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13: ...dash; [[March 3]], [[1865]];<br>[[December 4]], [[1865]] – [[March 3]], [[1869]]}} - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
7: ...nty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
3: | image name=chester a arthur illustration.3.jpg
18: ... the United States|Vice President]] in the administration of [[James Garfield]]. Garfield was shot by...
20: ...rthur pronounced his middle name, Alan, with the stress on the ''second'' syllable -- "Al-AN."
27: ...o his eligibility for American public office. The truth, however, was simply that Arthur was born near...
29: ...or blacks who objected to the segregation of city transportation. He also took an active part in the ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: ...age:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>
7: 24th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td> - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...fty [[U.S. state|states]] located primarily in central [[North America]]. The United States has land b...
4: {{Infobox Country |
9: ...>([[Latin]]: "Out of Many, One")<br>''[[In God We Trust]]'' ([[1956]]–present) |
52: ...ence|Declaration of Independence]]. However, the structure of the United States was profoundly changed...
58: ...ion|Constitution]] in [[1789]], forming a more centralized [[federalism|federal]] government. Prior to... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
16: | ''[[Independent, Neutral, Turkmenistan State Anthem]]''
28: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 51st]]<br/> 488,100 [[squa...
31: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 113th]]<br/> 4,603,2...
42: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
48: ...oviet Socialist Republic]]'' is a country in [[Central Asia]]. It has borders with [[Afghanistan]], [[... - Paraguay (10959 bytes)
1: ...Asuncibut in Spanish refers to the entire country.
26: ...by area|Ranked 58th]] <br> 406,750 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 2.3%
29: |[[List of countries by population|Ranked 100th]]<br> 6,191,368<br>...
46: |'''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]'''
52: ...ed in [[1537]]. The city eventually became the centre of a [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Span... - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
38: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 190th]]<br/> [[1 E7 m²...
41: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 193rd]]<br/> 11,468 ...
44: | Tuvaluan [[Australian dollar|dollar]]
49: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
55: ...acific Ocean]] midway between [[Hawaii]] and [[Australia]]. Its name means "Eight Standing Together" i... - 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)
11: ...phinx of Giza|Great Sphinx]], and a few hundred metres further southwest is the [[Pyramid of Menkaure]...
13: == Construction ==
15: ...a and the current "rough hewn" appearance of the structure is due to the removal of the polished white...
17: ...st-West directions. These alignments are based on true North, not magnetic North. The sides of the pyr...
22: ...ltan]] in 1356CE in order to build mosques and fortresses in nearby Cairo. - Alabama (10792 bytes)
30: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|DST]]-5 |
50: |'''[[List of U.S. state trees|State tree]]'''||[[Longleaf Pine]]
59: ... and the Mississippi Territory, there was much controversy as to whether or not Alabama was included. ...
61: ... the war a provisional government was set up in [[1865]] and Alabama was readmitted to the Union in June...
71: ...le more than 1800 [[foot (unit)|feet]] or 550 [[metre|meters]] near the [[State of Georgia|Georgia]] s... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
42: Originally inhabited by a number of native tribes, including the [[Cherokee]], North Carolina w...
44: ...April [[1776]], the colony became the first to instruct its delegates to the Continental Congress to v...
46: ...nd commercial areas were further connected by construction of a 129 mile (208 km) wooden [[plank]...
48: ...gest Confederate armies near Durham in late April 1865, weeks after Gen. [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender a...
50: ...e, especially with the creation of the [[Research Triangle Park]] between [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Ra... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
36: ...gland and one of the wealthiest states in the country. Connecticut was one of the [[13 colonies|thirte...
43: ...ird for Connecticut, was adopted in [[1965]]. The traditional abbreviation of the state's name is "Con...
56: ...rners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the coastal highways fro...
65: ...sidents go for years or even decades without ever traveling to other regions of the state, considering...
77: ===Transportation=== - Delaware (15006 bytes)
40: ...opeans first settled in a [[Netherlands | Dutch]] trading post at "Zwaanendael" (or "Swaanendael," pre...
44: ...y between Delaware and Maryland is known as the [[Transpeninsular Line]]. Several towns on the borders...
48: ...d is the oldest such cultural festival in the country.
50: ...ar, however, Delaware voted on [[February 18]], [[1865]] to reject the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the Uni...
