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- Sicily (18450 bytes)
8: ...nce of Catania|Catania]]<br />[[Province of Enna|Enna]]<br />[[Province of Messina|Messina]]<br />[[Pr...
24: ...cuse]] (''Siracusa'' in Italian), [[Trapani]], [[Enna]], [[Caltanissetta]], [[Agrigento]], [[Ragusa, I...
34: Sicily has been noted for two millennia as a grain-producing territory: [[Olive|olives]...
43: ... the first time in history that Sicily has been connected by a land link to Italy.
52: ...famous, however, are [[Luigi Pirandello]], [[Giovanni Verga]], [[Salvatore Quasimodo]], [[Gesualdo Buf... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
20: *[[Giovanni di Balduccio]]
40: *[[Constantin Brancusi]] (1876 - 1957)
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
68: *[[Marie-Anne Collot]]
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]] - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
4: ...at are propelled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and ...
9: ...g when a clamping device, called a ''grip'', is connected to the moving cable. Conversely the car is s...
21: ...to the cable slot to stop the car. Both of these innovations were generally adopted by other cities, i...
23: ...people at the time viewed horse-drawn transit as unnecessarily cruel, and the fact that a typical hors...
31: ...cond last city to operate them, closing down in [[1957]]. - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
62: ...y for profitable land speculation, city leaders banned all cemeteries within the city. Burials moved t...
64: ...ety across the Bay saved thousands. With the centennial of the disaster approaching, a city supervisor...
77: ...dition]] and [[Japantown]] neighborhoods. His planning led to the creation of [[Embarcadero Center]],...
93: ...ing backlash resulted in a progressive majority winning control of the Board of Supervisors in the [[2...
101: San Francisco's history of innovative ordinances was seen again with the [[2004]... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Fitzgerald Kennedy
14: ...cqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy]]
20: ...alked behind the casket at [[Funeral of John F. Kennedy|his funeral]].
22: ...s the youngest ever to ''serve'' as president), Kennedy was also the youngest ever to die. [[As of 200...
27: ...e School]], a boarding school in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]]. Before enrolling in college, he attende... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
22: ...]] on [[January 9]], 1913, to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhous. He was raised as an [[Evangelicalism|...
34: ...erans, including Nixon's future rival [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]]. The campaign he ran ag...
46: One notable event of the campaign was Nixon's innovative use of [[television]].
49: ...]] [[1956]]; and his [[stroke]] in [[November]] [[1957]]. He also proved to be able to quickly think on...
54: ...b|Vice President Nixon, right, and Senator John Kennedy during their TV debate prior to the 1960 presi... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[John F. Kennedy]]
30: ...then served as a battalion commander, at [[Fort Benning]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], until [[1...
45: ...1945]]. In these positions he was charged with planning and carrying out the Allied [[Battle of Norman...
107: * [[L駩on d'honneur|French Legion of Honor]]
161: ...iginally developed by [[George F. Kennan|George Kennan]]. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
32: ...o shoot, to row and to play [[polo]] and [[lawn tennis]]. Frequent trips to Europe made him fluent in ...
36: ...had six in rapid succession: [[Anna E. Roosevelt|Anna]] ([[1906]]–[[1975]]), [[James Roosevelt|J...
46: ...ation such as the Secretary of State, [[William Jennings Bryan]]), and founded the Navy Reserve to pro...
64: ...for public office again. (The [[Encyclop椩a Britannica]], for example, says that "by careful exercise...
70: ...ept on as Parks Commissioner and head of urban planning. When the [[Wall Street Crash]] in October ush... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...atar-Bahrain Friendship Bridge]], currently in planning, will link Bahrain to Qatar as the longest fix...
65: ...ed to the Sumerian Civilization in the third millennium BC. Bahrain also became part of the Babylon em...
69: ...ian Gulf]] through this agreement. In November of 1957, the [[Iranian parliament]] unilaterally decreed ...
83: ...cluding [[Shi'a Islam|Shi'a]] and [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] Islamic law.
120: ...ised of [[Shi'a Islam|Shi'a]] and [[Sunni Islam|Sunni Muslims]], but there are also small indigenous [... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...his own airplane, a [[Curtiss JN4|Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"]], and became a [[stunt pilot]]. In 1924, he st...
15: ...ing range by decreasing fuel consumption. These innovations are the basis of modern intercontinental ...
