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- Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
2: ...ish]] [[natural history|naturalist]] who achieved lasting fame as originator of the theory of [[evolut...
4: ...tion that [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] now had a similar theory forced early joint [[publication of Darwi...
6: ...ssion of the Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His last book was about earthworms.
15: ...rwin was born in [[Shrewsbury, Shropshire]], [[England]], on [[12 February]] [[1809]] at the family ho...
19: ...Museum of Edinburgh University]], then one of the largest in Europe. At professor Robert Jameson's ''W... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]
13: | place of death=[[Washington D.C]].
20: ...rs]] by the people instead of by the [[state legislature]]s. Taft was the first president to occupy t...
22: ...lting in the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]]. Taft later became [[Chief Justice of the United States|Ch...
25: ...l career in Ohio shortly after joining the [[Bar (law)|bar]] in [[1880]]. - Charles G. Dawes (3139 bytes)
5: ...84]] and from the [[Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati]] Law School in [[1886]]. He was admitted to the bar ...
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]].
13: ...written in 1951 by [[Carl Sigman]]. The song was later recorded by such artists as [[Tommy Edwards]],...
17: ...vanston Historical Society], headquartered in the lakefront Dawes house - Charles Curtis (4708 bytes)
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]].]]
11: ...ashington, D.C.]], Curtis resumed the practice of law. He died in that city in 1936. His remains wer...
13: ... and about 1,625 acres (6.6 km²) of Kaw land to Curtis and his children.
16: *[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001008 Biographical Directory of the U... - Henry A. Wallace (8151 bytes)
1: [[Image:Henry A. Wallace.jpg|frame|Henry Agard Wallace]]
2: '''Henry Agard Wallace''' ([[October 7]], [[1888]] – [[November ...
5: ...1910]]. He worked on the editorial staff of ''Wallace's Farmer'' in [[Des Moines, Iowa]] from [[1910]...
7: ...tic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. Wallace served as Secretary of Agriculture until Septem...
10: ...[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. His inauguration took place on [[January 20]], [[1941]], for the term endin... - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
1: ... ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and ...
6: ...h itself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically signif...
14: ...this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: s&...
15: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...stors of modern [[Chinese character]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ...ly unified into a single political unit until the late 19th century, they exerted influence upon Weste...
5: ...reign was usually the German king, and the German lands were always its chief component. After the mid...
17: ... Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons, Frisians, Thuringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke...
19: ...e without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Ch...
23: ...ished to spread the Christian faith in the German lands. - Tuataras (5776 bytes)
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13: ''[[Brothers Island tuatara|Sphenodon guntheri]]''
15: ... a small number of offshore islands. It has been classified as an [[endangered species]] since [[1895]... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...h century]] been preoccupied with the question of large-scale patterns and trends in the development o...
7: ..., most natural philosophers worked in relative isolation, due to the difficulty and slowness of commun...
9: ...e scrutiny of their peers, though a number of scholarly critics from both inside and outside the scien...
11: ... an exclusive membership rule: discovery of a new law of nature was a prequisite for admission. It was...
13: ...[[Accademia del Cimento]], [[Florence]] [[1657]], lasted 10 years. The [[Royal Society]] of [[London]]... - Painting of the United States (3965 bytes)
3: ...ement brought the transcendent beauty of frontier landscapes to painters' attention.
5: ...ains, and the people who lived near them. Middle-class city life found its painter in [[Thomas Eakins]...
12: ...d images of American popular culture—Coca-Cola bottles, soup cans, comic strips.
14: ...can contribution to world art has been a mocking playfulness, a sense that a central purpose of a new ...
17: ...eth]], [[Winslow Homer]], [[Man Ray]], [[Dorothea Lange]], [[Robert Capa]], [[Ansel Adams]], [[Augustu... - Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
1: ...rizes the manners and affectations of a [[social class]], often represented by [[stock characters]], s...
3: ...sy and pretension of [[ancien r�gime]] in such plays as ''L'�cole des femmes'' (''The School for W...
