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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
7: ...ies in the defeated region after the war, caused lasting bitterness among Southerners toward the U.S. g...
11: ...ion Act was passed on [[March 2]], [[1867]]; the last on [[March 11]], [[1868]]. The first Reconstruct...
13: ...f the original [[Ku Klux Klan]], in 1866; but it lasted for only three years.
30: As in the East, expansion into the plains and mountains by miner...
32: ...ans continued through the Civil War. In 1876 the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold r...
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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
53: ...t, very near to [[chlorine]] (Cl) in the next-to-last group in the chart (the [[halogen|halogens]]) are...
82: ...chemist [[John Alexander Reina Newlands]], who in 1865 noticed that the elements of similar type recurre... - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
69: | [[1866]] — [[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1...
165: | [[1854]] — [[1865]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]] - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...f India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than...
9: ...l change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successo...
41: ... from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) to Bishop's Bridge, near [[Paddington]] (in ...
55: ...arty, described this decision as having proved disastrous to the monarchy and British rule in Ireland.
57: Victoria paid her last visit to Ireland in [[1900]], when she came to ap... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
13: ... known after this. When slavery was outlawed in [[1865]], she began to advocate giving black Americans t... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...rses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old masters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Pari...
14: Upon seeing pastels by [[Edgar Degas]] in an art dealer's window, ...
23: ...' and ''The Coiffure'', inspired by the Japanese masters shown in Paris the year before. (See [[Japonis... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
10: * ''Cecil Castlemaine's Gage'' (??)
29: * ''Strathmore'' (1865) - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: '''Suzanne Valadon''' ([[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[p...
16: ...x|''The Bath''. ([[1908]]). [[Suzanne Valadon]]. Pastel. 60x49 cm. Grenoble: [[Mus饠des Beaux Arts]].]...
26: ...Utter in [[1914]], but the marriage also did not last. - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ...ce of Apothecaries' Hall, which she obtained in [[1865]].
7: ... also made one of the visiting physicians of the East London hospital for children; but the duties of t...
9: ...Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the [[British Medical Associati... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...mily. Her four brothers and sisters were all at least 10 years her senior. Young Clara was home-educate...
14: ...k, where she studied analytic geometry, calculus, astronomy, mathematics and natural science in additio...
23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in ch...
31: ...oss to include assisting in any great national disaster, this service brought the United States the "Go...
49: ...last home of its founder. Clara Barton spent the last 15 years of her life in her Glen Echo home, and i... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
6: ...ty]] [[jail]] in [[East Cambridge, Massachusetts|East Cambridge]]. Feeling guilty about her obsessive "...
18: ...e ambitiously overreached herself, she was always astute in dealing with the male power brokers across ...
20: ...n. The two dozen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] demonstrate the continuing momentu...
22: ... Outliving her friends and family, she spent her last years living as a guest in the [[New Jersey State... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
3: ...rd]], [[Ontario]]. She married Edward Trout in [[1865]] and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]], where Edwa... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
12: ...d [[George Henry Thomas]]. On [[November 11]], [[1865]], President [[Andrew Johnson]] signed a bill to ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...artners. Schumann is credited with refining the tastes of audience through her presentation of works b...
9: ... disapprobation. She returned to [[London]] in [[1865]] and continued her visits annually, with the exc... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
5: '''Edith Louisa Cavell''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) is one of the few f...
7: ...|Norfolk]], where her father was [[rector]], in [[1865]]; she trained as a [[nurse]]. In [[1907]], she ... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
12: ... time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a resident of the ...
35: ...utive branch of the federal government — a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, in...
54: ...rican Civil War]]. Lee surrendered [[9 April]] [[1865]].
128: || [[1861]] || [[1865]] || [[Republican Party (United States)|Republica...
132: || [[1865]] || [[1869]] || [[Democratic Party (United State... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
33: ...take the Ohio Country. The expedition ended in disaster at the [[Braddock Expedition#Battle of the Mono...
51: ...ement of his orders for "total destruction and devastation of their settlements" led the Iroquois to na...
69: ...g|right|thumbnail|250px|[[Constantino Brumidi]]'s 1865 [[fresco]] The [[Apotheosis of Washington]] is fo...
97: Washington was a [[cricket]] enthusiast and was known to have played the sport, which was...
165: ...rca [[1778]] [[Pennsylvania German]] almanac (Lancaster: Gedruckt bey Francis Bailey). This identifies ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]]
38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]])
39: *[[Andrew Johnson]] ([[1865]])
42: ...at Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President of the United States]], and the fi... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
11: | [[April 15]], [[1865]] - [[March 4]], [[1869]]
40: ...seventeenth [[President of the United States]] ([[1865]]–[[1869]]), succeeding to the presidency up...
54: ...President of the United States on [[April 15]], [[1865]], upon the death of Abraham Lincoln. He was the...
66: ...gn="left" |'''[[Andrew Johnson]]'''||align="left"|1865–1869
72: ...="left"|'''[[William H. Seward]]'''||align="left"|1865–1869 - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
43: ...ppi]], in [[1863]] is considered one of the most masterful in military history; it split the Confederac...
48: ...w general called "that of a bulldog". Although a master of combat by out-maneuvering his opponent (such...
50: ... which the destruction of an enemy's economic infrastructure that supplied its armies was as important ...
54: ...e [[Trans-Mississippi Department]] on [[June 2]], 1865.
62: ...y of 3,012,833 out of a total of 5,716,082 votes cast. - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
13: ...dash; [[March 3]], [[1865]];<br>[[December 4]], [[1865]] – [[March 3]], [[1869]]}} - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
7: ...ates Republican Party|Republican]] in [[1859]], [[1865]] and [[1871]], and served from [[January 31]], [... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
31: ...ioned as inspector general, and appointed quartermaster general with the rank of brigadier general, and...
