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- Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
16: ... accuracy obtainable. He was able to improve and enlarge the existing instruments, and construct entir...
27: ...a nobleman and a commoner woman lived together openly as husband and wife, and she wore the keys to th...
28: ...name, coat of arms, or landed property. (Skautrup 1941, pp. 24-5)
53: ...philosophy and Scripture, and could be discussed only as a computational convenience that had no conne...
60: ...ications on the principle that the [[planets|heavenly bodies]] undoubtedly influenced (yet did not det... - World Series (40101 bytes)
7: ... leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their div...
9: ...rld" appellation has stuck despite the fact that only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] pa...
63: * 1896 [[Baltimore Orioles (NL)|Baltimore Orioles]]
77: ...ston AL]] defeats [[Pittsburgh Pirates|Pittsburgh NL]], 5 games to 3.
81: ... AL's [[Boston Red Sox|Boston Americans]] and the NL's [[San Francisco Giants|New York Giants]]. The G... - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
5: ...kings]] of [[1869]]-[[1970]], baseball's first openly professional team. When the N.A. formed, Red Sto...
6: ...to use it. The team switched back to "Braves" in 1941.
20: ...e season, winning 34 of their last 44 games. Not only did they finish first, but they ended up 10.5 ga...
37: ..., threw three complete game victories, giving up only two earned runs.
40: ...pt by the "Miracle [[New York Mets|Mets]]" in the NLCS. They would not win it again until [[1982]], u... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
18: ...professional team, led to a minor explosion of openly professional teams in [[1870]], each with the si...
55: ...drum after their early 1900s Glory Years, broken only by their pennant in the [[World War I|war]]-shor...
62: ...home ballpark, [[Wrigley Field]], played host to only day games until [[1988]] because the stadium own...
65: ...a Braves in the [[National League Division Series|NLDS]].
68: ...me 7 of the [[National League Championship Series|NLCS]] against the [[Florida Marlins]]. While at one... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ... the ''Superbas'' (under manager Ned Hanlon -- "Hanlon's Superbas" was the name of an acrobatic troup ...
14: ...1890]], [[1899]], [[1900]], [[1916]], [[1920]], [[1941]], [[1947]], [[1949]], [[1952]], [[1953]], [[1955...
23: ...en known won two successive pennats under [[Ned Hanlon]] in 1899 and 1900.
25: In 1902 Hanlon expressed his desire to buy a controlling inter...
31: ...uced to Major League Baseball by the Dodgers in [[1941]] - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
21: ...f Hall of Fame-caliber position players through [[1941]].
23: ...rstar in [[Ralph Kiner]]. The Pirates would have only one winning season until [[1958]], when [[Danny ...
33: ...season's final week, despite having a payroll of only 9 million dollars. Their overall lack of success...
57: *[[Ned Hanlon]] - Computer (32773 bytes)
20: ...standing the important idea that the computer is only a machine, and cannot "think" or "understand" th...
29: ...d afford them and were considered so exotic that only a handful would ever be required to satisfy glob...
51: ... such as [[differential analyzer]]s, are not commonly included in such lists. Other classification sch...
56: ...mplementation technologies is not exhaustive; it only covers the mainstream of development. Historical...
73: ... Originally [[computer storage|memory]] was used only for intermediate values but in the [[1940s]] it ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
171: *[[K. Barry Sharpless]]. (1941- ) [[2001]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
174: *[[Wendell Meredith Stanley]], (1904-1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [... - Tyrannosaurus rex (20653 bytes)
15: ...y 30 specimens had been found{{fn|1}}, including only three complete skulls. The first specimens found...
22: ...n worn or broken at the tips from heavy use but, unlike [[mammals]], were continually grown and shed t...
35: ...hair density of an elephant as it grows, or were only feathered on parts of their bodies. In general, ...
60: ...ey first. An animal the size of ''T. rex'' could unlikely hunt in this manner, although ''T. rex'' is ...
62: ...lls]] from smaller predators. While this is certainly a possibility, because (obviously) few animals w... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
2: ...[February 22]], [[1857]] – [[January 8]], [[1941]]) was a soldier, writer and founder of the world...
49: ...[1929]]; the son later succeeding his father in [[1941]]):
55: ...yeri]], near [[Mount Kenya]], on [[January 8]], [[1941]].
