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- Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...Alchemy can be regarded as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation o...
4: ...|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
8: ...] of gold and silver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and hav...
11: ...ormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and beliefs have limited validity, but if w...
13: ... both an inner meaning referring to the spiritual development of the practitioner as well as a materia... - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
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46: Wounded in action: 4,505 <br>
48: Other deaths: 17,000<br>
49: Civilian deaths: 500?<br> - Brooks Robinson (1427 bytes)
1: ...seball]]. He played his 23-year career with the [[Baltimore Orioles]] (1955-77). - Robert Goddard (scientist) (7533 bytes)
3: ...uld eventually come to be called the "father of modern rocketry" for his life's work.
7: ...er wrote, "how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending t...
11: ...ilosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[1911]]. By [[1914]], he was designing rocket [[motor]]s, with financial assistan...
13: ...ended in a cabbage field, but it was an important demonstration that liquid-fuel propellants were poss...
15: ...Ground]] two days before the [[Armistice]] that ended [[World War I]]. Another Clark University resea... - Samuel F. B. Morse (8859 bytes)
1: ...b|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...nventing the electric [[telegraph]] and [[Morse code]].
9: ...an painter. While at [[Yale University]], he attended lectures on [[electricity]] from [[Benjamin Sill...
11: ...f that same year, Morse's wife, Lucretia, died suddenly. She was buried before he returned to New Have...
13: ...ing [[telegraph]] and [[Morse code|dot-and-dash code system]] (a signalling [[alphabet]]) in his [[ske... - Major League Baseball (14783 bytes)
5: ...MLB effectively prevents the yearly promotion and demotion of teams into the Major League by virtue of...
7: ...refore not subject to federal [[antitrust]] law), despite baseball's own references to itself as an "i...
15: ...ere are 30 teams in the two leagues: 16 in the elder [[National League]] ("NL") and 14 in the [[Ameri...
21: ..., every team in the majors must have at least one designated all-star player, regardless of voting. Th...
35: ...cing drugs, Major League Baseball has finally decided to crack down on steroids and issue harsher pena... - Spiro Agnew (8986 bytes)
5: ! Order:
6: | 39th Vice President
11: ! Predecessor:
14: ! Succeeded by:
21: | [[Baltimore, Maryland]] - Al Gore (43430 bytes)
6: ! Order:
7: | 45th Vice President
12: ! Preceded by:
15: ! Succeeded by:
31: | [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] - List of U.S. states' largest cities (4566 bytes)
17: ...orado]] || [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]
21: ...[[Delaware]] || [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]]
37: ...a]] || [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]]
47: ...nd]] || [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]]
51: ...igan]] || [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
1: ...d States ''or'' involve the armed forces of the federal government or the militias of the separate sta...
4: ...he bolded items are the U.S. wars most often considered to be ''major conflicts'' by historians and th...
29: *[[Abraham Lincoln Brigade|Spanish Civil War]] (1936–1938)
36: *[[Mayag?cident|''Mayag?Incident]] (1975)
38: ...Sidra incident (disambiguation)|Gulf of Sidra Incidents]] (1981, 1989) - Cuneiform (script) (7717 bytes)
6: ==Development==
7: ...tating counter-clockwise all of the pictograms 90° in the process), and a new wedge-tipped stylus ...
9: ...iform tablets could be fired in [[kiln]]s to provide a permanent record, or they could be recycled if ...
11: ...ssyria]]ns to write their own languages and was widely used in [[Mesopotamia]] for about 3000 years, t...
13: ...nese]], written in a [[Chinese language|Chinese]] derived script; some of these Sinograms were used as... - George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
1: ...tor]] [[Prescott Bush]]), his father (former President [[George H. W. Bush]]), and his brother ([[Jeb ...
2: {{Infobox President | name=George Walker Bush
5: | order=43rd President
8: | preceded=[[Bill Clinton]]
9: | succeeded=[[Incumbent]] - Star (12279 bytes)
1: ...mb|right|350px|The [[Pleiades (star cluster)|Pleiades]] star cluster]]
3: ...to Earth to appear as a disk instead, and to provide [[sunlight|daylight]].
7: Distances like this are typical inside galactic discs, where the Sun and Earth are locat...
9: ... [[terametre]]s. However, these have a much lower density than the Sun.
11: ...e Milky Way]], and found no stars over that limit despite a statistical expectation that there should ... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
14: ...]] - The [[Pennsylvania State University]] is founded.
17: ...]] - [[Johns Hopkins University]] is founded in [[Baltimore, Maryland]].
19: ... [[1889]] - [[President of the United States|President]] [[Grover Cleveland]] signs a bill admitting [...
23: ...omunitat de Catalunya]] and conducted by [[Rafael de Campalans]].
24: ...s the first [[President of the United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House... - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
3: ...e-Washington Metropolitan Area]], which also includes parts of [[Maryland]], [[Virginia]], and [[West ...
5: ...s a state, it would rank last in area behind [[Rhode Island]], 50th in population ahead of [[Wyoming]]...
7: ...arks, museums, and sports teams, and is a popular destination for [[tourist]]s.
11: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
15: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (32608 bytes)
2: ...e:Independence_hall_1_bs.jpg|thumb|125px|[[Independence Hall]] ]]
3: ...eople. Philadelphia is the central city for the [[Delaware Valley]] [[metropolitan area]].
5: ... Franklin]] playing an extraordinary role in Philadelphia's rise.
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