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- Louis Bleriot (3099 bytes)
2: ...2]] – [[August 2]] [[1936]]) was a [[France|French]] inventor and engineer, who performed the fi...
11: ...eloped planes with various configurations ranging from box-kite biplanes to a [[canard]] (tail-first) ...
14: ...er, England|Dover]] in 37 minutes, delighting the French and worrying the British, who felt that they ...
19: ... War I]], SPAD built more than 5,600 aircraft for France and exported some to Britain and other countr... - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the archives of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]...
13: ==Move to France==
14: ...reto]], Minas Gerais, for the city [[Paris]] in [[France]]. The first thing he did there was to buy an...
23: ... [[francs]] for flying his dirigible ''Number 6'' from the [[Parc Saint Cloud]] to the [[Eiffel Tower]...
25: ...he world. He won several more prizes and became a friend to millionaires and royalty. In [[1901]] he w... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
5: ...at only got them more burnt, so they were scarred from the fire for the rest of their life.
11: ...erformed at [[Versailles]], before [[Louis XVI of France]], to gain his permission for a trial human f...
15: On [[November 21]], [[1783]], the first free flight by humans was made by [[Pilâtre de Rozi...
16: (A flight by Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781 with his "ornithopter", a...
22: ...ary 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. Balloons using heated air rather than lighte... - Helicopter (20080 bytes)
1: ...wing aircraft</b>. The word helicopter is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''helix'' (s...
23: ...tail rotor is sufficient to cancel out the torque fromt the main rotor, the helicopter will not rotate...
29: ... amount of power required to prevent a helicopter from spinning is significant. A tail rotor can use u...
42: ...the RPM is too high, damage to the main rotor hub from excessive forces could result. In general, RPM ...
44: ... The cyclic is usually controlled by the stick in front of the pilot. - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...non-state actors. Piracy should be distinguished from [[privateer]]ing, which was a legitimate form o...
12: ...1.8-2]) says this happened earlier, on his return from Nicomedes's court. Velleius Paterculus (''Roman...
20: ...'', and given the responsibility of eliminating [[Frankish]] and [[Saxons|Saxon]] pirates who had been...
27: ...se in 844. Vikings even attacked coasts of North Africa and Italy. They also plundered all the coasts ...
29: ... of the [[Balearic Islands]] in the 10th century. From 824 to 961 [[Arab]] pirates in [[Crete]] raided... - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
6: ...ard. Legally he was only allowed to take [[France|French]] and pirate vessels. As the voyage progresse...
10: ...ship on seeing his French colours pretended to be French. Kidd took his prize and only later realised ...
12: ...en mutinied and joined the pirates of the ''Mocha Frigate''. Only 13 of Kidd’s men remained loya... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...ry|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognised [[sovereignty|sovereign]] nation. ...
4: ... it is also much reduced in the [[Caribbean Sea]] from days of yore. Seaborne piracy against transport...
8: ...ecue|barbacoa]]'' elsewhere). These were used by French hunters called ''boucaniers''. These hunters...
10: ... corrupted into the English '''freebooters''' and French '''flibustiers'''. It came back into English...
14: ...rived from the European word, which in turn comes from the mediaeval Latin ''cursa'', "raid, expeditio... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
7: ...mation of the [[Cathay Company]] to send [[Martin Frobisher]] back to the New World for more gold
11: ...oleonic)|Italian Republic]], with [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] as president, becomes the [[Kingdo...
14: *[[1886]] - [[Carrollton Massacre]]: 20 [[African American]]s are killed in [[Mississippi]].
21: ...y opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
22: *[[1948]] - [[Benelux]], [[France]], and the [[United Kingdom]] sign the [[Trea... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
10: ... days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
19: ...[[aircraft carrier]] [[USS Franklin (CV-13)|USS ''Franklin'']], killing 800 of her crew and crippling ...
21: ...become overseas [[departement|d鰡rtements]] of [[France]].
26: ...s]] ''[[Getz/Gilberto]]'', including ''[[The Girl from Ipanema]]'', sung by [[Astrud Gilberto|Astrud]]...
