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- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
6: ...ocket]]s. The [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center|NASM annex]] at [[Dulles International Airport]] in Northe...
13: ...me the first animal in orbit on [[November 3]], [[1957]]. The first orbital flight made by a human being...
15: ...paceShipOne]] became the first privately-funded manned [[spacecraft]].
41: ISRO has started the work on its first Unmanned Lunar program called [[Chandrayan|Chandrayan-1]...
59: ===1957-1975=== - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
94: *[[Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]] ([[1591]]-[[1666]]) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
5: ... towards more compact, more powerful designs, beginning with [[steam engine]]s and ending with [[jet e...
25: ...-scale version of his design, first flying it unmanned in 1849, and in 1853 his coachman made a short ...
27: ...nnel]] in 1871. Members of the Society used the tunnel and were surprised, and delighted, to learn tha...
29: ... by [[Wilhelm Kress]] as early [[1877]] near [[Vienna]].
55: ...ening of the [[Spanish-American War]]. Langley planned on building a scaled-up version known as the ''... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
41: ...England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner]]
66: *[[W.K. Dickson|William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]], motion picture camera
105: *[[Johann Gutenberg]], (circa 1390s-1468), [[Germany]] &mda...
109: ...lton (engineer) | William Hamilton]], jet boat in 1957 - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
6: |Date||[[1957]]–[[1975]]
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationalist and ...
37: ...ans. The difficulty in this is establishing a beginning and an end. The fighting with the French was m...
45: ...rol of Indochina in a series of colonial wars beginning in the 1840s and lasting until the 1880s. Duri...
47: ...dence]], and a band played "[[The Star Spangled Banner]]." Ho had hoped that the United States would ... - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
33: *[[1957]] - [[Eisenhower Doctrine]]
34: *[[1957]] - [[Civil Rights Act of 1957]]
35: *[[1957]] - Russians launch [[Sputnik]]; "[[space race]]"...
36: *[[1957]] - First nuclear power plant goes into service
37: *[[1957]] - [[Little Rock, Arkansas]] school desegregatio... - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
15: ...ing models of autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for the a...
24: ...te Department officer [[George F. Kennan|George Kennan]] who argued that the Soviets had to be "contai...
37: ... observers (including [[George F. Kennan|George Kennan]]) believed that the Japanese treaty led Stalin...
45: ...he policy of "massive retaliation," which Dulles announced early in [[1954]], eschewing the costly, co...
47: ... and, by launching the first earth satellite in [[1957]]. - Michigan (29427 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Jennifer Granholm]] |
46: ...Highland Park]] suburb of Detroit, marked the beginning of a new era in personal transportation. It wa...
55: *[[1622]] [[ɴienne Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], ...
85: *[[1957]] Five-mile long [[Mackinac Bridge]] opened [[Nov...
94: ***Current: [[Jennifer Granholm]] - 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 [[Acad魩e des Sciences...
23: *[[1900]] - [[John Hay]] announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade w...
27: ...radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]) . - Clock (10086 bytes)
14: ...e computers also maintain time and date for all manner of operations whether these be for alarms, even...
29: ...rent measurement tolerances, they all beat in a manner such that if one is chosen as periodic then the...
45: ... by) monks in Northern Italy. These were used to announce the [[canonical hours]] or intervals between...
122: ...s Joseph Singer, et. al. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957, pp. 648-675. - DNA (29095 bytes)
10: ...ble-to-read one! It has been assumed from the beginning that this is not necessarily a very accurate d...
84: ...theory|topologically]] knotted. This means they cannot be separated by gentle heating or by any proces...
153: ...d the [[central dogma]] of molecular biology in [[1957]], describing the process whereby proteins are pr...
158: ...salmon, and in [[1889]] his pupil, [[Richard Altmann]], named it "nucleic acid". This substance was ...
174: ...involved helices. But this insight was only a beginning. There remained the questions of how many stra... - Flood (7770 bytes)
7: ... and can result in their eventual depletion. The annual cycle of flood and farming was of great signif...
20: == Flood defenses, planning, and management ==
24: ... such as [[Holland]] and parts of [[England]], planning laws have been used to prevent building on [[f...
43: ...the overflowing of rivers in [[New York]] and [[Pennsylvania]].
45: * In 1957, storm surge flooding from Hurricane Audrey kille... - 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 ...
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/--> ...
44: ...e Senate's mouthpiece, performing duties such as announcing the results of votes. The Senate's presidi... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
2: ...004]] [[Monaco Grand Prix]], one of the nineteen annual Formula One races]]
7: ...and is the most expensive sport in the world, as annual team budgets average in the hundreds of millio...
9: .... New races in [[Bahrain]] and [[China]], one planned for [[2005]] in [[Turkey]], and others discusse...
22: ...e in [[1951]] and four more in [[1954]] through [[1957]], his streak interrupted by two-time champion [[...
26: ...art]], [[Jack Brabham]], [[Graham Hill]], and [[Denny Hulme]], British teams and [[commonwealth]] driv... - 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. - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
5: ...r ancestry to the original [[Cincinnati Reds|Cincinnati Red Stockings]] of [[1869]]-[[1970]], baseball...
6: ...es", a name which never really caught on; even Quinn refused to use it. The team switched back to "Br...
14: :'''National Association pennants won''' (4): [[1872 in sports|1872]], [[1873 i...
15: ..., [[1948 World Series|1948]], [[1957 World Series|1957]], [[1958 World Series|1958]], [[1991 World Serie...
16: ...: [[1914 World Series|1914]], [[1957 World Series|1957]], [[1995 World Series|1995]] - 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)
6: ...rly known as:''' Brooklyn Dodgers, [[1932]] to [[1957]], after which the team moved to Los Angeles for ...
8: ...'''Home ballpark:''' [[Ebbets Field]] ([[1913]]-[[1957]]), [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]] ([[1958]]-[...
13: :'''American Association pennants won''' (1): [[1889]]
14: :'''National League pennants won''' (21): [[1890]], [[1899]], [[1900]], [[...
22: ===The Brooklyn years (through [[1957]])=== - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
5: ...r [[Western League]]. Moved to [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] in [[1900]] when that league became the...
12: :'''American League pennants won''' (15): [[1902]], [[1905]], [[1910]], [...
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...
22: ...$100,000 Infield,? consisting of John "Stuffy" McInnis (1b), [[Eddie Collins]] (2b), [[Frank Baker|Fra... - 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 ...
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