84: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Timothy O. Howe]]'...
110: * [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]] - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
34: ...in 1870 and, while in that post, carried out at least two hangings of condemned criminals. Political op...
62: ...about the yacht ''Oneida'' as it sailed in the [[East River]] to Long Island Sound. The surgery was con...
71: ...ndson and a New Hampshire social worker and broadcaster, is now a Grover Cleveland re-enactor.
104: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[William F. Vilas]]...
146: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Wilson S. Bissell]... - United States (58223 bytes)
60: ...ot take place until after the end of the war in [[1865]], the dissolution of the Confederacy, and the [[...
76: ... population of the state, and each state has at least one representative. As of the [[United States 200...
80: ...[[President of the Senate]], with the ability to cast a tiebreaking vote. These two posts are elected, ...
95: ...e|Air Force]]. The [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] is under the [[Department of Homeland Sec...
110: ...ins]] west of the plains, deserts and temperate coastal zones west of the Rocky Mountains and [[tempera... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
48: ...ran]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Uzbekistan]] and has a coastline on the [[Caspian Sea]].
54: ...ligion and incorporating the Turkmen into Middle Eastern culture. It was around this time that the famo...
58: ...ndence when [[Genghis Khan]] took control of the eastern Caspian Sea region on his march west. For the ...
60: ...om [[Persia]] and annexed by [[Russia]] between [[1865]] and [[1885]], by 1894 [[imperial Russia]] had t...
70: Foreign companies seeking Turkmenistan's vast national gas resources have had to cooperate with... - Paraguay (10959 bytes)
1: ... the south and southwest, [[Brazil]] to the northeast and [[Bolivia]] to the northwest. The name "Parag...
54: ... the disastrous [[War of the Triple Alliance]] ([[1865]]-[[1870]]), Paraguay lost two-thirds of all adul...
84: ...Pero]] ([[Cerro Tres Kandu]]) at 842 m. The southeastern border is formed by the [[Parana River]], cont...
86: ...te|temperate]], with substantial rainfall in the eastern portions, though becoming semi-arid in the far...
97: ... dependent on [[Brazil]], its neighbour in the [[east]]. Most of the country's imports come through the... - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
62: ...afuti and Nukulaelae, none of whom returned. In [[1865]], the [[London Missionary Society]], Protestant ...
120: ... be a contributing factor to the environmental devastation on the islands.
131: ...erns that hit the island undissipated. Over the past decade, the islands have seen a disappearance of ... - Flag of Michigan (1261 bytes)
10: ...y" on the other side. The second flag, adopted in 1865, displayed the state coat of arms on one side and... - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
1: ... tomb for the [[Fourth dynasty of Egypt|Fourth dynasty]] [[ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] [[Pharaoh]] [[Khufu...
17: ...e are aligned quite precisely in North-South and East-West directions. These alignments are based on tr...
26: ... 5.23 [[metre]]s, and 4.57 metres in height. Its eastern wall has a large angular doorway or niche, and...
30: ... chamber. This final asscending corridor is a fantastic space with a height of aprox. 8 metres, which e...
32: ...ssage and outside the pyramid, through which the last of the workers and funerary priests could escape ... - Alabama (10792 bytes)
61: ... the war a provisional government was set up in [[1865]] and Alabama was readmitted to the Union in June...
74: ...r, lumber and wood products, mining, rubber and plastic products, transportation equipment and apparel.
172: ** [[Alabaster, Alabama|Alabaster]]
255: *[[Southeastern Bible College]] - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
26: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
37: ... on the north, and the [[Atlantic Ocean]] on the east.
42: ...d, chartered two colonies on the North Carolina coast in the late [[1580s]], both ending in failure. [[...
46: ...yetteville, North Carolina|Fayetteville]] in the east to [[Bethania, North Carolina|Bethania]] (northwe...
48: ...gest Confederate armies near Durham in late April 1865, weeks after Gen. [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender a... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
52: ...], on the north by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The state capital is [[Hartf...
56: ...rthwards to Hartford, as well as further up the coast near New London. Many towns center around a small...
65: ...attached to [[New York City]] and its suburbs in eastern [[New York State]].
68: *[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast]] - Delaware (15006 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
44: ...en 1763 and 1767. Part of the Line now forms the east-west boundary between Delaware and [[Maryland]], ...
50: ...ar, however, Delaware voted on [[February 18]], [[1865]] to reject the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the Uni...
56: ... Representative is former Governor, [[Michael N. Castle]] (Republican).
58: ...ent County]], [[New Castle County, Delaware| New Castle County]], and [[Sussex County, Delaware|Sussex ... - Florida (24937 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]]<br/>[...
36: ...ered by [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers during the [[Easter]] season, which is called ''Pascua Florida'' in...
43: ...], [[1861]]. After the fall of the Confederacy in 1865, Florida was readmitted into the Union on [[June ...
66: ...[[peninsula]] with the [[Atlantic Ocean]] as its eastern border and the Gulf of Mexico as its western b...
80: ...lso the site of the most costly single weather disaster in U.S. history, [[Hurricane Andrew]], which co... - Idaho (13962 bytes)
50: ... ''[[Idaho Statesman]]'', began publication. In [[1865]], [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]] replaced [[Lewiston, Id...
54: ...h Idaho is a conservative state politically, the vast majority of its residents reject such hateful ide...
