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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
6: ..._classis_entry | taxon = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_subclassis_entry | taxon = [[Rosidae]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Sapindales]]}}
18: ...producer of the fruit, with plantations in [[Florida]] and [[Texas]]. In Spanish the fruit is known as...
20: ...roduced the [[tangelo]] (1905), the [[minneola]] (1931) and the [[sweetie]] (1984). - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
17: | [[1899]] — [[1900]]
21: | [[1895]] — [[1915]]
29: | [[1886]] — [[1907]]
33: | [[1872]] — [[1879]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...he familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...addy]] agriculture is [[Radiocarbon dating|carbon-dated]] to about 6000 BC, and associated with the [[...
14: ...皇五帝). These rulers were legendary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them...
18: ...22799;朝) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeolog...
22: ...he last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC). - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
12: ...Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
38: *[[Johann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853)
43: ...Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775) - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
20: *[[Amir Ageeb|Ageeb, Amir]], (1969-1999), Sudanese immigrant to Germany who died as a result of ...
21: *[[David Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defen...
28: *[[David Hayes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon
42: *[[Dries van Agt|Agt, Dries van]], (born 1931), Dutch prime minister - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
6: *[[Saint Aidan|Aidan, Saint]], (died 651)
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, ... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
9: ...te]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ... She was sworn in to office on [[December 9]], [[1931]] and was confirmed by a special election of the ...
15: ...tician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkansas on a 9-day campaign swing to campaign for her. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: '''Emma Goldman''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-bor...
21: ...chist sympathizer, had shot the President several days before. The authorities' attempt to associate h...
29: ...ecting the hearing, called her ''"one of the most dangerous anarchists in America."''
59: * <blockquote>"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution" - widely attributed, ...
69: *Falk, Candace, et al. ''Emma Goldman: A Documentary History O... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...''. Blixen wrote works both in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in [[English language|English]]. She i...
5: ... [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ...tation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ... to publish several other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stor...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
2: ...n '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio]].
4: ... a slave who found freedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
21: *''[[Playing in the Dark]]'' (1993) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[February 2]], [[1905]] |
8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
11: '''Ayn Rand''' ([[February 2]], [[1905]] – [[March 6]], [[1982]]; first name pronounced (...
19: ...rsburg]], [[Russia]], and was the eldest of three daughters of a Jewish family. She studied philosophy...
22: ...t her eye. The two were married in [[1929]]. In [[1931]], Rand became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the U... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
54: ...means value, in the sense of overall lightness or darkness of a painting, Stein using a high proportio...
58: ...ere gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday," of which he contends that the, "effect would b...
60: ...te in long hand, typically about half an hour per day. Alice B. Toklas would collect the pages, type t...
61: Today, most manuscripts are kept in the [[Beinecke Lib...
63: ...ul of mundane tasks and Alice Toklas managed everyday affairs. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ... later joined her sister Muriel in [[Toronto, Canada]] where she worked as a nurse's aide in a militar...
10: ... crossing. They were married on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partner...
14: ...onor]] from the French Government, and the Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from Pres...
18: ...p him establish his own navigation school in Florida.
20: ...op (aviation)|ground-looped]] the plane. Severely damaged, the aircraft had to be shipped to [[Califor... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: '''Amy Johnson''' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English ...
8: ...t year and landed in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]] after flying 11,00...
10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]]... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: '''Virginia Woolf''' ([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom...
9: ...one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[Jame...
11: ...chievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...e Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions re...
17: ...s an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biography by Woolf's own nephew, ... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
18: ...een honored in several ways since her death: In [[1931]], a group of Black male pilots performed the fir... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: .... Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
9: ...]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended her FLOW-MATIC lang...
14: ...n over in the 1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
18: ...oodwill ambassador, lecturing widely on the early days of computers, her career, and on efforts that c...
25: ...sociation of Information Technology Professionals|Data Processing Management Association]]. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ... Battles Sawyer Hogg''' ([[August 1]], [[1905]] – [[January 28]], [[1993]]) was a prolific [[ast...
5: ...on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
7: ...oved to [[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became ...
9: ...]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[[1988]]), a professor emeritus of English at t...
13: ...8]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to Companion in [[1976]]. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...]], [[James Franck]] and [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward...
5: ...ity]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] from [[1931]]-[[1939|39]], but since she was a woman she was ...
9: ...nterclockwise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, othe... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...sephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The ...
5: .... Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she en...
7: ...tarred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a star, she perfor...
