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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
8: *[[Moammar Al Qadhafi|Qadhafi, Moammar]], Libyan military leader
10: ... of Prime Ministers of Fiji|Prime Minister]] of [[Fiji]] (2000-present)
30: *[[Don Quarrie|Quarrie, Don]], (born 1951), Jamaican athlete
55: ...|Quidde, Ludwig]], (1858-1941), historian and pacifist
64: *[[Richard Quine|Quine, Richard]], film director - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
24: *[[Moriteru Ueshiba|Ueshiba, Moriteru]], (born 1951), 3rd [[Aikido Doshu|doshu]] of [[aikido]]
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
24: ...y Yancey|Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy"]] (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie musician
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
80: *[[Nicholas Yermakov|Yermakov, Nicholas]] (born 1951), Russian author
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
135: *[[Frank Weston Benson]] ([[1862]]-[[1951]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
393: *[[Dulah Marie Evans]] ([[1875]]-[[1951]]) - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ...ose sound is produced mechanically, and only amplified electronically - for example an [[electric guit...
5: ...Phillips pavilion at the Brussels World Fair in [[1951]].
10: In the broadest sense, the very first electrified musical instrument was the [[Denis d?or]] datin...
12: The first purely electronic musical instrument was the [...
14: ...pended on the interactions of the user with an RF field. This was followed in 1928 by the [[Ondes Mar... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...wars]] are one conflict separated only by a "ceasefire".
6: ...ld War II|Middle East]], in the [[Pacific War|Pacific and South East Asia]], and it continued in China...
20: ...ading and occupying parts or the whole of Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania.
22: ... States]], from December 1941. [[China]] had been fighting Japan since 1937. The independent dominions...
24: ...r in their neighborhood. Sovereignty was often difficult to maintain as many countries that did not di... - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
8: *[[1951]] - [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United State...
9: *[[1951]] - [[Mutual Security Act]]
10: *[[1951]] - General [[Douglas MacArthur]] fired by Truman for invading China
36: *[[1957]] - First nuclear power plant goes into service
41: *[[1959]] - [[Landrum-Griffin Act]] - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ... War]] in [[1917]], leaving the Western Allies to fight the [[Central Powers]] alone. Lasting Soviet m...
11: ...nt [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet First Secretary [[Joseph Stalin]] (right)]]
13: ...in" of the Cold War. In hindsight, [[Yalta]] signified the agreement of both sides that they could sta...
15: ...nism]]; those contrasts had been simplified and refined in national ideologies to represent two ways o...
17: ... throughout Eurasia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, with almost no country left unscathed. T... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
10: ...tific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[rationali...
12: ...lt, these works tend to be eclectic, dense and difficult to read. Among the most important ones are ''...
14: Aristotle is known for being one of the few figures in history who studied almost every subject ...
19: ...ater hidden to avoid confiscation or destruction; finally, the manuscripts were rediscovered in [[70 B...
45: ...cquisition of books and the pursuit of his scientific investigation. - Archaeopteryx (8771 bytes)
17: ...published ''[[The Origin of Species]]'' set off a firestorm of debate about [[evolution]] and the role...
19: ...olnhofen limestone]] of southern [[Germany]]. The first skeleton is now housed at the [[Natural Histor...
21: ...served [[feathered dinosaurs]] in [[China]] solidified the link between dinosaurs and birds.
25: ...: it had jaws lined with sharp [[teeth]], three [[finger]]s ending in curving claws, and a long bony t...
34: ...braincase]] concluded that its [[brain]] was significantly larger than that of most dinosaurs, indicat... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...lennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in the population of native i...
5: ...agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppie...
13: When the first [[European colonization of the Americas|Europe...
21: ...nied expeditions in [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city. - Microbiology (4238 bytes)
3: ...o [[biology]] and [[medicine]], especially in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and [[cell biology...
8: ...totic]] division and [[prokaryote]]s by [[binary fission]]. This allows for the propagation of geneti...
11: ...onies]] from their specific locations on one agar-filled petri dish to analogous locations on several ...
15: ...led [[plasmid]]s. Plasmids can be genetically modified ''[[in vitro]]'' then inserted into bacteria th... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
6: ...tioned only in [[2000]], and is unique in being defined only by a line of [[latitude]] with no landmas...
12: ...y water. Oceanic crust is the thin layer of solidified volcanic [[basalt]] that covers the Earth's [[m...
26: ...23.27-10923.57 m --->. It was fully surveyed in [[1951]] by the British Navy vessel, "Challenger II" whi...
37: *[[fish]]
53: ...e, and over what happened to it if it did; recent findings by the [[Mars Exploration Rover]] mission i... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
11: The sport is regulated by the FIA, [[F餩ration Internationale de l'Automobile]], ...
18: ...ampionship was not formalized until [[1947]], and first run in [[1950]]; a championship for constructo...
22: ...Fangio is remembered for dominating Formula One's first decade.
24: The first major technological development, [[Cinquemani]...
26: ...]], [[British racing green]] came to dominate the field for the next decade. Between [[Jim Clark]], [[... - National League (4871 bytes)
7: ...] team (the team with the best record among those finishing in second place) to enable four teams to a...
52: *[[Ford Frick|Ford C. Frick]] [[1934]]-[[1951]]
53: *[[Warren Giles|Warren C. Giles]] [[1951]]-[[1969]]
59: Office eliminated in 1999 - 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 White Sox (19057 bytes)
7: :''Home ballpark:'' [[U.S. Cellular Field]], Chicago. (This park, originally known as N...
19: ...k Griffith]], who paced the White Sox to the AL's first pennant in [[1901 in sports|1901]]. The White...
22: ...o their [[1906 in sports|1906]] pennant and their first World Series victory, a stunning upset over th...
25: ...ficial evidence relating to participation in the 'fix' by the various accused players vanished mysteri...
27: ...tention for the American League pennant until the final weekend of the regular season. - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ...rooklyn residents, shortened to ''Dodgers'' and officially adopted in 1932. During the Wilbert Robinso...
8: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[Ebbets Field]] ([[1913]]-[[1957]]), [[Los Angeles Memorial ...
23: ... history were clouded in uncertainty. After their first year they joined the [[American Association]],...
25: ...d heavily to finance the construction of [[Ebbets Field]], which would become the Dodgers' home in [[1...
27: ...ams of the late [[1920s]] became known as the "Daffiness Boys" for their distracted, error-ridden styl... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
8: :'''Uniform colors:''' 1901-04, 1909-49, 1951-53, 1961: Blue and White; 1905-08, 1954-60, 1962:...
18: ...Shibe had a ?white elephant on his hands," Mack defiantly adopted the [[white elephant]] as the team m...
20: ...eague, persuading them to ?jump? to the A.L. in defiance of their N.L. contracts. The Athletics as we...
22: ... in 1914. The team was known for its ?$100,000 Infield,? consisting of John "Stuffy" McInnis (1b), [[...
26: ...t place every year after that until 1922, when it finished 7th.
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