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- Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...ections, but in [[1858]] the information that [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] now had a similar theory force...
19: ...avid student of [[Robert Edmund Grant]], learning from Grant's enthusiasm for the theories of [[Jean-B...
24: ...divine design]] in nature. He got private tuition from Henslow whose subjects were maths and theology,...
32: [[Image:HMSBeagle.jpeg|thumb|right|HMS Beagle, from an 1841 watercolour by Owen Stanley]]
37: From reading [[Charles Lyell]]'s ''Principles of Geo... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
18: ...n]] with the backing of his predecessor and close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].
25: ...the [[Psi Upsilon]] [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternal organization]]. After college, he attended...
27: ... [[Treaty of Paris (1898)|1898 Treaty of Paris]]. From [[1901]] to [[1903]], Taft served as the first ...
29: ...act, it was said that an aide blacked out "pudgy" from his morning newspaper.
33: [[Image:Taft.png|left|frame|Official [[White House]] portrait of Taft.]] - Charles G. Dawes (3139 bytes)
5: ...aduated from [[Marietta College]] in [[1884]] and from the [[Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati]] Law School ...
7: ...nomy, Dawes shared the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in [[1925]].
9: ...vin Coolidge]] and was inaugurated [[March 4]], [[1925]], for the term ending [[March 3]], [[1929]].
11: ...tional Bank and Trust Co., [[Chicago, Illinois]], from 1932 until his death in [[Evanston, Illinois]]....
17: ...ton Historical Society], headquartered in the lakefront Dawes house - Charles Curtis (4708 bytes)
1: [[image:CharlesCurtis.jpg|right|frame|Charles Curtis]]
3: ...entative]] and a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Kansas]] as well as the 31st [[Vice President...
5: ...s Senate Majority Leader|Majority Leader]] from [[1925]] to 1929. It was during his Senatorial years th...
7: ...itol building on inauguration day, [[March 4]], [[1925]].]]
9: Curtis resigned from the Senate on March 3, 1929, having been electe... - Henry A. Wallace (8151 bytes)
1: [[Image:Henry A. Wallace.jpg|frame|Henry Agard Wallace]]
5: ...m [[1910]] to [[1924]] and edited the publication from 1924 to [[1929]]. He experimented with breedin...
7: ...ed as Secretary of Agriculture from [[1921]] to [[1925]].) Wallace had been a [[liberal]] [[Republican P...
10: ...t on the Democratic Party ticket with President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. His inauguration took place...
14: ... the phrase "Century of the Common Man", to the [[Free World Association]] in [[New York City]]. This ... - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
1: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
6: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin... - Tuataras (5776 bytes)
22: ...henodontida, which was proposed by Estes in 1983 (Fraser & Sues, 1994)
26: ...ans known as pleurosaurs, which differed markedly from living tuatara.
28: ...are probably unique to tuataras and not inherited from previous sphenodontians (which lived in much wa...
37: The name tuatara derives from the [[Māori]] language, meaning "spiny bac...
43: ... 15 months from copulation for a tuatara to hatch from its egg. During courtship, a male makes himself... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ...ndous government support and also ongoing support from the private sector. Available methods of commun...
9: ...their peers, though a number of scholarly critics from both inside and outside the scientific communit...
13: ...as created as an institution of the government of France [[1666]], meeting in the King's library. The ...
15: ...ost-Cold War era, a decline in government funding from many countries has been met with an increase of...
22: ... painting]]s depicted events, with no commentary. From 40,000 BC to 15,000 BC. - Painting of the United States (3965 bytes)
3: ... of settlement brought the transcendent beauty of frontier landscapes to painters' attention.
7: ...bstract painters promoted by the photographer [[Alfred Stieglitz]] ([[1864]]-[[1946]]) at his Gallery ...
12: ...media. Among them were [[Robert Rauschenberg]] ([[1925]]- ) and [[Jasper Johns]] ([[1930]]- ), who used ...
17: ... [[Buckminster Fuller]], [[Louis Sullivan]] and [[Frank Gehry]]. - Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
3: ...nners, however, may well be those of the [[France|French]] playwright [[Moli�re]], who satirized the...