67: ... the [[Delmarva Peninsula]], a geographical unit stretching far down the Mid-Atlantic coast. - Florida (24937 bytes)
25: ...ing time|-4]]<br/>[[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] (weste...
43: ...], [[1861]]. After the fall of the Confederacy in 1865, Florida was readmitted into the Union on [[June ...
49: ...residential election in Florida in [[2000]] was extremely close. As such, and because of its high pop...
51: In Miami, the liberal Democrats vie for control with wealthy [[Cuba|Cuban]] conservative Republ...
66: ...of the panhandle, by Alabama. It is near the countries of the [[Caribbean]], particularly the [[Baham... - Idaho (13962 bytes)
42: ...med [[Colorado]] because of it. Eventually the controversy was forgotten, and modern-day Idaho was giv...
48: ...on Territory]], fur trading and missionary work attracting the first settlers to the region. While tho...
50: ...covery of gold in Idaho and the completion of the transcontinental railway in [[1869]] brought many ne...
52: ...r of [[silver]] and [[lead]]. Today, Idaho's industrial economy is growing, as plants are built to pro...
54: ... Nations]]. These groups are most heavily concentrated in the northern part of the state, particular... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|DST]]-5 |
38: ...state is named for the [[Native American]] [[Iowa tribe|Iowa]] people.
46: ...7 different tribes. Today, only the [[Mesquaki]] tribe is left in Iowa and live in [[Tama County, Iow...
49: ...oss Iowa brough major economic changes as well as travel opportunities.
55: *Although Iowa's primary industry is agriculture, it also produces [[refrigerator]... - Utah (29154 bytes)
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48: ... Fish = [[Trout|Bonneville Cutthroat Trout]] |
55: Tree = [[Spruce|Blue Spruce]] |
63: Motto = ''Industry'' | - Texas (39610 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]]<br />[...
44: * [[state tree]] — the [[pecan]]
52: ...th an area of [[1 E11 m?|690,000]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]], Texas forms the second-largest...
57: Texas lies in the south-central part of the United States of America. Depending...
70: ...a]] Tribes of Texas, the [[Kickapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
11: ... = [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] (largest [[metropolitan area]] is Nashville) |
25: ... [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] <small>(central and western)</small> |
39: ...ican]] village named "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European ...
43: The modern spelling, ''Tennessee'', is attributed to [[James Glen]], the Governor of [[South ...
48: ...t of [[Arkansas]]. This came to be known as the [[Trail of Tears]], as an estimated 4,000 Cherokees di... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ''Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall o...
64: *[[Trisha Yearwood|Yearwood, Trisha]] (born 1964), musician
66: *[[William Butler Yeats|Yeats, William Butler]] (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist, senator
68: ...egorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...sei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
24: ...and Caribbean colonies. Both sides permitted this trade when it benefitted them, but opposed it when i...
26: ...eas trade ties. Thus, in retaliation against U.S. trade practices, Britain imposed a loose blockade of...
28: ...[[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] suspended all U.S. trade with foreign nations in 1807, hoping to get th...
32: ...he peace treaty) on many fronts. Crucially, the [[Treaty of Ghent]] which officially ended the war saw...
34: ...ral government forcibly deported the Southeastern tribes to less fertile territories to the west. The... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces these [[phenomenon|phenomena]] and their pre-...
6: ...which differs from the search for [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that...
11: ..." scientific knowledge. Since the 1960s, a common trend in the study of the sociology and history of s...
13: A major subject of concern and controversy in the [[philosophy of science]] has been t...
15: ...nce." Often, but not always, a conflict over the "truth" of science has split along the lines of those... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
162: *[[David G. Blythe]] ([[1815]]-[[1865]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
189: *[[Olga Boznanska]] ([[1865]]-[[1940]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]]) - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
5: ... major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
7: ...e magnate lived across the street at his winter retreat (The Mangoes). They were friends until Edison ...
14: From [[Port Huron]], Sam Edison moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Milan...
18: ...m. Some of his earliest inventions related to electrical telegraphy, included a stock ticker.
20: Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder, on [[October 28]], [[1868]]. - Timeline of United States history (2967 bytes)
21: ** [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]]
37: ...t.com/image/category/us-history-pictures-and-illustrations.htm Historical Pictures of the United State...