122: ...nergy research, is also an important part of the eastern Idaho economy. - Iowa (24205 bytes)
6: Seal = Iowastateseal.jpg |
49: ... in [[1867]]. Council Bluffs was designated the eastern terminus for the [[Union Pacific]] railroad. ...
63: ...south, and [[Wisconsin]] and [[Illinois]] on the east.
65: ...owa)|Spirit Lake]], [[West Okoboji Lake]], and [[East Okoboji Lake]] in northwest Iowa (''see [[Iowa Gr...
67: ...hese are several hundred feet thick. In the northeast along the Mississippi River is a section of the [... - Utah (29154 bytes)
87: ...], hoping to find a route to the [[California]] coast. The expedition travelled as far north as [[Utah ...
102: Salt Lake City was the last link of the transcontinental telegraph, completed...
104: ...Connor established Fort Douglas just three miles east of Salt Lake City, and encouraged his men to disc...
106: Beginning in [[1865]], [[Utah's Black Hawk War]] developed into the d...
117: ...Cedar Hills]]) are seeing phenomonal growth. The fastest-growing city between [[1990]] and [[2000]] was... - Texas (39610 bytes)
55: ... [[Nuevo Le, and [[Tamaulipas]]. To the southeast of Texas lies the [[Gulf of Mexico]].
57: ...e South, especially Arkansas and Louisiana, in [[East Texas]], and more similarities with the Southwest...
114: ...robably the first [[Europe]]an to map the Texas coast.
117: ...ablish [[San Francisco de los Tejas]] Mission in East Texas, effectively blazing the [[Old San Antonio ...
136: ...allegiance to the Confederacy. <!-- This and the last bullet point from "Historical Atlas of Texas", by... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
25: ...]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] <small>(eastern counties)</small><br/>[[Central Standard Time ...
48: ...early 17,000 Cherokees were forced to march from Eastern Tennessee to [[Indian Territory]] west of [[Ar...
50: ...]] that abolished [[slavery]] ([[February 22]], [[1865]]), ratified the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the Un...
77: ...43 feet (2,025 meters), which lies on Tennesee's eastern border.
79: ...s generally considered the dividing line between East and Middle Tennessee. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
46: * the use of [[yeast]] for:
54: ...el [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
79: * [[4th century|300s]]: [[Stirrup]] in [[Jin Dynasty (265-420)|China]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall ...
66: *[[William Butler Yeats|Yeats, William Butler]] (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist, senator
68: ...|Yegorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...eksei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut
86: *[[Yi Jachun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
22: ...he United States, and provided U.S. farmers with vast expanses of land.
26: ...ritain imposed a loose blockade of the American coast.
28: ...e of the American coast. The embargo, however, devastated American agricultural exports while Britain f...
32: ...e 'status quo ante' after bitter fighting, which lasted until January 8, 1815 (after the peace treaty) ...
34: ...he federal government forcibly deported the Southeastern tribes to less fertile territories to the west... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...y related to, but distinct from [[science]] (at least in the modern conception). [[Technology]] concern...
29: Many ancient civilizations collected astronomical information in a systematic manner throu...
40: ... and is known as the philosophic school of [[scholasticism]]. The rise of [[Christianity]] saw a strang...
48: ===The Middle Ages: Eastern World===
52: ...8th]] centuries, a period of Islamic scholarship lasted until the [[14th century]]. This scholarship wa... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
162: *[[David G. Blythe]] ([[1815]]-[[1865]])
189: *[[Olga Boznanska]] ([[1865]]-[[1940]])
269: *[[Franz Cizek]] ([[1865]]-[[1946]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
378: *[[Otto Eckmann]] ([[1865]]-[[1902]]) - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
29: ...and businesses by mass-producing relatively long-lasting light bulbs and creating a system for the gene...
62: ...stock ticker]], the first electricity-based broadcast system.
73: ...]]. His second marriage was to [[Mina Miller]] ([[1865]]-[[1946]]), also with three children, [[Madelein...
100: ...n first in the "100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 [[Year]]s", noting that his [[light bulb]] "... - Timeline of United States history (2967 bytes)
21: ** [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]] - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
10: |Date||[[1861]]–[[1865]]
12: ...incipally in the southern United States; also in eastern, central and southwestern regions
26: ''[[1864]]–[[1865]]. 36 stars, after the admission of [[Nevada]].''...
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...ht in the [[United States]] from [[1861]] until [[1865]] between the United States – forces coming... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
14: ...ies) from [[East Berlin]] and the territory of [[East Germany]], which completely surrounded it.
42: ...tems with brute force superiority. However, the Eastern bloc fielded a larger number of designs in eac...
46: ...a was that the Western bloc would not attack the Eastern bloc or vice versa, because both sides had mor...
49: ...chrichtendienst|BND]] (West Germany), [[Stasi]] (East Germany) and the [[KGB]] (Soviet Union).
54: ... of Soviet-dominated governments on an unwilling Eastern Europe, Soviet intransigence, and aggressive S... - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
10: ...ividing societies by reference to [[class]] or [[caste]] associates [[privilege]] with the upper layers...
71: ...nd freed slaves were given the right to vote in [[1865]], [[U.S. Southern states|southern states]] used ...
79: ...r more than three hundred people, the internment lasted several years. Subsequently, the [[European Cou... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
6: ====1860–1865====
32: *[[1865]] - [[Abraham Lincoln]] [[assassin]]ated
33: *[[1865]] - [[Andrew Johnson]] becomes President
34: *[[1865]] - [[United States Civil War]] ends
35: *[[1865]] - [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States C... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
7: ...ies in the defeated region after the war, caused lasting bitterness among Southerners toward the U.S. g...
