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- List of inventors (14020 bytes)
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
14: ...of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Ana...
22: ...U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...liner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]] - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ... the principles of [[mass production]] to the process of [[invention]].
5: ...[[patent]]s worldwide, including the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[France]], and [[Germany]...
7: ...il Edison died. The [[Edison and Ford Winter Estates]] are now open to the public.
10: ...gland when the colonies revolted. That got him arrested and nearly hanged. He and his family fled to N...
14: ... child, [[Thomas Alva Edison]]. The economic success in Milan was soon over, though, and seven-year-o... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
1: ... Americans died fighting the Civil War, include these men felled during the bloody Battle of Antietam]...
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1860]] to [[1...
8: *[[1860]] - [[Pony Express]] begins
10: *[[1860]] - [[South Carolina]] secedes
11: *[[1861]] - [[Abraham Lincoln]] becomes President - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...icts with the native [[Sioux]] and [[Apache]] tribes, and the eventual displacement of much of the nat...
5: ''Main article: [[Reconstruction era (United States)|Reconstruction]]''
7: ...and procedures for reintegrating the southern states.
9: ...ributed to the government's failure for many decades to enforce the civil rights of the formerly ensla...
11: ...n for life or property now exist in the rebel States." - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...of the Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The G...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
7: ...st known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
11: *[[1651]] - [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] crowned King of [[Scotland]]
15: ...y [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]]. - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
1: ...e.jpg|right|thumb|[[Taipei 101]], the world's tallest skyscraper by roof height on high rise.]]
3: ...ings, but it tends to be applied specifically to residential buildings.
5: ...le walk up so many flights of stairs, and water pressure could only provide running water to about 50&...
7: ...r 300 metres (987 ft) tall. The other development essential to practical skyscraper development was th...
9: ...ure was constructed in [[1884]]-[[1885]] and was destroyed in [[1931]] for the Field's building. Anot... - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
1: ... English|AE]]) is an [[annual]] [[holiday]] that resulted from efforts of the [[labour union]] movemen...
3: ...t hour day. Their direct action protest was a success, and they are noted as the first organised worke...
7: ... in [[1872]]. On the other hand, socialist delegates in [[Paris]] in [[1889]] appointed May 1 as the o...
9: ...ian labor movements with internationalist sympathies.
11: ...young adults view it as the last weekend for parties before returning to [[school]]. - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
2: ...d is still used in modern times for various purposes.
4: ==Description==
5: ...ch has a mechanism to wind and shoot its bolts. These bolts are typically called [[quarrel]]s, and do ...
7: ...cess of engaging a bolt forces a more uniform process than that of using a bow and arrow. This consist...
10: ...is at the end of the shelf (also called the bolt rest). - Auto racing (15302 bytes)
6: ...etit Journal]], a reliability test to determine best performance.
12: The first auto race in the [[United States]], over a 54.36 mile (87.48 km) course, took plac...
16: ...ub ACF staged a number of major international races, usually from or to Paris, connecting with anothe...
18: ...gouleme]] in the Paris-Madrid race. Eight fatalities caused the French government to stop the race in ...
23: ...chieve light weight, and in the case of the Mercedes, the paint was removed to satisfy the weight limi... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...e New York Yankees have the most World Series titles, with 26 championships.
3: ...,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
5: ...s given the home field advantage in the World Series.
7: ...half of the leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place i...
9: ... champions in the Japanese or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded. - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
1: {{MLB Braves franchise}}
3: ... American sport, while collecting one [[World Series]] championship in that time (in 1995, also a stri...
5: ..., Red Stockings founder [[Harry Wright]] and the best players from that team re-formed in Boston and t...
6: ...efused to use it. The team switched back to "Braves" in 1941.
10: :'''Logo design:''' The script word "Braves" above a [[tomahawk]] - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
2: {{MLB Orioles franchise}}
3: The '''Baltimore Orioles''' are a [[Major League Baseball]] team based in ...
5: ... [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] franchise in the minor Western League. In [[1900 in sports|1900]] that leag...
6: :'''Formerly known as:''' Milwaukee Brewers, 1894-1901. [[St. Louis Browns]], [[1902 in sports|190...
7: ...rk:''' [[Oriole Park at Camden Yards]] [[1992]]-present - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
5: ...ball)|Western League]]. Moved to [[St. Paul, Minnesota]], then again to Chicago in 1900 when that lea...
6: :''Formerly known as:'' Sioux City Cornhuskers, 1894. St. Paul, 1895-1899. "White Sox" is short for ...
9: :''Logo design:'' the letters "SOX", interlocked in various w...
10: :''Wild Card titles won'' (0): ''none''
11: :''Division titles won'' (4): [[1983 in sports|1983]], [[1993 in spo... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
3: ... in [[Los Angeles, California]]. They are in the Western Division of the [[National League]].
6: ... [[1957]], after which the team moved to Los Angeles for the [[1958]] season.
7: ...rt Robinson years, the newspapers used the nicknames ''Robins'' and ''Dodgers'' interchangeably, often...
8: ...ooklyn. [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Dodgers/dodgers.html Part of the wall of the stad...
10: :'''Logo design:''' a cursive "Dodgers" superimposed over a re... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
59: *[[Carl Remigius Fresenius]]
60: *[[Wilhelm Fresenius]], son of Carl, German chemist, (1913-2004)
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who disc... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...f the [[photoelectric effect]] and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".
7: ... work and philosophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist...
14: ...e insistence of his mother, was given [[violin]] lessons.
16: ...elopment of the theory of relativity to this slowness, saying that by pondering space and time later t...
18: ...g his late childhood and early adolescence by suggesting and providing books on science and mathematic... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ... one of his fellow-students under [[Th鯰hile-Jules Pelouze]] at the [[University of Torino]]). Sever...
7: ...003) been translated into any other language than Esperanto.
12: ...bent, inert substance like [[diatomaceous earth|kieselguhr]] (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and ...
14: ...um nitrate]], wood-pulp and various other substances.
16: ... is in practice impossible to prepare either of these two forms without admixture of the other; but ev... - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
2: ...iciency, he is known for suggesting hundreds of uses for the [[peanut]] and other [[plant]]s to increa...
5: ...is time wandering the fields, drawn to the varieties of wild plants. He became so knowledgeable that h...
9: ...t still carried scars from this incident for the rest of his life.
11: ...'s horticultural talents. Realizing the difficulties facing an African-American artist, she convinced ...
13: ...r for the athletic teams. He was captain, the highest student rank, of the campus military regiment. H... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
8: ...ovince of Enna|Enna]]<br />[[Province of Messina|Messina]]<br />[[Province of Palermo|Palermo]]<br />[...
21: ... is an autonomous region of [[Italy]] and the largest [[island]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]], with an...
23: ==Towns and Cities==
24: ...rovincial capitals [[Catania]], [[Messina, Italy|Messina]], [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]] (''Siracusa''...
30: ...na is 3,320 m (10,900 ft) high, making it the tallest volcano in Europe. It is also one of the world'... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
6: *[[Wäinö Aaltonen]] ([[1894]] - [[1966]])
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
41: *[[Georges Braque]] (1882 - 1963)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
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