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  1. Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
    19: WaterArea = 3,173 |
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    42: ...border delineated by the [[Red River (Mississippi watershed)|Red River]]), and on the east by [[Missou...
    46: ...from Oak-Hickory mixed forest in the Eastern well-watered part of the state, to the Post Oak/Black Jac...
    61: ...wood Forest, [[Ouachita]] Mountains, and Cypress Swamps & Forests.
  2. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
    34: ...ntury BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
    55: * [[Water clock]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
    110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
    142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]]
  3. List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
    15: *[[Stewart Udall|Udall, Stewart Lee]] (1920-)
    16: *[[Tom Udall|Udall, Thomas Stewart "Tom"]] (1948-)
    32: *[[Walter Ulbricht|Ulbricht, Walter]], (1893-1973), Leader of DDR
    57: ...er, [[History of independent Mongolia|Mongolian]] warlord
    68: ... Upham|Upham, Charles]], (1908-1994), New Zealand war hero
  4. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
    24: *[[Jimmy Yancey|Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy"]] (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie mus...
    75: ...-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas, Edward]] (1901-1964), [[World War II|WW2]] SOE agent
    130: *[[Yoshikawa Eiji|Yoshikawa, Eiji]], ([[1892]]-[[1962]]), novelist
    131: *[[Yoshikawa Takeo|Yoshikawa, Takeo]]
  5. Time zone (34024 bytes)
    2: ... transport|railways]] this became increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by ...
    22: *[[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii|Hawai'i]], USA: UTC − 10 (e.g. if it is 06:00 UT...
    31: ...]]'s public clocks were using GMT by [[1855]], it was not made Britain's legal time until [[August 2]]...
    33: ...nutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. This standard was known as New Zealand Mean Time.
    35: ...dgepodge was made uniform when Standard zone time was made legal by the [[Congress of the United State...
  6. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
    48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
    90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
    106: *[[Marie Bashkirtseff]] ([[1860]]-[[1884]])
    121: *[[Max Beckmann]] ([[1884]]-[[1950]])
  7. Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
    12: ...anguage in Mesopotamia until about 1 AD. Then, it was forgotten until the [[19th century]]. Sumerian...
    18:
    26: ...eph Halevy, argued from 1874 onward that Sumerian was a secret code, and for over a decade the leading...
    28: ...for students studying Sumerian. Poebel's grammar was finally superseded when, in 1984, appeared The S...
    32: ...reads the roasted malt on a large mat (to cool)," was translated "thou real producer of the lightning,...
  8. Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
    3: ... Wizard of [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]]" was one of the first inventors to apply the principl...
    5: ...ted the [[Motion Picture Patents Company]], which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios (comm...
    10: ... took up farming near Vienna, Ontario. Among them was Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr., a shingle maker, tailo...
    14: ...mas Alva Edison]]. The economic success in Milan was soon over, though, and seven-year-old "Al" and h...
    16: ...is schooling his teacher, [[Alexander Crawford]], was overheard calling him "[[addled]]". This ended ...
  9. January 17 (12233 bytes)
    6: ...scene for the second phase of the [[English Civil War]].
    7: * [[1746]] - [[Charles Edward Stuart]], "Bonnie Prince Charlie", defeats a [[...
    12: ... Stronghold]] in the [[United States|US]] [[Modoc War]].
    14: ...t of Queen [[Liliuokalani]] of the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]].
    15: ...9]] - The [[United States]] takes possession of [[Wake Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
  10. Archaeopteryx (8771 bytes)
    25: ...mble those of living birds, but ''Archaeopteryx'' was rather different from any bird we know of today:...
    34: ...yx'''s [[braincase]] concluded that its [[brain]] was significantly larger than that of most dinosaurs...
    40: ...olnhofen limestone]] formation in [[Germany]]. It was formed in the [[Jurassic]], 150 [[million years ...
    43: ...chaeopteryx bavarica'' and the Solnhofen specimen was referred to ''Wellnhoferia grandis''. Recently, ...
    50: ... near [[Blumenberg]], Germany, and described in [[1884]] by [[Wilhelm Dames]]. Currently Located at the ...
  11. Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
    3: The word '''skyscraper''' was originally a [[Glossary of nautical terms|nautic...
    5: ...rs, and water pressure could only provide running water to about 50 feet (15 m).