38: ...e/category/american-revolutions-pictures-and-illustrations.htm Pictures of the American Revolution]
40: ...rt.com/image/category/civil-war-pictures-and-illustrations.htm Civil War Images]
41: ...image/category/colonial-america-pictures-and-illustrations.htm Pictures of Colonial America] - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
10: |Date||[[1861]]–[[1865]]
12: ...n 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]]''
39: !colspan="2" |Strength - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ... in April 1947 during a debate on the [[Truman Doctrine]].
9: ...[[SALT I]], [[SALT II]], [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]]). U.S.-Soviet relations would deteriorate o...
12: ...tes and the Soviet Union a major arena was the [[strategy of technology]] (see also [[deterrence theor...
14: ...lated [[West Berlin]] (the portion of the city controlled by [[West Germany]] and the Allies) from [[E...
17: ...tionary advances were made in the field of [[rocketry]], which led to the [[space race]]. (Most or al... - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
2: ...ul protest, the right to a fair investigation and trial if suspected of a crime, and more generally-ba...
4: ...Convention on Human Rights]] (with forty-five countries as signatories), which encompass both human ri...
10: ...s, and ownership of property was an aspect of ''patria potestas'', i.e. only the father of the family ...
14: ...t effect in [[sovereign]] states depending on the treaties signed by each state and the nature of thei...
19: * Hohfeld proposed a structured system of interrelated concepts - 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)
2: ...ment of much of the native population. U.S. industry expanded rapidly throughout the era; by the dawn...
4: ==Reconstruction==
5: ...ticle: [[Reconstruction era (United States)|Reconstruction]]''
7: ...m Lincoln]] had endorsed a lenient plan for reconstruction, but the immense human cost of the war and ...
9: ... government to effectively reunite the country contributed to the government's failure for many decade... - April (9790 bytes)
5: ...f [[Aries]] and ends in the sign of [[Taurus]]. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constel...
7: ... hearts of men", or from the [[Etruscan language|Etruscan]] name ''Apru'' for [[Aphrodite]].
13: ==April in poetry==
51: :Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
53: ==The Tragic Month of April== - Dodo (9332 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[bird|Aves]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[dove|Columbiformes]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Raphidae'''}} - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: [[Image:Morse_sam.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http:...
2: ...ge. Originally created for [[Samuel Morse]]'s electric [[Telegraphy|telegraph]] in the mid-1830s, it w...
4: ...al (e.g. a flashing light). Because Morse code is transmitted using just two states — on and off —...
7: # intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes withi...
17: ..., and when the current was removed the receiver retracted the armature, so that portion of the tape wa... - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: ... populated by [[missionary|missionaries]] and fur trappers, to a land of opportunity and wealth, first...
11: ...and, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the la...
13: ...ada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the acidic [[tan...
19: ...ries of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a wonderful country far to the northwest, populated with [[Amazons|A...
30: ... applied in the account of this voyage. It can be traced back to a series of romances that were very p... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...dent of the United States|President]] must ratify treaties and make important appointments "with the A...
10: ...ife and their weight of property, and bearing as strong a likeness to the British House of Lords as po...
12: The structure of Congress was one of the most divisive is...
14: ...Johnson]] in [[1868]] for political purposes; the trial ultimately ended in acquittal, with the Senate...
16: ...to a period of irrelevance that stood in sharp contrast with the pre-Civil War era. Very few senators ... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series has been an annual event ...
4: ==Introduction==
7: ...layers' Pool, from which descending shares are distributed to the World Series winner, the World Serie...
11: ...earcher [[Doug Pappas]] refutes that claim, demonstrating a linear progression from the phrase "World'...
13: ... International Baseball Federation ([[IBAF]]) has tried to lobby MLB into suspending play during the S... - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
2: '''George Washington Carver''' (c. [[1864]]-[[1865|5]] - [[January 5]], [[1943]]) was an [[African-A...
5: ...filly. This episode caused a bout of [[Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease|respiratory disease]] tha...
9: ... now on, his name was "George Carver". They then struck a deal: He would be paid money for cooking for...
11: ..., Iowa. He excelled in art and music, but art instructor Etta Budd, whose father was head of the Iowa...
13: ...ent rank, of the campus military regiment. His poetry was published in the student newspaper and two o... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
8: ===Structure===
10: ...h|Wesleyans]], as well as breakaway sects of mainstream denominations such as the [[Free Methodist]]s ...
23: ...In this case, the authorities went to the regular train station in an attempt to intercept the runaway...
33: ... was an Africanized reference to an [[asterism (astronomy)|asterism]] within the constellation [[Ursa ...
