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- Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
1: [[Image:0076fordW.jpg|thumb|250px|Ford Automobile
2: ...y this phase of economic and social history as "[[Fordism]]."
6: ...pelled vehicle, a steam powered thresher, for the first time.
8: ...s. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in [[1888]] Ford supported himself by farming and running a sawmil...
10: In [[1891]], Ford became an engineer with the [[Edison Illuminating... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Gerald Ford
3: | image name=Jerryford.jpg
14: | wife=[[Betty Ford]]
18: ...epresentatives|House of Representatives]]; he was first elected to Congress in 1948 from [[Michigan's ...
20: ...United States presidential election, 1976|1976]], Ford narrowly defeated [[Ronald Reagan]] for the Repub... - Betty Ford (2880 bytes)
1: [[Image:Betty_Ford.gif|right|frame|White House portrait]]
3: ... '''Betty''', a [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] of the [[United States]], was born in [...
13: In 1942 she married her first husband, William G. Warren, a furniture salesm...
15: ...ch, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was then in his first Congressional election campaign, and would eve...
17: ==First Lady==
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955...
8: ...being treated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [...
9: ...ight|The bus, now a museum exhibit at the [[Henry Ford Museum]]]]
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat...
29: ...Al Sharpton]] to launch a [[boycott]] against the film. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...lling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Bar...
19: ...re is some disagreement over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it w...
23: ... was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner n...
25: ...hers. He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation.
27: ...uation ended poorly, perhaps because the gang was finally reduced to stealing [[mule]]s for transporta... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
5: ...ering the spinal cord, due to a .22 caliber rifle firing with Warner in the rifle's path. Her grandfat...
7: ...he [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. She was known in many Hollywood circles as "t...
9: ...Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while filming the film version of the [[Rodgers and Hart]] stage hit '...
20: ...dated her show), and was among the first stars to film before a live audience.
22: ...Lucy and Desi agreed to take a pay cut to finance filming. In return, CBS relinquished the show right... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...d is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was ...
7: ...head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nation...
11: == Requirements to hold office ==
14: ...mmigrants to American society. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because ...
16: ...wo four-year terms or a maximum of ten years in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency prev... - 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... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
25: | '''[[Official language]]s'''
28: | '''[[Official script]]'''
70: ...that is now Kazakhstan since the [[1st century BC|first century BC]]. From the [[4th century|fourth ce...
76: ...great resentment against colonial rule during the final years of tsarist Russia, with the most serious...
80: ...akh Soviet Socialist Republic]] (SSR) contributed five national divisions to the Soviet Union's World ... - East Timor (13677 bytes)
12: The [[Portugal|Portuguese]] were the first [[Europe]]ans to arrive in the area in the [[1...
21: ...t with President [[Suharto]] in [[Jakarta]] where Ford made clear that "we will not press you on the iss...
32: ...president]], who is elected by popular vote for a five-year term and whose role is largely symbolic, t...
34: ...at present, due to this being its first term of office. The Timorese [[constitution]] was modelled on ...
66: ...0 peacekeepers (8,000 at peak) and 1,300 police officers, led to substantial reconstruction in both ur... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
14: Whitney is credited with creating the first [[cotton gin]] in [[1793]], a mechanical devic...
18: ...ted with Eli Whitney (along with other historical figures such as [[George Washington|George]] and [[M...
22: ...ing]] and the [[assembly line]], which he was the first to use when producing [[musket]]s for the U.S....
24: ... constructed individual items out of handmade and fitted pieces. Whitney's innovation consisted of mak...
26: ...hitney's concepts were later exploited by [[Henry Ford]] and others in [[manufacturing]]. He never paten... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
11: ...ver and the ford, Rome was at a crossroads of traffic and trade.
13: ...ame is said to have inspired Rome's name, was the first of seven [[Roman Kingdom|Kings of Rome]], the ...
19: ...ian but later opened to plebeians, were elected officials who exercised executive authority, but had t...
23: ...ntury BC]], Rome clashed with [[Carthage]] in the first two [[Punic wars]], conquering [[Sicily]] and ...
25: ...port, and Crassus' immense fortune, forming the [[First Triumvirate]]. Each of the three was elected ... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...d to the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] and he was the first player to hit over 30, 40 and 50 home runs in ...
4: ...oaring Twenties]]'' as the fan base expanded significantly and triggered major expansion of nearly all...
9: ... working with him for countless hours on hitting, fielding and later, pitching.
10: ...ng front, holding up bat, in baseball uniform, on field]]
14: ... On [[April 22]], [[1914]] "The Babe" pitched his first professional game, a six-hit, 6-0 victory over... - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
12: OfficialLang = None |
58: Popular but "unofficial" regional designations include [[Green Countr...
113: ... century]] [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers became the first Europeans to visit the area.
117: === Five Civilized Tribes ===
122: The "[[Five Civilized Tribes]]" were not the only ones forc... - Nebraska (13662 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
38: Nebraskans have practiced scientific farming to turn the Nebraska [[prairie]] into a ...
44: In the [[1860s]], the first great wave of [[Homestead Act|homesteader]]s p...
45: Many of the first farm settlers built their homes out of [[sod]]...
55: Nebraska, in common with five other Mid-West states ([[Kansas]], [[Oklahoma]]... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
14: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] and [[Span...
38: ...|English]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] are officially recognized languages in the state. In [[Sp...
46:
50: ... Spain]] to his remote colony. O was made the first governor of the new [[Province of New Mexico]]...
62: ...ssouri]], for Santa Fe early in [[1822]] with the first party of traders. Wagon caravans thereafter ma... - 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 ...
16: [[Image:1908_Ford_Model_T.jpg|thumb|right|The Tin Lizzy was the mos... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
208: *[[Ford Madox Brown]] ([[1821]]-[[1893]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
332: *[[Beauford Delaney]] ([[1901]]-[[1979]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
85: *[[Henry Ford]], (1863-1947), [[United States|USA]] — mod...
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]]
139: *[[Irving Langmuir]], (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...nlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]]" was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of [[mass pr...
5: ...ompany]], which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
7: ... were friends until Edison died. The [[Edison and Ford Winter Estates]] are now open to the public.
14: ...on moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Milan, Ohio]]. That town was enjoying a...
16: ...y into his schooling his teacher, [[Alexander Crawford]], was overheard calling him "[[addled]]". This ... - Great Depression (16069 bytes)
24: ...epend on the aid of their friends or relatives to find a job.
28: ...g competition for jobs in a place that couldn't afford it. This story was dramatized in the famous novel...
38: ...t's ideas for massive public expenditures and [[deficit spending]] truly began to bear fruit. Roosevel...
40: ...7, when he had balanced the budget by restricting fiscal support to the economy.
51: This is referred to as the [[First New Deal]]. It was centered around the use of ...
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