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- Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...aduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor's degree in ...
5: ...for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work on the deve...
9: ... extended her FLOW-MATIC language with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it wa...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at...
16: ... a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]]. - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American ...
4: ...]] ([[1602]]-[[1681]]), whose offspring include [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], Jane Delano attended Co...
10: ... Corps and re-interred in the nurses section at [[Arlington National Cemetery]]. At the top of the hill overl... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...yterian Hospital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...e uniform for US army nurses. During World War I, France awarded her the [[Medaille de l'Hygiene Publi...
13: She is one of the few women buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]]. [[Columbia University]] awar... - Matthew Henson (1087 bytes)
8: On April 6, 1988 Henson was reinterred in [[Arlington National Cemetery]] near Peary's monument. - Virginia (23198 bytes)
38: ...ate state in [[1792]] while the latter broke away from Virginia during the [[American Civil War]].
40: ...aylor]] round out the list of American Presidents from the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Historical footn...
46: ...America]], eventually applying to the whole coast from [[South Carolina]] to [[Maine]]. The [[London ...
48: ...[[1847]], and is now [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington County]] and part of the [[Alexandria, Virginia|C...
50: ...a is one of the states that [[secession|seceded]] from the Union to become the [[Confederate States of... - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...nguage]] of the [[Hasinai]], ''tejas'', meaning ''friends'' or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers...
42: ...ist of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
50: ** flying — [[Mexican free-tailed bat]]
57: ...om you talk to (and which part of Texas they come from), Texas forms part of the [[U.S. Southern State...
62: ...ve flown over its soil: the [[Fleur-de-lis]] of [[France]], and the national flags of [[Spain]], [[Mex... - History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
10: ...[Estonia]] and [[Latvia]], declaring independence from the [[Soviet Union]]. On [[December 26]], [[199...
12: ...ared the emergence of "a new world order... freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit o...
14: ...d the future [[Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement]] (CAFTA) were developed based ...
16: ...ier emphasis on [[human rights]], pressuring once-friendly dictatorships (such as [[Indonesia]] and [[...
29: ...d Saudi Arabia. By the time Iraqi troops withdrew from Kuwait in late February, Iraq had lost an estim... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
37: ...ry]]. Its name was given by the state's [[France|French explorers]] after the indigenous [[Illiniwek]...
39: ...e its largest city is [[Chicago]], along the waterfront of [[Lake Michigan]]. Most of the state's pop...
48: ...lt of their exploration, Illinois was part of the French empire until [[1763]], when it passed to the ...
56: ...Illinois in the Civil War]]), which were numbered from the 7th IL to the 156th IL. Seventeen cavalry r...
60: ...ing from traditions cultivated during the state's frontier era. As codified in the state constitution... - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: During that time, the area has gone from a [[Spain|Spanish]] outpost of interest primari...
11: ...nhabitants of [[North America]]. The remains of [[Arlington Springs Woman]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, Californi...
13: ...S)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the...
25: ====Francisco de Ulloa====
26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]] - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
1: {{MLB Athletics franchise}}
5: ...ed:''' [[1893]], as the [[Indianapolis, Indiana]] franchise in the minor [[Western League]]. Moved to...
15: == Franchise history ==
18: The Athletic franchise was formed in [[1901 in sports|1901]], one...
20: The new league recruited many of its players from the existing National League, persuading them t... - Texas Rangers (baseball) (14993 bytes)
2: {{MLB Rangers franchise}}
4: ...' are a [[Major League Baseball]] team based in [[Arlington, Texas]], a suburb in the [[Dallas/Fort Worth Met...
7: ... Twins]], or the Washington Senators that existed from 1891-1899 and were contracted.)
8: ...st Field in Arlington]] (known as The Ballpark in Arlington [[1994]]-[[2004]])
16: == Franchise history == - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
18: ...tives]]; he was first elected to Congress in 1948 from [[Michigan's 5th congressional district]].
20: ...friends of the U.S. At home, the economy suffered from [[inflation]] and [[recession]]. Ford came unde...
27: ... America out of [[World War II]]. Ford graduated from law school in [[1941]], having coached football...
