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- Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
29: ...father's initial objections in the inclusion of a sliding-shift transmission. The result was the highl...
65: ...are. The Foundation has grown immensely and, by [[1950]], had become national and international in scope... - Airline (29546 bytes)
15: ...f demand has been consistently increasing! In the 1950's and 1960's, annual growth rates of 15% or more ...
48: In the 1950s, the [[De Havilland Comet]], [[Boeing 707]], [[D...
113: ...to sell air services at varying prices simultaneously to different segments. Factors influencing the p...
133: ... is weakest, to the less congested airport, where slots are likely to be more available and therefore ...
149: ...airlines and air forces use call-signs less obviously connected with their trading name. For example, ... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
21: ...autonomous region of [[Italy]] and the largest [[island]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]], with an area o...
32: ...a Island]] to the north-west, and the [[Pelagian Islands]] to the south-west.
34: ...00s|19th century]], but have declined since the [[1950s]].
39: A network of [[motorway]]s crosses the island, much of it raised on columns due to the mount...
48: ...national airports in [[Trapani]] and the smaller islands of [[Pantelleria]] and [[Lampedusa]]. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
120: *[[Antony Gormley]] (1950 - )
271: *[[Claus Sluter]] (14th century)
309: *[[Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski]] (1950 - ) - Prague (7962 bytes)
42: * [[Wenceslas Square]]
85: :1950: 931,500 - Czech Republic (13856 bytes)
45: ...egained [[October 28]], [[1918]] <br />as [[Czechoslovakia]], <br />divided [[January 1]] [[1993]]
60: | 420 ("0" appended to Czechoslovakia's "42")
62: ...rthwest and west, [[Austria]] to the south, and [[Slovakia]] to the east. Historic [[Prague]] ([[Czech...
70: ...[[9th century]] when it was unified by the [[Premysl]]ids. The [[Kingdom (politics)|kingdom]] of [[Boh...
72: ...tonomy, with the state renamed "Czecho-Slovakia". Slovakia broke away further in [[1939]] and the rema... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
21: ...s President, his domestic priorities included legislation to upgrade [[education]], to restrict [[hand...
25: ... experienced the start of the [[Cold War]] in the 1950s. At times his approval rating was very low, sett...
31: ...r, born [[Virginia Dell Cassidy]], remarried in [[1950]] to [[Roger Clinton, Sr.|Roger Clinton]]. Billy...
48: ...nutes, became a debacle as Clinton gave a notoriously dull speech that lasted over half an hour (he jo...
67: ...l details of the plan. It was the first major legislative defeat of Clinton's administration. - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
21: ...t of Education|Education]] and enacted strong legislation on environmental protection.
34: ... William, born in 1947; James Earl III, born in [[1950]]; and Donnel Jeffrey, born in [[1952]]), and gav...
68: ...through a very unpleasant phase where the economy slowed down, causing a rise in unemployment, prior t...
85: ...a coup in 1978—was unable to suppress the Muslim insurgency.) After the invasion, Carter announc...
87: ...ng into the Reagan and G.H.W. Bush presidencies, Islamic fundamentalism as a political force was not w... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
27: ...s father had served five terms in the [[Texas legislature]] and was a close friend to one of Texas's r...
33: ...igning to run for Congress. Johnson was a notoriously tough boss with his employees throughout his car...
57: ...t the Texas media sardonically nicknamed him "Landslide Lyndon" in reference to his bout with Stevenso...
61: ...that he ensured every report was endorsed unanimously by the committee all got him headlines and natio...
65: ... majority leader. His duties were to schedule legislation and help pass measures favored by the Democr... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
39: ...d States Senate]] in [[U.S. Senate election, 1950|1950]], defeating actress turned congresswoman [[Helen...
47: ...y nameless sources of having been financed by a [[slush fund]] provided by [[business]] supporters. H...
66: ...ority]]" of socially conservative Americans who disliked the "[[hippie]]" [[counterculture]] and [[civ...