11: ...red her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and ...
17: ...ces helped to integrate shows in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]]. Nevertheless, her career was on a do... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...ı Ğ?dullina''') (born [[October 24]], [[1931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of dee...
11: ...h and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
22: *''Concordanza'' for chamber ensemble (1971)
49: *''Lauda'' for alto, tenor, baritone, narrator, mixed choi...
52: *''Dancer on a Tightrope (Der Seilt䮺er)'' for violin ... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...s referred to as the [[public enemy era]] between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of ...
15: ...co, Texas|Telico]] (just south of [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]]). He was the fifth of seven children in a p...
19: ...ring the evening of [[January 5]] [[1930]] in the Dallas neighborhood of [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]...
27: ...the [[Kaufman, Texas]] jail, Bonnie returned to [[Dallas]] in June of 1932, and was soon back on the r...
31: ...e and two associates happened to be drinking at a dance in Oklahoma (illegal under [[prohibition]]). W... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...nal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elo...
13: ...ust 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave birth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, afte...
19: ...13, she embarked upon a preaching career in [[Canada]] and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left home an...
23: ...she had started her own newspaper, named ''The Bridal Call'', for which she wrote many of the articles...
29: ...time, women in the [[pulpit]] ministry were rare—those who wore makeup and jewelry in the pulpit... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...r Teresa of Calcutta''' ([[August 27]] [[1910]] – [[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an international...
11: ...r of the youth group in her local parish called Sodality. At 18, the [[Vatican]] granted Teresa permis...
13: ... [[Darjeeling]] in India as a novice sister. In [[1931]], she made her first vows there, choosing the na...
19: ==Foundation of the Missionaries of Charity==
24: ... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] call... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
1: ...matahari.jpg|frame|Mata Hari, [[striptease|exotic dancer]] and convicted [[espionage|spy]], made her n...
3: ...''' in English), a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[exotic dancer]] who was accused, convicted and executed as ...
5: ...r stage name Mata Hari means "sun" or "eye of the day" in [[Malay language|Malay]] and [[Indonesian la...
15: The [[1931]] film of her final days, "Mata Hari", starred [[Greta Garbo]] in the le... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ... in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the care of her husband. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...ks are [[documentary film|documentary]] [[propaganda film]]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out o...
5: ...nce]]r; in a [[2002]] interview she recalled that dancing was what made her truly happy. After injurin...
7: ...ased in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]'' (''[[Day of Freedom]]'') and is now available on [[DVD]]....
13: ...ically naﶥ and ignorant about their atrocities—a position which many of her critics dismiss as...
17: ...6]]. She survived a [[helicopter]] crash in the Sudan in [[2000]]. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...emocrat from Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[...
12: She returned to US in 1931 to be [[Paramount Picture]]'s "next [[Marlene Die...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice amo...
24: ...-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was e...
52: *[[Tarnished Lady]] (1931) - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish...
25: ...ick]] wanted her cast as the dying heiress in ''[[Dark Victory]]'' in [[1935 in film|1935]], but she i...
33: ...ting Garbo in a romantic comedy that featured her dancing, but this film was a critical and box-office...
35: ...ht appear as the Duchess de Guermantes in a film adaptation of "[[Remembrance of Things Past]]," but t...
69: * [[The Single Standard]] (1929) - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...ca]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with some claiming t...
7: ...es may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differences.
31: ...ar to fill fourteen centuries, and the other candidates are few:
36: ... extending to the early 17th century, are the raw data on which are built the theoretical studies of h...
40: ...ts for a means of creating a more accurate [[calendar]] for its activities. For almost two millennia,... - North America (12844 bytes)
6: ...et's remain careful --> considered to include Canada and the United States, but not Mexico or any of t...
7: ...th America is only a subcontinent composed by Canada, United States and Mexico.
14: ...plain along the Atlantic seaboard, and the [[Florida]] peninsula. Mexico, with its long [[plateau|pla...
16: ...containing smaller ranges and low-lying deserts – in between. The highest peak is [[Denali]] in...
18: Since [[1931]], [[Rugby, North Dakota]], has officially been recognized as being at... - Australia (39438 bytes)
25: population_density_rank = —|
27: ...|Constitution Act]]<br>- [[Statute of Westminster 1931|Statute of Westminster]]<br>- [[Australia Act]]|
28: ...]:<br>[[1 January]] [[1901]]<br>[[11 December]] [[1931]]<br>[[3 March]] [[1986]]|
32: utc_offset=+8–+10|
34: utc_offset_DST=+8–+11| - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...us that the country's *official* name is now "Canada", not anything else. If you believe you have argu...
