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- Elephant (13277 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Elephants}}
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23: ...nt ever recorded was a male shot in [[Angola]] in 1974, weighing [[1 E4 kg|12 000 kilograms]] or 26 400 ...
25: [[Prehistory|Prehistoric]] human beings have been known to eat elephants, as recent findings of [...
29: ...thing. A trunk is also used for breathing and can be used as a snorkel when wading through deep water. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
5: ...er people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC and spoke a non-I...
7: ...9th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still disput...
12: ...nt [[Karum Kanesh]]), containing records of trade between Assyrian merchants and a certain "land of ''...
14: ...nd so, rightly or wrongly, the name "Hittite" has become attached to the civilization uncovered at Bo&...
15: ... found a royal archive with 10,000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown langu... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
19: ...f the United States]] from [[1993]] to [[2001]]. Before his Presidency, Clinton served five terms as ...
23: ... on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice before a grand jury for his handling of the [[Lewins...
31: ...he towns of Sikeston and Morley just three months before his son was born. His mother, born [[Virginia...
34: ...eorgetown University]] in Washington DC, where he became a brother of [[Alpha Phi Omega]], worked for ...
38: ...overnor in the United States, and the youngest to be elected to a state governorship since [[1938]]. H... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
5: | date1=[[August 9]], [[1974]]
14: | wife=[[Betty Ford]]
18: ...4) of the [[United States]] for less than a year, became President upon [[Richard Nixon]]'s resignatio...
22: ... hospital four times in 2006, Ford died on [[December 26]] of that year, aged 93.
27: ...ayer in [[1934]]. (His number 48 jersey has since been retired by the school.) After graduating the fo... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
6: | date2=[[August 9]], [[1974]]
17: [[Gerald R. Ford]] ([[1973]]–[[1974]])
19: ...[[moderate]] domestic policy, but he is also remembered as the first and only U.S. President to have e...
22: ...Quaker missionary. His upbringing is said to have been marked by such conservative evangelical Quaker ...
24: ...ne. Nixon always spoke highly of his parents. He began his memoirs with the words "I was born in a ho... - National Football League (30340 bytes)
8: ...gh for the past two years, the regular season has begun on the Thursday after Labor Day.
17: <tr><td>[[Miami Dolphins]]</td><td>[[Cincinnati Bengals]]</td><td>[[Indianapolis Colts]]</td><td>[[K...
24: <tr><td>[[Dallas Cowboys]]</td><td>[[Chicago Bears]]</td><td>[[Atlanta Falcons]]</td><td>[[Arizon...
31: ...eing played in [[Sunday]] night, and another game being played on [[Monday]] night. In addition, the ...
60: ...hose non-division champions with the conference's best won-lost-tied percentages), who are seeded #5 a... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...o the [[Indus Valley Civilization]], which peaked between the [[26th century BC|2600 BC]] and the [[20...
8: ...ontributed greatly to India's cultural landscape. Beginning around [[180 BC]], a series of invasions f...
11: ...ands, which facilitated the establishment of a number of indigenous dynasties. We find reference, in t...
14: Following the Islamic invasions in the beginning of the second millennium, much of India wa...
20: ...tered out by the European powers. Initial rivalry between the French and the English companies finally... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
1: [[Image:Charles_Lindbergh.jpg|thumb|Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis.]]
2: ...[[February 4]], [[1902]] – [[August 26]], [[1974]]) was a pioneering [[United States]] [[aviator]]...
6: ...lane, a [[Curtiss JN4|Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"]], and became a [[stunt pilot]]. In 1924, he started traini...
11: ...rst to make a [[Transatlantic flight]]. That had been done first by the crew of the [[NC-4]] in 1919,...
13: ...ght was such that he became an important voice on behalf of aviation activities until his death. He se... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ... lasted only from [[September 5]], 1774, to [[October 26]], 1774, in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. ...
6: ...fting of the [[Articles of Association]] on [[October 20]]. The Articles formed a compact among twelv...
43: ...; ''Party Politics in the Continental Congress''; 1974, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0070281432; 2002 ''(paperback)...
44: *Lynn Montross; ''The Reluctant Rebels; the Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-17... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ...colonies]]. The war, which eventually widened far beyond [[British North America]], resulted in the ov...
