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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
3: The dating of the Industrial Revolution is not exact, bu...
10: ... institutional changes wrought by the end of [[feudalism]] in [[Great Britain]] after the [[English Ci...
22: ...able as there was privilege and monopoly. The abundant supply of coal and iron ore made the making of ...
30: ...udy tour, gathering information where he could. Today this is called [[industrial espionage]], with mo...
59: ...ed about the need for stability and precision he adapted to the development of machine tools, and in h... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...beth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Eli...
7: ...s]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica]], [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guin...
15: ... of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of...
17: As a granddaughter of the British sovereign in the male line, ...
20: ...[[Entente Cordiale]] and numerous visits to [[Canada]]. She was instructed in religion by the [[Archbi... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...on'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[...
13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded the Amer...
24: ...h venereal diseases (which she contrasted with mandatory registration of those with infectious disease... - 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) - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[January 7]], [[1800]]</td...
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[March 8]], [[1874]]</td>...
14: [[Mary Abigail Fillmore]] (daughter)</td></tr>
26: ... It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate from [[New York]] would complement Taylor, a sl...
31: ...the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylor's death, he intimated t... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
1: ...e]] (although its territory never reached present-day Ghana).
19: ...e|Twi]], [[Ewe language|Ewe]], [[Dagbani language|Dagbani]], others
51: | [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]], no ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST]])
67: ... The name was adopted as a reference to the descendants of the ancient Empire of Ghana who migrated so...
72: ...hough it is part of "Black Africa." Therefore, Sudan was actually the first to achieve independence f... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
9: ...Tswana language|Tswana]], and [[Venda language|Venda]]. In this regard it is [[List of national langu...
13: ... great extent, and many of their languages are in danger of becoming [[Extinct language|extinct]].
17: ... Afrikaans has been downgraded in order to accommodate other official languages. The South African pas...
24: ...t south they reached was the [[Fish River]], in today's [[Eastern Cape Province]]. These [[Iron Age]] ...
26: ...Indonesia]], [[Madagascar]], and [[India]]. Descendants of these slaves, who often married with Dutch ... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...orders the states of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to...
6: ...5;سرائيل<br>("Dawlat Israil") |
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[May...
60: ...Emperor [[Hadrian]] renamed ''Provincia [[Judea|Judaea]]'' to ''Provincia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Gr...
62: ...he [[Mishnah]] and [[Jerusalem Talmud]], two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were compose... - Arkansas (11679 bytes)
16: LandArea = 134,856 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 15]], [[1836]] |
25: ...Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|DST]]-5 |
42: ...her [[Native American]] nations living in present-day Arkansas were [[Caddo]] and [[Osage Nation]].
44: ...ia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Alabama]] and [[Florida]]. - Oregon (26551 bytes)
16: LandArea = 248,849 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[February 14]], [[1859]] |
25: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] <small>(all but majority o...
36: ...regions in the world. Oregon is known for its abundant rainfall, but only the western 2/5 of the state...
41: ... living, [[conservation]], and [[urban growth boundary|limited growth]].'' - 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 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]] - 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]]. - Morse code (33777 bytes)
2: ...king it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels.
6: # longer mark, dash or 'dah' (-)
7: # intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character)
11: ...e length of the Morse characters made it hard to adapt to automated communication, so it was largely r...
13: ...rmany and eventually adopted as the worldwide standard as "International Morse". Morse's original code... - Visual arts (2572 bytes)
3: ...ing]], [[sculpture]], [[printmaking]], et cetera—were seen as distinct from [[handicraft|craft]]... - Nairobi (2690 bytes)
6: ...s being constructed between [[Mombasa]] and [[Uganda]]. It was totally rebuilt in the early [[1900s]] ...
14: ... by [[Osama bin Laden]]'s terrorist group [[Al-Qaida]]. See: [[1998 U.S. embassy bombings]]
16: ...th rising crime, earning a reputation for being a dangerous city and the nickname "nairobbery". In 200... - Bat (disambiguation) (977 bytes)
12: * [[Bat (missile)|"Bat" missile]], a [[radar]]-guided, air-to-surface missile. - Archery (18991 bytes)
96: The [[crossbow]], while dating from classical times, became quite popular du...
110: ...st popular weapon being [[Rondel (dagger)|roundel dagger]], a long thin knife that could be pushed thr...
127: ... The soft fletching and flexible shaft cause less damage if they hit. Professional soldiers wore leath... - 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... - Golf (35905 bytes)
4: ...he hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."'' Golf is believed to have or...
18: ...reen is not static and may be changed from day to day. This hole on the green has a flag on a pole pos...
27: ...y the course layout. On a nine-hole course, a standard round consists of two successive nine-hole roun...
54: ...sh/rules/PDF/RoG2004.pdf] are internationally standardised and are jointly governed by the [[Royal and...
77: ...amount of earth moving resulting in an affordable daily green fee and a more natural golfing experienc...
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