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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...ed by the rise of [[populism]] and the American [[labor movement]]. Finally, the era was capped by U....
7: ...ithout first imposing preconditions. A series of laws, passed by the Federal government, established ...
9: ...es to enforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
11: ...hat had been established under Abraham Lincoln's plan were abolished; the first Reconstruction Act sta...
13: ...of the original [[Ku Klux Klan]], in 1866; but it lasted for only three years. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: ...66]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman Empire]].
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surr...
11: ...1793]] - [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland]].
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[County Durham]].
15: ...[[1860]] - The discovery of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[... - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
9: The skyscraper first emerged in the land-strapped areas of [[New York City]] and [[Chica...
11: ...m curtain wall for tall systems of glass that are laterally supported by these skeletal frames. Specia...
19: ... the [[CN Tower]], [[TV masts]], bridges, or oil platforms.
30: |2||[[Petronas Tower 1]]||[[Kuala Lumpur]]||452 m||1,483 ft||88||1998||
32: |3||[[Petronas Tower 2]]||Kuala Lumpur||452 m||1,483 ft||88||1998 - Adam's apple (940 bytes)
1: ...lump at the front of the [[neck]] known as the '''laryngeal prominence''', known commonly as the '''Ad...
3: ... pre-pubescent girls or boys. (This growth of the larynx is also the reason for the [[voice]] breaking...
5: ...mes remedied by a [[trachea shave]], a type of [[plastic surgery]] to reduce the size of the Adam's ap...
7: The etymology of the term is unclear: Webster's 1913 dictionary states that the term "... is so called... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...ess partisan atmosphere that is somewhat more insulated from public opinion than the House. The Senate...
4: ... both houses is necessary for the passage of legislation. The exclusive powers enumerated to the Senat...
10: ...ish Parliament]]). For example, [[John Dickinson (lawyer)|John Dickinson]] argued that the second cham...
12: ... question by Thomas Jefferson, said "we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it (from t...
14: ...The ensuing years of [[Reconstruction]] witnessed large majorities for the [[United States Republican ... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...e]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have the potential t...
4: ...in Japanese ''tsunami'' is used for both the singular and plural, in English ''tsunamis'' is well-esta...
6: ...familiar). However, since they are not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and...
10: ...reate a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
12: ...ere denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as subduction. - National League (4871 bytes)
3: ...met in the [[World Series]]. (The Series was not played in either 1904 or 1994.)
5: ...e [[Chicago Cubs]]) and the Red Caps (now the [[Atlanta Braves]]) have survived to the present day.
7: ... the best record among those finishing in second place) to enable four teams to advance to the prelimi...
9: ...ived to be fewer [[home run]]s and big offensive plays due to the presence of the [[pitcher]] in the b...
15: *[[Atlanta Braves]] - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...e winner was determined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]...
3: ...rst World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], completed o...
5: The first two games of the series are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three in...
7: ...shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild card...
9: ...]n champions against champions in the Japanese or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded. - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: ...d and rebuilt the club with young, inexperienced players. The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' tried to call t...
8: ...ircle. Sometimes a smaller "ubs" will follow the large "C", or the team will make use of a cartoon be...
18: ...rofessional teams in [[1870]], each with the singular goal of defeating the Red Stockings. A number o...
22: ...gs]], and first baseman [[Cap Anson]] of the [[Philadelphia Athletics]]. While this was going on, beh...
24: ... does provide some perspective to note that a similar winning percentage nowadays would yield 129 wins... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
7: :''Home ballpark:'' [[U.S. Cellular Field]], Chicago. (This park, originally known ...
8: :''Uniform colors:'' black, white and gray
17: ...League in [[1900 in sports|1900]], a year before claiming major league status, the St. Paul franchise ...
19: ...National League, including pitcher and manager [[Clark Griffith]], who paced the White Sox to the AL's...
22: ... upset over the Cubs who had won a record 116 regular-season games. The Sox, dubbed the "Hitless Wond... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ... Superbas" was the name of an acrobatic troup popular at the time), the ''Robins'' (after Wilbert Robi...
