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- Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...ing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
14: ...1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
16: ==Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the civil rights movement==
19: ...[civil disobedience]] in [[1955]] refer to her simply as a "tired seamstress." Parks stated in her aut...
21: Also, some accounts downplay her prior involvement with the [[NAACP]] and th... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the generation...
14: ..., had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to steal some of Orazio?s paintings. During ...
16: ...12]]-13), stored in the [[Capodimonte Museum of Naples]], is impressive for the violence portrayed, an...
18: ...tist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple moved to [[Florence]], where Artemisia received ...
20: ...urn to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Naples]]. After her mother's death in [[1651]], Pruden... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...r King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child...
7: ...ecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted...
9: ...r who made a million dollar deal was [[Charlie Chaplin]]), and one of the few stars who were successfu...
11: ... became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the rec...
13: ...r]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful busines... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
7: ...d her medical practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
11: ...hailand]] at a [[Cambodia]]n refugee camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Me...
13: ...in [[Houston, Texas]], to research, develop and implement advanced technologies suited to the social, ...
15: ... implementing advanced technologies that may be employed advantageously to the development of less ind...
19: ...ison Academy'', an alternative public school in [[Detroit]]. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...r born in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], but raised in [[Detroit, Michigan]]. On [[January 3]], [[1987]] she beca...
6: ...|Erma]], sang at her father's [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at th...
18: ... for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit.
53: *[[1970]] ''[[Don't Play That Song]]'' - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
3: ...vakia]]) is a former World No. 1 woman [[tennis]] player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, she defected...
21: ...(Navrátilová was ranked the World No. 1 doubles player for a period of over three years in the 1980s...
25: ...ks and 331 total weeks as the World No. 1 singles player.) In [[1988]], Graf truly eclipsed Navratilo...
31: ...ged 47 years and 8 months, to make her the oldest player to win a professional singles match in the Op...
33: ...167 top-level singles titles (more than any other player in the Open Era) and 175 doubles titles. Her... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
3: ...gs, as a '''mouth organ''', '''french harp''', simply '''harp''', or
4: "'''Mississippi saxophone'''"), having multiple, variably-tuned [[brass]]
24: The harmonica consists of a "comb" made of wood, plastic or metal which
25: creates the holes into which a player blows or draws to make distinct
26: ...e comb. Over the reedplates, there is a metal or plastic cover which projects the sound out of the op... - United States (58223 bytes)
9: national_motto = <br>''[[E Pluribus Unum]]'' ([[1789]]–present)<br>([[Lat...
35: ...s Constitution|'''Constitution''']]<br> - completed<br> - ratified<br> - effective|
52: ... profoundly changed in [[1788]] when the states replaced the [[Articles of Confederation]] with the [[...
58: ...er long [[Federalist papers|debate]], this was supplanted by the [[United States Constitution|Constitu...
60: ... rebellion, though full emancipation did not take place until after the end of the war in [[1865]], th... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...umber One in its list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
4: ... he changed the nature of the game itself. His exploitation of the "power game" compelled other teams...
9: ... [[Roman Catholic]] priest, and the school's disciplinarian, became the major influence on his life, t...
12: ...ked the position because he was involved in every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe...
15: ...or cash, and sold Ruth's contract, with two other players to [[Joseph Lannin]], owner of the [[Boston ... - Florida (24937 bytes)
36: ...owery". It was discovered by [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers during the [[Easter]] season, which is calle...
49: ...licans]], leaving the state approximately evenly split between the two parties. Despite this demograph...
76: ...t as large as those in the [[Midwest]] or [[Great Plains]]. [[Hail]] is not an uncommon occurrence in ...
85: ...rt]] with four theme parks and over twenty hotels plus countless water parks, shopping centres and oth...
88: ...ata centers and the state's reputation as "a good place to do dirty business". [[Spammers]] are not t... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hy)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? thus making neighboring time zones one ho...
6: ...T]]) is still often used (by the [[BBC]], for example, amongst others) to denote the "base time" to wh...
10: ...for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
18: ...he location is one day later or earlier. Some examples:
31: ...til [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to the isl... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of [[mass production]] to the process of [[inve...
5: ...patents, and were actually made by his numerous employees. Edison was frequently criticized for not sh...
14: From [[Port Huron]], Sam Edison moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Milan, O...
18: ... fruits, and vegtables, from [[Port Huron]], to [[Detroit]] and back again. He also worked as a pig slaught...
20: Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote record... - Great Depression (16069 bytes)
1: ...1]]. It led to massive bank failures, high [[unemployment]], as well as dramatic drops in [[GDP]], in...
5: ...lso refer to the cultural period, often called simply "The Depression", and to the political response ...
14: ... are made to order the sequence of events which imploded the industrialized world's monetary system an...
16: ...le activity, and that the Great Depression was simply at the intersection of several concurrent long c...
18: ... that the stock market crash of 1929 may not have played as large a part as previously thought in the ... - Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
56: *[[1937]] - [[Japan]]ese planes sink [[Panay]] in [[China]]
57: *[[1937]] - [[Golden Gate bridge]] completed
81: *[[1943]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] [[race riot]]s
101: *[[1946]] - [[Employment Act]]
110: *[[1947]] - The [[Marshall Plan]] - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
25: *[[1954]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] lays siege on [[Quemoy]] a...
36: *[[1957]] - First nuclear power plant goes into service
74: *[[1964]] - [[Full Employment Act]]
80: *[[1965]] - [[Watts Riot]]; [[Detroit race riot]]; "[[long hot summer]]"
95: ...inted [[Chief Justice of the Supreme Court]] to replace [[Earl Warren]] - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
13: ... force to push the other out. This tacit accord applied to Asia as well, as evinced by U.S. occupation...
15: ...icting models of autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for th...
17: ...he excitement with which he had greeted the principles of Wilsonian idealism during [[World War I]], a...
24: ... soon became doctrine, following the advice of people like State Department officer [[George F. Kennan...
26: ... humiliate the Soviets internationally: flying supplies in over the blockade during [[1948]]-[[1949]].... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
40: ...e la Mothe Cadillac]] founded [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] on the straits between Lakes [[Lake St. Clair|S...
42: ... had some 80,000 residents, more than enough to apply for statehood. A state government was formed in...
46: ...n. It was a development that not only transformed Detroit and Michigan, but permanently altered the socio-e...
50: Since [[World War II]], Detroit's industrial base has eroded as auto companies ab... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
25: * [[January 9]] - Planned launch date of [[New Horizons]]
28: ...Super Bowl XL]] to be held at [[Ford Field]] in [[Detroit, Michigan]]
42: ... [[Breakpoint (party)|Breakpoint]] 2006 will take place in [[Bingen]]
59: ...planet)|Mercury]] makes the first of two [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] flybys.
67: ... [[Prime Minister of Canada]] [[Paul Martin]] has pledged in April 2005 to call the [[39th Canadian fe... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
9: ...scapes populated by [[peasant]]s, painted in a simpler style than the [[Italianate]] art that prevaile...
16: ...ng-detail.jpeg|thumb|250px|A detail of ''Children Playing'']]
46: ...dding Dance'' c. 1566, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...he winner was determined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]...
3: ..., the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
5: The first two games of the series are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three i...
7: ... shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild car...
13: ...ympic tournament if the MLB agrees to freeing its players. According to the IBAF chairman, such a move...
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