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- Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
54: ...means value, in the sense of overall lightness or darkness of a painting, Stein using a high proportio...
58: ...ere gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday," of which he contends that the, "effect would b...
60: ...te in long hand, typically about half an hour per day. Alice B. Toklas would collect the pages, type t...
61: Today, most manuscripts are kept in the [[Beinecke Lib...
63: ...ul of mundane tasks and Alice Toklas managed everyday affairs. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
9: ...]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended her FLOW-MATIC lang...
14: ...n over in the 1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
18: ...oodwill ambassador, lecturing widely on the early days of computers, her career, and on efforts that c...
25: ...sociation of Information Technology Professionals|Data Processing Management Association]].
26: * [[1971]] — The annual "Grace Murray Hopper Award for Outs... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
17: ...e cross along with her sister Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other wom...
19: ...ople in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day of [[Pentecost]], she is one of the handful who ...
25: ...French, Spanish, and Italian, is rendered ''Notre Dame'', ''Nuestra Señora'', and ''Madonna'' r...
27: ...ome Orthodox and Catholic Christians, she was the daughter of [[Joachim]] and [[Saint Anne|Anna]]. Bef...
41: ...too much attention is focused on Mary, there is a danger of detracting from the worship due to God alo... - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
24: *''[[The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys]]'' (2002) (also produ...
49: *''[[Freaky Friday]]'' (1976) - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ...sion]] and who, from the [[1980s]] to the present day, has been regarded as one of the best in her fie...
5: ...r Best Actress and 3 for Best Supporting Actress—making her the most-nominated actor of all time...
7: ...e days when even I think I'm overrated, but not today."
9: ...''— her first and only action film to date—and her noted comic turn in ''[[She-Devil]]''.
11: ...d not maintain her reputation as an acting great—appearing in ''[[Marvin's Room]]'', and complet... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
15: ...otal of 12 years. In [[1980]] the Clintons' only daughter, [[Chelsea Clinton|Chelsea]], was born.
20: ...st Lady, she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates f...
29: ==Whitewater scandal==
31: ...ome a critical factor during the [[Whitewater scandal]], while her husband was President. While in Ar...
45: ...nd jury on January 26, 1996 in the Whitewater scandal proceedings, initiated primarily by independent ... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
3: ...eneral Assembly determines admission upon recommendation of the Security Council. The organization's h...
24: ..., [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United States]] — and by a majority of the other 46 signatories.
33: ...of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction".
35: ...d the UN Disarmament Commission. Items on the agenda include consideration of the possible merits of a...
55: ...ept and both the UN Service Medal, and the NATO Medal, are considered [[international decoration]]s in... - 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]] (...
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...
31: ... friction]] to give the Earth its current 24-hour day, and concluded that Thomson was on the right tra... - 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 ... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
18: There exists question today over whether the cotton gin, which Whitney recei... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...eorge Herman Ruth''', ([[February 6]], [[1895]] – [[August 16]], [[1948]]), better known as '''B...
6: ==Early days==
12: ...sition because he was involved in every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe started m...
14: ...s club, and took him to spring training in [[Florida]], where a strong performance with bat and ball s...
15: ...ue Orioles, and the competition hit Orioles' attendance significantly. To make ends meet, Dunn was ob... - 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,... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politici...
6: *[[Genrikh Yagoda|Yagoda, Genrikh Grigor'evich]] (1891-1938)
42: *[[Yasunori Mitsuda|Yasunori, Mitsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video ga...
73: ...Stephen Yenser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
121: *[[Paramahansa Yogananda|Yogananda, Paramahansa]], ([[1893]]-[[1952]]) - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
7: ...obox_authority | author = [[Richard Owen|Owen]] | date = [[1842]]}}
12: [[Theropoda]]<br/>
20: ...the link between dinosaurs and their living descendants, the 9,000+ [[species]] of modern [[bird]]s [h...
27: ...out of fear or trepidation at their size and formidable arsenal. - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
6: ... The colonies of [[East Florida]] and [[West Florida]] also remained loyal during the American Revolut...
29: ...om 1777 until it became the 14th state in 1791. Today it is considered part of [[New England]].
35: * [[Nova Scotia]] (including present day [[New Brunswick]])
37: ...ly ''άe Saint-Jean'' or [[St. John's Island (Canada)|St. John's Island]]
38: * [[Quebec]] (including present day [[Ontario]]) - American football (39287 bytes)
7: Outside of the United States and Canada, the sport is referred to as 'American football' ...
11: ...ised in over 150 other countries. ''Super Bowl Sunday'' has become an annual ritual in late January or...
27: ...ague]] - men's professional league based in [[Canada]], played using a modified set of rules known as ...
30: * [[Arena football]] - an indoor adaptation of professional football, played at a fast...
40: ... League of American Football]] (WLAF, 1991-1993 — now [[NFL Europe]]), and, the [[American Footb... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...Viscount St Albans''' ([[January 22]], [[1561]] – [[April 9]], [[1626]]) was an [[England|Englis...
8: ...mber of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married ...
25: ...]ship fell vacant in 1594 and Bacon became a candidate for the office, Lord Essex's influence could no...
31: ...ment session Bacon married [[Alice Barnham]], the daughter of a London merchant. Little or nothing is ...
37: ...re (which was that he should be released in a few days), and to be incapable of holding office or sitt... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
10: |Date||[[1861]]–[[1865]]
22: ...'[[Flag of the United States|USA flag]] [[1861]]–[[1863]]. 34 stars, after the admission of [[Ka...
24: ''[[1863]]–[[1864]]. 35 stars, after the admission of [[W...
26: ...;[[1865]]. 36 stars, after the admission of [[Nevada]].''<br />
37: |[[Jefferson Davis]] - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
4: ... and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimi...
12: Today, in most western societies, it is taken for gran...
14: ... peace and the right to a clean environment as fundamental human rights.
26: ...s, but those laws that attempt to restrict a [[fundamental right]] may be unconstitutional. If the law...
54: ...t that a state should always provide the basic fundamentals of [[physical existence]], whereas Nozick ... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
6: ====1860–1865====
12: ...federacy) established under President [[Jefferson Davis]]
28: *[[1864]] - [[Wade Davis Bill]]
31: *[[1864]] - [[Nevada]] becomes a state
38: ====1866–1869====
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