11: ...ion Act was passed on [[March 2]], [[1867]]; the last on [[March 11]], [[1868]]. The first Reconstruct...
13: ...f the original [[Ku Klux Klan]], in 1866; but it lasted for only three years.
30: As in the East, expansion into the plains and mountains by miner...
32: ...ans continued through the Civil War. In 1876 the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold r... - April (9790 bytes)
5: ... of [[Aries]] and ends in the sign of [[Taurus]]. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the conste...
25: ...T. S. Eliot]], on the other hand, opened ''[[The Waste Land]]'' with an ironic glance at Chaucer:
58: ...merican Civil War (Started April 1861 Ended April 1865, thus "Across 5 Aprils")
62: ...ent [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s Assassination (April 14,1865)
140: *Masters Golf Tournament - Dodo (9332 bytes)
18: ... Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]...
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported...
29: ...lgvogel'' ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant taste and texture of the meat. No dodo bones have been...
33: ... extinction of the dodo is commonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]], reported by [[shi...
37: ... dodo skeletons. A Dodo egg is on display at the East London museum in South Africa. Genetic material h... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
17: ...er to indicate the characters being sent. In contrast, Morse and Vail's initial telegraph system, which...
25: ...re experienced operators can send and receive at faster speeds. In general, any code representing writt...
29: ...e transmitted was "Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence." ''See also:...
35: ...t the International Telegraphy congress in Paris (1865), and later normed by the ITU as International Mo...
52: ...tions Commission]]. Designed for shipboard and coast station operators, they are awarded to applicants... - History of California (38344 bytes)
11: ...races of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about 13,0...
13: ...lized according to the particular environment. Coastal tribes were a major source of trading beads ([[...
36: ...lo led an expedition in two ships from the west coast of [[New Spain]]. He sailed northward and landed ...
40: ... Ferrelo]], sailed north after Cabrillo's death, past [[Point Arena|Cabo de Fortunas]] to the modern C...
50: ...English colonial claims were made from the East Coast in the 1600s were "from Sea to Sea." These colon... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
14: ...[American Civil War|Civil War]] ([[1861]]–[[1865]]). The war, which began soon after several south...
16: ...ividuals, furthermore, perceived the Senate as a bastion of the rich and the �lite. Several reformers...
23: ...the [[First Past the Post electoral system|first-past-the-post]] system, under which the candidate with...
30: ...ms by [[CNN]] in [[June 2003]] revealed that at least 40 of the then senators were millionaires.<!--htt...
33: ... a citizen of the United States for at least the past nine years, and must be (at the time of the elect... - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ...st World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], completed on ...
15: ...nstitute a World Cup of Baseball, to be held at least quadrennially during the Northern Hemisphere wint...
32: * 1865 Brooklyn Atlantics
85: ...he next three, and the first team would host the last two if necessary; the leagues alternated which re...
103: ...he margin of victory for the Athletics, and his blast in Game 3 off [[Christy Mathewson]] tied that gam... - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
2: '''George Washington Carver''' (c. [[1864]]-[[1865|5]] - [[January 5]], [[1943]]) was an [[African-A...
17: ...ined national respect. In 1896, he completed his master's degree and became the college's first African... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
25: ...tly, the nation's first commercial railroad, the east-west [[Baltimore & Ohio]] line, operated in [[Mar...
33: ... is the brightest star in a nearby [[Ursa Minor]] asterism, the "Little Dipper," which pointed the way ...
42: Primary routes led east of the Appalachians, up through Pennsylvania and ...
44: Just to the east of the [[Appalachian Mountains]] in [[Maryland]],...
56: ...mber of former slaves who owed their freedom at least in part to the courage and determination of those... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
33: * [[Cape Lion]] (1865)
76: * [[Harpagornis]] (Haast's Eagle) - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...e capital of the region of Tuscany and briefly ([[1865]]-[[1871]]) the capital of the kingdom of Italy. ...
23: ... from behind the scenes, his power coming from a vast [[patronage]] network and his alliance to the new...
32: ...], British and Commonwealth soldiers a few miles East of the center on the North bank of the Arno[http:...
40: ...[Western Schism|Great Schism]]) along with the catastrophic effects of the [[Black Death]] were to lead...
48: ... city is the [[Fountain of Neptune]], which is a masterpiece of marble sculpture at the terminus of a s... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865) - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
37: The city was devastated by the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]], but...
42: ...an word meaning "western people") living in the coastal area between [[Point Sur]] and the [[San Franci...
58: ... significantly outstripped the development of infrastructure, including [[sanitation]], a serious chole...
64: ...ay saved thousands. With the centennial of the disaster approaching, a city supervisor sponsored a reso...
85: ...gay people moved to San Francisco's [[The Castro|Castro district]], which previous to their arrival, ha... - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[November 2]], [[1865]]
18: '''Warren Gamaliel Harding''' ([[November 2]], [[1865]]–[[August 2]], [[1923]]) was an [[Politics...
23: Harding was born on November 2, 1865, near [[Blooming Grove, Ohio|Corsica]], [[Ohio]] ...
33: ...ns]]. He was raised to the Sublime Degree of a [[Master Mason]] on August 27, 1920, in Marion Lodge No....
45: ...ther there were any embarrassing episodes in his past that might be used against him. His formal educat... - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
41: ...g it the first [[semi-submersible]] ship. In contrast, ''Virginia'' was a conventional wooden vessel co...
51: ...], the design was offered to [[Sweden]], and in [[1865]] the first Swedish monitor was being built at [[...
53: The last U.S. Navy monitor-class warship was struck from t...
