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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...the era was capped by U.S. involvement in [[World War I]].
7: ...reconstruction, but the immense human cost of the war and the social changes wrought by it led [[Unite...
9: ...e [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden. This failure of the federal governm...
11: ...e midterm elections, the first Reconstruction Act was passed on [[March 2]], [[1867]]; the last on [[M...
13: ...ticipated in these governments were called [[scalawags]]. Republicans took control of all state gover...
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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
9: ...and Applied Chemistry]] (IUPAC). The IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral sy...
59: The original table was created without a knowledge of the inner structu...
60: The first to recognize these regularities was the German chemist [[Johann Wolfgang D?einer]] w...
82: ...ements in the empty cells of his table. Mendeleev was later vindicated by the discovery of the electro... - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
47: | [[Hawaii]]
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
63: | [[Iowa]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
130: *[[Sven Hedin]], (1865-1952), Swedish explorer of [[Central Asia]]
131: ...lls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]...
134: *[[Sir Edmund Hillary]], with [[Tenzing Norgay]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empres...
9: ...hnological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; he...
12: ...ningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] ...
14: ...s the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...ssed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of ... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ... the launcher of women's political advocacy. She was a [[Quaker]], a [[women's rights]] proponent, an...
5: ...] movement in the very early 1800s. Lucretia Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy wor...
7: ... that allows "conscientious objector" status to [[war resistors]].
9: Mott was successful in her abolitionist lobbying and punc...
11: ...ent in one area, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers we... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...lieved travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals o...
6: ...ne Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow mal...
8: ...ted States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, but art supplies a...
14: ... friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it." - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ...y 7]], [[1839]] – [[January 25]], [[1908]]) was the ''[[pen name]]'' of the [[England|English]] ...
3: De la Ram饠was born in [[Bury St Edmunds]], [[England]], to an ...
29: * ''Strathmore'' (1865)
33: * ''Wanda'' (1883)
34: * ''The Waters of Edera'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/ete... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...ber 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
14: ... their strong composition and vibrant colors. She was, however, best known for her candid female nudes...
20: In [[1894]] she was the first woman admitted to the [[Soci鴩 Nation...
28: Suzanne Valadon died on [[April 7]], [[1938]] and was interred in the [[Cimeti貥 de Saint-Ouen]] in P...
32: ...lished and another book by [[Elaine Todd Koren]] was published in [[2001]] titled: ''Suzanne: of Love... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
3: ... June]] [[1836]] – [[17 December]] [[1917]]) was an [[England|English]] physician and [[feminism|...
5: ...ce of Apothecaries' Hall, which she obtained in [[1865]].
7: ..., at the head of the poll for [[Marylebone]], and was also made one of the visiting physicians of the ...
9: ...ned to women in 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of ...
11: ...n to the medical profession, of which Dr Anderson was the indefatigable pioneer in [[England]], extend... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...hristmas, the 24th)–[[April 12]], [[1912]]) was a pioneer American [[teacher]], [[nurse]], and ...
6: ...ere all at least 10 years her senior. Young Clara was home-educated and extremely bright. It is said t...
8: ...ing the "great, loathsome crawling leeches." This was an early indication of what would become Clara's...
12: ...own, where her brother owned a factory. After she was invited to teach in a private school in [[Borden...
14: ... Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learned the ins and out... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...arly [[1840s]] to well after the [[American Civil War]], drew on the most advanced [[19th century]] id...
4: Dix was neither a [[physician]] nor a psychiatrist, begi...
10: Throughout her life she appears to have turned away from several opportunities to marry. By the mid ...
12: She was quick to see the parallel between the circumstan...
16: ...aire and "by all reports a skinflint of the first water" to contribute $30,000 to the construction of ... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...in Canada legally to become a medical doctor, and was the only woman in Canada licensed to practice me...
3: ...65]] and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]], where Edward ran a newspaper.
7: ...for the poor at the same location. The Institute was quite successful, later opening branches in [[Br...
9: ...lma Sola, Florida|Palma Sola]], [[Florida]]. She was later instrumental in the establishment of a med... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
1: ... Walker, ca 1870. She often wore mens clothes and was arrested for impersonating a man several times.]...
2: ...ibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]], [[Surgery|surgeon]] and the only woman to rec...
6: ...]], [[New York]], the daughter of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which ...
8: ... as a young woman to earn enough money to pay her way through Syracuse Medical College where she gradu...
10: ...the [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. Finally, she was awarded a commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ... [[1896]]), wife of composer [[Robert Schumann]], was one of the leading [[pianist]]s of the [[Romanti...
7: ...farther than the outskirts of [[Germany]], and it was thanks to her efforts that his compositions beca...
9: ...[[1888]] she appeared each year. In [[1878]] she was appointed teacher of the piano at the [[Hoch Con...
11: ...s considerably rarer than in the present day, she was herself the composer of a few songs and of some ...
14: ...y-six. It is suggested that negative attitudes toward women's ability to compose influenced this as w... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
5: ...5]]) is one of the few famous heroines of [[World War I]].
7: ...tant article of British propaganda throughout the war [http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/edith_cavell...
9: ...not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." These words are inscribed on her stat...
11: After the war Edith Cavell was reburied in the grounds of [[Norwich Cathedral]]...
13: ...[Mount Edith Cavell]] in the [[Canadian Rockies]] was named in her honour. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...c figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free...
7: The United States was the first nation to create the office of [[Presi...
12: ...e United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have ...
14: ...] [[Elaine Chao]], born in [[Republic of China|Taiwan]]; [[United States Director of National Intellig...
16: ...endment XXII]] (which took effect in [[1951]] and was first applied to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] starti... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
15: | wife=[[Martha Washington]]
19: ...ontinental Army]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first ...
21: ...tarily relinquished power even though some others wanted him to retain that power for life (as [[monar...
24: ... the difference in his birth year. His birthplace was Pope's Creek Plantation, south of [[Colonial Bea... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]]
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]])
39: *[[Andrew Johnson]] ([[1865]]) - 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...
42: ...]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently acquitted by a single vote in the [...
45: ...ge of 13 he was apprenticed to a tailor, but ran away to Greeneville, Tennessee in [[1826]], where he ...
48: ...arch 4]], [[1843]] to [[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
22: ...rmy | Union]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and the 18th ([[1869]]–[[1877]]) [[Presi...
24: ...and is credited with winning the war. Although he was a successful general, he is considered by histor...
26: ...s agree that Grant was not personally corrupt; it was his subordinates in the executive branch who wer...
