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- Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
11: ...Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]], [[Long Island]]), [[New York, New York|New York City]] to [[Par...
22: ...en: Charles Augustus, Jr.(born 1930), Jon (1932), Land (1937), Anne (1940), Scott (1942) and Reeve (1945...
31: ...nklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] openly questioned his loyalty.
40: ...bergh spent his final years on the [[Hawaii]]an island of [[Maui]], where he died of [[cancer]] on [[Aug...
62: [[Category:1902 births|Lindbergh, Charles Augustus]] - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
6: ...[[14 Bis]]'', was the first to take off, fly, and land without the use of catapults, high winds, or othe...
32: ... an ordinary [[airstrip]] with a non-detachable [[landing gear]] and on its own power (self-propelled) a...
42: .../or technical points such as the plane's integral landing gear and its ability to take off on open groun...
44: ...ally recognized as the second such flight in that category) in 1884.[[http://www.flyingmachines.org/moz.html...
56: ...st effective heavier-than-air flight is most commonly assigned to the [[Wright brothers]] for their fl... - Aircraft (13315 bytes)
15: ...ertically. [[STOL]] stands for Short Take Off and Landing.
45: ...aerodynamically lifted aircraft, most fall in the category of [[fixed-wing aircraft]], where horizontal airf...
57: ... where the body itself produces lift. So far the only significant practical application of the lifting...
59: A second category of aerodynamically lifted aircraft is the [[rotar...
61: A further category might encompass the [[ground effect|wing-in-groun... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ... on shore. These acts are known as ''piracy''. Unlike the [[stereotype|stereotypical]] pirate with [...
24: ...mous privateer was [[Sir Francis Drake]] and [[England]] was the main nation in promoting them.
34: ...he [[United Kingdom|British]] and the [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] controlled both sides of the Straits of ...
38: ...is of note in [[international law]] as it is commonly held to represent the earliest invocation of the...
46: ...some surprising facts about pirate organization. Unlike traditional Western societies of the time, man... - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
1: The term '''Germanic tribes''' applies to the [[:Category:Ancient Germanic peoples|ancient Germanic peoples...
14: ...than today) deteriorated considerably, which not only dramatically changed the flora, but forced peopl...
20: The details of the expansion are known only generally, but it is clear that the forebears of...
25: ...eltic]] societies into the Empire, the tribal homelands to the north and east emerged collectively in th...
32: ...] the [[Geats]] merged with the [[Swedes]]. In England, for example, we now most often refer to the [[An... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
49: ... soil turned up by the horse's hooves. He saw farmland, predominantly free of rocks, and beyond the reac...
57: ..., to select a suitable piece of unimproved public land for a town site. They recommended the North 1/2 ...
63: ...[April 10]], [[1874]], President Grant issued a [[land patent]] for the present site of Phoenix. The tot...
74: ... President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] signed the [[Newlands Reclamation Act|National Reclamation Act]] makin...
76: ...reated [[Roosevelt Lake]], expanded irrigation of land in the Valley for farming, and increased the wate... - Little Rock, Arkansas (9366 bytes)
27: ...little rock" was used by early river traffic as a landmark and became a well-known river crossing.
32: ...p2;]]). 301.0 km² (116.2 mi²) of it is land and 1.6 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is water. ...
37: ... 0.03% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.28% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]...
50: *1722 - French explorer, Bernard de la Harpe, landed near a small rock formation on the south bank o...
98: *[http://www.downtownlittlerock.com/ DOWNTOWNLITTLEROCK.COM] - Dover, Delaware (4514 bytes)
34: ...sup2;]]). 58.0 km² (22.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is water. ...
37: ...us)|Asian]], 0.04% [[Race (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.57% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]...
60: [[Category:Cities in Delaware]]
61: [[Category:U.S. state capitals]]
62: [[Category:Kent County, Delaware]] - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
38: ...up a [[Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands|Freedmen's Bureau]] which helped establish what ...
51: ...sup2;). 341.2 km² (131.8 mi²) of it is land and 1.8 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is water. ...
53: ... Though now somewhat offset by the [[urban heat island]] effect, this still results in a climate more mo...
60: ...ate as mid-March; since [[1878]] snow has fallen only three times in October and four in April. Winte...
62: ...magnolia]]s, and [[peach]] trees (both flowering-only and fruiting). The city-wide floral display run... - Springfield, Illinois (6768 bytes)
41: ...up2;]]). 139.9 km² (54.0 mi²) of it is land and 16.3 km² (6.3 mi²) of it is water. ...
45: ... 0.03% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.47% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]...