3: ... e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[Geography of Canada]], etc. Thank you.}}
6: '''Canada''' is a country in [[North America]], the norther...
8: ...stitutional monarchy]] with [[Elizabeth II of Canada|Queen Elizabeth II]] as [[head of state]].
10: ... [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] population estimate for [[as of 2005|J... - Historical capital of China (5927 bytes)
8: ::[[Liao Dynasty]], as a secondary capital: called Yanjing (燕京 Y...
22: ...et up by the [[Japan|Japanese]] in Manchuria from 1931 to 1945: called Xingjing or Tsinking (新...
28: * [[Datong]] was the capital during [[Northern Wei Dynas...
61: ...i Dynasty]] since [[493]], moved its capital from Datong. - Spain (36498 bytes)
39: established_dates = [[1492]] |
58: ...-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a separate [[ethnic group]]. The most importa...
62: ...olony was [[Carthago Nova]] (Latin name of modern day [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]]).
77: By [[1512]], most of the kingdoms of present-day Spain were politically unified, although not as ...
85: ... the French Bourbons (see [[House of Bourbon]]) — that a centralized Spanish state was establish... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
4: ...ed Διοσπολις ''Diospolis'', "City of Zeus" ([[Z...
27: ...1. ''Dictionnaire des noms g鯧raphiques contenus dans les textes hi鲯glyphiques''. Vol. 3 of 7 vols....
29: *Polz, Daniel C. 2001. “Thebes.” In ''The Oxfor...
31: ... Noel Freedman. Vol. 6 of 6 vols. New York: Doubleday. 442–443. - Ancient history (7857 bytes)
1: ...of the Western Roman Empire]]), however the exact date is still disputed among various historians. In ...
19: *[[History of ancient Israel and Judah]]
21: *[[Kingdom of Judah]]
33: ...t versions of the same event. If I have duplicate data this does not make an event true. One of the gr...
35: ... texts. The novice has yet to learn this. (Becker 1931, Loftus 1996, Thomas & Wick 1993, MacMullen 1990,... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...eorge Herman Ruth''', ([[February 6]], [[1895]] – [[August 16]], [[1948]]), better known as '''B...
6: ==Early days==
12: ...sition because he was involved in every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe started m...
14: ...s club, and took him to spring training in [[Florida]], where a strong performance with bat and ball s...
15: ...ue Orioles, and the competition hit Orioles' attendance significantly. To make ends meet, Dunn was ob... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
16: LandArea = 150,132 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 2]], [[1788]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
50: ... the Spanish moving north from their base in Florida. In [[1724]], it was first suggested that what wa...
52: ...n as [[Georgia Day]], which is not a [[public holiday]], but is mainly observed in [[school]]s and by ... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
16: LandArea = 144,701 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 28|Dec 28]], [[1846]] |
25: ...Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|DST]]-5 |
46: ...een home to approximately 17 different tribes. Today, only the [[Mesquaki]] tribe is left in Iowa and...
50: ...ted in a few shots finding Iowa soil; a raid into Davis and Van Buren counties by Confederate guerrill... - Nevada (17565 bytes)
2: Name = Nevada |
3: Fullname = State of Nevada |
4: Flag = Nevada state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Nevada]] |
6: Seal = Nevada state seal.png | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...o a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the ...
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
133: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
145: ...]: [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]]
182: ...6]]: [[Davy lamp|Miner's safety lamp]]: [[Humphry Davy]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politici...
6: *[[Genrikh Yagoda|Yagoda, Genrikh Grigor'evich]] (1891-1938)
32: *[[Yao Wenyuan]], (born 1931)
42: *[[Yasunori Mitsuda|Yasunori, Mitsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video ga...
71: *[[Boris Yeltsin|Yeltsin, Boris]] (b. 1931) [[President of Russia]] - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...e Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 painting, is the largest church in C...
17: ...1585]] by order of [[Pope Sixtus V]]. The obelisk dates back to the [[13th century BC]] in [[Egypt]], ...
20: ...ontana, who was probably the best engineer of the day. Fontana built the lantern the following year, a...
29: ...lly operated since [[1931]], with its oldest bell dating to [[1288]].
43: MCMLXXXIII – MCMLXXIV<br> - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
71: *[[Frank Auerbach]] ([[1931]]-) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
14: * [[1931]] - [[Ernst Ruska]] builds the first [[electron m... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
13: *[[William George Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading ...
