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- Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
6: ...he Smokey City annexed Allegheny. Ballclub was sometimes dubbed the ''Innocents'' during the 1880s. In...
13: ...nants won''' (9): [[1901]], [[1902]], [[1903]], [[1909]], [[1925]], [[1927]], [[1960]], [[1971]], [[1979...
14: :'''[[World Series]] championships won''' (5): [[1909]], [[1925]], [[1960]], [[1971]], [[1979]]
19: ... World Series title in [[1909]], defeating the [[Detroit Tigers]] in seven games.
21: ...cord in [[1917]], Wagner's last season. However, veteran outfielder [[Max Carey]] and young players [[... - Computer (32773 bytes)
16: ...lved by computers, and in doing so founded [[theoretical computer science]].
20: ... brain which recognizes that those patterns form letters and numbers, and attaches meaning to them. A...
22: ==Etymology==
24: ...ers were introduced by the OED2 to differentiate between the different types of machine. These qualifi...
26: ...ter]]" for definitions, translations and detailed etymology. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemis...
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
37: *[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemi...
39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966)
50: ...st Carl Emil Erlenmeyer |Emil Erlenmayer]], (1825-1909), German chemist - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...toelectric effect]] and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".
7: ...achievement, he remains the most influential theoretical physicist of the modern era. Einstein's reve...
16: ...pocket [[compass]], and Einstein realized that something in "empty" space acted upon the needle; he wo...
20: ... his family in Pavia. He convinced the school to let him go with a medical note from a friendly doctor...
22: ...namoured with Marie, their daughter, his first sweetheart. Albert's sister Maja was to later marry the... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
12: ...ist of people known as the father or mother of something|father of the telephone]]. In addition to hi...
17: ... Edinburgh in [[1868]]. In this he explains his method of instructing deaf mutes, by means of their e...
19: ...1866]] to [[1867]], he was an instructor at Somersetshire College at [[Bath, England]]. While still in...
21: ... large day-school for mutes at [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], but he declined the post in favor of ...
23: ...nted him [[Patent]] Number 174,465 covering "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or o... - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
2: '''Garrett Augustus Morgan''' ([[March 4]], [[1877]], [[Par...
13: ...mployees. The company made coats, suits, dresses, etc. - all sewn with equipment that Morgan himself h...
17: ...he oldest intercollegiate [[Greek alphabet|Greek-letter]] [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternity]] e...
19: ==The safety hood and smoke protector==
20: ...the International Exposition of Sanitation and Safety. - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...[middle class]] in [[United States|American]] society. He was one of the first to apply [[assembly lin...
8: ...r with the Detroit Dry Dock Co. In [[1882]], he returned to Dearborn to work on the family farm and b...
10: ... experiments culminated in [[1896]] with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle named the [[...
12: ..., formed the [[Detroit Automobile Company]]. The Detroit Automobile Company went bankrupt soon afterwa...
18: ...9]], and setting a one-mile oval speed record at Detroit Fairgrounds in [[1911]] with driver Frank Kul... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
4: ...ripping this cable as required. Cable cars are sometimes confused with [[funicular]]s, where the cars ...
9: ...e moving cable. Conversely the car is stopped by detaching it from the cable, and then applying brakes...
13: ...same advantages, and in any case they must be offset against the cost of moving the cable.
16: ...evated railway involved collar-equipped cables together with claw-equipped cars, and proved cumbersome...
19: ...le cars to use grips were those of the [[Clay Street Hill Railroad]] which later became part of the [[... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
22: ...]] and he worked at Belle Springs Creamery from [[1909]] to [[1911]].
34: ...r to General [[George V. Moseley]], Assistant Secretary of War, from [[1929]] to [[1933]]. He then ser...
36: Eisenhower returned to the U.S. in [[1939]] and held a series of...
43: ...wer gained his fourth star and gave up command of ETOUSA to be commander of NATOUSA. After the capitu...
45: ...up>[[#Notes|2]]</sup>, and through his command of ETOUSA, administrative command of all US forces, on ... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
22: In his lifetime Roosevelt was a polarizing figure: he was a he...
26: ...osenvelt]], originally from [[Haarlem]] in the [[Netherlands]], arrived in New York (then called [[Nie...
28: ... two branches remained friendly: James Roosevelt met his wife at a Roosevelt family gathering at Oyste...
