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- World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...mined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series...
3: The [[2004 World Series]] was played from [[October 23]] until [[October 27]],...
5: ...[[2003]], the team given the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League ...
7: ...ipts from the World Series - and, from [[1969]] onward, the other rounds of postseason play preceding ...
13: ...ntations. At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] the USA was not represented, since its minor-leaguer team di... - Canada Day (1959 bytes)
3: ...t 1867]], which came into effect on [[July 1]], [[1867]], uniting three [[Great Britain|British]] territ...
5: ...se a name such as the Kingdom of Canada. The name was changed to ''Canada Day'' on [[October 27]], [[1...
7: ...orates Newfoundland's heavy losses during [[World War I]] in the Battle of [[Beaumont Hamel]] as part ...
13: The celebrations in [[Ottawa]] are particularly lavish. Every Canada Day, tens... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
31: ... Sklodowska-Curie|Maria Skłodowska-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
42: * [[Edward Doisy]], (1893-), American biochemist, winner o...
49: *[[Arthur Eichengr?(1867-1949) - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
12: ...his work in [[telecommunications]] technology, he was responsible for important advances in [[aviation...
17: His family was associated with the teaching of [[elocution]]: h...
19: ...ity of Edinburgh]]. From [[1866]] to [[1867]], he was an instructor at Somersetshire College at [[Bath...
21: ...ing the system of visible speech. The elder Bell was invited to introduce the system into a large day...
27: ... francs, the [[Royal Society of Arts]] in London awarded him the [[Albert medal]] in [[1902]], and the... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
3: ... Prize]]s. The [[synthetic element]] [[Nobelium]] was named after him.
5: ...g Nobel|Ludvig Emmanuel]] (1831-1888), by whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfred, returning to Swede...
7: ...rviving edition (bilingual Swedish-[[Esperanto]]) was published in Sweden in 2003. The play has not ye...
12: ...manipulate, and this mixture he [[patent]]ed in [[1867]] as [[dynamite]].
14: ...in]], as it was called, was patented in 1876, and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modi... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
39: A network of [[motorway]]s crosses the island, much of it raised on colu...
43: ...cted to the Italian peninsula by the national railway company, Trenitalia, though trains are loaded on...
58: ...an town following the [[World War II|Second World War]].
64: ...[Sicilian Expedition]] during the [[Peloponnesian War]].
66: ...trol of all but the eastern part of Sicily, which was dominated by Syracuse. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
34: *[[Karl Bitter]] (1867 - 1915)
39: *[[Gutzon Borglum]] (1867 - 1941)
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
153: *[[J. Seward Johnson, Jr.]] (1930 - )
159: *[[Jawad Saleem]](1920-1961) - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
1: ...Civil War]] when the southern states of the breakaway [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] we...
6: ...e [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden.
8: ...Reconstruction Act]] was passed on [[March 2]], [[1867]]; the last on [[March 11]], [[1868]]. The first ...
12: During the period of Reconstruction there was considerable upheaval in Southern society. Nort...
14: ...arty were [[insult | derisively]] called ''[[scalawag]]s''. Disgruntled Southerners denounced what the... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
17: area_water = 185.2 mi² / 479.7 |
37: ...magnet in the second half of the 20th century. It was a center of the [[dot-com]] boom at the end of t...
44: ...] in [[1822]], when what is now the downtown area was first settled by William Richardson, an [[Englan...
46: ...[[1846]] in the name of the [[United States]]. It was then renamed "San Francisco" on [[January 30]], ...
48: ...ranted to the city by military governor [[Stephen Watts Kearny]] in 1847. - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Warren Gamaliel Harding
18: ...an]] from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Ohio]], Harding was an influential [[newspaper]] publisher with a fl...
20: ...rom [[pneumonia]] and possible food poisoning. He was succeeded by [[Vice President of the United Stat...
23: ...cs of the newspaper business. Harding's education was completed at [[Muskingum College|Ohio Central Co...
25: ...e of success. However, Harding's political stance was at odds with those who controlled most of Marion... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
5: ...[1948]]) and '''Wilbur Wright''' ([[April 16]], [[1867]] - [[May 30]], [[1912]]), are generally credited...