14: ...e [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
20: ...d]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
21: ...h Baer]] - [[Germany|German]] born [[American]] — [[computer game]] - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...February 11]], [[1847]] – [[October 18]], [[1931]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[inventor]]...
7: ...homas Edison bought a house in [[Fort Myers, Florida]] (Seminole Lodge) as a winter retreat. [[Henry F...
10: ...anged. He and his family fled to Nova Scotia, Canada, settling on land the British government gave tho...
16: ...ing. His mother had been a school teacher in Canada and happily took over the job of schooling her so...
18: ...er to be typeset and printed on a moving train. Today, the paper is known as the Port Huron [[''Times-... - Cell (biology) (28190 bytes)
21: ...e blue''), the capsule (''orange''), ribosomes (''dark blue''), and a flagellum (also ''black'').]]
63: ..."little organs", called [[organelle]]s, that are adapted and/or specialized for carrying out one or mo...
65: ...NA from various molecules that could accidentally damage its structure or interfere with its processin...
67: ...somes—sometimes hundreds or even thousands—can be found throughout a cell.
77: ...ppendages called [[flagella]] and [[Pilus|pili]]—proteins attached to the cell surface; a [[cell... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...[[Second Sino-Japanese War]]), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of [[Manchuria]]. Still others ...
6: ...an surrendered]] on [[15 August]] [[1945]] ([[V-J Day]]).
8: ...ee. [[Atomic weapon]]s, [[jet aircraft]], and [[RADAR]] are only a few of many [[Technology during Wor...
10: ...y as the [[Warsaw pact]], alliances which were fundamental to the ensuing [[Cold War]]. In Asia, the U...
18: ...id they supply the Axis powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies. - Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
6: *[[1931]] - [[Empire State Building]] opens
7: *[[1931]] - [[Japan]] invades [[Manchuria]]
48: *[[1935]] - [[Fair Labor Standard Act]] - sets [[minimum wage]] and hours
59: *[[1938]] - [[Fair Labor Standards Act]]
88: *[[1944]] - [[D-Day]] - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
16: ... levels, which in retrospect after the crash were dangerously inflated.
18: ...musical noise by much of the older generation). [[Dancing]] was a popular recreation.
34: ...dministration was rocked by the [[Teapot Dome scandal]]. It looked like the President himself might be...
42: ... compromise—the [[Gold Exchange Standard]]—that lacked the stability to rebuild world trad...
44: ...dard]], and the interchangeability of currencies—were crumbling. - January 17 (12233 bytes)
1: ...year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 348 days remaining (349 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
9: ...]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutena...
13: ...h]] army at the [[Battle of Abu Klea]] in the [[Sudan]].
32: * [[1982]] - [[Cold Sunday|"Cold Sunday"]] in the [[United States]] sees temperatures fa... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... holiday when gifts were exchanged. There are 364 days remaining (365 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
10: ...0]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
1: ...ear in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 363 days remaining (364 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spa...
20: ...kefeller]] unites his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[trust]].
22: ... C. Ball]] of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: [[Railroad chronometers]]. - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
3: ... for a tall mast or sail on a [[sailing ship]]. Today the word is used exclusively to refer to a tall ...
9: ...ucted in [[1884]]-[[1885]] and was destroyed in [[1931]] for the Field's building. Another contender fo...
19: This table is adapted from [http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/tp/w...
20: The table is up to date [[as of 2005]]. The towers of the [[World Trade...
46: ...[New York City]]||381 m||1,250 ft||102||1931 || - Flood (7770 bytes)
7: ...The control of annual flooding, by dikes and by [[dam]]s, also prevents the deposition of silt on the ...
16: ...slip on continental shelf'') may all engender a tidal wave called a [[tsunami]] that causes destructio...
22: ...lta Works]] with the [[Oosterschelde|Oosterscheldedam]] as its crowning achievement.
33: ...s a great flood caused by the breaking of the ice dams holding [[Lake Agassiz]].
34: ...oods]] of Washington, also caused by breaking ice dams. - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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40: ...h Marie de Gaulle''' ([[November 22]], [[1890]] – [[November 9]], [[1970]]), in [[France]] commo...
42: ...d head of the provisional government in [[1944]]–[[1946]]. Called to form a government in [[1958...