66: [[Category:Cities in Illinois]]
67: [[Category:U.S. state capitals]]
68: [[Category:Sangamon County, Illinois]] - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
35: ..., steamboats were regularly docking at the Topeka landing, depositing meat, lumber, and flour and return...
37: ...st governor. Cyrus K. Holliday donated a tract of land to the state for the construction of a state capi...
46: ...esting to note that Topeka High School was the ''only'' high school in Topeka until Topeka West High S...
52: ...e of town, moving northeast, passing over a local landmark named Burnetts Mound. According to a local in...
77: ...up2;]]). 145.1 km² (56.0 mi²) of it is land and 2.5 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is water. ... - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
7: ...ansition with advantages and obstacles. Although only half the size of the former Soviet economy, the ...
11: ... under the leadership of [[Joseph Stalin]], with only incidental modifications made between 1953 and 1...
15: ...iet economy, prices were an accounting mechanism only. The government established prices for all goods...
19: ...s a return to Soviet-era central planning seemed unlikely, the configuration of the post-transition ec...
126: ... in 1990, enjoyed immediate success but expanded only in Moscow. The concentration of Russia's banking... - Amusement park (17293 bytes)
1: ...instreet.JPG|thumb|right|320px|[[Six Flags New England]], an amusement park in [[Springfield, Massachuse...
14: ...one generically thinks of the heyday of [[Coney Island]]. Steeplechase Park was a huge success and by th...
16: ...den. In [[1911]], Dreamland was the first Coney Island amusement park to completely burn down; in [[1944...
21: ...]] revived the amusement industry with its themed lands and matching attractions instead of using the ol...
26: ... relocated the shows to a permanent home at Disneyland. - List of festivals (6550 bytes)
1: ...als categorized by type (music, art, etc), see [[:Category:Festivals]].
64: * India is also called the land of festivals. '''[[Diwali]]''' and '''[[Holi]]'''...
66: ===[[Republic of Ireland]]===
90: ..., Cuong Vu Trio (USA), Willem Breuker Kollektief (NL), Marc Ducret Trio (FR) and many others. Many int...
115: ===[[Netherlands]]=== - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
20: ...tunity to study in England, which he viewed as "a land of philosophers and poets, the very centre of civ...
23: ...ing lessons for example, he could not stomach his landlady's mutton and cabbage. She pointed him towards...
29: ...aced the humiliation and oppression that was commonly directed at Indians in that country. One day in...
42: ...onment. Beginning on [[March 18]], [[1922]], he only served about two years of the sentence, being re...
52: ...ster of India|Prime Minister]]. They disagreed openly over the path to an independent India, yet Gandh... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: '''Rail transport''' refers to the land [[transport]] of passengers and goods along '''ra...
8: ...This is more comfortable than most other forms of land transport and saves energy.
9: ..., the rails distribute the weight of the train evenly, allowing significantly greater loads per [[axle...
22: ...lly aesthetic constructions, but they won't work unless they are given an appropriate system on which ...
30: ...a limited amount of traffic and are consequently only used on [[branch line]]s. - Judaism (54799 bytes)
8: ...modern movements such as the [[The Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] and the rise of [[Nationalism|nationa...
11: ...ve, on the earth below, or in the water below the land. Do not bow down to [such gods] or worship them. ...
14: ...I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt..." The belief in the existence of God,...
17: ...interference of other powers, in Judaism, God is unlimited and fully available to care for Creation.
24: ...e [[Torah]], and eventually brought them to the [[land of Israel]]. - Tennessee Valley Authority (7965 bytes)
1: ...d States federal agencies]][[Category:New Deal]][[Category:Power companies]]
21: ... Valley was in sad shape in [[1933]]. Much of the land had been farmed too hard for too long, eroding an... - Native American (42651 bytes)
7: ...Canada, where the term [[First Nations]] applies only to Native Canadians who belong to the same cultu...
11: ...[American Samoa]] (USA) and natives of [[Easter Island]] ([[Chile]]).
17: ===The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory===
21: ...|11,000 years ago]]), and that they followed an inland route through Alaska and Canada that had just bee...
23: *The migrants may have crossed the land bridge several millennia earlier and followed a c... - Libya (12985 bytes)
18: ...n=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationLibya.png|Location of Libya]]
74: ...ibya has no [[constitution]], and the laws of the land come from [[Islamic law]], and Qadhafi's ''[[The ...
78: ...urkey|turkey]] farm. The announcement came after clandestine diplomatic negotiations with the [[United K...
149: ...065673/us559930/ LookSmart - ''Libya''] directory category
150: ...ya/ Open Directory Project - ''Libya''] directory category
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