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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
19: * 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
38: * [[Bronze]] by the [[Maikop culture|Maikops]]
62: * [[5th century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
128: * [[1701]]: [[Seed drill]]: [[Jethro Tull (agriculturist)|Jethro Tull]]
131: ... [[1710]]: [[Thermometer]]: [[Ren頁ntoine Ferchault de R页mur]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
66: *[[Karen Ann Quinlan|Quinlan, Karen Ann]], (1954-1985) - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
10: *[[Raoul Ubac|Ubac, Raoul]], (1910-1985), painter
32: *[[Walter Ulbricht|Ulbricht, Walter]], (1893-1973), Leader of DDR - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
39: *[[Kerri Yascheshyn|Yascheshyn, Kerri]], ([[1985]] - [[2003]]), [[cancer]] patient
71: *[[Boris Yeltsin|Yeltsin, Boris]] (b. 1931) [[President of Russia]] - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
4: ...ible. The trip may have been underwritten by a wealthy patron. Pytheas estimated the circumference of ...
8: ...e|Carthaginians]] had closed the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] to all ships from other nations. Some histori...
12: ...ed by historians. Pytheas says Thule was an agricultural country that produced [[honey]]. Its inhabita...
20: ...rth Sea]] coast. He may also have visited the [[Baltic Sea]], but he did visit an island which was a s...
25: ... sail around). As is common with ancient texts, multiple titles may represent a single source, for exa... - Comet (30542 bytes)
15: ...the light that falls on it; by comparison, [[asphalt]] reflects 7% of the light that falls on it. It i...
17: ... electrons leading to emission of X-rays and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits].
21: ...comets are thought to originate in the [[Kuiper belt]], whereas the source of long-period comets is th...
23: ...fluenced by the gravity of giant planets as a result of a close encounter. Jupiter is the source of th...
31: ...chi Araki and George Alcock. In the past, when multiple comets were discovered by the same individual... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
31: ...er an agreement signed on [[June 14]], [[1962]]. Although it was officially an inter-governmental spac...
88: ...tection of [[Van Allen radiation belt|Van Allen belts]]
172: ||[[September 11]] [[1985]] - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...he [[United States]], people who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (approximately 80 kilometers) ar...
13: ..., who used it first in [[newsgroup]]s. Almost simultaneously, Chen Lan coined it for use in the Wester...
24: ...onaut wings to its pilots who exceed 50 miles in altitude.
28: ...1983]] by [[Canadian space program|Canada]], in [[1985]] by [[Japan]] and [[Italy]] in [[1988]]. Several... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]])
51: *[[Albrecht Altdorfer]] ([[1480]]-[[1538]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
69: *[[George Ault]] ([[1891]]-[[1948]])
74: *[[Milton Avery]] ([[1885]]-[[1965]]) - Albania (24647 bytes)
22: | [[Tirana]]<br><small>(Tiran멦lt;/small><br>353,400<small> ([[2003]])</small><br>{...
66: ...s in the Scottish "Albainn", for "highlands". Alternatively, "Albania" may derive from the ancient...
68: ...lar place. An indication of movement from higher altitudes in a much earlier period has been detected ...
72: ...efer to the Albanoi as having taken part in a revolt against [[Constantinople]] in [[1043]] and to the...
89: ... culture was influenced by the Greek-Macedonian culture (mainly the south Illyrian tribes). Greek infl... - Macau (16856 bytes)
47: ...yutping: maa1 gok3), a still-existing landmark built in [[1448]] dedicated to the goddess [[Matsu]].
57: ...nning in [[1670]], Portugal leased the territory although there was no transfer of sovereignty. Macau ...
67: ...ent riot police and declared martial law. As result of the protests 11 people died and 200 were injur...
71: ...his status was made anomalous by the agreement in 1985 to return Hong Kong to PRC rule, and in 1987, an ...
