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- Utah (29154 bytes)
26: AdmittanceDate = [[January 4]], [[1896]] |
30: Width = 435 |
74: ...u]] estimate. The state is generally rugged and arid, and has spectacular natural scenery. It is a pop...
76: ...just two states where [[gambling]] is illegal. Residents are called [[List of famous Salt Lakers|Utahn...
83: ...ousand years; most [[archeology|archeological]] evidence dates such habitation about 10,000 to 12,000 ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
54: ...d]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
70: ...Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
99: ...280s]]: [[Glasses|Eyeglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-)
144: *[[George Biddle]] ([[1885]]-[[1973]])
157: *[[Arnold Blanch]] ([[1896]]-[[1968]])
162: *[[David G. Blythe]] ([[1815]]-[[1865]]) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
5: ...s were controlled by moving your entire body ([[glider]]s) or warping the planes' wings ([[Wright brot...
15: ...y and the prototype actually flew. However, a considerable amount of interpretation of his design, wit...
17: ... confident that the problem would be solved. He said "It seems easier to talk of such a machine than t...
19: ...rage" in Europe in the late [[18th century]], providing the first detailed understanding of the relati...
21: ...half of the 20th century, the [[airship]] was considered to be a serious option for air transport. - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
30: *[[Tim Berners-Lee]] — [[World Wide Web]]
48: *[[Wallace Carothers]], (1896-1937) — [[Nylon]]
62: ...o DaVinci]], (1452-1519), [[Italy]] — [[euclidean geometry]]
81: *[[James Fergason]] — [[liquid crystal display]]
95: ...], (1882-1945), [[United States|USA]] — liquid fuel rocket - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
5: .... Nevertheless, Edison received [[patent]]s worldwide, including the [[United States]], [[United Kingd...
7: ...Thomas Edison bought a house in [[Fort Myers, Florida]] (Seminole Lodge) as a winter retreat. [[Henry ...
18: ... him as a telegraph operator. Edison's deafness aided him with his telegraphy work as it blocked out ...
22: ==Middle years==
24: ...ner]] in 1887, but in the early years, the audio fidelity was worse than the [[phonograph cylinder]]s ... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...f [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aris...
10: ...mediately preceded Galileo, [[William Gilbert]], did not use a quantitative approach. However, Galileo...
14: Later research, however, has validated the experiments. The experiments on falling b...
18: ...rt treatise entitled ''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]'' (''Sidereal Messenger'').
20: ...r]]. Galileo published a full description in ''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]'' in March [[1610]].]] - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
5: ...on (1746-1813)|Robert Livingston]] during the presidency of [[Thomas Jefferson]]; the territory was ac...
9: *'''[[Florida Purchase]]''', made in [[1819]] from [[Spain]], ...
11: ...g supporter of territorial expansion, won the presidency, but before he took office, Congress approved...
15: ...]] as Texas' Southern border. The United States paid Mexico $15 million. In addition, the United State...
21: * '''[[Hawaii]]''', annexed [[1896]] upon the request of a government made up mainly... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
11: *[[1861]] - [[Abraham Lincoln]] becomes President
12: ...America]] (the Confederacy) established under President [[Jefferson Davis]]
33: *[[1865]] - [[Andrew Johnson]] becomes President
54: *[[1869]] - [[Ulysses S. Grant]] becomes President
57: ...nd [[Jay Gould]]'s "[[Black Friday (1869)|Black Friday]]" - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...the native population. U.S. industry expanded rapidly throughout the era; by the dawn of the 20th cen...
9: ... Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden. This failure of the federal government to ef...
11: ... 11]], [[1868]]. The first Reconstruction Act divided ten Confederate states (all except [[Tennessee...
13: ...alled [[carpetbaggers]] by southerners, and were widely perceived as being motivated by graft and corr...
19: ...ontentious Presidential election of 1876]] was decided in favor of [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], supported ... - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ... the European continent; but the Allied invasion did not occur until June [[1944]], more than two year...
11: ...me Minster [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet...