30: ...io]], where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17.
32: ...rant, and although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon gr... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...ch 23]], [[1823]]–[[January 13]], [[1885]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|Repre...
4: ...ith his parents to [[New Carlisle, Indiana]]. He was appointed deputy auditor of [[St. Joseph County,...
6: ...f the House of Representatives]] in [[1863]]. He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1868]], ha...
8: ... 4, 1869, served until March 3, [[1873]]. Colfax was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in [[...
10: He was a lecturer after leaving public office, and died... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ...y 16]], [[1812]]–[[November 22]], [[1875]]) was a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Massac...
5: ...te legislature between [[1841]] and [[1852]], and was owner and editor of the ''Boston Republican'' fr...
7: ...], when he resigned to become Vice President. He was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs an...
9: ...tes Capitol]] Building at [[Washington, DC]]. He was interred in Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick. - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
18: ...e administration of [[James Garfield]]. Garfield was shot by [[Charles Guiteau]], a disgruntled offi...
20: ...rdrobe,and changed pants several times a day. He was called "Chet" by family and friends. Interestin...
27: ...ffice. The truth, however, was simply that Arthur was born near the Canadian border. His parents were ...
29: ...n North Pownal, Vt. in [[1851]]. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in [[1854]], and commenced p...
31: ...on and political boss [[Roscoe Conkling]], Arthur was appointed by President [[Ulysses Grant]] as Coll... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
29: ...political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [[19...
31: Cleveland was a hard worker and was scrupulously honest at a time when many politici...
34: ...ed concentration upon whatever task faced him. He was elected sheriff of [[Erie County, New York]] in ...
36: ...s a Public Trust" as his trademark of office, and was later elected, [[Governor of New York]], where h...
39: ...cleveland_wedding.png|left|thumb|Grover Cleveland was the first and only President married in the Whit... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...fifty states, [[Alaska]], an [[exclave]], and [[Hawaii]], an [[archipelago]], are not contiguous with ...
13: capital = [[Washington, D.C.]] |latd=38|latm=53|latNS=N|longd=77...
21: percent_water = 4.66% |
34: sovereignty_type = [[American Revolutionary War|Independence]] |
52: ...ce]]. However, the structure of the United States was profoundly changed in [[1788]] when the states r... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
27: ...]]'''<br/> – Total<br/> – % water
52: ...mies from one empire to another decamped on their way to more prosperous territories.
54: ...as around this time that the famous [[Silk Road]] was established as a major trading route between Asi...
58: ...r various empires and fought constant intertribal wars.
60: ...om [[Persia]] and annexed by [[Russia]] between [[1865]] and [[1885]], by 1894 [[imperial Russia]] had t... - Paraguay (10959 bytes)
25: |'''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
52: ...16th century]] and the settlement of [[Asunci was founded in [[1537]]. The city eventually became ...
54: ...litary [[dictatorship]] of [[Alfredo Stroessner]] was overthrown in [[1989]], and, despite a marked in...
59: ...and often [[dictatorship|dictatorial]] government was fundamentally changed by the [[1992]] [[constitu...
97: ...ough the Brazilian port of [[Paranagu by [[railway]]. [[Ciudad del Este]] is the third largest free... - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
37: ...]'''<br/> – Total <br/> – % water
55: ...cated in the [[Pacific Ocean]] midway between [[Hawaii]] and [[Australia]]. Its name means "Eight Stan...
60: ... 2,000 years ago. During pre-contact times, there was frequent canoe voyaging between the nearer islan...
62: ...ion of Tuvalu, and conversion to [[Christianity]] was complete by the [[1920s]]. Also in the late 1800...
64: ...e separate British colony of Tuvalu. Independence was granted in [[1978]]. Tuvalu Independence Day is... - 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)
15: At construction (vc) the Great Pyramid was 280 Egyptian [[Ancient_weights_and_measures#Egyp...
17: ...the 160-metre tall spire of [[Lincoln Cathedral]] was completed in around [[1300]]CE. The accuracy of ...
22: ...d structure visible. Most of the limestone casing was removed by an Arab [[Sultan]] in 1356CE in order...
24: ...lished, bone-white limestone could be seen miles away even under moonlight.
26: ...gyptologist Mark Lehner believes that the chamber was intended as a ''serdab''—a structure found... - Alabama (10792 bytes)
22: WaterArea = 2,696 mi?/4,338 |
23: PCWater = 3.20 |
59: ...was much controversy as to whether or not Alabama was included. Nevertheless, Alabama became the 22nd...
61: ...nal government was set up in [[1865]] and Alabama was readmitted to the Union in June [[1868]].
66: *The current [[Alabama Constitution]] was adopted in [[1901]]. - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
18: WaterArea = 13,227 |
19: PCWater = 9.5 |
39: The [[USS North Carolina|USS ''North Carolina'']] was named in honor of this state.
42: ...]], the first English child to be born stateside, was born in North Carolina. Dare County is named for...
46: ...ican Revolutionary War]] and the [[American Civil War]], North Carolina worked to establish its state ... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 1,809 |
18: PCWater = 12.6 |
36: ...the wealthiest states in the country. Connecticut was one of the [[13 colonies|thirteen colonies]] tha...
38: [[USS Connecticut|USS ''Connecticut'']] was named in honor of this state.
43: ...urrent constitution]], the third for Connecticut, was adopted in [[1965]]. The traditional abbreviatio... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
2: Name = Delaware |
3: Fullname = State of Delaware |
4: Flag = Delaware state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Delaware]] |
6: Seal = Delaware state seal.png | - Florida (24937 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 30,486 |
18: PCWater = 17.9 |
36: ...ge|Spanish]] adjective which means "flowery". It was discovered by [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers during...
38: [[USS Florida|USS ''Florida'']] was named in honor of this state.
43: ...fter the fall of the Confederacy in 1865, Florida was readmitted into the Union on [[June 25]],[[1868]... - Idaho (13962 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 2,133 |
18: PCWater = 0.98 |
38: The [[USS Idaho|USS ''Idaho'']] was named in honor of this state.
42: ...ven the made-up name when the [[Idaho Territory]] was formally created in 1863.
48: ...a territory in [[1863]], Idaho's total population was under 17,000. - Iowa (24205 bytes)
2: Name = Iowa |
3: Fullname = State of Iowa |
4: Flag = Iowa state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Iowa]] |
6: Seal = Iowastateseal.jpg | - Utah (29154 bytes)
19: WaterArea = 7,136 |
20: PCWater = 3.25 |
70: Waltz = N/A
74: ...ination. Salt Lake City, the ski resorts in the [[Wasatch Range]], and the national parks of the south...
