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- Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
59: ...s]] due to his bold views. After the German breakthrough at [[Sedan, France|Sedan]] on May 10, 1940, h...
69: ...]" could be heard nationwide in the evening. The phrase "France has lost a battle; she has not lost th...
98: ...A republican by conviction, de Gaulle maintained throughout the crisis that he would accept power only...
114: ...d of which (April [[1961]]) France herself faced threatened invasion by rebel paratroops. He was also ...
121: ...n of [[Marseilles]] harbor (soon becoming number three in Europe and number one in the [[Mediterranean... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
9: ...], [[Asia]], and [[Australia]]. New races in [[Bahrain]] and [[China]], one planned for [[2005]] in [...
22: ... the title in [[1951]] and four more in [[1954]] through [[1957]], his streak interrupted by two-time ...
28: ...s proved to be the next major technological breakthrough since the introduction of rear-engined cars. ...
45: ...; this increased financial burden, combined with three teams' dominance, caused the poorer independent...
65: ...practice they usually last about ninety minutes. Throughout the race, drivers make one or more [[pit s... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...19, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded th...
5: ...are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three in the other team's ballpark, and the final two...
11: ...aim, demonstrating a linear progression from the phrase "World's Championship Series" (used to describ...
83: ...r games only. This was to discourage teams from throwing early games in order to prolong the series a...
85: ...st two games, the other team would host the next three, and the first team would host the last two if ... - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
8: ...home parks:''' [[Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)]] [[1954]]-[[1991]], [[Sportsman's Park]] (St. Louis)
24: ... [[John McGraw (baseball)|John McGraw]], and won three straight pennants. That team had started as a c...
34: ...r [[Earl Weaver]] as "pitching, defense, and the three run home run."
40: ...[Washington Nationals]] (who begin play in 2005) threaten to carve into the Orioles fan base and telev...
75: *-- [[Image:Us_flag_large.png|20px]] [[Chris Ray]] - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
25: ...ut to Shoeless Joe, "Say it ain't so, Joe!". The phrase has become famous.
30: ...of play, which reflected a tendency to win games through scrappy play rather than consistently strong ...
35: ...y Manuel]], the White Sox fielded a talented but chronically under-achieving squad.
41: ...ion that includes [[Freddy Garcia]] and [[Mark Buehrle]]. Additionally, former member of the Minnesota...
64: *[[George Kell]] 1954-56 - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
6: ...kings in the [[19th century]]; the Redlegs, from 1954 to 1960, when the term "Red" carried connotations...
23: ... team's star players. The Red Stockings wandered through the remainder of the [[1890s]] signing local ...
35: ...came the only pitcher in major league history to throw back-to-back no-hitters in [[1938]]. Thanks to ...
39: ... [[Ted Kluszewski]] was the NL home run leader in 1954. The rest of the offense was a collection of over...
41: ...s the year New York Yankee [[Roger Maris]] hit 61 HR and they took the Reds in 5 games in the World Se... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
6: ...y known as:''' Philadelphia Athletics ([[1901]]-[[1954]]), Kansas City Athletics ([[1955]]-[[1967]])
8: ... 1909-49, 1951-53, 1961: Blue and White; 1905-08, 1954-60, 1962: Blue, Red and White; 1950: Blue, Gold a...
17: ===The Philadelphia Years (1901-1954)===
24: ...id down", perhaps in protest of Mack's notorious thriftiness. Mack himself alluded to that rumor years...
28: ...e World Series in 1929 and 1930. In each of the three years, the A's won over 100 games. There are t... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
41: *[[Otto Diels]], (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of the [[1950]] [[Nobel...
47: *[[Paul Ehrlich]], (1854-1915), German chemist, winner of the...
85: * Sir [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] (1893-1970), English chemis... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
7: ...ted in the material universe - all of these show through in his work and philosophy. To this day Eins...
37: ...discuss the theories. Most physicists agree that three of those papers (on [[Brownian motion]], the [[...
39: ...nnus Mirabilis Papers]]''" (from [[List of Latin phrases|''Annus mirabilis'']], [[Latin]] for 'year of...
