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- World Series (40101 bytes)
7: ... leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their div...
9: ...rld" appellation has stuck despite the fact that only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] pa...
63: * 1896 [[Baltimore Orioles (NL)|Baltimore Orioles]]
77: ...ston AL]] defeats [[Pittsburgh Pirates|Pittsburgh NL]], 5 games to 3.
81: ... AL's [[Boston Red Sox|Boston Americans]] and the NL's [[San Francisco Giants|New York Giants]]. The G... - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
5: ...kings]] of [[1869]]-[[1970]], baseball's first openly professional team. When the N.A. formed, Red Sto...
20: ...e season, winning 34 of their last 44 games. Not only did they finish first, but they ended up 10.5 ga...
37: ..., threw three complete game victories, giving up only two earned runs.
40: ...pt by the "Miracle [[New York Mets|Mets]]" in the NLCS. They would not win it again until [[1982]], u...
42: ...ell under the pressure. The next season, it was only a matter of time before he set a new record. On... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
18: ...professional team, led to a minor explosion of openly professional teams in [[1870]], each with the si...
55: ...drum after their early 1900s Glory Years, broken only by their pennant in the [[World War I|war]]-shor...
62: ...home ballpark, [[Wrigley Field]], played host to only day games until [[1988]] because the stadium own...
65: ...a Braves in the [[National League Division Series|NLDS]].
68: ...me 7 of the [[National League Championship Series|NLCS]] against the [[Florida Marlins]]. While at one... - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
21: ...[[Cincinnati Red Stockings]], baseball's first openly all-professional team, was founded in [[1869]]. ...
23: ...ccounts, the AA team folded the same year the new NL team started, and the new team simply signed many...
29: ... then new manager [[Pat Moran]] led the Reds to a NL [[pennant]] in [[1919]]. The 1919 team had hittin...
35: ...ees]] in four straight. In 1940, they repeated as NL Champions and for the first time in 21 years, the...
39: ... cut short his career. [[Ted Kluszewski]] was the NL home run leader in 1954. The rest of the offense ... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
13: ...cs (with the [[St. Louis Cardinals]]) are second only to the [[New York Yankees]] in the number of Wor...
20: ...hiladelphia Phillies]]. This order, though, was only enforceable in the state of Pennsylvania. Lajoi...
30: ...Park]], blocking the view from nearby buildings, only served to irritate potential paying fans. The A...
32: ...by [[Chicago]] insurance executive [[Charles O. Finley]]), the American League owners were determined ...
34: ...the cap or the uniform. The typical uniform had only a stylized "A" on the left front, and likewise t... - Roller hockey (4297 bytes)
1: ... and very similar to [[ice hockey]], but using [[inline skate]]s instead of [[ice skate]]s.
9: ...teams. A team can consist of up to 12 people but only 5 are allowed on the rink at any time with one b...
13: ...overtime. College roller hockey, as well as pure inline hockey uses a six ounce puck that glides on pl...
45: ...</b> is a professional men's league with teams mainly from the Philadelphia area, and surrounding stat...
46: www.proinlinehockey.com - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
23: ...deavoured to produce a telephone which would not only send musical notes, but articulate speech. With ...
25: ... range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the eighteen patents granted in his n...
39: ...otice of a patent application) of a similar kind only 2 hours after Bell had filed for his patent.
55: ...[decibel]] (dB), equal to 0.1 B, became more commonly used.
62: ...art. The sender consisted of a mirror directing sunlight onto the mouthpiece, where the light beam was... - Philo Farnsworth (6489 bytes)
25: ...gned by Farnsworth to create [[nuclear fusion]]. Unlike most controlled fusion systems, which slowly h... - Hot air balloon (8769 bytes)
6: ...he wind, the passengers feel absolutely no wind, unless they rise or descend to a different altitude t... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
23: Messages often were encoded so that only those active in the Railroad would fully underst...
33: ...within the constellation [[Ursa Major]] that commonly was called then, as it is today, the "Big Dipper...
73: ... Of the 20,000 who emigrated to [[Upper Canada]] only 20% returned to the United States.<sup>2</sup>
75: ... United States, a large number of black refugees enlisted in the Union Army and, while some later retu... - Electricity (13894 bytes)
- Gorilla (6336 bytes)
35: ...[Koko (gorilla)|Koko]], also known for being the only animal known to keep one of another species as a...
59: ...h State University in Pittsburgh, Kansas, is the only public college in the United States to have a go...
67: .../homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/gorillas/ Gorillas Online] - Natural history, genetics, conservation and... - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
23: ...el, and the fact that a typical horse could work only 4 or 5 hours per day necessitated the maintenanc...
31: ...here. Eventually, San Francisco would become the only street operating manually operated system to sur... - Olympia (2033 bytes)
- National Football League (30340 bytes)
66: ...from each conference qualified for the playoffs. Only the wild card teams played during the first roun...
77: ...sually begin as second- or third-string backups, only playing games if the first-stringer is injured, ...
122: ...sports|1953]], [[Willie Thrower]], who played in only one game and did not start in any games. After t...
146: ...1972]]), [[Miami Dolphins|The Dolphins]] are the only NFL team to have a perfect season, capped by win...
152: ...anuary 27]], [[1991]], [[Super Bowl XXV]]) With only a few seconds left, [[Scott Norwood]] was called... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
20: ...husband's land speculation, they separated after only four months. During the month of their first ann...
53: ...attempted in earlier plots in [[Kentucky]]. Burr enlisted Wilkinson and others to his plan in a reconn... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
15: ...ion|expeditionary force]] from Boston on an easternly route to [[Quebec City, Quebec|Quebec City]], an...
35: ...re and, with West Point never captured, received only £6,000. Arnold died in 1801 and is buried...
43: ...graphy at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''] - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
13: ...pringfield" resulted in a rebel defeat, although only four rebels were actually killed.
15: ...nt, Massachusetts|South Egremont]]. In the end, only two men, John Bly and Charles Rose were hanged f... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...ir common opposition to Britain grew. It lasted only from [[September 5]], 1774, to [[October 26]], 1...
21: *Sept. 27, 1777 (one day only) [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]] - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ... use of local [[militia]]. Militiamen served for only a few weeks or months at a time, were generally ...
23: ...er shortages, Washington lifted the ban on black enlistment in the Continental Army in January 1777. A...
59: ... and [[Manhattan]], thus allowing Howe to engage only one half of the American army at a time.
71: ...it for duty, and would be reduced to 1,400 after enlistments expired at the end of the year. Spirits w...
97: ...-the-scenes maneuvering, laid the whole matter openly before Congress. His supporters rallied behind h...
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