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- Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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21: ...out with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after.
29: After the Supreme Court announced the legalization o...
40: ...ween the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the country tested missiles in various places. - Jordan (20715 bytes)
94: ...ath in February 1999. Abdullah moved quickly to reaffirm Jordan's [[Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace|peac...
108: *[[Al Mafraq]]
110: *[[Tafileh|At Tafilah]]
134: ...se out duties on nearly all goods and services by 2010. The agreement also provides for more open market...
144: ...dan and the Gulf countries improved substantially after King Hussein's death. Following the fall of th... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...[United States]]. The PRC borders 14 countries: [[Afghanistan]], [[Bhutan]], [[Myanmar]]/Burma, [[Indi...
13: After [[World War II]], the [[Chinese Civil War]] be...
19: ...as removed from day to day management of economic affairs which came under the control of a more moder...
21: ...[Zhou Enlai]] moderate forces regained influence. After Mao's death, [[Deng Xiaoping]], seen as the le...
27: ...minority of observers, claim that these policies safeguard stability in a society that is torn apart b... - Texas (39610 bytes)
43: ...ate nickname]] — '''The Lone Star State''' (after the single star on several historical flags of...
52: ..., Texas forms the second-largest US state in size after [[Alaska]] and the largest state in the contig...
80: After [[Mexico|Mexican]] independence in 1821, Texas...
131: ...volution. They soon headed back to the Rio Grande after briefly occupying San Antonio.
138: ...Emancipation Proclamation]], two-and-a-half years after [[Abraham Lincoln | Lincoln]] signed it. - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...d in [[1802]] by Sir [[William Herschel]] shortly after [[Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers|Olbers]] discovered ...
10: Thus, it would be safest to use the term "asteroid" for Solar System ob...
24: ...ics. It is customary to name a group of asteroids after the first member of that group to be discovere...
58: ...and [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Piazzi named it after [[Ceres]], the Greek goddess of agriculture.
60: ...the next few years, with Vesta found in [[1807]]. After eight more years of fruitless searches, most a... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ... the second [[planet]] from the [[Sun]], is named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] [[Venus ...
3: ...be seen a few hours before sunrise or a few hours after sunset. However, when at its brightest, Venus ...
5: ... that it is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and [[Moon]]. Its symbol is a stylized...
23: ...esult of [[tidal locking]], with [[tidal force]]s affecting Venus's rotation whenever the planets get ...
25: ...l Montes, all surface features on Venus are named after real or mythological females. Venus's thick a... - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: ... the [[Sun]] in the [[solar system]]. It is named after [[Mars (god)|Mars]], the god of war in [[Roman...
18: ...]s on Mars by the [[Mars Global Surveyor]] spacecraft have revealed that parts of the planet's [[Crust...
41: ...ork on his notable maps of Mars. After the spacecraft [[Mariner 9]] provided extensive imagery of Mars...
51: ...ered in [[1877]] by [[Asaph Hall]], and are named after the characters [[Phobos (mythology)|Phobos]] a...
85: ..., and geography. Roughly two-thirds of all spacecraft destined for Mars have failed in one manner or a... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
138: ...]s." The [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] named the planet after the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[Jupiter (g...
149: ...s usually the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the [[Sun]], the [[Moon]] and [[Venus (planet)...
166: ...4th, 2009 || October 13th, 2009 || February 28th, 2010
168: ...h, 2010 || September 21st, 2010 || November 19th, 2010 || April 6th, 2011
185: ...to Jupiter's atmosphere is the ''[[Galileo spacecraft|Galileo]]'' probe - see below. - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
137: ...mainly out of ice and space debris. It was named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[Saturn (go...
149: ...004]], the ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft found that the radio rotation period of Saturn h...
165: ...ion of this theory is that the moon disintegrated after being struck by a large [[comet]] or [[asteroi...
170: ...s from the ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft taken in [[March]] and [[October]] [[2004]], and...
174: ...nter|200px|''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft: [[March 27]], [[2004]]; Frontlit rings. Notice ... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ...m]] named after a Greek god: all others are named after [[Roman mythology|Roman deities]]. Its symbol ...
172: ...ill used infrequently (by the British alone) thereafter. The final holdout was [[HM Nautical Almanac O...
176: [[NASA]]'s [[Voyager 2]] is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet. Launched in [[1977]...
