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- Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
3: ... are a [[Major League Baseball]] team based in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]. They are in the Central...
6: ...(and eventually ''Pittsburgh'') after the Smokey City annexed Allegheny. Ballclub was sometimes dubbed...
7: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[PNC Park]], Pittsburgh
11: :'''Wild Card titles won''' (0): ''none''
12: :'''Division titles won''' (9): [[1970]], [[1971]], [[1972]], [[19... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...in this way is given appropriate input data, then it can automatically solve the problem or predict th...
10: ...s possible onto the physical phenomena being exploited. For example, electron flows might be used to ...
14: ...al ones). This basic idea, which made modern ''digital'' computers possible, was formally identified a...
18: ...through output devices like light bulbs, LEDs, monitors, and printers.
20: ...rbitrary patterns of light by the output device. It is the human brain which recognizes that those pa... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
50: ...st Carl Emil Erlenmeyer |Emil Erlenmayer]], (1825-1909), German chemist
56: ... Emil Fischer]], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
66: ...ham (chemist)|Thomas Graham]] not to be confused with:
72: *[[Fritz Haber]], (1868-1934) - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...0th century]]. He proposed the [[theory of relativity]] and also made major contributions to the devel...
5: ... has become a byword for great [[intelligence (trait)|intelligence]] or even [[genius]].
7: ...phy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist.
12: ...nstein before the Einsteins moved from Germany to Italy.]]
16: ...ent is that he had [[Asperger's syndrome]], a condition related to [[autism]]. - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
5: ...eneral rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. |
12: ...er of something|father of the telephone]]. In addition to his work in [[telecommunications]] technolo...
17: His family was associated with the teaching of [[elocution]]: his grandfather i...
19: ...urned his attention to the science of acoustics, with a view to ameliorate the deafness of his mother.
21: ...Vocal Physiology and Elocution at [[Boston University]]'s School of Oratory. - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
2: ...o save workers trapped in a tunnel system filled with fumes.
5: ...spent his childhood attending school and working with his brothers and sisters on the family farm. Whi...
7: ...any African-Americans of his day, Morgan had to quit school at a young age, in order to work. However,...
13: ...pany made coats, suits, dresses, etc. - all sewn with equipment that Morgan himself had made.
17: ...eek-letter]] [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternity]] established for African Americans. - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...nly revolutionized industrial production in the United States and the rest of the world, but also had ...
6: ...sperous farm in Springwells Township (now in the city of [[Dearborn, Michigan]]) owned by his parents,...
8: ... James F. Flower & Bros., and later with the Detroit Dry Dock Co. In [[1882]], he returned to Dearbor...
10: ...ngines. These experiments culminated in [[1896]] with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle...
12: ... Winton]], a well-known driver and the heavy favorite on October 10, 1901. Ford was forced out of the ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
34: *[[Karl Bitter]] (1867 - 1915)
110: *[[Vincenzo Gemito]] (1852 - 1929)
145: *[[Idel Ianchelevici]] (1909-1994)
166: ...talie Krol]] [http://www.nataliekrol.com Gallery Site]
177: *[[Sol LeWitt]] - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
4: ...e as required. Cable cars are sometimes confused with [[funicular]]s, where the cars are permanently a...
7: ... a cable house or power house. The speed at which it moves is relatively constant, although somewhat i...
9: ...cable. Conversely the car is stopped by detaching it from the cable, and then applying brakes. This gr...
11: ...may not be able to stop and can wreak havoc along its route until the cable house realizes what is goi...
13: ...ot unique to cable cars, as electric cars fitted with [[regenerative braking]] offer the same advantag... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
18: ...Allied forces in Europe during [[World War II]], with the rank of [[General of the Army]].
22: ...]] and he worked at Belle Springs Creamery from [[1909]] to [[1911]].
24: ... [[1922]]). [[John Eisenhower]] served in the [[United States Army]], then became an author and served... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
18: ...[April 12]], [[1945]]), 32nd [[President of the United States]], the longest-serving holder of the off...