77: ...lvis-nixon.jpg|thumb|200px|Nixon meets [[Elvis Presley]] in December 1970]]
78: ...talian]] ancestry, who regarded it as an [[ethnic slur]]. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
55: ...U.S. Army in November [[1945]], and in December [[1950]] was named Supreme Commander of the [[North Atla...
112: * [[Order of the White Lion|Czechoslovakian Order of the White Lion]]
113: * [[Golden Star of Victory|Czechoslovakian Golden Star of Victory]]
173: ...est in domestic policy. Although his [[1952]] landslide gave the Republicans control of both houses of...
276: ... Lifetime Mistakes". Eisenhower disagreed vigorously with several of the Chief Justice's decisions. ... - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
72: ...ged as a popular choice for the vice-presidential slot in [[1944]]. He was barely installed as vice pr...
82: ... short-lived: the onset of the Korean conflict in 1950 once again required an increase in taxes.
86: ...ected that Truman would lose, he campaigned furiously and managed to pull off one of the greatest upse...
88: ...owing the Chinese intervention in early November, 1950, MacArthur advocated extending the war into [[mai...
90: In June of 1950, President Truman issued the following statement[... - History of India (31279 bytes)
14: Following the Islamic invasions in the beginning of the second mill...
23: ...later becoming a [[republic]] on [[January 26]] [[1950]].
71: *Hill, John E. 2003. "Annotated Translation of the Chapter on the Western Regions accord...
72: ...een 239 and 265 CE.'' Draft annotated English translation. [http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/...
102: == Islamic rule == - Aircraft (13315 bytes)
51: The number of lift surfaces varied in the pre-[[1950]] period, as [[biplane]]s (two wings) and [[tripl... - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...who arrived in the U.S. as [[slavery|slaves]]. In slightly broader usage, the term also includes black...
15: ...[abolitionism]], which opposed the institution of slavery, culminated in the [[1860]] election of Pres...
17: ...ell as a number of other civil rights they previously had been denied. However, when [[Reconstruction]...
19: ...e|NAACP]], led a series of legal battles in the [[1950s]] to overturn [[Jim Crow]] segregation, culminat...
21: ...Roy Wilkins]], Sr. At the same time, [[Nation of Islam]] spokesman [[Malcolm X]] and, later, [[Stokely... - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
2: ...)]]. Following this, Lafitte was engaged in the [[slave trade]] after it was banned.
6: ... for 100 years. In the 1950's the journal was translated from the [[French language]] and published. T...
8: ...n vessel, and though he engaged in the contraband slave trade, he is accounted a great [[romantic]] fi... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
44: ...y, many pirates ate poorly, did not become fabulously wealthy, and died young.
50: ... spirits, and they were known to free slaves from slave ships and welcome them into the pirate fold.
56: ...sels. Modern pirates prey on cargo ships who must slow their speed to navigate narrow straits, making...
86: ...ked and destroyed the pirate stronghold nests on islands throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
92: * [[Saint Patrick]] was captured and enslaved by Irish pirates. - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
1: ... '''Continental Congress''' was the federal [[legislature]] of the [[Thirteen colonies|Thirteen Coloni...
44: ...e Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789''; 1950, Harper; 1970 reprint, Barnes & Noble, ISBN 03890... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
23: *[[1950]] - [[University of California, Berkeley]] resear...
48: *[[1888]] - [[Frank Buck]], big game hunter (d. [[1950]])
63: *[[1936]] - [[Ladislav Kupkovic]], composer
77: *[[1954]] - [[Lesley-Anne Down]], actress - March 18 (10594 bytes)
35: *[[1971]] - A landslide at [[Chungar]], [[Peru]] crashes into [[Lake Y...
45: ...ion in New York City. This day marks a 1426 year Islamic tradition being broken.
64: ...[1904]] - [[Srecko Kosovel|Srečko Kosovel]], Slovenian poet (d. [[1926]])
86: *[[1950]] - [[Brad Dourif]], actor
109: *[[1898]] - [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]], pioneering [[feminism|feminist]] (b. [[...
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