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- Pompeii (10901 bytes)
9: ...for a while, but these theories have not been verified.
18: ... [[Vulcanalia]], the festival of the Roman god of fire.
30: ...useppe Fiorelli took charge of the excavations in 1860. It was he who devised the technique of injecting...
36: ... are used to seeing in Roman towns, due to the difficult terrain. But its streets are straight and lai...
43: An important current field of research concerns structures that were bein... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...e," which is merely the name of the town where he first took the vows. His life was described in [[Gio...
7: ... death, but was not properly [[beatification|beatified]] until [[1984]].
9: ...f [[Cosimo de' Medici]]. According to Vasari, the first paintings of this artist were in the [[Certosa...
13: ...he ''Coronation of the Virgin'' in the convent of Fiesole, and the ''Deposition of Christ'' executed f...
15: ...rnina]]. From [[1418]] to [[1436]] he was back at Fiesole; in 1436 he was transferred to the Dominican... - Badminton (12494 bytes)
5: ...[[drag (physics)|drag]], and will not bounce significantly. The shuttlecock is always volleyed, and a ...
7: ...nt to being a successful badminton player. From a fitness perspective a close comparison can be made t...
9: As in tennis, there are typically five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's d...
18: ...mposite ([[graphite reinforced plastic]]). Carbon fiber has an excellent strength to weight ratio, is ...
39: ..., the game is decided by a single point, i.e. the first to reach 15 (or 11) points wins. - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ... won the series four games to none, earning their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the ...
5: ...l All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] is given the home field advantage in the World Series.
7: ...dings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not ...
9: ...to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club team outside [[Ma...
13: ...nificant minority are from [[Puerto Rico]], which fields its own teams in international sports competi... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
56: *[[Hermann Emil Fischer]], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
57: *[[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]]
58: *[[Hans Fischer]], German organic chemist, [[1930]] [[Nobel ...
64: *[[Johan Gadolin]], (1760–1852), [[Finns|Finnish]] chemist - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
23: ... States Patent and Trademark Office|U.S. Patent Office]] granted him [[Patent]] Number 174,465 coverin...
25: ...r the [[photophone]], one for the [[phonograph]], five for aerial vehicles, four for hydroairplanes, a...
35: ...rolific inventor, and had a keen interest in many fields.
39: ...on) of a similar kind only 2 hours after Bell had filed for his patent.
43: ...tus designed by Gray. An official at the patent office later admitted to selling Gray's idea to Bell's... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
4: ...public imagination as a symbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominently in [[African American history]].
15: *people who helped slaves find the railroad were "agents"
25: ...ing in the [[1820]]s. Coincidently, the nation's first commercial railroad, the east-west [[Baltimore...
31: ...y escaped to Canada. Fugitive slaves were a significant presence in the then underpopulated Canadian ...
35: ::When the sun come back and the first quail calls, - Sicily (18450 bytes)
43: ... Project. If and when completed, it will mark the first time in history that Sicily has been connected...
52: ...ed much subsequent Italian poetry and created the first Italian standard. The most famous, however, ar...
66: ... Hellenized. In the [[Carthage#First Sicilian War|First]] and [[Carthage#Second Sicilian War|Second Si...
68: ...epublic]] into Sicilian affairs, and led to the [[First Punic War]] between [[Rome]] and Carthage. By ...
72: ...a rural backwater, important chiefly for its grainfields which were a mainstay of the food supply of t... - Palermo (10618 bytes)
6: ... '''Panormus''', meaning all-port, because of its fine natural harbour. Palermo is widely considered ...
8: Palermo remained a Phoenician city until the [[First Punic War]] ([[264 BC|264]]-[[241 BC]]), when ...
16: ...ay. Palermo was the scene ([[January 12]]) of the first of [[Europe]]'s revolutionary upheavals of [[1...
18: ...n ''[[Risorgimento]]'' and Sicily's annexation ([[1860]]) to the [[House of Savoy|kingdom of Italy]] gav...
