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- Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Dinosaur}}<br/>{{Statu...
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16: ...] for over 100-million years. Non-avian dinosaurs became [[extinct]] 65 [[million years ago]] (Mya) at...
18: ...edia]]. The term is also used informally to describe any prehistoric reptile, like the [[pelycosaur]] ...
20: ...cs]], which rigorously analyzes the relationships between biological organisms, has also proved tremen... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey]] ([[1852]]-[[1911]])
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ... spoken language around 2000 BC, but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial and scientific langu...
16: ..., but Rawlinson's volumes contain little Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets from [[Akkadia...
18: Ernest de Sarzec (1832-1901) began excavating the Sumerian site of Tello (ancient...
20: The University of Pennsylvania began excavating Sumerian [[Nippur]] in 1888.
24: - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadian]...
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
50: ...cession]]. There were various names used to describe the war itself, its combatants, armies, and battl...
53: ...naugurated. They were [[South Carolina]] ([[December 20]], [[1860]]), [[Mississippi]] ([[January 9]],...
58: ...e that was recognized by the Confederacy on [[October 30]], [[1861]] (see the [[Missouri secession]] c...
62: ...ate control and were used to keep the land routes between the Mississippi and the state open. Californ...
69: ...xpanding region of free farmers where slavery had been forever prohibited under the [[Northwest Ordina... - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
7: *[[1820]] - [[Maine]] becomes a state
8: *[[1821]] - [[Missouri]] becomes a state
10: *[[1822]] - [[Cumberland Road]] Bill
16: *[[1825]] - [[John Quincy Adams]] becomes President
21: *[[1829]] - [[Andrew Jackson]] becomes President, appoints his "[[Kitchen Cabinet]]... - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ...ry between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississipp...
9: |As Western territories begin applying for statehood, the [[Missouri Comprom...
15: ...ericans must choose between liberty and union. "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparabl...
18: ...illiam Lloyd Garrison]] begins publishing ''The Liberator''. <br>
33: ...ntislavery petitions presented to the House would be immediately tabled, without discussion. [[John Q... - Evolution (27661 bytes)
3: ...dern [[genetics]] in the [[1940s]], evolution has been defined more specifically as a change in the fr...
6: ... [[gene pool]]. This change may be caused by a number of different mechanisms: [[natural selection]], ...
8: ...a common ancestor. It also is often used to describe the mechanisms through which evolution acts to ch...
18: ...]] [[hypothesis|hypotheses]] can be generated and be verified through [[empiricism|empirical observati...
31: ...translate]] nucleic acid sequences into proteins. Because the selection of these traits is somewhat ar... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series has been an annual event since 1903, with the exception ...
3: ...n the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
5: ... the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League and the National League....
7: ...ion but not earning a [[wild card]] receive them, because there are more divisions and each division i...
9: ...ide [[Major League Baseball]], no challenges have been made by other leagues. Attempts to pit the [[N... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
4: It is estimated that at its height between [[1810]] and [[1850]], nearly 100,000 people...
10: ... along the route, but few details of the Railroad beyond their immediate area ''(see [[Vigilance commi...
21: ...munications between escaped slaves and those left behind. He then published these accounts in the boo...
25: ...s]], long before the [[railroad]]s were developed beginning in the [[1820]]s. Coincidently, the natio...
27: ...ohn Rankin House|hilltop home]]<sup>1</sup> could be seen from the opposite shore. The slaveowner, in ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
9: *[[Benjamin Paul Akers]] (1825 - 1861)
27: *[[John Beckley]] (1930 - )
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
29: *[[Hans Bellmer]] (1902 - 1975)
30: *[[Arnold Henry Bergier]] - California Gold Rush (3231 bytes)
2: ...d called the "49ers" soon invaded what would soon be called the [[Gold Country of California]]. As he ...
6: ...resident of the United States would announce this before Congress.
8: ... boxes and planks served as a sidewalk, and crime became a problem, causing [[Vigilance committee|vigi...
10: ...ended in [[1858]], when the New Mexican Gold Rush began. - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
37: ...g a [[Bohemianism|bohemian]] reputation, the city became a [[Underground culture|counterculture]] magn...
42: ...ning "western people") living in the coastal area between [[Point Sur]] and the [[San Francisco Bay]].
44: ...larly known as "Mission Dolores"). The area first began to develop as a city under the name of [[Yerba...
51: ...le [[immigration]]. Between January 1848 and December 1849, the population of San Francisco increased ...
53: ...ed power both times after it decided the city had been 'cleaned up'. - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
3: ... known as the [[Naming the American Civil War|War Between the States]]).
10: In [[1813]], Davis began his education together with his sister Mary, a...
12: ..., in [[1829]], was to supervise the cutting of timber on the banks of the [[Red River (Mississippi wat...
14: ...ers from illegally entering what would eventually become the state of [[Iowa]].
16: ...en-[[Colonel]] [[Zachary Taylor]], would go on to become a [[General]] and later [[President of the Un... - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
3: ...) was an American [[teacher]] and [[soldier]]. He became a famous [[Confederate States of America|Conf...
8: ... the family when Jackson's father and sister Elizabeth (age six) died of [[typhoid fever]]. Jackson's ...
12: ...s mother's side of the family, but he died of [[tuberculosis]] in [[1841]] at the age of 20.
16: ...termination that was to characterize his life, he became one of the hardest working cadets in the acad...
20: Young Lieutenant Jackson began his [[U.S. Army]] career in the First Artiller... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
6: *[[37]] - The [[Roman Senate]] annuls [[Tiberius]]' will and proclaims [[Caligula]] emperor.
8: *[[1438]] - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] becomes King of [[Germany]].
10: *[[1673]] - [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton]] sells his part of [[New Jers...
16: ... Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham radio]] o...
19: ...Polish successes, Soviets annex [[Ukraine]] and [[Belarus]]. Government of [[Ukraine]] emigrates to Fr... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
7: *[[1413]] – [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of [[England]].
11: ... 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
13: *[[1852]] – [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' is publi...
15: ... Facility|Sing Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[electric ch...
19: *[[1916]] – [[Albert Einstein]] publishes his [[theory of relativity... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
1: '''March 23''' is the [[82 (number)|82]]nd day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calen...
6: *[[752]] - [[Pope Stephen II|Stephen II]] becomes [[Pope]].
9: ...Henry]] delivers his famous speech - "[[give me liberty or give me death]]" at St. John's Church in [[...
10: ...strangle]]d, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
11: ...[Lewis and Clark]] and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home. - Denver, Colorado (21161 bytes)
36: Denver is nicknamed the "'''Mile-High City'''", because its official elevation, measured on one of t...
38: ...istorically as the '''Queen City of the Plains''' because of its important role in the agricultural in...
40: Several [[United States Navy|US Navy]] ships have been named [[USS Denver|USS ''Denver'']] in honor of...
43: ... in the [[Kansas Territory]] in [[1858]]. On November 22 of that year, [[General William Larimer]], a ...
45: ... Denver]], in order to ensure that the city would become the county seat of then Arapaho County, Kansa... - Saint Paul, Minnesota (13759 bytes)
31: ...to the [[Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra|St Paul Chamber Orchestra]], the [[St. Paul Saints|St Paul Saint...
33: ...[Mississippi River|Mississippi]] [[river]]s. Just below the bluff is [[Fort Snelling State Park]] [htt...
35: ...nt Peanuts sculptures around the city. These have been very popular with [[tourism|tourists]].
46: ...the fact that most roads are named rather than numbered.
52: ...ines]], although low priced discount airlines are beginning to gain strength in the area.
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