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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...s ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]?
66: ...ntury BC|200s BC]]: Compound [[pulley]]: [[Archimedes]]
74: * [[1st century]]: [[Rudder|Stern mounted rudder]] in [[History of China|China]]
83: * [[9th century|800s]]: [[Black powder|Gunpowder]] in [[History of China|China]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
7: *[[Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich]] (born 1923)
8: *[[Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Sergeyevich]] (1906-1989)
11: *[[Yakubu Gowon]] (born 1934), military leader of [[Nigeria]]
12: *[[Alexander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
37: ..., Yury]], (born 1942), Russian politician, former deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
5: ''For details, see the main [[Pre-Colonial America]] artic...
10: ''For details, see the main [[Colonial America]] article.'...
12: ... which was distinct from that of its European founders.
15: ''For details, see the main [[History of the United States...
17: ...ring this period the United States won its independence from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] during t... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: Modern [[science]] is a body of verifiable [[empirical...
4: ... change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still...
6: ...] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects and systems, which differs ...
11: ...mphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
13: ...e, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ... and [[businessman]] who developed many important devices. "The Wizard of [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Men...
5: ... Nevertheless, Edison received [[patent]]s worldwide, including the [[United States]], [[United Kingdo...
10: ...ing near Vienna, Ontario. Among them was Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr., a shingle maker, tailor, and tavern...
12: ...MacKenzie Rebellion]] that sought Canadian independence. The revolt failed and, like his grandfather,...
14: From [[Port Huron]], Sam Edison moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Mil... - Timeline of United States history (2967 bytes)
21: ** [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]]
42: ...-the-united-states.htm Photographs of the US Presidents]
44: ...age/category/american-presidents-clipart.htm Presidents of the United States Clipart] - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
1: {| border="1" width="300" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" ...
6: [[Military history of the Confederate States]]
10: |Date||[[1861]]–[[1865]]
14: |Result||Defeat of seceding CSA
19: {| border="1" width="300" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...nancier [[Bernard Baruch]] in April 1947 during a debate on the [[Truman Doctrine]].
7: ...d in good part by arming or funding surrogates, a development that lessened direct impact on the popul...
9: ...ic Missile Treaty]]). U.S.-Soviet relations would deteriorate once again in the late 1970s and early [...
11: ...e:Berlinwall.jpg|thumb|right|A section of the now-defunct [[Berlin Wall]], a symbol of the Cold War-er...
12: ...da wars between the United States and the USSR. Indeed, it was far from certain that a global nuclear ... - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
1: [[Image:LBJMLK.jpg|thumb|250px|right|President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.]]
2: ...o citizens. When those grants were later found inadequate, '''civil rights movements''' emerged as the...
4: ...odations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or s...
8: ...nship'. The term [[Human rights]] refers to a broader concept.<br>
12: ...and laws of those states in which that person resides as a citizen. <br> - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
1: ...0,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, include these men felled during the bloody Battle of Anti...
6: ====1860–1865====
9: *[[1860]] - [[Crittenden Compromise]]
10: *[[1860]] - [[South Carolina]] secedes
11: *[[1861]] - [[Abraham Lincoln]] becomes President - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...uch of the native population. U.S. industry expanded rapidly throughout the era; by the dawn of the 2...
7: ...preconditions. A series of laws, passed by the Federal government, established the conditions and pro...
9: ...tributed to the government's failure for many decades to enforce the civil rights of the formerly ensl...
11: ...n Act stated that "no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exist in...
13: ...lled [[carpetbaggers]] by southerners, and were widely perceived as being motivated by graft and corru... - April (9790 bytes)
7: The name is derived from the [[Latin]] ''aprilis'', either from ...
15: Poets identify April with the end of winter, but they don't...
24: ::Modernized for ''The Norton Anthology of English Liter...
28: :Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
29: :Memory and desire, stirring - Dodo (9332 bytes)
17: ==Description==
18: ...ct museum specimens of the Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxf...
27: ...rd ''doudo'', meaning "simpleton", ''doido'' in modern Portuguese meaning fool or mad. (The island was...
29: ...found in the old [[midden]]s of the Dutch fort Frederik Hendrik.
31: ..., while humans destroyed the forests where they made their homes. - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: ...b|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...orse code is the only digital [[modulation]] mode designed to be easily read by humans without a compu...
4: ...rly form of a digital code. International Morse code is composed of six elements:
11: ...by more regular formats, including the [[Baudot code]] and [[ASCII]].
13: ...s, became known as Railroad or [[American Morse code]], and is now very rarely used. - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: ...l fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
7: ...325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppies]] ''circa'' [[1910]].]]
13: ... while those in the northern [[Cascade Range]] traded [[obsidian]], used for arrowheads, axe heads, an...
19: ...cted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a wonderful country far to the northwest, populated with ...
23: ...ula of [[Baja California]]), and laid out and founded the city that was to become LaPaz later that spr... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...cantly, the [[President of the United States|President]] must ratify treaties and make important appoi...
4: ...erated to the Senate in the Constitution are regarded as more important than those exclusively enumera...
10: ...ates called for a second Congressional chamber, modeled on the [[House of Lords]] (the [[aristocratic]...
12: ...n the House of Representatives. [[James Madison]] described the Senate's purpose as "A necessary fence...
14: ...]] for political purposes; the trial ultimately ended in acquittal, with the Senate falling one vote s... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...ed through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series ha...
7: ... it - is used to fund a Players' Pool, from which descending shares are distributed to the World Serie...
9: ...or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded.
11: ...ed sponsorship. (For details, see [http://roadsidephotos.com/baseball/name.htm Mr. Pappas's web page...
13: ... of money spent by the MLB for its current worldwide marketing. - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
2: '''George Washington Carver''' (c. [[1864]]-[[1865|5]] - [[January 5]], [[1943]]) was an [[African-A...
5: ...as unable to work as a hand and spent his time wandering the fields, drawn to the varieties of wild pl...
9: ...mptly left, but still carried scars from this incident for the rest of his life.
11: ..., whose father was head of the Iowa State College Department of Horticulture, recognized Carver's hort...
13: ...tary regiment. His poetry was published in the student newspaper and two of his paintings were exhibit... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...e '''Underground Railroad''' was a network of clandestine routes by which [[African]] [[slavery|slaves...
4: ...llion slaves who were to eventually escape. The Underground Railroad has captured public imagination a...
6: ...ailroadsmall2.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Map of some Underground Railroad routes]]
10: ...s disseminated the abolitionist viewpoint nationwide.
14: The Underground Railroad developed its own jargon, which continued the [[rail...
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