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  1. Japanese Terrier (2850 bytes)
    1: ...- The following markup is for the breed table displayed on the page. Scroll down to get to the main te...
    35: !Classification and breed standards
    40: |[http://www.fci.be/nomenclatures_detail.asp?lang=en&file=group3#section2]
    47: The Japanese Terrier is a balanced, square dog, tri-coloured, with white predomi...
    53: ...vely as a pet. The dogs became very popular as [[lap dog]]s in ports such as Nagasaki, [[Kobe]] and [...
  2. Elijah McCoy (4371 bytes)
    5: ... his return to the United States settled in [[Ypsilanti, Michigan]].
    7: ...se had been patented previously; one is the [[displacement lubricator]] which had already attained wid...
    9: ...s with the McCoy name were not manufactured until 1920, near the end of his career, when he formed the E...
    11: ...r. He remarried the next year to [[Mary Eleanor Delaney]] and moved to Detroit. Elijah McCoy died in D...
    13: ...e city celebrated Elijah McCoy Day, as officials placed a historic marker at the site of his home. The...
  3. Robert Goddard (scientist) (7533 bytes)
    7: ...ry tree to cut off dead limbs, he imagined, as he later wrote, "how wonderful it would be to make some...
    11: ...e]] in [[1908]], he was a Fellow in Physics at [[Clark University]], receiving his [[Master's degree|A...
    13: ...an important demonstration that liquid-fuel propellants were possible.
    15: ...Armistice]] that ended [[World War I]]. Another Clark University researcher continued Goddard's work ...
    21: ...the article claimed, "seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
  4. Nikola Tesla (29894 bytes)
    1: {{Redirect|Tesla}}
    3: {| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1e...
    5: ...pan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Dr. Nikola Tesla
    7: ...d them to operate a motive device.''" - Nikola Tesla; Brooklyn Eagle, July 10th, 1931.]]
    16: ...[1893]] and winning the "[[War of Currents]]", Tesla became world-famous.
  5. Baseball (36464 bytes)
    1: ...mage:Busch Stadium.jpg|thumb|275px|A view of the playing field at [[Busch Stadium]] in [[St. Louis, Mi...
    3: ...nd other [[List of sports similar to baseball|similar games]].
    5: ...ball]] and [[American football]]), baseball's popularity grew so great that the word "ballgame" in the...
    7: ==Gameplay==
    10: ...base is a pentagonal rubber slab known as ''home plate''. The field is divided into two main sections:...
  6. Babe Adams (10141 bytes)
    1: ...Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]'''Charles Benjamin "Babe" Adams...
    3: ...im farmed out to the [[Western Association]], but late in 1918 he found his stride again and rejoined ...
    5: ... York to gain the victory, allowing two walks. In 1920, Adams allowed only 18 walks in 263 innings.
    7: ...ke]] not be permitted to sit on the bench. Adams later managed in the minors, farmed, and worked as a...
    9: ...ams died of throat cancer in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]] at age 86.
  7. Major League Baseball (14783 bytes)
    3: ... structure which has existed between them since [[1920]].
    5: ...)|umpiring]] crews, and negotiates [[marketing]], labor, and [[Major League Baseball television contra...
    7: ...nd therefore not subject to federal [[antitrust]] law), despite baseball's own references to itself as...
    11: ... from early April through the end of September. Players and teams prepare for the season in [[spring ...
    17: ...the sport's purists but has since proven very popular with most fans.
  8. Boxing (29727 bytes)
    4: ...s for three minutes and the winner is the one who lands the most punches or knocks out his opponent. B...
    10: The word "boxing" first came into use in [[England]] in the [[18th century]] to distinguish betwee...
    16: ...s Revised Rules" of [[1853]]. They were often popularly referred to as the "Rules of the London Prize-...
    19: ...oated pair of [[mittens]], are often red, and are laced up around the wrists. The rules were publishe...
    21: ...20th century, new [[Boxing weight classes|weight classes]] were added, extending the range down to [[s...
  9. Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
    1: ...'''Olympic Games''', runners relay the [[Olympic Flame]] from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] to the openi...
    3: ...|Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin]] in the late [[19th century]]. The '''Games of the Olympiad'...
    17: ...ony, and in [[393]] the emperor [[Theodosius]] outlawed the Olympics, ending a thousand year period of...
    19: ...ould get not only the prestige of being in first place but also a crown of olive leaves.
    24: ...]] wanted better physical education and foreign relations and so spurred the modern Olympic Games into...
