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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
8: *[[1860]] - [[Pony Express]] begins
11: *[[1861]] - [[Abraham Lincoln]] becomes President
13: *[[1861]] - [[American Civil War]] begins at [[Fort Sumter]]
16: ...e which objected to Lincoln's suspension of ''[[habeas corpus]]''
25: *[[1863]] - Pro-Union counties become sovereign state of [[West Virginia]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... [[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [[1752]], January 1...
9: *[[1438]] - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] is crowned King of [[Hungary]]...
10: *[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
13: *[[1700]] - [[Russia]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
1: '''January 2''' is the [[2 (number)|2]]nd day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calend...
6: ...Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman Empire]].
7: *[[533]] - Mercurius became [[Pope]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first ...
10: *[[1788]] - [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] becomes the 4th state to ratify the [[United States]...
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[County Durham]]. - Blizzard (4179 bytes)
5: ...ure]]s and strong [[wind]]s (greater than 35 mph) bearing a great amount of [[snow]], either falling o...
7: ...speeds of at least 32 mph (seven or more on the [[Beaufort Wind Scale]]).
9: ...st last for 4 hours or more, before the storm can be properly called a blizzard.
15: ...the air. People caught in a whiteout can quickly become disoriented, losing their sense of direction.
23: There have been many devastating blizzards throughout U.S. Hist... - 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... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
5: :'''Founded:''' [[1883]], as a member of the minor Inter-State League. The team moved...
7: ...s'' and officially adopted in 1932. During the Wilbert Robinson years, the newspapers used the nicknam...
8: ....html Part of the wall of the stadium ] can still be seen.)
23: ...leagues in consecutive years. Eight years passed before any more success followed, when the ''Superba...
25: ...the construction of [[Ebbets Field]], which would become the Dodgers' home in [[1913 in sports|1913]]. - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
8: ...-[[1898]]), St. Louis Perfectos ([[1899]]). Name became "Cardinals" in [[1900]].
9: ... Busch Stadum (III) with [[BP Village]] -(Also to be known as "Busch Stadium") from [[2006]] on
15: ...nants won''' (4): [[1885]], [[1886]], [[1887]], [[1888]]
17: ...second only to the [[New York Yankees]] in the number of World Series championships won.
18: ...ision champion and St. Louis received a wild card berth. Many St. Louisians were unhappy with this dec... - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
5: ... playing a hard [[Vulcanization|vulcanized]] [[rubber]] disc, the ''[[hockey puck|puck]]'', into the o...
12: ...erican professional leagues restrict the total number of skaters to 18 or fewer.
14: ... of [[Hockey Canada]] and [[USA Hockey]], tend to be a hybrid of the NHL and IIHF codes, while profess...
17: ...yfight.JPG|thumb|Fights often occur near the goal because players want to protect their goaltender.]]
21: ...n-minute ''match penalties'' are assessed for deliberately inflicting injury on an opponent. Major an... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
7: *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869-1910), German chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German inventor,...
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - Triceratops (4523 bytes)
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26: ...ing variations between species and individuals to be studied.
28: ...us''. ''[[Diceratops]]'' was formerly believed to be a species of ''Triceratops'' as well, but is curr...
34: A number of purposes have been proposed for the frill: - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
2: subject_name=Alexander Graham Bell |
3: image_name=Alexader_g_bell_1.jpg|
12: ...a [[scientist]], [[inventor]], and founder of the Bell Telephone Company, known as the [[List of peopl...
15: Born '''Alexander Bell''' in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], he later ado...
17: ... [[Dublin]], and his father, [[Alexander Melville Bell]], in Edinburgh, were all professed elocutionis... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
1: [[Image:AlfredNobel.jpg|thumb|200px|Alfred Nobel]]
3: ...e [[Nobel Prize]]s. The [[synthetic element]] [[Nobelium]] was named after him.
5: ...[[1864]] killed Alfred's younger brother [[Emil Nobel|Emil]] and several other workers.
7: ...n Sweden in 2003. The play has not yet (May 2003) been translated into any other language than Esperan...
9: Alfred Nobel is interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]]. - George Eastman (2821 bytes)
9: On [[September 4]], [[1888]] Eastman registered the trademark ''Kodak'',whic...
11: ...s music schools in America. Eastman was even a member of [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]], the national men's...
13: ... back. He grew depressed knowing he would likely be spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair, so... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
8: ... engines. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in [[1888]] Ford supported himself by farming and running a...
10: In [[1891]], Ford became an engineer with the [[Edison Illuminating Co...
12: ...a well-known driver and the heavy favorite on October 10, 1901. Ford was forced out of the company by ...
18: ...ition of another 1,000 pounds (450 kg) to the car before it could qualify. Ford dropped out of the rac...
20: ...ar that Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly belts into his plants, which enabled an enormous inc... - 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]] - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
9: ...ated [[people mover]] type systems. Gripping must be an even and gradual process in order to avoid bri...
11: ...cable. In the latter case, the cable car may not be able to stop and can wreak havoc along its route ...
13: ...er the same advantages, and in any case they must be offset against the cost of moving the cable.
16: ...s together with claw-equipped cars, and proved cumbersome. The line was closed, rebuilt and reopened w...
19: ...The success of these grips ensured that this line became the model for other cable car transit systems... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
9: ...] - arguably, the world's first public railway, albeit a horse-drawn one.
14: ... Trevithick died in poverty, with his achievement being largely unrecognized.
16: ...sport of goods. Evans specified that there should be separate sets of parallel tracks for trains going...
20: ...ailway Company's first line was opened on [[September 27]] [[1825]]. Stephenson himself drove [[The L...
22: ...that was needed for [[industrialization]]. In the beginning, [[Canal|canals]] were in competition with... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
2: ...f the [[University of Würzburg]], who, on [[November 8]], [[1895]], produced and detected [[electroma...
8: ...recht University|University of Utrecht]]. He then began to attend the [[ETH Zurich|Polytechnic at Zuri...
12: ... was a result of his work with ionizing radiation because his investigations were only for a short tim...
16: ...h had a much thicker glass wall than the Lenard tube, might also cause this fluorescent effect.
18: ...cation of the barium platinocyanide screen he had been intending to use next. - Henry Morton Stanley (3669 bytes)
3: ...es]] on a ship. Upon arriving in New Orleans, he became friendly with a wealthy trader named Stanley,...
7: ...ubt romanticised account, he asked [[James Gordon Bennett, Jr.]], the paper's owner, how much he could...
9: ...to the African continent, one of his achievements being to solve the last great mystery of African exp...
11: ...] in African history: the rule of [[Leopold II of Belgium|King Leopold]] over the [[Congo Free State]]...
13: ...ips and great loss of life, Stanley met Emin in [[1888]], discovered the [[Ruwenzori Range]] and [[Lake ... - Richard E. Byrd (4114 bytes)
1: ...'', [[United States Navy|USN]] ([[October 25]], [[1888]] – [[March 11]], [[1957]]) was an pioneeri...
5: ...ead]]'s aircraft the [[NC-4]] completed the trip; becoming the first ever transatlantic flight.
9: ...the [[Norwegian-American]] aviator and explorer [[Bernt Balchen]] has cast significant doubt on their ...
12: ...and photographer Ashley McKinley flew the ''Floyd Bennet'' to the South Pole and back in 18 hours, 41 ...
22: ...//www.south-pole.com/p0000107.htm Richard E. Byrd 1888-1957].
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