54: ...experimentalists a way to count atoms by looking through an ordinary microscope. [[Wilhelm Ostwald]], ...
59: ... which had shown that light waves did not travel through a [[luminiferous aether|medium]] unlike other... - George Eastman (2821 bytes)
9: ...s [[camera]] which used roll film. He coined the phrase "You Press The Button and We Do The Rest."
13: ...], a narrowing of the spinal canal caused by [[arthritis]] in the joints of the back. He grew depress...
15: ...n 1947. On the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1954, Eastman was honored with a postage stamp from th... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
156: *[[Einar Jonsson]] (1874 - 1954)
162: *[[Anish Kapoor]], (1954 - )
171: *[[Henri Laurens]] (1885 - 1954) - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
18: Three [[United States Constitution|constitutional]] a...
36: ...rted into laws that expanded racial dictatorship throughout American institutions and everyday life. T...
42: ...oard of Education]] of [[Topeka]]'' 347 US 483 ([[1954]]). It was not until the mid [[1960]]s that the c... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
20: ... vivid detail by nearly all Americans that lived through them, and also by many others. Mourned around...
24: ...his [[civil rights]] policies coming to fruition through his successor, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].
27: ...n University]], but was forced to leave during [[Christmas]] break after contracting [[jaundice]].
36: ... Kennedy somehow towed a wounded man three miles through the ocean, arriving on an island where his cr...
62: ... he faced challenges from Senator [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] of [[Minnesota]], Senator [[Lyndon B. Johnson... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
17: | vicepresident=[[Hubert H. Humphrey]]
33: ... was a notoriously tough boss with his employees throughout his career, often demanding long workdays ...
53: ...e of Representatives where he continued to serve through 1949.
57: ...Abe Fortas]] to represent him in federal court. Through legal maneuvering, Fortas was able to convinc...
61: ...ese investigations--couched in headline-grabbing phraseology but largely devoid of substance--tended t... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
43: ...e of the [[North African Theater of Operations]] through the new operational Headquarters [[AFHQ|A(E)F...
45: ...tional Allied forces<sup>[[#Notes|2]]</sup>, and through his command of ETOUSA, administrative command...
163: ...obutu assassinated Lumumba shortly after his overthrow, and some allege that the CIA ([[Sidney Gottlie...
167: ...upporting the counter-coup in [[Iran]] which overthrew the socialist, and suspected pro-Soviet Prime M...
169: ...e last attempt failed in [[1960]] when [[Nikita Khrushchev]] withdrew following the shooting down of ... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
32: ...ough to be able to spend time and money on philanthropy.
34: ...or)|Endicott Peabody]], who preached the duty of Christians to help the less fortunate and urged his s...
48: ...pproved and a rapid expansion of the Navy pushed through. He became an enthusiastic advocate of the [[...
58: ...Eleanor, and she would also fund Eleanor's philanthropic interests. When Franklin became President&mda...
70: ... address New York's growing need for electricity through the development of [[hydroelectricity]] on th... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
26: ...som negotiations with the kidnappers. More than three years later, a media circus ensued when the man...
36: ...Air Corps and making him [[Brigadier General]] in 1954. In the 1960s, he became a spokesman for the cons...
38: ...e German hat maker Brigitte Hesshaimer. They had three children together: Dyrk (born 1958), Astrid (bo...
47: The [[Agatha Christie]] book and movie ''[[Murder on the Orient Ex...
55: ...hrie]] [http://www.lindberghkidnappinghoax.com/guthrie.html on Lindbergh] - March 17 (9666 bytes)
33: ...led, 200 wounded, 35 destroyed [[Serb Orthodox]] shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis...
77: *[[1954]] - [[Lesley-Anne Down]], actress
105: *[[1853]] - [[Christian Doppler]], Austrian physician and mathemati... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
23: *[[1954]] - [[Joey Giardello]] knocks out [[Willie Tory]]...
30: *[[1981]] - Three workers are killed and five injured during a te... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
11: ...eden|Gustav IV Adolf]] to the [[Sweden|Swedish]] throne.
21: *[[1954]] - Closed since [[1939]], the [[London gold mark...
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