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- Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
7: :''Home ballpark:'' [[U.S. Cellular Field]], Chicago. (This park, originally known as New...
17: ... major league status, the St. Paul franchise was relocated to Chicago, to compete directly with the [[...
19: ...led by pitching workhorse [[Ed Walsh]], who routinely pitched over 400 innings each season in his prim...
22: ... average in the American League that year, nevertheless took the Series, and intercity bragging rights...
25: ...en a newsboy) is claimed to have yelled out to Shoeless Joe, "Say it ain't so, Joe!". The phrase has b... - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
5: ...2]], or [[1890]], depending on the account. See below.
21: ...f the [[National League]] in [[1876]], but was expelled from the league later, in part for violating l...
27: ===From opening of Redland Field to the Great Depression===
29: ... Groh]] while the pitching staff was led by [[Hod Eller]] and [[Harry Sallee|Harry "Slim" Sallee]], a ...
31: ...thanks to the [[Great Depression]], and Redland Field was in a state of disrepair. - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
5: ... City, Missouri]] in [[1955]] and to Oakland in [[1968]].
6: :'''Formerly known as:''' Philadelphia Athletics ([[1901]]-[[1954]]), Kansas City At...
9: ...ized "A's". The team also occasionally uses an [[elephant]] logo.
17: ===The Philadelphia Years (1901-1954)===
18: ...t]] as the team mascot, though over the years the elephant has appeared in several different colors. ... - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
19: ...ng three of them; but it was not enough. With largely the same star players, the Pirates would continu...
21: ...17]], Wagner's last season. However, veteran outfielder [[Max Carey]] and young players [[Pie Traynor]...
23: ...[1960]] team featured eight All-Stars, but was widely predicted to lose the [[World Series]] to a powe...
25: ...ld Series and put together excellent seasons in [[1968]] and [[1972]]. However, in [[1973]], Blass suffe...
29: ...uch as [[Bobby Bonilla]], [[Barry Bonds]], [[Jay Bell]], and [[Andy Van Slyke]]. - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
16: ...1943]], [[1944]], [[1946]], [[1964]], [[1967]], [[1968]], [[1982]], [[1985]], [[1987]], [[2004]]
35: ...Musial spent 23 years in a Cardinal uniform. In [[1968]], a statue of Musial was constructed outside Bus...
37: In [[1947]], the Cardinals (who were effectively the South's only major league team until the 196...
40: ...igers]] in a closely contested 7 game affair in [[1968]], the last series before baseball adopted a divi...
45: ...inch the title, went on to lose Game 6 and ultimately Game 7 by the score of 11-0 the following night. - Texas Rangers (baseball) (14993 bytes)
8: :'''Home ballpark''': [[Ameriquest Field in Arlington]] (known as The Ballpark in Arlingt...
22: In eleven seasons, the Senators posted only one winning...
24: ...named [[Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium]] in [[1968]]) on East Capitol Street and the [[Anacostia Riv...
34: ...forfeit]] the game after angry fans stormed the field and damaged much of the stadium and playing surf...
38: ...ory. The first home game was also against the Angels on [[April 21]]. After the season, Ted Williams... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...he convenience of the solver, although in many widely distributed American crosswords such as the ''[[...
8: ...to about one-sixth of the design. Crossword grids elsewhere, such as in [[Britain]] and [[Australia]],...
14: ...ent of the puzzle authors is to entertain with novelty, not to establish new variations of the crosswo...
23: ...in the past tense, then so is the answer: '''"Traveled on horseback"''' = '''RODE''', but never '''RID...
25: ...d be '''ESC''', '''ALT''', '''TAB''', or even '''DEL''', but until a ''check'' is filled in, giving at... - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
3: ...]]. Artist: [[Daniel Chodowiecki]]. Engraver: Daniel Berger.]]
7: ...a Act]], which allowed the East India Company to sell tea to the [[13 colonies|colonies]] without the ...
9: ...nder the protection afforded by British armed vessels.
11: ...There, three ships—the ''Dartmouth'', the ''Eleanor'' and the ''Beaver''—were loaded with ...
25: ...a sole LP for Flick Disc, a subsidiary of MGM, in 1968. - Architect (6342 bytes)
6: ...ractice varying greatly from place to place (see below).
8: ...el Prize]] for architecture. Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by the [[American ...
11: ... industry]] are prohibited from referring to themselves as architects in most countries.