85: ...to what is now southern Utah in [[1540]], when he was seeking the legendary [[Cibola]]. - Texas (39610 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 17,333 |
18: PCWater = 2.5 |
55: ...on the north (across the [[Red River (Mississippi watershed)|Red River]]), and [[Louisiana]] (across t...
70: ...]], [[Comanche]], [[Cherokee]], [[Kiowa]], [[Tonkawa]], and [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]. Currently, t...
74: Prior to [[1821]], Texas was part of the [[Spain|Spanish]] colony of [[New Sp... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 2,400 |
18: PCWater = 2.2 |
39: ...resent-day [[Monroe County, Tennessee]]. The town was located on a river of the same name (now known a...
46: ... prior to Cherokee migration into the river's headwaters.
48: ...], as an estimated 4,000 Cherokees died along the way.<sup>[[#References|1]]</sup> - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
34: ...ntury BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
55: * [[Water clock]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
24: *[[Jimmy Yancey|Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy"]] (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie mus...
66: *[[William Butler Yeats|Yeats, William Butler]] (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist, senator
75: ...-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas, Edward]] (1901-1964), [[World War II|WW2]] SOE agent
130: *[[Yoshikawa Eiji|Yoshikawa, Eiji]], ([[1892]]-[[1962]]), novelist
131: *[[Yoshikawa Takeo|Yoshikawa, Takeo]] - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
12: ...velopment of an American spirit and culture which was distinct from that of its European founders.
17: ...eat Britain]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]] and established itself as the United States of...
22: ...rmers use of the important Mississippi River waterway, removed the French presence from the western bo...
24: ...s, tried to export food and raw materials to both warring [[great power]]s and to profit off transport...
30: ... exports. The New England Federalists opposed the war, and their reputation consequently suffered in i... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...] and their pre-cursors back in [[time]], all the way into human [[prehistory]].
11: ... in which scientists work, looking closely at the ways in which they "produce" and "construct" scienti...
15: ...iences or humanities (for example, the "[[Science wars]]").
21: ...matic learning about the [[Nature|natural world]] was a direct outgrowth of [[religion]], often as a p...
23: ... produce results that would describe nature as it was in the world around them. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]])
162: *[[David G. Blythe]] ([[1815]]-[[1865]]) - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ... Wizard of [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]]" was one of the first inventors to apply the principl...
5: ...ted the [[Motion Picture Patents Company]], which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios (comm...
10: ... took up farming near Vienna, Ontario. Among them was Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr., a shingle maker, tailo...
14: ...mas Alva Edison]]. The economic success in Milan was soon over, though, and seven-year-old "Al" and h...
16: ...is schooling his teacher, [[Alexander Crawford]], was overheard calling him "[[addled]]". This ended ... - Timeline of United States history (2967 bytes)
8: ...r origins]] (events leading to the American Civil War)
21: ** [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]]
40: ...ry/civil-war-pictures-and-illustrations.htm Civil War Images]
43: ...ld-war-photos-and-pictures.htm World_War_II World War II Pictures] - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
8: |Conflict||'''American Civil War'''
10: |Date||[[1861]]–[[1865]]
16: !colspan="2"|'''[[Battles of the American Civil War]]'''
26: ''[[1864]]–[[1865]]. 36 stars, after the admission of [[Nevada]].''...
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]'' - Cold War (18329 bytes)
1: {{ColdWar}}
2: ...ollapse of the Soviet Union in [[1991]]. The term was popularized by the U.S. political adviser and fi...
5: ...umb|right|[[NLF]] casualties during the [[Vietnam War]]. After the balance of power in Europe were fir...
7: ...he occasions when the tension related to the Cold War took the form of an armed conflict. In those con...
9: ...rpower status that it had won in the Second World War. - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
4: ...v. Board of Education]] 347 U.S. 483 (1954) which was concerned with the constitutionality of laws whi...
10: ...for political purposes, and ownership of property was an aspect of ''patria potestas'', i.e. only the ...
25: ...]]'' are [[corelative]] concepts, i.e. one must always be matched by the other. If A claims a right ag...
26: ...'. If A has power over B, B must have liability towards A. For example, properly constituted courts ha...
34: ...ctions, and further, that whatever might exist by way of rights exists only in the negative sense of t... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
1: ...re than 550,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, include these men felled during the bloody Batt...
6: ====1860–1865====
13: *[[1861]] - [[American Civil War]] begins at [[Fort Sumter]]
19: *[[1862]] - [[Pacific Railway Act]]
28: *[[1864]] - [[Wade Davis Bill]] - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...the era was capped by U.S. involvement in [[World War I]].
7: ...reconstruction, but the immense human cost of the war and the social changes wrought by it led [[Unite...
9: ...e [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden. This failure of the federal governm...
11: ...e midterm elections, the first Reconstruction Act was passed on [[March 2]], [[1867]]; the last on [[M...
13: ...ticipated in these governments were called [[scalawags]]. Republicans took control of all state gover... - April (9790 bytes)
9: April was originally the second month of the [[Roman calen...
25: ...[T. S. Eliot]], on the other hand, opened ''[[The Waste Land]]'' with an ironic glance at Chaucer:
55: ... (ex. Hitler) have been born in April. Just a few wars that started/ended in April are,
58: ...merican Civil War (Started April 1861 Ended April 1865, thus "Across 5 Aprils")
59: World War II (Germany Surrenders in April, 1945) - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...naeus|Linnaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[...
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported flight and i...
24: ... season to live through the dry season where food was scarce; contemporary reports speak of the birds ...
27: ...odern Portuguese meaning fool or mad. (The island was first visited by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] in ...
29: ...he [[Netherlands|Dutch]] settlers called it the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant t... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
2: ...con]]s, and by [[Continuous wave|CW]] (continuous wave) [[amateur radio]] operators. Morse code is the...
4: ...itted using just two states — on and off — it was an early form of a digital code. International M...
11: ...t hard to adapt to automated communication, so it was largely replaced by more regular formats, includ...
13: ...nces, including changes to eleven of the letters, was developed in Germany and eventually adopted as t...
17: ...tracted the armature, so that portion of the tape was left unmarked. - History of California (38344 bytes)
11: The coast of California was an inviting pathway even for the earliest inhabitants of [[North Ame...
13: ...al tribes were a major source of trading beads ([[wampum]]), which were produced from [[mussel]] shell...
