Search results
|
|
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #61.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
40:
42: ...], he inspired a new constitution<sup>1</sup> and was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] fro...
45: ...nders]]. Born in [[Lille]], de Gaulle grew up and was educated in [[Paris]].
47: ...ugh traditionalist and [[monarchist]], the family was legalist and respected the institutions of the F...
50: ...s. He made five unsuccessful escape attempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retaliation cam... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
18: ...f racing during the war, the drivers championship was not formalized until [[1947]], and first run in ...
22: ...deria Ferrari|Ferrari]]. Though [[Stirling Moss]] was able to compete with him regularly, Fangio is re...
26: ...e next decade. Between [[Jim Clark]], [[Jackie Stewart]], [[Jack Brabham]], [[Graham Hill]], and [[Den...
32: ... Automobile]] in [[1979]] set off the [[FISA-FOCA war]], during which FISA and its president [[Jean Ma...
35: ...vision rights, bringing an end to the [[FISA-FOCA war]] and contributing to [[Bernie Ecclestone]]'s ev... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...mined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series...
3: The [[2004 World Series]] was played from [[October 23]] until [[October 27]],...
5: ...[[2003]], the team given the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League ...
7: ...ipts from the World Series - and, from [[1969]] onward, the other rounds of postseason play preceding ...
13: ...ntations. At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] the USA was not represented, since its minor-leaguer team di... - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
5: ...'Founded:''' [[1893 in sports|1893]], as the [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] franchise in the minor Western L...
6: :'''Formerly known as:''' Milwaukee Brewers, 1894-1901. [[St. Louis Browns]], [[...
8: ...home parks:''' [[Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)]] [[1954]]-[[1991]], [[Sportsman's Park]] (St. Louis)
18: ...onsider moving his franchise. Just before [[World War II]], the Browns came close to moving to [[Los A...
20: During the war, the Browns won their only St. Louis based Ameri... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
5: ...' [[1893 in sports|1893]], as the [[Sioux City, Iowa]] franchise in the minor [[Western League (U.S. b...
7: ...as opened in 1991; the original [[Comiskey Park]] was in use from 1910 to 1990.)
9: ...sign:'' the letters "SOX", interlocked in various ways
17: ...iming major league status, the St. Paul franchise was relocated to Chicago, to compete directly with t...
19: ...e following years, led by pitching workhorse [[Ed Walsh]], who routinely pitched over 400 innings each... - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
6: ...kings in the [[19th century]]; the Redlegs, from 1954 to 1960, when the term "Red" carried connotations...
21: ...ember of the [[National League]] in [[1876]], but was expelled from the league later, in part for viol...
23: ... of the AA team's star players. The Red Stockings wandered through the remainder of the [[1890s]] sign...
25: ...nd [[Cy Seymour]]. Seymour's .377 average in 1905 was the first individual batting crown won by a Red....
29: ...sh]] and [[Heinie Groh]] while the pitching staff was led by [[Hod Eller]] and [[Harry Sallee|Harry "S... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
6: ...y known as:''' Philadelphia Athletics ([[1901]]-[[1954]]), Kansas City Athletics ([[1955]]-[[1967]])
8: ... 1909-49, 1951-53, 1961: Blue and White; 1905-08, 1954-60, 1962: Blue, Red and White; 1950: Blue, Gold a...
17: ===The Philadelphia Years (1901-1954)===
18: ...ural year saw second baseman [[Nap Lajoie]] [la-ZHWAY] lead the league in hitting with a .426 batting ...
20: ...on Pennsylvania soil until the National Agreement was signed between the two leagues in 1903. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
41: *[[Otto Diels]], (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of the [[1950]] [[Nobel...
42: * [[Edward Doisy]], (1893-), American biochemist, winner o...
134: *[[Wilhelm Ostwald]], (1853-1932), [[1909]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemi... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...]], and [[physical cosmology|cosmology]]. He was awarded the [[1921]] [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel P...
5: After his [[general theory of relativity]] was formulated in [[November]] [[1915]], Einstein be...
7: Einstein himself was deeply concerned with the social impact of scien...
14: ...ry school]] and, at the insistence of his mother, was given [[violin]] lessons.
16: ...ering space and time later than most children, he was able to apply a more developed intellect. Anothe... - George Eastman (2821 bytes)
5: ... [[photography]] to the common man. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the [[film s...
7: ... of [[Utica, New York]]. His parents were George Washington Eastman and Maria Kilbourn.
9: ... Eastman registered the trademark ''Kodak'',which was simply created by a variation of some of his fav...
