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- David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
1: [[image:david_livingstone.jpg|thumb|right|David Livingstone]]
3: '''David Livingstone''' ([[March 19]], [[1813]] – [[May 1]], [[1873]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish...
6: ...the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter he later married, and joined the [[London M...
8: ...f the Moffats – although she was pregnant – but returned to [[England]] with their childre...
11: ...orial at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.jpg|thumb|right|David Livingstone memorial at [[Victoria Falls]]]] - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...cult to define. This article describes the modern dating methods used to arrive at the age of the Eart...
4: ...s Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today continue to defend [[young earth creationism]] (...
23: ...he physicist [[Lord Kelvin|William Thomson]] of [[Glasgow]] published calculations that fixed the age of th...
25: ... seemed much too short to be plausible. [[Charles Darwin]], who had studied Lyell's work, had proposed...
27: In a lecture in [[1869]], Darwin's great advocate, [[Thomas Huxley|Thomas H. H... - Malawi (22306 bytes)
9: national_anthem = [[Mlungu dalitsani Malawi]] (Oh God Bless Our Land of Malawi)...
34: established_events = - Date |
35: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[July...
49: ...today in the [[Horn of Africa]]. At another site, dated 1500 BC, the remains possess features resembli...
51: .... In [[1878]], a number of traders, mostly from [[Glasgow]], formed the [[African Lakes Company]] to supply... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
37: established_dates = 1801<sup>5</sup>|
47: *[[Welsh language|Welsh]]: ''Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon''
54: ...ions of [[England]], [[Wales]] and [[Scotland]] — are located on the island of [[Great Britain]]...
58: ...ted Kingdom, forming [[Northern Ireland]] to this day.
62: ...Ireland). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotl... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
3: '''James Watt''' ([[January 19]], [[1736]]–[[August 19]], [[1819]]) was a [[Scotland|Scott...
9: ...rument making in [[London]] before returning to [[Glasgow]]
11: * [[1765]]: While wandering through the [[Glasgow Green]]'s ''"Golf Course"'', comes upon the idea ...
18: * [[1788]]: Adapted [[centrifugal governor]] for use on steam eng... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
16: LandArea = 5,068 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 7]], [[1787]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
40: ... post at "Zwaanendael" (or "Swaanendael," present-day Lewes (pronounced "Lewis")) in [[1631]]. The are...
44: ...s [[The Twelve-Mile Circle]]. The north-south boundary between Delaware and Maryland is known as the [... - Kentucky (15076 bytes)
16: LandArea = 102,989 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 1]], [[1792]] |
25: ...Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|DST]]-5 (western) |
41: ...se of Constitution Square in [[Danville, Kentucky|Danville]] between [[1784]] and [[1792]]. In [[1790...
43: ...America|Confederate]] forces under General [[Leonidas Polk]] invaded. - Virginia (23198 bytes)
16: LandArea = 102,642 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 25]], [[1788]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
48: ...e [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] dated [[July 9]], [[1846]], the area south of the P...
59: ... oldest legislature in the Western Hemisphere. Today, the '''General Assembly''' is made up of the ''... - Montana (14119 bytes)
18: LandArea = 377,295 |
26: AdmittanceDate = [[November 8]], [[1889]] |
27: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|DST]]-6 |
40: ...ginally inhabited by [[Native American]]s, modern-day Montana became [[Montana Territory]] in [[1864]]...
47: ...] border, and on the west and southwest is the [[Idaho]] border. - List of themed timelines (11300 bytes)
119: * Canada
233: * [[Timeline of Glasgow history]]
237: * [[Timeline of Governmental Accounting Standards - US]]
243: * [[2001 anthrax attack/Florida timeline]]
245: * [[Timeline of the Enron scandal]] - Plant (12870 bytes)
21: ** †[[Pteridospermatophyta]] - seed ferns
42: ...fferent land environments. They have a number of adaptations that allowed them to overcome the limitat...
