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- Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
13: ...nants won''' (9): [[1901]], [[1902]], [[1903]], [[1909]], [[1925]], [[1927]], [[1960]], [[1971]], [[1979...
14: :'''[[World Series]] championships won''' (5): [[1909]], [[1925]], [[1960]], [[1971]], [[1979]]
19: ...years and got their first World Series title in [[1909]], defeating the [[Detroit Tigers]] in seven game...
21: ...the [[New York Yankees]], who at that time had built the most dominant team in baseball. The [[1927]] ...
25: ...[Forbes Field]], was demolished in favor of the multi-purpose [[Three Rivers Stadium]]. The Pirates wo... - Computer (32773 bytes)
8: ...ical phenomenon. Although computers have been built out of many different technologies, nearly all po...
18: ...uter is finished calculating the problem, the result must be displayed to the user as [[output]] throu...
20: ...ice users, especially children, often have difficulty understanding the important idea that the comput...
24: ...erformed the arts and this usage is still valid (although it is becoming quite rare in the [[United St...
29: ...observation has become known as [[Moore's Law]], although it of course is not actually a law, but rath... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
36: *[[John Dalton]], (1766-1844), physicist
50: ...st Carl Emil Erlenmeyer |Emil Erlenmayer]], (1825-1909), German chemist
97: *[[Izaak Kolthoff]], (1894-1993) the "Father of [[analytical ch...
134: *[[Wilhelm Ostwald]], (1853-1932), [[1909]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
156: *[[Henri Victor Regnault]] (1810-1878), [[France|French]] chemist and [[Ph... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
5: ...ence and technology|history]], and in [[popular culture]], ''Einstein'' has become a byword for great ...
16: ... of the most revelatory of his life. Though he built [[model (physical)|model]]s and [[classical mecha...
37: ...sequences and managed to explain experimental results that had baffled scientists for decades.
61: ...erald]] in [[1894]] that the Michelson-Morley result could be accounted for if moving bodies were squa...
68: ...Ist die Tr䧨eit eines K?rs von seinem Energieinhalt abh䮧ig?''") published late in 1905, showed one ... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
27: ...he [[Acad魩e fran硩se]] bestowed on him the [[Volta Prize]] of 50,000 francs, the [[Royal Society of...
43: ...ccess, Gray brought a suit against him, which resulted in a compromise, one public company acquiring b...
47: ...ph Company, to give the apparatus a trial. Ill health and poverty, from injuries of an explosion on bo...
70: ...also invented independently by [[Robert Esnault-Pelterie]].)
72: In [[1909]], Bell's ''[[Silver Dart]]'' made the first cont... - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
7: ... his teenage years working as a handyman for a wealthy Cincinnati landowner. Like many African-America...
13: ...he first of several businesses he would own. In [[1909]], he expanded his business to include a tailorin...
29: ...-directional stop position. This third position halted traffic in all directions to allow pedestrians ...
42: * [http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/trfclt/ Early US traffic signal patents]
43: * [http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/trfclt/105th-euclid/105th-euclid.html The first traffic ... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ... also had such tremendous influence over modern culture that many social theorists identify this phase...
18: ...ean" (across the [[United States|USA]]) race in [[1909]], and setting a one-mile oval speed record at De...
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...
29: ...nclusion of a sliding-shift transmission. The result was the highly successful [[Ford Model A]], intro... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
6: *[[Wäinö Aaltonen]] ([[1894]] - [[1966]])
133: *[[Herbert Haseltine]] (1877 - 1962)
139: *[[Milton Horn]] (1906 - 1995),
145: *[[Idel Ianchelevici]] (1909-1994)
237: *[[Auguste Présult]] - 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...
29: ...n [[1890]].) A few more cable car systems were built in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Portugal]] and [[Fra... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
22: ...]] and he worked at Belle Springs Creamery from [[1909]] to [[1911]].
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... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14: | wife=[[Eleanor Roosevelt]]
18: ...ntral figures of 20th century history. Born to wealth and privilege, he overcame a crippling illness t...
