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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
13: *[[1861]] - [[American Civil War]] begins at [[Fort Sumter]]
40: *[[1866]] - [[Ku Klux Klan]] founded
43: *[[1867]] - The [[Grange]] founded
49: *[[1868]] - [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constituti...
50: *[[1868]] - [[University of California]] chartered - January 1 (18244 bytes)
18: ...tain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]]
25: ...e [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]].
26: *[[1869]] - [[Sigma Nu]] fraternity is officially founded at the [[Virginia Military Institute]]
30: ...nties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], ...
35: ...me)|Rose Bowl]] game is played in [[Pasadena, California]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
13: ...18]] - British [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] formed
18: *[[1872]] - [[Brigham Young]] is arrested for [[polygamy|bigamy]] (25 wives).
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cri...
21: ...[[Alice Sanger]] becomes the first female staffer for the [[White House]].
31: *[[1935]] - [[Bruno Hauptmann]] goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., infant son ... - Blizzard (4179 bytes)
7: ...ds of at least 32 mph (seven or more on the [[Beaufort Wind Scale]]).
9: ...these conditions must last for 4 hours or more, before the storm can be properly called a blizzard.
15: An extreme form of blizzard is a '''whiteout''', when [[downdra...
25: ...ng winter storms in one season. The [[Blizzard of 1888]] paralyzed the [[Northeastern United States]]. I...
29: ...years to the day (March 12) after the blizzard of 1888, a massive blizzard, nicknamed the [[Storm of the... - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ...he [[Boston Red Sox]]. The Red Sox won the series four games to none, earning their first World Series...
7: ...ch did not qualify for the playoffs, the criteria for the latter changing at various times. Prior to ...
11: ...vealed no evidence of the supposed sponsorship. (For details, see [http://roadsidephotos.com/basebal...
13: ...e world than any amount of money spent by the MLB for its current worldwide marketing.
15: ... first such World Cup is tentatively scheduled to follow the [[2005]] season. The IBAF has already org... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
3: ...eague Baseball]] team based in [[Los Angeles, California]]. They are in the Western Division of the [[...
5: :'''Founded:''' [[1883]], as a member of the minor Inte...
6: ...1957]], after which the team moved to Los Angeles for the [[1958]] season.
7: ...olley Dodgers]]'' -- originally a pejorative term for Brooklyn residents, shortened to ''Dodgers'' and...
8: ...ngton Park on 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn. [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Dodgers/dodgers.htm... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
7: :'''Founded:''' [[1882]] in the [[American Association (...
8: :'''Formerly known as:''' St. Louis Brown Stockings ([[...
10: :'''Uniform colors:''' Cardinal red, White, and Navy blue
15: ...nants won''' (4): [[1885]], [[1886]], [[1887]], [[1888]]
24: ...an Association]] in [[1882]] where they enjoyed a four-year dynasty under flamboyant owner [[Chris von... - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
8: ...s a pair, but may change less frequently than the forwards. A substitution of an entire unit at once i...
10: ...lp keep the puck in play, and play often proceeds for minutes without interruption. When play is stopp...
14: ...nd IIHF codes, while professional rules generally follow those of the NHL.
19: ...ically two ''linesmen'', who are responsible only for calling offside and icing violations, and one or...
21: ... rare ten-minute ''match penalties'' are assessed for deliberately inflicting injury on an opponent. ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
69: *[[Victor Goldschmidt]], (1888-1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
196: ...vey W. Wiley]], (1844-1930), US [[chemist]], Pure food & drug advocate
209: ... 1946), [[Egyptian]], [[1999]] Nobel Prize Winner for his work on [[femtochemistry]]. - Triceratops (4523 bytes)
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26: ...sured that many examples have been preserved as [[fossil]]s, allowing variations between species and i...
28: ...sus'' and ''T. horridus''. ''[[Diceratops]]'' was formerly believed to be a species of ''Triceratops''...
34: A number of purposes have been proposed for the frill:
40: * Anchor points for the [[jaw]] muscles. - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
4: ...he telephone and innovations in aviation and hydrofoil technology |
12: ...for important advances in [[aviation]] and [[hydrofoil]] technology.