19: ... and silver. About the same time, Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]]...
23: ...fornia]]), and laid out and founded the city that was to become LaPaz later that spring.
28: In July [[1539]], moved by the renewal of those stories, Cortés sent Francisco de Ullo... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
4: A [[bicameralism|bicameral]] Congress was created as a result of the [[Connecticut Comprom...
6: ... [[United States Capitol|Capitol]] building, in [[Washington, D.C.]], the national capital. The House ...
10: ...ongress was a unicameral body in which each state was equally represented. The inefficacy of the feder...
12: ...fence against...fickleness and passion". [[George Washington]], in answer to a question by Thomas Jeff...
14: ... associated with the Union's victory in the Civil War. The efforts of "[[Radical Republicans]]" led to... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...mined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series...
3: The [[2004 World Series]] was played from [[October 23]] until [[October 27]],...
5: ...[[2003]], the team given the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League ...
7: ...ipts from the World Series - and, from [[1969]] onward, the other rounds of postseason play preceding ...
13: ...ntations. At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] the USA was not represented, since its minor-leaguer team di... - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
1: ...ge_washington_carver.jpg|right|240px|thumb|George Washington Carver, 1906]]
2: ...c. [[1864]]-[[1865|5]] - [[January 5]], [[1943]]) was an [[African-American]] [[botanist]] who worked ...
5: ...f wild plants. He became so knowledgeable that he was known by the Carvers' neighbors as "the plant do...
7: ...of the room. From that moment on, he knew that he was going to be an artist as well as a botanist.
9: ...until his money was sufficient to buy a shack. He was eventually forced to leave town because of a [[l... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: The '''Underground Railroad''' was a network of clandestine routes by which [[Afric...
10: ...d [[Wesleyan Church|Wesleyans]], as well as breakaway sects of mainstream denominations such as the [[...
14: ...veloped its own jargon, which continued the [[railway]] metaphor:
21: ...aphies of the people, that contained frequent railway metaphors. Still maintained correspondence with...
23: ...an attempt to intercept the runaways, while Still was able to meet them at the correct station and spi... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
33: * [[Cape Lion]] (1865)
56: ====[[Hawaii]]====
59: * [[Hawaii 'O'o]], ''Moho nobilis''
63: * [[Hawaiian honeycreeper|Akialoa]],''Hemignathus obscurus...
64: * [[Hawaiian honeycreeper|Ula-'ai-hawane]], ''Ciridops anna'' - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...]]) the capital of the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]]...
19: ...om was [[Dante Alighieri]]. This factional strife was later recorded by the White Guelph [[Dino Compag...
23: ...[[Lorenzo de%27 Medici|Lorenzo]] in 1469. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works ...
27: A second individual of unusual insight was [[Niccolchiavelli]], whose prescriptions for...
28: ...lic of Lucca]] (later a [[Duchy of Lucca|Duchy]]) was independent from Florence in all Tuscany. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
153: *[[J. Seward Johnson, Jr.]] (1930 - )
159: *[[Jawad Saleem]](1920-1961)
233: *[[Edward Clark Potter]] (1857 - 1923) - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
17: area_water = 185.2 mi² / 479.7 |
37: ...magnet in the second half of the 20th century. It was a center of the [[dot-com]] boom at the end of t...
44: ...] in [[1822]], when what is now the downtown area was first settled by William Richardson, an [[Englan...
46: ...[[1846]] in the name of the [[United States]]. It was then renamed "San Francisco" on [[January 30]], ...
48: ...ranted to the city by military governor [[Stephen Watts Kearny]] in 1847. - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Warren Gamaliel Harding
9: | date of birth=[[November 2]], [[1865]]
18: ...an]] from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Ohio]], Harding was an influential [[newspaper]] publisher with a fl...
20: ...rom [[pneumonia]] and possible food poisoning. He was succeeded by [[Vice President of the United Stat...
23: ...cs of the newspaper business. Harding's education was completed at [[Muskingum College|Ohio Central Co... - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
33: ...[[March 9]], [[1862]] during the [[American Civil War]], in which ''Monitor'' fought the ironclad [[CS...
35: ...oads, the design of ships and the nature of naval warfare changed dramatically.
39: ...] section of [[Brooklyn, New York]], and the ship was launched there on [[January 30]], [[1862]].
41: ...emi-submersible]] ship. In contrast, ''Virginia'' was a conventional wooden vessel covered with iron p...
43: .... Although the battle was essentially a draw, it was a tactical victory for ''Monitor''. ''Virginia'... - African American (19830 bytes)
15: ... lead to the [[American Civil War]] ([[1861]] - [[1865]]).
17: ...ement]] and [[racial segregation]], and with it a wave of lynchings and other vigilante violence.
21: ... of the modern-day [[Civil Rights Movement]]. It was part of a long-term strategy to strike down Jim ...
31: ...guages, music, religious practices, foods and foodways, value systems and other cultural traditions wi...
43: ...Uncle Tom|Uncle Tomish]], connotation. The period was a time when growing numbers of blacks in the U.S... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
2: ...and detected [[electromagnetic radiation]] in a [[wavelength]] range today known as [[x-ray]]s or Rön...
6: ...ended [[Utrecht Technical School]], from which he was expelled for producing a caricature of one of th...
8: In [[1865]], he attended the [[Utrecht University|Universit...
12: ... investigations were only for a short time and he was one of the few pioneers in the field who used pr...
16: ...torf-Crookes tube, which had a much thicker glass wall than the Lenard tube, might also cause this flu... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
3: ...also known as the [[Naming the American Civil War|War Between the States]]).
6: ...cer. His older brothers also served. During the [[War of 1812]], three of Davis's brothers fought the ...
10: ...on College (Mississippi)|Jefferson College]] at [[Washington, Mississippi]] in [[1818]], and to [[Tran...
12: ...enlargement of the fort. Later the same year, he was reassigned to [[Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin]]. Wh...
14: ...ing what would eventually become the state of [[Iowa]]. - James Longstreet (9732 bytes)
4: ... Civil War]], and later enjoyed a successful post-war career working for the government of his former ...
8: ...rate States of America|Confederacy]] in the Civil War.
12: ...was already highly regarded as an officer, and he was almost immediately appointed as a [[brigadier ge...
14: ...m ''Pete''.) His record as an offensive tactician was mixed, however, and he often clashed with the hi...
16: ...tober 9]], a few weeks after Antietam, Longstreet was promoted to [[lieutenant general]], the senior C... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...une 10]], [[1865]] – [[August 5]] [[1940]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[explorer]] and [...
