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- United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...f Mexico]], and the [[Caribbean Sea]]. Two of the fifty states, [[Alaska]], an [[exclave]], and [[Hawa...
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United States|...
35: ...titution''']]<br> - completed<br> - ratified<br> - effective|
52: ...economic]], [[political]], [[military]], [[scientific]], [[technological]] and [[cultural]] matters.
57: [[Image:George-Washington.jpg|thumb|250px|left|First [[President of the United States]], [[George W... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
6: ...century]] until the [[Spanish-American War]] of [[1898]]. The [[United States]] occupied the island unti...
8: ...e next fifty years. To the point that by the late fifties the cuban peso was valued very close to the ...
10: ..., relations with the USA rapidly deteriorated. At first, Castro was reluctant to discuss his plans for...
12: ...lanes and runways, clearing the way for more than fifteen-hundred Cuban patriots, and U.S. Special For...
16: ...Cuba had over 50,000 troops. Castro stated at the first Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba in Dec... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ... '''Republic of Sudan''' (in recent years the [[definite article]] has increasingly been dropped in co...
15: official_languages = [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ...
62: ...e under [[Horatio Kitchener|Lord Kitchener]] in [[1898]]. Britain ran Sudan as two essentially separate ...
64: ...southern army officers that sparked 17 years of [[First Sudanese Civil War|civil war]] from [[1955]] t...
70: ...civilian government. However the civil war intensified in lethality and the economy continued to deter... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...idely spoken outside of the country, and is the official language of nearly all [[Central America|Cent...
14: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]<sup>...
37: sovereignty_type = [[Reconquista|Unification]] |
48: ...], the [[Aranese]] dialect of [[Occitan]] is co-official<br><sup>2</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[peseta|S...
62: ...ᤩz]]) near Tartessos. In the 8th century BC the first Greek colonies, such as Emporion (modern [[Emp... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
11: OfficialLang = [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] and [...
37: ...[Hawaiian Islands|Hawaiian Islands]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Hawaii constitutes the 50th [[U.S. stat...
44: ... Hawaii. These include a [[state bird]], [[state fish]], [[state flower]], [[state gem]], [[state mam...
46: ...]'' is the unofficial state song, often sung in official state events.
54: ...at as the [[tectonic plate]] beneath much the Pacific Ocean moves in a northwesterly direction, the ho... - Texas (39610 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None''. [[English language|English...
46: * official [[state song]] — ''[[Texas Our Texas]]'...
52: ..." reputation, especially in [[Western Film|cowboy films]].
76: ...nquistador]] [[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas.
94: ...to the Union in [[1850]]. Hawaii was annexed in [[1898]], but was organized into a [[United States terri... - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
12: OfficialLang = None |
58: Popular but "unofficial" regional designations include [[Green Countr...
113: ... century]] [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers became the first Europeans to visit the area.
117: === Five Civilized Tribes ===
122: The "[[Five Civilized Tribes]]" were not the only ones forc... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]]
94: ...Samuilovich Urysohn|Urysohn, Paul Samuilovich]], (1898-1924), Russian mathematician - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
24: ...[Jimmy Yancey|Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy"]] (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie musician
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer
89: *[[Zhang Yimou|Yimou, Zhang]], (born [[1950]]), film director - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...ic [[lyric]] [[poetry]], to whom was assigned the first place among the nine lyric poets of Greece in ...
7: ... Alcman or [[Erinna]] (''Oxyrhynchus papyri'', i. 1898). - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...1E&db_key=AST&high=41e14f475d05983 scientific paper] to use the word in its title was publishe...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "mino...
8: ...assify asteroids is in terms of size. A working definition is that asteroids are larger than 50 m in d...
10: ...y objects that include asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate ma... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
132: *[[Ludwig Bemelmans]] ([[1898]]-[[1962]])
191: *[[Robert Brackman]] ([[1898]]-[[1980]])
201: *[[Ann Brockman]] ([[1898]] or [[1899]]-[[1943]])
204: *[[Alexander Brook]] ([[1898]]-[[1980]]) - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...the logical development of a [[Fortification|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often applied to ...
4: Castles also figure prominently in [[History of Japan|Japanese hi...
8: ... home. Castles were made by their owners for specific purposes, or evolved into new purposes over time...
10: * First and foremost castles were places of protection...
24: ...inseparably connected with the subjects of [[fortification]] (see also [[siegecraft]]) and [[domestic ... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
29: *[[Henry Bessemer]], (1813-1898), [[England]] — [[Bessemer process]]
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]] - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aristotle]]. In additio...
7: ...rsity of Pisa]], but was forced to "drop out" for financial reasons. However, he was offered a positio...
10: ...losophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science....
18: ...makers. His work on the device also made for a profitable sideline with merchants who found it useful ...
20: ...humb|200px|right|It was on this page that Galileo first noted an observation of the [[natural satellit... - Golgi apparatus (4223 bytes)
1: ...omist]] [[Camillo Golgi]], who identified it in [[1898]]. Its primary function is to process [[protein]...
3: ...ey are modified, sorted and shipped towards their final destination. The Golgi apparatus is present in...
7: [[Image:Nucleus_ER_golgi_ex.jpg|thumb|360px|'''Figure 1:''' Image of [[cell nucleus|nucleus]], [[en...
9: ...face is directed towards the [[plasma membrane]] (Fig. 1). The cis and trans faces have different memb...
13: ...pparatus is considered more or less the "postal office" of the cell. It handles all incoming lipids, p... - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
3: ... The treaty with the United Kingdom in [[1783]] defined the original borders of the [[United States]].
11: ...pansion, won the presidency, but before he took office, Congress approved the annexation of Texas on [...
23: ...rom Spain after the [[Spanish-American War]] in [[1898]]. The Philippines became an independent nation i...
27: ...[[January 17]], [[1917]] during the [[World War I|First World War]]. Virgin Islands inhabitants became... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
1: ...tietam.jpg|thumb|More than 550,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, include these men felled dur...
17: *[[1861]] - [[First Battle of Bull Run]]
19: *[[1862]] - [[Pacific Railway Act]]
42: *[[1867]] - [[Tenure of Office Act]]
55: *[[1869]] - [[Wyoming]] becomes first state to grant [[woman suffrage]] - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...[populism]] and the American [[labor movement]]. Finally, the era was capped by U.S. involvement in [...
7: ...]] to resist readmitting the rebel states without first imposing preconditions. A series of laws, pas...
11: ... under Abraham Lincoln's plan were abolished; the first Reconstruction Act stated that "no legal State...
15: ...he Union, they were required to accept it (or the fifteenth after passage of the fourteenth).
21: ...d blacks going their own ways, and with whites in firm political control. The North allowed white sup...
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