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- Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
3: ... [[Pierre de Coubertin|Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin]] in the late [[19th century]]. The '''...
11: ''In detail: [[Ancient Olympic Games]]''
13: ...kecheiria)'' or [[Olympic Truce]]. The first recorded celebration of the Games in [[Olympia, Greece|Ol...
21: ...e oils to keep their skin smooth, as well as provide an appealing luster to anyone who saw them.
24: ...cation and foreign relations and so spurred the modern Olympic Games into existence.]] - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: .... Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], ...
7: ...e distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[J...
13: ...te library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...; Bach was equally at home talking with organ builders and with performers.
19: ...essive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he was the first in his family to finish... - Woodrow Wilson (31322 bytes)
1: <table border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><t...
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6: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>28th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>[[William Howard Taft]]</td></t...
10: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[Sunday]], [[December 28]], [[1856]]</td></tr> - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Theodore Roosevelt
4: | order=26th President
7: | preceded=[[William McKinley]]
8: | succeeded=[[William Howard Taft]]
11: | dead=dead - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=William Howard Taft
4: | order=27th President
7: | preceded=[[Theodore Roosevelt]]
8: | succeeded=[[Woodrow Wilson]]
11: | dead=dead - Hannibal Hamlin (5219 bytes)
2: ... the [[U.S. presidential election, 1860|1860 presidential election]].
4: ...e began practicing in [[Hampden (town), Maine|Hampden]], where he lived until [[1848]].
8: ... Convention two years later, he withdrew from the Democrats and joined the newly organized Republican ...
10: ...[history of slaver in the United States|slavery]] Democratic policies, and on [[June 12]], [[1856]], h...
14: ...n]] and the arming of [[African Americans]]. His identification with the [[Radical Republican]]s cause... - Adlai E. Stevenson (3193 bytes)
5: ...rom [[Illinois]] and the twenty-third [[Vice President of the United States]].
8: ...to [[Bloomington, Illinois]] in [[1852]]. He attended [[Illinois Wesleyan University]] at Bloomington ...
12: ...y from [[1865]] to [[1868]]. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth [[Congress of the Unite...
15: ...in [[1900]] and for [[governor of Illinois]] in [[1908]].
18: ...ired from public and political activities and resided in Bloomington. He died in [[Chicago, Illinois]... - James S. Sherman (2788 bytes)
1: ...VPjamesssherman.jpg|right|Photo of U.S. Vice President James S. Sherman]]
3: ...tive]] from [[New York]] and the 27th [[Vice President of the United States]]. He was one of few vice
4: presidents wearing eyeglasses, the others being [[Theodor...
5: ...]] and [[Dick Cheney]]. Nonetheless his vice-presidential bust in the Senate is so far the only bust w...
7: ...lson]] and [[Thomas R. Marshall]] won in a landslide. He was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery. - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ...ermanent settlements appeared 9,000 years ago and developed into the [[Indus Valley Civilization]], wh...
8: ...y]] oversaw the period referred to as India's "Golden Age".
11: ...and [[Indian philosophy|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
14: ...ntermission by the [[Vijayanagara Empire]], which declined with the 16th Century AD.
17: ...e [[Sanchi|Sanchi stupa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd centur... - Angel Shark (6012 bytes)
2: ...d devil.png|250px|Sand devil]] | caption = [[Sand devil]], ''Squatina dumeril''}}
7: ...'}}<br/>{{Taxobox authority | author = [[Fernando de Buen|Buen]] | date = 1926}}
14: ...and order '''Squatiniformes'''. They occur worldwide in temperate and tropical seas.
18: ... or mud, then lunging to snap up prey, which includes [[fish]], [[crustacean]]s, and various types of ...
22: ...ns were taken off California in 1984. The fishery devastated the population, and is now regulated. - Crane bird (6009 bytes)
12: ''[[Anthropoides]]''<br>
17: ...ng-legged and long-necked [[Aves|bird]]s of the order [[Gruiformes]], and family '''Gruidae'''. Unlike...
21: ...n. They eat suitably sized prey such as small [[rodent]]s, [[fish]] and [[amphibian]]s, but will eat [...
26: ...e, performed a crane dance that was captured in [[1908]] in a photograph by [[Arnold Genthe]]. In [[Kore...