14: In [[Canada]], architects are required to belong to provincial architectural associations that ...
19: ...under a licensed Architect before they may become eligible to take the ARE. Although the ARE is a nat... - High jump (8613 bytes)
2: ...'''high jump''' is an [[athletics]]/[[track and field]] event in which competitors must jump over a ho...
6: Although the event was likely competed in as early as the ancient Greek Olympi...
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52: </timeline>
55: ...pics]] of [[1936]] where the event was won by Cornelius Johnson at 2.03 m (6'9-3/4"). - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German inventor, chemist
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
26: ...1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - Ship (18843 bytes)
2: ...fers to [[submarine]]s as "boats"). Compare [[vessel]].
4: ...aft rig to larger vessels, so few ship-rigged vessels were built with more than three masts. The five-...
6: '''[[Nautical]]''' means related to sailors, particularly customs and practice...
10: ...he crown of the weather deck and the top of the keelson), [[Draft (nautical)|draft]] (distance between...
12: ...g Act of 1876]], ship-owners could load their vessels until their decks were almost awash, resulting i... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
21: *[[Baccio Bandinelli]] (1493 - 1560)
29: *[[Hans Bellmer]] (1902 - 1975)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
35: *[[John Blakeley]] (1946 - )
37: *[[Antoine Bourdelle]] (1861 - 1929) - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
2: ...;"| [[Image:Hst sts82.jpg|285px|The Hubble Space Telescope]]
4: ...:smaller; text-align:center;" | The Hubble Space Telescope, from the [[Space Shuttle Discovery]] durin...
8: |'''Wavelength regime'''||optical, ultraviolet, near-infrar...
24: |'''Telescope style'''||reflector
38: |'''[[WFPC2]]'''||wide field camera - Prague (7962 bytes)
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14: ...r in central [[Bohemia]], it is home to approximately 1.2 million people. (It can be derived from jobs...
26: ...d. The floods caused a lot of damage, but fortunately no major landmarks (such as the Charles Bridge) ...
45: ...tion tower, which is nearly a 1 : 5 copy of [[Eiffel Tower]]
46: * [[Zizkov Television Tower|TV Tower]] with observation deck - Czech Republic (13856 bytes)
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56: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
70: ...f [[Bohemia]] was a significant local power, but religious conflicts such as the [[15th century]] [[Hu...
74: ...viet Union|Soviet]] [[sphere of influence]]. In [[1968]], an invasion by [[Warsaw Pact]] troops ended th... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
13: ...ce of death=[[Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California | Bel-Air, California]]
23: ...ndfather's emigration, the family name had been spelled ''Regan''.
27: ...nd his older brother Neil, with parents Jack and Nelle Reagan. (c. 1916-17)]]
29: ...Reagan took a summer job as a [[lifeguard]] in Lowell Park, two miles away from Dixon on the nearby [[...
31: ...a ticker and relying on his imagination and storytelling gifts to flesh out the game. Once in [[1934]]... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
22: ...rea on the [[Pedernales River]]. His parents, Samuel Johnson and Rebekah Baines, had four more childre...
27: ... the campaign with an appointment to be the newly elected congressman's secretary.
29: ... President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], as well as fellow Texans such as Vice President [[John Nance Gar...
39: ...He ran on a [[New Deal]] platform and was effectively aided by his wife, [[Lady Bird Johnson]].
41: ... was defeated by controversial late returns in an election marked by massive fraud on the part of both... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
19: ...tes Republican Party|Republican]] President to be elected to two terms. Nixon is noted for his diplom...
22: ...aid to have been marked by such conservative evangelical Quaker observances as refraining from drinkin...
30: ... Commander and his superiors praised him as an excellent officer and leader. One interesting footnote ...
34: ...ved substantial campaign donations from. Then he held up a list of members from a Left-Wing PAC with C...
37: ...h the Republican and Democratic nomination for re-election to the House. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
22: ...ilene High School]] in [[1909]] and he worked at Belle Springs Creamery from [[1909]] to [[1911]].
24: ...'s daughter [[Julie Nixon Eisenhower|Julie]] in [[1968]].
26: Eisenhower was raised in the religion now known as [[Jehovah's Witness]]es.{{fn|1}...
34: ... Government. He was promoted to [[Lieutenant Colonel]] in [[1936]].
36: ...he U.S. entry into [[World War II]] he had never held an active command and was far from being conside...
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