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- William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ...o the three succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1869]] - [[March 3]], [[1877]]). - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: .... It is clear from zircons that the Earth is at least 4.404 billion years old. Comparing the mass and l...
4: ...], calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began o...
6: ...d the idea of a time that stretched far into the past before the arrival of humankind, or far into the ...
19: ..., with changes brought about by intermittent [[catastrophe]]s. Many naturalists were influenced by Lyel...
27: In a lecture in [[1869]], Darwin's great advocate, [[Thomas Huxley|Thoma... - California (63989 bytes)
63: Dance = [[West Coast Swing]]; folk - [[Square dance]] |
89: ...d on the [[West Coast of the United States|west coast]] of the [[United States]]. California is the thi...
93: ...daries of the [[Sea of Cortez]] and the Pacific coast were only partially explored and California was s...
98: ...ds, tribes, tribelets, and on the resource-rich coasts large chiefdoms, such as the Chumash, Pomo and S...
100: The first [[European]] to explore parts of the coast was the [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] [[Juãn ... - Idaho (13962 bytes)
50: ...e completion of the transcontinental railway in [[1869]] brought many new people to the territory, inclu...
54: ...h Idaho is a conservative state politically, the vast majority of its residents reject such hateful ide...
122: ...nergy research, is also an important part of the eastern Idaho economy. - Iowa (24205 bytes)
6: Seal = Iowastateseal.jpg |
49: ... in [[1867]]. Council Bluffs was designated the eastern terminus for the [[Union Pacific]] railroad. ...
63: ...south, and [[Wisconsin]] and [[Illinois]] on the east.
65: ...owa)|Spirit Lake]], [[West Okoboji Lake]], and [[East Okoboji Lake]] in northwest Iowa (''see [[Iowa Gr...
67: ...hese are several hundred feet thick. In the northeast along the Mississippi River is a section of the [... - Utah (29154 bytes)
87: ...], hoping to find a route to the [[California]] coast. The expedition travelled as far north as [[Utah ...
102: Salt Lake City was the last link of the transcontinental telegraph, completed...
104: ...Connor established Fort Douglas just three miles east of Salt Lake City, and encouraged his men to disc...
108: On [[May 10]], [[1869]], the [[First Transcontinental Railroad]] was co...
117: ...Cedar Hills]]) are seeing phenomonal growth. The fastest-growing city between [[1990]] and [[2000]] was... - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
49: ...of crows, bulls, elephants, livestock and other beasts, all over town. The styles run the whole spectru...
63: ...antaFe.jpg|thumb|200px|left|St Francis Cathedral, 1869]]
68: ...al art, in addition to older [[Russia]]n, [[Taos Masters]], and [[Native American]] pieces. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
46: * the use of [[yeast]] for:
54: ...el [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
79: * [[4th century|300s]]: [[Stirrup]] in [[Jin Dynasty (265-420)|China]] - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
3: In [[1869]] the [[Wyoming Territory]] in the [[United State...
31: ... on the general suffrage - the possession of at least ?50 (~[[USD]]250) worth of cash or property. The...
35: ...ly after little was heard of the movement, but in 1869 the National Woman Suffrage Association was forme...
37: ...on obtained a hearing before every Congress, from 1869 to 1919.
39: ...islature of [[Wyoming]] granted woman suffrage in 1869, [[Utah]] doing likewise in the following year. ... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...s a small [[astronomical object]] similar to an [[asteroid]] but composed largely of ice. Comets typica...
5: ...their [[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
9: ...and the tails can extend over 150 million km (1 [[Astronomical unit]]) or more.
11: ...ens of deaths of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese orac...
25: .../Tempel-Swift-LINEAR]], which was discovered in [[1869]] but became unobservable after [[1908]] due to p... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
6: ...measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at G...
8: ... the last Sunday in October and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in March. For the remainder of the year lo...
33: ...to do so. It was based on the longitude 172? 30' East of [[Greenwich]], that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahe...
35: ... Central Standard Time, [[local mean time]], and Eastern Standard Time until it settled on EST by ordin...
41: ...Z''' to the zero zone, and A-M (except J) to the east and N-Y to the west (J may be assigned to local t... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...y related to, but distinct from [[science]] (at least in the modern conception). [[Technology]] concern...
29: Many ancient civilizations collected astronomical information in a systematic manner throu...
40: ... and is known as the philosophic school of [[scholasticism]]. The rise of [[Christianity]] saw a strang...
48: ===The Middle Ages: Eastern World===
52: ...8th]] centuries, a period of Islamic scholarship lasted until the [[14th century]]. This scholarship wa... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
151: *[[Lamorna Birch|S J "Lamorna" Birch]] ([[1869]]-[[1955]])
205: *[[Allan Brooks]] ([[1869]]-[[1946]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
562: *[[Charles Hopkinson]] ([[1869]]-[[1962]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
20: ... - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
59: *[[Gustav Dahl鮝], (1869-1937) — invented the AGA [[Lighthouse]]
73: *[[George Eastman]], (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — ...
77: *[[John S. Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple ...
100: *[[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]], (1638-... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
38: ====1866–1869====
54: *[[1869]] - [[Ulysses S. Grant]] becomes President
55: *[[1869]] - [[Wyoming]] becomes first state to grant [[wo...
56: *[[1869]] - [[Golden spike]] nailed in, completing the [[...
57: ...James Fisk]] and [[Jay Gould]]'s "[[Black Friday (1869)|Black Friday]]" - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
7: ...ies in the defeated region after the war, caused lasting bitterness among Southerners toward the U.S. g...
11: ...ion Act was passed on [[March 2]], [[1867]]; the last on [[March 11]], [[1868]]. The first Reconstruct...
13: ...f the original [[Ku Klux Klan]], in 1866; but it lasted for only three years.
30: As in the East, expansion into the plains and mountains by miner...
32: ...ans continued through the Civil War. In 1876 the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold r... - Wyoming (8979 bytes)
36: ...ed States|United States of America]]. It is the least populous U.S. state.
46: ...69]] Wyoming extended [[suffrage]] to women, at least partially in an attempt to garner enough voters t...
56: ... is bordered on the north by [[Montana]], on the east by [[South Dakota]] and [[Nebraska]], on the sout...
119: *[[Eastern Wyoming College]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered by [[Giuseppe Pi...
26: *[[1869]] - [[Sigma Nu]] fraternity is officially founded...
42: *[[1937]] - [[Anastasio Somoza]] becomes [[President of Nicaragua]].
52: ...the Republic of Cuba]], is overthrown by [[Fidel Castro]]'s forces. - DNA (29095 bytes)
5: ...gy]]-generating [[organelle]]s known as [[chloroplast]]s and [[mitochondria]] also carry DNA, as do man...
14: ...ns to scientific dissection in a field you don't master ''only'' contained scientific data -- that woul...
45: ...mplementary bases exist, the stronger and longer-lasting the association.
158: ...) discovered a substance he called "nuclein" in [[1869]]. Somewhat later, he isolated a pure sample of t...
166: ...ount of information that genes need to convey as vast. The idea that information might reside in a chem... - Giant Panda (7693 bytes)
12: ...euca | author = [[Armand David|David]] | date = [[1869]]}}
25: ...nk, naked and blind and sucks from its mothers breast 6-14 times a day for 30 minutes each time. For th...
32: ...nda has long been a favourite of the public, at least partly on account of the fact that the species ha...
48: ...nd display the typical stark black and white contrasting colors.
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