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- List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
13: ...le|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
49: ...[Richard Yates (governor)|Yates, Richard]], (1818-1873), 19th century [[Governor of Illinois|governor]] ...
79: *[[Robert Yerkes|Yerkes, Robert]] (1876-1956), psychologist
88: *[[Yi Sun-sin]], ([[1545]] - [[November 19]], [[1598]]), Korean admiral
176: *[[Robert Young (actor)|Young, Robert]], (1907-1998), American actor - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey]] ([[1852]]-[[1911]])
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
2: ...onet''' ([[November 14]], [[1840]] – [[December 5]], [[1926]]) was a French [[impressionism|impr...
4: ...usiness, but Claude Monet wanted to paint. On the beaches of Normandy, he met [[Eug�ne Boudin]], who...
8: ... they shared new approaches to art, which came to be known as [[impressionism]], featuring open spaces...
10: ...[[Camille Doncieux]]. Shortly thereafter Doncieux became pregnant and bore their first child, Jean.
14: ...Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant)'' ([[1872]]/[[1873]])]] - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadian]...
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
8: *[[1860]] - [[Pony Express]] begins
11: *[[1861]] - [[Abraham Lincoln]] becomes President
13: *[[1861]] - [[American Civil War]] begins at [[Fort Sumter]]
16: ...e which objected to Lincoln's suspension of ''[[habeas corpus]]''
25: *[[1863]] - Pro-Union counties become sovereign state of [[West Virginia]] - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...licts with the native [[Sioux]] and [[Apache]] tribes, and the eventual displacement of much of the na...
7: ...s Congress|Congress]] to resist readmitting the rebel states without first imposing preconditions. A ...
11: ...rotection for life or property now exist in the rebel States."
13: ...rs]] by southerners, and were widely perceived as being motivated by graft and corruption, while local...
21: ...rmal place as full citizens; in return the whites became reintegrated into the Union. Now that Africa... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic ...
12: * [[1873]] - [[First Battle of the Stronghold]] in the [[U...
16: * [[1912]] - [[Robert Falcon Scott]] reaches the [[South Pole]], one ...
21: * [[1945]] - The [[Nazi]]s begin the evacuation of the [[Auschwitz concentratio...
22: ... 1945 - [[Sweden|Swedish]] diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]] disappears in [[Hungary]] while in [[Soviet U... - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
1: '''Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi''', better known as '''Sandro Botticelli''' ([[Florence]...
5: ...s Jerome on the other side "the head of the saint being expressive of profound thought and quick subtl...
7: ...e of the circular ''[[tondo]]'' form and did many beautiful female nudes, according to Vasari. The ''B...
13: ... in such a subject. The heretical notions seem to be [[Gnosticism|gnostic]] in character:
14: ... Sandro were guilty of grave heresy. Whether this be true or not, I cannot say." (Vasari) - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series has been an annual event since 1903, with the exception ...
3: ...n the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
5: ... the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League and the National League....
7: ...ion but not earning a [[wild card]] receive them, because there are more divisions and each division i...
9: ...ide [[Major League Baseball]], no challenges have been made by other leagues. Attempts to pit the [[N... - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
5: ...d, Red Stockings founder [[Harry Wright]] and the best players from that team re-formed in Boston and ...
6: ...change the team's luck. The sportswriters chose "Bees", a name which never really caught on; even Qui...
14: ...'' (4): [[1872 in sports|1872]], [[1873 in sports|1873]], [[1874 in sports|1874]], [[1875 in sports|1875...
20: ...Stallings declared that the team was playing ball better than any other in the league, and was ready t...
22: ...ulous season of these proportions has never again been seen in professional sports. - Golf (35905 bytes)
4: ...lieved to have originated in [[Scotland]] and has been played for several centuries in the [[British I...
6: ...holing the ball in as few strokes as possible may be impeded by various obstructions, such as bunkers ...
8: ...s possible; when one player's lead exceeds the number of holes remaining in the round, the match ends.
12: ...where the grass is cut so low that most balls can be easily played) or from the ''rough'' (uncut grass...
16: ...in a water hazard may be played as it lies or may be replaced by dropping another ball outside the wat... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
7: *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869-1910), German chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German inventor,...
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
2: subject_name=Alexander Graham Bell |
3: image_name=Alexader_g_bell_1.jpg|
12: ...a [[scientist]], [[inventor]], and founder of the Bell Telephone Company, known as the [[List of peopl...
15: Born '''Alexander Bell''' in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], he later ado...
17: ... [[Dublin]], and his father, [[Alexander Melville Bell]], in Edinburgh, were all professed elocutionis... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
1: ...s also a competitive sport. There are many health benefits of swimming, yet basic swimming skills and ...
5: The human body, being composed mostly of water, has nearly the same ...
9: The torso and the legs should be kept as much as possible parallel to the surface ...
13: ...ucing drag further, and also increasing the ratio between the bodies water-line-length and width. Simi...
15: ...s eight times the drag (drag increases with the cube of the speed) of an equal amount of torso frontal... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
9: *[[Benjamin Paul Akers]] (1825 - 1861)
27: *[[John Beckley]] (1930 - )
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
29: *[[Hans Bellmer]] (1902 - 1975)
30: *[[Arnold Henry Bergier]] - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
4: ...States|U.S. Congress]] resisted readmitting the rebel states without first imposing conditions. A ser...
8: ...erate states (all except [[Tennessee]], which had been readmitted on [[July 24]], [[1866]]) into five ...
12: ...cans assumed control of all state governments and began to pass numerous civil rights laws legalizing ...
32: ...rotection for life or property now exist in the rebel States".
36: ...l working peoples' alliances that had tentatively begun to form in the South. In exchange for its acce... - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
9: ...ated [[people mover]] type systems. Gripping must be an even and gradual process in order to avoid bri...
11: ...cable. In the latter case, the cable car may not be able to stop and can wreak havoc along its route ...
13: ...er the same advantages, and in any case they must be offset against the cost of moving the cable.
16: ...s together with claw-equipped cars, and proved cumbersome. The line was closed, rebuilt and reopened w...
19: ...The success of these grips ensured that this line became the model for other cable car transit systems... - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...e: 90%">[[image:alberto_santos_dumont.jpg|250px|Alberto Santos-Dumont]]<br>Santos-Dumont in his tradem...
2: '''Alberto Santos-Dumont''' ([[July 20]], [[1873]] - [[July 23]], [[1932]]) was a [[Brazil | Brazi...
4: ...lic flight of an [[airplane]] in [[Paris]] in October of [[1906]].
9: ...ntos-Dumont's father gathered a large fortune and became known as the "Coffee King of Brazil."
11: ...fan of [[Jules Verne]] and had read all his books before his tenth birthday. He wrote in his [[autobio... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], searching for the mouth...
8: ...ew York]] becomes the site of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken)...
10: ...erican Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Bentonville]] begins. By the end of the battle two days later the ...
15: ...s]] for the second time (first time was on [[November 19]], [[1919]]).
19: ...War II]]: Off the coast of [[Japan]], a [[dive bomber]] hits the [[aircraft carrier]] [[USS Franklin (... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
46: ...ay have destroyed or displaced them; or, they may be the ancestors of the modern Pima Indians who now ...
49: ... farming community at Hayden's Ferry, which would become [[Tempe, Arizona|Tempe]]).
51: ..., then East Phoenix. As for the town that was to be built, Swilling, a former [[Confederate States Ar...
57: ...ion 8 Township 1 N., Range 3 E. and that the town be called Phoenix.
61: ...ty building. By [[October]] [[1873]], a small adobe school building was completed on Center Street (n...
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