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- Calvin Coolidge (18374 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Calvin Coolidge'''</font></caption>
4: <tr><td style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2>
15: <tr><td>'''Profession:'''</td><td>[[Attorney]], [[Statesman]]</t...
21: '''John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.''' ([[July 4]], [[1872]] – [[...
25: ... cracking a smile and with his usual seriousness, Calvin answered, "No, but I find it mighty handy."[http:...
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- Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...s|American]] [[aviator]], known for breaking new ground for female pilots, and remembered for her myst...
6: ...olism]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve...
8: ...lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her f...
10: ...to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ...old Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]]. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...nd the [[betrothal|betrothed]] of [[Joseph the Betrothed|Joseph]]. The area of [[Christian]] [[theolog...
8: ...f Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chur...
13: ...for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the catt...
15: ...among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this period Joseph died, for he ...
17: ... of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, and [[Mary Magdalen... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...a]]. Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed to remove or amend this requirement, but non...
16: ...e served two full terms: [[Dwight Eisenhower]], [[Ronald Reagan]], and [[Bill Clinton]]. Incumbent Pre...
19: ...e person receiving the greatest number of votes (provided that such a number was a majority of elector...
21: ...mendment XII]] in [[1804]] changed the electoral process by directing the electors to use separate bal...
25: ...ess is concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ...ted States of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson]] from [[1913]] to [[1921]].
5: ...at the courthouse listening to lawyers; Marshall wrote later of listening to future President [[Benjam...
7: ...ful in passing much of his progressive platform through the state legislature, nor in raising a conven...
11: ... [[William Jennings Bryan]] agreed to endorse Woodrow Wilson; Indiana's delegates successfully lobbied...
15: ...ent team to be re-elected since [[James Monroe|Monroe]] and [[Daniel D Tompkins|Tompkins]] in the 1820... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hillsborough]], [[New Hampshire]]
18: ...14th [[President of the United States]], serving from [[1853]] to [[1857]]. Pierce was a [[United Stat...
20: ...[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
22: Kunhardt wrote in ''The American President'' what many histori...
25: ...ce had six older and two younger siblings, four brothers and three sisters. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...gmaf;, opposite the arctic) is a [[continent]] surrounding the [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]]. It is the [...
15: ...ld and dry. There is little [[precipitation (meteorology)|precipitation]] over the continent, but [[ic...
20: [[Image:Antarctica Map.png|thumb|280px|Region around Antarctica]]
24: ...der [[Eastern Antarctica]], since they correspond roughly to the eastern and western hemispheres relat...
32: ... border is the 60? S parallel that does not cut through any piece of land, continent or island, which ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ... York]] to the west, and the [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Quebec]] to the north.
38: ...tionary War]]. Famous for its scenery, [[dairy]] products and [[maple syrup]], Vermont has long been k...
44: ...hington]], three miles east of [[Roxbury, Vermont|Roxbury]].
50: ...ion, giving Vermont some of New England's best [[cross-country skiing]] areas.
52: ...articular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and climate conditions unique t... - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
2: ...tion = Skull of ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex|T. Rex]]'' from the <br /> [[United States Department of the Int...
7: {{Taxobox_superordo_entry | taxon = '''Dinosauria'''}}<br>{{Taxobo...
11: [[Sauropodomorpha]]<br/>
12: [[Theropoda]]<br/>
16: ...]]ized [[bone]]s, [[feces]], [[trackway]]s, [[gastrolith]]s, [[feather]]s, impressions of skin and int... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...pression|the Great Depression]]. The years of the Roaring Twenties are marked by several [[invention]]...
3: ...arted to soar in Europe and the Roaring Twenties broke out in [[Germany]], [[England]] and [[France]],...
5: ...n [[jazz]] and [[dancing]], in defiance of the horrors of the First World War, which were still presen...
8: ...a society with a culture of [[consumerism]]. In Europe, the economy did not start to flourish until [[...
