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  1. Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
    1: [[Image:0076fordW.jpg|thumb|250px|Ford Automobile
    2: ...y this phase of economic and social history as "[[Fordism]]."
    6: ...he saw a self-propelled 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...
  2. Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
    1: {{Infobox President | name=Gerald Ford
    3: | image name=Jerryford.jpg
    14: | wife=[[Betty Ford]]
    18: ...resident of the United States|vice-presidency]]. Ford was the first person appointed to the vice presid...
    20: ...United States presidential election, 1976|1976]], Ford narrowly defeated [[Ronald Reagan]] for the Repub...
  3. Betty Ford (2880 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Betty_Ford.gif|right|frame|White House portrait]]
    3: ...ustrial supply salesman, and his wife Hortense Neahr.
    7: She grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan from age three. She studied dance at the Calla Travis Dance St...
    15: On October 15, 1948 she married Gerald Ford at Grace Episcopal Church, in Grand Rapids, Mich...
    19: ...President [[Richard Nixon]], who had named Gerald Ford to the [[Vice President of the United States|Vice...

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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    1: ...e [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [...
    66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Am...
    77: ...ns|Russian]] explorer, first European who sailed through [[Bering Strait]]
    230: *[[John Rae]], (1813-1893), travelled widely through the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
  2. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    9: ...r Walter Raleigh]] and [[Humphrey Gilbert|Sir Humphrey Gilbert]]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and s...
    16: ...her elder brother, and witchcraft. Elizabeth was three years old at that time and was also declared il...
    25: ...Grey]] to be his heiress. Lady Jane ascended the throne, but was [[Deposition_(politics)|deposed]] les...
    27: ...people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne in her stead. [[Wyatt's Rebellion]] in [[1554]...
    31: ...8]], upon Mary I's death, Elizabeth ascended the throne. She was far more popular than her sister, and...
  3. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
    9: ...ight|The bus, now a museum exhibit at the [[Henry Ford Museum]]]]
    41: ...3 stolen from her. The incident created outrage throughout America after Parks admitted she had asked...
    45: ...ssed. Parks' caretakers hired lawyer [[Johnnie Cochran]] to appeal the decision in [[2001]], but this ...
  4. Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
    9: ...212; and in January 1929, she told him they were through. Although he was sentenced to 5 years in pris...
    15: ...olding down "square" jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, burgled stores, ...
    19: ...et, but the most prevalent story is that it was through his friend Clarence Clay. Clarence's sister, ...
    35: ...ge number of guns, cars, and people that floated through it, history books can only speculate with reg...
    71: ...iles]]. They were in place by 21:00, waiting all through the next day ([[May 22]]), but with no sign o...
  5. Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
    22: ...et. Desilu made the millions on ILL rebroadcast through [[syndication]].
    24: ...ew his business. For Lucy, Freund developed the three-camera setup, which became the standard way of ...
    26: ...irst child, [[Lucie Arnaz|Lucie Desiree Arnaz]]. Three years later, coinciding with the controversial ...
    60: ...layed by [[Tennessee Ernie Ford|"Tennessee" Ernie Ford]]) is a stereotypical Country Boy in the Big City...
    62: ...ees him in the groin. Then, she stepped back and threw a feminine kick to the groin which incapacitate...
  6. President of the United States (42878 bytes)
    5: ...referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by America...
    16: ...s completing his predecessor's term. Since then, three presidents have served two full terms: [[Dwight...
    19: ...y four years. Presidents are elected indirectly, through the [[U.S. Electoral College|Electoral Colleg...
    25: ...cess is concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertisin...
    56: ...gan]], [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]], and [[Gerald Ford|Ford]]).
  7. Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
    53: ...ue County, Kentucky|LaRue Co.]], in Nolin Creek, three miles (5 km) south of [[Hodgenville, Kentucky|...
    75: Only Robert survived into adulthood. Of Robert's three children, only Jessie Lincoln had any children ...
    83: ...prominence in Illinois legal circles, especially through his involvement in litigation involving compe...
    85: ...t]] was eventually cited by several other courts throughout the United States.
    126: ... government grants for agricultural universities throughout the American states. Such universities -- ...
  8. Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
    70: ...BC]]. From the [[4th century|fourth century AD]] through the beginning of the [[13th century]], the te...
    82: ...sed economy. In [[1953]], Soviet leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]] initiated the ambitious "[[Virgin Lands]...
    91: ...es as Kazakhstan's head of government. There are three deputy prime ministers and 16 ministers in the ...
    162: ...s Kazakhs a majority along with higher Kazakh birthrates and ethnic Kazakh immigration from China, Mon...
    185: ...[ecological disasters]] within its borders-- the shrinking of the [[Aral Sea]] and [[radioactive conta...
  9. East Timor (13677 bytes)
    21: ...t with President [[Suharto]] in [[Jakarta]] where Ford made clear that "we will not press you on the iss...
