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- Genetics (12654 bytes)
1: ...[[variation]] of [[organism]]s. The word genetics was first applied to describe the study of inheritan...
12: It was not until [[1865]] that [[Gregor Mendel]] first ...
14: ...ept that he described as an ''[[allele]]'', which was the fundamental unit of heredity. The term ''all...
16: ...tieth century, after his death, when his research was re-discovered by other scientists working on sim...
18: Mendel was unaware of the physical nature of the gene. We now know... - Golden Retriever (8646 bytes)
40: ...d very popular [[dog breed|breed]] of [[dog]]. It was developed as a [[retriever|retrieving dog]] to u...
50: ... and out of boats and an inordinate love for cool water.
54: ...ertained for hours, particularly if there is also water involved.
57: ...reeds were originally crossed; especially popular was a romantic story concerning the purchase of a wh...
61: ... more wavy-coated black Retrievers. The bloodline was also inbred and selected for trueness to Majorib... - Labrador Retriever (5832 bytes)
49: ...ail|Adult black Labrador Retriever; the nose is always black]]
68: ... (dog)|Newfoundland dog]]. The Labrador retriever was originally called the ''lesser Newfoundland'' or...
70: ...3. The first registration of Labradors by the AKC was in 1917; many English dogs were imported post WW...
73: ...some extent, thus the extensive use of the dog in waterfowl hunting. - Baseball (36464 bytes)
5: ...the word "ballgame" in the United States almost always refers to a game of baseball, and "ballpark" to...
12: ...defends in the field. In baseball, the defense always has the ball -- a fact that differentiates it f...
15: ..., where the ''[[catcher]]'' for the fielding team waits to receive it. The batter stands in one of the...
17: ...wait for his next turn [[at bat]]. There are many ways to get batters and baserunners out; some of the...
19: ...ts to prevent this by pitching the ball in such a way that the batter cannot hit it cleanly. - New Year's Day (5455 bytes)
17: ... [[Saint Eligius]] (died [[659]] or [[660]]), who warned the Flemings, "[Do not] make vetulas, [little...
22: ... the streets, with millions more around the world watching on television, followed by the [[Rose Bowl ...
23: ..., the world famous 1,070-pound, 6-foot-diameter [[Waterford crystal]] ball located high above [[Times ...
32: ...ad groups of people enter the chilly surf since [[1903]]. - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[William Howard Taft]]
16: | vicepresident=[[Charles Warren Fairbanks]]
18: ...ination of [[William McKinley]]. At 42, Roosevelt was the youngest person ever to serve as President o...
20: ...e Presidency were remarkable. During his life he was an author, legislator, soldier, [[game (food)|bi...
22: Theodore Roosevelt was a fifth cousin of the later President [[Franklin... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=William Howard Taft
3: | image name=William Howard Taft.jpg
13: | place of death=[[Washington D.C]].
18: ...Party|Republican]], Taft served as [[Secretary of War]], [[federal judge]] for the [[United States Cou...
20: ...t president to occupy the [[Oval Office]] when it was opened in [[October]] [[1909]]. - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
8: ...the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period...
14: ...beginning of the second millennium, much of India was ruled by the [[Delhi Sultanate]], and later, by ...
20: ...857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutiny|First War of Indian Independence]], resulted in India comi...
26: ...nofficial member of the "[[nuclear club]]", which was followed up with a series of five more tests in ...
36: ...|Dravidian language]], while others argue that it was an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan language]]. - Mangabeys (2204 bytes)
9: ...axobox_authority | author = [[Palmer]] | date = [[1903]]}} - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
4: ...ar]]) participated. The bolded items are the U.S. wars most often considered to be ''major conflicts''...
6: *'''[[American Revolutionary War]]''' (1775–1783)
7: *[[Quasi-War]] (1798–1801)
8: *[[First Barbary War]] (1801–1805)
9: *'''[[War of 1812]]''' (1812–1815) - History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
8: ...inction between organic and inorganic substances, was revolutionized by [[Friedrich W?r]]'s (accidenta...
12: ...xplaining the behavior of [[gas]]es, this dispute was not finally settled until [[Jean Perrin]]'s expe...
14: ... of the atom as a branch of [[physics]], but was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in chemistry, not physics...
20: ...[[1870]]; gallium was discovered in [[1875]], and was found to have roughly the same properties that M...
