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- Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...n, Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that...
8: ... time, she was able to keep up with aviation as a weekend hobbyist. She was even featured in local newspape...
10: ...on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby (nic...
14: ...Lockheed Vega]], intending to fly to [[Paris]], duplicating [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. Howev...
16: ...," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Laila Ali (3660 bytes)
5: ...e [[International Boxing Hall Of Fame]] induction weekend's activities.
13: ... [[Nikki Eplion]] after four rounds. Ali dropped Eplion four times before the fight was stopped.
21: ...ill]] into submission in round three to remain completely undefeated and become the first woman to win...
27: [http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=014260 Career Record] - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...ould be repealed because it excludes qualified people based on technicalities, and fails to appreciate...
16: ...George W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
19: ...President, while the individual who was in second place became Vice President.
25: ...ing across the country to explain their views and plans to the voters. Much of the modern electoral pr...
35: ... a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, including 1 million active-duty military person... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
3: ...en the black majority and the white minority have played a large part in the country's [[History of So...
13: ...nto Namibia and Botswana, and elsewhere. These people, who are a physically distinct population from o...
24: ...ulations displaced earlier [[hunter-gatherer]] peoples as they migrated.
26: ...d [[Cape Frontier Wars]] against the [[Xhosa]] people, and imported [[slaves]] from [[Indonesia]], [[M...
32: ... tactics much better on local conditions. For example, the Boers wore [[khaki]] clothing, which was th... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
37: ...ts name is from the [[Lakota#The_Dakota|Dakota people's]] name for the [[Minnesota River]], ''mini&nbs...
39: ...int Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]], along with multiple "rings" of [[suburb]]s. More than half of the s...
41: ...of [[natural resources]] that have been greatly exploited in the last two centuries.
49: ...s [[Europe]]ans settled in the area and further exploited the state's natural resources.
51: ...tories focus on the military settlement that took place farther west. [[Fort Snelling]], located at 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... - April (9790 bytes)
178: *National Give-A-Sample Week
227: 4th Weekend
228: *Just Pray No weekend
247: During planting season (@ Apr/May) - Barbecue (24807 bytes)
8: ...od that has been grilled. For this reason many people consider any outdoor cooking, including grilling...
10: ... meat should be turned several times to ensure complete cooking.
19: *the role that smoke plays in preparation
26: ...t barbecuing (often called grilling), the food is placed directly above the flame or other source of h...
31: ...or sugary sauces of an American barbecue. Instead plain or marinaded meat is grilled over the open fir... - Memorial Day (4407 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|right|Relatives and others traditionally place flags near veterans' headstones on Memorial Da...
2: ...y action. Today, many Americans use Memorial Day weekend to also honor family members who have passed away...
4: ...al]]s. A [[National Moment of Remembrance]] takes place at 3 PM. Another tradition is to fly the [[Uni...
6: ...ny other Americans enjoy the guaranteed three-day weekend that comes with observing the holiday on a Monday...
17: ...k]]. The village was credited with being the birthplace because it had observed the day each year sinc... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
34: ...artillery salute. Across the sea, [[Ambassador (diplomacy)|ambassador]]s John Adams and [[Benjamin Fra...
37: ...ess]] made July 4 an unpaid holiday for federal employees.
41: ...e 4th; the evening is usually marked by public displays of fireworks. - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
11: ...[teenager]]s and young adults view it as the last weekend for parties before returning to [[school]].
13: ...t white is not to be worn after Labour Day. The explanations for this tradition range from the fact t...
17: ...a rural [[festival]], but over time it has been replaced by the labour connotations of the [[holiday]]...
29: ... different provinces. This led to ship-owners complaining that seamen were taking excessive holidays ...
41: ''Explanation of the difference between May Day and Labo... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
9: ...a]]. New races in [[Bahrain]] and [[China]], one planned for [[2005]] in [[Turkey]], and others discu...
24: ...n's superiority, and it quickly and permanently replaced the front-mounted engine model.
28: ...aluminium sheet chassis called a [[monocoque]] in place of the traditional tubular chassis; this prove...
35: ...ntributing to [[Bernie Ecclestone]]'s eventual complete financial control of the sport.
39: ...ade their way to the showroom. The FIA, due to complaints that technology was determining the outcome ... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
14: :''See also:'' [[List of Chicago White Sox people]]
17: ...y [[Charles Comiskey]], a former major-league ballplayer who starred with the [[St. Louis Cardinals|St...
25: ...eball, banned all the accused nonetheless. As the players were leaving a hearing, a boy fan (said by s...
27: ...n for the American League pennant until the final weekend of the regular season.
30: ...reflected a tendency to win games through scrappy play rather than consistently strong hitting or pitc... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...lues by both number and direction – for example, "1-Across" or "17-Down"); at the end of the clu...
10: ...w York Times'' crossword are 15ױ5 squares, while weekend puzzles may be 21ײ1, 23ײ3 or 25ײ5.
12: ...entric circles. ''Free form'' crosswords have simple designs and are not symmetric.
23: ...' (since the latter is singular while the clue is plural).
24: Some clue examples: - Mother's Day (4660 bytes)
12: ''As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,<br>
20: ...g apprentices were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families. - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...|American]] society. He was one of the first to apply [[assembly line]] manufacturing to the mass prod...
10: ...se experiments culminated in [[1896]] with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle named the ...
20: ... that the concept and its development came from employees Clarence Avery, P.E. "Ed" Martin, [[Charles ...
26: ...res into the Model T or to form a customer credit plan.
33: ...rd patented an automobile made almost entirely of plastic, attached to a tubular welded frame. It weig... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
42: ...ne]] (a [[Miwok]] Indian word meaning "western people") living in the coastal area between [[Point Sur...
44: European discovery and exploration of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] began in...
56: ...od. All of the county not in the city limits was split off to form [[San Mateo County, California|San ...
62: ...terred corpses contributed to the transmission of plague, and possibly also motivated by the opportuni...
69: ...e after the Earthquake. On July 22, 1916 a bomb exploded on Market Street during a [[Preparedness Day]... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Gillespie County, Texas]]
13: | place of death=[[Johnson City, Texas]]
29: As secretary, Lyndon became acquainted with people of influence, found out how they had reached the...
31: ...own initials. His daughters' given names are examples, as was his dog later in life (Little [[Beagle]...
33: ...career, often demanding long workdays and work on weekends; he worked as much as they did, if not more. - National Football League (30340 bytes)
6: ...the most popular version of American football was played collegiately. The NFL's greatest spurt in pop...
8: ...nally started the regular season on [[Labor Day]] Weekend and lasted through [[Christmas]] week. However, ...
10: ...d neutral site. One week later, selected all-star players from both the AFC and NFC meet in the [[Pro ...
31: ...on, the Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions each play a game on [[Thanksgiving]] day.
34: *Each team plays every other team in their division twice: once... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
12: ... tickets, the outbreak of World War I changed his plans and he remained in Munich for the rest of his ...
16: ...en painted with barium platinocyanide when it was placed close to the aluminium window. It occurred t...
18: ...immering had come from the location of the barium platinocyanide screen he had been intending to use n...
20: ...ember 8 was a Friday, so he took advantage of the weekend to repeat his experiments and make his first note...
22: ...en misrepresents his investigative powers; he had planned to use the screen in the next step of his ex...
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