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- Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
1: {{MLB Cubs franchise}}
5: ...me ''Cubs'' was coined in [[1902]] when manager [[Frank Selee]] arrived and rebuilt the club with youn...
15: == Franchise history ==
26: ...f powerhouse pitchers in [[Larry Corcoran]] and [[Fred Goldsmith]]. Those two were fading by mid-deca...
28: ... and controversial Series action. That St. Louis franchise, which went on to join the National League... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
1: {{MLB White Sox franchise}}
5: ...893 in sports|1893]], as the [[Sioux City, Iowa]] franchise in the minor [[Western League (U.S. baseba...
7: ...n 1991; the original [[Comiskey Park]] was in use from 1910 to 1990.)
16: ==Franchise history==
17: ...before claiming major league status, the St. Paul franchise was relocated to Chicago, to compete direc... - Houston Astros (8294 bytes)
1: {{MLB Astros franchise}}
16: == Franchise history ==
18: ...gurate indoor baseball in the [[Astrodome]]. The franchise's first decade displayed some great hitter...
26: ... Central title in 2001, and were again eliminated from the playoffs in the first round by the Braves.
44: *31 [[Image:Us_flag_large.png|20px]] [[John Franco]] - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
1: {{MLB Dodgers franchise}}
7: ..., the ''Robins'' (after Wilbert Robinson, manager from [[1914]] through [[1931]]) and the ''[[Trolley ...
18: :'''Owner''': [[Frank McCourt (executive)|Frank McCourt]]
21: == Franchise history ==
23: ...ching to the [[National League]] in [[1890]], the franchise became the only one in MLB history to win ... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
1: {{MLB Athletics franchise}}
5: ...ed:''' [[1893]], as the [[Indianapolis, Indiana]] franchise in the minor [[Western League]]. Moved to...
15: == Franchise history ==
18: The Athletic franchise was formed in [[1901 in sports|1901]], one...
20: The new league recruited many of its players from the existing National League, persuading them t... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
3: {{MLB Cardinals franchise}}
9: ... Village]] -(Also to be known as "Busch Stadium") from [[2006]] on
12: :'''Mascot:''' [[Fredbird]], an [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphized]...
21: == Franchise history ==
26: ...a St. Louis entry, the Maroons, which had come in from the [[Union Association]]. The Maroons had the ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
15: *[[Antoine Baum]], (1728-1804), French chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
31: ...Skłodowska-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
2: ...]-[[1865|5]] - [[January 5]], [[1943]]) was an [[African-American]] [[botanist]] who worked in [[agric...
7: ...ul paintings of flowers on the walls of the room. From that moment on, he knew that he was going to be...
9: ...person. He promptly left, but still carried scars from this incident for the rest of his life.
11: ...ic agriculture and, in 1891, he became the first African-American to enroll at Iowa State College of A...
15: ...nted to the faculty, becoming Iowa State's first African-American faculty member. - Hot air balloon (8769 bytes)
1: ...ntgolfier brothers]]' invention in [[Annonay]], [[France]] in [[1783]]. The first manned flight was m...
9: ...icist named [[Pilⴲe de Rozier]] and the Marquis Francois d'Arlandes successfully petitioned for the ...
24: ...lled a [[Rozier]] balloon after its creator, Jean-Fran篩s Pilⴲe de Rozier.
35: ... balloon flight starts with unpacking the balloon from its carrying bag. A gasoline powered fan is us...
39: ...has landed, the envelope is deflated and detached from the basket. The envelope is then packed into it... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
1: The term '''philosophy''' derives from a combination of the [[Greek language|Greek]] w...
5: ...is tradition distinct and distinct field of study from Western philosophy. This article will discusse...
15: ...t to be beautiful? How do beautiful things differ from the everyday? What is [[Art]]?