36: ...73]]) he served as Minority Leader, Ford won many friends in the House due to his fair leadership and ...
63: ...rican personnel from [[Vietnam]], in '[[Operation Frequent Wind]]'. On [[29 April]] and the morning of... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
22: ...arty (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate from the North to be elected president, and the last...
24: ...h most of his [[civil rights]] policies coming to fruition through his successor, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]...
30: ...e history course. He graduated ''[[cum laude]]'' from Harvard with a degree in international affairs ...
45: ...s, but had a mixed voting record, often diverging from President [[Harry S. Truman]] and the rest of t...
47: ...ged marriage; he interviewed several of Kennedy's friends who reported the marriage as fact, and addit... - Calvin Coolidge (18374 bytes)
25: ...r of the city council in [[1899]], city solicitor from [[1900]]-[[1902]], clerk of courts in [[1904]],...
30: .... Cox]] and [[Assistant Secretary of the Navy]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
32: ...sident-elect and [[List of United States Senators from Kansas|Kansas senator]] [[Charles Curtis]] on t...
35: ...'s younger son, Calvin, Jr., contracted a blister from playing tennis on the White House courts. The b...
39: ...White House dinner guest once made a bet with her friends that she could get the president to say at l... - Saint Paul, Minnesota (13759 bytes)
33: ...n Pike]]. The [[Como Zoo and Conservatory]] is a free zoo with a year round inside garden and amuseme...
42: ... also serves Saint Paul through coordinated buses from the train stations. The expansion of the light ...
44: ...connected to each other, and pedestrians may walk from one building to another without going outside. ...
46: ... by that point. Some of the road structure comes from the curve of the Mississippi River, conflicts b...
59: ...he military officers in Fort Snelling banned them from the lands the fort controlled with one retired ... - Columbus, Ohio (27104 bytes)
6: ...is the [[county seat]] of [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin County]]. It also extends into [[Delaware C...
20: county = [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin]], [[Delaware County, Ohio|Delaware]],<br> ...
35: ... in Delaware, [[Capital University]] in Bexley, [[Franklin University]], the [[Columbus College of Art...
48: ...wn that resembles jumbled blocks, or a train yard from overhead. The convention center was designed b...
53: ...entally), so house numbers increase with distance from downtown. This rigid street grid breaks down th... - Amusement park (17293 bytes)
9: ...r a remarkable example of a European park, dating from [[1843]] and still existing, see [[Tivoli Garde...
16: ...g the peak of the "golden age" of amusement parks from roughly the turn of the 20th century through th...
18: ...nging patterns in how people chose to spend their free time. Many of the older, traditional amusement ...
32: ...Over Texas was officially opened in [[1961]] in [[Arlington, Texas]] near [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]]. The first...
40: ...ting of the Red Sea" in [[1973]], a look at props from the movie ''[[Jaws (movie)|Jaws]]'' in [[1975]]... - Martha Washington (3111 bytes)
3: ...rst [[President of the United States|President]], from [[1789]] to [[1797]]. Born near [[Williamsburg,...
5: ...on's decision late in life to change his will and free all his slaves upon his death.
8: ... sum of $150,000 for the purchase of the property from the Lee Family. - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
18: ...n]] with the backing of his predecessor and close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].
25: ...the [[Psi Upsilon]] [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternal organization]]. After college, he attended...
27: ... [[Treaty of Paris (1898)|1898 Treaty of Paris]]. From [[1901]] to [[1903]], Taft served as the first ...
29: ...act, it was said that an aide blacked out "pudgy" from his morning newspaper.
33: [[Image:Taft.png|left|frame|Official [[White House]] portrait of Taft.]] - George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
25: ...00. He played baseball and rugby union during his freshman and senior years. He received a Bachelor of...
27: After graduating from Yale, Bush enlisted in the Texas [[Air National...
32: ...duty from 1972 to 1973, and that he was suspended from flying after he failed to take a required physi...
38: ...In taped recordings of a conversation with an old friend, author Doug Wead, Bush said: “I wouldn...
45: ...ver funds from his education trust fund and money from other investors. The [[1979 energy crisis]] hur...
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