15: ... adopted the middle name Graham out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend.
21: ...d to introduce the system into a large day-school for mutes at [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], but h... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
3: ...ynamite]]. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the [[Nobel Prize]]s. The [[syn...
5: ...econd son, [[Ludvig Nobel|Ludvig Emmanuel]] (1831-1888), by whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfred, re...
7: ...[[Nemesis (Nobel)|Nemesis]]'', a prose tragedy in four acts about [[Beatrice Cenci]], partly inspired ...
12: Nobel found that when [[nitroglycerin]] was incorporated w...
14: ..., as it was called, was patented in 1876, and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified... - George Eastman (2821 bytes)
5: ... the common man. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the [[film stock|motion picture...
9: ...me of his favorite letters, and received a patent for his [[camera]] which used roll film. He coined t...
11: ...a. Eastman was even a member of [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]], the national men's music fraternity.
15: ...tate went to the [[University of Rochester]]. His former home at 900 East Avenue in [[Rochester, Monro... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
1: [[Image:0076fordW.jpg|thumb|250px|Ford Automobile
2: ...y this phase of economic and social history as "[[Fordism]]."
6: ...self-propelled vehicle, a steam powered thresher, for the first time.
8: ...s. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in [[1888]] Ford supported himself by farming and running a sawm...
10: In [[1891]], Ford became an engineer with the [[Edison Illuminati... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
98: *[[Giovan Battista Foggini]]
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
157: *[[Rikardur Jonsson]] (1888 - 1972)
221: *[[Chana Orloff]] (1888 - 1968)
262: *[[Oskar Schlemmer]] (1888 - 1943) - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
13: ...centrally located power stations, and the ability for cars going down hill to transfer energy to cars ...
19: ...ese grips ensured that this line became the model for other cable car transit systems, and this model ...
21: ...ere too steep to allow coasting, while the latter forced a wedge down into the cable slot to stop the ...
23: ...day), housed, groomed, medicated and rested. Thus for a period economics worked in favour of cable car...
25: ...ler into a single car, like San Francisco's ''California Cars'', Chicago used grip cars to pull trains... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
2: ...ower and [[rail tracks|rails]] of wood or stone. For discussion of particular countries see [[History...
6: ... the only practical overland mechanized transport for well over 100 years.
9: ...signed edged rails to be used with flanged wheels for use on a scheme in [[Loughborough]], [[Leicester...
11: ...ged wider experimentation, though it was not used for locomotive power until [[Richard Trevithick]] de...
14: ... financially successful, because it was too heavy for the track and kept breaking down. Despite his in... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
2: ...most scientific and medical references to him are found under this spelling.
6: ...ht Technical School]], from which he was expelled for producing a caricature of one of the teachers, a...
12: ...ng radiation because his investigations were only for a short time and he was one of the few pioneers ...
18: ... coil to generate an [[electrostatic]] charge. Before setting up the barium platinocyanide screen to ...
20: ...ed [[x-ray]]s, using the mathematical designation for something unknown. Although the new rays would ... - Henry Morton Stanley (3669 bytes)
1: ... for his exploration of [[Africa]] and his search for [[David Livingstone]].
7: ...own to be in [[Africa]] but had not been heard of for some time. According to Stanley's no doubt roman...
9: ... joined him in exploring the region, establishing for certain that there was no connection between Lak...
11: ...or a great many deaths and indirectly responsible for helping establish the worst single episode of Eu...
13: ...ged from the interior with Emin and his surviving followers at the end of [[1890]]. - Richard E. Byrd (4114 bytes)
1: ...'', [[United States Navy|USN]] ([[October 25]], [[1888]] – [[March 11]], [[1957]]) was an pioneeri...
5: ...sulted in his appointment to plan the flight path for the U.S. Navy's 1919 [[transatlantic]] crossing....
9: ...idespread acclaim, enabling him to secure funding for subsequent attempts on the South Pole.
12: ...xpeditions and geological surveys were undertaken for the duration of that summer, and constant radio ...
15: ...n [[1955]], accompanied by [[Andrew Van Mincey]], for whom [[Mincey Glacier]] is named.
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