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- Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
12: ...old, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas." - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
11: ...d became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors.
13: ... this allowed Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country by participating in the [[French Resist...
17: ...r career was on a downturn and she was near bankruptcy until she was bailed out and given an apartment... - Australia (39438 bytes)
56: ...dopted. In 1824 the British Admiralty finally accepted that the continent should be known officially a...
65: ...hat they called [[New Holland]], but made no attempt at settlement. In 1770 [[James Cook]] was the fir...
67: ...n Australia was also founded "free" but later accepted transported convicts due to an acute labour sho...
73: ...sh country until [[World War II]], and did not adopt the Statute until 1942. The shock of Britain's de...
103: ...[[Australian states and territories|states]], except Queensland, have their own [[bicameral]] [[Parlia... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
24: *[[Egypt]] (Misr) - [[Cairo]] - 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... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to c...
20: * [[1945]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polis...
41: * [[2002]] - [[Mount Nyiragongo]] erupts in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], dis...
147: ...ecutive officer|CEO]] of [[McDonald's Corporation|McDonald's]] (b. [[1960]])
149: ...Schatz]], [[microbiologist]], discoverer of [[streptomycin]] (b. [[1920]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregoria...
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
15: ...discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
28: *[[1892]] - [[Ellis Island]] opens to begin accepting immigrants to the [[United States]].
50: ...Sudan]] achieves independence from the [[Egypt|Egyptian Republic]] and the [[United Kingdom|United Kin... - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
32: ...ue championship in 1966, and in a major upset, swept the World Series by out-dueling the Los Angeles D... - San Diego Padres (7131 bytes)
19: The Padres adopted their name from the [[Pacific Coast League]] te...
23: ...onald's]] restaurants) purchased the Padres and kept them in San Diego. He died just before he could s...
31: ...he Padres' play-by-play announcer since 1972, except in one year (1980) in which Coleman managed the t... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
25: ...boom|baby boomer]] generation. As such, his assumption of office marked a "generational shift" from t...
42: ... state. Hillary took her husband's surname and adopted a more traditional public role as a political w...
65: ...fill another campaign promise relating to the acceptance of openly [[gay]] members of the [[military]]...
71: ...e to stalled legislation, including a failed attempt to create a comprehensive health care system unde...
73: ...asser Arafat]] during the [[Oslo Accords]] on [[September 13]], [[1993]].]] - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
9: ...uction and over investment, production, and consumption decisions throughout the economy. Economic pol...
11: ...utput plan. Central planning operated on the assumption that if each unit met or exceeded its plan, th...
19: ...c reform through the mid-1990s is mixed. The attempts and failures of reformers during the era of [[pe...
40: ...alistic relationship between production and consumption that had been lacking in the central planning ...
67: ...estern supporters greeted the appointment with skepticism, Paramonova was able to implement a tight mo... - List of Major League Baseball players (29066 bytes)
553: *[[Mike Hampton]] - Benjamin Harrison (11469 bytes)
5: ...<font size="+1">'''Benjamin Harrison'''</font></caption>
36: ...aints and monopolies," the first Federal act attempting to regulate trusts.
42: Harrison tried to make the tariff more acceptable by writing in reciprocity provisions. To cope... - Toothfish (2948 bytes)
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6: {{Taxobox classis entry | taxon = [[Actinopterygii]]}} - List of major league baseball players (29066 bytes)
553: *[[Mike Hampton]] - (8563 bytes)
7: ...son and Connor, below), the site lay idle until September 1, 1993, when investigations began under the...
12: ...entry openings from main rooms. All rooms were kept scrupulously clean. Archaeologists identified ve...
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