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- Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
6: ...irates''. The name stuck. Over the years the team was also often called the ''Buccaneers'' or ''Bucs''...
13: ...League pennants won''' (9): [[1901]], [[1902]], [[1903]], [[1909]], [[1925]], [[1927]], [[1960]], [[1971...
17: ...e, Kentucky]] club, including greats like [[Honus Wagner]] and [[Fred Clarke]] (who also served as the...
19: ...ive complete games, winning three of them; but it was not enough. With largely the same star players, ...
21: ...ombination of brothers [[Lloyd Waner]] and [[Paul Waner]], who along with shortstop [[Arky Vaughan]] e... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...art of a system. If a computer configured in this way is given appropriate input data, then it can aut...
10: ...electron flows might be used to model the flow of water in a dam. Such ''[[analog signal|analog]]'' c...
14: ...which made modern ''digital'' computers possible, was formally identified and explored by [[Claude E. ...
20: ...successfully emulate human comprehension or self-awareness. See [[artificial intelligence]].
24: ...ists the year [[1897]] as the first year the word was used to refer to a [[mechanical calculating devi... - Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
23: ... Christianity in the 1st century A.D. the country was mostly pagan and worshiped the [[Roman Gods]]. E...
27: [[Islam]] was almost entirely [[absent]] in Italy from the tim...
36: ...d discovered it. The first film was a few seconds was Pope Leo XIII giving a blessing to the camera.
37: ...e blockbuster film [[The Passion of the Christ]] was recently made in Italy.
40: ...into the [[18th century]] [[Commedia dell'arte]] was a form of [[improvisational theater]] , although... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
42: * [[Edward Doisy]], (1893-), American biochemist, winner o...
133: *[[Lars Onsager]], (1903-1976), [[physical chemistry|physical chemist]], [...
134: *[[Wilhelm Ostwald]], (1853-1932), [[1909]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemi... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...]], and [[physical cosmology|cosmology]]. He was awarded the [[1921]] [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel P...
5: After his [[general theory of relativity]] was formulated in [[November]] [[1915]], Einstein be...
7: Einstein himself was deeply concerned with the social impact of scien...
14: ...ry school]] and, at the insistence of his mother, was given [[violin]] lessons.
16: ...ering space and time later than most children, he was able to apply a more developed intellect. Anothe... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
2: ...y 22]], [[1857]] – [[January 8]], [[1941]]) was a soldier, writer and founder of the world [[Sco...
5: ...rry Baden-Powell]] died when he was three, and he was raised by his mother, [[Henrietta Grace]], a str...
7: ...t-of-bounds. He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist of some talent, and enjoy...
13: ...ches]]. His skills impressed his superiors and he was soon transferred to the British secret service. ...
15: ...p train recruits. Using this and other methods he was able to train them to think independently, to us... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...class]] in [[United States|American]] society. He was one of the first to apply [[assembly line]] manu...
6: ...was the eldest of six children. As a child, Henry was passionate about mechanics, preferring to tinker...
12: ...ding [[Henry M. Leland]] in 1902, and the company was reorganized as [[Cadillac (automobile)|Cadillac]...
15: ...e Ford brand known throughout the U.S. Henry Ford was also one of the early backers of the [[Indianapo...
18: ...r a reworked Model T in the Indianapolis 500, but was told rules required the addition of another 1,00... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
134: *[[Barbara Hepworth]] (1903 - 1975)
153: *[[J. Seward Johnson, Jr.]] (1930 - )
159: *[[Jawad Saleem]](1920-1961)
233: *[[Edward Clark Potter]] (1857 - 1923) - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
16: | vicepresident=[[John N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
18: ... close friends called him Frank. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR (disambiguation)|FDR]]."
20: ...tive international organization to preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] af...
22: ...ternment of the Japanese-Americans during [[World War II]] and his failure to advance [[civil rights]]... - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Warren Gamaliel Harding
18: ...utenant Governor of Ohio|Lieutenant Governor]] ([[1903]]–[[1905]]).
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... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ates|American]] [[politician]] and adventurer. He was a major formative member of the [[United States ...
