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  1. Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
    3: ...' are a [[Major League Baseball]] team based in [[Oakland, California]]. They are in the Western Division o...
    5: ...d to [[Kansas City, Missouri]] in [[1955]] and to Oakland in [[1968]].
    7: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[McAfee Coliseum]], Oakland
    18: ...r Philadelphia's team dated back to the "amateur" days of the national game, in the 1860s. After [[Jo...
    20: ...1, 1902, the [[Pennsylvania Supreme Court]] invalidated Nap Lajoie's contract with the Athletics, and ...

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  1. Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
    8: ... later joined her sister Muriel in [[Toronto, Canada]] where she worked as a nurse's aide in a militar...
    14: ...onor]] from the French Government, and the Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from Pres...
    16: ...ross the [[Pacific Ocean]] from [[Honolulu]] to [[Oakland, California]]. Later that year she soloed from [[...
    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...
  2. Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
    9: ...rst professional singles title in [[Orlando, Florida]] in [[1974]].
    33: ...t title came on August 21, [[2005]], at the [[Canada Masters|Rogers Cup]] in [[Toronto]], where she wo...
    63: 1983 Australian Open Kathy Jordan 6-2, 7-6
    164: ...mbledon''', Avon Championships, Oakland, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Richmond, Atlanta, Phoenix, Brighto...
    167: ...hips, Kansas City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Dallas, Amelia Island, Orlando, Montreal, Richmond, ...
  3. Arizona (24367 bytes)
    20: LandArea = 294,312 |
    28: AdmittanceDate = [[February 14]], [[1912]] |
    29: ... [[UTC]]-7<br /><small>(Arizona doesn't observe [[Daylight saving time|DST]] except in the [[Navajo Na...
    67: Dance = Unknown |
    82: ...iver]], bordering [[New Mexico]], [[Utah]], [[Nevada]], [[California]] and [[Mexico]], and touching [[...
  4. California (63989 bytes)
    16: TradAbbreviation = Calif. |
    19: LandArea = 404,298 |
    31: AdmittanceDate = [[September 9]], [[1850]] |
    32: ...Pacific]]: [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]-8/[[Daylight saving time|-7]] |
    63: ... = [[West Coast Swing]]; folk - [[Square dance]] |
  5. Indiana (20194 bytes)
    12: Governor = [[Mitch Daniels]] |
    18: LandArea = 92,897 |
    26: AdmittanceDate = [[December 11]], [[1816]] |
    27: ...Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] <small>(extreme northwest ...
    47: ...0]]CE up to the conventional end of Mississippian dating ("contact with [[European]]s"). The specific...
  6. Timeline of United States history (1990-present) (6005 bytes)
    7: *[[1991]] - [[Oakland Hills firestorm]] kills 25 and destroys 3469 home...
    8: ...s]] kill 50-60 people and cause nearly $1 billion damage
    10: ...uses $26.5 billion in damage as it strikes [[Florida]] and later [[Louisiana]]
    14: *[[1993]] - [[Branch Davidians]] standoff and fire in [[Waco, Texas]]
    30: ...]; [[George W. Bush]] wins by 537 votes in [[Florida]] in contested election.
  7. Michigan (29427 bytes)
    16: LandArea = 147,255 |
    24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 26]], [[1837]] |
    25: TimeZone = Eastern: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] <br><small>(Some Upper Pen...
    42: ... recognition of the state languished due to a boundary dispute with Ohio, with both sides claiming a 4...
    79: ... to prospector [[Philo Everett]] near the present-day city of [[Negaunee, Michigan|Negaunee]].
  8. History of California (38344 bytes)
    1: {{dablink|This article covers the History of Californi...
    3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied for mi...
    11: ...re among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciatio...
    13: ...s. Tribes in the [[Sierra Nevada (US)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] tre...
    36: ...irst European to explore the coast of the present day State of California was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo...
  9. Earthquake (13859 bytes)
    1: ...ere]] is divided. Events that occur at plate boundaries are called [[interplate earthquake]]s; the le...
    4: ..., but the majority of them are minor and cause no damage(those less than 5 on ritcher scale).
    5: ...king is the dominant and most widespread cause of damage.
