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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1860]] to [[1899]]'''.
15: ...[1861]] - [[Kansas]] admitted to the Union as a [[free state]]
36: *[[1865]] - [[Freedman's Bureau]]
45: *[[1867]] - [[Alaska Purchase]] from Russia
55: ...Wyoming]] becomes first state to grant [[woman suffrage]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
15: ...8]] - [[Bouvet Island]] is discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de ...
20: *[[1804]] - [[France|French]] rule ends in [[Haiti]].
22: ...] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first ...
25: ...m under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]].
26: *[[1869]] - [[Sigma Nu]] fraternity is officially founded at the [[Virginia M... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: *[[366]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman ...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [...
28: ... - [[DeYoung Museum]] in [[Golden Gate Park]] San Francisco opens.
33: ...ship]] program with a stated goal of building 200 freighters. Over 2,700 ships will eventually be con...
39: *[[1957]] - [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angele... - Blizzard (4179 bytes)
3: ...Sudden blizzards can cause terrible damage to [[infrastructure]] as well as danger to human life.]]
15: ...e that it is impossible to distinguish the ground from the air. People caught in a whiteout can quick...
17: ...lizzard'' is of unknown origin, but may originate from the surname Blizzard. It was first widely used ...
25: ...ng winter storms in one season. The [[Blizzard of 1888]] paralyzed the [[Northeastern United States]]. I...
27: ... of those caught unprepared died by [[hypothermia|freezing to death]] in the [[snow]] and some while t... - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: The [[2004 World Series]] was played from [[October 23]] until [[October 27]], between th...
7: ...y preceding it - is used to fund a Players' Pool, from which descending shares are distributed to the ...
11: ...es that claim, demonstrating a linear progression from the phrase "World's Championship Series" (used ...
13: ...ening the Olympic tournament if the MLB agrees to freeing its players. According to the IBAF chairman,...
15: ... teams. The winter scheduling would allow players from the North American and Japanese professional le... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
1: {{MLB Dodgers franchise}}
7: ..., the ''Robins'' (after Wilbert Robinson, manager from [[1914]] through [[1931]]) and the ''[[Trolley ...
18: :'''Owner''': [[Frank McCourt (executive)|Frank McCourt]]
21: == Franchise history ==
23: ...ching to the [[National League]] in [[1890]], the franchise became the only one in MLB history to win ... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
3: {{MLB Cardinals franchise}}
9: ... Village]] -(Also to be known as "Busch Stadium") from [[2006]] on
12: :'''Mascot:''' [[Fredbird]], an [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphized]...
15: ...nants won''' (4): [[1885]], [[1886]], [[1887]], [[1888]]
21: == Franchise history == - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
4: [[Image:Eishockey_Eisbaeren_gegen_Capitals.jpg|frame|right|Two defencemen and a goaltender guard th...
5: ...tender]]'', whose primary job is to stop the puck from entering the net, and who is permitted unique g...
8: ...ally stay together as a pair, but may change less frequently than the forwards. A substitution of an e...
21: ...alled for fighting, boarding, and other violent infractions. The rare ten-minute ''match penalties'' ...
23: ... shot]]'', an attempt to score without opposition from any defenders except the goaltender. - 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 - Triceratops (4523 bytes)
22: ... [[herbivore|herbivorous]] [[dinosaur]] [[genus]] from the Latest [[Cretaceous]] [[geologic period|per...
26: ...ps'' was discovered by [[John Bell Hatcher]] in [[1888]]. Its declaration as a legitimate dinosaur came ...
30: == Horns and frill ==
32: ...he rear of the skull bore a relatively short bony frill.
34: A number of purposes have been proposed for the frill: - 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... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
1: [[Image:AlfredNobel.jpg|thumb|200px|Alfred Nobel]]
3: '''Alfred Bernhard Nobel''' ([[October 21]], [[1833]], [[...
5: ...borg]], and a disastrous one in [[1864]] killed Alfred's younger brother [[Emil Nobel|Emil]] and sever...
7: Less well-known is the fact that Alfred Nobel was also a playwright. His only play (''[...
9: Alfred Nobel is interred in the [[Norra begravningspla... - George Eastman (2821 bytes)
9: On [[September 4]], [[1888]] Eastman registered the trademark ''Kodak'',whic...
11: ...Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]], the national men's music fraternity.
15: ...in 1954, Eastman was honored with a postage stamp from the United States Post Office. - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
6: ...by his parents, William and Mary Ford, immigrants from [[County Cork]], [[Ireland]]. He was the eldes...
8: ... engines. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in [[1888]] Ford supported himself by farming and running a...
18: ...rd at Detroit Fairgrounds in [[1911]] with driver Frank Kulick. In 1913, Ford attempted to enter a rew...
20: ...ndicate that the concept and its development came from employees Clarence Avery, P.E. "Ed" Martin, [[C...
24: ...me, Henry and Edsel purchased all remaining stock from other investors, thus becoming sole owners of t... - 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)
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
2: ...[Image:Cable_Car.jpg|thumb|right|Cable Car in San Francisco]]
3: [[Image:Sf_cable_car.jpg|thumb|right|A San Francisco cable car]]
9: ...le. Conversely the car is stopped by detaching it from the cable, and then applying brakes. This gripp...
16: ...nkers Patent Railway]] in [[New York]], which ran from [[1 July]] [[1868]] to [[1870]]. The cable tech...
18: ...Station.jpg|thumb|right|Machinery driving the San Francisco Cable Car]] - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
27: ...reetcar|electric railways]] as [[Frank J. Sprague|Frank Sprague]] built the first working electric str...
36: ...tates, but railroads remain important for hauling freight in the United States, and for passenger tran...
46: ** [[History of rail transport in France|France]] - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
6: .... He later attended [[Utrecht Technical School]], from which he was expelled for producing a caricatur...
8: ...e graduated with a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Zurich]].
12: ...of physics at the [[University of Giessen]]. In [[1888]], he obtained the physics chair at the [[Univers...
16: .... He knew the cardboard covering prevented light from escaping, yet Röntgen observed that the invisi...
18: ...ng a match, he discovered the shimmering had come from the location of the barium platinocyanide scree... - Henry Morton Stanley (3669 bytes)
1: ...orers|explorer]] famous for his exploration of [[Africa]] and his search for [[David Livingstone]].
3: ... a ship. Upon arriving in New Orleans, he became friendly with a wealthy trader named Stanley, whose ...
7: ... [[David Livingstone]], who was known to be in [[Africa]] but had not been heard of for some time. Acc...
9: ...vements being to solve the last great mystery of African exploration by tracing the course of the rive...
11: ...old II of Belgium|King Leopold]] over the [[Congo Free State]]. - Richard E. Byrd (4114 bytes)
1: ...'', [[United States Navy|USN]] ([[October 25]], [[1888]] – [[March 11]], [[1957]]) was an pioneeri...
5: ...ircumstances inspired his transfer and graduation from the [[United States Naval Academy]]. He learne...
9: ...ve achieved the pole, however subsequent evidence from their diaries and mechanical analysis of their ...
15: ...ion to date. Byrd also commanded [[Operation Deep Freeze]], which established permanent Antarctic base...
22: ...//www.south-pole.com/p0000107.htm Richard E. Byrd 1888-1957].
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