27: *[[1972]] - [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] sign a friendship [[treaty]]. - March 22 (9294 bytes)
9: *[[1638]] - [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious diss...
10: ...Act 1765|Stamp Act]], the first direct tax levied from [[England]] on the American colonies.
12: ... first governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be removed from office by [[impeachment]].
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a bill le...
17: ...] - [[World War II]]: [[Germany]] takes [[Memel]] from [[Lithuania]]. - Denver, Colorado (21161 bytes)
30: ...the largest city along the [[Colorado Front Range|Front Range]] and forms the heart of the [[Denver-Au...
32: ...rado)|Cherry Creek]], approximately fifteen miles from the foothills.
38: ... of the plains regions along the foothills of the Front Range.
43: ...Creek (Colorado)|Cherry Creek]], across the creek from the existing mining settlement of [[Auraria, Ka...
47: ...ile the town grew, land parcels were often traded freely for grubstakes and in the course of gambling ... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
28: ...ch has come to delineate the interior of the city from the surrounding suburbs. This has given rise to...
33: ...stern & Atlantic Railroad]], for lines connecting from [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Chattanoo...
38: ... of the economy away from agriculture and a shift from the "Old South" attitudes of slavery and rebell...
41: ... commuted in 1915, riots broke out in Atlanta and Frank was [[lynching|lynched]].
43: ...ters for Disease Control]] was founded in Atlanta from the old Malaria Control in War Areas offices an... - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
29: ...ew capital city. Ralston was an apprentice to the French architect [[Pierre L'Enfant]], and he helped ...
31: ...ed in 1836, but Indiana went bankrupt in [[1839]] from the loans taken out under the aforementioned bi...
33: ...ections enlarged the town. The population soared from just over 8,000 in 1850 to more than 169,000 by...
35: ...in the [[1890s]]. The state government offered a free supply of [[natural gas]] to factories that wer...
37: ...social organization in the city during the period from [[1921]] through [[1928]]. The Klan continued ... - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
33: ...e [[1840s]], [[wagon train]]s made their way west from Independence, Missouri, on a 2,000-mile journey...
35: ...mented by trade on a new military road stretching from Fort Leavenworth through "Topeka" to the newly-...
39: ... In [[1869]], the railway started moving westward from Topeka. General offices and machine shops of th...
52: ...egend, this mound was thought to protect the city from tornadoes. It went on to rip through the city, ...
58: ...k12.ks.us/meadows/KAY.HTM Kay E. Meadows], first African American member and president of the Topeka S... - Jefferson City, Missouri (7230 bytes)
2: ...[Image:Capitolmo.jpg|right|Wikipedia Encyclopedia|framed| The capitol building on a sunny day. This bu...
10: ...is dominated by a beautiful domed Capitol, rising from a bluff overlooking the Missouri River. [[Lewis...
72: ...rom [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 1.52% from two or more races. 1.55% of the population are...
76: ..., 11.0% from 18 to 24, 32.1% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who are 65 years of age or ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - Scott Spiezio (680 bytes)
1: ...ix of the [[2002 World Series]] against the [[San Francisco Giants]]. He has also played for the [[Oak... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: The oldest surviving archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE,...
7: Other stone tools from the [[Middle Palaeolithic|Middle Paleolithic Er...
9: ... Pieštany. Numerous necklaces made of shells from Cypraca thermophile [[Gastropoda|gastropods]] o...
11: From an archeological standpoint, the discovery of d...
13: ... years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨ory. - Monaco (12001 bytes)
1: ... [[Mediterranean Sea]] and [[France]] along the [[French Riviera]] or ''C?d'Azur'' (The Blue Coast). C...
17: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[French language|French]]
33: ...certainly incorrect; it seems to have been copied from the Germany infobox. |-
48: ...| <small><sup>1</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[French franc]].</small>
53: Monaco derives its name from the nearby [[Greek]] colony, [[Monoikos]], foun...
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