11: ...ost prestigious music schools in America. Eastman was even a member of [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]], the ...
13: ...[[suicide note]] that said "My work is done. Why wait?" Eastman is buried at Kodak Park in [[Rochest... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
153: *[[J. Seward Johnson, Jr.]] (1930 - )
156: *[[Einar Jonsson]] (1874 - 1954)
159: *[[Jawad Saleem]](1920-1961)
162: *[[Anish Kapoor]], (1954 - ) - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
1: ...Civil War]] when the southern states of the breakaway [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] we...
6: ...e [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden.
8: ...dterm elections, the first [[Reconstruction Act]] was passed on [[March 2]], [[1867]]; the last on [[M...
12: During the period of Reconstruction there was considerable upheaval in Southern society. Nort...
14: ...arty were [[insult | derisively]] called ''[[scalawag]]s''. Disgruntled Southerners denounced what the... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
20: ...esidents, prime ministers, and members of royalty walked behind the casket at [[Funeral of John F. Ken...
22: ...dent, and the last president to die in office. He was also the first person to become president born i...
24: ...many surveys that rank presidents, but his agenda was still incomplete at his death — with most ...
27: ...5]], he enrolled in [[Princeton University]], but was forced to leave during [[Christmas]] break after...
28: ...y)|ambassador]] to that country. In 1937, Kennedy was erroneously prescribed steroids to control his [... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
19: ... 22]], [[1973]]), often referred to as '''LBJ''', was an [[Politics of the United States|American poli...
22: Johnson was born in [[Stonewall, Texas]] on [[August 27]], [[1908]] in a small ...
24: ...dited the school [[newspaper]], and spent a year away from his studies teaching school, Johnson someho...
27: ...aigned for [[Richard M. Kleberg]] and was later rewarded for his work in the campaign with an appointm...
31: ...als. His daughters' given names are examples, as was his dog later in life (Little [[Beagle]] Johnson... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
18: ...der of the Allied forces in Europe during [[World War II]], with the rank of [[General of the Army]].
22: ... to go by his middle name. The Eisenhower family was descent of [[Forbach]], but had lived in America...
26: ...ve years old, until she died. Eisenhower's father was an active member only early in Dwight's life.
30: ...in [[1917]] and Major in [[1920]]. In [[1922]] he was assigned as executive officer to General [[Fox C... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
16: | vicepresident=[[John N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
18: ... close friends called him Frank. To the public he was usually known as "[[FDR (disambiguation)|FDR]]."
20: ...tive international organization to preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] af...
22: ...ternment of the Japanese-Americans during [[World War II]] and his failure to advance [[civil rights]]... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...ry 4]], [[1902]] – [[August 26]], [[1974]]) was a pioneering [[United States]] [[aviator]] famou...
6: ...ntry of the U.S. into [[World War I]]; his mother was a chemistry teacher. Early on he showed an inter...
11: ...e first to fly from New York to Paris nonstop, he was not the first to make a [[Transatlantic flight]]...
13: ...e [[United States]]. On [[March 21]], [[1929]] he was presented the [[Medal of Honor]] for his histori...
26: ...his innocence until the end, was found guilty and was executed on [[April 3]], [[1936]]. - March 17 (9666 bytes)
10: ...evacuate [[Boston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] places [[artillery]] overlooking the ci...
20: *[[1939]] - [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)]]: The [[Battle of Nanchang]] betwee...
21: *[[1941]] - In [[Washington, DC]], the [[National Gallery of Art]] is...
27: *[[1969]] - [[Golda Meir]] of [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], USA, becomes [[Prime Minister o...
32: ...over government plans for [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war with Iraq]]. - March 19 (9902 bytes)
9: *[[1861]] - The [[First Taranaki War]] ends in [[New Zealand]].
10: *[[1865]] - [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Bentonville]] begins. By the ...
12: ...t)|Pluto]] is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
15: ...y of Versailles]] for the second time (first time was on [[November 19]], [[1919]]).
18: *[[1944]] - World War II: [[Nazi]] forces occupy [[Hungary]]. - March 22 (9294 bytes)
6: ...] sign a peace treaty with [[Massasoit]] of the [[Wampanoag]]s.
17: *[[1939]] - [[World War II]]: [[Germany]] takes [[Memel]] from [[Lithuan...
18: *[[1941]] - [[Washington]]'s [[Grand Coulee Dam]] begins to genera...
19: *[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: In the [[Mediterranean sea]], [[Regia Mari...
21: *[[1954]] - Closed since [[1939]], the [[London gold mark...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).