20: ...but others dispute this claim arguing that Roosevelt's economic policies actually slowed recovery. In ...
22: In his lifetime Roosevelt was a polarizing figure: he was a hero to liberal... - Louis Bleriot (3099 bytes)
5: ...n early interest in aviation and, in [[1900]], built a motor-powered machine called an [[ornithopter]]...
8: ...m the [[Blériot-Voisin]] Company. The company built a floatplane glider, which flew during [[1905]]. ...
14: ...ghting the French and worrying the British, who felt that they had suddenly become vulnerable to air a...
16: ...ckage of Blériot's plane, Reims Air Meet, August 1909.]]
19: ... combat aircraft. During [[World War I]], SPAD built more than 5,600 aircraft for France and exported ... - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
2: ...nd was also the first to complete the more difficult eastward Pacific crossing from Australia to the [...
4: ...ia]], and was one of seven children. From 1905 to 1909, he and his family lived in [[Vancouver]], [[Brit...
10: ...for a leg to [[Singapore]], flying in [[Lockheed Altair]] ''Lady Southern Cross''. The aircraft did no...
12: ...sbane passes through the suburb of his birth, Hamilton. He was also pictured on the Australian $20 pap... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
12: ...ula for drag) was wrong, had a [[wind tunnel]] built by their employee, [[Charlie Taylor]], and tested...
21: ...y Hawk''), carved propellers and had an engine built by Taylor in their bicycle shop in [[Dayton, Ohio...
29: ...-Patterson Air Force Base]]. In [[1905]], they built an improved aeroplane, the ''Flyer III''.
33: ... unable to correct them within two days. As a result, the first local report of the flights appeared i...
35: ...he brothers became world famous in [[1908]] and [[1909]] when, weary of continuing doubt, they took thei... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
15: ...t powerful nations. Nevertheless, the [[Allies]] ultimately defeated Germany. In the final days of the...
20: ... younger sister [[Paula Hitler|Paula]] reached adulthood. Alois Hitler also had a son (Alois Junior) a...
24: ...tic]] Nazi Party, had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitl...
27: ...to follow him in a career as a customs official, although Adolf wanted to become a painter. This is fu...
29: ===Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich=== - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...year before [[Robert Peary]] claimed to, April 6, 1909.<ref>Henderson, B. 2009, pp. 58-69</ref>
13: ...omas Bridges]] shortly before his death. As a result of that meeting, Cook brought back the manuscript...
15: ...ed an expedition to [[Mount McKinley]], which resulted in his circumnavigation of the Denali range. He...
24: ...rom McKinley and 3 miles below its top. Barrill's 1909 affidavit included a map correctly locating the [...
28: ...ok Expedition.gif|thumb|right|A photo from Cook's 1909 arctic expedition, which he alleged was taken at ... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
18: ...lans to go to the [[North Pole]]. On hearing in [[1909]] that first [[Frederick Cook]] and then [[Robert...
38: ...rederick Cook|Cook]] in 1908, [[Robert Peary]] in 1909, and [[Richard Byrd]] in 1926 (just a few days be... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
16: *[[1909]] - [[Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] ...
67: *[[1909]] - [[Ernest Gallo]], American winemaker - March 19 (9902 bytes)
50: *[[1883]] - [[Walter Haworth]], British chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] lau...
61: *[[1909]] - [[Louis Hayward]], actor (d. [[1985]])
99: *[[1950]] - [[Walter Haworth]], British chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] lau... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
28: *[[1969]] – In [[Gibraltar]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] get married...
30: *[[1976]] – [[Patty Hearst]] is found guilty of the armed robbery of a [[San Francisco, Calif...
38: ...rik Menendez]] and [[Lyle Menendez]] are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing o...
70: *[[1921]] - [[Rudolf Noelte]], film director (d. [[2002]])
120: ...4]] - Queen [[Juliana of the Netherlands]], (b. [[1909]])
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