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  1. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
    63: From 1763 until independence, St. Vincent passed through various stages of colonial status under the B...
    65: ...r Windward Islands in order to govern the region through a unified administration. The most notable wa...
    67: ...agued the country throughout the 20th century. In 1902, La Soufriere volcano erupted, killing 2,000 peop...
    100: ...cess to [[Intelsat]] earth station in Martinique through Saint Lucia
    102: ...FM). In 1997 it had one television station (plus three repeaters). In 2000 it had 15 ISPs. In 2001 it ...
  2. Flag of Ohio (981 bytes)
    2: The '''Flag of Ohio''' was adopted in [[1902]] and designed by [[John Eisemann]]. The large bl...
  3. Aswan Dam (6375 bytes)
    10: ... of the first dam in 1899 and it was completed in 1902. A gravity dam, it was 1,900 m long and 54 m high...
    18: ...ects of dangerous floods in 1964 and 1973 and of threatening droughts in 1972–73 and 1983–...
  4. Oregon (26551 bytes)
    49: ...]]. The [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] travelled through the region during their expedition to explore...
    74: ...[Great River of the West]] in his book ''Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America''. The po...
    103: ...ate overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in [[1902]] that created the [[initiative]] and [[referendu...
    105: ...ot measures|measures placed on the ballot]] since 1902, the people have passed 99 of the 288 initiatives...
    113: *[[1998]] Through a voter [[List_of_Oregon_ballot_measures#1998...
  5. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
    124: * [[1657]]: [[Pendulum clock]]: [[Christiaan Huygens]]
    128: ... [[Seed drill]]: [[Jethro Tull (agriculturist)|Jethro Tull]]
    133: ...14]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
    154: * [[1784]]: [[Shrapnel shell]]: [[Henry Shrapnel]]
  6. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    46: *[[Frank Yates|Yates, Frank]], ([[1902]]-[[1994]]), statistician
    120: *[[Jean-Christophe Yoccoz|Yoccoz, Jean-Christophe]], mathematician
  7. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    34: *[[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]] ([[1667]]-[[1719]])
    83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
    145: *[[Albert Bierstadt]] ([[1830]]-[[1902]])
    167: *[[Aaron Bohrod]] ([[1907]]-[[1992]])
    218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
  8. Castle (27805 bytes)
    28: ...natural geography to support the defensive walls through exploitation of cliffs, rivers, hills, and th...
    30: ... were very permanent structures and many survive through to the modern day; they are now mostly consid...
    46: ... period on the border of [[Herefordshire]] and [[Shropshire]] by [[Richard Fitz Scrob]]. The essential...
    57: ...projecting towers. From the Byzantine engineers, through the crusaders, we derive, therefore, the card...
    61: ...e castle stood upon high ground and consisted of three distinct enceintes or wards besides the keep, w...
  9. Aviation history (39698 bytes)
    3: ...o the first time prehistoric man observed birds. Through all of recorded history aspects of this desir...
    17: ...nt in his observation that powering the aircraft through the air was the crux of flying. Sufficiently...
    21: ...e]], with a steam engine mounted on a dirigible. Throughout the latter half of the 19th century and th...
    29: ...at led to the first truly practical [[glider]]s. Three names in particular remain well known in the av...
    37: Throughout this period a number of attempts were made...
  10. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
    51: ...ur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
    52: *[[Christopher Cockerell]], (1910-1999;) (1886-1972) &md...
    112: *[[John Harrison]], (1693-1776) — marine chronometer
    164: ...7) — reflecting telescope (which reduces [[chromatic aberration]])
  11. Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
    10: ...nt gave those who had been loyal to it. In 1811, three generations of Edison's took up farming near Vi...
    16: ...d calling him "[[addled]]". This ended Edison's three-months of formal schooling. His mother had bee...
    29:
    56: ...s were improvements of ideas by others, achieved through a diligent and industrial approach and team-b...