44: ==1890–1912: Formative years== - Bilby (4570 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox phylum entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
9: {{Taxobox familia entry | taxon = [[Peramelidae]]}}
16: ...emains endangered. The bilby is known as the '''dalgite''' in [[Western Australia]] and the '''pinki...
20: ...r shelter both from predators and the heat of the day.
22: ...s now restricted to arid wastelands and remains endangered. - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
6: ...namis have been historically referred to as ''[[tidal wave]]s'' because as they approach land they tak...
12: ...nts of the earth's crust can occur at [[plate boundaries]]. [[Subduction]] earthquakes are particularl...
18: ...hich produced a water wave estimated at 50 – 150 m and reached 524 m up local mou...
22: ...n its path, often reducing buildings to their foundations and scouring exposed ground to the bedrock. ...
24: ...h little overall energy loss. A tsunami can cause damage thousands of kilometres from its origin, so t... - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ...g their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], c...
7: ...f the leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in thei...
9: ...hat only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] participate. While some would contend that the...
13: ...he Olympics until now. The US team won the gold medal in [[2000]], suggesting that a major-league team...
93: ...]] hurled three of these, over a span of just six days, in one of the most dominant pitching performan... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
24: ...ive to note that a similar winning percentage nowadays would yield 129 wins.
30: ...l of Fame|Hall of Famer]] is chiefly remembered today for his extreme racist views (which he stated in...
35: ...]] (2B) and [[Frank Chance]] (1B) were three legendary Cubs infielders, who played together from [[190...
37: ... staff [[earned run average]] that still stands today. Reulbach threw a one-hitter in the [[1906]] [[...
39: ...ame. The trio was immortalized in [[Franklin P. Adams]]' poem ''Baseball's Sad [[Lexicon]]'', which f... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
25: ...this was the year of the infamous [[Black Sox scandal]], in which eight White Sox players, including C...
37: ...aded veteran pitchers [[Wilson Alvarez]], [[Danny Darwin]] and [[Roberto Hernᮤez (baseball player)|R...
41: ...over, Williams signed Japanese second baseman [[Tadahito Iguchi]] to a contract.
56: *[[George Davis (baseball player)|George Davis]] 1902, 1904-09
75: ===Current 25-man roster (updated on June 2, 2005)=== - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
31: ...ffense never quite lived up to the pitching. By [[1931]] the team was bankrupt, thanks to the [[Great De...
39: ...major league game -- a record that still stands today. Ewell "The Whip" Blackwell was the main pitchi...
41: ...he NL record. By 1961, Robinson was joined by [[Vada Pinson]], [[Wally Post]], [[Gordy Coleman]] and [...
53: [[Image:Eric_davis.jpg|thumb|225px|Eric Davis in 1990]]
54: ...uers. In [[1984]] [[Dave Parker (baseball player)|Dave Parker]] & Tony P鲥z were in Cincinnati unifor... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ...Wilbert Robinson, manager from [[1914]] through [[1931]]) and the ''[[Trolley dodger|Trolley Dodgers]]''...
25: ...owning the team. He desired to replace the dilapidated Washington Park with a new ballpark, and again...
27: ... teams of the late [[1920s]] became known as the "Daffiness Boys" for their distracted, error-ridden s...
28: ...ng his cab driver ask "So how did those bums do today?" Mullin decided to sketch an exaggerated versio...
29: ... cold by beating the Cincinnati Reds the same two days. - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
12: ...1911]], [[1913]], [[1914]], [[1929]], [[1930]], [[1931]], [[1972]], [[1973]], [[1974]], [[1988]], [[1989...
18: ...r Philadelphia's team dated back to the "amateur" days of the national game, in the 1860s. After [[Jo...
20: ...1, 1902, the [[Pennsylvania Supreme Court]] invalidated Nap Lajoie's contract with the Athletics, and ...
28: ...rk Yankees]], then won pennants in 1929, 1930 and 1931, winning the World Series in 1929 and 1930. In e...
30: ...68 years old when the A?s last won the pennant in 1931, and many felt the game was passing him by. Save... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
16: ...ants won''' (16): [[1926]], [[1928]], [[1930]], [[1931]], [[1934]], [[1942]], [[1943]], [[1944]], [[1946...
17: ...ld Series]] championships won''' (9): [[1926]], [[1931]], [[1934]], [[1942]], [[1944]], [[1946]], [[1964...
24: ...orous Chicago-St. Louis rivalry continues to this day.
33: ...erman Dean, won 30 of them, with Paul (nicknamed "Daffy") contributing 19 wins. Dean's country humor m...
