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- Blizzard (4179 bytes)
7: .... A major consensus is that in order to be classified as a blizzard, as opposed to merely a winter st...
17: ...an]] winter storm now known as the "Blizzard of [[1880]]." [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=b...
29: One-hundred five years to the day (March 12) after the blizzard ... - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
3: ... protest was a success, and they are noted as the first organised workers in the world to achieve an e...
7: ...in [[Paris]] in [[1889]] appointed May 1 as the official International Labour Day.
9: ...ber]] in the United States and Canada since the [[1880]]s. The September date has remained unchanged, e...
11: ...rare. Forms of celebration include [[picnic]]s, [[fireworks display]]s, water activities, and public a...
17: ... as [[May Day]]. In Europe the day had older significance as a rural [[festival]], but over time it ha... - Pope Gregory IV (1823 bytes)
5: ...of events is known as the [[Campus Mendacii]] or "field of lies."
12: ''Partially from the 9th edition ([[1880]]) of an unnamed encyclopedia'' - Horse (38916 bytes)
2: {{Taxobox_image|image=[[Image:Horse in field.jpg|225px|]]|caption=}}
15: ...that now take the place of the horse on the battlefield "[[cavalry]]" units, sometimes keeping traditi...
21: ...al tendency to flee from danger, though they will fight if cornered. Their eyes lie to the side of the...
30: ...]], ''Equus caballus gmelini'', became extinct in 1880. Its genetic line is lost, but a substitute has b...
43: ...dividuals tend to inherit some of the nervous, difficult nature of their zebra parent. - 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... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: ...late [[1890s]]. ''Orphans'', [[1898]], after the firing of longtime manager [[Cap Anson]]. ''Remnant...
6: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[Wrigley Field]], 1060 W. Addison Street, Chicago, IL 60613-...
11: :'''League pennants won''' (16): [[1876]], [[1880]], [[1881]], [[1882]], [[1885]], [[1886]], [[1906...
18: ...s, the time was right for the organization of the first professional league, the [[National Associatio...
20: ... of the league during the city's recovery period, finally being revived in [[1874]]. - 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... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
14: * [[Tarpan]] (1880, Poland)
66: ...waiian honeycreeper|Hawaii Mamo]], ''Drepanis pacifica''
69: * [[Hawaiian honeycreeper|Lesser Koa-finch]], ''Rhodacanthus flaviceps''
70: * [[Hawaiian honeycreeper|Greater Koa-finch]], ''Rhodacanthus palmeri'' - 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...
25: ... process, which was an important element in the Mafia's transition from a mostly rural phenomenon into...
27: ...widespread. Being the city in which the Italian Mafia historically had its main interests, it has also... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
90: *[[Jacob Epstein]] (1880 - 1959)
95: *[[Mino da Fiesole]] (c.1429 - 1484)
96: *[[Steve Fiorilla]]
97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-) - Prague (7962 bytes)
14: ....4667). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html]
16: ...luded in the [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|UNESCO]] list of [[wor...
52: ...ny theaters including: National Theatre, The Rudolfinum (home to the [[Czech Philharmonic Orchestra]])...
72: Prague is also the site of most important offices and institutions of the Czech Republic, includ...
82: :1880: 162,300 (314,400 incl. suburbs)<br/> - Czech Republic (13856 bytes)
17: | '''[[Official language]]'''
65: ... to be used in all situations other than formal official documents and the full names of government in...
70: ...om (politics)|kingdom]] of [[Bohemia]] was a significant local power, but religious conflicts such as ...
82: ...he parliament. The president is also granted specific powers such as the right to nominate Constitutio...
105: ...ian Region]] (Středočeský kraj)||its offices are located in [[Prague]] (Praha) - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Fitzgerald Kennedy
3: | image name=JFKofficial.jpg
20: '''John Fitzgerald Kennedy''' ([[May 29]], [[1917]] – ...
22: ... last president to die in office. He was also the first person to become president born in the [[20th ...
27: ... the son of [[Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.]] and [[Rose Fitzgerald]]. As a young man he attended [[Choate Ro... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
19: ... administration of [[Lyndon Johnson]] — his fifth successor.
21: ..., died when Hoover was young. His father died in 1880, and his mother in 1884.
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...
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...
26: ...ericans are frequently the targets of [[racial profiling]]. They are more likely to be stopped by poli... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
22: The '''Battle of the Wilderness''' was the first battle of Lieut. Gen. [[Ulysses S. Grant]]'s [...
24: ...es to the west, and only overlapped the old battlefield along the Brock Road on the [[Union (American ...
26: ...ion army of a year before, Grant had no desire to fight in the Wilderness.
30: ...the arrival of Lieut. Gen. [[James Longstreet]]'s First Corps, which had been posted 25 miles (40 km) ...
34: ... [[II Corps (ACW)|II Corps]] under Maj. Gen. [[Winfield Scott Hancock]] and a division from the [[VI C... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
9: ... Day]] is celebrated in [[New York City]] for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
17: ...ther Gulick]] and his wife Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in [[1912]]).
21: ...ngton, DC]], the [[National Gallery of Art]] is officially opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roose...
26: ...erranean]], the [[DSV Alvin|Alvin]] [[submarine]] finds a missing American [[hydrogen bomb]].
28: ...ssacre]]: The [[United States Army]] charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the i... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
2: ...the [[telegraph]], the [[Pony Express]] and the [[First Transcontinental Railroad]].
5: official_name = Sacramento, California |
23: timezone = [[Pacific Standard Time Zone|PST]] |
25: timezone_DST = [[Pacific Daylight Time|PDT]] |
42: ...cal engineer [[William H. Warner]] to draft the official layout of the city. However, a bitterness gre... - Juneau City and Borough, Alaska (8577 bytes)
10: ...brought to Juneau must be put on a barge or ferry first.
13: ...mericas, the [[Gastineau Channel]] was a favorite fishing ground for local [[Tlingit|Tlingit Indians]]...
15: ...d prospectors were sent to investigate. On their first trip, to ''Gold Creek'', they found little of ...
19: ... Within a year the camp became a small town, the first to be founded after Alaska's purchase by the U...
49: .... census)|Asian]], 0.38% [[Race (U.S. census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.05% from [[race (U.S. census)|othe... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
5: ...[[2004]] US Census estimation, Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Penns...
13: ...anguage spoken in Arizona & [[New Mexico]]) and ''Fiinigis'' in [[Western Apache]] (a language spoken ...
46: ...ho lived there as early as 300 BC. They were the first to farm there, building an elaborate canal sys...
55: ...d an election precinct there. The Phoenix post office was established [[June 15]], [[1868]], with Jac...
59: ...held in [[1871]], when Tom Barnum was elected the first sheriff of Maricopa County.
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