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- 1901 (12292 bytes)
20: ...t [[Texas]] gusher, [[oil]] discovered at [[Spindletop]] in [[Beaumont, Texas]]
37: * [[July 4]] - The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St.John River at ...
48: * [[October 29]] - In [[Amherst, Massachusetts]] nurse [[Jane Toppan]] is arrested for murderi...
53: ...land]], [[Canada]]; it is [[Morse code]] for the letter "S."
70: ...y 3]] - [[Ngo Dinh Diem]], President of [[South Vietnam]] (d. [[1963]]) - February 22 (10772 bytes)
15: ...rty|Republican Party]] opens its first national meeting in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]].
29: * [[1959]] - [[Lee Petty]] wins the first [[Daytona 500]].
33: ...eam at the [[1980 Winter Olympic Games]] in an upset dubbed the "[[Miracle on Ice]]".
34: ...Department of Justice]] with spying for the [[Soviet Union]].
45: * [[1796]] - [[Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet]], mathematician (d. [[1874]]) - Opera (25153 bytes)
3: ...isting of a [[drama|dramatic]] stage performance set to [[music]].
5: ...ting]]. However, the words of the opera, or [[libretto]], are [[singing|sung]] rather than spoken. The...
7: Opera draws from many other art forms. Whether the words or the music are paramount has been ...
9: ...es, such as lyric soprano, [[coloratura]], ''soubrette'', spinto, and dramatic soprano, which associat...
11: ... During the period when composers ofen used both methods of recitative accompaniment in the same opera... - Motorcycle (40437 bytes)
4: ...c motorcycle, the Italian-manufactured Cagiva Planet.]]
7: ...ght through their feet, which are supported on a set of "footpegs" or "pegs" which stick out from the ...
13: ...rict of [[Stuttgart]]) in [[1885]] was the first petroleum-powered vehicle ever. They called their inv...
15: ...anufacturers held a dominant position in some markets until the rise of the Japanese manufacturers (le...
27: ...lded sheet steel, or blow-molded high-density polyethylene. At least one motorcycle manufacturer ([[Bu... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...;ица}} . For some, these [[ballet]]s practically reinvented the genre. Stravinsky ...
3: ... the [[Columbia Symphony Orchestra]] through ''[[Petrushka]]''.]]
5: ...ravinsky composed a theoretical work entitled ''Poetics of Music''. In it, he famously claimed that m...
10: ... bass singer at the [[Mariinsky Theater]] in St. Petersburg, Stravinsky originally studied to be a [[l...
12: ...ose style draws largely on Rimsky-Korsakov, to ''Petrushka's'' emphasis on [[polyphony|bitonality]], a... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
8: | align="center" | [[Image:Petersburg coat of arms 1730 to 1856.gif|130px]] <br ...
19: | [[Area]]: || 606 [[Square kilometre|km�]]
33: ...va]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
36: ...2;́д, [[1924]]–[[1991]]) and '''Petrograd''' (Петро
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38: Founded by [[Tsar]] [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] in [[1703]] as a "window to Europe"... - December 9 (7837 bytes)
14: ...e actress, [[journalist]], and a leading [[suffragette]], founded the [[feminist]] daily [[newspaper]]...
22: ...States]] [[nuclear weapon]] secrets for the [[Soviet Union]]
24: *[[1958]] - [[John Birch Society]] founded.
25: *[[1960]] - ''[[Coronation Street]]'' first airs on televisions across the [[United...
39: *[[1608]] - [[John Milton]], English poet, writer (d. [[1674]]) - Bureaucracy (8428 bytes)
15: ...an emergent class of scribes used[when?] clay tablets to administer the harvest and to allocate its sp...
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19: ... reforms, competitive examinations took place to determine which candidates qualified to hold given po...
23: ...l-known for his study of bureaucratization of society; many aspects of modern [[public administration]...
25: ...tionary]] cites usage in several different years between [[1818]] and [[1860]], prior to Weber's birth... - Scarab beetle (3999 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = white | name = Scarab beetles}}
6: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[beetle|Coleoptera]]}}
11: ...3957.jpg|400px|thumb|left|dung beetle or scarab beetle- Provided by classroomclipart.com]]
12: ...h dung they are commonly referred to as '''dung beetles'''.
14: ..., the largest and heaviest of the beetles. Dung beetles live in many different habitats, including [[d...
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