3: ...lution included political and social developments before and after the war itself. This article refers...
5: ...llard in the late nineteenth century that came to be known as ''The Spirit of '76''. Often imitated or...
10: ...ining and discipline of regular troops, but could be effective when led by talented officers.
12: ...r the colonies in any given year. The greatest number of men that Washington personally commanded in t... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
16: |commander2=[[Robert E. Lee]]
22: ...irginia [[Overland Campaign]] against General [[Robert E. Lee]] and the [[Confederate States of Americ...
24: .... A number of battles were fought in the vicinity between [[1862]] and 1864, including the bloody [[Ba...
26: ...moving southward. Unlike the Union army of a year before, Grant had no desire to fight in the Wilderne...
28: ... the other hand, for Lee, who was massively outnumbered as usual (65,000 men to Grant's 123,000), acco... - James Longstreet (9732 bytes)
12: ... took off in the summer of [[1862]] when Gen. [[Robert E. Lee]] took command of the [[Army of Northern...
16: ... against Union forces twice as numerous. On [[October 9]], a few weeks after Antietam, Longstreet was ...
18: ...ricksburg]]. There, Longstreet positioned his men behind a stone wall and held off fourteen assaults b...
20: ...d Longstreet and 15,000 men of the First Corps to be absent from the [[Battle of Chancellorsville]] in...
22: ...orsville, and now Lee wanted Longstreet—his best remaining lieutenant—to fill that role. - March 18 (10594 bytes)
6: *[[37]] - The [[Roman Senate]] annuls [[Tiberius]]' will and proclaims [[Caligula]] emperor.
8: *[[1438]] - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] becomes King of [[Germany]].
10: *[[1673]] - [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton]] sells his part of [[New Jers...
16: ... Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham radio]] o...
19: ...Polish successes, Soviets annex [[Ukraine]] and [[Belarus]]. Government of [[Ukraine]] emigrates to Fr... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], searching for the mouth...
8: ...ew York]] becomes the site of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken)...
10: ...erican Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Bentonville]] begins. By the end of the battle two days later the ...
15: ...s]] for the second time (first time was on [[November 19]], [[1919]]).
19: ...War II]]: Off the coast of [[Japan]], a [[dive bomber]] hits the [[aircraft carrier]] [[USS Franklin (... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
7: *[[1413]] – [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of [[England]].
11: ... 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
13: *[[1852]] – [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' is publi...
15: ... Facility|Sing Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[electric ch...
19: *[[1916]] – [[Albert Einstein]] publishes his [[theory of relativity... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
1: '''March 22''' is the [[81 (number)|81]]st day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calen...
12: ...becomes the first governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be removed from office by [[impeachment]].
16: ...]] signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of [[beer]] and [[wine]].
18: *[[1941]] - [[Washington]]'s [[Grand Coulee Dam]] begins to generate [[electricity]].
22: *[[1958]] - [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia|Faisal]] becomes King of [[Saudi Arabia]]. - Denver, Colorado (21161 bytes)
36: Denver is nicknamed the "'''Mile-High City'''", because its official elevation, measured on one of t...
38: ...istorically as the '''Queen City of the Plains''' because of its important role in the agricultural in...
40: Several [[United States Navy|US Navy]] ships have been named [[USS Denver|USS ''Denver'']] in honor of...
43: ... in the [[Kansas Territory]] in [[1858]]. On November 22 of that year, [[General William Larimer]], a ...
45: ... Denver]], in order to ensure that the city would become the county seat of then Arapaho County, Kansa... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
22: ... students who study Urban Geography around the globe.
24: ...n Civil War|Civil War]], but recovered in time to be chosen the state capital shortly thereafter. In t...
28: ...erimeter is Atlanta's equivalent to the [[Capital Beltway]] around [[Washington, DC]].
31: ...tive American|Indian]] territory. After these tribes were deported along the [[Trail of Tears]] to [[...
33: ...middle name, [[Atalanta]]. Whatever the case may be, Marthasville was renamed Atlanta in [[1845]] and... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...sted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]])...
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
22: *[[Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni]] (Uzbekistan, [[973]] - [[1048]])
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[19...
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
20: *[[Robert Grant Aitken|Robert Aitken]], ([[United States|USA]], [[1864]] &nda...
37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] – [[1992]])
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