13: ...ides that they could stay there and that neither side would use force to push the other out. This taci...
15: ...rasts had been simplified and refined in national ideologies to represent two ways of life, each vindi...
17: ...s the United States, which moved swiftly to consolidate its position. - August (4611 bytes)
10: ... first Monday in August is one of the [[public holidays in the Republic of Ireland]].
18: ...f Castlebar]] (1798), and the [[Battle of the Bogside]] (1969).
20: ...lidays (UK). It is typically when people go on holiday.
35: * In many European countries, August is the holiday month for most workers.
43: ... of the Philippine Revolution on [[August 23]], [[1896]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
16: *[[1870]] - Construction of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] begins.
38: *[[1955]] - [[Panama]]nian president [[Jose Antonio Remon]] is assassinated.
44: *[[1979]] - [[Sid Vicious]] goes on trial for the murder of [[Nancy...
50: ...le|ruble]]s to stem [[inflation]] and promote confidence.
51: ...99]] - A brutal [[snowstorm]] smashes into the [[Midwest]]ern [[USA]], causing 14 inches (359mm) of sn... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...aced on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorit...
6: ...are not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[...
10: ...a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
14: ...he overlying water column as sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea f...
18: ...enerated from these mechanisms, unlike the ocean-wide tsunamis caused by some earthquakes, dissipate q... - World Series (40101 bytes)
7: ... the World Series, and certain other teams which did not qualify for the playoffs, the criteria for th...
9: ... significantly better team than any club team outside [[Major League Baseball]], no challenges have be...
11: ...sed sponsorship. (For details, see [http://roadsidephotos.com/baseball/name.htm Mr. Pappas's web pag...
13: ...t of money spent by the MLB for its current worldwide marketing.
46: * 1879 [[Providence Grays]] - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: ...am the ''Spuds'' around this time, but that name didn't stick.
18: ...te as their primary color. After a summer of individually arranged contests among the various teams, t...
20: ...Leary's barn on DeKoven Street on the near south side of the city. The [[Great Chicago Fire]] destroy...
22: ...this was going on, behind the scenes the club President, [[William Hulbert]], was leading the formatio...
24: ... season is a dubious proposition, but it does provide some perspective to note that a similar winning ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
69: *[[Victor Goldschmidt]], (1888-1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
94: ...[[Friedrich August Kekulé ĥon Stradonitz]], (1829-1896), German organic chemist
126: *[[Robert S. Mulliken]], (1896-1986), [[United States|American]] physicist, chem...
192: *[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]], (1837-1923) - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...eoretical physics|theoretical physicist]] who is widely regarded as the greatest [[science|scientist]]...
7: ...he social impact of scientific discovery. An individual of monumental intellectual achievement, he rem...
14: ...try|electrochemical]] works, and Pauline, whose maiden name was Koch. They were married in Stuttgart-B...
16: ...echanics|mechanical device]]s for fun, he was considered a slow learner, possibly due to [[dyslexia]],...
18: ...dhood and early adolescence by suggesting and providing books on science and mathematics. - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
3: ...tockholm]], [[Sweden]] – [[December 10]], [[1896]], [[San Remo]], [[Italy]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedis...
16: ...ixture of the other; but eventually the courts decided against Nobel.
21: ...and his brothers, Ludvig and Robert Hjalmar (1829-1896), took a leading part, he amassed an immense fort...
23: ...nvention of dynamite, is said to have made him decide to leave a better legacy to the world after his ...
25: ...y). He died of a [[stroke]] on [[December 10]], [[1896]] at [[San Remo]], [[Italy]]. - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
11: Morgan married Madge Nelson in [[1896]]; they were divorced in [[1898]].
13: ...his business to include a tailoring shop that provided jobs for 32 employees. The company made coats, ...
23: ...As the years went on, he became a prosperous and widely respected business man, and he was able to pur...
25: ...he same streets and roadways with pedestrians. Accidents were frequent. After witnessing a collision b...
27: ...gnal system on the corner of 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. Garrett A. Morgan applied fo...
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