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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
    23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
    27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
    28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
    37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]...
  2. Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
    5: ...he witnessed , Warner, a friend of her brother's get shot, severing the spinal cord, due to a .22 cali...
    7: ...[Hattie Carnegie]] and as the [[Chesterfield cigarettes]] girl. She moved to [[Hollywood]] in [[1933]]...
    9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while filming the...
    11: ...ct with Lucille as the zany housewife wanting to get in Arnaz's show. The tour was a smash and CBS put...
    16: ...t|230px|Lucille Ball as Lucy, [[Vivian Vance]] as Ethel on an episode of ''I Love Lucy'']]
  3. Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
    6: ...ma Jeane Baker''. Biographers used to differ on whether the man listed on her birth certificate, [[Nor...
    12: ...Norma Jeane had come to think little of herself, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a...
    20: ...nge his mind with scene stealing performances in Bette Davis's classic ''[[All About Eve]]'' in [[1950...
    23: ... was so powerful, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her...
    25: ...ile beauty in the magazine was up and coming starlet Marilyn Monroe, the media went into overdrive. Ma...
  4. Mummy (16225 bytes)
    2: ...ion]] by either natural or artificial means, has retained its physical form. This can be achieved by e...
    11: ==Etymology==
    12: ...ient Greek historians record that the Persians sometimes mummified their kings and nobility in wax, th...
    16: ... placed at his/her final resting place through a set of [[Egyptian burial rituals and protocol|rituals...
    31: ...aced into tombs. The incision was covered with a metal plate bearing the [[Eye of Horus]] (wedjat) whi...
  5. Idaho (13962 bytes)
    48: ... town in Idaho was [[Franklin, Idaho|Franklin]], settled in [[1860]] by [[Mormon]] pioneers. When org...
    50: ... [[1861]] discovery of gold in Idaho and the completion of the transcontinental railway in [[1869]] br...
    52: ...daho, since the 1970s, devoted primarily to LaserJet printers.[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar04...
    83: ...ugged cliffs from a height greater than that of [[Niagara Falls]].
    85: ...t rivers include the [[Boise River]] and the [[Payette River]].
  6. Washington (20186 bytes)
    45: ...d the land and missionaries such as the Whitmans settled there.
    47: ...as by [[Spain|Spanish]] Captain [[Don Bruno de Heceta]] in [[1775]] on board the ''Santiago'', part of...
    55: ...the [[Northern Pacific]] railroad line reached Puget Sound, linking the region to the other states. Du...
    59: ...e]] produced dense forests and the ports along Puget Sound prospered from the manufacturing and shippi...
    63: ...p-building industry. The region around eastern Puget Sound developed heavy industry during the period ...
  7. French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
    1: ...onflict ([[1754]]-[[1763]]) in [[North America]] between [[Great Britain]] and [[France]], which was o...
    9: ...omewhat confusingly, [[French and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian all...
    13: ...ries at [[Fortress Louisbourg|Louisburg]], [[Fort Niagara]], [[Fort Duquesne]], and – most significan...
    19: ...ry commitments as well as limitation on colonial settlements imposed by the [[British Royal Proclamati...
    45: *[[Battle of Fort Niagara]] (1759)
  8. Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
    28: *[[1905]] - [[Niagara Falls conference]]
    38: *[[1908]] - [[Ford Model T]] appears on market
    69: *[[1916]] - [[Jeannette Rankin]] elected
    86: *[[1920]] - [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|...
    88: *[[1920]] - [[Sacco and Vanzetti]] arrested
  9. January 2 (10888 bytes)
    14: ...e]] publishes ''[[The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette]]''.
    15: ...t [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[Acad魩e des Sciences]] in [[Paris]].
    19: ...-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]] against [[England]].
    22: ...ece Standards in North America: [[Railroad chronometers]].
    25: ...05]] - [[Russo-Japanese War]]: The [[Russia]]n fleet surrenders at [[L?ou|Port Arthur]], [[China]].
  10. Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
    2: The '''Underground Railroad''' was a network of clandestine routes by which [[African]] [[...
    4: It is estimated that at its height between [[1810]] and [[1850]], nearly 100,000 people ...
    10: ...s of mainstream denominations such as the [[Free Methodist]]s and [[American Baptist]]s. Books, newspa...
    14: ... its own jargon, which continued the [[railway]] metaphor:
    19: *slaves would obtain a "ticket"
  11. July 24 (8660 bytes)
    6: *[[1701]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] founded.
    7: ...12]]: General [[Phineas Riall]] advances toward [[Niagara]] to halt [[Jacob Brown]]'s [[United States|Ameri...