27: ...work leading up to this achievement, Pauling was awarded the first of his two Nobel prizes. - Painting of the United States (3965 bytes)
3: ...d subjects unique to itself; in this case the westward expansion of settlement brought the transcenden...
7: ...pects of city life. Soon the ash-can artists gave way to modernists arriving from [[Europe]]—the...
10: ...ing]] ([[1904]]-[[1997]]), and [[Mark Rothko]] ([[1903]]-[[1970]]). The abstract expressionists abandone...
12: ...n their compositions. Pop artists, such as [[Andy Warhol]] ([[1930]]-[[1987]]), [[Larry Rivers]] ([[19...
14: ... names of American soldiers who died in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. Perhaps the most influential 20th-cen... - Franklin Delano 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]]... - Rowing (20818 bytes)
1: ...itish term applied on this occasion) is further towards the bow of the boat.]] <!-- The [[Great Britai...
5: ... sliding seat above the water level and faces backwards, using oars to move the boat. This may be done...
20: ...ed ''regata'' included boat races among others. Nowadays, rowing competitions are still called ''[[reg...
22: ...ity]] and [[Cambridge University]] in 1829, which was also the first intercollegiate sporting event, s...
26: ...rld Championships in every sweep oar event; [[Rob Waddell]] (New Zealand) and [[Xeno M?] (Switzerland)... - Ion (2800 bytes)
4: ...ce a [[electrostatic force|Coulomb attraction]] towards the neutral atom. It is nevertheless possible ...
13: ...exhausted. For this reason, ions tend to form in ways that leave them with full orbital blocks. For e...
16: ...[[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in [[1903 in science|1903]]. - Vincent van Gogh (11980 bytes)
2: ...March 30]], [[1853]]–[[July 29]], [[1890]]) was a Dutch [[painter]], generally considered one of...
4: ...nd early [[abstraction (philosophy)|abstraction]] was enormous, and can be seen in many other aspects ...
6: ..., [[1990]], his ''[[Portrait of Doctor Gachet]]'' was sold for $82.5 million at [[Christie's]], thus e...
9: Vincent was born in [[Zundert]], the son of Anna Cornelia Ca...
15: ...tremely concerned with the lot of the workers. He was dismissed after six months and continued without... - Bicycle (44267 bytes)
7: ...hom argue for their fair share of the world's roadways.
13: ... the French Compte de Sivrac, dating to [[1790]], was long cited as the earliest bicycle. Most bicycle...
17: ...patent on his bicycle in [[1866]]. The invention was further refined by James Starley in the [[1870s]...
19: ...ognisably modern bicycle. Soon the ''seat tube'' was added, creating the double-triangle, ''diamond f...
23: ...versal. Shortly thereafter the rear [[freewheel]] was developed, enabling the rider to coast without t... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
6: ...r track were reported in use during the [[Crimean War]].
8: ...- three Lombard steam log haulers were built. In 1903, the founder of the Holt Manufacturing, [[Benjam...
12: ...e revolutionized construction vehicles and land [[warfare]]. The tracks system have been developed and...
14: ...along the timber track, a task of a smaller group was to take each wooden log that the rock had alread...
16: ...pillar tractor which he called the 'Universal Railway'. - 1901 (12292 bytes)
3: ...[1898]] [[1899]] [[1900]] - [[1901]] - [[1902]] [[1903]] [[1904]]
11: '''1901''' was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] (see link ...
17: ...January 1]] - The British colonies of [[New South Wales]], [[Queensland]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Vict...
21: ... George]], [[Duke of York]] becomes [[Duke of Cornwall]] and [[Duke of Rothesay | Rothesay]].
22: * [[February 20]] - The legislature of [[Hawaii|Hawaii Territory]] convenes for the first time. - February 22 (10772 bytes)
13: * [[1847]] - [[Mexican-American War]]: The [[Battle of Buena Vista]] - 5,000 [[Unite...
19: ...rth Dakota]], [[South Dakota]], [[Montana]] and [[Washington]] as [[U.S. state]]s.
20: ...- [[Germany]] institutes [[unrestricted submarine warfare]].
25: * [[1942]] - [[World War II]]: [[President of the United States|President...
31: * [[1973]] - [[Cold War]]: Following President [[Richard Nixon]]'s visit...
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