67: ... urge for "self-abuse." He subscribed to the commonly held turn-of-the-century opinion that the practi...
87: [[Category:1941 deaths|Baden-Powell, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Bar... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...ffordable [[automobile]]s. This achievement not only revolutionized industrial production in the Unit...
46: ...e first contract with the UAW was signed in June, 1941. - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
23: Messages often were encoded so that only those active in the Railroad would fully underst...
33: ...within the constellation [[Ursa Major]] that commonly was called then, as it is today, the "Big Dipper...
73: ... Of the 20,000 who emigrated to [[Upper Canada]] only 20% returned to the United States.<sup>2</sup>
75: ... United States, a large number of black refugees enlisted in the Union Army and, while some later retu...
137: ...ents.html Stories of the Underground Railroad]'', 1941, by Anna L. Curtis (stories about Thomas Garrett,... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
39: *[[Gutzon Borglum]] (1867 - 1941)
123: *[[Paul Granlund]] (1925 - 2003)
267: *[[Ivan Shadr]] (1887-1941) - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
10: ...bsorbed matter is excreted in the [[feces]]. But only a minimal amount of digestive juice is eliminate...
14: ...ate and the post-digestion state. The effect may only be discernible after an extended period of time ...
24: ===Antiquity through Enlightenment===
33: ===Modern era through 1941===
35: ... [[François Magendie]] discovers that dogs fed only [[carbohydrates]] and [[fat]] lost their body [[... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
31: ... of [[Chicago Cubs]] [[baseball]] games, getting only the bare outlines of the game from a ticker and ...
40: ...rn four months prematurely in [[1947]] and lived only one day. They divorced in [[1948]]. Reagan remar...
79: ... greedy and unconcerned with public safety. Not only did this set limits for public employee unions, ...
85: ...riggs Initiative, In [[1984]] he had the first openly gay couple spend the night in the White House an...
110: ...the administration supported both nations, but mainly sided with [[Iraq]], believing that Iraqi Presid... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
18: ...ted States]] (1974–1977), and is, to date, the only person to occupy that office who had been electe...
27: ...ld War II]]. Ford graduated from law school in [[1941]], having coached football and [[boxing]] part ti...
36: ... as the "[[Lone Nut Theory]]". Today Ford is the only surviving member of the Commission, and continue...
40: ...d once that "He is one of the few people who not only admires Nixon, but actually likes him!"). Ford t...
63: ...ated, amidst chaotic scenes. [http://www.learnersonline.com/weekly/archive2K/week16/] - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
22: ...est ever to die. [[As of 2005]], he was also the only [[Catholic]] ever to be elected president, the l...
28: ...ribed steroids to control his [[colitis]], which only heightened his medical problems causing him to d...
33: ...ted States Army|U.S. Army]], but was rejected, mainly because of his troublesome back. However, the [[...
68: ...e winner, although historians consider the two evenly matched as orators. Interestingly, many who list...
70: ...ced after the rest of the vote in Illinois. The only change after the official recount was a win for ... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
24: ...g school, Johnson somehow managed to graduate in only 312 days.
31: ...d), a young woman who was also from Texas. After only a short period of dating, the two were married o...
33: ...stituents. He served as the head for two years, only resigning to run for Congress. Johnson was a not...
41: ...tary|military]] should war break out; in December 1941, the U.S. entered [[World War II]].
57: ...enson]]. Johnson campaigned very hard and won by only 87 votes out of a million cast. (His campaign ma... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
22: ...b Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover, and their only child born in Texas. He was named David Dwight,...
26: ...e died. Eisenhower's father was an active member only early in Dwight's life.
36: ... was promoted to Brigadier-General in September [[1941]]. Although his administrative abilities had been...
43: ...lied invasion of Italy|invasion of the Italian mainland]].
69: * Colonel, Regular Army: March 11, 1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
18: ...the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was...
30: ...other very old American family. Franklin was her only child, and she was an extremely possessive mothe...
36: ...t firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn, dealing mainly with corporate law. Meanwhile he had become enga...
46: ...vy]], [[Josephus Daniels]], had been appointed mainly for political reasons and was widely considered ...
50: ...This made him a favorite of Wilson, and it was mainly due to Wilson's influence that the [[1920]] [[De...
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