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- January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...was called ''New Year's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|...
9: *[[1438]] - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] is crowned King of [[Hungary]].
14: *[[1707]] - [[John V of Portugal|John V]] is crowned King of [[Portugal]]
15: ...scovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
16: ...eviously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
1: '''January 2''' is the [[2 (number)|2]]nd day of the year in the [[G...
8: ...[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surrenders.
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[County Durham]].
13: *[[1818]] - British [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] formed
14: *[[1859]] - [[Erastus Beadle]] publishes ''[[The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette]]''. - Columbus Day (5999 bytes)
1: ... Resistencia Indígena]]''' (Day of Indigenous Resistance) in [[Venezuela]], commemorate the same even...
4: Columbus Day is celebrated on the 2nd Monday in October. The fir...
6: ...st celebrated by [[Italy|Italians]] in [[San Francisco]] in 1869, following on the heels of 1866 Itali...
8: ...d on this day, as are [[government]] offices. It is not, however, recognized by most private American...
11: ... The day was first celebrated in [[Argentina]] in 1917, [[Venezuela]] in 1921, [[Chile]] in 1923, and [[... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...etermined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Se...
3: ...onship Series|National League champion]] [[St. Louis Cardinals]] and the [[2004 American League Champi...
5: ...jor League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] is given the home field advantage in the World Serie...
7: ...ecause there are more divisions and each division is smaller.
9: ...no reason to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club team ou... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
1: {{MLB White Sox franchise}}
3: ...[Chicago, Illinois]]. They are in the Central Division of the [[American League]].
5: ... sports|1893]], as the [[Sioux City, Iowa]] franchise in the minor [[Western League (U.S. baseball)|We...
6: ...huskers, 1894. St. Paul, 1895-1899. "White Sox" is short for "White Stockings".
7: ...iskey Park, was opened in 1991; the original [[Comiskey Park]] was in use from 1910 to 1990.) - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
1: {{MLB Pirates franchise}}
3: ...rgh, Pennsylvania]]. They are in the Central Division of the [[National League]].
6: ... off after the [[National Football League]] franchise called the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] came along.
12: :'''Division titles won''' (9): [[1970]], [[1971]], [[1972]...
16: ==Franchise history== - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
1: ...tes]], is a team [[sport]] played on [[ice]]. It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players o...
4: ...nd a goaltender guard their goal. The referee's raised arm indicates that he intends to call a penalty...
5: ...s to stop the puck from entering the net, and who is permitted unique gear towards that end.
8: ...nge. When players are substituted during play, it is called changing ''on the fly''.
10: ...es without interruption. When play is stopped, it is restarted with a ''[[faceoff]]''. There are two r... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ...f the dead and adornment of the living. During this period, all humans lived as [[hunter-gatherer]]s,...
12: ...grains in the Ohalo II paleolithic site in modern Israel seem to suggest that cereals had been intenti...
14: ...tainly must have been independent in origin. At this time developments such as [[writing]] and extensi...
16: ...the first dynasty to be identified by archaeology is that of the [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]]. In the Ameri...
21: ... 2004. Some digs suggest [[steel]] may have been discovered there before western civilization. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
1: This is a list of famous chemists:
6: *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877-1950), German chemist
7: *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869-1910), German chemist
8: ...ikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
9: ...ohan August Arfwedson]], (1792-1841), Swedish chemist - Tyrannosaurus rex (20653 bytes)
2: ...ssil skeleton at<br>[[National Museum of Natural History]], [[Washington, DC]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Archosauria]]}}
15: ... 90s it was considered the largest to have ever existed. New finds have dethroned it as the largest th...
17: ==Discoveries==
18: ...''T. rex'' skeleton in [[Wyoming]] in [[1900]]. This skeleton resides in [[London]]. - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
5: ...l]] died when he was three, and he was raised by his mother, [[Henrietta Grace]], a strong woman deter...
7: ...y spent on yachting or canoeing expeditions with his brothers.
13: ...corporating plans of military installations into his drawings of butterfly wings.
15: ...ilitary scouting, to help train recruits. Using this and other methods he was able to train them to th...
17: ...soldiers were ordered to simulate avoiding (non-existent) barbed wire while moving between trenches. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
1: This is a partial list of [[sculptor (artist)|sculptor]]s.
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
15: *[[Constantine Andreou]] (b. 1917)
25: *[[Antoine-Louis Barye]]
38: *[[Louise Bourgeois]] (1911 - ) - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...who spoke an [[Indo-European language]] and established a kingdom centered in [[Hattusa]] (the modern ...
3: ...500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC the Hittite polity disintegrated into several independent city-states, s...
5: ...ittite language]]. The Hittites should be distinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who...
7: ...to be the same, but this identification is still disputed.
11: ==Archaeological discovery== - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
9: | date of birth=[[May 29]], [[1917]]
14: | wife=[[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy]]
20: ...ehind the casket at [[Funeral of John F. Kennedy|his funeral]].
24: ...vil rights]] policies coming to fruition through his successor, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Dwight D. Eisenhower
3: | image name=Eisenhower official.jpg
10: | place of birth=[[Denison, Texas]]
14: | wife=[[Mamie Eisenhower]]
18: '''Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower''' ([[October 14]], [[1890]] – [[Mar... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
18: ...k. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR (disambiguation)|FDR]]."
20: ...ught to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
22: ...aised his national leadership, while dismantling his social programs.
26: ... Constitution]]—a matter of great pride to his great-great-grandson Franklin.
28: ... branches remained friendly: James Roosevelt met his wife at a Roosevelt family gathering at Oyster Ba... - Louis Bleriot (3099 bytes)
1: [[Image:Louis_Bleriot_2.jpg|thumb||220px|Louis Blériot]]
2: '''Louis Blériot''' ([[July 1]] [[1872]] – [[August...
5: ...ping its wings. Like other ornithopters before, this experiment failed, but he continued working towar...
7: ==Blériot-Voisin Company==
8: ... and Blériot began to build and fly aircraft of his own design. - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
1: ...Charles_smith.jpg|thumb|right|Kingsford Smith in his flying gear]]
2: ...]]), often called Charles Kingsford-Smith, or by his nickname ''Smithy'', was the best-known early [[A...
4: ...ying Corps]], earning his wings in [[1917]]. For his services in battle, he was awarded the [[Military...
6: ...]''" is based on Charles Kingsford Smith and his historic epic flight across the Pacific.
10: ...e again flying from England to Australia, he and his copilot departed [[Allahabad]], [[India]] for a l... - Blimp (3839 bytes)
1: ...he envelope. For a more complete description of this style of [[aircraft]], please see [[airship]].
3: ...s usually given to Lt. A.D. Conningham of the British [[Royal Navy]] in [[1915]].
5: ...ive explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early [[20th century]], ...
7: ...until the appearance of B-class airships in May [[1917]]. There was an American B airship—but the...
9: The perpetuation of this erroneous explanation is an example of [[fake etymology]]. - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ... his death. He was leader of the [[National Socialist German Workers Party]] (NSDAP), better known as ...
13: ...power, the armies of [[Nazi Germany]] and its [[Axis Powers]] dominated much of [[Europe]] during [[Wo...
15: ... [[suicide]] in a [[Berlin]] [[F?unker|bunker]]. His intended [[Third Reich|thousand-year Reich]] ende...
20: ...e is little indication that Alois Hitler treated his son more strictly than was usual for that time an...
22: ...as ironically closely related to Hiedler through his mother's family, too.
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