20: ...preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
22: ...opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the internment of the Japan... - Louis Bleriot (3099 bytes)
5: ...ended to fly by flapping its wings. Like other ornithopters before, this experiment failed, but he con...
8: In [[1903]], Blér teamed up with [[Gabriel Voisin]], another aircraft designer, t...
11: ...nes with various configurations ranging from box-kite biplanes to a [[canard]] (tail-first) monoplane....
14: ...minutes, delighting the French and worrying the British, who felt that they had suddenly become vulner...
16: ...ckage of Blériot's plane, Reims Air Meet, August 1909.]] - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
1: [[Image:Charles_smith.jpg|thumb|right|Kingsford Smith in his flying gear]]
2: ...stward Pacific crossing from Australia to the [[United States]], in [[1934]].
4: ...r his services in battle, he was awarded the [[Military Cross]].
6: ...film)|Smithy]]''" is based on Charles Kingsford Smith and his historic epic flight across the Pacific....
10: ... Southern Cross''. The aircraft did not arrive at its destination. Eighteen months later, wreckage fro... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
5: ...lable, powered heavier-than-air [[flight]] along with many other aviation milestones. However, their a...
12: ...ors, and balance (while riding a bicycle), were critical to their success in creating the mechanical a...
17: ... held, and he could pull one or the other to make it turn left or right.
19: ...nd the brothers made over a thousand flights with it. On [[March 23]], [[1903]] they applied for a [[p...
21: ... the ''Flyer I'' (today popularly known as the ''Kitty Hawk''), carved propellers and had an engine bu... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
2: subject_name = Adolf Hitler |
3: image_name = Adolf_Hitler.jpg |
11: '''Adolf Hitler''' ([[April 20]], [[1889]]–[[April 30]],...
13: ...al policy of Nazi Germany|racial policies]] that Hitler directed culminated in the systematic extermin...
15: .... In the final days of the war, [[Hitler's death|Hitler died]] by [[suicide]] in a [[Berlin]] [[F?unke... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...year before [[Robert Peary]] claimed to, April 6, 1909.<ref>Henderson, B. 2009, pp. 58-69</ref>
9: ...a University]] and subsequently [[New York University]], from which he received his [[M.D.]] in 1890. ...
11: ===Early expeditions===
13: ...espect. In 1898, during this expedition, Cook visited [[Tierra del Fuego]], where he met [[Thomas Bri...
15: ...i range. He would subsequently make a second expedition in 1906, and claim to have made the first asce... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
3: ...lorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of [[1910]]–[[1912]] which was the first...
8: == First expeditions ==
10: ...], an important lesson for Amundsen's future expeditions.
12: ...nd [[James Ross Strait|James Ross]] and [[Rae Strait]]s to spend two winters exploring over land and i...
14: .... 500 miles (800 km) away, [[Eagle, Alaska|Eagle City, Alaska]], had a [[telegraph]] station; Amundsen... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
11: ...65|Stamp Act]], which was very unpopular in the British colonies.
14: ...[[Paris_Commune|socialist]] government rules the city.
15: ...[[1874]] - [[Hawaii]] signs a treaty with the [[United States]] granting exclusive [[trade|trading]] r...
16: ...[Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham rad...
18: ...ip]]s are sunk during a failed [[United Kingdom|British]] & [[France|French]] naval attack on the [[Da... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
8: ...mes the site of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken).
11: *[[1914]] - [[Giuseppe Mercalli]], Italian volcanologist (b. [[1850]])
13: ...off in pursuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the first [[United States]] air-combat mission in history.
14: *[[1918]] - The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] establishes [[time zone]...
15: *[[1920]] - The [[United States Senate]] rejects the [[Treaty of Versail... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
9: ...]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]] and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the [[Peacock Throne]]. ...
11: ...]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force ...
15: ...[[1899]] – At [[Sing Sing Correctional Facility|Sing Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes ...
19: ...lbert Einstein]] publishes his [[theory of relativity]].
20: ...SS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United States Navy]] [[aircraft carrier]].
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