11: ...d the labor force and factories were retooled to produce consumer goods. - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ... [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scienc...
11: ...work, looking closely at the ways in which they "produce" and "construct" scientific knowledge. Since ...
13: ...progressive, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any othe...
21: ...s a direct outgrowth of [[religion]], often as a project of a particular religious community.
23: ...hat would describe nature as it was in the world around them. - Government (12596 bytes)
1: ...dministrate, whether over an area of land, a set group of people, or an association.
4: One approach is to define government as the dominant decisi...
5: ...ely [[despotism|despotic]] organization which controls a territory without defining laws would not be ...
7: ...olling entry and exit to the state, preventing encroachment of territory by neighbouring states and pr...
9: ...or ''party in Government'') will also usually control the [[legislature]]. The [[French (language)|Fre... - Chloroplast (2430 bytes)
1: ...plastsfigure1.jpg|thumb|right|The inside of a chloroplast]]
2: '''Chloroplasts''' are [[organelle]]s found in [[plant]] [[...
3: ... are found only in plants. Both organelles are surrounded by a double membrane with an intermembrane s...
4: ...un into [[Adenosine_triphosphate|ATP]] through a process called [[photosynthesis]].
6: Chloroplasts are one of the forms a [[plastid]] may take... - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
1: ...eline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1900]] to [[1929]]'''.
11: *[[1901]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] becomes [[President]]
16: *[[1902]] - First [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game played
18: ...- ''[[The Great Train Robbery (movie)|Great Train Robbery]]'' movie opens
26: *[[1904]] - [[Roosevelt Corollary]] to [[Monroe Doctrine]] - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
7: ...the [[tractor]], so fewer farmers were needed to produce a greater harvest of food.
9: ...esident of the United States|US President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] campaigned for the U.S. toooo join the ...
11: ==The Roaring Twenties==
12: {{Main|Roaring Twenties}}
14: ... with the election of [[Warren G. Harding]], who promised a "return to normalcy" after the traumatic y... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
36: ...ke Michigan]], which in turn is believed to come from the [[Chippewa]] Indian word ''meicigama'', mean...
40: ...the opening of the [[Erie Canal]] in 1825, which brought large numbers of settlers.
44: ...was a rich and important source of [[lumber]], [[iron]], and [[copper]], which would become the state'...
46: ...It was a development that not only transformed Detroit and Michigan, but permanently altered the socio... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...lso led to the [[Counter-Reformation]] within the Roman Catholic Church.
3: == Roots of the Reformation ==
13: * [[John Calvin]] and [[Geneva]]
20: ...cal and demographic forces that contributed to a growing disaffection with the wealth and power of the...
22: ...stry. Accumulation of surplus, competitive [[overproduction]], and heightened competition to maximize ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German invento...
26: *[[Melvin Calvin]] (1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [...
28: *[[Heinrich Caro]], (1834-1910), German chemist
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...anada]], with the aid of [[abolitionists]]. Other routes led to [[Mexico]] or overseas.
4: ...agination as a symbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominently in [[African American history]].
6: ...ight|400px|thumb|Map of some Underground Railroad routes]]
10: .... Churches and religious denominations played key roles, especially the [[Religious Society of Friends...
14: The Underground Railroad developed its own jargon, which continued the [... - Photosynthesis (9830 bytes)
1: <!-- Introduction section. It is meant to be very nontechnia...
3: ... energy through photosynthesis are called [[phototroph]]s.
6: ...is. For instance, the over-all equation for the production of [[glucose]] is:
10: ...y. However, both processes actually take place through a complex sequence of steps, and are very diff...
12: ... leaf. Areas where green chlorophyll has been destroyed now appear yellow]] - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[Calvin Coolidge]]
8: | succeeded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
20: ==Family background==
23: ...r-old "Bert" Hoover boarded a [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]] train headed west to [[Oregon]]...
24: ... John Minthorn in this [[Newberg, Oregon]] house from [[1885]]-[[1891|91]].]]
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