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- Holiday (7753 bytes)
13: ...ay" in the UK, although some industries in the UK work through Bank Holidays. "Legal Holiday" is not a t...
17: ...' are a string of holidays taken together without working days in between. They tend to be considered a ...
111: ...people, but are not strictly holidays as time off work is rarely given.
120: * [[May Day|Labour Day, Worker's Day or May Day]] ([[May 1]], ''most countries...
135: ...bined holiday celebrated in the [[Commonwealth of Virginia]] from [[1984]] to [[2000]] - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
4: ...rs before it was actually feasible. Some of these works even included various descriptions of exactly ho...
6: ...] at [[Dulles International Airport]] in Northern Virginia displays an unparalleled array of aerospace tech...
13: ...where else, such as to the [[Moon]] or [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. The first successful orbital launch was ...
33: ...hnology Centre, or ESTEC, based in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The center is still a part of the Europe...
41: ISRO has started the work on its first Unmanned Lunar program called [[Chan... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
25: ... model in 1804. Over the next five decades Cayley worked on and off on the problem, during which he inve...
27: ...wing)|aspect ratio]]. He presented a paper on his work to the newly formed [[Royal Aeronautical Society ...
31: ...ng a powered machine on paper and hoping it would work.
33: ... at the time of his death, but no one took up his work on the engine and gliders until the Wright brothe...
35: ...modern. Like Lilienthal he heavily documented his work while photographing it, and was busy correspondin... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...r coincided with that of [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant brea...
14: ...report. Later research into Galileo's unpublished working papers from as early as [[1604]] clearly showe...
18: ...t telescope to [[Venice|Venetian]] lawmakers. His work on the device also made for a profitable sideline...
20: ... the [[natural satellite|moons]] of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Galileo published a full description ...
22: ...'. The demonstration that a planet had smaller planets orbiting it was problematic for the orderly, com... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
9: ...ily to [[Thomas Jefferson]]. However, Jefferson's work was reviewed by Franklin at length and then submi...
25: ... In June 1775, [[George Washington]], a prominent Virginian with experience in the French and Indian War, wa...
33: ...Cornwallis]], at [[Yorktown, Virginia|Yorktown]], Virginia. The surrender of Cornwallis ended serious Briti...
45: ...f Confederation, but quickly (and secretly) began work on a wholly new Constitution, soon after first me...
49: ... New York, the matter became one of controversy. Virginia had been the first successful British colony in N... - History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
51: ... law in [[1996]], requiring welfare recipients to work as a condition of benefits and imposes limits on ...
55: ...he Independent Counsel|independent counsel]] [[Kenneth Starr]], who had been looking into various alleg...
60: ...and related technologies made their first broad penetrations into the economy at large, prompting a [[W...
64: ...Asia]] swelled during the 1990s, laying the groundwork for great changes in the [[demographic]] makeup o...
70: ...ama bin Laden]] and his [[al Qaeda]] terrorist network were the culprits and announced a "[[war on terro... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...gland]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and the [[convict]]s of [[Province o...
13: ...of Great Britain|Britain]], [[France]], and the [[Netherlands]]. The lands that now make up the [[Unit...
25: ...its [[Chesapeake Bay]] [[estuary]]. [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] - named after the recently enthroned ...
27: ...d little incentive to protect their settlement or work towards its long-term growth.
29: ...inded settlers into line. He put the colonists to work, and befriended [[Pocahontas]], daughter of Chief... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
6: Shakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exac...
8: ...tions of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
23: ...ld, Susanna, was baptised at Stratford. A son, Hamnet, and a daughter, Judith, were baptized soon after...
27: ...mlet, Prince of Denmark]]'' (''c''.[[1601]]), a reworking of an older, lost play.
39: In [[1609]] his [[Shakespeare's Sonnets|sonnets]] were published, love poems variously addressed... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
12: ...]], [[1789]]. However, the Senate could not begin work until a majority of the members assembled on [[Ap...
40: ...ip (politics)|whip]] to assist the leader. A whip works to ensure that his or her party's senators vote ...
46: ... now the [[Capitol Police]] handle routine police work, while the Sergeant-at-Arms main deals with admin...
56: ...ate, using forms such as "the senior senator from Virginia" or "the junior senator from California."
71: Most committee work is performed by sixteen standing committees, each... - Surfing (15219 bytes)
71: ...uch as North Carolina's Outer Banks, Long Island, Virginia Beach, Ocean City (Md.), and the Jersey Shore.
85: ... teenagers, used to say that if they were hard at work and someone yelled "Surf's up!" the office would ... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
31: ...onths before his son was born. His mother, born [[Virginia Dell Cassidy]], remarried in [[1950]] to [[Roger ...