40: ...ob Gibson]], [[Steve Carlton]], and [[Orlando Cepeda]] led the "Redbirds" to World Series titles in [[... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: '''Albert Einstein''' ([[March 14]], [[1879]] – [[April 18]], [[1955]]) was a [[Germany|German...
7: ...show through in his work and philosophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unpreceden...
20: ... a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-school certificate. {{an|1}}
22: ... his friend [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughter Anna.{{an|1}} Einstein subsequently enrolle...
26: ...se friends, including Mileva. He and Mileva had a daughter Lieserl, born in January [[1902]]. Lieserl... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...ne]] manufacturing to the mass production of affordable [[automobile]]s. This achievement not only re...
15: ...odel "999" in honor of a racing locomotive of the day, took the car around the country and thereby mad...
24: ... still maintaining a firm hand in its management—few company decisions under Edsel's presidency ...
29: ...nge system similar to that in use by automakers today.
33: ...ular welded frame. It weighed 30% less than a standard car of the same size, and was said to be able t... - Philo Farnsworth (6489 bytes)
1: ...lo Taylor Farnsworth''' ([[August 19]] [[1906]] – [[March 11]] [[1971]]) was an [[United States|...
5: .... His father later moved the family to [[Rigby, Idaho]], where he worked as a [[sharecropper]]. Youn...
7: ...ef stint in the [[Navy]], Farnsworth returned to Idaho to help support his mother. He later moved to ...
11: ... time still used a mechanical scanner. In 1931 [[David Sarnoff]] of RCA offered to buy Farnsworth's p...
13: ...nsworth competed with [[EMI]] for forming the standard television system for the [[U.K.]]. By 1939 Fa... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
19: *[[César Baldaccini]]
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]]
63: *[[Eduardo Chillida]] (1924-2002)
75: *[[Jules Dalou]] (1838 - 1902) - Atom (12300 bytes)
43: Atoms are the fundamental building blocks of [[chemistry]], and are [...
67: ...ope masses found in nature, weighted by their abundance.
70: ...play a role, but it is usually in terms of a secondary effect due to screening of the positive charge ...
100: ...all of [[chemistry]], among many other topics. Today, most scientific research associated with atoms ...
102: ...rate. The [[electron microscope]], invented in [[1931]], has allowed pictures to be taken of actual, in... - Electron microscope (5936 bytes)
5: The first electron microscope was built in [[1931]] by [[Ernst Ruska]] and [[Max Knoll]] at the [[B...
14: ...roscope]] (SEM) produces images by detecting secondary electrons which are emitted from the surface du...
36: ...roper detail, which may result in ''artifacts''—objects that are purely the result of treatment... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
5: | date1=[[November 22]], [[1963]]
6: | date2=[[January 20]], [[1969]]
9: | date of birth=[[August 27]], [[1908]]
12: | date of death=[[January 22]], [[1973]]
19: ...dent of the United States|presidency]] ([[1963]]–[[1969]]) after [[John F. Kennedy assassination... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1929]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1933]]
9: | date of birth=[[August 10]], [[1874]]
12: | date of death=[[October 20]], [[1964]]
19: ...during the administration of [[Lyndon Johnson]] — his fifth successor. - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1921]]
6: | date2=[[August 2]], [[1923]]
9: | date of birth=[[November 2]], [[1865]]
12: | date of death=[[August 2]], [[1923]]
18: ...Governor of Ohio|Lieutenant Governor]] ([[1903]]–[[1905]]). - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
5: date_of_birth = [[20 April]] [[1889]] |
8: date_of_death = [[30 April]] [[1945]] |
11: ...he [[National Socialist German Workers Party]] (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
15: ...llies]] ultimately defeated Germany. In the final days of the war, [[Hitler's death|Hitler died]] by [...
20: ... Alois Hitler also had a son (Alois Junior) and a daughter (Angela) by his second wife. In ''[[Mein Ka... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
1: ...alendar]] (77th in [[Leap year]]s). There are 289 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
6: ...mpeius|Pompey the Younger]] in the [[Battle of Munda]].
9: *[[1756]] - [[St. Patrick's Day]] is celebrated in [[New York City]] for the fir...
19: *[[1931]] - [[Nevada]] legalizes [[gambling]]. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
1: ...alendar]] (80th in [[Leap year]]s). There are 286 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
7: *[[1413]] – [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of...