    7: | [[Image:SanFranHouses06.JPG|thumb|200px|none|Damage from the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]].]]
    11: ...ccur either before or after the principal quake &mdash; these are known as [[foreshock]]s or [[aftersh...
  10. 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...
    92: ...[San Francisco Giants|New York NL (1)]] defeats [[Oakland Athletics|Philadelphia AL]], 4 games to 1.
  11. 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...
  12. Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
    31: ...[[1920]], the [[Black Sox Scandal|"Black Sox" scandal]] put an asterisk by the Reds first championship...
    39: ...major league game -- a record that still stands today. Ewell "The Whip" Blackwell was the main pitchi...
    41: ...he NL record. By 1961, Robinson was joined by [[Vada Pinson]], [[Wally Post]], [[Gordy Coleman]] and [...
    45: ...g five-game playoff series; the Reds played the [[Oakland Athletics]] in the World Series. Six of the seven...
    53: [[Image:Eric_davis.jpg|thumb|225px|Eric Davis in 1990]]
  13. Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
    3: ...' are a [[Major League Baseball]] team based in [[Oakland, California]]. They are in the Western Division o...
    5: ...d to [[Kansas City, Missouri]] in [[1955]] and to Oakland in [[1968]].
    7: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[McAfee Coliseum]], Oakland
    18: ...r Philadelphia's team dated back to the "amateur" days of the national game, in the 1860s. After [[Jo...
    20: ...1, 1902, the [[Pennsylvania Supreme Court]] invalidated Nap Lajoie's contract with the Athletics, and ...
  14. Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
    17: In its early days, the club benefitted three times from mergers w...
    23: ...ve only one winning season until [[1958]], when [[Danny Murtaugh]] took over as manager. Murtaugh is w...
    27: ...ctims of an earthquake in [[Nicaragua]], and is today regarded as the most prominent figure in Pirates...
    29: ...ous and unpopular [[Dave Parker (baseball player)|Dave Parker]] became the cornerstones of the Pirates...
    33: ...ports|1999]]. (Interestingly, video footage of Kendall's leg breaking from under him has been circulat...
  15. St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
    17: ...], [[1967]], [[1982]]. The Cardinals (with the [[Oakland Athletics]]) are second only to the [[New York Ya...
    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...
  16. Texas Rangers (baseball) (14993 bytes)
    4: ... based in [[Arlington, Texas]], a suburb in the [[Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex]]. They are in the West...
    30: ...nsas City Athletics]], sought to move his team to Dallas, but the idea was rebuffed by the other AL te...
    32: ... for the [[minor league baseball|minor-league]] [[Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs]]. The stadium, later renam...
    34: ...] the game after angry fans stormed the field and damaged much of the stadium and playing surface.
    38: ... Angels of Anaheim|California Angels]]. The next day, the Rangers defeated the Angels 5-1 for the tea...
  17. 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: ... system was held by [[Liverpool United]] in [[Kirkdale]]. This was the first cable car system in Europ...
    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.]]
  18. San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
    22: timezone = [[Pacific Standard Time Zone|PST]] |
    24: timezone_DST = [[Pacific Daylight Time|PDT]] |
    31: ...ates]], in terms of population. It is a [[consolidated city-county]] (the only one in California) sit...
    33: ... whose population is over 7 million. U.S. census data show that San Francisco has the highest populat...
    51: ...ervice the growing population are still present today, notably [[Levi Strauss & Co.]] clothing, [[Ghir...
  19. National Football League (30340 bytes)
    8: ...ular season has begun on the Thursday after Labor Day.
    18: ...owns]]</td><td>[[Jacksonville Jaguars]]</td><td>[[Oakland Raiders]]</td></tr>
    24: <tr><td>[[Dallas Cowboys]]</td><td>[[Chicago Bears]]</td><td>[...
    31: ...etroit Lions each play a game on [[Thanksgiving]] day.
    73: ...isting of seven rounds) that takes place over two days in April, in which all NFL teams participate. T...
  20. Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
    4: ...ved in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]]. Upon returning to Australia, he attended [[St ...
    6: ...monoplane. The flight was in three stages, from [[Oakland, California]] to [[Hawaii]], then to [[Suva]], [[...

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