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- Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
6: ... of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for workers' ...
8: ...She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordinance.
10: ...next night, 50 leaders of the negro community, headed by a relatively unknown minister ([[Martin Luthe...
14: ...1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
16: ==Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ...ings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...more talent than her brothers, who worked along side her. She learned drawing, how to mix color and ho...
9: ...anna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the rea... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ther, n饠Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged ...
7: ...tten by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was p...
9: ... film era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retir...
11: ...s driving and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped.
13: ...March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and were famous for enter... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...' blasted into orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the f...
5: ...ysician]], teacher and [[astronaut]], she has a wide range of experience in technology, engineering, a...
9: ...ldren, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicago, Illinois...
11: ...B. in African and Afro-American Studies. She attended [[Weill Cornell Medical College|Cornell Medical ...
13: ... Share, (TM) an international science camp for students ages 12 to 16, that utilizes an experiential c... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...[Michigan]] declared her voice to be a natural wonder. She has won 16 competitive [[Grammys]] (includi...
6: ...s [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. She signed w...
8: ... internationally famous artist and a symbol of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin ...
10: ... Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it to number one in the UK pop charts - the best ...
12: ...or Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the [[19... - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
3: ...nis]] player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, she defected to the [[United States]] in [[1975]] and be...
11: ...utine to get herself into shape that eventually made extreme levels of fitness and conditioning a hall...
13: ... York City]] and informed them that she wished to defect. Within a month, she received a [[Green Card]...
15: ...She beat Evert in the final again to successfully defend her Wimbledon title in [[1979]].
17: ...tilová won her third Grand Slam singles title by defeating Evert in the final of the Australian Open,... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
14: is made to vibrate more easily by air from above, reeds a...
16: ...) also include a spring-loaded button-actuated slide that, when
17: depressed, further redirects air blown or drawn thr...
24: The harmonica consists of a "comb" made of wood, plastic or metal which
26: ...omatic harmonicas also have a button-activated slide. - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ... level of local autonomy under the [[federation|federal]] system.
12: ...deral level]];<br> [[English language|English]] [[de facto]] |
14: government_type = [[Democratic]] [[Federal republic]] |
15: ...r>[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] |
16: leader_names = [[Joe Biden]]<br>[[Kamala Harris]] | - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
4: ...the ''[[Roaring Twenties]]'' as the fan base expanded significantly and triggered major expansion of n...
7: ...ed above the saloon they owned and operated on Camden Street. Kate would walk to her father's home eac...
9: ...ry recalled how their father would beat Babe in a desperate attempt to bring the boy into line, but to...
12: ... every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe started mocking his own pitcher. Brother M...
15: ...ot in such good shape. In 1914 the breakaway [[Federal League]], a rebel major league which would las... - Florida (24937 bytes)
8: Nickname = Sunshine State, Everglade State |
21: DensityRank = 8<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 114.43 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 27<sup>th</sup> |
26: Latitude = 24?30'N to 31?N | - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ... [[Meridian (geography)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? thus making neighbori...
6: ...'s atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly c...
8: ...00 UTC on the last Sunday in March. For the remainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in...
13: *[[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]: UTC + 1 (e.g. if it is 12:00 UTC, then it is ...
18: ...ment for time zones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the locati... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ... and [[businessman]] who developed many important devices. "The Wizard of [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Men...
5: ... Nevertheless, Edison received [[patent]]s worldwide, including the [[United States]], [[United Kingdo...
10: ...ing near Vienna, Ontario. Among them was Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr., a shingle maker, tailor, and tavern...
12: ...MacKenzie Rebellion]] that sought Canadian independence. The revolt failed and, like his grandfather,...
14: From [[Port Huron]], Sam Edison moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Mil... - Great Depression (16069 bytes)
1: ... global [[economics|economic]] [[recession]] (or "depression") that ran from [[1929]] to [[1941]]. It...
4: ...sion" was that it is by far the largest sustained decline in industrial production and productivity fr...
5: ... to the cultural period, often called simply "The Depression", and to the political response to the ec...
7: ...b|[[Dorothea Lange]]'s ''Migrant Mother'' depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on [[...
9: ==Causes of the Great Depression== - Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
3: ...'s "Migrant Mother," an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States]]
7: *[[1931]] - [[Japan]] invades [[Manchuria]]
15: ...33]] - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] becomes President
26: *[[1933]] - [[Montevideo Conference]]
32: *[[1934]] - [[Federal Housing Administration]] - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
13: *[[1953]] - [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] becomes President
27: *[[1955]] - [[American Federation of Labor|AFL]] and [[Congress of Industrial...
29: *[[1955]] - [[Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine]]
32: *[[1956]] - US installs Diem as leader of [[South Vietnam]]
37: *[[1957]] - [[Little Rock, Arkansas]] school desegregation - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ... horrendous casualties, as high as twenty million dead.
11: ...e Minster [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet ...
13: ...des that they could stay there and that neither side would use force to push the other out. This tacit...
15: ...e to vie for the allegiance of the developing and developed world in the postwar years.
17: ...f-interest. [[World War II]] resulted in enormous destruction of infrastructure and populations throug... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
21: DensityRank = 15<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 67.55 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 26<sup>th</sup> |
25: ...-4]] <br><small>(Some Upper Peninsula counties bordering Wisconsin are Central time.)</small> | - 2006 (7939 bytes)
5: | align="center" colspan=2 | <small>'''[[Decades]]:'''</small> <br> [[1970s]] [[1980s]] [[1990s]...
11: ...nday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It has been designated:
12: * The ''International Year of [[Deserts]] and [[Desertification]]''
14: ...Austrian composer ''Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart''.
19: ...[[January 1]] - Deadline by which the small remainder of non-metric road distance signs in the [[Repub... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: '''Pieter Brueghel the Elder''' or '''Bruegel''' (c.[[1525]] – [[Septem...
7: ...r Brueghel the Younger]] and [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] who both became painters, but as they were sti...
9: ...e. The most obvious influence on his art is the older Dutch master [[Hieronymus Bosch]]. He is nicknam...
11: ...is winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of winters during the [[Little...
16: ... elder-children playing-detail.jpeg|thumb|250px|A detail of ''Children Playing'']] - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...ed through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series ha...
7: ... it - is used to fund a Players' Pool, from which descending shares are distributed to the World Serie...
9: ...or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded.
11: ...ed sponsorship. (For details, see [http://roadsidephotos.com/baseball/name.htm Mr. Pappas's web page...
13: ... of money spent by the MLB for its current worldwide marketing.
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