8: *[[1602]] – The [[Dutch East India Company]] is establishe...
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]]... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
1: ...lendar]] (82nd in [[Leap year]]s). There are 284 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
18: *[[1941]] - [[Washington]]'s [[Grand Coulee Dam]] begins to generate [[electricity]].
26: ...]] nuclear reactor in [[Decatur, Alabama]] causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
28: ...[1978]] - [[Karl Wallenda]] of the [[Flying Wallendas]] dies after falling off a tight-rope between tw... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
1: ...lendar]] (83rd in [[Leap year]]s). There are 283 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
21: *[[1931]] - [[Bhagat Singh]] and [[Batukeshwar Dutt]] emb...
24: ...esolution]] (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General C...
25: ...ian Ocean]], [[Japan]]ese forces capture the [[Anadaman Islands]]. - Springfield, Illinois (6768 bytes)
11: mayor = [[Timothy Davlin]] |
32: ...evada]], originated in Springfield. Springfield's Dana-Thomas House is among the best preserved and mo...
34: Noted American poet [[Vachel Lindsay]] (1879 - 1931) was born and died in Springfield. Ragtime compos...
36: ... When state senator [[Vince Demuzio]] died on Tuesday, April 27, 2004, Governor [[Rod Blagojevich]] de... - Columbus, Ohio (27104 bytes)
37: ...icts as well, sometimes overlapping municipal boundaries. CPS offers many alternative schools as well,...
46: ... northwest of Columbus and produces all of the Honda Accords, Civics, motorcycles and many of Acura's ...
51: ... Due to its central location within Ohio and abundance of outbound roadways, nearly all of the state'...
61: ...area, including Alum Creek, Big Walnut Creek, and Darby Creek. By and large, Columbus is fairly flat,...
67: ...le Cliff]], [[Valleyview]], [[New Rome]], [[Briggsdale]], [[Urbancrest]], [[Linden]], [[Eastmoor]], [[... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]...
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]...
88: *[[Danilo Blanusa]], ([[Croatia]], [[1903]] - [[1987]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: ...arc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: ... Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
12: ...reeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]]) - American comic book (14771 bytes)
11: ...e:superman14.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''Superman'' #14, dated January-February 1942]]
13: ...[humor]]ous in nature, the name "comic book" was adapted from "comic strip". This has caused some con...
15: ...[Tintin]] au Congo" had already been published in 1931.
19: ...stume, had [[superhuman]] abilities, and lived by day in his [[secret identity]] as a mild-mannered [[...
26: ...se of crime, [[juvenile delinquency]], moral degradation, drug use, and poor grades. The psychiatrist ... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
2: subject_name=Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
3: image_name=Mohandas Gandhi.jpg |
4: ... the Nation|Father of the nation]]"'' —Mohandas Gandhi |
6: date_of_birth=[[October 2]], [[1869]] |
7: place_of_birth=[[Porbandar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]] | - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn...
19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}}
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}} - July 24 (8660 bytes)
1: ... the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 160 days remaining.
3: {{JulyCalendar}}
16: ...]] - The [[Treaty of Lausanne]], settling the boundaries of modern [[Turkey]], is signed in [[Switzerl...
19: *[[1931]] - A fire at a home for aged people in [[Pittsbu...
22: ...ight, those of the [[United States|Americans]] by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 ... - List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
1: ...Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] tournament, or medalists at the [[Olympic Games]]:
46: *[[Darren Cahill]] - ([[1965]]-) - (Australia)
59: ...nell]] - ([[:Category:Canadian tennis players|Canada]]) - doublist specialist
72: *[[Dwight Davis]] ([[1879]]-[[1945]]) - (USA)
73: *[[Scott Davis (tennis player)|Scott Davis]] - (USA) - Causes of the Great Depression (21364 bytes)
3: ...root causes of the Depression are based in the fundamental production relationships of capitalism, and...
16: ..., [[1929]] (the day also known as the [[Black Tuesday]]), share prices on [[Wall Street]] collapsed ca...
18: ...itain]] attempting to re-establish the [[gold standard]] on a pre-war price basis. Many of the Allied ...
22: ...vertibility gave way to a compromised [[gold standard]] that lacked the stability to rebuild world tr...
24: ...]], and the [[interchangeability of currencies]]—began to crumble. - New Deal (82408 bytes)
2: ...rams by 1943. The main programs still important today are [[Social Security]] and the [[Securities and...
9: ..." ([[deficit spending]]), dropping the [[gold standard]], efforts to re-inflate farm prices that were ...
