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- History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ... War]] in [[1917]], leaving the Western Allies to fight the [[Central Powers]] alone. Lasting Soviet m...
11: ...nt [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet First Secretary [[Joseph Stalin]] (right)]]
13: ...in" of the Cold War. In hindsight, [[Yalta]] signified the agreement of both sides that they could sta...
15: ...nism]]; those contrasts had been simplified and refined in national ideologies to represent two ways o...
17: ... throughout Eurasia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, with almost no country left unscathed. T... - Thunderstorm (7337 bytes)
4: ...flected by high [[dewpoint]] temperatures; a significant fall in air [[temperature]] with increasing h...
6: ...[[Great Plains]] to explore the visual and scientific aspects of storms and tornadoes.
8: ==Classification==
28: ...ation stage''. This life cycle was identified in 1949 as the result of the U.S. Weather Bureau's landma...
30: ...erstorm. In a typical thunderstorm, some [[scientific notation|5×10<sup>8</sup>]] [[kilograms|kg... - Bill Buckner (4174 bytes)
2: ...Joseph "Bill" Buckner''' (born [[December 14]], [[1949]] in [[Vallejo, California]]) was a [[Major Leagu...
5: Buckner played his first major league game in [[1969]] with the [[Los A...
9: ...moted to the majors as an outfielder, he moved to first base when he joined the Cubs. At that position...
12: ... Buckner's glove, through his legs and into right field, allowing Ray Knight to score the winning run ...
14: ...possible that Wilson would have beaten Buckner to first base, which would have extended the inning. - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circle]].
12: * [[1873]] - [[First Battle of the Stronghold]] in the [[United Sta...
15: ... takes possession of [[Wake Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
19: ...| character]] created by [[Elzie Crisler Segar]], first appeared in a [[newspaper]] [[comic strip]].
23: ... [[1946]] - The [[UN Security Council]] holds its first session. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
7: ...ius became [[Pope]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Syd...
21: *[[1890]] - [[Alice Sanger]] becomes the first female staffer for the [[White House]].
27: *[[1921]] - The first religious [[radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in ...
37: *[[1949]] - [[Luis MuMar�] became the first democratically elected [[Governor of Puerto Ri... - Cambodia (32076 bytes)
9: official_languages = [[Khmer language|Khmer]]; [[Frenc...
33: established_dates = From [[France]]<br>[[1949]]<br>[[1953]] |
45: ...xtraction. A citizen of Cambodia is usually identified as '''Cambodian''', or more often, '''Khmer'''.
49: ... "the fresh water river"), an important source of fish.
63: The official name of the country, however, is '''Preahreac... - Ireland (33828 bytes)
3: ...posed of the [[Republic of Ireland]] which covers five sixths of the island (south, east, west and nor...
27: ...he state while the "Republic of Ireland" is its official ''description''.
28: * [[Northern Ireland]] is also referred to unofficially as the 'Six Counties', the 'North of Irelan...
30: ...]] the island had existed for centuries as one unified political entity, most recently as the [[Kingdo...
32: ... organisation, tries to help people on both sides find peace and reconcilliation through community dev... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
4: ... created by [[fishermen]] who returned to port to find the area surrounding the [[harbor|harbour]] dev...
14: ... earthquakes; as well as collapses of volcanic edifices, may also disturb the overlying water column a...
21: ...lves of water. The leading edge of a tsunami superficially resembles a breaking wave but behaves diffe...
32: ... in the open ocean but the wave would still be difficult to outrun.
36: ...mi that hit Hawaii on [[April 1]], [[1946]] had a fifteen-minute interval between wave fronts. The nat... - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ... won the series four games to none, earning their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the ...
5: ...l All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] is given the home field advantage in the World Series.
7: ...dings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not ...
9: ...to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club team outside [[Ma...
13: ...nificant minority are from [[Puerto Rico]], which fields its own teams in international sports competi... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ...rooklyn residents, shortened to ''Dodgers'' and officially adopted in 1932. During the Wilbert Robinso...
8: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[Ebbets Field]] ([[1913]]-[[1957]]), [[Los Angeles Memorial ...
14: ...1900]], [[1916]], [[1920]], [[1941]], [[1947]], [[1949]], [[1952]], [[1953]], [[1955]], [[1956]], [[1959...
23: ... history were clouded in uncertainty. After their first year they joined the [[American Association]],...
