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- Connecticut (28543 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' |
43: ... English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundamental Orders of Con...
49: ...Lieberman]] (Democrat). Connecticut currently has five [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Connectic...
56: ... to the rolling mountains and farms of the [[Litchfield Hills]] and the casinos of [[Southeastern Conn...
65: ...sts, new residents, and internal state pride. Fairfield County's "[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
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50: ...h from their base in Florida. In [[1724]], it was first suggested that what was by then a British colo...
52: ...tors' prison]]. On [[February 12]], [[1733]], the first settlers landed in the ''[[HMS Anne]]'' at wha...
54: ...heater of the [[American Civil War]]. In December 1864, a large swath of the state was destroyed during ...
56: On [[February 19]], [[1953]] Georgia became the first U.S. state to approve a [[literature]] [[censo... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
36: ...e state is "State of Iowa", and the [[U.S. Post Office]] abbreviation for the state is '''IA'''.
45: ... and [[Jacques Marquette]] are believed to be the first Europeans to visit Iowa. They described Iowa ...
47: *The first white settlers officially moved to Iowa in June [[1833]]. Primarily,...
49: ...he [[Union Pacific]] railroad. The completion of five major railroads across Iowa brough major econom... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
43: ...]), and is sometimes seen as a precursor to the [[First Amendment]].
55: ...ting)|constitutional convention]] was held during 1864 that culminated in the passage of a new state con...
63: ...ranch|judicial]]. Unlike most other states, significant autonomy is granted to many of Maryland's [[C...
101: bio-research laboratories, as well as staffing of satellite government headquarters in the sub... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
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36: ...ion (608,827) ranks as the second smallest of the fifty states. As the only [[New England]] state not ...
48: ...everal mountains do have timberlines: [[Mount Mansfield]], the highest mountain in the state and [[Kil...
54: ...6 degrees Celsius), at [[Bloomfield, Vermont|Bloomfield]] on [[December 30]], [[1933]].
57: ...sfield 20040926.jpg|280px|thumb|right|[[Mount Mansfield]], at 4,393 feet, is the highest elevation poi... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
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38: ...weden|Swede]]s and [[Netherlands|Dutch]] were the first [[Europe]]an settlers, the [[Quaker]] [[Willia...
59: ...ndian War]]. The French established numerous fortifications in the area, including the pivotal [[Fort ...
61: ...putation of religious freedom also attracted significant populations of [[Germany|German]] and [[Scots...
65: ...12, [[1787]] (five days after Delaware became the first). - Montana (14119 bytes)
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38: ...[wheat]], [[barley]], [[sugar beet]]s) and a significant [[lumber]] and [[mineral]] industry.
40: ... the 41st state in [[1889]]. The state became the first to elect a female member of [[United States Co...
51: ...al Recreational Area]], [[Big Hole National Battlefield]], and the [[National Bison Range]]. There are...
53: ...etween these ranges is a great basin, forming one-fifth of the entire area. East of the Rocky Mountai... - Nevada (17565 bytes)
8: ...name = Silver State, Battle Born State (official) |
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[October 31]], [[1864]] |
25: ...ntain City, Owyhee, and West Wendover) are in Pacific</small> |
37: ...rom the [[United States 2000 Census|2000 census]] figure of 1,998,257. Nevada is the fastest growing ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
49: *[[Miguel de Unamuno|Unamuno, Miguel de]], (1864-1936), : ''Niebla'', ''San Manuel Bueno Martir''
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]] - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...the solar wind than dust is, and follows magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. Whil...
21: Comets are classified according to their orbital periods. ''Short per...
33: Until [[1994]], comets were first given a provisional designation consisting of ...
35: ...}} So Halley's Comet, the first comet to be identified as periodic, has the systemic designation 1P/16...
43: ...planets, on the grounds that while the planets confined their motion to the circle of the [[Zodiac]], ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
24: ''[[1863]]–[[1864]]. 35 stars, after the admission of [[West Virgi...
26: ''[[1864]]–[[1865]]. 36 stars, after the admission o...
55: ...d not secede, and one seceding state split; these five are known as the [[Border States (Civil War)|Bo...
62: ...ssippi and the state open. California gold helped finance the Union war effort.[http://www.militarymus...
71: ...last slave state admitted was Texas in 1845, with five free states admitted between 1846 and 1859. Kan... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
1: ...tietam.jpg|thumb|More than 550,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, include these men felled dur...
17: *[[1861]] - [[First Battle of Bull Run]]
19: *[[1862]] - [[Pacific Railway Act]]
27: *[[1864]] - [[National Banking Act of 1864]]
28: *[[1864]] - [[Wade Davis Bill]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...uary 1 was to be either [[New Year's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England beg...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], pr...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered b...
22: ...ein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
7: ...ius became [[Pope]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Syd...
21: *[[1890]] - [[Alice Sanger]] becomes the first female staffer for the [[White House]].
27: *[[1921]] - The first religious [[radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in ...
37: *[[1949]] - [[Luis MuMar�] became the first democratically elected [[Governor of Puerto Ri... - Arowana (2287 bytes)
13: '''Arowana''' are [[freshwater]] [[bony fish]] of the family '''Osteoglossidae''', sometimes...
15: ==Classification==
22: ...r the world's [[largest fish in the world|largest fish]].
40: *** '''[[Scleropages leichardti]]''' G?, 1864 - the "Spotted Barramundi" - Blue Whale (22203 bytes)
20: ...of which is in the North-East [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]]. There are two groups in the North [[Atlantic ...
23: ...escribe the genetic distance between a Blue and a Fin as about the same as that between a human and go...
27: ...Whale''') found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific. Some older authorities also list ''B. m. indica...
29: The specific name ''musculus'' is [[Latin]] and could mean "m...
34: ... than other large whales (such as the [[Fin Whale|Fin]] or [[Sei Whale|Sei]]). This can often be a use... - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ... won the series four games to none, earning their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the ...
5: ...l All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] is given the home field advantage in the World Series.
7: ...dings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not ...
9: ...to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club team outside [[Ma...
13: ...nificant minority are from [[Puerto Rico]], which fields its own teams in international sports competi... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ...g, Sweden|Heleneborg]], and a disastrous one in [[1864]] killed Alfred's younger brother [[Emil Nobel|Em...
7: ...being regarded as scandalous and blasphemous. The first surviving edition (bilingual Swedish-[[Esperan...
14: ...s followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of [[potassium nitrate]], wood-...
21: ...nd from the exploitation of the [[Baky|Baku]] oil-fields, in the development of which he and his broth...
27: ...n an ideal direction" and [[Nobel Peace Prize|the fifth]] is to be given to the person or society that...
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