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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
11: ...t divided ten Confederate states (all except [[Tennessee]], which had been readmitted in [[1866]]) in...
38: ...al government even set up a school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in an attempt to impose the values and b...
51: ...tions to be coordinated across great distances. Innovations also occurred in how work was organized, ...
78: From the beginning, the Farmers' Alliances were political organiz...
90: ..."crucify mankind on a cross of gold," [[William Jennings Bryan]], the young Nebraskan champion of silv... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: *[[366]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, i...
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[County Durham]]...
15: ...ery of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[AcadéŠe des Sciences...
23: *[[1900]] - [[John Hay]] announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade w...
27: ...radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]) . - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
5: ...f stairs, and water pressure could only provide running water to about 50 feet (15 m).
9: ... the end of the 19th century. [[William LeBaron Jenney]] designed the first skyscraper in Chicago, The...
18: ...per from [[1974]] to [[2004]]. Retained Highest pinnacle on a high-rise]]<br>
19: ...uilding's [[spire]] is adjudged to be a large antenna and thus excluded. This results in such rankings...
158: ...align="center"|Roof||Colspan="2" align="center"|Pinnacle||Floors|| - Adam's apple (940 bytes)
7: The etymology of the term is unclear: Webster's 1913 dictionary states that the term "... is so called... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
4: ...ral]] Congress was created as a result of the [[Connecticut Compromise]], a compromise made at the [[H...
12: ...tates. Eventually, a compromise, known as the [[Connecticut Compromise]] or the Great Compromise, was ...
16: ... legislatures; they achieved their objective in [[1913]] with the ratification of the [[Seventeenth Amen...
27: ...pically conducted at the same time as the next biennial congressional election. If a special election ...
30: ...e then senators were millionaires.<!--http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/13/senators.finances/--> ... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...sunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
4: ...lometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in th...
28: ...n less than one metre. This is often practically unnoticeable to people on ships. The energy of a tsun...
45: Tsunamis cannot be prevented or precisely predicted, but there ...
55: ...inutes or hours before a tsunami strikes shore (Kenneally, [http://www.slate.com/id/2111608]''). - National League (4871 bytes)
3: ...her major league is the [[American League]].) Beginning with the 1903 season, the regular season champ...
5: ...century)|Philadelphia Athletics]], and the [[Cincinnati Reds]] (not the same as the modern Reds, who b...
7: ...for the right to advance to the World Series. Beginning with the 1994 season, the league has been divi...
26: *[[Cincinnati Reds]]
49: ...as Lynch (baseball)|Thomas J. Lynch]] [[1910]]-[[1913]] - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...ld Series Trophy]]. The World Series has been an annual event since 1903, with the exception of 1904 a...
7: ...ding shares are distributed to the World Series winner, the World Series loser, all the other teams qu...
9: ...e is no reason to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club te...
15: ... World Cup of Baseball, to be held at least quadrennially during the Northern Hemisphere winter at a w...
75: ... a postseason series between the league pennant winners. - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
11: :'''League pennants won''' (16): [[1876]], [[1880]], [[1881]], [...
18: ...he success and fame of the [[Cincinnati Reds|Cincinnati Red Stockings]] of [[1869]], baseball's first ...
24: ...provide some perspective to note that a similar winning percentage nowadays would yield 129 wins.
26: ...885]], winning 53 games as the Chicagos won the pennant.
28: ...1892 after the A.A. folded, continues to be a perennial rival of the Cubs. - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
5: ...seball)|Western League]]. Moved to [[St. Paul, Minnesota]], then again to Chicago in 1900 when that l...
12: :''American League pennants won'' (5): [[1901 in sports|1901]], [[1906 Wo...
17: ...[1894 in sports|1894]], then moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. When the Western League changed its name t...
19: ...rse [[Ed Walsh]], who routinely pitched over 400 innings each season in his prime.
22: ...ennant and their first World Series victory, a stunning upset over the Cubs who had won a record 116 r... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
8: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[Ebbets Field]] ([[1913]]-[[1957]]), [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]] ([...
