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- Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the archives of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]...
2: '''Alberto Santos-Dumont''' ([[July 20]], [[1873]] - [[July 23]], [...
9: ...operty. So successful were these innovations that Santos-Dumont's father gathered a large fortune and beca...
11: Santos-Dumont was fascinated by machinery, and while sti...
13: ==Move to France==
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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...tlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built...
17: ...lo'' (Castle Hill). Therefore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwa...
19: ...y French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jean-Fran篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Ni...
21: ...ed suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ... year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
26: *[[Franz Ackerman|Ackerman, Franz]] (c1330-1387)
34: *[[Georg Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
58: *[[Santos Acosta|Acosta, Santos]] (1828-1901) - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... the country's early history, stemming as it does from the Roman name ''Portus Cale'', a possibly mixe...
15: ...C]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local ...
17: ...Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the [[Conii]]. Over decades, the R...
25: ...s. From there they aimed to reconquer their lands from the [[Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Ar...
27: ...r of the Iberian Peninsula, faced new competition from other regions. The lords of the cities of [[Coi... - Angola (15614 bytes)
1: '''Angola''' is a country in southwestern [[Africa]] bordering [[Namibia]], [[Congo-Kinshasa]], a...
19: ...Dias dos Santos|Fernando da Piedade <br> Dias dos Santos]]|
38: established_events = From [[Portugal]] |
48: ...on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest International Comparison Programme b...
61: ...n overseas province, also called Portuguese West Africa. When Portugal refused a decolonization proces... - Aviation (1454 bytes)
47: * [[Alberto_Santos-Dumont|Santos-Dumont]] - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...rded history aspects of this desire have surfaced from time to time. The most well known is the legen...
15: ...d and it was constructed in the late 20th century from materials that would have been available to da ...
17: ...est. Yet there are sufficient proofs and examples from nature that such flights can take place without...
19: ...n [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois d'Arlandes]] went 5 miles (8 km) in a [[hot...
21: ...[1852]]. Henri Giffard flew 15 miles (24 km) in [[France]], with a steam engine mounted on a dirigible... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
53: *[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau|Jacques Cousteau]], [[France]] — [[Aqua-Lung|aqualung]]
56: ...illiam Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas...
88: *[[William Friese-Greene]], (1855-1921) — [[cinematograph... - Milwaukee Brewers (8926 bytes)
3: {{MLB Brewers franchise}}
8: ...le Pilots]] ([[Sick's Stadium]]) ([[1969]]). The franchise relocated to Milwaukee and changed its nam...
20: == Franchise history ==
23: ... The team had six days to remove the Pilots logos from team uniforms and replace them with Brewers log...
25: The team was moved from the [[American League]] to the [[National Leagu... - Surfing (15219 bytes)
5: ...ppear, including [[France]], [[Brazil]], [[South Africa]], and many island states.
7: ... wax and/or traction pads (to keep a surfers feet from slipping off the deck of the board), interchang...
9: ...and often powerful appeal, which probably derives from an unusual confluence of elements: adrenaline, ...
11: The image of surfing powerfully differs from the sport in reality. Most people only see the...
13: ...en, including the level of difficulty, as well as frequency, of maneuvers. There is a professional su... - Aviator (3951 bytes)
6: ...rity given to the ''Pilot in Command'' is derived from that of a ship?s captain.
34: *[[Geoffrey de Havilland]]
57: *[[Alberto Santos-Dumont]]
62: *[[Frank Whittle]]
74: *[[Manfred von Richthofen]] - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
17: ...arping in the first gliders, they had to keep the front and rear posts that hold up the glider unbrace...
19: ...ine. They experimented with gliders at Kitty Hawk from 1900 through [[1902]], each year constructing a...
25: ... flights were witnessed by 4 lifesavers and a boy from the village, making it arguably the first publi...
31: ...Huffman Prairie in Dayton, inviting the press and friends and neighbors. Here they completed the first...
33: ..., and was often met with skepticism. The [[Paris, France|Paris]] edition of the ''[[International Hera... - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the archives of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]...
2: '''Alberto Santos-Dumont''' ([[July 20]], [[1873]] - [[July 23]], [...
9: ...operty. So successful were these innovations that Santos-Dumont's father gathered a large fortune and beca...
11: Santos-Dumont was fascinated by machinery, and while sti...
13: ==Move to France== - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...ho sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first to sail from [[Europe]] westwards to [[Asia]], the first [[E...
7: ... had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco Serrano, Magellan continued his education,...
9: ... In [[1505]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco de Almeida as a Portuguese [[viceroy]] the...
15: ...ices to the court of [[Spain]], changing his name from "''Fern㯠de Magalh㥳''" to "''Fernando de Mag...
18: ...n port of Spain, on [[October 20]], [[1517]], and from there went to [[Valladolid]] to see the teenage... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
9: *[[1638]] - [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious diss...
10: ...Act 1765|Stamp Act]], the first direct tax levied from [[England]] on the American colonies.
12: ... first governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be removed from office by [[impeachment]].
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a bill le...
17: ...] - [[World War II]]: [[Germany]] takes [[Memel]] from [[Lithuania]]. - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
46: ...water from the Salt River. Their name is derived from the [[Pima]] (Akimel O'otham) phrase, ''Ho Ho K...
49: ... and others from Wickenburg had dug a short canal from the Salt River and founded a small farming colo...
53: ...'', memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins left by the Hohokam.
61: ...Hotel now stands. Miss Nellie Shaver, a newcomer from Wisconsin, was appointed as the first female sc...
65: ...nment. The bill was signed by Governor [[John C. Fremont]] on [[February 25]], [[1881]]. Phoenix wa... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...r been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the [[classical Greek]] philosopher [[Plato]], ...
7: ...dfather of [[Critias]]. And Critias learned of it from his grandfather also named Critias, son of Drop...
17: ...us]], to where proud and warlike men used to come from the continent beyond the islands, in order to o...
20: ...s]] recorded that the Atlanteans did not know the fruits of [[Ceres (mythology)|Ceres]]. In fact, Old...
21: ...scribes it as having a climate that is very mild; fruits and vegetables grow ripe throughout the year.... - Right Whales (11436 bytes)
2: ... caption = Southern Right Whale, Hermanus, South Africa}}
42: ...ight Whale." In Portuguese, it is called " Baleia Franca ".
45: ...whales are slow swimmers but highly acrobatic and frequently breach (jump clear of the sea surface), t...
48: ...em easy to catch, even for men equipped only with frail wooden boats and hand-held harpoons. Hunting o...
50: ...merica tells the story of right whales in Brazil, from whaling to whale watching. - Amazonsaurus (1892 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox_infraordo_entry | taxon = [[Sauropoda]]}}
17: ... assorted dorsal and caudal vertebrae, ribs and a fragment of pelvic girdle, that were found on sedime...
19: ...h the existence of concomitant Northern [[Africa|African]] and [[South America|South American]] dinosa...
22: ...sis'' gen. et sp. nov. (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) of Brazi... - Flight (3194 bytes)
7: ...roups' [[wing]]s [[evolution|evolved]] separately from different structures.
11: ...y with very little loss of height. [[Flying tree frog]]s use greatly enlarged webbed feet for a simil...
13: ...hat they evolved this ability to help them escape from underwater predators.
41: * [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]]
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