    64: ...t copyrighted film, ''[[Fred Ott]]'s Sneeze''. In 1902, a US court rejected Edison's claim that he be gr...
  12. World War I (62979 bytes)
    8: ...egard World War I as merely the first phase of a three-decade long war spanning the period [[1914]]&nd...
    16: ...heir to the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] throne, was [[assassination in Sarajevo|assassinated ...
    41: ...ons ([[July 25]]) and declared war ([[July 28]]) through a telegram sent to the Serbian government.
    49: ...c Ocean|Atlantic]] ports would be an even larger threat to British trade as a whole.
    56: ...ed under the leadership of [[Stepa Stepanovic]]. Three days later the Austrians retreated across the D...
  13. Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
    15: *[[1902]] - [[Drago Doctrine]]
    16: *[[1902]] - First [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game pla...
    17: *[[1902]] - [[Newlands Reclamation Act]]
  14. Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
    126: ...ll|Percival]]'s widow who had delayed the search through her lawsuit, proposed ''[[Zeus]]'', then ''Lo...
    140: ... recently occurred from [[February 7]], [[1979]] through [[February 11]], [[1999]]. Pluto orbits in a ...
    173: ...predictions of Planet X's position beginning in [[1902]]. [http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/facul...
    219: * [[Christine Lavin]]'s song ''Planet X'' (1996) is a goo...
  15. January 1 (18244 bytes)
    1: ...1 was called ''New Year's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday...
    35: *[[1902]] - The first [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game...
    52: ...Cuba|President of the Republic of Cuba]], is overthrown by [[Fidel Castro]]'s forces.
    124: *[[1904]] - [[Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry]], [[Pakistan]]i politician (d. [[1982]])
    171: *[[1559]] - [[Christian III of Denmark]] and Norway (b. [[1503]])
  16. National League (4871 bytes)
    7: ...he 1994 season, the league has been divided into three divisions (East, West and Central), with the ad...
    19: *[[Washington Nationals]] (Montreal Expos through 2004)
    46: *[[Nicholas Young|Nicholas E. Young]] [[1885]]-[[1902]]
  17. World Series (40101 bytes)
    1: ...19, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded th...
    5: ...are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three in the other team's ballpark, and the final two...
    11: ...aim, demonstrating a linear progression from the phrase "World's Championship Series" (used to describ...
    69: * 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates
    71: == The modern World Series (1902-present) ==
  18. Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
    6: ...894-1901. [[St. Louis Browns]], [[1902 in sports|1902]]-[[1953 in sports|1953]].
    18: ...e Milwaukee Brewers of the Western League, who in 1902 became the St. Louis Browns of the fledgling [[Am...
    24: ... [[John McGraw (baseball)|John McGraw]], and won three straight pennants. That team had started as a c...
    34: ...r [[Earl Weaver]] as "pitching, defense, and the three run home run."
    40: ...[Washington Nationals]] (who begin play in 2005) threaten to carve into the Orioles fan base and telev...
  19. Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
    5: ... League]]. The nickname ''Cubs'' was coined in [[1902]] when manager [[Frank Selee]] arrived and rebuil...
    24: ...h a beefed-up squad, the White Stockings cruised through the N.L.'s inaugural season of [[1876]]. The ...
    28: ...[1882]], and the Chicagos met the AA's champions three times in that era's version of the [[World Seri...
    30: Throughout all of this, and for the better part of tw...
    35: ...hnny Evers]] (2B) and [[Frank Chance]] (1B) were three legendary Cubs infielders, who played together ...
  20. Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
    25: ...ut to Shoeless Joe, "Say it ain't so, Joe!". The phrase has become famous.
    30: ...of play, which reflected a tendency to win games through scrappy play rather than consistently strong ...
    35: ...y Manuel]], the White Sox fielded a talented but chronically under-achieving squad.
    41: ...ion that includes [[Freddy Garcia]] and [[Mark Buehrle]]. Additionally, former member of the Minnesota...
    56: *[[George Davis (baseball player)|George Davis]] 1902, 1904-09

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