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- George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
2: ...can-American]] [[botanist]] who worked in [[agricultural extension]] in the southern [[United States|...
11: ...American to enroll at Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, which today is [[Iowa State...
15: ... becoming Iowa State's first African-American faculty member.
17: ...d became the college's first African-American faculty member.
21: ...d in [[botany]]. He became the director of agricultural research. - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ... also had such tremendous influence over modern culture that many social theorists identify this phase...
10: ...ustion engines. These experiments culminated in [[1896]] with the completion of his own self-propelled v...
18: ...tripped-down Model Ts in races, finishing first (although later disqualified) in an "ocean-to-ocean" (...
20: ...hich enabled an enormous increase in production. Although Ford is often credited with the idea, contem...
24: ... Company]] over to his son [[Edsel Ford|Edsel]], although still maintaining a firm hand in its managem... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
1: ...ng is also a competitive sport. There are many health benefits of swimming, yet basic swimming skills ...
28: ...odern [[1896 Summer Olympics|Olympic games]] in [[1896]] in [[Athens]]. In [[1902]] the ''trudgen'' was ...
36: ...itors swing their arms back over their shoulder, alternately, and pull through under the water to prov...
38: ... format. World Championships are held each year, alternating between the traditional long course meter...
68: ...mer in the water or under the water can be difficult to detect, especially at night. Military swimming... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
8: ...to|Agrigento]]<br />[[Province of Caltanissetta|Caltanissetta]]<br />[[Province of Catania|Catania]]<b...
24: ...iracusa'' in Italian), [[Trapani]], [[Enna]], [[Caltanissetta]], [[Agrigento]], [[Ragusa, Italy|Ragusa...
34: ...other agricultural products. The mines of the [[Caltanissetta]] district became a leading sulphur-prod...
54: ...itecture, carved in the local red sandstone. [[Caltagirone]] is renowned for its decorative ceramics....
66: ...in necropoli over a large area of Palermo, now built over, south of the Norman palace, where the Norma... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
6: *[[Wäinö Aaltonen]] ([[1894]] - [[1966]])
133: *[[Herbert Haseltine]] (1877 - 1962)
139: *[[Milton Horn]] (1906 - 1995),
237: *[[Auguste Présult]]
296: *[[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]] (1875-1942) - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
1: ...x|The updated [[United States Department of Agriculture|USDA]] [[food pyramid]], published in [[2005]]...
2: ...ween [[diet (nutrition)|diet]] and states of [[health]] and [[disease]]. Absence of adequate nutrients...
4: ...tion of elements that have no apparent role in health, (e.g. [[lead]], [[mercury (element)|mercury]], ...
5: ...how and why specific dietary aspects influence health.
8: ...]. Minerals ubiquitously occur in the form of [[salts]] and [[electrolytes]]. All of these chemical co... - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
10: ==Culture clashes==
14: ...erners who joined the Republican party were [[insult | derisively]] called ''[[scalawag]]s''. Disgrunt...
36: ...labor movement and the associated paucity and frailty of democratic social entitlements in the U.S.
40: ...ination. ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' 163 US 537 ([[1896]]) went even further, announcing that state-manda... - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
7: ... speed at which it moves is relatively constant, although somewhat influenced by the current load.
11: ...l the cable house realizes what is going on and halts the movement of the cable.
16: ... and proved cumbersome. The line was closed, rebuilt and reopened with [[steam locomotives]].
23: Cable cars rapidly spread to other cities, although the major attraction for most was the abilit...
27: ...t the cars into and out of the terminals. After [[1896]] the system changed to one where a motor car was... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
24: ...r married [[Mamie Eisenhower|Mamie Geneva Doud]] (1896–1979), of [[Denver, Colorado]] on [[Saturda...
36: ...oted to Brigadier-General in September [[1941]]. Although his administrative abilities had been notice...
45: ...carrying out the Allied [[Battle of Normandy|assault on the coast of Normandy]] in June [[1944]] under...
47: ...he confidence that President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] had in him, he sometimes worked directly with [...
49: ...atastrophic failure, should that be the final result. Long after the successful landings on D-Day and... - Otto Lilienthal (1728 bytes)
3: ...l''' ([[23 May]] [[1848]] – [[10 August]] [[1896]]), the [[German people|German]] "'''Glider King'...