19: [[Image:laozi3.jpg|frame|right|[[Lao Zi]] ]]
25: The word "philosophy" is derived from the ancient Greek (''Φιλο&#... - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
2: ...[Image:Cable_Car.jpg|thumb|right|Cable Car in San Francisco]]
3: [[Image:Sf_cable_car.jpg|thumb|right|A San Francisco cable car]]
9: ...le. Conversely the car is stopped by detaching it from the cable, and then applying brakes. This gripp...
16: ...nkers Patent Railway]] in [[New York]], which ran from [[1 July]] [[1868]] to [[1870]]. The cable tech...
18: ...Station.jpg|thumb|right|Machinery driving the San Francisco Cable Car]] - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...0 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC the Hittite poli...
5: ... language]]. The Hittites should be distinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhab...
7: ...rchs (Bible)|Patriarch]]s up to [[Ezra]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian capt...
14: ...I]] and his son [[Akhenaton]]. Two of the letters from a "kingdom of Kheta", apparently located in the...
15: ...the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of t... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
23: ...-grandfathers had immigrated to the United States from [[Ballyporeen]], [[Ireland]] in the [[1860s]]....
25: In [[1920]], after years of moving from town to town, the family settled in [[Dixon, Il...
29: ...the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none of ...
31: ...games, getting only the bare outlines of the game from a ticker and relying on his imagination and sto...
35: ...] in the film ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'', from which he acquired the nickname ''the Gipper'', ... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
22: ... [[1909]] and he worked at Belle Springs Creamery from [[1909]] to [[1911]].
26: ...ss]]es.{{fn|1}} His mother was active in the sect from 1895, when Dwight was five years old, until she...
30: ...te)|Georgia]]. He then served with the Tank Corps from [[1918]] to [[1922]] at [[Camp Meade]], [[Maryl...
34: ...[George V. Moseley]], Assistant Secretary of War, from [[1929]] to [[1933]]. He then served as chief m...
36: ...] he had never held an active command and was far from being considered as a potential commander of ma... - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
9: | preceded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
32: <tr><td>'''Predecessor:'''</td><td>[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]</td></tr>
51: ...s]], succeeding to the office upon the death of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
58: ...the bulk of his formative years. After graduating from high school in [[1901]], Truman worked at a ser...
61: ...eye and 20/400 in the left eye. Before heading to France, Harry was sent for training at [[Fort Sill]]... - Calvin Coolidge (18374 bytes)
25: ...r of the city council in [[1899]], city solicitor from [[1900]]-[[1902]], clerk of courts in [[1904]],...
30: .... Cox]] and [[Assistant Secretary of the Navy]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
32: ...sident-elect and [[List of United States Senators from Kansas|Kansas senator]] [[Charles Curtis]] on t...
35: ...'s younger son, Calvin, Jr., contracted a blister from playing tennis on the White House courts. The b...
39: ...White House dinner guest once made a bet with her friends that she could get the president to say at l... - National Football League (30340 bytes)
2: [[Image:NationalFootballLeague.png|frame|NFL logo]]
4: ...football]] league, consisting of thirty-two teams from [[United States|American]] cities. The league ...
10: ...l site. One week later, selected all-star players from both the AFC and NFC meet in the [[Pro Bowl]], ...
12: ==Current NFL franchises==
26: ...rs]]</td><td>[[New Orleans Saints]]</td><td>[[San Francisco 49ers ]]</td></tr> - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ...2002]].) Although Lindbergh was the first to fly from New York to Paris nonstop, he was not the first...
18: ...les Lindbergh flight to Brussels.ogg|title=Flight from Paris to Belgium |description= Lindbergh's flig...
26: ...12]] in [[Hopewell, New Jersey]] just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home, after a nation-wide ten w...
31: ...ed States|President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] openly questioned his loyalt...
38: ...snapshots and more than a hundred letters written from him to her mother. She disclosed the affair in ... - Aviator (3951 bytes)
6: ...rity given to the ''Pilot in Command'' is derived from that of a ship?s captain.
34: *[[Geoffrey de Havilland]]
62: *[[Frank Whittle]]
74: *[[Manfred von Richthofen]]
77: *[[Fred Zinn]]
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