30: ...Phillippe de la Noye having arrived in [[Massachusetts]] in [[1621]]. Her mother was a Lyman, another ...
32: ...he fact that his father was a Democrat, however, set him apart to some extent from most other members ... - Louis Bleriot (3099 bytes)
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14: ...king on his cross-Channel trip. On [[July 25]], [[1909]] he made the trip from [[Calais]] to [[Dover, En...
16: ...ckage of Blériot's plane, Reims Air Meet, August 1909.]]
19: ...e renamed the company [[Société Pour l'Aviation et ses Dérivés]] (SPAD) and turned it into one of ... - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
2: ...o [[New Zealand]], and was also the first to complete the more difficult eastward Pacific crossing fro...
4: ...couver]], [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]]. Upon returning to Australia, he attended [[St Andrew's Cat...
6: ...[[Brisbane Airport|Eagle Farm Airport]], and was feted as a hero. Australian [[aviator]] [[Charles Ul...
8: In [[1930]], he competed in an England to Australia [[air race]], and, f...
10: ... during another epic flight that Kingsford Smith met his end. Once again flying from England to Austra... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
14: ...ring their research, the Wrights always worked together, and their contributions to the aeroplane's de...
19: ...others privacy from prying eyes in the highly competitive race to invent a successful heavier-than-air...
23: ... was actually controlled, Wilbur Wright flew 279 meters (852 ft) in 59 seconds. [http://www.thewrightb...
27: ...d dollars to construct. It had a wingspan of 40 feet (12 m), weighed 750 pounds (340 kg), and sported ...
31: ...ial circle and by [[October 5]], [[1905]] Wilbur set a record of over 39 minutes in the air and 24 1/2... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...tional Socialist German Workers Party]] (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
22: ...propaganda during the Second World War when pamphlets bearing the phrase "Heil Schicklgruber" were air...
24: ... in the [[15th century]] and were not allowed to return until well after Maria Schicklgruber's alleged...
25: ...h school (''Realschule'') in Linz, he failed completely and had to repeat the grade. His teachers repo...
35: ... shelter]], and by the beginning of [[1910]] had settled permanently into a house for poor working men... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...year before [[Robert Peary]] claimed to, April 6, 1909.<ref>Henderson, B. 2009, pp. 58-69</ref>
13: ...] shortly before his death. As a result of that meeting, Cook brought back the manuscript of Bridges' ...
24: ...r points attained, his compass bearings, his barometer readings, his route-map's accuracy, even his ca...
28: ...ok Expedition.gif|thumb|right|A photo from Cook's 1909 arctic expedition, which he alleged was taken at ...
29: ...o Annoatok on the Greenland side in the spring of 1909, allegedly almost dying of starvation during the ... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
12: ...expedition to traverse the [[Northwest Passage]] between the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and [[Pacific...
14: ...ached in [[1906]]. Due to water as shallow as 3 feet (1 m), a larger ship could never have used the ro...
18: ...tjof Nansen]]'s ship ''[[Fram]]'' ("Forward") he set out for Antarctica instead in [[1910]].
20: ...it]] he waited until Fram reached [[Madeira]] to let his crew know of the change. Every member agreed ...
22: ...t Scott had a route, discovered by [[Ernest Shackleton]], up the [[Beardmore Glacier]] to the [[Antarc... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
9: ...thiopia|Sissinios]] formally crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]]
16: *[[1909]] - [[Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] ...
19: ...Union]]. Despite the recent Polish successes, Soviets annex [[Ukraine]] and [[Belarus]]. Government of...
25: ...s]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Benito Mussolini]] meet at [[Brenner Pass]] in the [[Alps]] and agree to ...
31: *1962 - In [[Luxembourg]], [[Isabelle Aubret]] wins the seventh [[Eurovision Song Contest]] fo... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
10: ...attle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
12: ... the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
26: ...]] [[Stan Getz]] [[Sound_recording|records]] ''[[Getz/Gilberto]]'', including ''[[The Girl from Ipanem...
29: ...its day-to-day business via the cable television network [[C-SPAN]].
42: *[[1721]] - [[Tobias Smollett]], Scottish novelist (d. [[1771]]) - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...]] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
13: *[[1852]] – [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' is pu...
21: ...he first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed.
22: ...h he says: "I came out of [[Bataan]] and I shall return".
27: *[[1966]] – The [[Jules Rimet trophy|World Cup]] is stolen from [[Central Hall]...
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