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- Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
16: ...e of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Louis Armstrong]], but they also recorded the very popular "Ella ... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stokes company, a show that...
7: ...he finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Charlie...
9: ...n [[W. C. Handy]]'s "[[St. Louis Blues]]." In the film, she sings the title song accompanied by member...
11: ...ord four sides for the Okeh label. These were her final recordings and they are of particular interest...
21: ...to Clarksdale's black hospital, which has been confirmed, but he also maintained that she had died en ... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
9: ...d get together and improvise songs until they had finished works.
11: ...gs written by Crow and her friends, including the first single, "Leaving Las Vegas". The album was slo...
15: ...ted for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically For a Motion Picture or Television.
17: ...he Neighborhood", "Anything But Down" and "The Difficult Kind". "There Goes the Neighborhood" won a Gr...
19: ...made her acting debut (barring a [[cameo]] in the film "54") as ill-fated drifter Laurie Bloom in the ... - Slide whistle (1974 bytes)
1: ...te''') is a [[wind instrument]] consisting of a [[fipple]] like a [[recorder]]'s and a tube with a [[p...
5: ...e, slide [[saxophone]]s, with reeds rather than a fipple, were also built.
7: ...ude [[Luciano Berio]]'s ''Passaggio'', which uses five, and pieces by [[Cornelius Cardew]], [[Alberto ... - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
16: ...everal trumpeters have achieved fame for their proficiency in the extreme higher register of the instr...
28: The first trumpets reputedly came from [[Egypt]], and we...
30: ...rn trumpet players are [[Maurice Andr靝, [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Miles Davis]], [[Jon Faddis]], [[Maynard Fer...
37: ... Carl Fisher, Inc.) but include much of the unmodified original text from the 1894 edition.
51: ... exercises that change notes without changing the fingering. This forces all of the work to come from... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...fferson]]. In this capacity he became a prominent figure in [[Virginia]] state politics, helping to dr...
25: ...[[Federalist Papers]], which are considered the definitive contemporary commentary on the [[Constituti...
27: Madison wrote thirty of the eighty-five essays that comprise the Federalist Papers. His...
29: ... men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable government to control the governed; and...
31: ... federal government to form its own bank that the first political parties in the United States were fo... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
18: ...], [[1758]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[President of the U...
24: ...alist]]s in the [[Virginia Convention]] which ratified the Constitution, and in [[1790]], an advocate ...
38: ...lso Russia must not encroach southward on the Pacific coast. "... the American continents," he stated,...
42: ...ntation to pay off the debts, since then he never financially recovered. As a result, he and his wife ...
50: |align="left"|'''OFFICE'''||align="left"|'''NAME'''||align="left"|'''TE... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t...
53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = English |
50: ...h from their base in Florida. In [[1724]], it was first suggested that what was by then a British colo...
52: ...tors' prison]]. On [[February 12]], [[1733]], the first settlers landed in the ''[[HMS Anne]]'' at wha...
56: On [[February 19]], [[1953]] Georgia became the first U.S. state to approve a [[literature]] [[censo...
58: Georgia has had five "[[permanent]]" [[state capital]]s: colonial [[... - Indiana (20194 bytes)
15: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
27: ... Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5 <small>(5 counties unofficially observe [[Daylight Saving Time|DST]])</smal...
47: ... dating ("contact with [[European]]s"). The specific [[Native American]] [[tribe]]s that inhabited th...
69: ...Indiana), grapes, and mint ( Source: USDA crop profiles). It should be remembered that while the state...
73: ...ills than would normally be paid. In other words, firms often see in Indiana a chance to obtain higher... - Montana (14119 bytes)
12: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
38: ...[wheat]], [[barley]], [[sugar beet]]s) and a significant [[lumber]] and [[mineral]] industry.
40: ... the 41st state in [[1889]]. The state became the first to elect a female member of [[United States Co...
51: ...al Recreational Area]], [[Big Hole National Battlefield]], and the [[National Bison Range]]. There are...
53: ...etween these ranges is a great basin, forming one-fifth of the entire area. East of the Rocky Mountai... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...r]] [[demand]] and aspirations, coupled with significant changes in the [[lifestyle]]; and a series of...
3: ..., the [[Aftermath of World War I|period after the First World War]] was marked by a [[Post-WWI recessi...
5: ...nd [[dancing]], in defiance of the horrors of the First World War, which were still present in peoples...
11: ...w products on the market on which to spend it. At first, the cessation of wartime production caused a ...
19: ... the stage for the entrance of violent crime into film and popular culture. - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ... story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...methods used to control planes have advanced significantly as well. Initially planes were controlled ...
13: ... counter-claims how successful these were. See [[First flying machine]] for a review of such claims.
15: [[Leonardo da Vinci]] was the first person to seriously design an aircraft, design...
17: ...craft through the air was the crux of flying. Sufficiently light and powerful engines would not be av... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
13: ...m George Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]]
139: *[[Irving Langmuir]], (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
55: ...d not secede, and one seceding state split; these five are known as the [[Border States (Civil War)|Bo...
62: ...ssippi and the state open. California gold helped finance the Union war effort.[http://www.militarymus...
71: ...last slave state admitted was Texas in 1845, with five free states admitted between 1846 and 1859. Kan...
75: ...cotton, or "King Cotton," as it was touted, solidified the South's dependence on the plantation system...
82: ...] during the [[War of 1812]], and the 1832 [[Nullification Crisis]] with regard to tariffs. - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
10: *[[1951]] - General [[Douglas MacArthur]] fired by Truman for invading China
36: *[[1957]] - First nuclear power plant goes into service
41: *[[1959]] - [[Landrum-Griffin Act]]
57: *[[1961]] - [[Vietnam War]] offically begins with 900 military advisors landing in...
83: *[[1966]] - [[National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act]] - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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20: '''John Fitzgerald Kennedy''' ([[May 29]], [[1917]] – ...
22: ... last president to die in office. He was also the first person to become president born in the [[20th ...
27: ... the son of [[Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.]] and [[Rose Fitzgerald]]. As a young man he attended [[Choate Ro... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
19: ...dent to have ever [[resignation|resigned]] from office. His resignation came after a loss of politica...
28: ...nt as president was organizing Whittier College's first school dance, forbidden by the Quakers. In [[1...
30: ...l career is that he learned to play poker for the first time and quickly became known as the best poke...
34: ... of members from a Left-Wing PAC with Communist affiliations, and said that, there were a few people w...
47: ...on was accused by nameless sources of having been financed by a [[slush fund]] provided by [[business]... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
1: [[Image:Wrightflyer.jpg|thumb|200px|First flight, December 17, 1903.]]
5: ...their accomplishments have been subject to many [[first flying machine |counter-claims]] by some peopl...
12: ...enthal's tables; but finding that the Smeaton Coefficient (a variable in the formula for lift and the ...
17: ... make flying much easier. To allow warping in the first gliders, they had to keep the front and rear p...
19: ...heir aeronautical work, choosing Kitty Hawk (specifically a sand dune called Kill Devil Hill) on the a...
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