8: ...[Millville, Indiana|Millville]], [[Indiana]] in [[1867]], Orville in [[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]], [[Ohio]] i...
12: ...in the formula for lift and the formula for drag) was wrong, had a [[wind tunnel]] built by their empl...
14: During their research, the Wrights always worked together, and their contributions to the...
17: ...sts that hold up the glider unbraced. The warping was then controlled by wire running through the wing... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
2: ...and detected [[electromagnetic radiation]] in a [[wavelength]] range today known as [[x-ray]]s or Rön...
6: ...ended [[Utrecht Technical School]], from which he was expelled for producing a caricature of one of th...
12: ... investigations were only for a short time and he was one of the few pioneers in the field who used pr...
16: ...torf-Crookes tube, which had a much thicker glass wall than the Lenard tube, might also cause this flu...
18: ... noticed a faint shimmering from a bench a meter away from the tube. To be sure, he tried several mor... - Henry Morton Stanley (3669 bytes)
1: ...h; [[May 10]],[[1904]]) was a [[19th-century]], [[Wales|Welsh]]-born, [[United States]] [[journalist]]...
3: ...[[Denbigh]], [[Wales]]. An illegitimate child, he was brought up in a [[workhouse]], and later worked ...
7: ...paper's owner, how much he could spend. The reply was "Draw �1,000 now, and when you have gone throu...
9: ...g the region, establishing for certain that there was no connection between Lake Tanganyika and the ri...
11: ...efforts, the facts gradually emerged: his opinion was that "the savage only respects force, power, bo... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
7: ...y by area and population in the U.S. (including [[Washington, DC]])
11: Phoenix was incorporated on [[February 5]], [[1881]]. It is...
28: area water = 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) |
46: ..., building an elaborate canal system that brought water from the Salt River. Their name is derived fr...
49: ... present city (about 22 miles west of Mesa, which was already a city of 1,000 people; and a few miles ... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
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12: |watermile=0.7
13: |waterpercentage=0.51
24: ...rtly thereafter. In the [[20th century]], Atlanta was a center for the [[American Civil Rights Movemen...
26: ...hoenix City", relates to its rise after the Civil War. The [[phoenix]] appears in many of Atlanta's ... - Lincoln, Nebraska (9126 bytes)
13: area water = 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²) |
41: ...s far west as possible. The village of Lancaster was chosen, in part due to the salt [[Playa|flats]] ...
43: ...at [[Nebraska]] became a state, on [[March 1]], [[1867]].
49: ...[1 E6 m²|1.9 km² (0.7 sq mi)]] of it is water.
50: The total area is 0.98% water. - Cheyenne, Wyoming (8059 bytes)
15: founded = [[1867]] |
19: area water = 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) |
31: ...angs, soldiers from Fort D.A. Russell (now [[F.E. Warren Air Force Base]]), and men from Camp Carlin, ...
33: The city was named by [[Grenville Dodge]] for the Native Amer...
35: ... Journal'' were burned down when the paper, which was founded as a public relations vehicle for the mo... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
27: *[[Al-Khwarizmi|Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi]] (Persia, [[780]] - [[850]])
113: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]] (English, c. [[1290]] - [[1349]])
120: *[[Viggo Brun]] (Norway, [[1885]] - [[1978]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876...
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[1989]...
51: *[[Walter Baade]] ([[Germany]], [[1893]] – [[1960...
65: *[[Edward Emerson Barnard]] ([[United States|USA]], [[185...
88: *[[Edward L. G. Bowell|Edward (Ted) L. G. Bowell]] ([[United States|USA]]) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
9: ...ash;the [[Venus figurines|Venus]] of Moravany. It was found in the [[1940s]] during an archaelogical r...
13: ... of the biggest Neolithic deposits in Europe, and was continuously inhabited for more than 800 years b...
15: ..., the geographic location of present-day Slovakia was dense trade network for goods such as shells, am...
19: ...ance of the Cakany and Velatice civilizations, it was the [[Lusatian]] people who expanded the buildin...
21: ...the [[Celtic]] tribes, advancing from the South towards the North, following the Slovakian rivers. The...
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