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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.
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