63: ...or of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] about 26 miles southeast of [[Cape Hatteras]], [[North Carolina]]. The wre... - African American (19830 bytes)
10: ...6 percent of African Americans lived in the Northeast and 18.7 percent in the Midwest, while only 8.9 p...
15: ... lead to the [[American Civil War]] ([[1861]] - [[1865]]).
17: ... to the United States Constitution]], ratified in 1865, freed all slaves, including those in states that...
58: In the last decade, a growing movement has developed, spearhe... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
8: In [[1865]], he attended the [[Utrecht University|Universit... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
6: ...[Todd County, Kentucky|Todd County]]. Davis, the last of the ten children of [[Samuel Emory Davis]] and...
31: ...d sailed from [[New Orleans]] for the [[Texas]] coast three days later.
59: ...ia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] on [[May 10]] with Postmaster General [[John Henninger Reagan]] and former Te...
62: ...mate at [[Fort Monroe|Fortress Monroe]], on the coast of Virginia. The casemate was wet, unheated, and...
77: ...'none'' | after=''none'' | years=[[1861]]–[[1865]]}} - James Longstreet (9732 bytes)
8: ...rom the [[U.S. Army]] in [[June]] of [[1861]] to cast his lot with the [[Confederate States of America|...
16: ... Confederate left, and Longstreet delivering a devastating flank attack on the right that crushed the s...
20: ...ry important to Lee's army, still stationed in devastated central [[Virginia]]. By conducting a siege o...
22: ...n the way Longstreet was employed by Lee. In the past, Lee had preferred to use Longstreet in defensive...
28: ...street and his men on a disastrous campaign into east Tennessee, where in [[December]], they were defea... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: '''Dr. Frederick Albert Cook''' ([[June 10]], [[1865]] – [[August 5]] [[1940]]) was an [[United ...
24: ...showed that none of Cook's 1906 photos was taken past the "Gateway" (north end of the Great Gorge), 12 ... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
1: ...ted States]] overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.
3: ... 1803 sparked interest in expansion to the west coast. A few weeks after the purchase, [[United States ...
7: ...er]] westward. Soon they passed Le Rochette, the last white settlement on the [[Missouri River]]. On [[...
9: ...the [[Snake River]], and the [[Columbia River]], past [[Celilo Falls]] and through what is now [[Portla...
10: ...ed to camp on the south side of the river (modern Astoria, OR) , building [[Fort Clatsop]] as their win... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
13: ...Confederate States of America]] adjourns for the last time.
16: ...e radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham radio]] operator.
32: *[[1965]] - [[Astronaut|Cosmonaut]] [[Aleksei Leonov]], leaving his... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
6: ...ory in the [[Battle of Yamen]] ends the [[Song Dynasty]] in [[China]].
10: *[[1865]] - [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Bento...
19: *[[1945]] - [[World War II]]: Off the coast of [[Japan]], a [[dive bomber]] hits the [[aircra...
26: ... Girl from Ipanema]]'', sung by [[Astrud Gilberto|Astrud]] and [[Jo㯠Gilberto]].
29: ...ed States House of Representatives]] begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable televisi... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
22: ...m]]: [[NASA]] launches [[Ranger 9]] which is the last in a series of unmanned [[Moon|lunar]] [[space pr...
38: *[[1685]] - [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], German composer, (d. [[1750]])
55: *[[1923]] - [[Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava]], the founder of [[Sahaja Yoga]]
91: ... - [[Alexander Glazunov]], Russian composer (b. [[1865]])
117: ...date of [[vernal equinox]], used for reckoning [[Easter]]. The real [[equinox]] usually occurs one day ... - Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
18: ... <font size="-1">''City [[motto]]: <i>Sic Itur Ad Astra</i> ("Such is the way to the Stars")''</font>
29: ...m:3px solid gray;" |[[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5
44: ...mes River]]. Like many other cities on the East coast, the location of Richmond was determined by the [...
48: ...istrict #1" during the [[Reconstruction]] period (1865-1870).
155: ...cane season#Tropical Storm Gaston|Tropical Storm Gaston]]. The storm lingered over the Richmond area, d... - Boise, Idaho (9777 bytes)
38: ... on [[December 7]], [[1864]]. It was changed in [[1865]]. According to [[legend]], the proposal for the ...
62: ...ball]]), the [[Idaho Steelheads]] of the [[East Coast Hockey League]], and the [[Idaho Stampede]] of th...
64: ...ed by the [[Boise Airport]], located in the Southeastern part of the city. - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
35: ...depositing meat, lumber, and flour and returning eastward with potatoes, corn, and wheat. By the late [...
39: ...hat Kansas enjoyed from the close of the war in [[1865]] until [[1870]]. In [[1869]], the railway starte...
41: ... a boom period that ended in disaster. There was vast [[speculation]] on town lots. The [[1889]] bubble...
52: ...arted on the southwest side of town, moving northeast, passing over a local landmark named Burnetts Mou...
58: ...nders of the [[Menninger Clinic]]; [[Ron Evans]], astronaut, commander of the pilot ship on Apollo 17; ... - Helena, Montana (6927 bytes)
29: ...r Georgians]]". Helena's main street is named '''Last Chance Gulch''' and follows the winding path of t...
33: The townsite was first surveyed in [[1865]] by Captain John Wood. However, most streets fol...
35: ...om Last Chance Gulch, over a 20-year period. The Last Chance Placer is one of the most famous placers i...
37: ...he same site, built in response to a series of devastating fires: April 1869, November 1869, October 18...
41: ...nning the length of the walking mall, simulating Last Chance Creek. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
190: *[[Jean Gaston Darboux]] ([[France]], [[August 14]],[[1842]] -...