    13: ...lishes first account of [[Paul Bunyan]] in the [[Detroit News]].
    16: *[[1923]] - The [[Treaty of Lausanne]], settling the boundaries of modern [[Turkey]], is sign...
    23: ...rry Lewis]] perform their last [[comedy show]] together which started on [[July 25]], [[1946]].
  12. Ice age (15810 bytes)
    2: [[Image:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png|thumb|right|Variations in CO2, temperature ...
    4: ... to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the [[North America]]n and [[Europe]]an con...
    10: ...oria.edu/aberjame/histgeol/agassiz/glacial.htm]. Between 1825 and 1833 [[Jean de Charpentier]] assembl...
    20: ...cles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000 and 100,000 year time scales. T...
    22: ...etween summers in which the winter snow mass completely melts and summers in which the winter snow per...
  13. War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
    54: ...apoleon's invasion of Russia]] in 1812 is also sometimes referred to as the "War of 1812."
    84: ...ng the [[American Revolutionary War]], relations between Great Britain and the United States were ofte...
    86: ...] was supposed to reclaim only British subjects, between 1806 and 1812 about 6,000 American citizens w...
    92: ...rican Indians on the frontier to attack American settlements, and so the War Hawks called for an invas...
    97: ...by the [[Napoleonic Wars]], and was compelled to retain the greater part of her forces and her best cr...
  14. Waterfall (3889 bytes)
    2: ...aterfalls may also be artificial, and they are sometimes used for [[garden]] and [[landscape]] ornamen...
    9: ...eep pool just below the waterfall due to the [[kinetic energy]] of the water hitting the bottom.
    11: ...]] was built in [[1829]] to allow ships to pass [[Niagara Falls]] in the [[Great Lakes (North America)|Grea...
    19: *Horsetail, where descending water maintains some contact...
    31: ... most voluminous in North America, on the border between the USA and Canada;
  15. Iguassu Falls (7632 bytes)
    5: ...eral large ones. About 900 metres of the 2.7-kilometre length does not have water flowing over it. The...
    9: ...ating the waterfalls, condemning the lovers to an eternal fall.
    11: ...Itaipu]] hydroelectric power plant, and the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Mission (Christian)|Missions...
    17: ...ld, at over a mile wide and over 90 metres (300 feet) in height (in low flow it is split into five by ...
    19: ... (1,000 feet) above Victoria (sometimes over 600 metres).
  16. Nikola Tesla (29894 bytes)
    16: ...] in 1891. [[Tesla patents|His patents]] and theoretical work still form the basis for modern [[altern...
    26: ...1882]]) and various devices that use rotating magnetic fields
    36: ...nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=725605.WKU.&OS=P...
    41: * methods for [[superconductivity|providing extremely l...
    51: ...]] priest in the [[Serb Orthodox Church|Orthodox Metropolitanate]] of [[Sremski Karlovci|Karlovci]]. H...
  17. New York (25691 bytes)
    36: ...se U.S. postal abbreviation is '''NY'''. It is sometimes called '''New York State''' when there is nee...
    47: ... by the Republicans. From 1984 until 2005, no budget had been passed on time, and for many years the l...
    71: ...e [[New England]] states ([[Vermont]], [[Massachusetts]], and [[Connecticut]]), the [[Atlantic Ocean]]...
    77: ...tral core of a "[[megalopolis]]", a super-city stretching from the northern suburbs of Boston to the s...
    79: ...ional Park]] in the US. [[Niagara Falls]], on the Niagara River as it flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario ...
  18. River borders of U.S. states (3806 bytes)
    14: * [[Detroit River]]: [[Michigan]], [[Ontario]]
    22: * [[Niagara River]]: [[New York]], [[Ontario]]
  19. Ice Age (15809 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png|thumb|right|Variations in CO2, temperature ...
    3: ... to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the [[North America]]n and [[Europe]]an con...
    9: ...oria.edu/aberjame/histgeol/agassiz/glacial.htm]. Between 1825 and 1833 [[Jean de Charpentier]] assembl...
    19: ...cles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000 and 100,000 year time scales. T...
    21: ...etween summers in which the winter snow mass completely melts and summers in which the winter snow per...
  20. Lava flow (9578 bytes)
    11: ...of the eruption of [[Vesuvius]] which took place between [[May 14]] and [[June 4]] [[1737]]. In this ...
    21: ...‘a‘a if it becomes turbulent due to meeting impediments or steep slopes.
    44: ...rust, and see the lava flowing underneath their feet!
    47: ...eam, but retires on its approach; promontories stretching a considerable distance from the shore are f...
    50: ...nto the air as a fiery fountain several hundred feet in height (see [[Volcanic cone]]).

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