7: Cook was born in Hortonville, [[New York]]. His parents ...
13: ... during the winter. A fellow crew-member was [[Norway|Norwegian]] explorer [[Roald Amundsen]], with wh...
19: Dr. Cook was a founding member of two New York-based clubs: t...
24: ... of all such evidences are found short of the Gateway. - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
1: ...Lewis and Clark expedition''' ([[1804]]-[[1806]]) was the first [[United States]] overland expedition ...
3: ...ion was not the first to cross North America, but was roughly a decade after the expedition of [[Alexa...
5: ...en and shared the leadership of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain" ([http://lewisa...
7: ..., joined the group from there and guided them westward. [[Sacagawea]] and her [[Shoshone]] tribe came ...
9: ...e [[Rocky Mountains]] and descended by the [[Clearwater River]], the [[Snake River]], and the [[Columb... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
11: ...] repeals the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which was very unpopular in the British colonies.
13: *[[1865]] - [[American Civil War]]: The Congress of the [[Confederate States of A...
15: *[[1874]] - [[Hawaii]] signs a treaty with the [[United States]] gra...
16: *[[1909]] - [[Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broad...
18: *[[1915]] - [[World War I]]: Three [[battleship]]s are sunk during a fai... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
9: *[[1861]] - The [[First Taranaki War]] ends in [[New Zealand]].
10: *[[1865]] - [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Bentonville]] begins. By the ...
12: ...t)|Pluto]] is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
15: ...y of Versailles]] for the second time (first time was on [[November 19]], [[1919]]).
18: *[[1944]] - World War II: [[Nazi]] forces occupy [[Hungary]]. - March 21 (10586 bytes)
7: ...ing an armed conflict, [[Pope Pius VII|Pius VII]] was [[Papal Coronation|crowned Pope]] in [[Venice]] ...
8: * [[1801]] - The [[Battle of Alexandria]] was fought between [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[...
9: *[[1804]] - [[Napoleonic code|Code Napol鯮]] was adopted as [[France|French]] [[civil law]].
13: *[[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Battle of the Somme (1918)|Second Battle ...
17: *[[1945]] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate... - Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
18: ...[[motto]]: <i>Sic Itur Ad Astra</i> ("Such is the way to the Stars")''</font>
22: ...ottom:3px solid gray;" | [[Area]]<br />Total<br />Water
44: ...ities on the East coast, the location of Richmond was determined by the [[fall line]] since as a natur...
46: ...s not known as "Richmond" until [[1737]], when it was laid out by Major [[William Mayo]] on land donat...
48: ...istrict #1" during the [[Reconstruction]] period (1865-1870). - Boise, Idaho (9777 bytes)
13: area water = 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) |
34: ...ntury as a name for the [[Boise River]]. The name was apparently a translation of an earlier English n...
36: Originally known as Fort Boise, Boise was incorporated under a charter in [[1864]] by an a...
38: ...and left quickly to avoid the public outrage that was sure to erupt when the citizens of Lewiston disc...
40: ...state of Idaho on [[July 3]], [[1890]] when Idaho was admitted to the union as the 43rd state. - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
14: area water = 2.5 km² (1.0 mi²) |
33: .... During the 40s, travelers could reliably find a way across the river and plenty of whiskey but littl...
35: ...ositing meat, lumber, and flour and returning eastward with potatoes, corn, and wheat. By the late [[1...
37: ...o the Union in [[1861]] as the 34th state. Topeka was finally chosen as the capital, with Dr. Charles ...
39: ...70]]. In [[1869]], the railway started moving westward from Topeka. General offices and machine shops ... - Helena, Montana (6927 bytes)
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29: The town was established on [[October 30]], [[1864]], followi...
31: ...he name as unnecessary, the new name '''Helena''' was adopted (defeating the name "''Tomah''" by only ...
33: The townsite was first surveyed in [[1865]] by Captain John Wood. However, most streets fol...
35: ... were being made to a Bank, a vein of placer gold was found under the Bank's foundation). - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
27: *[[Al-Khwarizmi|Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi]] (Persia, [[780]] - [[850]])
113: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]] (English, c. [[1290]] - [[1349]])
120: *[[Viggo Brun]] (Norway, [[1885]] - [[1978]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876...
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[1989]...
51: *[[Walter Baade]] ([[Germany]], [[1893]] – [[1960...
65: *[[Edward Emerson Barnard]] ([[United States|USA]], [[185...
88: *[[Edward L. G. Bowell|Edward (Ted) L. G. Bowell]] ([[United States|USA]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
175: *[[Walter Benjamin]], (1892-1940){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
195: *[[Harry Binswanger]], (born 1944)
238: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]], (c. 1290-1349){{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}}
276: *[[Walter Burley]], (c. 1275-c. 1345){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
4: A [[bicameralism|bicameral]] Congress was created as a result of the [[Connecticut Comprom...
6: ... [[United States Capitol|Capitol]] building, in [[Washington, D.C.]], the national capital. The Senate...
9: ... the 13) in [[1788]], but its full implementation was set for [[March 4]], [[1789]]. The House began w...
11: ...states declared [[secession]] from the Union. The war culminated in the South's defeat and in the abol...
13: ...]]; the ensuing era, known as the [[Gilded Age]], was marked by sharp political divisions in the elect... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
13: headquarters = 310 First Street SE<br> [[Washington, D.C.]]<br> 20003|
20: ...t was defunct by the time of the [[American Civil War]].
22: ...es were inspired by the Whig Party, which by then was in decline. Many of the early members of the Rep...
25: * Winning the [[War on Terror]]
31: ...Republicans such as [[Colin Powell]], [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], and [[Olympia Snowe]], and the gay an... - Jury (14851 bytes)
8: ...s a precaution in case a new juror is needed part way through the trial.
18: ...Normandy]] before [[1066]], when a jury of nobles was established to decide land disputes. In this man...
22: ...ommon exclusions are for people whose job in some way precludes them (for instance, [[teacher]]s, [[Ph...
24: ...are picked by a selection process. If the jury in waiting is exhausted without the jury being complete...
43: ...marks that called into question whether a verdict was properly arrived at. - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ..., the Order operated from [[Rhodes]], of which it was [[sovereign]], and later from [[Malta]] as a [[v...
5: ...raveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...de]] by the Blessed Gerard, whose role as founder was confirmed by a [[Papal bull]] of [[Pope Paschal ...
9: ...oli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], subdivided into [[bai...