299: * [[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]] (Scotla...
310: *[[Jacques Hadamard]] (France, [[1865]] - [[1963]])
316: ...[[William Rowan Hamilton]] (Ireland, [[1805]] - [[1865]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
90: *[[Louis Boyer (astronomer)|Louis Boyer]] ([[France]])
132: *[[Josep Comas Sol ([[Spain]])<!--Last name = "Comas Solᦱuot;, list under C -->
141: ... Claude de la Cherois Crommelin]] ([[Britain]], [[1865]] – [[1939]])
166: *[[Terence Dickinson]], ([[Canada]]), astronomer and author - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century)
311: *[[Hector-Neri Casta]], (1924-1991){{fn|C}} - United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
2: ...of population, but each state is entitled to at least one member; the total membership of the body is f...
11: ...[American Civil War|Civil War]] ([[1861]]–[[1865]]), which began soon after several southern state...
21: ...n years. Each state, however, is entitled to at least one representative. The only constitutional rule ...
27: ...eral election, almost all states use the [[first-past-the-post]] system, under which the candidate with...
34: ...|citizen]] of the United States for at least the past seven years, and must be (at the time of the elec... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
33: ...rty earlier, a [[political cartoon]] by [[Thomas Nast]], published in ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's We...
46: ...lavery had long been prohibited, and in the Northeast, culminating in a sweep of victories in the North...
48: ...o had participated in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves pos...
58: ...tionism]]. [[Thomas Dewey]] represented the Northeastern wing of the party that was closer to Democrati...
60: ...ing pockets of liberal Republicanism in the northeast began to die out as the region turned solidly Dem... - Jury (14851 bytes)
90: ...he Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial, 1800-1865 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)'' - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...he hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christi...
7: The monastic hospitaller order was founded following the [[F...
15: ... well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
17: ...Auvergne]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Aragon]], [[Castile]], [[Germany]] and [[England]]). The English p...
19: ..., and the walls of the city. The resulting siege lasted six months, at the end of which the survivors w... - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
7: [[Image:Easternbandcherokeeflag.png|none|200px]]
8: Flag of the Eastern Band Cherokee
13: [[Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians]], North Carolina (f)...
22: ... is now the [[Eastern United States]] and [[Southeastern United States]] until most were forcefully mov...
25: ...Indians]] and at [[Cherokee, North Carolina]] ([[Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians]]). State-recognized ... - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
104: #The coast of the United States
108: ...line]] and thirty-four were [[frigates]]. In contrast, the [[United States Navy]], which was not yet tw...
114: ...nty minute battle, the ''Guerriere'' had been dismasted and captured, and was later burned.
116: ...rnor of [[Bombay]], to [[India]]. After a battle lasting three hours, the ''Java'' [[striking the color...
120: ...en had been [[impressment|impressed]]. This contrasted with the Americans who were all volunteers, whi... - Genetics (12654 bytes)
12: It was not until [[1865]] that [[Gregor Mendel]] first traced inheritance...
22: :[[1865]] [[Gregor Mendel]]'s paper, ''Experiments on Pla...
41: ...ius influenzae'', enabling scientists to cut and paste DNA - Golden Retriever (8646 bytes)
61: ...border country. Majoribanks had purchased Nous on 1865 from an unregistered litter of otherwise black wa...
75: ...escued goldens to adopters. In 1996, breed enthusiast and rescue pioneer Helen Redlus founded [http://w... - Yorkshire Terrier (5765 bytes)
65: ...her and son. Huddersfield Ben was bred by Mr. W. Eastwood Huddersfield, who died in [[1871]]. A multipl... - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
23: *[[1865]] [[Pullman]] [[sleeping car]] introduced in the ...
28: .... One of the first railway lines in the [[Middle East]] was built between [[Tehran]] and [[Ray, Iran|Ra...
32: *[[1908]] [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]] opens first suburban electric train ser...
44: ...] introduces the [[Acela Express]] on the [[Northeast Corridor]] in the United States. - Vice President of the United States (33884 bytes)
14: ...a natural-born citizen of the United States, at least thirty-five years of age, and a resident of the U...
21: ...s procedural matters and is given the ability to cast a vote in the event of a tie. There is a strong ...
48: ...very President since. Still, Roosevelt kept his last Vice President [[Harry S. Truman]] uninformed on ...
55: ...Republicans and Democrats and thus Dick Cheney's casting vote gave the Republicans the Senate majority.
121: ...mlin]] || [[March 4]], [[1861]] || [[March 3]], [[1865]] || [[United States Republican Party|Republican]... - Slavery (26455 bytes)
4: ... or tacit arrangements with local authorities by masters who have some influence because of their statu...
6: ...which originally meant landless [[serfs]] from [[Eastern Europe]], including parts of [[Rome|the Roman ...
39: ...]], and many were sold to buyers in the [[Middle East]].
44: ...slager'' ([[labour camps]]) in [[Germany]] and [[Eastern Europe]]. Prisoners in Nazi labor camps were w...
52: ...e clothed and fed in the same manner as is their master, and that they not be forced into marriage or [... - Baseball (36464 bytes)
5: ...], baseball has often been called the ''national pastime''; the total attendance for [[Major League Bas...
42: ...nd a change up, which is a slower version of a [[fastball]].
58: ...ball in an attempt to hit it. The pitches arrive fast, so the decision must be made in less than a seco...
82: ... winning run touches home plate; however, if the last batter hits a home run to win the game, he and an...