8: ...z Ravine") (Prior to 1912, the Brooklyn Dodgers played at Washington Park on 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn. ...
25: ...ould become the Dodgers' home in [[1913 in sports|1913]].
27: ...oys" for their distracted, error-ridden style of play. After his removal as club president, Robinson ...
28: ...o that many a Dodger yearbook cover featured a Willard Mullin illustration with the Brooklyn Bum. - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
3: ...re a [[Major League Baseball]] team based in [[Oakland, California]]. They are in the Western Division...
5: ...o [[Kansas City, Missouri]] in [[1955]] and to Oakland in [[1968]].
6: :'''Formerly known as:''' Philadelphia Athletics ([[1901]]-[[1954]]), Kansas City...
7: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[McAfee Coliseum]], Oakland
12: ... (15): [[1902]], [[1905]], [[1910]], [[1911]], [[1913]], [[1914]], [[1929]], [[1930]], [[1931]], [[1972... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ... the words. The black squares (commonly called "blanks") have no letters, and are used to separate wo...
8: ...ce]]-like structure, with a higher percentage of black squares, leaving up to half the letters in an a...
10: ...adition in puzzle design (in North America particularly) is that the grid should have 180-degree rotat...
12: ...of black squares) to separate answers, and ''circular'' designs, with answers to be entered either rad...
14: ...w York'' magazine]]. The [[Atlantic Monthly]] regularly features a crossword-like "puzzler" by [[Emily... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemis...
18: *[[Joseph Black]], (1728-1799), chemist
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
43: *[[Davorin Dolar]], (born 1921), chemist - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
5: ...d say in 1933, "The whole secret of my getting on lay with my mother."
7: ...oods, which were strictly out-of-bounds. He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous arti...
13: ... collector, incorporating plans of military installations into his drawings of butterfly wings.
15: ... the 5th Dragoon Guards in [[1897]]. A few years later he wrote a small manual, entitled "Aids to Sco...
17: ...were planted and his soldiers were ordered to simulate avoiding (non-existent) barbed wire while movin... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ... with contributing to the creation of a [[middle class]] in [[United States|American]] society. He was...
6: ... Mary Ford, immigrants from [[County Cork]], [[Ireland]]. He was the eldest of six children. As a chi...
8: ...rvice their steam engines. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in [[1888]] Ford supported himself by fa...
12: ...y was reorganized as [[Cadillac (automobile)|Cadillac]].
15: ...Lake St. Clair in 39.4 seconds, which was a new [[land speed record]]. Convinced by this success, the ... - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
2: '''Nutrition''' is a science which studies the relationship between [[diet (nutrition)|diet]] and sta...
4: ...y changes in diet. Deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in diet can produce negative impacts on healt...
8: ...oth in the [[human body]] and in organisms (e.g. plants, animals) that humans eat.
10: ...bonds]] between ingested compounds as well as modulate the [[conformation]] and/or energetic state of ...
14: ...l study very time-consuming and expensive, and explains why a proper science of human nutrition is rat... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[July 14]], [[1913]]
10: | place of birth=[[Omaha, Nebraska]]
13: | place of death=
18: '''Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.''' ([[July 14]], [[1913]] – [[December 26]], [[2006]]) was the 38th...
20: ... the U.S. At home, the economy suffered from [[inflation]] and [[recession]]. Ford came under intense ... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Brookline, Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Dallas]], [[Texas]]
22: ...e from the North to be elected president, and the last president to die in office. He was also the fir...
28: ...of the lower lumbar spine [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1276266].
30: ...[June]] [[1940]]. His thesis, entitled ''[[Why England Slept]]'', was published in 1940 and, with the ... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[January 9]], [[1913]]
10: | place of birth=[[Yorba Linda, California]]
13: | place of death=[[City of New York|New York]], [[New Y...
19: '''Richard Milhous Nixon''' ([[January 9]], [[1913]] – [[April 22]], [[1994]]) was the thirty-...
22: ... in [[Yorba Linda, California]] on [[January 9]], 1913, to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhous. He was rai...
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