15: ... the [[County of Tripoli]] and when [[Akko|Acre]] was captured in [[1291]] the order sought refuge in ... - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
6: Flag of the United Keetoowah Band
12: [[United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians]], Oklahoma (f):<br> &n...
25: ...ma]] (the [[Cherokee Nation]], and [[United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians]] and at [[Cherokee, No...
27: ... in Oklahoma and these either belong to the Keetoowah tradition or the Four Mothers Society.
29: ...ct, since [[Hernando de Soto (explorer)|de Soto]] was [[Extremaduran language|Extremaduran]]) as ''cha... - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
5: ...nited States]]<br>[[Sixty Years' War|Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes]]
7: |Conflict||'''War of 1812'''
54: ...a]] in 1812 is also sometimes referred to as the "War of 1812."
56: ...ative Americans]]/[[First Nations]] fought in the war for reasons of their own.
58: ...r the U.S., and perhaps most consequentially, the war marked the end of European alliances with Americ... - Genetics (12654 bytes)
1: ...[[variation]] of [[organism]]s. The word genetics was first applied to describe the study of inheritan...
12: It was not until [[1865]] that [[Gregor Mendel]] first traced inheritance...
14: ...ept that he described as an ''[[allele]]'', which was the fundamental unit of heredity. The term ''all...
16: ...tieth century, after his death, when his research was re-discovered by other scientists working on sim...
18: Mendel was unaware of the physical nature of the gene. We now know... - Golden Retriever (8646 bytes)
40: ...d very popular [[dog breed|breed]] of [[dog]]. It was developed as a [[retriever|retrieving dog]] to u...
50: ... and out of boats and an inordinate love for cool water.
54: ...ertained for hours, particularly if there is also water involved.
57: ...reeds were originally crossed; especially popular was a romantic story concerning the purchase of a wh...
61: ... more wavy-coated black Retrievers. The bloodline was also inbred and selected for trueness to Majorib... - Yorkshire Terrier (5765 bytes)
48: ...-maintenance, and must either be trimmed short or washed and brushed frequently.
61: ...sted including (for the Scotish contribution) the Waterside Terrier, the Clydesdale Terrier, and the P...
63: ...4 pound dog with wire hair whose intended purpose was the catching of [[rat]]s and other [[vermin]] th...
65: ...d offspring of a mother and son. Huddersfield Ben was bred by Mr. W. Eastwood Huddersfield, who died i... - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
3: *''c''[[1550]] Horse-drawn [[wagonways]] appear in [[Germany]].
5: *[[1782]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] engineer [[James Watt]] invents first [[steam engine]] able to turn w...
6: ...langed iron wheels on iron edge rails on coal railway at [[Loughborough]], [[Leicestershire]].
7: ...rld's first public railway, the [[Surrey Iron Railway]] opens in south [[London]].
9: ...ay, better known as the [[Swansea and Mumbles Railway]] - Vice President of the United States (33884 bytes)
9: ...s of the [[United States Naval Observatory]] in [[Washington, DC]]. The government jargon that often ...
25: ...ed he would have more power as a Senator. When he was elected to the Senate from his native [[South Ca...
29: ...n President would become Vice President. If there was ever a tie for second, then the [[United States ...
31: ...Jefferson was the Presidential contender and Burr was the Vice Presidential one, the electors did not ...
35: ...ige of the Vice Presidency, as the Vice President was no longer the second choice for President. - Slavery (26455 bytes)
1: ... or other forms of [[coercion]]. Slavery almost always occurs for the purpose of securing the [[labor]...
10: ...ough it is generally accepted that payment of a [[wage]] signifies "[[free labour]]", with quite diffe...
20: ...3,500 slave labourers had been freed, and that it was estimated that 2,500 people remained in such con...
23: ...list) [[Bolivia]], [[Cambodia]], [[Jamaica]], [[Kuwait]], [[Qatar]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Togo]], [[Uni...
27: ...ion pressures, and cultural and technological backwardness are frequently exporters of slaves to more ... - Baseball (36464 bytes)
5: ...the word "ballgame" in the United States almost always refers to a game of baseball, and "ballpark" to...
12: ...defends in the field. In baseball, the defense always has the ball -- a fact that differentiates it f...
15: ..., where the ''[[catcher]]'' for the fielding team waits to receive it. The batter stands in one of the...
17: ...wait for his next turn [[at bat]]. There are many ways to get batters and baserunners out; some of the...
19: ...ts to prevent this by pitching the ball in such a way that the batter cannot hit it cleanly. - Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
1: ...rch 27]], [[1765]] – [[May 23]], [[1841]]), was a [[Germany|German]] [[philosopher]] and [[theol...
3: He was born in [[Munich]], the third son of F. P. Baade...
7: ...hurch]], to which he belonged, and in consequence was, during the last three years of his life, interd...
11: ...''alteritas'') of God — his shadow, desire, want, or ''desiderium sui'', as it is called by myst...
13: ...s we now know it; and the motive of this creation was the desire to afford man an opportunity for taki... - Tecumseh's curse (3257 bytes)
1: ...brother [[Tenskwatawa]], aka [[The Prophet]], who was defeated in the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]] by Harr...
7: ...am Lincoln]], [[assassination|assassinated]] in [[1865]]
10: *'''[[1920]]''' - [[Warren G. Harding]], died of [[heart attack]] in [[1...
14: ...lor]], the only other President to die in office, was elected in [[1848]] and died in [[1850]] of [[ch...
16: It is worth noting that Franklin Roosevelt was in his fourth term of office when he died, and A... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
2: ... February]] [[1809]]–[[19 April]] [[1882]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[natural history|n...
4: ... in [[1858]] the information that [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] now had a similar theory forced early join...
6: ...he Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His last book was about earthworms.
8: ...national recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], close to [[Sir ...
15: ...e]]. He was the fifth of six children of [[Robert Waring Darwin|Robert]] and [[Susannah Wedgwood|Susan... - Woodrow Wilson (31322 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>[[William Howard Taft]]</td></tr>
9: <tr><td>'''Successor:'''</td><td>[[Warren G. Harding]]</td></tr>
13: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Washington, D.C.]]</td></tr>
20: ... terms in the [[White House]] ([[Andrew Jackson]] was the first).
23: ...] side and looking up into his face". (To End All Wars, pg 3.) - Rutherford B. Hayes (9651 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Delaware, Ohio]]</td></tr>
20: ...r 4]], [[1822]] – [[January 17]], [[1893]]) was the 19th ([[1877]] – [[1881]]) [[President...