91: Although the phrase "Northern District", broadly spea... - American football (39287 bytes)
40: ...the [[United States Football League]] (USFL, 1983-1985), the [[XFL|XFL]] (XFL, 2001), the [[All-America ...
52: ... zone. In the NFL, a blocked extra point kick results in the play being whistled dead immediately.
53: ...end zone, a blocking or intentional grounding penalty is assessed against the offense in its own end z...
61: ... be used, so the ball is usually punted. As a result, the ball usually travels a shorter distance than...
64: ...ield. The referee then has 90 seconds to review multiple videotaped angles of the play, and then he ei... - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
3: ...r's [[mass]] in a [[gravitational slingshot]] to alter its [[trajectory]] toward Saturn. It passed clo...
7: ...s obtained from [[celestial mechanics]] and [[occultation phenomena]].
11: ... Instrument power sharing began in [[February]] [[1985]] due to declining generator power output. Scienc...
21: ...igin to the effect, none has been found. As a result, the nature of this [[anomaly]] has become of gro... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
5: [[Image:Vietcong.jpg|thumb|right|[[NLF]] casualties during the [[Vietnam War]]. After the balance ...
9: ...ation of nuclear weapons (''see'' [[SALT I]], [[SALT II]], [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]]). U.S.-So...
12: ...m certain that a global nuclear war would not result from smaller regional wars, which heightened the ...
17: ...ce in many technological and military fields, resulting in many scientific discoveries. Particularly r...
42: ...d a larger number of designs in each field and built a larger number of many types of weapons. - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
2: ...Changing demographics and the growth of the Sun Belt==
4: ...e decline in their numbers. The rise of the Sun Belt continued a trend in the growth of suburbs since ...
6: ...arply with the concerns of the so-called [[Rust Belt]], a region saddled with a declining economic bas...
17: ===The assault on U.S./Soviet ''D鴥nte''===
22: ...namese]] forces from taking [[Saigon]], which resulted in the unification of an independent Vietnam un... - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
9: ...ndensation]] from water vapor condensing at high altitudes. Because of this, a tropical cyclone can be...
13: ... storm, resulting in a sustaining cycle. As a result, when a tropical cyclone passes over land, its st...
22: ...ye of [[Typhoon Odessa]], Pacific Ocean, August [[1985]]]]
68: ...ergence Zone, and wind shear makes it very difficult for the Southern Atlantic to support tropical act...
108: ...ound the center of the storm. Thus, at any given altitude (except close to the surface where water tem... - Bill Buckner (4174 bytes)
7: ...eague in most at bats per strike out (1980, 1982, 1985, 1986), and four times placed second in the categ...
16: Although many factors can be cited as to why the Red ... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...o are very similar in size and bulk composition. Although all planets' [[planetary orbit|orbits]] are ...
9: ...a|Chinese]], [[Korea|Korean]], and [[Japan]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Metal Star'', ba...
14: ...his enormously CO<sub>2</sub>-rich atmosphere results in a strong [[greenhouse effect]] that raises th...
23: ...l conjunction|conjunction]]). This may be the result of [[tidal locking]], with [[tidal force]]s affec...
27: ... making up the majority of the planet. Recent results from the [[Magellan probe|Magellan]] gravity dat... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
88: !align="left"| [[Axial tilt]]
120: ...al Lowell]]'s initials ([[Unicode]]: ♇ ), although some prefer a different symbol resembling th...
134: ... far discovered in the trans-Neptunian [[Kuiper belt]]. See [[List of solar system objects by mass]] a...
140: ...gravity start to pull on each other slightly, resulting in an interaction between their positions in o...
142: ...t Pluto may in fact be a member of the [[Kuiper belt]], only one of a large number of distant icy bodi... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
7: ... Hanover|Hanoverian]] army at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the thron...
31: ...ding a ten-year [[moratorium]] on the [[death penalty]] in the [[United States]].
33: * [[1985]] - [[British Telecom]] announces the retirement ...
87: *1942 - [[Cus D'Amato]], boxing manager (d. [[1985]])
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