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- Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...New York Call'' entitled "What Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation''...
9: ...ntrol clinic in the Brownsville neighborhood of [[Brooklyn]], the first of its kind in the United States. It...
11: ...s followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse f...
13: ...(renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the Nationa...
15: ...h Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of A... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...d also commonly known by the nicknames ''The Bambino'' and ''The Sultan of Swat'', was an American [[b...
4: ...pelled other teams to follow suit, breaking the monopoly of the "inside game" that had been the primar...
9: ...perate attempt to bring the boy into line, but to no avail. He was finally sent to St. Mary's Industri...
14: ...anager of the minor-league [[Baltimore Orioles (minor league)|Baltimore Orioles]], and the man often c...
15: ...ced a team in Baltimore, across the street from minor league Orioles, and the competition hit Orioles'... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
8: Nickname = North Star State |
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12: Governor = [[Tim Pawlenty]] |
39: .... The most significant [[metropolitan area]] is known as the [[Minneapolis-St. Paul|Twin Cities]], co...
43: ... state include ''Land of 10,000 Lakes'' and the ''North Star State''. - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...s; emergence of unprecedented [[industrial]] [[economic boom|boom]] and accelerated [[consumer]] [[dem...
3: ... economic partner. At the middle of the decade economic development started to soar in Europe and the ...
5: ...tion|technological]] growth were yet unknown. Technologies like [[train]]s, [[automobile|car]]s and [[...
7: ==Economy of the 1920s==
8: ...re of [[consumerism]]. In Europe, the economy did not start to flourish until [[1924]]. At the same ti... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
3: ...tings or tabular information for quick reference, not narrative articles.
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26: *Not included here:
49: **[[List of anonymously published works]]
50: **[[List of books by award or notoriety]] - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
41: ...Milligan]]'' 71 US 2 1866 rules that civilians cannot be tried in military tribunals when civilian cou...
56: ...completing the [[First Transcontinental Railroad (North America)]]
79: *[[1876]] - ''Munn v. Illinois'' establishes public regulation of utilities
99: *[[1881]] - ''A Century of Dishonor'' written by [[Helen Hunt Jackson]]
103: *[[1883]] - [[Brooklyn Bridge]] opens - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...egorian calendar as promulgated in [[1582]] did ''not'' specify that January 1 was to be either [[New ...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes pla...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered by [[Giu...
22: *[[1818]] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern...
30: ...York. The four initial boroughs, [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], and [[The Bronx]], are joined on J... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
15: ...ry of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[AcadéŠe des Sciences]...
16: *[[1870]] - Construction of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] begins.
22: ...epiece Standards in North America: [[Railroad chronometers]].
23: *[[1900]] - [[John Hay]] announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade wi...
31: *[[1935]] - [[Bruno Hauptmann]] goes on trial for the murder of Charl... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
23: ... with public readings and bonfires on [[July 8]]. Not until [[August 2]] would a fair printing be sign...
25: ...Adams]], credited by [[Thomas Jefferson]] as the unofficial, tireless [[whip (politics)|whip]] of the ...
33: ...l dinner for the Continental Congress, [[toast (honor)|toast]]s, 13-gun [[salute]]s, speeches, [[praye...
45: ...s Hot Dog Eating Contest]] in [[Coney Island]], [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], which supposedly started on... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...pionship series of [[Major League Baseball]] in [[North America]], played in [[October]] after the end...
3: ...d Sox]]. The Red Sox won the series four games to none, earning their first World Series Championship ...
7: ...s finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild card]] receive them, because th...
9: ... Japanese or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded.
11: ...'New York World'' for the relevant years revealed no evidence of the supposed sponsorship. (For detai... - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
6: ...from 1954 to 1960, when the term "Red" carried connotations of [[communism]].
10: :'''Wild Card titles won''' (0): ''none''
21: ...oston, and founded the Boston Red Stockings, now known as the [[Atlanta Braves]].) The Red Stockings w...
25: ...s so not to be confused with the Boston AL entry, now shortened to Red Sox) had hitting stars like [[S...
35: ...her in major league history to throw back-to-back no-hitters in [[1938]]. Thanks to Vander Meer, [[Pau... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
5: :'''Founded:''' [[1883]], as a member of the minor Inter-State League. The team moved up to the [[...
