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- Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
19: ...1874]] – [[October 20]], [[1964]]) is best known as being the 31st ([[1929]]-[[1933]]) [[Preside...
26: ...ield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'', the story of another orphan cast into the world to live by his wit...
34: ...hday. He left Stanford with $40 in his pocket and no prospects for employment. But from this college i...
43: ...e woman angrily insisted on a written pledge that no German submarine would attack her vessel in mid-o...
46: ...hand in organizing and administering what became known as the Commission for the Relief of Belgium (CR... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14: | wife=[[Eleanor Roosevelt]]
18: ...s called him Frank. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR (disambiguation)|FDR]]."
20: ...rs dispute this claim arguing that Roosevelt's economic policies actually slowed recovery. In the buil...
30: ...achusetts]] in [[1621]]. Her mother was a Lyman, another very old American family. Franklin was her on... - Calvin Coolidge (18374 bytes)
13: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Northampton, Massachusetts]]</td></tr>
25: ...and with his usual seriousness, Calvin answered, "No, but I find it mighty handy."[http://www.drafthor...
27: ...ston Police Department]] strike, saying "there is no right to strike against the public safety by anyb...
30: ... won handily against [[Governor of Ohio|Ohio Governor]] [[James M. Cox]] and [[Assistant Secretary of ...
33: ...n he got word of Harding's death. His father, a [[notary public]], administered the oath of office in ... - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[November 2]], [[1865]]
18: ... as [[Lieutenant Governor of Ohio|Lieutenant Governor]] ([[1903]]–[[1905]]).
20: ...d hands-off [[laissez-faire]] policies both on economic and social policy. Plagued by scandals in his ...
23: ... near [[Blooming Grove, Ohio|Corsica]], [[Ohio]] (now [[Blooming Grove, Ohio|Blooming Grove]]) in [[Mo...
29: ...ing. He opposed the marriage vigorously and would not speak to his daughter or son-in-law for eight ye... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...]] [[aviator]] famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1...
6: ... JN-4 "Jenny"]], and became a [[stunt pilot]]. In 1924, he started training as a U.S. military aviator w...
11: ... the crew of the [[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] later t...
13: ... 21]], [[1929]] he was presented the [[Medal of Honor]] for his historic trans-Atlantic flight.
15: ...ng range by decreasing fuel consumption. These innovations are the basis of modern intercontinental a... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...Socialist German Workers Party]] (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
13: ...luding 6 million [[Jew]]s, in a [[genocide]] now known as [[the Holocaust]].
20: ...of [[Linz]] in the province of [[Upper Austria]], not far from the [[German Empire|German]] border in ...
22: ...er, Adolf was accused by his political enemies of not rightfully being a Hitler, but a Schicklgruber. ...
24: ...pelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allowed to return until well after Maria Schickl... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
14: ...rgh]] is presented the [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]...
21: ...Italy]] singing "Non ho l'etą¦±uot; (I'm not old enough).
27: ... the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] announces a [[United States]] [[boycott]] of the [[198...
48: *[[1901]] - [[Karl Arnold]], politician, (d. [[1958]])
51: ...r)|Jim Thompson]], the "Silk King" (death date unknown) - March 22 (9294 bytes)
6: ...n a peace treaty with [[Massasoit]] of the [[Wampanoag]]s.
12: ..., [[William Woods Holden]] becomes the first governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be removed from office by...
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a bill legalizing the ...
30: ...former secretary, begins two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
54: *[[1924]] - [[Allen Neuharth]], American businessman, wri... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...ance]] make substantial concessions to the [[Huguenots]].
29: ...peacekeeping mission]] along the [[Blue Line (Lebanon)|Blue Line]].
30: ...eagan]] makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
31: ...] - [[Stanley Pons]] and [[Martin Fleischmann]] announce [[cold fusion]] at the [[University of Utah]]...
37: ...001]] - The ''World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'' (now [[World Wrestling Entertainment]]) purchases riv... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
20: population_note = 1,796,857 ([[List of metropolitan areas by po...
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37: [[Miwok]], [[Shonommey]] and [[Maidu]] Indians lived in this area fo...
42: ...oloma, California|Coloma]] (located some 50 miles northeast of the fort), a large number of gold-seeke...
44: ...gh over time it has grown to extend significantly north, south, and east of there). A number of direct... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
2: ...hoenix Uptown (northern skyline) in 2004, looking north ]]
5: ...ng to a [[2004]] US Census estimation, Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphi...
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46: ...r]] and [[Gila River]] reservations, or the [[Tohono O'odham]] Indians who live in southern Arizona. - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
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29: ...]], designed by [[Germany|German]] architect [[Bruno Schmitz]], was completed on the site in [[1901]].
31: ...ianapolis with the village of Broad Ripple to the north was ever operational. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
34: *[[Apollonius of Perga]] (Asia Minor, [[265 BC|265 B.C.]] - [[170 BC|170 B.C.]])
41: *[[Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd]] ([[1937]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
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16: *[[Agrippa]] ([[Greece|Greek]], ''unknown'' – [[92]])
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1695]])
69: *[[Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky]] ([[Russia]], [[1883]] – [[1... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
4: ... wane as Russia's regions gained political and economic concessions from [[Moscow]]. Although the stru...
8: ...viet constitution, which was promulgated in 1924. Nominally, the borders of each subunit were drawn to...
10: ...-ignored public problems such as pollution. ''Glasnost'' also brought constitutional reforms that led ...
12: ...or State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti—[[KGB]]). In 1991 Russia created a new e...
14: ...oris Pugo]], [[Gennady Yanayev]], and [[Oleg Baklanov]] (from left) go public with the formation of a ... - Dollhouse (4191 bytes)
9: ...n crafting miniatures of everyday objects; it is known to have existed since [[History of Egypt|Ancien...
20: If there are no dollhouse shops in your area, then one alternativ...
23: ...een Mary's Dolls' House]] which was designed in [[1924]] by [[Sir Edwin Lutyens]] for Queen Mary [http:/...
25: ...useum of Science and Industry]] in [[Chicago, Illinois]] since the early [[1950s]].
29: A lesser-known masterpiece is Tara's Palace, housed in [[Malah... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
13: ...ial rule]] to world attention. His philosophy of non-violence, for which he coined the term ''[[satya...
15: ...ism|Hindu]] beliefs: [[truth]] (''satya''), and [[non-violence]] (''[[ahimsa]]''). His auto-biography,...
18: ...t, Gandhi learned from an early age the tenets of non-injury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting ...
20: ...n [[1887]], and joining Samaldas College. He did not stay there long, however, as his family felt he ...
22: ...! Before changing the following paragraph, please note that "practise" is the correct spelling of the ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: '''[[Philosopher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philoso...
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5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
7: *[[Nicola Abbagnano]], (1901-1990)
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...'', to distinguish it from [[real tennis]] (also known as ''royal tennis'' or ''court tennis''), an ol...
3: Tennis is now an [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] sport that is playe...
50: ...players, and hand players their towels. They have no [[adjudicative]] role. The referee, who is usuall...
54: ...ted. In most cases, service is required to occur no more than 20 seconds after the end of the previou...
60: Another tennis format is called "Canadian doubles". T... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
18: ...es|House of Representatives]], as well as in governorships. In the modern political era, the GOP is th...
20: ...ublican", but the reference was to the party now known as the [[Democratic-Republican Party (United St...
22: ...om the Whigs, the [[Free Soil Party]], and [[Know-Nothing movement|American Party]]. Since its incept...
27: * Building an Innovative Economy to Compete in the World
31: ...ublican in Name Only "[[Republican In Name Only|RINOs]]".
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