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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
6: ..._classis_entry | taxon = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_subclassis_entry | taxon = [[Rosidae]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Sapindales]]}}
18: ...producer of the fruit, with plantations in [[Florida]] and [[Texas]]. In Spanish the fruit is known as...
24: ...um|bacteria]] and [[fungi]]. It also has [[antioxidant]] properties. - 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... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: '''Maria Theresa''' ([[May 13]], [[1717]] – [[November 29]], [[1780]]) was a [[Habsburg]] ...
6: ...of 1713|Pragmatic Sanction]] which guaranteed his daughter the right to succeed to the Austrian throne...
8: ...g Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him, with 6 daughters (all of whom were named "Marie _______") a...
39: ...rding serfs. In [[1771]], she issued the [[Robot Patent]], a reform that regulated the serf's labor payme... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...łodowska-Curie''', [[November 7]] [[1867]] – [[July 4]] [[1934]]) was a [[Polish]] chemist ...
13: ...In an unusual move, Curie intentionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, instead leaving i...
17: ...Langevin's grandson Michel later married her granddaughter H鬨ne Langevin-Joliot.
19: ...d in her and her husband's [[gold]] Nobel Prize Medals for the war effort.
27: ... the year after Marie Curie's death. Her youngest daughter, [[Eve Curie]], wrote a biography on Curie ... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...she was born the day before Christmas, the 24th)–[[April 12]], [[1912]]) was a pioneer American ...
6: Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day 1821 to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Ma...
14: ...n the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learne...
17: ...h all I had, even with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted [[Mason]], he bade me seek a...
21: ... War]] began, Barton resigned her position in the Patent Office to devote herself to the care of wounded s... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...y|surgeon]] and the only woman to receive the [[Medal of Honor]].
6: ...nd Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which included such binding clothing as [[corse...
10: ...un]] (Manassas), [[July 21]], [[1861]] and at the Patent Office Hospital in [[Washington, D.C.]] She also...
12: ...drew Johnson]] signed a bill to present her the medal, specifically for her services at the First Batt...
14: Sections from the citation accompanying the medal read: - Seal (device) (5951 bytes)
6: ... Most governments still attach seals to [[letters patent]]. While many instruments required seals for val...
10: The most common uses of the seal today are:
29: Although a utilitarian instrument of daily business in East Asia, Westerners and other no... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
10: ...pean flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[damask]], list, [[haircloth]], and [[ingrain]] (aka ...
21: ...chenille]] technique. His carpets were called '''Patent Axminster''' in reference to the more expensive, ...
39: ...ld is called the "Pazyryk Carpet,". It is usually dated to the 5th century BC. It was excavated by [[S...
51: ...called [[Synagogue carpet]], is a unique survival dated to the 14th century. The earliest group of His...
57: ...nspired designs. Neoclassical designer [[Robert Adam]] supplied designs for both Moorfields and Axmin... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
7: ...as first officially revealed to the public in the patent of [[1846]] (which was granted to him on [[May 17...
11: ...n terms of Sax's patent. For the duration of the patent (1846-1866) no one except the Sax factory Paris c...
20: The majority of saxophones produced today are made from [[brass]]. Manufacturers usually a...
25: ... tip opening and a rather large chamber, giving a darker, more stable sound. Many classical players p...
28: ...ctrum). Unfortunately, this scale is far from standardized, and a Rico 3 is decidedly softer than a Va... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
20: ...r organs. People used their knowledge and the standard of the contemporary technology to produce reeds...
28: ...were much smaller than modern variants. His first patent had chords sounding for each note. The instrument...
29: ...s belonged to some parts or different styles. New patents continue to be granted for accordion-related inn...
31: ...[[1854]] by [[Anthony Faas]]. It is not in use today.
39: ...ix rows: the second row buttons are called the Fundamental Bass and are ordered in quints, the first r... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
19: | '''Date of birth:''' || [[February 12]], [[1809]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]]
42: ... '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President of the United States]], a...
44: ... U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries. These events soon led to the [[American Civi... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
25: | [[Serrekunda]]
36: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date
40: | [[Dalasi]] (D)
59: ...sh merchants; this grant was confirmed by letters patent from [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. In [[1618]], [[King J...
61: ...a, but the French retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on the north bank of the river, which was ceded t... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
18: ...hether the cotton gin, which Whitney received a [[patent]] for on [[March 14]], [[1794]], and its constitu...
26: ... Ford]] and others in [[manufacturing]]. He never patented his later inventions, one of which was a [[mill... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
3: '''James Watt''' ([[January 19]], [[1736]]–[[August 19]], [[1819]]) was a [[Scotland|Scott...
13: * [[1769]]: [[Patent]]ed separate condensing chamber for steam engine.
17: * [[1784]]: Patented a [[steam locomotive]].
18: * [[1788]]: Adapted [[centrifugal governor]] for use on steam eng...
26: ...engines that did not fall foul of his 'catch-all' patents. Boulton proved an excellent businessman, and bo... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
16: LandArea = 12,559 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 9]], [[1788]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
43: ...tion, the "[[Fundamental Orders of Connecticut|Fundamental Orders]]", was adopted on [[January 14]], [...
52: ...n Hartford and New Haven, which stems back to the days when the two cities shared the state's capital,... - Maine (17312 bytes)
11: Governor = [[John Baldacci]] |
16: LandArea = 80,005 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 15]], [[1820]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
36: ...h moderately warm summers but very few actual hot days. - 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]] - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
6: ...old about the invention of the device is that his daughter, Jenny, knocked over one of their own spinn...
14: Eventually, Hargreaves applied for a patent on the jenny in July 1770. By this time a number ... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ... separatist [[Puritan]] sect, who obtained a land patent from the [[London Virginia Company]] in [[1620]] ...
7: ...ious other terms until his death in [[1657]]. The patent of Plymouth Colony was surrendered by Bradford to... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
1: ...n-IcarusandDaedalus.jpg|right|thumb|Icarus and Daedalus]]
3: ...Daedalus]] and [[Icarus (mythology)|Icarus]]. Daedalus was trapped on the island of Minos, and so bui...
5: ...airplanes were made of [[canvas]] and [[wood]]. Today airplanes are made of [[aluminium]], and increas...
9: ...mage:Ornithopter_leonardo1.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter body ]]
11: ...mage:Ornithopter_leonardo2.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter wings ]]
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