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- Dodos (9122 bytes)
18: ... Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]...
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported...
29: ...lgvogel'' ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant taste and texture of the meat. No dodo bones have been...
33: ... extinction of the dodo is commonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]], reported by [[shi...
37: ... dodo skeletons. A Dodo egg is on display at the East London museum in South Africa. Genetic material h... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
15: *'''[[American Civil War]]''' (1861–1865)
208: *[[Confederate States of America]] (1861–1865) - Seadragon (2092 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Gasterosteiformes]]}}
12: ... [[Albert C. L. G. Günther|Günther]] | date = [[1865]]}}
17: ... they are very large for sea horses, growing at least 18 inches (45 cm). They feed on [[plankton]], [[a... - Painting of the United States (3965 bytes)
7: ...e artistic values," announced [[Robert Henri]] ([[1865]]-[[1929]]). He was the leader of what critics ca... - United States Republican Party (30737 bytes)
32: ...rty earlier, a [[political cartoon]] by [[Thomas Nast]], published in ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's We...
45: ...lavery had long been prohibited, and in the Northeast, culminating in a sweep of victories in the North...
47: ...o had participated in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves pos...
57: ...tionism]]. [[Thomas Dewey]] represented the Northeastern wing of the party that was closer to Democrati...
59: ...ing pockets of liberal Republicanism in the northeast began to die out as the region turned solidly Dem... - Anchisaurus (5714 bytes)
16: ...A. polyzelus'' ([[Edward Hitchcock|Hitchcock]], [[1865]])<br/>
26: ...ed these bones under the name "Megadactylus" in [[1865]]. The great [[paleontologist]] [[Othniel Charles... - Stone Age (17593 bytes)
6: ...he spread of humanity from the [[savanna]]s of [[East Africa]] to the rest of the world. It ends with t...
8: ...hic]] periods, by John Lubbock in his now classic 1865 book ''Pre-historic Times''. These three periods ...
26: ...s choppers. ''Homo habilis'' is presumed to have mastered the Oldowan era tool case which utilized ston...
36: From 35,000 to 10,000 years ago (the end of the last ice age modern humans spread out further across t...
43: ...) was imported from the [[Ancient Near East|Near East]]. There, microlith tools permitted more efficien... - First Lady of the United States (9641 bytes)
131: | April 15, 1865
135: | April 15, 1865 - September 23 (7397 bytes)
10: ...pis]]'' and ''Countess of Scarborough'' off the coast of [[England]]
15: ...tronomer [[John Couch Adams]]; verified by German astronomer [[Johann Gottfried Galle]]
33: *[[2004]] - At least 1,070 in [[Haiti]] reported killed by [[flood]]s ...
47: *[[1865]] - Baroness [[Emmuska Orczy]], novelist (d. [[19...
92: *[[1873]] - [[Jean Chacornac]], French astronomer (b. [[1823]]) - Neolithic (8186 bytes)
15: ...]. The name was invented by [[John Lubbock]] in [[1865]] as a refinement of the [[three-age system]]. Th...
18: ... [[farming]] [[society|societies]] in the [[Near East]] do not use pottery, and in [[Britain]] it remai...
27: - Edwin Abbott Abbott (2724 bytes)
1: ...n of [[Edwin Abbott]] ([[1808]] - [[1882]]), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his...
3: ... headmaster of the [[City of London School]] in [[1865]] at the early age of twenty-six. He was [[Hulsea... - Gregor Mendel (6112 bytes)
8: ...3 he entered an [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[monastery]] in [[Brno]]. He was later sent to the [[Univ...
10: ...ation in plants. He commenced his study in his monastery's experimental garden. Between 1856 and 1863 M...
12: ...stics. On one of his frequent walks around the monastery, he found an atypical variety of an ornamental...
14: ...atural History Society of Brunn in Bohemia]] in [[1865]]. When Mendel's paper was published in [[1866]] ...
27: ... by his notes in the margin of the copy in his monastery), but apparently failed to realize its signifi... - Cellulose acetate (4564 bytes)
1: '''Cellulose acetate''', first prepared in [[1865]], is the acetate [[salt]] of [[cellulose]]. Cel...
12: ...]], which was then widely used in [[celluloid]] plastics and [[film|motion picture]] film. By 1913, Ca...
16: * cellulosic and thermoplastic
18: * easily bonded with plasticizers, heat, and pressure
46: ... U.S. Acetate Fiber Producers: Celanese Acetate, Eastman Chemical Company - 1901 (12292 bytes)
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105: ... [[Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova|Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia]] (d. [[1918]])
120: **[[Lanza del Vasto]], Italian philosopher, poet and non-violent act...
141: ...entine Woodhouse|Francis Valentine Woodhouse ]], last Apostle of the [[Catholic Apostolic Church]] [[18...
155: ...Lohmann]], English cricketer (tuberculosis) (b. [[1865]]) - February 22 (10772 bytes)
16: * [[1865]] - [[Tennessee]] adopts a new [[constitution]] t...
24: ... the United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House]].
113: *[[1890]] - [[John Jacob Astor III]], American businessman (b. [[1822]])
149: *[[Roman Catholic Church]] - [[Cathedra Petri|Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter]] - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
5: ..., D.C. were considered as a state, it would rank last in area behind [[Rhode Island]], 50th in populati...
36: |[[Time zone]]||Eastern: [[UTC]]-5
46: ...mply as '''the District''' or '''D.C.''', to contrast its greater [[metropolitan area]].
77: ... in the city's population. But on [[April 14]], [[1865]], just days after the end of the war, president ...
93: The Washington area was the target of at least one of the four hijacked planes in the [[Septembe... - Bullfighting (25773 bytes)
2: ... goal of appearing graceful and confident, while masterful over the [[bull]] itself; these maneuvers ar...
17: Bullfighting goes back at least to [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] [[Crete]], wher...
24: At least three distinct styles of bullfighting are practic...
34: ...ut of a total of six bulls, each of which is at least four years old and weighs up to about 600kg. Each...
42: ...rges. The placing of the banderillas is also the last chance to correct or fine tune the charging tende...
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