24: ...vetted major general of Volunteers [[March 3]], [[1865]].
26: ...f the United States. Since [[March 4]], [[1877]] was a Sunday, Hayes took the oath of office in the R...
30: ... Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Samuel J. Tilden]] was the favorite to win the presidential election an... - James A. Garfield (15070 bytes)
19: ...9]], [[1831]] – [[September 19]], [[1881]]) was the 20th ([[1881]]) [[President of the United St...
21: ... to [[September]] of [[1881]], President Garfield was in power for a total of just six months and 15 d...
24: ...is father, who died in [[1833]], when James Abram was 18 months old. He grew up cared for by his mothe...
26: ...cal languages for the [[1856]]-[[1857]] year, and was made president of the Institute from [[1857]] to...
30: ...e senator in [[1859]], serving until [[1861]]. He was an enthusiastic [[United States Republican Party... - Benjamin Harrison (11469 bytes)
22: ...st 20]], [[1833]] – [[March 13]], [[1901]]) was the 23rd ([[1889]]-[[1893]]) [[President of the...
26: ...anapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]] in [[1854]]. He was admitted to the bar and became reporter of the d...
28: ...arch 4]], [[1881]], to [[March 3]], [[1887]]. He was chairman of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Trans...
32: ...100th anniversary of the inauguration of [[George Washington]].
34: ...rison submitted to the Senate a treaty to annex Hawaii; to his disappointment, President Cleveland lat... - William McKinley (11746 bytes)
23: ...d [[Cuba]] and [[Philippines]], and conquered [[Hawaii]].
27: ...t]] [[Major]] of the same regiment in September [[1865]].
29: ..., [[1891]]). He was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means (Fifty-first Congress). In [[1890]], ...
31: ...h his running mate [[Andrew L. Harris]], McKinley was elected Governor of Ohio in [[1891]], and reelec...
34: William McKinley was elected President of the United States in [[1896... - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[William Howard Taft]]
16: | vicepresident=[[Charles Warren Fairbanks]]
18: ...ination of [[William McKinley]]. At 42, Roosevelt was the youngest person ever to serve as President o...
20: ...e Presidency were remarkable. During his life he was an author, legislator, soldier, [[game (food)|bi...
22: Theodore Roosevelt was a fifth cousin of the later President [[Franklin... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=William Howard Taft
3: | image name=William Howard Taft.jpg
13: | place of death=[[Washington D.C]].
18: ...Party|Republican]], Taft served as [[Secretary of War]], [[federal judge]] for the [[United States Cou...
20: ...t president to occupy the [[Oval Office]] when it was opened in [[October]] [[1909]]. - John C. Breckinridge (5870 bytes)
2: ...Confederate]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]].
4: ...Kentucky Volunteers during the [[Mexican-American War]] in [[1847]] and [[1848]].
6: ...c ticket with [[James Buchanan]] as President. He was the youngest Vice President in US history at age...
8: ...n [[1864]], during the [[Overland Campaign]], and was wounded again in the [[Battle of Cold Harbor]]. ...
10: ...further resistance on the part of the Confederacy was useless and worked to lay the groundwork for an ... - Hannibal Hamlin (5219 bytes)
2: ...ican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] and was [[Governor of Maine]] before being elected [[Vic...
4: ...positor at a printer's office. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in [[1833]]. He began practi...
6: ... of Representatives]], from [[1843]]-[[1847]]. He was elected to fill a Senate vacancy in [[1848]] and...
8: ...nt as an opponent of the extension of slavery; he was a conspicuous supporter of the [[Wilmot Proviso]...
12: ...ruary, however, he resigned the governorship, and was again a member of the Senate from 1857 to Januar... - Adlai E. Stevenson (3193 bytes)
5: ...ber 23]], [[1835]] – [[June 14]], [[1914]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|Repre...
8: ...ntre College]], [[Danville, Kentucky]]. Stevenson was admitted to the bar in [[1858]] and commenced pr...
12: ... district attorney from [[1865]] to [[1868]]. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth [[Cong...
15: ... [[1893]], and served until March 3, [[1897]]. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice Pr...
21: ...[Adlai Stevenson III|Adlai Ewing Stevenson III]], was a [[United States Senate|U.S. senator]] from [[I... - Charles G. Dawes (3139 bytes)
3: ...ust 27]], [[1865]] – [[April 23]], [[1951]]) was the 30th [[Vice President of the United States]]...
5: ...partment of the Treasury]] [[1898]]-[[1901]]. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the [[United State...
7: ...was appointed its first Director in [[1921]]. He was appointed to the Allied Reparations Commission i...
9: ...n]] ticket with President [[Calvin Coolidge]] and was inaugurated [[March 4]], [[1925]], for the term ...
11: ...to [[1932]], and resumed the banking business and was chairman of the board of the City National Bank ... - Culture of Jersey (13844 bytes)
5: ...oken by a minority of the population, although it was the majority language in the [[19th century]]. A...
7: ...into the island since the end of the [[Napoleonic wars]].
19: ... literary tradition in Jersey is traced back to [[Wace]], the [[12th-century]] Jersey-born poet.
25: ... poetry, ''Rimes Jersiaises'', was published in [[1865]].
29: ...te under several pseudonyms. His greatest success was the character ''Bram Bilo'', but he later develo... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
15: ...naeus|Linnaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[...
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported flight and i...
24: ... season to live through the dry season where food was scarce; contemporary reports speak of the birds ...
27: ...odern Portuguese meaning fool or mad. (The island was first visited by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] in ...
29: ...he [[Netherlands|Dutch]] settlers called it the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant t... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
4: ...ar]]) participated. The bolded items are the U.S. wars most often considered to be ''major conflicts''...
6: *'''[[American Revolutionary War]]''' (1775–1783)
7: *[[Quasi-War]] (1798–1801)
8: *[[First Barbary War]] (1801–1805)
9: *'''[[War of 1812]]''' (1812–1815) - Seadragon (2092 bytes)
12: ... [[Albert C. L. G. Günther|Günther]] | date = [[1865]]}}
15: ...alia]] and generally remain in shallow, temperate waters. Their name comes from their appearance, with... - Painting of the United States (3965 bytes)
3: ...d subjects unique to itself; in this case the westward expansion of settlement brought the transcenden...
7: ...pects of city life. Soon the ash-can artists gave way to modernists arriving from [[Europe]]—the...
10: In the years after [[World War II]], a group of young New York artists formed t...
