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- New Mexico (31079 bytes)
17: LandArea = 314,590 |
25: AdmittanceDate = [[January 6]], [[1912]] |
26: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] |
46: ...542]]. Coronado camped near an excavated pueblo today preserved as [[Coronado State Monument]] in [[15...
52: ...ted Native Americans to forced labor on the haciendas and attempted to convert them to Christianity. T... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...o a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the ...
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
133: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
145: ...]: [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]]
182: ...6]]: [[Davy lamp|Miner's safety lamp]]: [[Humphry Davy]] - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...ite irregular because they usually follow the boundaries of states, countries or other administrative ...
4: [[image:Timezones.png|thumb|400px|Standard Time Zones of the World by the CIA]]
6: ...ve. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time...
8: ... the remainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British...
12: *[[Toronto, Ontario|Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]: UTC − 5 (e.g. if it is 11:00 UTC, then i... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...nowledge]]. This change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-sci...
11: ...dge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
40: ... long period that followed is also known as the [[Dark Ages]]. While the [[Byzantine Empire]] still he...
43: ...[Image:Vitruvian.jpg|right|thumb|140px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the bl...
46: ...vitalization of Europe. This provided a solid foundation for all future scientific work. Contact with ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
2: ...scar-Claude Monet''' ([[November 14]], [[1840]] – [[December 5]], [[1926]]) was a French [[impre...
6: ...2]]), but upon his contracting typhoid his aunt Madame Lecadre intervened to get him out of the army i...
12: During the [[Franco-Prussian War]] ([[1870]] – [[1871]]), Monet took refuge in England to avo...
17: ... [[1878]]. Madame Monet died of tuberculosis in [[1879]].
21: ...rent points of view and at different times of the day. Twenty views of the cathedral were exhibited at... - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
15: ...ocument listing gifts to the high priestess of [[Adab]] on the occasion of her election]]
24: ... assyriologische Studie (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1879).
28: ... in 1923, and for fifty years it would be the standard for students studying Sumerian. Poebel's gramm...
38: ...tablet, to see if any signs, especially broken or damaged signs, should be represented differently.
43: ...]] and [[Elamite language|Elamite]]. It was even adapted to [[Indo-European languages]] like [[Hittite... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
13: *[[William George Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading ...
14: ...e [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
20: ...d]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
21: ...h Baer]] - [[Germany|German]] born [[American]] — [[computer game]] - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...homas Alva Edison''' ([[February 11]], [[1847]] – [[October 18]], [[1931]]) was an [[United Stat...
7: ...homas Edison bought a house in [[Fort Myers, Florida]] (Seminole Lodge) as a winter retreat. [[Henry F...
10: ...anged. He and his family fled to Nova Scotia, Canada, settling on land the British government gave tho...
16: ...ing. His mother had been a school teacher in Canada and happily took over the job of schooling her so...
18: ...er to be typeset and printed on a moving train. Today, the paper is known as the Port Huron [[''Times-... - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
4: ... and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimi...
12: Today, in most western societies, it is taken for gran...
14: ... peace and the right to a clean environment as fundamental human rights.
17: [[Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld]] (1879-1918) maintained that [[analysis]] of legal issue...
26: ...s, but those laws that attempt to restrict a [[fundamental right]] may be unconstitutional. If the law... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
6: ====1860–1865====
12: ...federacy) established under President [[Jefferson Davis]]
28: *[[1864]] - [[Wade Davis Bill]]
31: *[[1864]] - [[Nevada]] becomes a state
38: ====1866–1869==== - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...ustry expanded rapidly throughout the era; by the dawn of the 20th century, it was the dominant econom...
21: ...7 1896 went even further, providing that state-mandated segregation was legal as long as it provided f...
30: ...rrivals on the Plains--previously they had been sedate farmers in the Great Lakes region. Once they l...
32: ...1876 the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold rush penetrated the Black Hills. The Arm...
34: ...rn Sioux reservation at [[Wounded Knee]], [[South Dakota]], led to an uprising that saw the Sioux atta... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
16: LandArea = 147,255 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 26]], [[1837]] |
25: TimeZone = Eastern: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] <br><small>(Some Upper Pen...
42: ... recognition of the state languished due to a boundary dispute with Ohio, with both sides claiming a 4...
79: ... to prospector [[Philo Everett]] near the present-day city of [[Negaunee, Michigan|Negaunee]]. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... holiday when gifts were exchanged. There are 364 days remaining (365 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
10: ...0]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
1: ...ear in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 363 days remaining (364 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spa...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-tri...
20: ...kefeller]] unites his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[trust]]. - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: {{dablink|This article covers the History of Californi...
3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied for mi...
11: ...re among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciatio...
13: ...s. Tribes in the [[Sierra Nevada (US)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] tre...
36: ...irst European to explore the coast of the present day State of California was Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo... - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: ...ably with '''[[faith]]''' or '''belief system'''—is commonly defined as [[belief]] concerning th...
2: ...roperly described as a "religious organization" – that is, an organization of people that suppor...
10: ...hence interpreting "religion" as "returning to bondage."
17: ...tices that have the function of addressing the fundamental questions of human identity, ethics, death ...
21: ...as necessary to explain natural phenomena at a fundamental level. - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ...g their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], c...
7: ...f the leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in thei...
9: ...hat only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] participate. While some would contend that the...
13: ...he Olympics until now. The US team won the gold medal in [[2000]], suggesting that a major-league team...
46: * 1879 [[Providence Grays]] - Canada Day (1959 bytes)
1: '''Canada Day''' is [[Canada]]'s [[national holiday]]. It is celebrated on [[July 1]].
3: ...ebec]]), [[Nova Scotia]], and [[New Brunswick]] — into a [[federation]]. (See [[Canadian Confede...
5: ...ngdom of Canada. The name was changed to ''Canada Day'' on [[October 27]], [[1982]].
7: ...Labrador]], July 1 is also recognised as Memorial Day and commemorates Newfoundland's heavy losses dur...
11: With the exceptions noted above, Canada Day is generally marked by patriotic celebrations. M... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
36: *[[John Dalton]], (1766-1844), physicist
37: ...[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel ...
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
43: *[[Davorin Dolar]], (born 1921), chemist
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