8: ...each low speeds and altitudes. On [[9 August]] [[1896]], a gust of wind fractured his wing and he fell ... - African American (19830 bytes)
19: ...ith a growing African American intellectual and cultural elite in the [[Northern United States]], led ...
26: ...ns also have higher prevalence of some chronic health conditions relative to the general population. T...
28: ==Culture==
29: ''Main article: [[African-American culture]]''
31: ... blended with other influences to form a unique culture. - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
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12: ...owel. It is not believed his carcinoma was a result of his work with ionizing radiation because his i...
20: ...mathematical designation for something unknown. Although the new rays would eventually come to bear h...
27: ...father of Diagnostic Radiology, the medical specialty which uses imaging to diagnose disease.
36: ...n [[McClure's]] magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, [[1896]], from [[Project Gutenberg]] - March 22 (9294 bytes)
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of [[...
43: *[[1861]] - [[Walter Francis Willcox]], statistician and [[United St...
100: *[[1896]] - [[Thomas Hughes]], [[novelist]] (b. [[1822]])
110: *[[1994]] - [[Walter Lantz]], American [[cartoon]]ist (b. [[1899]]) - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
46: ...f the modern Pima Indians who now live on the [[Salt River]] and [[Gila River]] reservations, or the [...
49: ... from Wickenburg had dug a short canal from the Salt River and founded a small farming colony approxim...
51: ... East Phoenix. As for the town that was to be built, Swilling, a former [[Confederate States Army|Con...
57: ...in [[1870]] and mass meeting of the citizens of Salt River Valley was held on [[October 20]], [[1870]]...
61: ...Wisconsin, was appointed as the first female schoolteacher in Phoenix. - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
40: In [[1896]] the first professional [[basketball]] game was ...
54: ...n's northern neighbor of [[Princeton]]. As a result, many [[suburban]] kids have tried to imitate Tre...
56: ...f Trenton bordering [[Ewing Township]] known as Hiltonia is also an example of more upscale housing wi...
69: ...[Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey|Hamilton Township]], and the [[Delaware River]]. Several... - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
1: ...uring the [[2002 Winter Olympic Games]]. It is Salt Lake City's top tourist draw]]
2: ...tan area]], defined as [[Salt Lake County, Utah|Salt Lake]], [[Davis County, Utah|Davis]], and [[Weber...
4: ...ents are known as "[[List of famous Salt Lakers|Salt Lakers]]".
6: ...d by their religious leader, [[Brigham Young]], Salt Lake City is among the region's oldest cities and...
8: ...ayor-council government]]. The current mayor of Salt Lake City is [[Rocky Anderson]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
26: *[[Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov]] (USSR, [[1896]] - [[1982]])
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]])
221: *[[Walther Franz Anton von Dyck]] (Germany)
244: *[[Gerd Faltings]] (Germany, [[1954]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]]...
51: *[[Walter Baade]] ([[Germany]], [[1893]] – [[1960]]...
81: *[[Charles Thomas Bolton]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1943]] – )
82: *[[John Gatenby Bolton]] ([[England]], [[Australia]], [[1922]] –...
105: *[[Schelte J. Bus]] ([[United States|USA]]) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
9: ...s and vestiges of the era of the [[Gravettian]] culture have also been found, principally in the river...
11: ...ngly, in the northern regions at relatively high altitudes, give evidence of human habitation in the [...
15: ...ch as shells, amber, jewels and weapons. As a result, it became an important crossroads of European tr...
19: ...ative centers, a large growth in trades and agricultural technologies.
21: ...lowing the Slovakian rivers. The victory of the Celts marked the beginning of the later Iron Age. Thei... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
15: ...ritish Empire]] to replace it with the [[Commonwealth of Nations]]. Gandhi's principle of ''satyagraha...
20: ...did not stay there long, however, as his family felt he must become a [[barrister]] if he were to cont...
23: ...ncouraged Gandhi to read the [[Bhagavad Gita]]. Although he had not shown a particular interest in re...
31: ...th Africa. Gandhi returned briefly to India in [[1896]] to bring his wife and children to live with him...
42: ...ment reached its apex, it ended abruptly as a result of a violent clash in the town of [[Chauri Chaura...
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