25: ...d heavily to finance the construction of [[Ebbets Field]], which would become the Dodgers' home in [[1... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
18: ...Shibe had a ?white elephant on his hands," Mack defiantly adopted the [[white elephant]] as the team m...
20: ...eague, persuading them to ?jump? to the A.L. in defiance of their N.L. contracts. The Athletics as we...
22: ... in 1914. The team was known for its ?$100,000 Infield,? consisting of John "Stuffy" McInnis (1b), [[...
26: ...t place every year after that until 1922, when it finished 7th.
28: ... another winner. In 1927 and 1928, the Athletics finished second to the [[New York Yankees]], then wo... - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
6: ...r]] from his previous club in [[1891]], they were first called ''Pirates''. The name stuck. Over the y...
10: :'''Official mascot:''' [[Pirate Parrot]]
17: In its early days, the club benefitted three times from mergers with defunct clubs. ...
19: ...strong team over the next few years and got their first World Series title in [[1909]], defeating the ...
21: ...ant team in baseball. The [[1927]] season was the first for the sharp-hitting combination of brothers ... - Polo (10046 bytes)
3: ...orts such as [[football (soccer)|football]] and [[field hockey]]. The main difference is that the play...
10: ...ory of [[Asia]]. No one knows where or when stick first met ball after the horse was domesticated by t...
12: ...s the richest accounts of polo in antiquity. The first recorded polo match occurred in roughly [[600 ...
14:
23: ... to historical accounts, one British government official stationed in Manipur (then a [[princely state... - Computer (32773 bytes)
1: ...ter case|tower]] of a [[personal computer]] (specifically a [[Power Mac G5]]).]]
3: ...f a problem or part of a system. If a computer configured in this way is given appropriate input data,...
12: In most computers today, the problem is first translated into mathematical terms by renderin...
14: ...'digital'' computers possible, was formally identified and explored by [[Claude E. Shannon]].
16: ...all mathematical problems. [[Alan Turing]] identified which problems could and could not be solved by... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
166: [[Code and fix]] --
225: [[Deterministic finite state machine]] --
237: [[Distance field]] --
240: [[Dvorak Simplified Keyboard]] --
262: [[Final Cut Pro]] -- - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ... complex. At some point, humans had begun using [[fire]] for [[heat]] and for [[cooking]]. Humans als...
12: ...agriculture until relatively modern times. Recent findings of considerable quantities of grains in the...
14: ...as led to what has been called [[civilization]]; first in the [[Sumeria|Sumerian]] civilization of lo...
16: ... BC|2500 BCE]], but the first dynasty to be identified by archaeology is that of the [[Shang Dynasty|S...
39: ...ry of turmoil, the [[Northern Song Dynasty]] reunified China in [[982]]. However, pressure from nomadi... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
49: *[[Arthur Eichengr?(1867-1949)
56: *[[Hermann Emil Fischer]], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
57: *[[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]]
58: *[[Hans Fischer]], German organic chemist, [[1930]] [[Nobel ...
64: *[[Johan Gadolin]], (1760–1852), [[Finns|Finnish]] chemist - Philo Farnsworth (6489 bytes)
5: ...ed an early interest in [[electronics]] after his first [[telephone]] conversation with an out-of-stat...
11: .... By 1928 Farnsworth had developed the system sufficiently to hold a demonstration for the press. In ...
15: ... abuse, depression and dependancies on drugs. By 1949 he had ceased working on television related proje...
19: ...never became wealthy. The [[cathode ray tube]] configuration developed from Farnsworth's work was used...
25: ...sion systems, which slowly heat a magnetically confined [[plasma]], the fusor injects high temperature... - Forbidden City (7592 bytes)
10: ...[1924]]. Having been the imperial palace for some five centuries, it houses numerous rare treasures an...
14: ...ters. The walls are thick and squat and were specifically designed to withstand attacks by [[cannon]]s...
16: ...d for ceremonial purposes. These include the magnificant [[Hall of Supreme Harmony]] (太和...
22: Since the [[1949]] revolution, Tiananmen Gate in front of the Forb...
39: ...themes/china_webquests_sofie/forbidden_webquest_sofie/forbidden.html Forbidden City Webquest] - Tiananmen Square (3768 bytes)
7: ...Tiananmen, and instead the area was filled with offices for imperial ministries. These were badly dama...
11: Enlarged in [[1949]] to the current size, its flatness is broken onl...
17: ...public of China]] by [[Mao Zedong]] in October 1, 1949 and for mass rallies during the [[Cultural Revolu...
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