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- Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...tor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politicia...
4: ... artist [[Charles Dana Gibson]], creator of the [[Gibson Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was...
8: ...Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] candidate in the required by-election. Elected on [[Novem...
10: ...Winston Churchill]] as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Obse...
12: ...i Marlene'' that they called "The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers". - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...list [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
4: ...o has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian literature|Canadian fiction]], a...
6: ...endolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
10: ...'', championed by former [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was promoted to Companion in 1981. - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
1: [[image:AdaLovelace1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ada Lovelace]]
2: '''Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace''' ([[December 10]], [...
6: ...eed of Separation and left England for good a few days later. He never saw either again.
8: ...Annabella was fond of [[mathematics]] and taught Ada this art at an early stage of her life. She was p...
10: [[Image:Ada Lovelace.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Ada Lovelace]] - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: ...[July 22]]. Her name probably means "Mary of [[Magdala]]", a town on the western shore of the [[Lake o...
4: ==Mary Magdalene in the New Testament==
6: ...As the first witness to the Resurrection, Mary Magdalene hastened to tell Peter and another -- unknown...
8: ... the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem.
11: [[Image:Marymagdalene.JPG|thumb|Mary Magdalene, in a dramatic 19th-century popular image of ... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
38: ... were able to easily overtake the Empire. Romans, Gibson says, had become effeminate and were unwilling to...
93: ...ot see the family as we of the suburban West do today - their family was far more far reaching than ou...
98: ...ht expect (Cicero's daughter and wife planned his daughters husband all the time assuming that Cicero ...
100: ... father was asked whether he promised to give his daughter ("Spondesne?") and he was expected to say h...
104: ...offerred a cold bath for cooling off after the caldarium. - Nebraska (13662 bytes)
1: <!-- Here is a table of data; skip past it to edit the text. -->{{US state |
12: Governor = [[Dave Heineman]] |
16: LandArea = 199,099 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 1]], [[1867]] |
25: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] (western)| - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
16: LandArea = 19,231 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 18]], [[1787]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
39: ...w York State]] and had its capital at [[New Amsterdam]], now known as [[New York City]]. Some of south...
41: ...Colonel [[Richard Nicolls]] sailed into what is today [[New York Harbor]] and took over the colony. Th... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...ite irregular because they usually follow the boundaries of states, countries or other administrative ...
4: [[image:Timezones.png|thumb|400px|Standard Time Zones of the World by the CIA]]
6: ...ve. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time...
8: ... the remainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British...
12: *[[Toronto, Ontario|Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]: UTC − 5 (e.g. if it is 11:00 UTC, then i... - Mississippi (15114 bytes)
16: LandArea = 121,606 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 10]], [[1817]] |
25: ...Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] |
40: ...ssippi River]], which flows along the western boundary. The name itself probably comes from [[Native A...
52: ... killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars). - Barbecue (24807 bytes)
53: Alabama is also home to Big Bob Gibson's BBQ in [[Decatur, Alabama|Decatur]]. The peopl...
55: ====Florida====
56: Both pork and seafood are barbecued in Florida, with butter and lemon or lime juice as the base ...
63: ...in Athens, Paul's in Lexington, and Zeb Dean's in Danielsville.
76: ...ur Bryant's]], Gates, Rosedale, BB's Lawnside, Zarda, and many others. There is usually a restaurant e... - 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. - 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... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
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.
32: ...lub first by [[Larry MacPhail]] and then the legendary [[Branch Rickey]], the Dodgers won pennants in ... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
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 [[...
62: ...four days after Buck's passing when ace pitcher [[Darryl Kile]] died suddenly of heart failure while i...
69: ...ch of the last half of the 20th century, the legendary broadcaster, [[Jack Buck]], was the voice of th... - 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) - 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. - Sam Houston (6990 bytes)
3: '''Samuel Houston''' ([[March 2]], [[1793]] – [[July 26]], [[1863]]) was a key figure in the...
9: ...Wigwam Neosho'' near [[Fort Gibson, Oklahoma|Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation]]), apparently drinking heavily ...
14: ...dly beaten. Santa Anna was captured the following day. Houston briefly remained for negotiations befor...
22: ...4]], [[1859]]. He was considered a potential candidate for president. But, despite the fact that he wa...
31: ...overnor of Tennessee|William Hall]] | years=1827–1829}} - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
2: ...:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|'''Jefferson Davis''']]
3: '''Jefferson Davis''' ([[June 3]], [[1808]]–[[December 6]], [[1889]]) was an [[United State...
6: ... under [[Andrew Jackson]] and receiving his commendation for bravery in the [[Battle of New Orleans]].
8: During Davis's youth, his family moved several times, in [[...
10: ...[[Lexington, Kentucky]] in [[1821]]. In [[1824]], Davis entered the [[United States Military Academy]]... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
7: ...wintered at [[Fort Mandan]]. The [[Shoshone]]/[[Hidatsa]] [[Native American|native]] woman [[Sacagawea...
34: *Captain [[Meriwether Lewis]] (1774 – 1809)
35: *Captain [[William Clark]] (1770 – 1838)
36: **York (ca. 1770 – ?) Clark's manservant
37: *Sergeant [[Charles Floyd]] (1782 – 1804) - 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]].
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