25: ... process, which was an important element in the Mafia's transition from a mostly rural phenomenon into... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
95: *[[Mino da Fiesole]] (c.1429 - 1484)
96: *[[Steve Fiorilla]]
97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-)
243: ...e Rennie (sculptor and politician)]] (1801 or 2 - 1860) - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
1: ...gnosticism is not to be confused with a view specifically opposing the doctrine of [[gnosis]] and [[Gn...
12: ...e. In a letter to Charles Kingsley (September 23, 1860) he discussed his views extensively:
14: ... nature can trouble himself about ''a priori'' difficulties. Give me such evidence as would justify me...
22: ...I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel. I cannot see one shadow or tittle of evidence...
28: ...lerical intolerance was trying to suppress scientific discoveries which appeared to clash with a liter... - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
4: ...s]] resisted readmitting the rebel states without first imposing conditions. A series of laws, passed...
8: ...ad been readmitted on [[July 24]], [[1866]]) into five military districts.
12: ...lack governor for a brief period. Most political "firsts" for [[African-American]]s occurred during th...
18: ...he Union, they were required to accept it (or the fifteenth after passage of the fourteenth). All Sou...
24: ...itary District]]: Virginia, under Gen. [[John Schofield]] - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
19: ... administration of [[Lyndon Johnson]] — his fifth successor.
21: ... Branch, Iowa|West Branch]], [[Iowa]]. He was the first President to be born west of the [[Mississippi...
23: ...over boarded a [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]] train headed west to [[Oregon]]. Sewn into his...
26: ...cott]]. ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'', the story of another orphan cast into the...
34: ...cts for employment. But from this college in a hayfield he had derived much more than a degree in geol... - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...grants, who usually adopt country-of-origin identifiers. However, the term properly can be applied to ...
10: According to [[2003]] U.S. [[Census]] figures, some 37.1 million African Americans live in...
15: ...d the institution of slavery, culminated in the [[1860]] election of President of the [[United States]] ...
17: ...h obtained the right to vote and to hold public office, as well as a number of other civil rights they...
19: ...ited States]], led to a strengthening movement to fight violence and discrimination against African Am... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
6: ...Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]] as an [[infantry]] officer. His older brothers also served. During the [[...
12: ...nfantry]] and stationed at [[Fort Crawford]]. His first assignment, in [[1829]], was to supervise the ...
14: ...] from lands claimed by [[Native Americans]]. His first combat assignment was during the [[Black Hawk ...
16: In [[1833]], Davis was promoted to [[First Lieutenant]] of the [[U.S. 1st Dragoon Regimen...
21: ...[New York City]]. In [[1836]], he retired to Brierfield Plantation in [[Warren County, Mississippi]]. - John Hanning Speke (2178 bytes)
1: ...827]] – [[September 15]] [[1864]]) was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voy...
3: In [[1854]] he made his first voyage, joining the already famous [[Richard F...
5: ...ton was asked to make a voyage to East Africa, to find the sources of the [[Nile]]. He again chose Spe...
9: ...us Grant]], Speke left from Zanzibar in October [[1860]]. They travelled on the west side around Lake Vi... - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
33: ... Topeka. During the 40s, travelers could reliably find a way across the river and plenty of whiskey bu...
35: ...ard with potatoes, corn, and wheat. By the late [[1860s]], Topeka had become a commercial hub providing ...
37: ... as the capital, with Dr. Charles Robinson as the first governor. Cyrus K. Holliday donated a tract of...
39: ...ay started moving westward from Topeka. General offices and machine shops of the Atchison, Topeka, and...
46: ...nteresting to note that, at the time the suit was filed, only the elementary schools were segregated i... - Jackson, Mississippi (21073 bytes)
29: ... lasted to the present day. The state legislature first met in Jackson on [[December 23]], 1822.
31: ...839]], Jackson was the site of the passage of the first state law that permitted married women to own ...
33: Jackson was first linked with other cities by rail in [[1840]]. ...
37: ...onfederate forces in Jackson built defensive fortifications encircling the city while preparing to mar...
39: ...ng a road near downtown Jackson now known as Fortification Street. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
96: *[[Jᮯs Bolyai]] (Hungary, [[1802]] - [[1860]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]])
446: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
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