12: ...n their compositions. Pop artists, such as [[Andy Warhol]] ([[1930]]-[[1987]]), [[Larry Rivers]] ([[19...
14: ... names of American soldiers who died in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. Perhaps the most influential 20th-cen... - United States Republican Party (30737 bytes)
12: headquarters = 310 First Street SE<br> [[Washington, D.C.]]<br> 20003|
19: ...t was defunct by the time of the [[American Civil War]].
21: ...es were inspired by the Whig Party, which by then was in decline. Many of the early members of the Rep...
24: * Winning the [[War on Terror]]
30: ...Republicans such as [[Colin Powell]], [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], and [[Olympia Snowe]], and the gay an... - 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...
28: ...urs of the same family, prosauropods. Anchisaurus was quite typical of this group and so this assumpti...
32: ...27 kg. However, Marsh's species ''A. major'' was larger, from 2.5 m up to 4 m, and some...
34: ...vores, and the later giant sauropods. Anchisaurus was typical of this group that flourished briefly du... - Stone Age (17593 bytes)
8: ...hic]] periods, by John Lubbock in his now classic 1865 book ''Pre-historic Times''. These three periods ...
26: ...mo habilis'' is presumed to have mastered the Oldowan era tool case which utilized stone [[lithic flak...
39: ...re colonised via the [[Bering land bridge]] which was exposed during this period by lower sea levels. ...
43: ...tone Age) is used, as the tools (and way of life) was imported from the [[Ancient Near East|Near East]...
50: ...ps to work on these projects. To what extent this was the development of elites and social hierarchies... - First Lady of the United States (9641 bytes)
3: ...nt being a bachelor or widower, when the position was then filled by a female relative or friend of th...
5: ...tle was used as early as 1849 when Dolley Madison was eulogized as "America's First Lady", but did not...
7: ...m Clinton took the role one step further when she was, for a time, given a formal job in the Clinton a...
9: ...erred to as, for example, "The President and Mrs. Washington."
28: | [[Martha Dandridge Custis Washington]] - September 23 (7397 bytes)
7: ...Heath]]. The first major battle of the English [[Wars of the Roses]], fought at Blore Heath, in [[Sta...
10: ...ones]], wins a fight against the British ships of war ''[[Serapis]]'' and ''Countess of Scarborough'' ...
45: *[[1852]] - [[William Stewart Halsted]], surgeon (d. [[1922]])
47: *[[1865]] - Baroness [[Emmuska Orczy]], novelist (d. [[19...
48: *[[1889]] - [[Walter Lippmann]], journalist - Neolithic (8186 bytes)
15: ...]. The name was invented by [[John Lubbock]] in [[1865]] as a refinement of the [[three-age system]]. Th...
18: ... unclear what the contribution of domestic plants was in the earliest Neolithic, or even whether perma...
21: ... their later Neolithic equivalents such as [[causewayed enclosure]]s, [[burial mound]]s, and [[henge]]...
24: ...e place. Owing to the profound differences in the way humans interacted once agriculture began, the ch...
27: ...tomb]]s for their dead and [[Causewayed camp|causewayed camp]]s, [[henge]]s flint mines and [[cursus]]... - Edwin Abbott Abbott (2724 bytes)
1: ...]] [[satire]] ''[[Flatland]]'' ([[1884]]). Abbott was the eldest son of [[Edwin Abbott]] ([[1808]] - [...
3: ...]] in [[1865]] at the early age of twenty-six. He was [[Hulsean lecturer]] in [[1876]].
9: ...'Johannine Grammar'' ([[1906]]). ''[[Flatland]]'' was published in [[1884]]. - Gregor Mendel (6112 bytes)
3: ...e turn of the 20th century, when its significance was understood for the first time.
8: ...nians|Augustinian]] [[monastery]] in [[Brno]]. He was later sent to the [[University of Vienna]] to st...
10: Gregor Mendel was inspired by both his professors at University an...
12: ...passed on to the next generation. This experiment was "designed to support or to illustrate Lamarck's ...
14: ...y Society of Brunn]]'', it had little impact, and was cited about three times over the next thirty-fiv... - Cellulose acetate (4564 bytes)
1: '''Cellulose acetate''', first prepared in [[1865]], is the acetate [[salt]] of [[cellulose]]. Cel...
4: Acetate [[film|movie]] film was introduced in the [[1950s]] as a replacement for...
12: ...n. In 1924, the first commercial acetate filament was spun in the United States and trademarked as ''C...
19: ... to be soluble in alternative solvents, including water
23: * made from a renewable resource: reforested trees. - 1901 (12292 bytes)
11: '''1901''' was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] (see link ...
17: ...January 1]] - The British colonies of [[New South Wales]], [[Queensland]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Vict...
21: ... George]], [[Duke of York]] becomes [[Duke of Cornwall]] and [[Duke of Rothesay | Rothesay]].
22: * [[February 20]] - The legislature of [[Hawaii|Hawaii Territory]] convenes for the first time.
24: ...utonomy of [[Cuba]] as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. - February 22 (10772 bytes)
13: * [[1847]] - [[Mexican-American War]]: The [[Battle of Buena Vista]] - 5,000 [[Unite...
16: * [[1865]] - [[Tennessee]] adopts a new [[constitution]] t...
19: ...rth Dakota]], [[South Dakota]], [[Montana]] and [[Washington]] as [[U.S. state]]s.
20: ...- [[Germany]] institutes [[unrestricted submarine warfare]].
25: * [[1942]] - [[World War II]]: [[President of the United States|President... - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
1: ...[Washington Monument]] and the [[White House]] in Washington, D.C.]]
3: ...ould not be confused with the [[U.S. state]] of [[Washington]], located in the [[Pacific Northwest]].
5: ...03]] U.S. Census Bureau estimates, is 563,384. If Washington, D.C. were considered as a state, it woul...
7: ...rotest]]s, particularly on the [[National Mall]]. Washington is also the site of numerous national lan...
9: The official bird of Washington DC is the [[wood thrush]]. The official ... - Bullfighting (25773 bytes)
17: ...ssential central iconic act of [[Mithras]], which was commemorated in the [[mithraeum]] wherever Roman...
19: ...original Moorish and early Spanish form, the bull was fought from horseback using a javelin. (''Picado...
21: ...l. Although extremely dangerous (Belmonte himself was gored on many occasions), his style is still see...
38: ...if he performs with art and courage, he will be rewarded with an ovation.
44: ...pass in which the matador slowly swings the cape away from the charging bull while keeping his feet in...
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