    66: ... and 260,000 people fled westward. Over the next three years, however, a massive international program...
    72: Currently three foreign banks have a branch each in Dili: [[ANZ...
  10. Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
    26: ...hitney's concepts were later exploited by [[Henry Ford]] and others in [[manufacturing]]. He never paten...
  11. Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
    11: ...river can be forded. Because of the river and the ford, Rome was at a crossroads of traffic and trade.
    13: ...hed. The mythical or semi-mythical kings are (in chronological order): [[Romulus]], [[Numa Pompilius]]...
    21: ...ines'' ...) but also the [[Etruscans]]. The last threat to Roman [[hegemony]] in Italy came when [[Tar...
    25: ... forming the [[First Triumvirate]]. Each of the three was elected consul before they began to struggl...
    40: ...icated [[Christianity]] in the downfall of Rome. Christianity, he said, created a belief in another wo...
  12. Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
    18: ... Shortly afterwards, Ruth proposed to [[Helen Woodford]], a waitress he met in Boston, and they were mar...
    23: ...the league average. He won 23 games, lost 12 and threw nine shutouts, still the best mark for a left h...
    29: ...arry Frazee]] had paid relatively large salaries throughout the war years. However, the team's failur...
    39: ...nkees in New York. Yankee pitcher [[Carl Mays]] threw a pitch that hit Indian shortstop [[Ray Chapman...
    47: ...nd Ruth's aggressiveness would see him suspended three more times in 1922, for arguing with umpires.
  13. Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
    124: ...a [[French language|French]] name: "Okla" is "[[ochre]]" and "homa" is "[[human|homme]]", as the India...
    168: ...[[Dorothea Lange]] and in the songs of [[Woody Guthrie]]. The negative images of the "[[Okie]]" as a s...
    175: ... beverages containing 3.2% alcohol or less, then through the legalization of stronger alcoholic bevera...
    208: * 86% [[Christian]]
    213: ** 5% [[Churches of Christ]]
  14. Nebraska (13662 bytes)
    36: ...at water", after the [[Platte River]] that flows through the State.
    52: ...tsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/Journals/HPR/Vol06/nhrv06pc.html]
    71: ...o the highest vote-getter in each of the state's three congressional districts. For the last four elec...
    107: *[[Christian]] – 90%
    115: **Other Christian – 1%
  15. New Mexico (31079 bytes)
    52: ...n the haciendas and attempted to convert them to Christianity. The [[Apache]] revolted violently in [[...
    54: ...the Church of San Felipe de Ner�[[1706]]). The through development of ranching and some farming in t...
    60: ...with news that independent Mexico welcomed trade through Santa Fe.
    64: American frontiersman [[Kit Carson|Kit (Christopher) Carson]], apprenticed to a saddler in th...
    105: ...]], and State Treasurer [[Robert E. Vigil]]. All three are Democrats.
  16. Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
    5: ...o be coming up. Everything seemed to be feasible through modern technology, the limits [[ecology]] and...
    16: [[Image:1908_Ford_Model_T.jpg|thumb|right|The Tin Lizzy was the mos...
    17: ...n throughout North America. By [[1927]], [[Henry Ford]] had sold 15 million [[Model T]]. In all of Can...
    19: ...the first mass broadcasting medium. Radios were affordable and entertaining. Before the days of [[Hollyw...
    24: ...150px|Climax of the new architectural style: the Chrysler Building in New York City was built after th...
  17. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    34: *[[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]] ([[1667]]-[[1719]])
    83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
    167: *[[Aaron Bohrod]] ([[1907]]-[[1992]])
    208: *[[Ford Madox Brown]] ([[1821]]-[[1893]])
    218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
  18. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    51: ...ur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
    52: *[[Christopher Cockerell]], (1910-1999;) (1886-1972) &md...
    85: *[[Henry Ford]], (1863-1947), [[United States|USA]] — mod...
    112: *[[John Harrison]], (1693-1776) — marine chronometer
    164: ...7) — reflecting telescope (which reduces [[chromatic aberration]])
  19. Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
    7: ... were friends until Edison died. The [[Edison and Ford Winter Estates]] are now open to the public.
    10: ...nt gave those who had been loyal to it. In 1811, three generations of Edison's took up farming near Vi...
    16: ...d calling him "[[addled]]". This ended Edison's three-months of formal schooling. His mother had bee...
    29:
    56: ...s were improvements of ideas by others, achieved through a diligent and industrial approach and team-b...
  20. Great Depression (16069 bytes)
    28: ... go awry", implying that the economic crisis was threatening to unravel America and her (then) 150 yea...
    38: ...used primarily by the reinforcement of business through government expenditure.
    44: ...and provide work and relief for the impoverished through increased government spending, by:
    45: ...ing regulations which ended what was called "cut throat competition" (in which large players supposedl...
    58: *''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'', Director: [[John Ford]], 1940

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