13: ...program should be a model for government action today. Liberals continue to battle conservatives. Th...
18: ... a trend of a worldwide economic crisis. In 1929–1933, unemployment in the U.S. soared from 4% o...
20: ...That led to collapse of Labour and replacement in 1931 by a National coalition (predominantly Conservati... - Guitar (36953 bytes)
15: ...estor of the Guitar. Excavated in Susa, [[Iran]]. Dated 3rd Millennium BC.]]
18: ...Persian lute which indeed had three strings but today has four. The Chitra Veena is depicted in Indian...
20: ..., the name moved into the English language. And today the guitar, or what it has evolved into, is used...
24: ...t produced electric guitars for the wider public. Danelectro also pioneered [[Tube Amp]] technology.
48: ...russ rod allows the neck to be adjusted to accommodate these changes -- tightening it will curve the n... - List of Governors of Wisconsin (3807 bytes)
4: <tr bgcolor=#cccccc><th>#<th>Name<th>Party<th>Dates
10: <tr bgcolor=#FFE8E8><td>6<td>[[Alexander W. Randall]]<td>Republican<td>1858 - 1862
25: <tr bgcolor=#FFE8E8><td>21<td>[[James O. Davidson]]<td>Republican<td>1906 - 1911
30: ...[[Walter J. Kohler, Sr.]]<td>Republican<td>1929 - 1931
31: ...>27<td>[[Philip F. La Follette]]<td>Republican<td>1931 - 1933 - The Star-Spangled Banner (15265 bytes)
6: ...ates|Congressional]] resolution on [[March 3]], [[1931]].
11: ...lag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, is today on display in the [[National Museum of American ...
13: The next day, Key wrote a poem aboard the ship on the back of...
15: ...ted anonymously in Baltimore on [[September 17]]—of these, two known copies still exist.
19: ...ery professional baseball game in United States today, though it is now performed prior to the first p... - Indus Valley Civilization (23571 bytes)
2: ...ley Civilization''', [[28th century BC|2800 BC]]–[[18th century BC|1800 BC]], was an ancient civ...
7: ...le of modern day [[Pakistan]] and parts of modern-day [[India]] and [[Afghanistan]]. The Indus Civiliz...
9: To date, over 1,052 cities and settlements have been fo...
11: ...been the [[Vedic Sarasvati River]] of the [[Rig Veda]]. Some of the scholars who accept this hypothesi...
13: ... major urban centers of [[Harappa]] and [[Mohenjo-daro]], as well as [[Dholavira]], [[Ganweriwala]], [... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
3: == Foundation and early history ==
25: ...], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicily, who acted as the Kin...
29: ...d, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the day almost the entirety of their fleet was destroyed...
50: ...Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues until today, gaining increasing independence from its Roman ...
57: ...er, also known as the Knights of [[Malta]], and today operates as a largely charitable and ceremonial ... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
5: ...dolf Hitler]] referred to [[Nazi Germany]] (1933–1945) as the Third Reich.
15: ...g Forest]]. Germany as far as the Rhine and the [[Danube]] remained outside the [[Roman Empire]].
17: ...e Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube frontier.
32: ...ce-elector]]s of the Holy Roman Empire. From ''Bildatlas der Deutschen Geschichte'' by Dr Paul Kn? (18...
43: ...n Emperor|Henry V]] and the Pope with the [[Concordat of Worms]]. The consequences of the investiture ... - Cell (29541 bytes)
21: ...e blue''), the capsule (''orange''), ribosomes (''dark blue''), and a flagellum (also ''black'').]]
63: ..."little organs", called [[organelle]]s, that are adapted and/or specialized for carrying out one or mo...
65: ...NA from various molecules that could accidentally damage its structure or interfere with its processin...
67: ...somes—sometimes hundreds or even thousands—can be found throughout a cell.
77: ...ppendages called [[flagella]] and [[Pilus|pili]]—proteins attached to the cell surface; a [[cell... - Christmas (35108 bytes)
2: ...hany, when the Magi visited baby Jesus. The exact date of his birth was determined centuries later.
10: ...h in Bethlehem of Judea, the home of the house of David from which Joseph was descended, fulfilled the...
18: ==Dates of celebration==
19: ...g on the civil ([[Gregorian calendar|Gregorian]]) date of [[January 7]] from [[1900]] to [[2099]]. The...
21: ...man world was the Natalis Solis Invicti, the Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun.
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