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- Flag of Tennessee (1512 bytes)
1: ...e.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...e sameness of the crimson field and prevents the flag from showing too much crimson when hanging limp....
4: ...gazine on the Tennessee flag published in October 1917 erroneously reported that the stars represent Ten...
6: The central circle-and-stars portion of the flag appears in the [[logo]]s of some Tennessee-based...
8: {{US state flags}} - Flag of Wyoming (413 bytes)
1: ...g.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...d on the bison. The current flag was adopted in [[1917]] after a design competition.
5: {{US_state_flags}} - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...mber One in its list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
4: ...ke Babe Ruth unequivocally the greatest baseball player of all time. In several ways, he changed the ...
7: ...orn at 216 Emory Street in south [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. The house was rented by his maternal grandfa...
9: ... him for countless hours on hitting, fielding and later, pitching.
12: ...ed the position because he was involved in every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe ... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
4: Flag = Minnesota state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Minnesota]] |
10: OfficialLang = None |
11: LargestCity = [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapol...
13: PostalAbbreviation = MN | - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
4: Flag = New Mexico state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of New Mexico]] |
8: Nickname = Land of Enchantment |
11: LargestCity = [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]...
13: PostalAbbreviation = NM | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest lik...
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
34: ... BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
52: * [[Glass]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politician
7: ...nder Nikolaevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich]] (born 1923)
12: ...ander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
21: ...i]] (1885-1946), Japanese lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines
31: ...onal Basketball Association|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
4: ...frage to women in [[1838]]. In [[1893]], [[New Zealand]] was the first country to introduce [[universa...
13: ...states granted restricted women's suffrage in the latter half of the nineteenth century, starting with...
15: ...ction) in a major country was granted in [[New Zealand]] in [[1893]].
21: *[[Bhutan]] -- One vote per family in village-level elections
31: ...ofessional politicians, however, that in 1807 the law was revised to exclude them. This was obviously... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hows, the shapes of time zones can be quite irregular because they usually follow the boundaries of st...
6: ...e "base time" to which all other time zones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for ...
8: ...n the last Sunday in October and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in March. For the remainder of the year ...
10: The time for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
18: ...rom UTC, then the date at the location is one day later or earlier. Some examples: - List of painters (54090 bytes)
5: Shortcuts to highly popular [[painter]]s:
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [...
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impress...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]] - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
10: ...in 鬥ctrique]] by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste de Laborde in [[1761]].
12: ...th of 60ft and a weight of 200 tons; because of a lack of suitable loudspeakers at that time, the musi...
14: ...Theremin]] in 1917, which used a vacuum tube oscillator to make sounds that depended on the interactio...
16: ... instead generating single pure tones with controllable [[pitch (music)|pitch]], [[amplitude]] and [[v...
18: ...metal plate. [[Oskar Sala]] was one of the first players and continued development until his death in ... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...vors to re-capture the [[Holy Land]] from the [[Islam|Muslims]], but some were directed against other ...
7: ...ht among themselves and terrorize the peasant population. The Church tried to stem this violence with ...
9: ...om elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic [[Moors]]. In [[1063]], [[Pope Alexander II]] ...
11: ...irs, which would manifest in the overwhelming popular support for the First Crusade, and the religious...
13: ...monasteries and Christian communities in the Holy Land of Christendom, and western Europeans were not ... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
1: [[Image:Landon-IcarusandDaedalus.jpg|right|thumb|Icarus and ...
3: ...ionary tale about attempting to reach heaven, similar to the [[Tower of Babel]] story in [[The Bible]]...
5: ... are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, suc...
13: ...ee [[First flying machine]] for a review of such claims.
15: ...h century from materials that would have been available to da Vinci. The design was deemed flightworth... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
14: ...nt of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
20: ...) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
22: *[[Steve Baer]] - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
23: *[[John Logie Baird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]] - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
11: ...a]] warned that this would be "equivalent to a declaration of war against the Mexican Republic," Presi...
15: ...on. In addition, the United States agreed to pay claims made by American citizens against Mexico, whic...
17: ...now in New Mexico and Arizona. This territory was later used for the southern [[transcontinental railr...
19: * '''[[Alaska Purchase]]''' from [[Russia]] in [[1867]].
27: ...ing the [[World War I|First World War]]. Virgin Islands inhabitants became American citizens in [[1927... - World War I (62979 bytes)
1: ...ge:Chateau Wood Ypres 1917.jpg|thumb|300px|Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the [[Battle of Passchendaele...
2: ...large-scale [[genocide|civilian massacres]] took place. Four dynasties, the [[Habsburg]]s, the [[Roman...
6: ...ettled issues that had caused the Great War would lay the basis for the rise of [[National Socialism]]...
8: ...Balkan crisis as a precept for a general war. Scholars have also cited German diplomatic ineptitude as...
11: ...03300083 French National Library] (Text in French language).]] - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
4: [[Image:National-atlas-1970-1900.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1...
6: *[[1900]] - US [[population]] exceeds 75 [[million]]
13: *[[1901]] - [[Platt Amendment]]
16: ...02]] - First [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game played
17: *[[1902]] - [[Newlands Reclamation Act]] - 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. - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...] alone. Lasting Soviet mistrust stemmed from the landing of U.S. troops in Russia in [[1918]], which ...
13: ...h, and French) troops were located in particular places, essentially, along a line in the center of Eu...
15: ...cting models of autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for the...
17: ...re and populations throughout Eurasia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, with almost no country...
20: ...talin imposed Moscow-dominated governments in [[Poland]], [[Romania]], [[East Germany]], and [[Bulgari... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
6: ... breaking off negotiations with [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] and thereby setting the scene ...
10: * [[1819]] - [[Simol�r]] proclaims the Republic of [[Colombia]].
13: ...]] - A [[United Kingdom|British]] force defeats a large [[Dervish]] army at the [[Battle of Abu Klea]]...
14: ...ety]] overthrow the government of Queen [[Liliuokalani]] of the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]].
15: ...he [[United States]] takes possession of [[Wake Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
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