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- Flag of Tennessee (1512 bytes)
2: ...stars represents the unity of the three "Grand Divisions" in one state. The blue bar was purely a des...
4: ...re of pure white, representing the three grand divisions of the state." - Flag of Wyoming (413 bytes)
2: ...d on the bison. The current flag was adopted in [[1917]] after a design competition. - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...porting News]]'' named Ruth as Number One in its list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
4: ...nkees]]. His international fame helped fuel the rising interest in sports during the ''[[Roaring Twen...
7: ...irth to a child, eight in all. Only Babe and his sister, Mary, survived infancy.
9: ...'s disciplinarian, became the major influence on his life, the one man Babe respected above all others...
12: ...r to teach him a lesson. But, instead of getting his comeuppance, Babe shut the other team down. - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
11: ...rgestCity = [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]] |
33: ISOCode = US-MN |
36: '''Minnesota''' is the 32nd [[U.S. state|state]] of the [[United Sta...
37: ...e water" or "sky-tinted water". The state's name is abbreviated '''MN''' or '''Minn.'''
39: ...opulous cities, [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]] and the [[capital]] of [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
14: ...ish language|English]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] |
34: ISOCode = US-NM |
38:
40: == History ==
44: ...the New World. The [[Pueblo people]] built a flourishing sedentary culture in the [[1200s]], construct... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...igin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
11: ...0 KYA: [[Bow (weapon)|Bow]] and [[arrow]] in [[Tunisia]]
19: * 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
15: *[[Irvin Yalom|Yalom, Irvin]], psychologist
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
35: ...emenko|Yaremenko, Yury]], (died 1996), USSR economist
37: ...ian politician, former deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ...rather than ''universal suffrage'' (abolition of discrimination due to, for instance, race), which was...
2: [[Image:Feminist Suffrage Parade in New York City, 1912.jpeg|thum...
4: The British colony of the [[Pitcairn Islands]], (2004 population 47 people), which some c...
13: ...1776]], but rescinded in [[1807]]. The [[Pitcairn Islands]] granted women's suffrage in [[1838]]. Vari...
20: ...d it differently from that extended to men (this list does not include countries where neither men nor... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...the boundaries of states, countries or other administrative areas.
6: ...ial term for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observa...
8: ...mdash;known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British Summer Time]] (BST).
10: The time for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
11: ...: UTC − 8 (e.g. if it is 12:00 UTC, then it is 04:00 in Los Angeles) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
8: ...[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
12: ...840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
13: ...([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubist]] artist - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ...trument]] is used to mean instruments whose sound is produced mechanically, and only amplified electro...
3: ...ween sound effects and actual musical instruments is often hazy.
5: ...variety of compositions using electronic horns, whistles, and tape. Most notably, he wrote [[Po譥 ɬe...
10: ...[[Clavecin 鬥ctrique]] by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste de Laborde in [[1761]].
12: ...uitable loudspeakers at that time, the music was distributed over the telephone network. - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...eavors to re-capture the [[Holy Land]] from the [[Islam|Muslims]], but some were directed against othe...
6: == Historical background ==
7: ...st certain people at certain times of the year. This was somewhat successful, but trained warriors alw...
9: ...o those who were killed in battle. Even today Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abs...
11: ...oversy. The result was an awakening of intense Christian piety and public interest in religious affair... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...ut of feathers and wax for himself and his son. His son Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax ...
5: ...omputer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, such as the [[F-117]].
13: ...ct. See [[List of early flying machines]] for a list of these. Note that there are many claims and c...
15: ...rdo also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design would not have flown.
17: ...mind an arm or leg." Swedenborg was prescient in his observation that powering the aircraft through th... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
1: This is a '''list of inventors'''.
3: ''See also:'' [[list of scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline o...
5: ==Alphabetical list==
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
23: ...Baird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]] - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
1: ...350px|Census Bureau map depicting territorial acquisitions and dates of statehood.]]
3: ...his is a list of '''United States territorial acquisitions''', beginning with [[American Revolutionary...
5: *The '''[[Louisiana Purchase]]''', completed [[1803]], was negoti...
9: ..., made in [[1819]] from [[Spain]], under the administration of [[John Quincy Adams]]
11: ...der [[Antonio L de Santa Anna]] warned that this would be "equivalent to a declaration of war agai... - World War I (62979 bytes)
1: ...ge:Chateau Wood Ypres 1917.jpg|thumb|300px|Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the [[Battle of Passchendaele...
6: ...eased the use of mass industrialization as the basis for a new form of warfare that relied heavily on ...
8: ...ationalism that swept the European continent at this time.
10: ...nd could move little because of tight defences. This was especially true of the [[Western Front (WWI)|...
11: ...'飬use 26.jpg|right|framed|[[Haut-Rhin]], France 1917<br>See [http://www.poiemadesign.com/wwi/index.htm... - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
1: ...'This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1900]] to [[1929]...
40: ...908]] - [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] established
42: *[[1909]] - [[Penny (U.S. coin)|The U.S. penny]] is changed to the [[Abraham Lincoln]] design
45: *[[1909]] - [[NAACP]] founded by [[W. E. B. DuBois]]
63: *[[1914]] - [[Federal Trade Commission]] created - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
1: {{Ushistory}}
2: ...onomic boom was accompanied by the rise of [[populism]] and the American [[labor movement]]. Finally,...
7: ... of laws, passed by the Federal government, established the conditions and procedures for reintegratin...
9: ...t of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden. This failure of the federal government to effectively ...
11: ...or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel States." - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
1: {{Ushistory}}
8: ...h became involved, directly and indirectly, in assisting the anti-Bolshevik Whites in the [[Russian Ci...
11: ...umb|The "Big Three" Allied leaders at Yalta: British Prime Minster [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S....
13: ...vinced by U.S. occupation of [[Japan]] and the division of [[Korea]]. Politically, therefore, Yalta wa...
15: ...us exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for the allegiance of the developin... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
1: '''January 17''' is the 17th day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calen...
6: ...tting the scene for the second phase of the [[English Civil War]].
7: ...e of Hanover|Hanoverian]] army at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the t...
9: ...er Brigadier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarle...
13: ...ted Kingdom|British]] force defeats a large [[Dervish]] army at the [[Battle of Abu Klea]] in the [[Su...
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