34: ...where he became a brother of [[Alpha Phi Omega]], worked for Senator [[ J. William Fulbright]] and won a...
79: Clinton developed a close working relationship with [[Tony Blair]], the [[Prime ...
98: ...February 26]], 1996 - Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, a [[welfare refor...
124: === Cabinet === - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
51: ...and younger brother [[Robert F. Kennedy]] briefly worked for McCarthy. Although Kennedy was ill during ...
62: ...y won key primaries like [[Wisconsin]] and [[West Virginia]] and landed the nomination at the Democratic Nat...
64: ...ership, as Kennedy considered Mansfield easier to work with than Johnson.
81: ...e world as weak. Many military officials and cabinet members pressed for an air assault on the missile...
112: ===Cabinet=== - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
10: ... their growing interest in flight. Drawing on the work of [[Sir George Cayley]], [[Octave Chanute]], [[O...
12: ...tables relating air pressure to wing shape. Their work and projects with bicycles, gears, bicycle motors...
14: During their research, the Wrights always worked together, and their contributions to the aeropl...
19: ...[[North Carolina]] to continue their aeronautical work, choosing Kitty Hawk (specifically a sand dune ca...
29: ...t [[Huffman Prairie]], near Dayton, and continued work in [[1904]], building the ''Flyer II'' and using ... - Hybrid vehicle (47544 bytes)
6: ...rius]], recharge their batteries by capturing [[kinetic energy]] via [[regenerative braking]]. As well...
12: ...AR: Getting New Technology into the Marketplace | work=U.S. House of Representatives Charters: Committee...
26: ...work=FuelCellsWorks.com | url=http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage1855.html | accessdate=January 14 | ...
90: ...e GMC Graphyte — A hybrid SUV concept vehicle | work=GM - GMability Education 9-12: Fuel Cells & Energ...
112: ...{{cite web | title=Hybrid Daily: Technical Data | work=Micro-Vett | url=http://www.micro-vett.it/english... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
4: ...i |last=D.Archibugi |url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/piracy-challenges-global-governance |titl...
29: ...4th century, raids by Muslim pirates forced the Venetian Duke of [[Crete]] to ask [[Republic of Venice|...
33: ... and 840 utterly failed. Later, they raided the Venetians more often, together with the [[Arabs]]. In 8...
35: ...bia]], serving as the finest Serb warriors. The Venetians futilely continued to fight them throughout t...
103: ...ed it and where.<ref>http://www.hudsonrivervalley.net/AMERICANBOOK/18.html</ref><ref>http://www.coins.n... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
5: ... of a scene painted by A.M. Willard in the late nineteenth century that came to be known as ''The Spiri...
12: ... development of the Continental Army was always a work in progress, and Washington reluctantly augmented...
19: ... to America to fight alongside the Americans. The Netherlands entered the war late in 1780, but its nav...
23: ...f Dunmore|Lord Dunmore]], the Royal Governor of [[Virginia]], issued an emancipation proclamation in Novembe...
61: ...rtifications. General Howe then laid siege to the works, but Washington skillfully managed a nighttime e... - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
6: ...West Virginia|Clarksburg]], in what is now [[West Virginia]], when Thomas, their third son, was born.
8: ... and Kanawha Turnpike]] in [[Fayette County, West Virginia|Fayette County]].
12: ...Jackson's Mill]] (near present-day [[Weston, West Virginia|Weston]]). Cummins Jackson was strict to Thomas J...
14: ...eading lessons. This was in violation of a law in Virginia at that time that forbade teaching a slave to rea...
16: ...aracterize his life, he became one of the hardest working cadets in the academy. Thomas Jackson graduate... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
11: ...glish flag; this time the funding came from the [[Virginia Company]] and the [[British East India Company]]....
17: ... account was given by [[Johannes de Laet]] in his work ''Nieuwe Wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Ind...
23: *[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13442 Henry Hudson - A Brief Statement Of H... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
9: ...e me death]]" at St. John's Church in [[Richmond, Virginia]].
18: ...he first successful [[airplane]]s after much hard work.
126: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/23 Today in History: March 23] - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
72: ...gia Public Broadcasting]] headquarters and [[Peachnet]], and is the county seat of Fulton County, with ...
98: ...''Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network (GaWC)'' and based on the level of presence of gl...
102: ...is one of the most car-dependent cities on the planet, both due to suburban sprawl, and lack of large n...
104: ...spa], [[CNN Headline News]], [[CNN Airport Network]], and [[Turner Broadcasting System|TBS]]. Atlan...
115: ...s transit authorities, all consisting of a bus network, with no rail. However, many commuters in Atlant...
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