86: ...nclement weather may also shorten games, but at least five innings must be played for the game to be co... - Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
5: ...tley]] and [[William Godwin]], which were all distasteful to him. The mystical speculations of [[Meiste...
7: ... he belonged, and in consequence was, during the last three years of his life, interdicted from lecturi...
9: ...escribed as [[Scholasticism]]; for, like the scholastic doctors, he believes that theology and philosop...
11: ...mere abstract Being (''substantia''), but as everlasting process, activity (''actus''). Of this process...
21: - Tecumseh's curse (3257 bytes)
7: ...am Lincoln]], [[assassination|assassinated]] in [[1865]]
21: ...recently have called for [[prayer]] to avert [[catastrophe]] from Presidents Reagan and [[George W. Bus... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
2: ...sh]] [[natural history|naturalist]] who achieved lasting fame as originator of the theory of [[evolutio...
6: ...sion of the Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His last book was about earthworms.
29: ...His father objected to the voyage, thinking it a waste of his son's time, but was eventually persuaded ...
43: ...rmadillo]]s in strata which showed no signs of catastrophy or change in climate, and found later that t...
51: With Lyell's enthusiastic backing Darwin read his first paper to the [[Ge... - Woodrow Wilson (31322 bytes)
23: ...Ruggles Wilson and Janet Woodrow, making him the last president born in the state. His ancestry was [[S...
38: :"...how is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whippi...
46: ...ghts of parliamentary government at home. In his last scholarly work in 1908, "Constitutional Governmen...
48: ...uty by every lesson that can be drawn out of the past".
69: In the last year of his first term Wilson assembled an impres... - Rutherford B. Hayes (9651 bytes)
24: ...vetted major general of Volunteers [[March 3]], [[1865]].
26: ...ok the oath again publicly on [[March 5]] on the East Portico of the Capitol, and he served until [[Mar...
36: ...epublicans -- if Hayes' cabinet consisted of at least one Southerner and he withdrew all Union troups f...
67: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[David M. Key]]'''|...
99: * [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]] - James A. Garfield (15070 bytes)
24: ...oreland Hills]], [[Cuyahoga County, Ohio]], southeast of [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] to Abram Garfiel...
30: ...[1859]], serving until [[1861]]. He was an enthusiastic [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] a...
35: ...ld the task of driving Confederate forces out of eastern Kentucky in November 1861, giving him the 18th...
50: ...nly shifted all its votes to Garfield, who was aghast at the thought that he might be trying to thwart ...
76: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Thomas L. James]]'... - Benjamin Harrison (11469 bytes)
28: ...s a [[brigadier general]], and mustering out in [[1865]]. While in the field in October [[1864]] he was...
79: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[John Wanamaker]]''...
114: *Harrison was the last President of the United States to wear a beard wh...
121: * [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]] - William McKinley (11746 bytes)
27: ...t]] [[Major]] of the same regiment in September [[1865]].
85: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[James A. Gary]]'''...
115: * [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]] - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
20: ...ation ethic|conservationist]], naval-power enthusiast, peace broker and [[Progressive Era|progressive r...
25: ... born at 28 [[East 20th Street, New York City|28 East 20th Street]] in the modern-day [[Gramercy]] sect...
27: Sickly and [[asthma]]tic as a youngster, Theodore had to sleep pro...
32: ...t, something that would stick with him until his last years.
42: *secretary of the [[Hasty Pudding Club]], - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
71: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Frank H. Hitchcock...
114: * [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]] - John C. Breckinridge (5870 bytes)
8: ...f Shiloh]], in which he was wounded. He returned east in [[1864]], during the [[Overland Campaign]], an...
10: In early 1865, Breckinridge was made [[Secretary of War]] in th...
12: ...the chaos of the fall of Richmond in early April, 1865, Breckinridge saw to it that the Confederate arch...
16: ...e and a small band made their way down the east coast of [[Florida]], eventually sailing across the sea... - Hannibal Hamlin (5219 bytes)
4: ... next few years he worked at several jobs: schoolmaster, cook, woodcutter, surveyor, manager of a weekl...
17: ...ved in the Senate from [[1869]] to [[1881]]. His last post was minister to [[Spain]], from [[1881]] to ...
36: ...ears=[[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[March 3]], [[1865]]}} - Adlai E. Stevenson (3193 bytes)
12: ...ket in [[1864]]. He was district attorney from [[1865]] to [[1868]]. He was elected as a Democrat to th...
15: ...election in [[1880]]. He was First Assistant Postmaster General [[1885]]-[[1889]], then elected Vice Pr... - Charles G. Dawes (3139 bytes)
3: '''Charles Gates Dawes''' ([[August 27]], [[1865]] – [[April 23]], [[1951]]) was the 30th [[V... - Culture of Jersey (13844 bytes)
11: ...r some purposes, is a [[minority language]]. The last French language newspaper closed in [[1959]].
25: ... poetry, ''Rimes Jersiaises'', was published in [[1865]].
37: ...would comment on the latest news or recall times past. The column continued until the author's death in...
41: ...oponymy and etymology. He himself considered his masterpiece the translation of the [[Rubaiyat of Omar ...
71: ...at discouraged such cultural frivolities, or at least placed such a low value on these activities that ... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
18: ... Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]...
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported...
29: ...lgvogel'' ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant taste and texture of the meat. No dodo bones have been...
33: ... extinction of the dodo is commonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]], reported by [[shi...
