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- Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
14: ...1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
21: ...P]] and the [[Highlander Folk School]] in an attempt to portray her as an average, middle-aged woman a...
25: ... up her seat to a white person. The [[NAACP]] accepted and litigated other cases before, such as that ...
29: ..., caused activists [[Jesse Jackson]] and [[Al Sharpton]] to launch a [[boycott]] against the film.
41: ...as attacked and mugged in her [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] home by Joseph Skipper. She had a total of $53... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...in an era when women painters were not easily accepted, she became the first female painter to become ...
24: ...ence, Artemisia enjoyed huge success. She was accepted in the ''Accademia del Disegno'' (''"Academy of...
42: ...''"Judith with her maidservant"'') today at the [[Detroit Institute of Arts]] (notable for her mastery of t...
46: ...ly relocated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some othe...
76: ...sua ancella]], [[Institute of Arts di Detroit|The Detroit Institute of Arts]], ca.[[1625]]-[[1627|27]]. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
9: ...ppointing roles and the public's inability to accept Pickford in roles that reflected her own age, rat...
15: ...er, whom she married in [[1937]]; they had two adopted children, Roxanne and Ronald. Fairbanks, howeve...
27: ...complete control over her films, ranging from script to the final cut.
30: ...s two other UA theatres this year, in Chicago and Detroit. The Los Angeles theatre is now known as the [[U... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white ...
19: ...ison Academy'', an alternative public school in [[Detroit]]. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...ed for her soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at [[jazz]], [[rock]], [[blues]], [[pop]], [[hip-...
6: ...|Erma]], sang at her father's [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at th...
10: ... of live gospel music recorded in a Los Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it to numb...
18: ... for several years after that. She lives today in Detroit.
79: *[[1987]] ''[[One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism]]'' - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
15: ...e defeated Evert in three sets in the final and captured the World No. 1 ranking for the first time. S...
19: ... Slam event of [[1983]] - the French Open - she captured the year's three remaining Grand Slam titles ...
158: ** Washington DC, Houston, Minnesota, Detroit, Edinburgh, Charlotte
161: ...gton, DC, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Detroit, Kansas City, Eastbourne, Phoenix - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
7: interrupting an airstream to produce [[sound]].
93: ...in bends and overblows give players a variety of options. Blues players can achieve a tritone by bendi...
167: See the fuller description at: [http://www.bassharp.com/bh_101.htm www.ba...
184: For more detail on tremolo, see the fuller description at: [http://joshuacorps.org/friends/thetremolo...
199: The ancestor of the harmonica is generally accepted to be a Chinese wind instrument called the chen... - United States (58223 bytes)
36: ...[[Great Britain]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[[September 3]], [[1783]]<br><br><br>
37: [[September 17]], [[1787]]<br>[[May 23]], [[1788]]<br>[[...
52: ...es use the date each of the original 13 states adopted the Constitution as the date on that state "ent...
60: ...ries. Several federal laws were passed in an attempt to settle the dispute, including the [[Missouri C...
62: ...pean settlers, and U.S. settlers acquired those emptied lands. Through coercion, military prowess, and... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
9: ... their father would beat Babe in a desperate attempt to bring the boy into line, but to no avail. He w...
12: ...ted mocking his own pitcher. Brother Matthias promptly switched George from catcher to pitcher to teac...
47: ...into the seats to confront a heckling fan. The captaincy was stripped, and Ruth's aggressiveness woul...
49: ...wn, lived on their farm near Boston with their adopted daughter, Dorothy. Free from the eyes of his wi...
67: ...nd [[Grover Alexander]], now a 39 year-old [[epileptic]] and [[alcoholic]] who a decade earlier was th... - Florida (24937 bytes)
56: ...is 6 percent. Local governments may levy a local option sales on top of that, so sales taxes vary by c...
72: [[Image:Hurricane Frances, September 2nd.jpg|left|thumb|138px|Hurricane Frances n...
80: ...[Hurricane Jeanne|Jeanne]] ([[September 25]]-[[September 26|26]]) cumulatively cost forty-two billion...
116: ...gest Protestant denominations in Florida are: [[Baptist]] (22% of the total state population), [[Metho...
213: <tr><td>17 </td><td>[[Captiva, Florida]]</td><td>$76,139</td></tr> - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ... zones''' are areas of the [[Earth]] that have adopted the same standard [[time]], usually referred to...
19: *[[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]: UTC + 2 (e.g. if it is 23:00 UTC on Monday 15 ...
33: ...mber 2]], [[1868]], [[New Zealand]] officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally, and ...
35: ...able exception was [[Detroit, Michigan]], which kept local time until [[1900]], then vacillated betwee...
37: ...rable." Nevertheless, most major countries had adopted hourly time zones by [[1929]]. Even today, they... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
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...
29: ...mercial application and was able to sell the concept to homes and businesses by mass-producing relativ...
40: ...formed the [[Oriental Telephone Company]]. On [[September 4]], [[1882]], Edison switched on the world'...
43: ...920s.ogg|title= Edison speech on light bulb|description= Video clip of Thomas Edison talking about the... - Great Depression (16069 bytes)
4: ...ury and a half where economic records have been kept with any regularity, and it reached virtually the...
14: ...ed in [[micro-economics]]. In these theories attempts are made to order the sequence of events which i...
28: ...ated north by train to work in auto plants around Detroit.
40: ...own fiscal house back in order. His original conception was that the New Deal would restore circumstan...
42: ...nd trading system were still organized in an attempt by creditors to be paid back for World War I at p... - Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
81: *[[1943]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] [[race riot]]s
125: *[[1949]] - Truman attempts to continue FDR's legacy with his [[Fair Deal]],... - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
80: *[[1965]] - [[Watts Riot]]; [[Detroit race riot]]; "[[long hot summer]]" - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
18: ...ist, international economy. The [[Soviet Union]] opted not to take part.
51: The Soviet Union was not alone in its attempts to influence other nations. The United States t...
55: ...region due to sheer prudence, out of fear that Egyptian leader [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]'s standoff with ...
65: ...ducts, for which advertisers were increasingly adept at creating demand. Affluent Americans in the [[1...
69: ...ulation by [[1960]], U.S. auto-manufacturers in [[Detroit]] responded to the boom with ever-flashier automo... - 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...
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...
57: ...ntchartrain du Dé´˛oit''; now the present site of Detroit. - 2006 (7939 bytes)
28: ...Super Bowl XL]] to be held at [[Ford Field]] in [[Detroit, Michigan]]
56: * [[September 22]] - Annular solar eclipse ([[South Americ...
57: * [[September 24]] - [[Sweden]] holds elections for the [[... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...Elder''' or '''Bruegel''' (c.[[1525]] – [[September 9]], [[1569]]) was a [[Flemish]] [[painter]]...
5: ...ermanently 10 years later. He died there on [[9 September]], [[1569]].
30: * ''Flight To Egypt'' 1563, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
38: ** ''[[The Harvesters]] (Aug.-Sept.)'' 1565, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
42: ...000.jpg|Massacre of the Innocents]]'' c. 1565, Hampton Court, U.K./Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vien... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...has been an annual event since 1903, with the exception of 1904 and 1994. The New York Yankees have th...
3: ...ng in the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
7: A portion of the gate receipts from the World Series - and, from [[1969]] onwar...
9: ...challenges have been made by other leagues. Attempts to pit the [[North America]]n champions against ...
54: * 1887 [[Detroit Wolverines]]
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