    7: ...ent essential to practical skyscraper development was the invention of the [[elevator]].
    9: ...r contender for the title is the 1892 ten-story [[Wainwright Building]] by [[Louis Sullivan]], which s...
    11: ...ke curtains--hence the architectural term curtain wall for tall systems of glass that are laterally su...
  12. Labour Day (7088 bytes)
    3: ...ve an eight hour day. Their direct action protest was a success, and they are noted as the first organ...
    7: ...inated with marches in both [[Toronto]] and [[Ottawa]] in [[1872]]. On the other hand, socialist deleg...
    11: ...tion include [[picnic]]s, [[fireworks display]]s, water activities, and public art events. Families wi...
    13: ... weather in the winter to the fact that the rule was intended as a status symbol for new members of t...
    19: ...in [[1933]] after the [[NSDAP]] rose to power. It was supposed to [[Symbol|symbolize]] the newfound un...
  13. National League (4871 bytes)
    3: ...ues have met in the [[World Series]]. (The Series was not played in either 1904 or 1994.)
    9: ...er]] in the batting order, although this is not always the case.
    19: *[[Washington Nationals]] (Montreal Expos through 2004)
    28: *[[Milwaukee Brewers]]
    45: *[[Abraham Mills|Abraham G. Mills]] [[1883]]-[[1884]]
  14. World Series (40101 bytes)
    1: ...mined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series...
    3: The [[2004 World Series]] was played from [[October 23]] until [[October 27]],...
    5: ...[[2003]], the team given the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League ...
    7: ...ipts from the World Series - and, from [[1969]] onward, the other rounds of postseason play preceding ...
    13: ...ntations. At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] the USA was not represented, since its minor-leaguer team di...
  15. Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
    6: ...s|1941]]-[[1952 in sports|1952]]), [[Milwaukee|Milwaukee Braves]] ([[1953 in sports|1953]]-[[1965 in s...
    8: :'''Ownership:''' [[Time Warner]]
    11: ..., [[Philadelphia Phillies]], [[New York Mets]], [[Washington Nationals]]
    20: ...ing ball better than any other in the league, and was ready to catch New York. From there came a romp ...
    21: ...hitting, and its leader, Evers, won the Chalmers Award, which is equivalent to today's MVP.
  16. Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
    5: ...r the [[American League]]. The nickname ''Cubs'' was coined in [[1902]] when manager [[Frank Selee]] ...
    18: ...ranged contests among the various teams, the time was right for the organization of the first professi...
    20: ...shing second in the N.A. just 2 games behind, but was compelled to drop out of the league during the c...
    22: ...e scenes the club President, [[William Hulbert]], was leading the formation of a new and stronger orga...
    24: ...ctive to note that a similar winning percentage nowadays would yield 129 wins.
  17. Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
    5: ...iation (19th century)|American Association]] in [[1884]] and transferred to the National League in [[189...
    7: ... (under manager Ned Hanlon -- "Hanlon's Superbas" was the name of an acrobatic troup popular at the ti...
    8: .../STREET%20SCENES/Dodgers/dodgers.html Part of the wall of the stadium ] can still be seen.)
    25: ... the team. He desired to replace the dilapidated Washington Park with a new ballpark, and again inves...
    28: *It was during this era that [[Willard Mullin]], perhaps...
  18. List of chemists (10401 bytes)
    29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
    39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966)
    40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
    42: * [[Edward Doisy]], (1893-), American biochemist, winner o...
    44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist
  19. Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
    12: ...his work in [[telecommunications]] technology, he was responsible for important advances in [[aviation...
    17: His family was associated with the teaching of [[elocution]]: h...
    19: ...ity of Edinburgh]]. From [[1866]] to [[1867]], he was an instructor at Somersetshire College at [[Bath...
    21: ...ing the system of visible speech. The elder Bell was invited to introduce the system into a large day...
    27: ... francs, the [[Royal Society of Arts]] in London awarded him the [[Albert medal]] in [[1902]], and the...
  20. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    33: *[[Treffle Berthlaume]] (1803 - 1884)
    44: *[[Rembrandt Bugatti]] (1884 - 1916)
    99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
    146: *[[Antonin Idrac]] (1849 - 1884)
    153: *[[J. Seward Johnson, Jr.]] (1930 - )

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