7: ...ghter of [[Jonathan Edwards (theology)|Jonathan Edwards]], the famous [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] [[theolo...
9: ...ich he served under [[Benedict Arnold]], [[George Washington]] and [[Israel Putnam]].
13: ...[[Quebec]]. Burr's courage earned him a place on Washington's staff, but the general never quite trus...
14: ...t Arnold led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[Albany, New York|Albany... - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period...
14: ...beginning of the second millennium, much of India was ruled by the [[Delhi Sultanate]], and later, by ...
20: ...857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutiny|First War of Indian Independence]], resulted in India comi...
26: ...nofficial member of the "[[nuclear club]]", which was followed up with a series of five more tests in ...
36: ...|Dravidian language]], while others argue that it was an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan language]]. - Louis Bleriot (3099 bytes)
2: ...o performed the first flight over a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft.
5: ...his experiment failed, but he continued working toward a practical aeroplane.
8: In [[1903]], Blér teamed up with [[Gabriel Voisin]], anoth...
11: ...e got off the ground in 1907 but soon crashed and was abandoned.
19: ...tries. He also opened flying schools before World War I in England at [[Brooklands]] and Hendon Aerodr... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
1: ...tflyer.jpg|thumb|200px|First flight, December 17, 1903.]]
8: Wilbur Wright was born in [[Millville, Indiana|Millville]], [[Indi...
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... - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
2: ...' ([[July 20]], [[1873]] - [[July 23]], [[1932]]) was a [[Brazil | Brazilian]] aviation pioneer. He de...
6: ''[[14 Bis]]'', was the first to take off, fly, and land without the...
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11: ...nd locomotive used on his family's plantation. He was also a fan of [[Jules Verne]] and had read all h...
14: ...ris]] in [[France]]. The first thing he did there was to buy an [[automobile]]. Later, he pursued stud... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...]]) of [[Germany]] from [[1933]] to his death. He was leader of the [[National Socialist German Worker...
13: ...ers]] dominated much of [[Europe]] during [[World War II]]. The [[Racial policy of Nazi Germany|racial...
15: ...mately defeated Germany. In the final days of the war, [[Hitler's death|Hitler died]] by [[suicide]] i...
20: ...t Alois Hitler treated his son more strictly than was usual for that time and place.
22: ...ities. He was legally born a Hitler, however, and was ironically closely related to Hiedler through hi... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...une 10]], [[1865]] – [[August 5]] [[1940]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[explorer]] and [...
7: Cook was born in Hortonville, [[New York]]. His parents ...
13: ... during the winter. A fellow crew-member was [[Norway|Norwegian]] explorer [[Roald Amundsen]], with wh...
15: In 1903 Cook led an expedition to [[Mount McKinley]], whi...
19: Dr. Cook was a founding member of two New York-based clubs: t... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
3: ...rctic expedition of [[1910]]–[[1912]] which was the first to reach the [[South Pole]].
5: ...an shipowners, in [[Borge]] , near [[Oslo]], [[Norway]].
10: ... first to winter in [[Antarctica]]. Also on board was an American doctor, [[Frederick Cook]]. Cook pro...
12: In [[1903]] Amundsen led the first expedition to traverse t...
14: ...me, Alaska|Nome]] was reached in [[1906]]. Due to water as shallow as 3 feet (1 m), a larger ship coul... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
11: ...] repeals the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which was very unpopular in the British colonies.
13: *[[1865]] - [[American Civil War]]: The Congress of the [[Confederate States of A...
15: *[[1874]] - [[Hawaii]] signs a treaty with the [[United States]] gra...
16: *[[1909]] - [[Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broad...
18: *[[1915]] - [[World War I]]: Three [[battleship]]s are sunk during a fai... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
26: ...mbourg]] singing "Poup饠de cire, poup饠de son" (Wax doll, talking doll).
36: ... Army]] bomb explodes in [[Warrington, Warrington|Warrington]], northwest [[England]], killing two chi...
37: ...1995]] – [[Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway]] killing 12 and wounding 1300 persons.
51: *[[1836]] - Sir [[Edward Poynter]], painter (d. [[1919]])
59: *[[1903]] - [[Edgar Buchanan]], American actor (d. [[1979...
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