7: ... dramatists [[Noel Coward]] (''[[Hay Fever]]'', [[1925]]) and [[Somerset Maugham]], as well as various [... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18: ...f reform. His family and close friends called him Frank. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR ...
20: ...nal organization to preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
22: ...nd his failure to advance [[civil rights]] for [[African Americans]]. Some conservatives such as [[Ron...
26: ...matter of great pride to his great-great-grandson Franklin. - Holocaust (53541 bytes)
6: ...estimates by historians of the exact number range from five million to over six million. Other groups ...
10: The word ''holocaust'' originally derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word ''[[holokaust...
16: The term has been frequently used to reference nuclear war, and in the...
20: ...azi Holocaust which taken together distinguish it from other [[genocides in history]].
24: ...dge, and renowned [[Psychiatry|psychiatrist]] [[Alfred Hoche]], the work was key to the formulation of... - Warren Court (6109 bytes)
1: [[Image:EarlWarren.jpeg|right|framed|Earl Warren]]
2: ...s the 14th [[Chief Justice of the United States]] from [[1953]]–[[1969]]. His term of office wa...
4: ...ornia|San Francisco County]] in [[1920]] and in [[1925]] was appointed as [[District Attorney]] of [[Ala...
8: ...ucture]] to support a two-decade boom that lasted from the end of [[World War II]] until the mid-[[196...
12: ... serve on juries; and [[Miranda warning|Miranda]] from the case ''[[Miranda v. Arizona]]'', 384 US 436... - Handball (6138 bytes)
3: ...asic method of handling the ball which is inverse from football. It has been played internationally si...
7: ...d near-semicircular line that is nine meters away from the goal.
15: ... as well, the tie-break is an individual shootout from the 7-meter line.
17: ...ayers is particularly rough (even if it is indeed frontal), the [[referee]]s may award a nine-meter pe...
25: ...ury, there existed similar games of ''haandbool'' from [[Denmark]], ''hazena'' in [[Bohemia]] and [[Sl... - Agathaumas (2195 bytes)
26: ...s O'Brien]], who used the ''Agathaumas'' in the [[1925]] film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016039/combi... - Barbara Bush (3252 bytes)
4: ...e United States|First Lady]] of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of current U.S....
9: ...ierce, was also the ancestor to [[Franklin Pierce|Franklin Pierce]], the 14th [[President of the Unite...
18: After the war, George graduated from Yale University, and they moved to [[Midland]],...
23: ...sh Compound in [[Kennebunkport, Maine]]. They are frequent honored guests at the White House. - Pat Nixon (3962 bytes)
1: [[Image:Pat nixon.jpg|right|frame|Pat Nixon]]
2: ...d Nixon]] and [[First Lady of the United States]] from 1969-1974.
5: .... Patrick]]'s babe in the morn" when he came home from the mines before dawn.
7: ...Her mother, Kate Halberstadt Bender Ryan, died in 1925; at 13 Pat assumed all the household duties for h...
12: ...age:Pat and Richard Nixon exit US plane.jpg|right|frame|Pat and Richard Nixon on the political trail t... - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ... contexts, ranging from the sub-nuclear particles from which all ordinary matter is made ([[particle p...
12: The culture of physics research differs from the other sciences in the separation of [[theor...
15: ...mulation of new theories. Likewise, ideas arising from theory often inspire new experiments. In the ab...
34: | [[Boltzmann's constant]], [[Entropy]], [[Free energy]], [[Heat]], [[Partition function (stati...
42: ...lence principle]], [[Four-momentum]], [[Reference frame]], [[Spacetime]], [[Speed of light]] - September 23 (7397 bytes)
15: ...ams]]; verified by German astronomer [[Johann Gottfried Galle]]
29: ...] world heavyweight champion ever to come from [[Africa]] when he knocks out defending [[WBA]] champio...
38: ...AD [[1158]] - [[Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany|Geoffrey Plantagenet]], [[Duke of Brittany]]
43: *[[1819]] - [[Hippolyte Fizeau]], French physicist (d. [[1896]])
44: *[[1838]] - [[Victoria Woodhull]], suffragist (d. [[1927]])
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