  10. Tecumseh's curse (3257 bytes)
    1: ...by Harrison), the "[[curse]]" is said to have proclaimed the death of all presidents elected every 20 ...
    10: *'''[[1920]]''' - [[Warren G. Harding]], died of [[heart att...
    19: ... if Reagan had been treated with the medicine available in William Henry Harrison's time, he probably ...
    21: ...[2000]]; similar groups had been doing this since 1920. The group ''[[Intercessors for America]]'' belie...
  11. Woodrow Wilson (31322 bytes)
    11: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Staunton]], [[Virginia]]...
    13: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Washington, D.C.]]</td><...
    14: ...tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Ellen Louise Wilson]]<br>
    20: ...|Governor of New Jersey]] ([[1911]]-[[1913]]) and later the 28th [[President of the United States|Pres...
    23: ...ilson grew up in [[Augusta, Georgia]] and always claimed that his earliest memory was of hearing that ...
  12. Levi P. Morton (2620 bytes)
    2: ...rton''' ([[May 16]], [[1824]]&ndash;[[May 16]], [[1920]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives...
    9: ...candidate]]|before=[[John A. Logan]]|after=[[Whitelaw Reid]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1888|...
    10: ...States]]|before=[[Thomas A. Hendricks]]|after=[[Adlai E. Stevenson]]|years=[[March 4]], [[1889]] &ndas...
    11: ...]]|before=[[Roswell P. Flower]]|after=[[Frank S. Black]]|years=1895&ndash;1897}}
  13. Charles Curtis (4708 bytes)
    5: ...six-year term commencing March 4, [[1915]]. In [[1920]], he was elected by Kansas voters (in compliance...
    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&nbsp;km&sup2;) of Kaw land to Curtis and his children.
    16: *[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001008 Biographical Directory of the U...
    17: *[http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-wfsection+article+articleid-...
  14. Ancient India (31279 bytes)
    8: ...Ashoka]], contributed greatly to India's cultural landscape. Beginning around [[180 BC]], a series of ...
    11: ...las]], the [[Cheras]], the [[Pandyas]] the [[Hoysalas]] and the [[Vijayanagara Empire]]. [[Ancient Ind...
    14: ... the relatively sheltered south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourished from the 11th to the end of t...
    20: ... Company]]. A failed insurrection in [[1857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutiny|First War of India...
    23: ...ence from British rule on [[August 15]] [[1947]], later becoming a [[republic]] on [[January 26]] [[19...
  15. 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.
  16. List of U.S. states by elevation (16995 bytes)
    18: | [[Alabama]]
    24: | [[Alaska]]
    56: | 0 m ([[Long Island Sound]])
    60: | [[Delaware]]
    61: | 137 m ([[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle County]])
  17. Musical genre (24851 bytes)
    1: ...ic]] that share a certain style or "basic musical language" (van der Merwe 1989, p.3). Music can also ...
    3: ...ake a body of work that can easily be put into a class shared with others.
    5: Some genre labels are quite vague, and may be contrived by [[cr...
    9: ...b|right|Genres of [[Cuban music]] and other [[popular music]]]]
    11: ...ible to group these together into a number of overlapping major groupings. The rest of this page attem...
  18. Grunion (11544 bytes)
    3: {{Taxobox begin placement | color = pink}}
    6: {{Taxobox classis entry | taxon = [[Osteichthyes]]}}
    11: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
    17: ...st]] [[fish]] in the Atherinopsidae [[Scientific classification|family]] of [[New World]] [[silverside...
    19: ...on''' (''Colpichthys regis'') that looks very similar, but does not have the same breeding method.
  19. List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
    4: ... regular, occasionally [[irregular_military|irregular]]) participated. The bolded items are the U.S. w...
    12: **[[Bear Flag Revolt]] (1846)
    26: *[[Pancho Villa Expedition]] (1916&ndash;1917)
    28: **[[Polar Bear Expedition]] ([[Russian Civil War]]) (1918&...
    37: *[[Operation Eagle Claw]] (1980)
  20. History of sociology (4929 bytes)
    2: [[Sociology]] is a relatively new academic discipline among other [[Socia...
    7: ...n]] ''socius'' (companion, associate) and [[greek language|Greek]] ''logia'' (study of, speech). Comte...
    9: ...y of Munich]] by [[Max Weber]] and in 1920 in [[Poland]] by [[Florian Znaniecki]]. The first sociology...
    12: ...[American Sociological Association]], the world's largest [[association]] of professional sociologists...
    14: ...of themselves as purely "sociologists". In particular, their works address [[religion]], [[education]]...

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