28: ...d [[Hubal]], the three goddesses who would intercede with [[Allah]], were the "three exalted cranes" (... - United States Republican Party (30737 bytes)
6: senateleader= [[Bill Frist]]|
7: houseleader= [[Tom DeLay]]|
9: ideology = [[Conservatism]] |
10: international = [[International Democrat Union]] |
17: ...ntatives]], as well as in governorships. In the modern political era, the GOP is the more [[conservati... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4: | order=32th President
7: | preceded=[[Herbert Hoover]]
8: | succeeded=[[Harry S. Truman]]
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[New York]] - Ankylosaurus (3822 bytes)
17: ...e of an [[elephant]], but had a low-slung, very wide body. It is one of the most heavily armored dinos...
19: ==Description==
21: ...et]]) long. While they were 1.8 meters (6 feet) wide, there were only 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall. Its le...
23: ...il was muscular, so it probably made an effective defensive weapon.
31: ...t by the row of short spikes running down their sides. - Hadrosauridae (5111 bytes)
29: ...ia]], [[Europe]], and [[North America]]. They are descendants of the the Upper [[Jurassic]]/Lower Cret...
31: Hadrosaurids are divided into two subfamilies. The lambeosaurines (Lambeo...
34: ...nd ''Thespesius'' (others included ''Troodon'', ''Deinodon'' and ''Palaeoscincus''). One species was n...
36: ...r with other poorly typed genera, was used more widely, and when Cope's famous "''Diclonius mirabilis'...
38: ... (''Edmontosaurus annectens'') was recovered in [[1908]] by the fossil collector [[Charles Hazelius Ster... - Edmontosaurus (4846 bytes)
27: ...dy cavities of fossilized edmontosaurs. It was evidently a tree-browser.
29: ...t its body at the knee, and the whole thigh was under the skin. This only contributes to its resemblan...
31: ...us'' would only have been slow-moving and had few defensive features. To survive, it must have had kee...
33: ... passages. These could have been inflatable, in order to intimidate other dinosaurs or as part of the ...
37: ...he [[Denver Museum of Nature and Science]] has evidence of a ''T. rex'' bite in the tail. This vicious... - Hadrosaurid (5111 bytes)
29: ...ia]], [[Europe]], and [[North America]]. They are descendants of the the Upper [[Jurassic]]/Lower Cret...
31: Hadrosaurids are divided into two subfamilies. The lambeosaurines (Lambeo...
34: ...nd ''Thespesius'' (others included ''Troodon'', ''Deinodon'' and ''Palaeoscincus''). One species was n...
36: ...r with other poorly typed genera, was used more widely, and when Cope's famous "''Diclonius mirabilis'...
38: ... (''Edmontosaurus annectens'') was recovered in [[1908]] by the fossil collector [[Charles Hazelius Ster... - Duck-bill (5340 bytes)
29: ...ia]], [[Europe]], and [[North America]]. They are descendants of the the Upper [[Jurassic]]/Lower Cret...
31: Hadrosaurids are divided into two subfamilies. The lambeosaurines (Lambeo...
34: ...nd ''Thespesius'' (others included ''Troodon'', ''Deinodon'' and ''Palaeoscincus''). One species was n...
36: ...r with other poorly typed genera, was used more widely, and when Cope's famous "''Diclonius mirabilis'...
38: ... (''Edmontosaurus annectens'') was recovered in [[1908]] by the fossil collector [[Charles Hazelius Ster... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
14: ...]] - The [[Pennsylvania State University]] is founded.
17: * [[1876]] - [[Johns Hopkins University]] is founded in [[Baltimore, Maryland]].
19: ... [[1889]] - [[President of the United States|President]] [[Grover Cleveland]] signs a bill admitting [...
23: ...omunitat de Catalunya]] and conducted by [[Rafael de Campalans]].
24: ...s the first [[President of the United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...ombinations and classical forms. His oeuvre included everything from symphonies to [[piano]] miniatur...
10: ... St. Petersburg and dominated by his father and elder brother, Stravinsky's early childhood was a mix ...
12: ...d<nowiki>]</nowiki> them all to hell". (He succeeded: the 1913 première of ''Le sacre du print...
14: ...learn and explore art, literature, and life. This desire manifested itself in several of his Paris col...
17: ...rtner until his death, was his second wife [[Vera de Bosset]].
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