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- Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the archives of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]...
13: ==Move to France==
14: ...reto]], Minas Gerais, for the city [[Paris]] in [[France]]. The first thing he did there was to buy an...
23: ... [[francs]] for flying his dirigible ''Number 6'' from the [[Parc Saint Cloud]] to the [[Eiffel Tower]...
25: ...he world. He won several more prizes and became a friend to millionaires and royalty. In [[1901]] he w... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...hancellor of Germany|chancellor]]) of [[Germany]] from [[1933]] to his death. He was leader of the [[N...
15: He led Germany from the depths of post-[[World War I]] defeat to be...
20: ...z]] in the province of [[Upper Austria]], not far from the [[German Empire|German]] border in what was...
24: ...s was impossible since the Jews had been expelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allow...
25: ... Hitler's profession his family moved frequently, from [[Braunau]] to [[Passau]], [[Lambach]], [[Leond... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
6: Inspired by [[Fridtjof Nansen]]'s crossing of [[Greenland]] in [[1...
10: ... [[Frederick Cook]]. Cook probably saved the crew from [[scurvy]], an important lesson for Amundsen's ...
12: ... to spend two winters exploring over land and ice from the place today called [[Gjoa Haven, Nunavut|Gj...
14: ...e ([[collect call|collect]]) on [[December 5]], [[1905]]. [[Nome, Alaska|Nome]] was reached in [[1906]]....
18: ...d his plans. Using [[Fridtjof Nansen]]'s ship ''[[Fram]]'' ("Forward") he set out for Antarctica inste... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
7: *[[1229]] - [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]] declares himself ...
14: *[[1871]] - President of the [[France|French]] government [[Thiers]] orders evacuation of ...
18: ...ng a failed [[United Kingdom|British]] & [[France|French]] naval attack on the [[Dardanelles]].
19: ...Belarus]]. Government of [[Ukraine]] emigrates to France. Famine kills millions of Russians.
25: ... [[Alps]] and agree to form an alliance against [[France]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. - March 19 (9902 bytes)
10: ... days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
19: ...[[aircraft carrier]] [[USS Franklin (CV-13)|USS ''Franklin'']], killing 800 of her crew and crippling ...
21: ...become overseas [[departement|d鰡rtements]] of [[France]].
26: ...s]] ''[[Getz/Gilberto]]'', including ''[[The Girl from Ipanema]]'', sung by [[Astrud Gilberto|Astrud]]...
27: *[[1972]] - [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] sign a friendship [[treaty]]. - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...Again [[Catherine de Medici]] and [[Charles IX of France]] make substantial concessions to the [[Hugue...
8: *[[1708]] - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the [[Firth of Fort...
17: *1889 - The free [[Woolwich Ferry]] officially opens in east [[L...
19: ...New York]] for a post-presidency [[safari]] in [[Africa]]. The trip is sponsored by the [[Smithsonian ...
38: ...nflict of [[2003 invasion of Iraq|Operation Iraqi Freedom]] - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
4: ...nearby [[Great Salt Lake]], the city is separated from the lake's shore by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]...
15: ...an isolated area to practice their religion, away from the persecution they had faced in the East. Upo...
22: ...[Greek Orthodox]] [[Holy Trinity Cathedral]] in [[1905]] and the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Cathedral of the M...
24: ...bating inner-city decay. The city lost population from the [[1960s]] through the [[1980s]], but recove...
31: ...jor construction projects were initiated. Local [[freeway]]s were expanded and repaired and a [[light ... - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
13: ...d to prove other ideas ([[theorem]]s) that follow from the assumptions according to exact rules of [[l...
17: ...aticians are not motivated by monetary greed; the fruits of labor are not usually patentable and in ma...
21: Mathematicians differ from [[philosopher]]s in that the primary questions ...
23: ...her been proven nor disproven to logically follow from some set of assumptions, it is called a ''[[con...