6: :'''Formerly known as:''' Brooklyn Dodgers, [[1932]] to [[1957]], after which the te...
7: ...y Dodgers]]'' -- originally a pejorative term for Brooklyn residents, shortened to ''Dodgers'' and officiall...
8: ...odgers played at Washington Park on 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn. [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Dod...
22: ===The Brooklyn years (through [[1957]])=== - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
6: ... Allegheny. Ballclub was sometimes dubbed the ''Innocents'' during the 1880s. In [[1891]], after being...
11: :'''Wild Card titles won''' (0): ''none''
19: ...ete games, winning three of them; but it was not enough. With largely the same star players, the Pirat...
21: ...fielder [[Max Carey]] and young players [[Pie Traynor]] and [[Kiki Cuyler]], along with a steady if un...
23: The post-[[World War II]] years were not kind to the Pirates, despite the presence of a g... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
8: :'''Formerly known as:''' St. Louis Brown Stockings ([[1882]]), S...
9: ...ch Stadum (III) with [[BP Village]] -(Also to be known as "Busch Stadium") from [[2006]] on
11: :'''Logo design:''' One or two [[Northern Cardinal|cardinal]]s perched on a [[basebal...
12: ...bird]], an [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphized]] Northern Cardinal
18: <nowiki>*</nowiki> In 2001, the Cardinals finished the season w... - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
11: ...the cable. In the latter case, the cable car may not be able to stop and can wreak havoc along its ro...
13: ...nergy to cars going up. However this advantage is not unique to cable cars, as electric cars fitted wi...
16: ...om [[1 July]] [[1868]] to [[1870]]. The cable technology used in this elevated railway involved collar...
19: ...ble car transit systems, and this model is often known as the ''Hallidie Cable Car''.
21: ...o the cable slot to stop the car. Both of these innovations were generally adopted by other cities, in... - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
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39: ...tal Iron Works in the [[Greenpoint]] section of [[Brooklyn, New York]], and the ship was launched there on [...
41: ''Monitor'' was innovative in construction technique as well as design...
43: ...of Lt. [[John L. Worden]], arrived under tow from Brooklyn. When ''Virginia'' returned the next day, [[Marc...
51: ...[[Norrk?g]]; she was named ''John Ericsson'' in Honor of the engineer. She was followed by 14 more mon... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ...ar, which eventually widened far beyond [[British North America]], resulted in the overthrow of Britis...
5: ...d in the late nineteenth century that came to be known as ''The Spirit of '76''. Often imitated or par...
10: ...t have a professional [[armed force|army]] (also known as a "regular" or "standing" army). Each colony...
15: ...mates, total British strength in the colonies did not exceed 20,000 men at any one time.
19: ...ved decisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing army at the time is estimate... - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
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25: ...s consider it part of [[South Jersey]] and as the northernmost city of the [[Delaware Valley|Delaware ...
27: ...renton is the home of the [[Trenton Thunder]] [[minor league baseball]] team, which is affiliated with...
32: ... being persecuted in [[England]] at this time and North America provided the perfect opportunity to ex... - Amusement park (17293 bytes)
12: ...parks for the next half-century, including those known as [[trolley park]]s.
14: ...t amusement parks opened at [[Coney Island]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]]. Often, it is Steeplechase Park that ...
21: ...midway, concessions, and sideshow attractions in another. The idea of theme parks caught on and, by t...
25: ...rk still in operation is 'Bakken' at Klampenborg, north of [[Copenhagen]]. It was founded in 1583.
26: ...with Mr. Lincoln, "it's a small world", and the dinosaurs of Primeval World — were built by Disn... - Roller coaster (14862 bytes)
3: ...ist that it must to be a true coaster. (Note that not all thrill rides that run on a track are roller ...
9: ...el launch, linear induction motors, linear synchronous motors, hydraulic launch, [[compressed air laun...
11: ...d roller coaster under good conditions will have enough kinetic, or moving, energy to complete the ent...
21: ...led sled running through a 13-foot diameter loop. None of these tracks were complete circuits.
23: ...he Cyclone]], was opened at [[Coney Island]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]] in [[1927]]. Like [[The Cyclone]], al...
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