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- Pompeii (10901 bytes)
13: In [[62]], a violent [[earthquake]] severely damaged Pompeii and many other towns of Campania. In...
18: ... the sun on a mild afternoon. Coincidentally, the date was that of the [[Vulcanalia]], the festival of...
20: ...e phenomenon occurring over Mt. Vesuvius: a large dark cloud shaped rather like a pine tree emanating ...
22: ...ud" that Pliny the Younger wrote about is known today as a [[pyroclastic flow]], which is a cloud of s...
26: ... the eruption and the daylight hours were left in darkness. His uncle [[Pliny the Elder]] had already ... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ... ([[Vicchio di Mugello]], [[Florence]] [[1395]] – [[Rome]] [[1455]]), better known in the Englis...
7: ...datory term which was assigned to him at an early date and which we find in use within thirty years af...
33: ...med the [[predella]] of this picture has, since [[1860]], been in the [[National Gallery, London]], and ...
35: ...ready mentioned, [[Zanobi Strozzi]] and [[Gentile da Fabriano]] are named as pupils of Angelico. - Badminton (12494 bytes)
5: ...er the net so that it lands inside the marked boundaries of the court, and aim to prevent their oppone...
30: ...over the net onto the court within the marked boundaries before the opposing player or pair can hit it...
59: ... should be hit to the centre line or the back boundary line.
82: ...e [[1850]]s. The sport got its current name in [[1860]] in a pamphlet by [[Isaac Spratt]], a London toy...
88: ..., Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Denmark, Holland, Canada, New Zealand and France as by founding members. I... - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ...g their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], c...
7: ...f the leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in thei...
9: ...hat only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] participate. While some would contend that the...
13: ...he Olympics until now. The US team won the gold medal in [[2000]], suggesting that a major-league team...
27: * 1860 Brooklyn Atlantics - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
36: *[[John Dalton]], (1766-1844), physicist
37: ...[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel ...
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829) - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
5: ... rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. |
6: date_of_birth=[[March 3]] [[1847]] |
9: date_of_death=[[August 2]] [[1922]] |
10: ...ck, Nova Scotia|Baddeck]], [[Nova Scotia]], [[Canada]]
12: ...''Alexander Graham Bell''' ([[March 3]] [[1847]]–[[August 2]] [[1922]]) was a [[scientist]], [[i... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...cape to [[free state]]s, or as far north as [[Canada]], with the aid of [[abolitionists]]. Other route...
23: ...m to safety, where they eventually escaped to Canada.
25: Slaves escaped bondage with and without outside assistance as early as...
27: ...re. The slaveowner, in hot pursuit, remarked that Davids had disappeared as if through an "underground...
31: ...d slavery in [[1829]], and until [[1819]], [[Florida]] was under the jurisdiction of [[Spain]]. - Sicily (18450 bytes)
52: ... Italian poetry and created the first Italian standard. The most famous, however, are [[Luigi Pirandel...
64: ...]], [[Himera]], and [[Zancle]] or Messene (modern-day [[Messina]], not to be confused with the ancient...
74: In AD [[440]] Sicily fell to the [[Vandal]] king [[Geiseric]]. A few decades later it came...
80: ...ious outbreak of plague ([[1656]]), followed by a damaging earthquake in the east of the island ([[169...
82: ... Sicily was joined with the kingdom of Italy in [[1860]] following the expedition of [[Giuseppe Garibald... - Palermo (10618 bytes)
12: ...ni degli Eremiti and the Zisa. [http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/76.html]
14: ...[baroque]] buildings, many of which still exist today.
18: ...n ''[[Risorgimento]]'' and Sicily's annexation ([[1860]]) to the [[House of Savoy|kingdom of Italy]] gav...
27: ... from the devastation of [[World War II]] and the damage caused by decades of uncontrolled urban growt...
42: ...tices; signs of the zodiac show the various other dates throughout the year. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
19: *[[César Baldaccini]]
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]]
63: *[[Eduardo Chillida]] (1924-2002)
75: *[[Jules Dalou]] (1838 - 1902) - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
1: ...ng the doctrine of [[gnosis]] and [[Gnosticism]]—these are religious concepts that are not gener...
8: ...Russell]]. It has been argued from the works of [[David Hume]], especially ''Dialogues Concerning Natu...
12: ...e. In a letter to Charles Kingsley (September 23, 1860) he discussed his views extensively:
14: ...bjections to the doctrine. No man who has to deal daily and hourly with nature can trouble himself abo...
22: ... state of rewards and punishments for our deeds — have to these doctrines? Give me a scintilla o... - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
4: ...recently freed slaves, nor imposed a Northern agenda on the restoration of the Southern economy. Howe...
25: ... Military District]]: The Carolinas, under Gen. [[Daniel Sickles]]
26: ...rd Military District]]: Georgia, Alabama and Florida, under Gen. [[John Pope (military officer)|John P...
28: ...]]: Texas and Louisiana, under Gen. [[Philip Sheridan]] and several others.
36: ...torship throughout American institutions and everyday life. The resurrection and expansion of the raci... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1929]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1933]]
9: | date of birth=[[August 10]], [[1874]]
12: | date of death=[[October 20]], [[1964]]
19: ...during the administration of [[Lyndon Johnson]] — his fifth successor. - African American (19830 bytes)
15: ...d the institution of slavery, culminated in the [[1860]] election of President of the [[United States]] ...
21: ...werment, propounding ideas of black unity and solidarity and [[pan-Africanism]].
33: ...erican cultural influences in the United States today. [[Hip Hop]], [[Rock music|Rock]], [[R&B]], [[fu...
43: ...emselves had repudiated only two decades earlier—a term often associated in English with things ...
47: ...ty with others of the black African [[diaspora]]—an embracing of the notion of pan-Africanism ea... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
2: ...:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|'''Jefferson Davis''']]
3: '''Jefferson Davis''' ([[June 3]], [[1808]]–[[December 6]], [[1889]]) was an [[United State...
6: ... under [[Andrew Jackson]] and receiving his commendation for bravery in the [[Battle of New Orleans]].
8: During Davis's youth, his family moved several times, in [[...
10: ...[[Lexington, Kentucky]] in [[1821]]. In [[1824]], Davis entered the [[United States Military Academy]]... - John Hanning Speke (2178 bytes)
1: ...ypothesis]], a suspected major cause of the [[Rwandan genocide]].
9: ...ext he travelled to [[Gondokoro]] in southern [[Sudan]], where he met [[Samuel Baker]], then back to E...
11: ...September 16]], [[1864]], but Speke died just one day before, of a hunting accident - although Burton ... - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
35: ...ard with potatoes, corn, and wheat. By the late [[1860s]], Topeka had become a commercial hub providing ...
37: ...les Robinson as the first governor. Cyrus K. Holliday donated a tract of land to the state for the con...
39: Although the drought of [[1860]] and the ensuing period of the [[American Civil ...
44: ... was the case responsible for eliminating the standard of "separate but equal", and requiring [[racial...
56: to this day, with inflation factored in, the Topeka tornado ... - Jackson, Mississippi (21073 bytes)
29: ...kerboard. This plan has not lasted to the present day. The state legislature first met in Jackson on [...
41: ...lder structure upon its completion in 1903, and today the Old Capitol is a historical museum. A third ...
43: ...ture of the city in the early [[20th century]]. Today, the main Jackson public library is named in her...
53: ...om lung cancer. The patient survived for eighteen days before dying of kidney failure.
65: ...own for much of the [[nineteenth century]]. The [[1860]] census counted only 1,881 residents, and by [[1... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]...
63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: ...arc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: ... Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
12: ...reeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
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