44: ...where the Appalachians become too rugged for foot travel. At the center of the funnel is [[Frederick C... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
24: ===[[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], incomplete list===
33: * [[Cape Lion]] (1865)
54: * [[Extinct Australian animals]]
68: ...Hawaiian honeycreeper|Kona Grosbeak]], ''Psittirostra kona''
71: ...ycreeper|Greater Amakihi]], ''Viridonia sagittirostris'' - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...e capital of the region of Tuscany and briefly ([[1865]]-[[1871]]) the capital of the kingdom of Italy. ...
3: A centre of medieval [[Europe]]an trade and finance, the city is sometimes considered ...
17: ...erienced subsequent periods of [[Byzantine]], [[Ostrogothic]], [[Lombard]] and [[Frankish rule]], duri...
19: ... of whom was [[Dante Alighieri]]. This factional strife was later recorded by the White Guelph [[Dino ...
21: ...n strong gold currency, the [[guilder|florin]] (introduced in [[1252]]), the eclipse of her formerly p... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
33: *[[Treffle Berthlaume]] (1803 - 1884)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
190: *[[Pietro Masni]] - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
19: ...opulation_note = 7,533,384 ([[metropolitan area|metro area]]) |
39: ...ar system]], the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] and the [[Transamerica Pyramid]].
42: ...ived, they found the area inhabited by the Yelamu tribe, belonging to a linguistic grouping later call...
48: ...food to the site. The first of many environmental transformations was the city's reliance on filled ma...
51: ...pulation are still present today, notably [[Levi Strauss & Co.]] clothing, [[Ghirardelli Chocolate Com... - 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...
20: ... social policy. Plagued by scandals in his administration—despite being personally honest—...
23: ...tion was completed at [[Muskingum College|Ohio Central College]] (later [[Muskingum College]]) in [[Ib...
25: ...'s political stance was at odds with those who controlled most of Marion's local politics. When Hardin... - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
39: ...mage from cannon fire. ''Monitor'''s hull was constructed at the Continental Iron Works in the [[Green...
41: ...ing it the first [[semi-submersible]] ship. In contrast, ''Virginia'' was a conventional wooden vessel...
43: ...''. ''Virginia'' had failed in her mission to destroy the U.S. fleet and raise the [[blockade]], whil...
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 the Navy List in [[1937]]. - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ... recent African immigrants, who usually adopt country-of-origin identifiers. However, the term properl...
10: ...ercent, followed closely by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], with 83 percent.
15: ... lead to the [[American Civil War]] ([[1861]] - [[1865]]).
17: ...previously had been denied. However, when [[Reconstruction]] ended in [[1877]], southern, white landow...
19: ...lite in the [[Northern United States]], led to a strengthening movement to fight violence and discrimi... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
2: ...vember 8]], [[1895]], produced and detected [[electromagnetic radiation]] in a [[wavelength]] range to...
6: ...Martinus Herman van Doorn]]. He later attended [[Utrecht Technical School]], from which he was expelle...
8: ... attended the [[Utrecht University|University of Utrecht]]. He then began to attend the [[ETH Zurich|P...
12: ...rsity in New York City and had actually purchased transatlantic tickets, the outbreak of World War I c...
16: ...otect the aluminium from damage by the strong electrostatic field that is necessary to produce the cat... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
6: ...le of [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]] as an [[infantry]] officer. His older brothers also served. Durin...
10: ...[[Washington, Mississippi]] in [[1818]], and to [[Transylvania University]] at [[Lexington, Kentucky]]...
12: ...mill]] in the [[Yellow River]] in [[1831]], he contracted [[pneumonia]], causing him to return to Fort...
14: ...id that the chief liked Davis because of the kind treatment he had shown. Another of Davis's duties d...
16: ... made a regimental [[adjutant]]. [[1834]] saw his transfer to Fort Gibson. On [[June 17]] [[1835]], Je... - James Longstreet (9732 bytes)
2: ...James_Longstreet.jpg|200px|thumb|right|James Longstreet]]
4: ...t of his former enemies, as a diplomat and administrator.
8: ...[[Edgefield County, South Carolina | Edgefield District]], [[South Carolina]], but grew up in [[August...
12: ...rginia]]. During the [[Seven Days Battles]], Longstreet had operational command of nearly half the Lee...
14: ...et affectionately as his ''Old War Horse''. (Longstreet's friends generally called him ''Pete''.) His ...
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