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- Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...1840]] by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1937),...
71: ...tion ties together previous apparitions into a single orbit. If so, the object gets a number. The obse...
100: ... vast numbers of new asteroids, they are increasingly being left unnamed. The first asteroid to be lef...
107: ...309 Mr. Spock, such as [[482 Petrina]]), increasingly eccentric asteroid names have been accepted, inc...
134: ...steroid, finding it inhabited by strange blobs of glowing slime that are drawn to the equipment. Unfor... - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...tly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affected by the solar wind than dust is, and fol...
11: ...y]], which records the [[Norman conquest]] of [[England]] in [[1066]].{{hnote|Reading Museum, scene 1}...
15: Surprisingly, cometary nuclei are among the [[black]]est obje...
21: ...but remain gravitationally bound to the Sun. ''Single-apparition comets'' have [[parabolic]] and [[hyp...
23: ... from the Oort cloud often have their orbits strongly influenced by the gravity of giant planets as a ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
98: *[[Barr Glenn]] ([[1968]]-)
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
293: *[[Gustave Courbet]] ([[1819]]-[[1877]])
356: *[[Kees van Dongen]] ([[1877]]-[[1968]])
361: *[[Aaron Douglas]] ([[1898]]-[[1979]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
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43: ...age|Hittite]] (which also had a [[Hieroglyph|hieroglyphic script]], as did the [[Egyptians]]) and [[Ol...
45: Sumerian is an [[agglutinative language]], meaning that words could con...
49: ...d as a [[nominative-accusative language]] (like English) in others. Sumerian behaves as a nominative-a... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
5: ...nes were controlled by moving your entire body ([[glider]]s) or warping the planes' wings ([[Wright br...
15: ...ing a glider in the [[15th century]]. While this glider was never built by Leonardo, its plans were p...
25: ...mpton-by-Sawdon|Brompton]], near [[Scarborough, England|Scarborough]] in Yorkshire.
27: ...cessfully attempted to build a series of unmanned gliders. During his work he found that the majority ...
29: ... been constructed by [[Wilhelm Kress]] as early [[1877]] near [[Vienna]]. - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
29: *[[Henry Bessemer]], (1813-1898), [[England]] — [[Bessemer process]]
32: ...e Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
41: *[[Edwin Beard Budding]], (1795-1846) England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner...
51: *[[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]] - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
5: ...Motion Picture Patents Company]], which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios (commonly known...
10: ...o. Among them was Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr., a shingle maker, tailor, and tavern keeper who would marry...
12: John Edison had remained loyal to [[England]] in the 1700's. Ironically, in the 1800's, h...
24: ...ined Edison wide fame was the [[phonograph]] in [[1877]]. While non-reproducible sound recording was fir...
29: ... of glowing wire carrying the current, although English inventor Joseph Swan used the term prior to th... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
83: ... [[Reconstruction]] ends with the [[Compromise of 1877]]
84: *[[1877]] - [[Nez Percé ‰ndian War]]
146: *[[1897]] - [[Dingley tariff]] - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
19: ...ttlement of that election as the "[[Compromise of 1877]]". Not all historians agree with this theory; i...
53: ...s also grew by combining into trusts, creating single firms out of competing firms. Business leaders ...
56: ... 4.75 million Italians, 4.2 million people from England, Scotland and Wales, 4.2 million from the Aust...
95: ===Workers' struggle===
119: ...ese occurred was the [[Great Railroad Strike]] in 1877, when rail workers across the nation went out on ... - Mars (27704 bytes)
18: ... of the [[magnetic field]]s on Mars by the [[Mars Global Surveyor]] spacecraft have revealed that part...
41: ...ystematic chart of Mars features in 1830-32. In [[1877]], their choice was adopted as the prime meridian...
51: Both satellites were discovered in [[1877]] by [[Asaph Hall]], and are named after the char...
84: [[Image:Vikinglander-view.jpg|thumb|right|Viking Lander 1 site (c...
85: ...f-jokingly speak of an Earth-Mars "[[Bermuda Triangle]]" or of a Great [[Galactic Ghoul]] which subsis... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
19: ...et]] on the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]] against [[England]].
