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- Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
30: ... the best poker player in the Navy, having apparently won almost $10,000 by war's end. It was in the N...
37: ... activities as a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] spy. In 1948, Nixon won both the Republican and Democratic nom...
55: ...n't show much support for Nixon, and only reluctantly endorsed him as the Republican candidate at the ...
59: ...]. Nixon spoke to a meeting of [[Pepsi-Cola]] bottlers.
68: ...d to the withdrawal of US troops, and left the battle to the ineffective [[South Vietnam]]ese army. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
34: ...rmy stagnated. He was assigned to the American Battle Monuments Commission, directed by General [[John...
43: ...r of Operations]] (MTO) keeping the operational title and continued in command of NATOUSA redesignated...
45: ...ed with planning and carrying out the Allied [[Battle of Normandy|assault on the coast of Normandy]] i...
47: ... Roosevelt]] had in him, he sometimes worked directly with [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]. Eisenhower was of...
55: ...950]] was named Supreme Commander of the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]], and given operational... - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
58: ...a law degree at the Kansas City Law School (currently the [[University of Missouri - Kansas City]] Sch...
68: ...Truman performed his duties in this office diligently, and won personal acclaim for several popular pu...
82: ...Truman fought the Republican Congress in 1947 and 1948 to prevent any reduction in tax rates. Modest cut...
84: ...humb|300px|Truman was widely expected to lose the 1948 election, as shown by this mistaken ''[[Chicago T...
86: ...ts]] legislation, and the repeal of the [[Taft-Hartley Act]] in a broad legislative program that he ca... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
22: ...have praised his national leadership, while dismantling his social programs.
48: ...on, although he opposed plans to completely dismantle the Navy.
56: ...906]]. Roosevelt soon found romantic and sexual outlets outside his marriage. One of these was Eleanor...
60: ...result was that Roosevelt was totally and permanently paralyzed from the waist down. At first the musc...
62: ... Roosevelt refused to believe that he was permanently paralyzed. He tried a wide range of therapies, b... - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
27: ...gue]]. He traveled to [[Battle Creek, Michigan|Battle Creek]], [[Michigan]] to spend several weeks in ...
29: ...he had pursued him persistently, until he reluctantly surrendered and proposed. Florence's father was ...
45: ... as a liability in American politics and the recently revived Ku Klux Klan, anti-Catholic as well as a...
64: ... his death). In a special session of congress shortly after his inaugaration he called for retrenchmen...
68: ...ing kept the [[White House]] well stocked with bootleg liquor. He attended [[baseball]] games regularl... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
7: ...t connection by sea between the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]].
9: ...es, as well as gold mines and trade ships. Apparently though, his aim was to achieve a similar success...
13: ... for being the hero of the battle of Cuzco. He settled in [[Sevilla]], where he married, in [[1537]], ...
15: ...explored lands. His mission was to conquer, to settle, and to "pacify" the unknown territories.
21: ...ds [[Cuba]]. The city of [[Havana]] had, just shortly before his arrival, been plundered and burned do... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
5: ...t''' ([[August 19]], [[1871]] - [[January 30]], [[1948]]) and '''Wilbur Wright''' ([[April 16]], [[1867]...
47: The Wrights were involved in several patent battles, which they won in [[1914]]. Wilbur died from [...
55: ...yer in relation to the technical details to the title, or sometimes both. (Note that claims earlier th...
59: ...nd some other features allowed it to be significantly better than any previous manned flying machine. ...
65: ...ations usually stem from an inability to know exactly the Wrights' design and to duplicate the conditi... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
27: ...this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenment]] partly contributed to the American colonies' struggle t...
38: ...periment]] was not written up until [[Joseph Priestley]]'s [[1767]] ''History and Present Status of El...
63: ...ncilable conflict with his son, who remained ardently loyal to the British Government.
85: ...sidents. From 1940 to 1990, the money was used mostly for mortgage loans. When the trust came due, Phi...
89: ...to in slang as "Benjamins" or "Franklins". From [[1948]] to [[1964]], Franklin's portrait was also on th... - Information (13474 bytes)
4: ...ce]] and [[computer science]] are often in the spotlight, the word "information" is often used without...
16: ...ge came into prominence with the publication in [[1948]] of an influential paper by [[Claude Shannon]], ...
18: ... System Technical Journal, Vol. 27, p. 379, (July 1948).]
28: ...rn]]. This view assumes neither accuracy nor directly communicating parties, but instead assumes a sep...
36: ...f representation is still relevant, but in a slightly different manner. That is, while [[abstract pain... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
6: ...[Gnaeus Pompeius|Pompey the Younger]] in the [[Battle of Munda]].
9: ...k City]] for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
20: ...9]] - [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)]]: The [[Battle of Nanchang]] between the [[Kuomintang]] and the...