22: ...gustus, Jr.(born 1930), Jon (1932), Land (1937), Anne (1940), Scott (1942) and Reeve (1945).
26: ...] in December 1935. Hauptman, who maintained his innocence until the end, was found guilty and was exe...
29: ...ns because he claimed that to do so would be "an unnecessary insult" to the Nazi leadership. Lindbergh... - Richard E. Byrd (4114 bytes)
1: ...([[October 25]], [[1888]] – [[March 11]], [[1957]]) was an pioneering [[United States|American]] p...
9: On [[May 9]], [[1926]], Byrd and [[Floyd Bennett]] attempted a flight over the North Pole. They...
12: ...d photographer Ashley McKinley flew the ''Floyd Bennet'' to the South Pole and back in 18 hours, 41 mi...
18: By the time Richard Byrd died on [[March 12]] [[1957]], he had amassed twenty-two citations and specia...
22: ....south-pole.com/p0000107.htm Richard E. Byrd 1888-1957]. - March 17 (9666 bytes)
17: ...fe Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in [[1912]]).
23: ...University of California, Berkeley]] researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name ...
77: *[[1954]] - [[Lesley-Anne Down]], actress
80: *[[1956]] - [[Patrick McDonnell]], cartoonist
81: *[[1957]] - [[Michael Kelly (editor)|Michael Kelly]], Ame... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
11: ...,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
18: *[[1914]] – In [[New Haven, Connecticut]], the first international [[figure skatin...
28: *[[1969]] – In [[Gibraltar]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] get married.
29: ...r Royal Highness [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]] and her husband [[Captain Mark Phillips]] in [...
55: ...1890]] - [[Beniamino Gigli]], Italian tenor (d. [[1957]]) - March 22 (9294 bytes)
9: *[[1638]] - [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Ba...
34: ...- [[Pat Summitt]], coach of the [[University of Tennessee]] Lady Vols (women's [[college basketball]])...
55: *1924 - [[Bill Wendell]], American broadcast announcer (d. [[1999]])
80: *[[1949]] - [[Fanny Ardant]], French actress
84: *[[1957]] - [[Stephanie Mills]], American actress, singer - March 23 (10340 bytes)
24: ...he then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the [[All India Muslim L...
27: ...[London]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Grethe & J? Ingmann]] win the eighth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for ...
31: ...]] - [[Stanley Pons]] and [[Martin Fleischmann]] announce [[cold fusion]] at the [[University of Utah]...
63: *[[1929]] - Sir [[Roger Bannister]], runner
71: *[[1951]] - [[Corinne Clery]], French actress - Little Rock, Arkansas (9366 bytes)
34: ...ns]]. And just northwest of the city limits is Pinnacle Mountain and Lake Maumelle, which provides Li...
60: *1957 - The "[[Little Rock Nine]]" are finally enrolled...
62: ...igh School]] was racially integrated in September 1957.
78: *[[Pinnacle Mountain State Park]] - a nearby state park
79: ...ont Park - a park located in downtown, hosts the annual Riverfest music festival, and home to La Petit... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
87: ...[New England]]. Properties include the John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building and the Thomas P. O'Ne...
101: ...bered year. The [[Boston Film Festival]] is held annually in early September. The weekend following [[...
105: ===Major annual events===
143: ...www.cas.suffolk.edu/richman/Boston/bosbib.htm An annotated bibliography of fiction set in Boston] (ext...
144: ...[[The Last Hurrah]]'', by [[Edwin O'Connor]]; O'Connor's 1956 account of big-city politics, inspired b... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
53: *[[Paul Bachmann]] (Germany, [[1837]] - [[1920]])
74: *[[Johann Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1667]] - [[1748]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
27: *[[Hannes Alfv鮝] ([[Sweden]], [[1908]] – [[1995]]...
64: *[[Benjamin Banneker]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1731]] – [[...
66: *[[Johann Bayer]] ([[Germany]], [[1572]] – [[1625]])
73: *[[Ludwig Biermann]] ([[Germany]], [[1907]] – [[1986]])
78: *[[Johann Elert Bode]] ([[Germany]], [[1747]] – [[182... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}}
78: *[[Anniceris]], (fl. 300 BC){{fn|C}}
94: *[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
105: *[[Kenneth Arrow]], (born 1921){{fn|O}}
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