37: ... dodo skeletons. A Dodo egg is on display at the East London museum in South Africa. Genetic material h... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
15: *'''[[American Civil War]]''' (1861–1865)
208: *[[Confederate States of America]] (1861–1865) - Seadragon (2092 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Gasterosteiformes]]}}
12: ... [[Albert C. L. G. Günther|Günther]] | date = [[1865]]}}
17: ... they are very large for sea horses, growing at least 18 inches (45 cm). They feed on [[plankton]], [[a... - Painting of the United States (3965 bytes)
7: ...e artistic values," announced [[Robert Henri]] ([[1865]]-[[1929]]). He was the leader of what critics ca... - United States Republican Party (30737 bytes)
32: ...rty earlier, a [[political cartoon]] by [[Thomas Nast]], published in ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's We...
45: ...lavery had long been prohibited, and in the Northeast, culminating in a sweep of victories in the North...
47: ...o had participated in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves pos...
57: ...tionism]]. [[Thomas Dewey]] represented the Northeastern wing of the party that was closer to Democrati...
59: ...ing pockets of liberal Republicanism in the northeast began to die out as the region turned solidly Dem... - Anchisaurus (5714 bytes)
16: ...A. polyzelus'' ([[Edward Hitchcock|Hitchcock]], [[1865]])<br/>
26: ...ed these bones under the name "Megadactylus" in [[1865]]. The great [[paleontologist]] [[Othniel Charles... - Stone Age (17593 bytes)
6: ...he spread of humanity from the [[savanna]]s of [[East Africa]] to the rest of the world. It ends with t...
8: ...hic]] periods, by John Lubbock in his now classic 1865 book ''Pre-historic Times''. These three periods ...
26: ...s choppers. ''Homo habilis'' is presumed to have mastered the Oldowan era tool case which utilized ston...
36: From 35,000 to 10,000 years ago (the end of the last ice age modern humans spread out further across t...
43: ...) was imported from the [[Ancient Near East|Near East]]. There, microlith tools permitted more efficien... - First Lady of the United States (9641 bytes)
131: | April 15, 1865
135: | April 15, 1865 - September 23 (7397 bytes)
10: ...pis]]'' and ''Countess of Scarborough'' off the coast of [[England]]
15: ...tronomer [[John Couch Adams]]; verified by German astronomer [[Johann Gottfried Galle]]
33: *[[2004]] - At least 1,070 in [[Haiti]] reported killed by [[flood]]s ...
47: *[[1865]] - Baroness [[Emmuska Orczy]], novelist (d. [[19...
92: *[[1873]] - [[Jean Chacornac]], French astronomer (b. [[1823]]) - Neolithic (8186 bytes)
15: ...]. The name was invented by [[John Lubbock]] in [[1865]] as a refinement of the [[three-age system]]. Th...
18: ... [[farming]] [[society|societies]] in the [[Near East]] do not use pottery, and in [[Britain]] it remai...
27: - Edwin Abbott Abbott (2724 bytes)
1: ...n of [[Edwin Abbott]] ([[1808]] - [[1882]]), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his...
3: ... headmaster of the [[City of London School]] in [[1865]] at the early age of twenty-six. He was [[Hulsea... - Gregor Mendel (6112 bytes)
8: ...3 he entered an [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[monastery]] in [[Brno]]. He was later sent to the [[Univ...
10: ...ation in plants. He commenced his study in his monastery's experimental garden. Between 1856 and 1863 M...
12: ...stics. On one of his frequent walks around the monastery, he found an atypical variety of an ornamental...
14: ...atural History Society of Brunn in Bohemia]] in [[1865]]. When Mendel's paper was published in [[1866]] ...
27: ... by his notes in the margin of the copy in his monastery), but apparently failed to realize its signifi... - Cellulose acetate (4564 bytes)
1: '''Cellulose acetate''', first prepared in [[1865]], is the acetate [[salt]] of [[cellulose]]. Cel...
12: ...]], which was then widely used in [[celluloid]] plastics and [[film|motion picture]] film. By 1913, Ca...
16: * cellulosic and thermoplastic
18: * easily bonded with plasticizers, heat, and pressure
46: ... U.S. Acetate Fiber Producers: Celanese Acetate, Eastman Chemical Company - 1901 (12292 bytes)
66:
105: ... [[Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova|Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia]] (d. [[1918]])
120: **[[Lanza del Vasto]], Italian philosopher, poet and non-violent act...
141: ...entine Woodhouse|Francis Valentine Woodhouse ]], last Apostle of the [[Catholic Apostolic Church]] [[18...
155: ...Lohmann]], English cricketer (tuberculosis) (b. [[1865]]) - February 22 (10772 bytes)
16: * [[1865]] - [[Tennessee]] adopts a new [[constitution]] t...
24: ... the United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House]].
113: *[[1890]] - [[John Jacob Astor III]], American businessman (b. [[1822]])
149: *[[Roman Catholic Church]] - [[Cathedra Petri|Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter]] - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
5: ..., D.C. were considered as a state, it would rank last in area behind [[Rhode Island]], 50th in populati...
36: |[[Time zone]]||Eastern: [[UTC]]-5
46: ...mply as '''the District''' or '''D.C.''', to contrast its greater [[metropolitan area]].
77: ... in the city's population. But on [[April 14]], [[1865]], just days after the end of the war, president ...
93: The Washington area was the target of at least one of the four hijacked planes in the [[Septembe... - Bullfighting (25773 bytes)
2: ... goal of appearing graceful and confident, while masterful over the [[bull]] itself; these maneuvers ar...
17: Bullfighting goes back at least to [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] [[Crete]], wher...
24: At least three distinct styles of bullfighting are practic...
34: ...ut of a total of six bulls, each of which is at least four years old and weighs up to about 600kg. Each...
42: ...rges. The placing of the banderillas is also the last chance to correct or fine tune the charging tende...
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