22: *[[1948]] - [[Benelux]], [[France]], and the [[United Kin...
30: *[[1988]] - A [[Colombia]]n [[Boeing 727]] jetliner, [[Avianca Flight 410]], crashes into the sid... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
22: ...lia]], makes his famous speech regarding the [[Battle of the Philippines (1942)|fall of the Philippine...
39: ...n as [[H. Rap Brown]], is captured after a gun battle that leaves a [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] s...
47: *[[1823]] - [[Ned Buntline]], publisher, writer, and publicist, (d. [[188...
68: *1918 - [[Marian McPartland]], British jazz musician
84: *[[1948]] - [[John de Lancie]], actor - March 22 (9294 bytes)
7: ...onquian]] Indians kill 347 [[England|English]] settlers around [[Jamestown, Virginia]], a third of the...
8: *[[1630]] - [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] outlaws the possession of cards, [[dice]], and gaming ...
19: ...arina]] defeats [[Royal Navy]] in the [[Second Battle of Sirte]].
24: *[[1963]] [[Please Please Me]] first [[Beatles]] [[album]] released in the [[UK]]
78: *[[1948]] - [[Wolf Blitzer]], [[television]] journalist - Denver, Colorado (21161 bytes)
11: |leader_title = [[Mayor]]
43: ...k]], across the creek from the existing mining settlement of [[Auraria, Kansas Territory|Auraria]].
49: ...State Senator [[Richard Lamm]]. Lamm was subsequently elected as [[List of Colorado Governors|Colorado...
51: ...unty]]; the school has a [[Littleton, Colorado|Littleton]] address.
63: ...p://www.crh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin-den/showProduct.pl?title=Denver's+Climatological+Normals+And+Means&produc... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
29: ...Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
40: *[[Aristotle]] (Greece, [[384 BC|384 B.C.]] - [[322 BC|322 B....
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
106: *[[Jonathan Borwein]] (Scotland/Canada, [[1951]]-)
176: *[[John Craig]] (Scotland, [[1663]] - [[1731]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
162: ...ndre Deslandres]] ([[France]], [[1853]] – [[1948]])
235: *[[Paul Goldsmith]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1948]] – )
267: *[[Thomas Henderson]] ([[Scotland]], [[1798]] – [[1844]])
298: *[[Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes]] ([[Scotland]], [[South Africa]], [[1861]] – [[1933]]...
552: *[[David J. Stevenson]], ([[New Zealand]], [[1948]] – ) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
21: ... the last period of the [[Iron Age]] after the battles that took place between the Scytho-Thracian peo...
25: ... engraved on the rock of the [[Trencin|Trenc�Castle]]: Laugaritio, the Roman inscription marking the...
37: ...ts center, used for Celtic and Slav rites. The castle was surrounded by stone fortifications. Slav tri...
43: ...til [[803]] -- the year when [[Charlemagne]], greatly helped by the Slavs north of the Danube and in t...
51: ...nth century, to the epoch of Bishop Amand, an apostle of the Belges. After his mission, the arrival of... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
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13: ...[[October 2]], [[1869]] – [[January 30]], [[1948]]) ([[Devanagari language|Devanagari]]: म&#...
15: ...work for their own independence, ultimately dismantling the [[British Empire]] to replace it with the ...
18: ...he ''dewan'' (Chief Minister) of Porbandar, and Putlibai, Karamchand's fourth wife, a Hindu of the [[V...
42: ...t as the movement reached its apex, it ended abruptly as a result of a violent clash in the town of [[... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
98: *[[Aristotle]], (384 BC-322 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
160: *[[Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten]], (1714-1762){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
179: *[[Richard Bentley]], (1662-1742){{fn|R}}
180: *[[Nikolai Berdyaev]], (1874-1948){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
280: *[[Joseph Butler]], (1692-1752){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Tennis (24557 bytes)
20: ...epending on how healthy the grass is and how recently it has been mowed. Of the major [[Grand Slam]] t...
32: ...nsists of the player or team hitting the ball exactly once before it has bounced twice or hit any fixt...
80: ...estern''. For a number of years the small, apparently frail 1920s player [[Bill Johnston]] was conside...
91: ...ddenly employ an unexpected ''[[drop shot]]'', softly tapping the ball just over the net so that the o...
102: ...held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall (demolished 1948). - New Deal (82408 bytes)
7: ...p for relief in rural America, such as the [[Resettlement Administration]] (RA) and [[Farm Security Ad...
13: ...government action today. Liberals continue to battle conservatives. The term "New Deal" is also used...
20: ...cement in 1931 by a National coalition (predominantly Conservative). As a result there was no "new dea...
60: ...would benefit. Farm incomes increased significantly in the first three years of the New Deal. Howeve...
62: ...rams addressed to their needs included the [[Resettlement Administration]] (RA), the [[Farm Security A...
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