45: ...ve seed plants, Pteridosperms (seed ferns) and Cordaites, both groups now extinct, appeared in the lat...
47: ...e the predominant group of flora in most biomes today.
52: ...llectively referred to as the green plants or Viridaeplantae. The kingdom Plantae is now usually taken... - 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]]. - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
11: ...ay, if the grip is not applied properly, it might damage the cable, or even worse, become entangled in...
23: ... be fed (typically ~30 lbs. (~14 kg) of feed each day), housed, groomed, medicated and rested. Thus fo...
29: ...e, though, among which was the [[Glasgow Subway | Glasgow District Subway]], the first underground cable ca...
38: ...is line was rebuilt in [[1979]], and is now a standard funicular, although confusingly it retains its ...
47: ...b|300px|Cable tram dummy and trailer on the St Kilda Line in [[Melbourne]] in 1905.]] - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
23: ...0 miles) along the [[Forth and Clyde Canal]] to [[Glasgow]]. This vessel, the first tow boat, has been call...
25: ... and was aware of the success of the Charlotte Dundas. Before returning to the [[United States of Amer...
27: ...teamboat service on the [[River Clyde]] between [[Glasgow]] and [[Greenock]]. This was the first commercial...
30: ...amboats, very few of which survive to the present day, most destroyed by boiler explosions or fires. ...
37: ...at still grace the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] lakes. Today the [[1900]] steamer [[SS Sir Walter Scott]] sti... - Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
29: ...px; border-bottom:3px solid gray;" |[[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5
46: ...up the [[James River (Virginia)|James River]] ten days after landing at [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestow...
48: ...o the family of Confederate President [[Jefferson Davis]]. In April of [[1865]], Richmond was burned b...
50: ...[[1910]], Manchester agreed to a political consolidation with the much larger independent city of Rich...
84: ...hmond, Virginia)|West End]] and [[Church Hill]] – site of Patrick Henery's famous speech. - Kelvin (3722 bytes)
20: ...h runs through the grounds of the [[University of Glasgow]].
28: ...gacy code for a kelvin symbol (K) to accommodate some old [[code page]]s in certain Oriental lan... - Irish Terrier (2201 bytes)
25: |[http://www.dogdomain.com/FCI/fcistandards/fci-139.htm Stds]
55: ...and the breed was displayed for the first time in Glasgow in [[1920]]. - Culture of Scotland (11420 bytes)
9: ...ere is a movement to restore udal law[http://www.udallaw.com/] to the islands as part of a devolution ...
17: ...ntage of its population educated at primary, secondary and tertiary levels than any other country in [...
19: ...ents in England sit [[General Certificate of Secondary Education|GCSE]] exams, and then [[Higher Grade...
23: ...], the [[Royal Bank of Scotland]] and the [[Clydesdale Bank]]). These notes have no status as [[legal ...
43: ...ald'' and ''The Scotsman'' respectively. Regional dailies include ''[[The Courier and Advertiser]]'' i... - Spinning mule (12067 bytes)
22: ...ights to [[David Dale]] and returned to weaving. Dale patented the mule and profited from it.
30: *Kelly of Glasgow - a method of using power to assist the draw stro...
42: ...y the speed of revolution of the spindle, in accordance with the diameter of thread on that spindle
60: ...dle-driving motion is put into gear, and the attendants wind upon each
81: Doffing is performed by the attendants raising the cops partially up the spindles, wh... - Aspirin (9960 bytes)
31: ...d member of the class of drugs known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ([[NSAID]]s), not all of...
34: ...Assyria]]. Native American Indians used it for headaches, fever, sore muscles, rheumatism, and chills....
40: ...ciences at the University of [[Strathclyde]] in [[Glasgow]] re-examined the case and came to the conclusion...
42: ...irin and similar drugs called [[NSAID]]s was elucidated (see below).
48: ...al court in 1921. Other countries (such as [[Canada]]) still consider "Aspirin" a protected trademar...
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