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- Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ... for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ... time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even thoug...
37: ...ime that is not offset by a number of whole hours from Greenwich Mean Time. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey]] ([[1852]]-[[1911]])
29: *[[Franklin Adams]] - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...rded history aspects of this desire have surfaced from time to time. The most well known is the legen...
15: ...d and it was constructed in the late 20th century from materials that would have been available to da ...
17: ...est. Yet there are sufficient proofs and examples from nature that such flights can take place without...
19: ...n [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois d'Arlandes]] went 5 miles (8 km) in a [[hot...
21: ...[1852]]. Henri Giffard flew 15 miles (24 km) in [[France]], with a steam engine mounted on a dirigible... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
38: *[[Louis Braille]], (1809-1852)
53: *[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau|Jacques Cousteau]], [[France]] — [[Aqua-Lung|aqualung]]
56: ...illiam Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas... - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ...tablishing the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the A...
9: ...ons for the future admittance of slave states and free states.
45: |[[Frederick Douglas]] publishes his autobiography.
51: ...he [[Wilmot Proviso]] helps to consolidate the "[[free soil]]" forces.
54: ... Hidalgo]], ceding vast tracts of land to the US. Free Northern farmers do not want to compete against... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
5: * [[1562]] - [[France]] recognized the [[Huguenot]]s under the [[Ed...
11: * [[1852]] - [[United Kingdom]] recognizes the independenc...
25: ...Robbery]] - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
28: * [[1966]] - [[Carl Brashear]], the first [[African American]] [[United States Navy]] diver, is i...
44: *[[1463]] - [[Frederick III of Saxony|Friedrich III]], [[Saxony|Saxon]] elector (d. [[1525... - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: During that time, the area has gone from a [[Spain|Spanish]] outpost of interest primari...
13: ...S)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the...
25: ====Francisco de Ulloa====
26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]]
28: ...ved by the renewal of those stories, Cortés sent Francisco de Ulloa out with three small vessels. He ... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...aking world as '''Fra Angelico''' ("the Angelic [[Friar]]"), or in [[Continental Europe]] as '''Beato ...
3: [[image:fra.angelico.church.750pix.jpg|thumb|200px|'''[[Sain...
7: ...k in [[Fiesole]] about [[1418]] with the name of "Fra Giovanni da Fiesole"; "The Angelic" is a laudato...
15: ...nder, or as a follower of, [[Gherardo Starnina]]. From [[1418]] to [[1436]] he was back at Fiesole; in...
17: ... he may have studied about this time the renowned frescoes in the [[Brancacci]] chapel in the Florenti... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
15: *[[Antoine Baum]], (1728-1804), French chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
31: ...Skłodowska-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
15: ... out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend.
19: ...year he spent at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. From [[1866]] to [[1867]], he was an instructor at S...
23: ...ical notes, but articulate speech. With financing from his American father-in-law, on [[March 7]], [[1...
27: ...e]] bestowed on him the [[Volta Prize]] of 50,000 francs, the [[Royal Society of Arts]] in London awar...
41: ... in circuit with the line. As the current passed from the probe through the liquid to the line a grea... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901) - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
3: ...[Secretary of War]] in the cabinet of President [[Franklin Pierce]]. He is most famous for serving as ...
6: ...andfather had immigrated to the [[United States]] from [[Wales]] and had once lived in [[Virginia]] an...
10: ...ter Mary, attending a [[log cabin]] school a mile from their home. Two years later, Davis entered the ...
14: ...avis's duties during this time was to keep miners from illegally entering what would eventually become...
16: ...President]]. On [[June 30]], 1835, Davis resigned from the U.S. Army. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
11: ...France|Napoleon]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,000 and a v...
13: *[[1852]] – [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle T...
24: ...6]] – [[Tunisia]] gains independence from [[France]].
26: *[[1965]] – In [[Naples]], [[Italy]], [[France Gall]] wins the tenth [[Eurovision Song Conte...
27: ...h; The [[Jules Rimet trophy|World Cup]] is stolen from [[Central Hall]], [[London]] - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
1: ...ramento from Riverwalk.JPG|thumb|175px|Sacramento from near the Sacramento River]]
2: ... [[1848]] by [[John Sutter, Jr.]] Sacramento grew from [[Sutter's Fort]], which was established by Sut...
36: === The lost frontier ===
37: ...entiful [[oak]] trees in the region and by eating fruits, bulbs, seeds, and roots throughout the year.
41: === From pioneers to gold fever === - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
22: *[[Robert Adamson]], (1852-1902)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841) - Mustard (7834 bytes)
22: ...own or Indian mustard (''B. juncea''), originally from the foothills of the [[Himalaya]], is grown com...
26: ...el similar to [[diesel]] fuel. The biodiesel made from mustard oil has good cold flow properties and [...
32: ...and bring back to him a single mustard seed taken from a house where no person had died. [[Jesus]]'s p...
34: ... occurs between an [[enzyme]] and a [[glucoside]] from the seeds, resulting in the production of the o...
38: ...own paste with a sharp [[taste]] that is prepared from the ground mustard seeds, by mixing them with w... - List of Governors of Wisconsin (3807 bytes)
5: ...ited States Democratic Party|Democrat]]<td>1848 - 1852
6: ...Farwell]]<td>[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]<td>1852 - 1854
26: <tr bgcolor=#FFE8E8><td>22<td>[[Francis E. McGovern]]<td>Republican<td>1911 - 1915
29: <tr bgcolor=#FFE8E8><td>25<td>[[Fred R. Zimmerman]]<td>Republican<td>1927 - 1929 - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t...
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