con...
7: [[Image:National-atlas-1970-1860.png|thumb|U.S. territorial ext...
15: *[[1861]] - [[Kansas]] admitted to the Union as a [[free state]]
16: ...ral court case which objected to Lincoln's suspension of ''[[habeas corpus]]''
21: *[[1863]] - [[National Banking Act|National Banking Act of 1863]] - Pope Adrian III (859 bytes)
3: ...ans during a famine. His cult was confirmed in [[1891]], and his feast day is [[8 July]]. - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...ate" ([[Article One of the United States Constitution|Article I]]).
4: ...e powers enumerated to the Senate in the Constitution are regarded as more important than those exclus...
6: ...pitol]] building, in [[Washington, D.C.]], the national capital. The House of Representatives convenes...
10: ...gates. Many delegates called for a second Congressional chamber, modeled on the [[House of Lords]] (th...
12: ...resentatives)". <!--Sources are in references section--> - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...s have the most World Series titles, with 26 championships.
3: ...es to none, earning their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918...
4: ==Introduction==
5: ...every year between the American League and the National League. Starting in 2003, however, the league ...
7: ...m, because there are more divisions and each division is smaller. - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
3: ...sport, while collecting one [[World Series]] championship in that time (in 1995, also a strike-shorten...
5: ...[[1869]]-[[1970]], baseball's first openly professional team. When the N.A. formed, Red Stockings foun...
6: ...953 in sports|1953]]-[[1965 in sports|1965]]). Prior to 1912, the Boston team had several unofficial ...
11: ...ia Phillies]], [[New York Mets]], [[Washington Nationals]]
13: ...003 in sports|2003]], [[2004 National League Championship Series|2004]] - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
3: ...]. They are in the Central Division of the [[National League]].
5: ...)|American Association]]. Transferred to the [[National League]] in [[1887]].
6: ...Bucs'', but that usage tapered off after the [[National Football League]] franchise called the [[Tampa...
12: :'''Division titles won''' (9): [[1970]], [[1971]], [[1972]],...
13: :'''National League pennants won''' (9): [[1901]], [[1902]]... - Texas Rangers (baseball) (14993 bytes)
4: ... Worth Metroplex]]. They are in the Western Division of the [[American League]].
6: ...''Founded''': [[1961]] ([[American League]] expansion)
7: ...s]], or the Washington Senators that existed from 1891-1899 and were contracted.)
12: :'''Division titles won''' (3): [[1996]], [[1998]], [[1999]]
14: :'''[[World Series]] championships won''' (0): ''none'' - Polo (10046 bytes)
3: ...grass field) players. Polo features successive periods called "chukkas", and riders score by driving a...
10: ...ryan]]) tribes of Central Asia before their migration to Iranian plateau; but it seems likely that as ...
14: ...arliest account, Ferdowsi romanticizes an international match between [[Turanian]] force and the follo...
16: ...ho sought refuge in Chinese courts after the invasion of the Iranian Empire by the [[Arabs]], or possi...
18: ...s played, as did the nobility and the mounted warriors. - Sodalite (4894 bytes)
11: ... with [[chlorine]] (Na<sub>4</sub>Al<sub>3</sub>(SiO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub>Cl)
13: !colspan=2|Identification
15: | Colour || Rich royal blue, green, yellow, violet, white veining common
21: ...ge (crystal)|Cleavage]]|| Dodecahedral (six directions), poor
43: |Hackmanite||[[Tenebrescence|Tenebrescent]]; violet-red or green fading to white - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
2: ...] [[botanist]] who worked in [[agricultural extension]] in the southern [[United States|U.S.]]. He ta...
5: ...hat left him with a permanently weakened constitution. Because of this, he was unable to work as a han...
9: ...et out to get an education, and his first destination was a school in a different town. When he reache...
11: ...f Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, which today is [[Iowa State University]].
13: ...eorge Washington Carver. Through quiet determination and perseverance, Carver soon became involved in... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...evement not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and the rest of the world, ...
6: ...eldest of six children. As a child, Henry was passionate about mechanics, preferring to tinker in his ...
8: ...is being hired by [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]] company to service their steam en...
10: ...xperiments culminated in [[1896]] with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle named the [[Qu...
12: ...mpany, the [[Henry Ford Company]]. During this period, he personally drove his Quadricycle to victory ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
20: *[[Giovanni di Balduccio]]
21: *[[Baccio Bandinelli]] (1493 - 1560)
51: *[[Antonio Canova]] (1757 - 1822)
65: *[[Clodion]] - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
6: ==Operation==
7: The cable is itself powered by a stationary motor or engine situated in a cable house or ...
9: ... applying brakes. This gripping and ungripping action may be manual, as was the case in all early cabl...
13: ...use of the economy of centrally located power stations, and the ability for cars going down hill to tr...
16: ... ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the [[IRT Ninth Avenue Line|West Side and Yo... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
10: | place of birth=[[West Branch, Iowa]]
19: ...years after leaving office, during the administration of [[Lyndon Johnson]] — his fifth successo...
21: ...]] family in [[West Branch, Iowa|West Branch]], [[Iowa]]. He was the first President to be born west o...
23: ...Bert" Hoover boarded a [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]] train headed west to [[Oregon]]. Sewn ... - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
10: ...Near [[Blooming Grove, Ohio|Blooming Grove]], [[Ohio]]
18: ...[[1903]]) and later as [[Lieutenant Governor of Ohio|Lieutenant Governor]] ([[1903]]–[[1905]]).
20: ...uddenly three years into his term due to complications from [[pneumonia]] and possible food poisoning....
23: ...ge]] (later [[Muskingum College]]) in [[Iberia, Ohio|Iberia]]. - Otto Lilienthal (1728 bytes)
3: ...who accomplished this feat nearly forty years previously.
5: ...ver 2000 flights in gliders of his design between 1891 and his death five years later. Lilienthal did b...
10: A [[fictional character]]ization of Lilienthal was resurrected as a villain in th... - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...BR>From the archives of the [[Smithsonian Institution]].</div>
2: ... [[1932]]) was a [[Brazil | Brazilian]] aviation pioneer. He designed, built, and flew many [[balloon]...
3: In addition, He made the first
9: ...is vast property. So successful were these innovations that Santos-Dumont's father gathered a large fo...
11: ...zil]] in the long, sunny afternoons at the plantation.
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