42: ...|Celtic]] [[Football (soccer)|football]] match, [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]]. See [[Ibrox disaster]].
65: *[[1877]] - [[Slava Raskaj]], Croatian painter (d.[[1906]...
69: *[[1905]] - [[Michael Tippett]], English composer (d. [[1998]])
71: *[[1913]] - [[Anna Lee]], English actress (d. [[2004]]) - Archaeopteryx (8771 bytes)
19: Since the discovery of a single feather in [[1860]], only seven additional speci...
34: ...enuinely [[flight|fly]], or only hop around and [[glide]] from [[tree]]s. The lack of a large [[breast...
36: ...ng the idea that birds evolved from tree-dwelling gliders (the "trees down" hypothesis for the evoluti...
50: ...ecimen''' (HMN 1880): Discovered in [[1876]] or [[1877]] near [[Blumenberg]], Germany, and described in ... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
14: ...[[John C. Calhoun]], [[Henry Clay]], [[Stephen Douglas]] and [[Thomas Hart Benton]]. The era, however,...
16: ...inguished careers, with most serving but for a single term. The corruption of state legislatures was a... - Badminton (12494 bytes)
3: ...sport]] played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles) and is played ...
7: ...only winning 30 points (15-0, 15-0, in a Men's Single match) whereas in tennis it would require 72 poi...
9: ... typically five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubl...
13: ...service courts. There is the service court for singles, which is 5.18 meters wide and 13.40 meters lon...
39: ...e chooses not to set, the game is decided by a single point, i.e. the first to reach 15 (or 11) points... - National League (4871 bytes)
7: ...3 years of its existence competed equally in a single grouping, re-organized into two [[division (spor...
43: *[[William Hulbert|William A. Hulbert]] [[1877]]-[[1882]] - World Series (40101 bytes)
44: * 1877 [[Atlanta Braves|Boston Red Caps]]
156: :::Frank Graham called this Series jokingly "the fat men versus the tall men at the office p...
201: ...tcher to date to win three complete games in a single World Series.
237: ...er erases bitter memory of tiptoeing into Boone's glove in '80 series.
253: ... in game 7, [[Gene Larkin]]'s single scored [[Dan Gladden]] in the bottom of the 10th for the deciding... - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
15: ...al League pennants won''' (17): [[1877 in sports|1877]], [[1878 in sports|1878]], [[1883 in sports|1883...
37: ... [[1950s]] the reinvigorated Braves were increasingly competitive. Sluggers [[Eddie Mathews]] and [[H...
46: ...t Valuable Player]] and a [[Gold Glove Award|Gold Glove]] award. Murphy also won a Most Valuable Playe...
48: ...Leo Mazzone]] began training young pitchers [[Tom Glavine]], [[Steve Avery]], and [[John Smoltz]]. Per...
50: The following season, Glavine, Avery, and Smoltz would be recognized as th... - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
42: ...e [[National Hockey League]], the teams play a single five-minute sudden death overtime period, with t...
46: ...t|helmet]], shoulder pads, elbow pads, protective gloves, heavily padded pants, a jock protector, neck...
53: ...trapped to their boots, both [[English language|English]]- and [[French language|French]]-speaking Can...
55: ...l, as recorded in the [[Montreal Gazette]]. In [[1877]], in order to make some sense of the game, [[McG...
146: ...keycanada.ca/index2.html Canadian Hockey(French/English)] - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
6: *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877-1950), German chemist
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered [[niobium]]
85: * Sir [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] (1893-1970), English chemist - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
19: ... instructor at Somersetshire College at [[Bath, England]]. While still in Scotland he is said to have ...
29: ...is pupils at Boston University, on [[July 11]], [[1877]]. He died at his estate, [[Beinn Bhreagh]], near...
52: ... July [[1877]]. In 1879, it merged with the New England Telephone Company forming the National Telepho...
70: ...ers were four young men, American [[Glenn Curtiss|Glenn H. Curtiss]], a motorcycle manufacturer who wo...
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