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- Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: Born in [[Oslo]], Henie took the gold medal in the [[1928 Winter Olympics|1928]], [[1932 Win...
6: ...n, and her first [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medal the following year. She also won six consecutive...
8: ...e in figure skating, and the first to make use of dance [[choreographer|choreography]]. She was also ...
10: ... had triumphant shows in Norway in [[1953]] and [[1955]]. In [[1938]] she published her autobiography, ...
12: Henie was married three times, with [[Dan Topping]], [[Winthrop Gardner]], and finally the... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...[[June 26]], [[1911]] in [[Port Arthur, Texas]] – [[September 27]], [[1956]]) was an [[United St...
5: ...ter the Games, Shiley and Didrikson split their medals.
11: ...s Open championship. Her [[cancer]] reappeared in 1955 and limited her schedule to eight events, but she...
19: ...iography'', by Babe Didrikson Zaharias, New York, 1955
23: ... Official Site of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation - on archive.org] - Matthew Henson (1087 bytes)
2: '''Matthew Henson''' ([[1866]] – [[1955]]) was an [[American]] explorer who may have been...
4: ...oration with [[Bradley Robinson]] his biography ''Dark Companion'' in [[1947]]. - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
7: ... numbers, with production ceasing altogether in [[1955]] due to lack of interest. Apparently, only one w... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
15: capital = [[Amsterdam]]. [[The Hague]] is the seat of government |
17: largest_city = [[Amsterdam]] |
32: ...[[Christianity]], [[Islam]], [[Hinduism]] and [[Judaism]] |
40: established_dates = [[Eighty Years' War|From Spain]]<br/>[[May 2...
55: ... [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Australia]], and [[Canada]]. - Argentina (30219 bytes)
35: established_dates = from [[Spain]]<br/> [[May 25]], [[1810]]<br/...
52: ...a del Plata]] – a mountain rich in silver – reached Spain around [[1524]]. Since then, the...
59: ...'s resources—especially the western pampas—came from throughout Europe.
61: ... political change that eventually led to the ascendance of [[Juan Domingo Per (b. [[1895]]). New s...
63: ...1952]], but the military sent him into exile in [[1955]]. In the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]], military and c... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
25: | [[Begum Khaleda Zia]]
36: | '''[[Victory Day (Bangladesh)|Victory Day]]'''<br>|| [[December 16]], [[1971]]
65: ...ngal]]. There is recent evidence of civilizations dating back to [[500 BC]], and there are even claims...
69: ...ry]] as [[International Mother Language Day]]. In 1955, the government of Pakistan changed the name of t...
73: ... estimates claim 50,000 deaths in the first three days of the so-called ''[[Operation Searchlight]]'' ... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
40: established_dates = From [[United Kingdom|UK]] by treaty<br>[[21...
58: ...] of the state as per the [[Ireland Act 1949]]. Today while ''Republic of Ireland'' is an accepted ter...
77: ...e Free State suffered a hard blow in the earliest days of its existence as a result.
83: ...he privileges of Commonwealth membership. To this day, for example, Irish citizens resident in the Uni...
85: ...t Agreement]], was approved in [[1998]] in referenda north and south of the border, and is currently b... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...and [[Ethiopia]] to the east, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]] to the southeast, [[Democratic Republic of the ...
8: ...ودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-Sudan |
9: common_name = Sudan |
10: image_flag = Sudan flag large.png |
11: image_coat = Sudan coa.png | - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
43: <br> - Date
71: ...a celebrated the tricentennial of British rule in 1955.
94: ...hools are available for specialty training in Canada, the U.S. and Britain.
148: ...]. Other religions include Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.
150: ...cially to the [[United States]] but also to [[Canada]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. This emigration app... - Spain (36498 bytes)
39: established_dates = [[1492]] |
58: ...-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a separate [[ethnic group]]. The most importa...
62: ...olony was [[Carthago Nova]] (Latin name of modern day [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]]).
77: By [[1512]], most of the kingdoms of present-day Spain were politically unified, although not as ...
85: ... the French Bourbons (see [[House of Bourbon]]) — that a centralized Spanish state was establish... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
16: LandArea = 144,701 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 28|Dec 28]], [[1846]] |
25: ...Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|DST]]-5 |
46: ...een home to approximately 17 different tribes. Today, only the [[Mesquaki]] tribe is left in Iowa and...
50: ...ted in a few shots finding Iowa soil; a raid into Davis and Van Buren counties by Confederate guerrill... - 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]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
12: *[[Uda, Emperor of Japan|Uda, emperor of Japan]], (867-931)
13: *[[Mark Udall|Udall, Mark E.]] (1950-)
14: *[[Mo Udall|Udall, Morris King "Mo"]] (1922-1998)
15: *[[Stewart Udall|Udall, Stewart Lee]] (1920-)
16: *[[Tom Udall|Udall, Thomas Stewart "Tom"]] (1948-) - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politici...
6: *[[Genrikh Yagoda|Yagoda, Genrikh Grigor'evich]] (1891-1938)
42: *[[Yasunori Mitsuda|Yasunori, Mitsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video ga...
73: ...Stephen Yenser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
121: *[[Paramahansa Yogananda|Yogananda, Paramahansa]], ([[1893]]-[[1952]]) - 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]]-) - Macau (16856 bytes)
25: |'''Establishment<br> - Date'''
40: ...peak [[Cantonese Chinese|Cantonese]] natively; Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and English are also spok...
44: ...Kong and Macau is available 24 hours a day, every day.
50: ...島; Liandao; "Lotus Island"), as well as "Soda port" (疏打埠).
59: ...40]], Macau was granted the official title of ''Cidade do (Santo) Nome de Deus de Macau, N㯠hᠯutra ... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
6: |Date||[[1957]]–[[1975]]
27: !colspan="2" |'''Civilian Casualties: ''' c. 2—4 million
33: ...o decide whether Vietnam would be unified in accordance with an agreement reached at Geneva in 1954, o...
39: ...itizen]]s volunteered to join the US forces. Canada, in fact, led peace talks between the two countri...
59: ... serve as a provisional government. The following day, the Congress, at a ceremony in front of the vil... - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
19: *[[1954]] - [[Baghdad Pact]]
26: *[[1955]] - [[Rosa Parks]] incites [[Montgomery bus boyco...
27: *[[1955]] - [[American Federation of Labor|AFL]] and [[Co...
28: *[[1955]] - [[Warsaw Pact]]
29: *[[1955]] - [[Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine]]
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