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- List of inventors (14020 bytes)
14: ...nt of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
20: ...) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
22: *[[Steve Baer]] - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
23: *[[John Logie Baird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]] - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
10: ...s family fled to Nova Scotia, Canada, settling on land the British government gave those who had been ...
12: John Edison had remained loyal to [[England]] in the 1700's. Ironically, in the 1800's, hi...
14: ...[Thomas Alva Edison]]. The economic success in Milan was soon over, though, and seven-year-old "Al" a...
16: ...s schooling due to childhood illnesses. It was a late start and a poor start. His mind often wandere...
18: ...ng next to him. Some of his earliest inventions related to electrical telegraphy, included a stock tic... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
7: [[Image:National-atlas-1970-1860.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1...
20: *[[1862]] - [[Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act]]
23: *[[1863]] - Lincoln issues [[Emancipation Proclamation]]
40: *[[1866]] - [[Ku Klux Klan]] founded
41: ...n military tribunals when civilian courts are available - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...ed by the rise of [[populism]] and the American [[labor movement]]. Finally, the era was capped by U....
7: ...ithout first imposing preconditions. A series of laws, passed by the Federal government, established ...
9: ...es to enforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
11: ...hat had been established under Abraham Lincoln's plan were abolished; the first Reconstruction Act sta...
13: ...of the original [[Ku Klux Klan]], in 1866; but it lasted for only three years. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...ngland began its numbered year on [[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th ...
7: ...nown [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
10: *[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
11: ... II of England|Charles II]] crowned King of [[Scotland]]
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston... - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
9: The skyscraper first emerged in the land-strapped areas of [[New York City]] and [[Chica...
11: ...m curtain wall for tall systems of glass that are laterally supported by these skeletal frames. Specia...
19: ... the [[CN Tower]], [[TV masts]], bridges, or oil platforms.
30: |2||[[Petronas Tower 1]]||[[Kuala Lumpur]]||452 m||1,483 ft||88||1998||
32: |3||[[Petronas Tower 2]]||Kuala Lumpur||452 m||1,483 ft||88||1998 - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
1: ...] [[holiday]] that resulted from efforts of the [[labour union]] movement, to celebrate the [[economic...
3: ...y, which subsequently inspired the celebration of Labour Day and May Day.
5: ==North American Labor/Labour Day==
7: ...9]] appointed May 1 as the official International Labour Day.
9: ...ave been viewed as aligning the U.S. and Canadian labor movements with internationalist sympathies. - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
2: ...invention in China, but the crossbow nonetheless played a significant role in the history of European ...
5: ...to a [[Bow (weapon)|bow]]) mounted on a stock similar to a [[rifle]] stock, which has a mechanism to w...
10: A crossbow contains a string which is held in place by a nut when the bolt is loaded and the cross ...
12: ... were rather exotic as they were constructed of inlays as well as specialized woods. The prod is attac...
14: The crossbow shelf is a flat section above the stock with a straight groove f... - Auto racing (15302 bytes)
1: ...[[air racing]]. It is one of the world's most popular [[spectator sport]]s and perhaps the most thorou...
6: ...uccessful [[gasoline|petrol]]-fuelled autos. In [[1894]], the first contest was organized by Paris magaz...
8: A year later the first real race was staged, from [[Paris]]...
12: ...tes]], over a 54.36 mile (87.48 km) course, took place in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] on [[November 2]],...
23: ... rule diametrically opposed to current racing regulations. Extensive use of aluminium alloys was requi... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...e winner was determined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]...
3: ...rst World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], completed o...
5: The first two games of the series are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three in...
7: ...shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild card...
9: ...]n champions against champions in the Japanese or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded. - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
3: ...are a [[Major League Baseball]] team based in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]. They are in the Eastern Division ...
5: ... Stockings founder [[Harry Wright]] and the best players from that team re-formed in Boston and took t...
6: ...s|1910]]) and "Rustlers" (when [[William Russell (lawyer)|William Russell]] owned the franchise, [[191...
7: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[Turner Field]], Atlanta (aka "The Ted", after [[Ted Turner]])
11: ...''Teams in Division:''' [[Florida Marlins]], [[Philadelphia Phillies]], [[New York Mets]], [[Washingto... - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
3: ... League Baseball]] team based in [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. They are in the Eastern Division of the [[...
6: :'''Formerly known as:''' Milwaukee Brewers, 1894-1901. [[St. Louis Browns]], [[1902 in sports|190...
9: :'''Uniform colors:''' Black and Orange
22: ...] season, Veeck sold his controlling interest to Clarence Miles, and the American League owners approv...
32: ...e [[MLB Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player]] award in each league while hitting for the [... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
6: :''Formerly known as:'' Sioux City Cornhuskers, 1894. St. Paul, 1895-1899. "White Sox" is short for ...
7: :''Home ballpark:'' [[U.S. Cellular Field]], Chicago. (This park, originally known ...
8: :''Uniform colors:'' black, white and gray
17: ...League in [[1900 in sports|1900]], a year before claiming major league status, the St. Paul franchise ...
19: ...National League, including pitcher and manager [[Clark Griffith]], who paced the White Sox to the AL's... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ... Superbas" was the name of an acrobatic troup popular at the time), the ''Robins'' (after Wilbert Robi...
8: ...z Ravine") (Prior to 1912, the Brooklyn Dodgers played at Washington Park on 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn. ...
25: ... at owning the team. He desired to replace the dilapidated Washington Park with a new ballpark, and a...
27: ...oys" for their distracted, error-ridden style of play. After his removal as club president, Robinson ...
28: ...o that many a Dodger yearbook cover featured a Willard Mullin illustration with the Brooklyn Bum. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemis...
18: *[[Joseph Black]], (1728-1799), chemist
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
43: *[[Davorin Dolar]], (born 1921), chemist - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...e in Physics|Nobel Prize for Physics]] for his explanation of the [[photoelectric effect]] and "for hi...
5: ...of science and technology|history]], and in [[popular culture]], ''Einstein'' has become a byword for ...
7: ...nd philosophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist.
14: ... were Hermann Einstein, a featherbed salesman who later ran an [[electrochemistry|electrochemical]] wo...
16: ...hat he had [[Asperger's syndrome]], a condition related to [[autism]]. - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
3: ...neer and the [[inventor]] of [[dynamite]]. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute...
5: ... Emmanuel]] (1831-1888), by whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfred, returning to Sweden with his fat...
7: ...not yet (May 2003) been translated into any other language than Esperanto.
9: ...fred Nobel is interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]].
12: ...rth) it became safer and more convenient to manipulate, and this mixture he [[patent]]ed in [[1867]] a... - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
2: ... hundreds of uses for the [[peanut]] and other [[plant]]s to increase the profitability of farming.
5: ...t he was known by the Carvers' neighbors as "the plant doctor".
7: ... was called to a neighbor's house to help with a plant in need. When he had fixed the problem, he was ...
9: ...ced to leave town because of a [[lynching]] of a black person. He promptly left, but still carried sca...
11: ... he was accepted to [[Simpson College]] in Indianola, Iowa. He excelled in art and music, but art ins... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
7: zone = [[Insular Italy]] |
13: population_as_of = 2001 |
14: populationrank = 4th |
15: population = 4,968,991 |
16: populationpercent = 8.7 | - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
6: *[[Wäinö Aaltonen]] ([[1894]] - [[1966]])
23: *[[Ernst Barlach]]
33: *[[Treffle Berthlaume]] (1803 - 1884)
35: *[[John Blakeley]] (1946 - )
45: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]] (1475 - 1564)
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