5: ... (''[[The Way of the World]]'', [[1700]]). In the late [[18th century]] [[Oliver Goldsmith]] (''She St...
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
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[N...
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
16: ...vicepresident=[[John N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
18: ...nd privilege, he overcame a crippling illness to place himself at the head of the forces of reform. Hi... - Holocaust (53541 bytes)
4: ..., [[Religion|religious]], [[nation]]al, and [[secular]] groups during [[World War II]]. Early elements...
6: ...e total death toll rises considerably. Estimates place the total number of Holocaust victims at up to ...
10: ...n used by a large variety of authors to reference large catastrophes and massacres.
12: ... '''''Sho'ah''''', meaning "calamity" in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] (and also used to refer to "destru...
14: ...f the term becomes increasingly widespread in the latter half of the [[20th century]] to refer generic... - Warren Court (6109 bytes)
4: ...trict Attorney]] of [[Alameda County, California|Alameda County]] when the incumbent resigned. He was...
6: ...they chose. In [[1946]], Warren managed the singular feat of winning the Republican, [[United States ...
8: ... Warren and University of California President [[Clark Kerr]] presided over construction of a renowned...
12: ...nterrogated while in police custody be clearly explained, including the right to an [[attorney]].
16: ...for controversy among [[conservative]]s: signs declaring 'Impeach Earl Warren' could be seen across th... - Handball (6138 bytes)
1: ...ort]] where two teams of seven players each (six players and a [[goalkeeper]]) pass and bounce a [[bal...
3: ...ball which is inverse from football. It has been played internationally since the first half of the 20...
7: ...om the goal. There is also a dashed near-semicircular line that is nine meters away from the goal.
9: ...ch and touch the ball in the air within it. If a player should find himself in contact inside the goal...
11: ...uch as in [[basketball]], except that a handball player may raise their hand above shoulder level whil... - Agathaumas (2195 bytes)
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20: ...s a [[ceratopsid]] resembling [[Triceratops]]. Relatively little is known about the species, because ...
22: ...ay, most argue that ''Agathaumas'' is simply a mislabled [[Triceratops]]. - Barbara Bush (3252 bytes)
1: [[Image:Barbara_bush_first_lady_us_portrait.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Barbara Bush,...
4: ..., and was [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She i...
7: ...Pierce was born to Pauline and Marvin Pierce, who later became president of McCall Corporation. She gr...
9: Her ancestor, an early New England colonist named Thomas Pierce, was also the ance...
14: ... [[Andover, Massachusetts]]. One and a half years later, the two became engaged, just before George we... - Pat Nixon (3962 bytes)
2: ...993 was the wife of [[Richard Nixon]] and [[First Lady of the United States]] from 1969-1974.
7: ...Her mother, Kate Halberstadt Bender Ryan, died in 1925; at 13 Pat assumed all the household duties for h...
9: ...extra in the movies—and she graduated ''cum laude'' in 1937.
12: ...d Nixon on the political trail together, exit US plane]]
13: ...le Theater group when they were cast in the same play, and were married at the Mission Inn in Riversid... - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: '''Physics''' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]], φυσικa...
4: ...articular types of material systems that obey the laws of physics. For example, chemistry is the scien...
6: ...e distinction is not always clear-cut. There is a large area of research intermediate between physics ...
15: ...at have been levelled against [[M-theory]], a popular theory in high-energy physics for which no pract...
19: ...hree centuries after the original formulation of classical mechanics by [[Isaac Newton]]. These "centr... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
7: ...fought at Blore Heath, in [[Staffordshire]], [[England]]
10: ...''Countess of Scarborough'' off the coast of [[England]]
13: ...[1806]] - [[Lewis and Clark Expedition|Lewis and Clark]] return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest...
15: *[[1846]] - Discovery of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] by French astronomer [[Urbain Le Ve...
16: *[[1868]] - [[Grito de Lares]] (Lares Revolt) occurs in [[Puerto Rico]] against Span...
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