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- Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
1: ...rds walker.jpg|190px|right|thumb|Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, ca 1870. She often wore mens clothes and was arr...
2: Dr. '''Mary Edwards Walker''' ([[November]], [[1832]] – [[February 21]...
6: ... she believed the fashions of the day, which included such binding clothing as [[corsets]], were not h...
8: ...[[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practic...
10: ... [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. Finally, she was awarded a commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant Sur...
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval ...
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] na...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Herbert Walker Bush
4: | order=41st President
7: | preceded=[[Ronald Reagan]]
8: | succeeded=[[Bill Clinton]]
11: | dead=alive - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: '''Margaret Chase Smith''' ([[December 14]], [[1897]] – [[May 29]], [[1995]]...
5: ...that investigated problems encountered by the War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the ...
7: ...thaway only served one term in the Senate; he was defeated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|Bill ...
9: ...edal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...ully intervened in Senate elections defeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when he attempted to challen... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: ...studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural a...
11: ... me too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me if you dare! Ah'll wash ...
13: ...ng a caricature of Black culture and thus was not deserving of respect. Recently, however, critics ha...
17: ...rk was groundbreaking: She was among the first academics to study [[Voodoo]], even travelling to [[Hai... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
5: dead=dead |
8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ... values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase...
14: ... values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
1: ...rds walker.jpg|190px|right|thumb|Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, ca 1870. She often wore mens clothes and was arr...
2: Dr. '''Mary Edwards Walker''' ([[November]], [[1832]] – [[February 21]...
6: ... she believed the fashions of the day, which included such binding clothing as [[corsets]], were not h...
8: ...[[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practic...
10: ... [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. Finally, she was awarded a commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant Sur... - 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,... - Banjo (6143 bytes)
4: ... [[Africa|African]] "akonting". Some etymologists derive it from a dialectal pronunciation of "bandore...
6: The modern banjo comes in a variety of different forms, in...
8: ...-string banjo, the fifth peg is normally on the side of the neck, although some English versions mount...
10: ... banjos are the '''resonator banjo''' which has a detachable chamber, or resonator, on the back of the...
12: ... with the modern open-backed drum-like pot, and added a base string to give the instrument more range.... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ...al_us_presdent.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ...he United States|federal government]] and [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States armed forces|a...
5: ...he President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invok...
7: ...lated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] of government.
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
3: ... Independence|United States Declaration of Independence]]]]
5: ...to sign the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. According to legend, he signed his name lar...
8: ...ended [[Harvard College]] and received a business degree in [[1754]], when he was 17. Upon graduation,...
10: ...ously, the same. With his generosity, he was regarded as a man of integrity and honor.
13: ... [[Massachusetts General Court]], his colonial trade business naturally disposed him to resist the [[S... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Monroe
4: | order=5th President
7: | preceded=[[James Madison]]
8: | succeeded=[[John Quincy Adams]]
11: | dead=dead - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
1: <table border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><t...
2: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
4: ...t:center">[[image:Seal_us_presdent.jpg|200px|Presidential Seal]]</div></td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>10th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[James Knox Polk]]</td></tr> - 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... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...s ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]?
66: ...ntury BC|200s BC]]: Compound [[pulley]]: [[Archimedes]]
74: * [[1st century]]: [[Rudder|Stern mounted rudder]] in [[History of China|China]]
83: * [[9th century|800s]]: [[Black powder|Gunpowder]] in [[History of China|China]] - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...nd 320 BCE. Pytheas was the first Graeco-Roman to describe the [[Midnight Sun]], the [[Polar Aurora|au...
4: ...e Moon. In northern [[Spain]], he studied the [[tide]]s, and may have discovered that they are caused ...
6: ...es, Land's End, Plymouth, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Iceland, Britain's east coast, Kent, [...
8: ... took advantage of a temporary lapse in the blockade, known to have taken place around the time he tra...
10: ...ek as ''Prettanike'', which [[Diodorus]] later rendered ''Pretannia''. This supports theories that the... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
12: ...d in [[1667]] by [[Robert Hooke]], while [[Horace de Saussure]] completed this list of the most import...
14: ... was also the first American to keep accurate and detailed records of weather conditions on a daily ba...
16: ...s was understood. Early in the 20th century this deflecting force was named after [[Gaspard-Gustave C...
18: ...lowed exchange of weather information with unprecedented speed.
20: ... [[front (meteorology)|front]]s, that is, sharply defined boundaries between air masses. - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: '''Johannes Kepler''' ([[December 27]], [[1571]] – [[November 15]], [[1...
4: ...nt to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei]].
9: ...is said to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brillian...
11: ...acizing probably led him to turn to the world of ideas, as well as an abiding religious conviction, fo...
13: ...duced to astronomy/astrology at an early age, and developed a love for that discipline that would span... - Mitochondrion (10103 bytes)
3: ...of mitochondria. The exact number of mitochondria depends on the cell's level of metabolic activity: m...
5: ...ganic materials into [[energy]] in the form of [[adenosine triphosphate|ATP]].
9: Depending on the cell type, mitochondria can have ve...
11: ...respiration]] and [[ATP]] formation, and their folded form increases that capacity by increasing the s...
13: The membranes of the mitochondrion divide the organelle into two distinct compartments: one... - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
9: *[[1822]] - [[Denmark Vesey]] executed
11: *[[1823]] - [[Monroe Doctrine]] declared
13: *[[1824]] - First presidential nominating [[political convention]]
14: ...ndrew Jackson]] and [[Henry Clay]] in [[U.S. presidential election, 1824|election of 1824]]; Adams imm...
15: *[[1824]] - ''[[Gibbons v. Ogden]]'' cements Congressional control over [[interst... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... which the months are displayed, [[January]] to [[December]]. The first day of the medieval Julian yea...
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
15: ...|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
22: ...[[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published.
25: ... The first claim under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]]....
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