198: ...r 21st, 2010 || December 6th, 2010 || March 17th, 2010
206: ...ared briefly from view five times both before and after it disappeared behind the planet. They conclu... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
136: ...urthest planet from the [[Sun]]. Neptune is named after the [[Neptune (god)|Roman god of the sea]]. It...
138: Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, ''[[Voyager 2]]'', which flew by the planet on ...
154: ...asked Adams for a clarification; Adams began to draft a reply but never sent it.
158: After much procrastination, Challis began his reluct...
160: ...s possession) until immediately after his death. After reviewing the documents, some historians now s... - Boto (5572 bytes)
57: *''Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002–2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetacean... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
16: |'''Deorbit date'''||circa 2010
45: ...promising the telescope's capabilities. However, after a servicing mission in 1993, the telescope was...
47: ...er]] the Earth's [[atmosphere]] some time after [[2010]]. Its successor telescope, the [[James Webb Spa...
58: ...ervatory]] (OAO) mission. OAO-1's battery failed after three days, terminating the mission, but OAO-2...
68: ... During the early 1980s, the telescope was named after [[Edwin Hubble]], who made one of the greatest... - Chinese New Year (12599 bytes)
3: ...is case, the New Year falls on the third new moon after the Solstice. (The next time this occurs is in...
21: ...ly give out two red packets on the first new year after being married. This is because the wife presen...
23: ... days it is not uncommon to receive large sums in affluent families. In some families this tradition h...
51: ...to enjoy a surplus, i.e. financial security, year after year.
76: ...ger (zodiac)|Tiger]] || Yin || 1998 January 28 || 2010 February 14 - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...e the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] from the dead after his death by [[crucifixion]] (see [[Good Frida...
35: ! '''[[2010]]''' ||colspan=2| [[April 4]]
61: ...on the Sunday after the first [[full moon]] on or after the day of the [[vernal equinox]]''. The Churc...
87: ...χα), and the fast is broken immediately after the Divine Liturgy. Easter is immediately foll...
96: ...ame bishop of the Roman Christians. Shortly thereafter, Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna, traveled to R... - Radium (13138 bytes)
47: <td>[[Boiling point]]</td><td>2010 K (3159 ?F)</td></tr>
103: ...l of these are much more powerful and others are safer to handle.
104: ...hape the paintbrush died from the radiation. Soon afterward, the adverse effects of radioactivity were...
126: ...one cancer]]. This use of radium was stopped soon afterward. This is because radium is treated as [[c...
149: ...ed energy from the decay of radium ionizes gases, affects photographic plates, causes sores on the ski... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
7: ...1994]] the Winter Games are in between, two years after the Games of the Olympiad.
13: ...hey were held. The Games were then mostly a local affair, and only one event was contested, the [[stad...
25: ...y in the [[17th century]] a sports festival named after the Olympic Games was held in [[England]]. Ove...
36: After the initial success, the Olympics struggled. T...
60: ...[1968 Summer Olympics]] in [[Mexico City]]. Two [[African American]] track-and-field athletes, [[Tommi... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
10: ...ow-lying later capital, [[Susa]], and geographers after [[Ptolemy]] called it ''Susiana''. Though prim...
43: After two centuries for which little is known, the M...
47: ...am. The Elamites under Kidin-Khutran, second king after Untash-Gal, countered with a successful and de...
51: After a short period of dynastic troubles, the secon...
62: ...mpts of the Elamites to interfere in Mesopotamian affairs, usually in alliance with Babylon, against t... - George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
27: After graduating from Yale, Bush enlisted in the Tex...
32: ...72 to 1973, and that he was suspended from flying after he failed to take a required physical examinat...
38: ... for good shortly after waking up with a hangover after his 40th birthday celebration: "I quit drinkin...
45: ...ors. The [[1979 energy crisis]] hurt Arbusto and, after a name change to Bush Exploration Co., Bush so...
47: After working on his father's successful [[U.S. pres... - Renewable energy (27996 bytes)
109: ... plans to add 5% bioethanol to Europe's petrol by 2010. For the UK alone this would require 1.2 million ...
115: [[Sugar cane]] residue, [[wheat]] chaff, [[maize|corn cobs]] and other plant matter can ...
201: ...|smoke curing]], also enabled human societies to safely store perishable foodstuffs through the year. ...
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