13: :'''American Association pennants won''' (1): [[1889]]
14: :'''National League pennants won''' (21): [[1890]], [[1899]], [[1900]], [[...
23: ...s'', as they were then known won two successive pennats under [[Ned Hanlon]] in 1899 and 1900.
25: ...ould become the Dodgers' home in [[1913 in sports|1913]]. - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
5: ...r [[Western League]]. Moved to [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] in [[1900]] when that league became the...
12: ... (15): [[1902]], [[1905]], [[1910]], [[1911]], [[1913]], [[1914]], [[1929]], [[1930]], [[1931]], [[1972...
13: ...] championships won''' (9): [[1910]], [[1911]], [[1913]], [[1929]], [[1930]], [[1972]], [[1973]], [[1974...
18: ...ecruited former player [[Connie Mack (baseball)|Connie Mack]] to run the club. Mack in turn persuaded...
20: ... [[Cleveland Indians]]) and did not set foot on Pennsylvania soil until the National Agreement was sig... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
16: ...d. The grid offers overall dimensions, but it is unnumbered and the black squares' locations are unspe...
25: ...at least one of the letters, the correct answer cannot be determined.
26: ...bbreviations for a position on a compass, i.e. '''NNW''' (for north-northwest) or '''ESE''' (for east-...
27: ...mer") might be clued as '''"Summer, in the [[Sorbonne]]"''' while '''[[Rome|ROMA]]''' could be clued a...
28: ...g. Ex.: '''"__ [[Anne Boleyn | Boleyn]]"''' = '''ANNE''' - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
26: ...[Melvin Calvin]] (1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
37: ...]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or ... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
17: ...and much of this is attributable to some of the cunning military deceptions instituted at Baden-Powell...
19: Baden-Powell did most of the reconnaissance work himself and built up a team of nativ...
33: The Scouts of England each donated a penny to buy B-P a wedding gift - a Rolls Royce.
51: *Peter, later 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (1913-1962) and - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
8: ... [[1888]] Ford supported himself by farming and running a sawmill.
18: ...rgrounds in [[1911]] with driver Frank Kulick. In 1913, Ford attempted to enter a reworked Model T in th...
20: Racing was, by 1913, no longer necessary from a publicity standpoint ...
29: ...utomobiles. Subsequently, the company adopted an annual model change system similar to that in use by ...
35: ... a seat on the board and was responsible for personnel, labor relations, and public relations. - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
39: * 1896: Baumann observed [[iodine]] in thyroid glands.
44: * 1913: [[Elmer V. McCollum]] discovered the first vita...
67: ...are classified in terms of essential (an animal cannot produce them) and non-essential (the animal can...
91: ...in C]] in most animals) and those that the body cannot be produced can only be obtained through the di...
92: ...e cannot neutralize certain free radicals. Some cannot be present in certain areas of free radical dev... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[July 14]], [[1913]]
18: '''Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.''' ([[July 14]], [[1913]] – [[December 26]], [[2006]]) was the 38th...
32: ... He was first assigned as athletic director and gunnery division officer, then as assistant [[navigato...
36: ...y]]" programs of President [[Lyndon Johnson]] as unneeded or wasteful. He made a speech attacking John...
61: ...equently executed and twenty-three Air Force personnel killed earlier while en route to the [[staging ... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Fitzgerald Kennedy
14: ...cqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy]]
20: ...alked behind the casket at [[Funeral of John F. Kennedy|his funeral]].
22: ...s the youngest ever to ''serve'' as president), Kennedy was also the youngest ever to die. [[As of 200...
27: ...e School]], a boarding school in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]]. Before enrolling in college, he attende... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[January 9]], [[1913]]
19: '''Richard Milhous Nixon''' ([[January 9]], [[1913]] – [[April 22]], [[1994]]) was the thirty-...
22: ...]] on [[January 9]], 1913, to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhous. He was raised as an [[Evangelicalism|...
34: ...erans, including Nixon's future rival [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]]. The campaign he ran ag...
46: One notable event of the campaign was Nixon's innovative use of [[television]].
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