27: ... of [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. The [[Guillaume Fran篩s Antoine, Marquis de l'H?al|Marquis de l'Hop... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - Sweden (27111 bytes)
3: ...ttles with its neighbouring countries [[Denmark]] from the 12th century – 1710, and [[Norway]] i...
19: ...[[Swedish language|Swedish]]: "Thou Ancient, Thou Free") |
67: ...]] originated in a so-called "[[back-formation]]" from the plural form [[Swedes]] ([[Old English]] ''S...
69: ...sia down to southern Europe. The [[Kievan Rus']], from which Russia takes its name, traces its heritag...
73: ...untry today known as Finland was a part of Sweden from [[1362]] until [[1809]]. - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: The oldest surviving archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE,...
7: Other stone tools from the [[Middle Palaeolithic|Middle Paleolithic Er...
9: ... Pieštany. Numerous necklaces made of shells from Cypraca thermophile [[Gastropoda|gastropods]] o...
11: From an archeological standpoint, the discovery of d...
13: ... years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨ory. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
8: *[[Muhammad Abduh]], (1849-1905){{fn|R}}
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
104: *[[Raymond Aron]], (1905-1983) - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ...in the [[first century]] AD. Christianity brought from Judaism its [[scriptures]] (the [[Old Testament...
10: ... on different interpretations of various passages from the Old Testament (or [[Tanakh]]).
26: ...hurch]] is said to extend in an unbroken timeline from this period. This section will examine those f...
45: *[[Justin Martyr]], convert from Greek philosophy
67: ...hurch and Roman Emperor Constantine, we can infer from [[Athanasius]]' arguments against Arius some id... - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...still called '''lawn tennis''', to distinguish it from [[real tennis]] (also known as ''royal tennis''...
10: [[image:tennis_court.png|right|frame|The dimensions of a tennis court, in [[feet]]....
18: ...'' can encompass many different surfaces, ranging from old-fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt...
20: ... though both originally used grass courts - the [[French Open]] uses clay courts, and [[Wimbledon cham...
80: ...rn''. For a number of years the small, apparently frail 1920s player [[Bill Johnston]] was considered ... - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
17: ...venue, called "Avenue of the Dead" (a translation from its Nahuatl name ''Miccaohtli''), is still flan...
22: ...t we infer about the culture at Teotihuacan comes from the murals that adorn the site and others, like...
24: ...to have been destroyed in a methodical way, their fragments dispersed.
32: ...ations were conducted in the 19th century, and in 1905 major projects of excavation and restoration bega... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Sumatra (5388 bytes)
10: ...ic importance for Indonesia. It produces [[oil]] "from above the soil and underneath", the [[Oil palm|...
12: ...xistence. Conservation areas have not been spared from destruction, either.
17: ...in the Sumatran highlands were exporting [[gold]] from fairly early times.
19: ...c]], a maritime power that extended its influence from island to island.
21: ...century. The island was then subject to conquests from Javanese kingdoms, first Singhasari and subsequ... - Vitamin (5982 bytes)
1: ...nism cannot synthesize, and therefore must obtain from its [[diet (nutrition)|diet]]. The term vitami...
9: ... the disease [[beriberi]]. The following year, [[Frederick Hopkins]] postulated that foods contained ... - Erbium (9509 bytes)
182: ...r rare elements in the [[mineral]] [[gadolinite]] from [[Ytterby]] in [[Sweden]].
185: ... [[visible light]], [[ultraviolet]], and near [[infrared]]. Otherwise it looks much like the other rar...
195: ...n|O]]<sub>3</sub> was independently isolated in [[1905]] by [[Georges Urbain]] and [[Charles James]]. Re...
198: ...s. The principal commercial sources of erbium are from the minerals [[xenotime]] and [[euxenite]]. Met...
203: The isotopes of erbium range in [[atomic weight]] from 144.957 [[atomic mass unit|amu]] (Er-145) to 17...
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