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  1. Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
    9: ... The team also occasionally uses an [[elephant]] logo.
    18: ...ladelphia Athletics''', a name used by earlier teams in the [[National Association of Professional Bas...
    20: ...ts. The Athletics as well as the 7 other A.L. teams received a jolt when, on April 21, 1902, the [[Pe...
    24: ...n protest of Mack's notorious thriftiness. Mack himself alluded to that rumor years later, but also de...
    26: ... Mack refused to match the offers of the F.L. teams, preferring to let the "prima donnas" go and rebu...
  2. Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
    9: :'''Logo design:''' Pirate caricature superimposed on cros...
    27: ...2]] while attempting to ship supplies to the victims of an earthquake in [[Nicaragua]], and is today r...
    35: ...players tend to gravitate towards cities where teams generate more revenue, meaning larger salaries.
    37: ...lueprint created by overachieving small market teams such as the [[Oakland Athletics]] and [[Minnesota...
    100: ...px]] [[Dave Williams (baseball player)|Dave Williams]]
  3. San Diego Padres (7131 bytes)
    10: :'''Logo design:''' Gold "SAN DIEGO" in small capitals and...
    19: ...], led by then-18-year-old San Diegan [[Ted Williams]].
    21: ...r League Baseball as one of four new expansion teams. Despite initial excitement and a new playing fie...
    56: ...17 [[Image:Us_flag_large.png|20px]] [[Woody Williams]]
  4. St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
    11: :'''Logo design:''' One or two [[Northern Cardinal|cardina...
    18: ...s finished with the same record. Since the two teams finished tied in the standings, the league went t...
    35: ...widely regarded as among the greatest baseball teams of all time. In [[1943]] and again in [[1944]] th...
    60: ...ished with an identical record. Since the two teams finished tied in the standings, the league went t...
    64: ... the [[2004 World Series]], the third time the teams have faced each other in the Fall Classic. Howev...
  5. Tampa Bay Devil Rays (7282 bytes)
    8: :'''Logo design:''' The words "TAMPA BAY" superimposed on ...
    15: ...lely meant to attract an existing team. Soon, teams started to look in to moving to the area, the fir...
    17: ... for a team in Miami. Not wanting two Florida teams, and faced with a strong bid from [[Denver]], the...
    19: ...t. Pete. A press conference was announced, uniforms were drawn up, and tickets were about to be print...
    21: ... The Dome that had built 3 other teams' new stadiums was now out of date. And, in a biting irony, the...
  6. Texas Rangers (baseball) (14993 bytes)
    10: :'''Logo design''': A "T" superimposed on a baseball, set ...
    22: ... the team's most accomplished player. [[Ted Williams]] of [[Boston Red Sox]] fame managed the team fro...
    38: ...els on [[April 21]]. After the season, Ted Williams retired as manager. [[Whitey Herzog]] was named ...
    66: ...nd [[Hank Blalock]] became one of the better tandems of batting infielders in the league, and Young, B...
    73: *[[Ted Williams]] (former manager; inducted for his playing caree...
  7. Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
    7: ...sion 7.5.1, being the first to display the Mac OS logo, is the first version of the Mac OS under that na...
    9: ...ons adopted later by other PCs and operating systems.
    58: ... interested in running the Lisa's graphical programs on the Macintosh and asked Smith if he could inco...
    70: ...RAM]]. The computer shipped with two useful programs designed to show off its interface, [[MacWrite]] ...
    112: ...sumption of the IBM G5 processors, coupled with IBMs inability to deliver on the promised roadmap. App...
  8. List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
    2: ...nce topics]], [[List of terms relating to algorithms and data structures]]
    105: [[Analysis of algorithms]] --
    162: [[Chomsky normal form]] --
    284: [[GAMS]] --
    305: [[History of operating systems]] --
  9. Airline (29546 bytes)
    36: ...rted two english passengers from [[Schiphol]], [[Amsterdam]] to [[London]] in [[1920]]. Since the [[Ne...
    56: ...rs, even joining [[frequent flyer]] loyalty programs and receiving free flights and other benefits fro...
    81: Bilateral agreements are based on the "[[freedoms of the air]]," a group of generalized traffic rig...
    92: ...ts]] can be expensive, they can easily pay for themselves many times over in periods of increasing fue...
    119: ...advent of advanced computerized reservations systems in the late 1970s, most notably [[Sabre (computer...
  10. Instructional design (6896 bytes)
    1: ...al design''', also known as '''instructional systems design''', is the analysis of learning needs and ...
    6: ...r]] on stimulus-response learning, training programs focused on observable behaviors. Tasks were brok...
    12: ...Seymour Papert]] drew on Piaget's ideas to create LOGO, a simple computer-programming language that let ...
    26: * [[Seymour Papert]] - LOGO - 1970s
    45: ...attempts to save time and money by catching problems while they are still easy to fix.
  11. National Football League (30340 bytes)
    2: [[Image:NationalFootballLeague.png|frame|NFL logo]]
    4: ...an football]] league, consisting of thirty-two teams from [[United States|American]] cities. The leag...
    25: ...d><td>[[Carolina Panthers]]</td><td>[[St. Louis Rams]]</td></tr>
    35: *Each team plays the four teams from another division within its conference on a ...
    36: *Each team plays the four teams from a division in the other conference on a rota...
  12. Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
    11: ...tyle="padding: 3px;"| [[Image:RichmondVirginiaCityLogo.png|130px|]]
    14: ...center" width="140px" style="padding: 3px;"| City Logo
    38: ...f the Richmond [[Metropolitan Statistical Area]] (MSA).
    48: ... Richmond replaced [[Williamsburg, Virginia|Williamsburg]] as the capital of [[Virginia]] in [[1780]]....
    169: ...ia|Newport News]], [[Williamsburg, Virginia|Williamsburg]] and [[Florida]].
  13. Lincoln, Nebraska (9126 bytes)
    27: ...ate capitals on road maps); the city's [[logotype|logo]] consists of a star comprised of 5 Ls.
    111: [[image:starcity.png|right|framed|''"Star city" logo of Lincoln, NE'']]
  14. Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
    29: ...] have settled in the city under government programs.
    65: ...ese demographic differences have begun to even themselves out. For example, the increasingly trendy Ma...
    75: ...s. Overnight snow often accompanies heavy rainstorms in early spring. Summer is dry with scattered and...
    77: ...ajor sources of precipitation are winter snow storms originating in the [[Gulf of Alaska]], late winte...
    109: ...l member|councilors]] are elected to four-year terms. Mayoral elections are held the same year as thr...
  15. Harp (23216 bytes)
    16: The European harp tradition seems to have originated in ancient Ireland over a thou...
    40: ...'The Irish and Highland Harps'' by Robert Bruce Armstrong is an excellent book describing these ancien...
    72: ...t also avoids large movements of the wrists and arms, since on low-tension harps, much less force is r...
    91: ...te sounds good. However, there are several problems: picking a teacher, picking the harp, cost, tunin...
    112: ...er">[[Image:Ireland_coa.png]]<br>'''The Coat of Arms of the [[Republic of Ireland]]'''</div>
  16. Guitar (36953 bytes)
    29: ...end of the playable section of the strings) and a logo identifying the maker or model of the guitar. Som...
    48: ...ss rod systems, called "double action" truss systems, will tighten both ways, allowing the neck to be ...
    110: ...tuning]] devised by [[Robert Fripp]] of [[King Crimson]], used by most [[Guitar Craft]] students aroun...
    121: ...nts commonly found in bands and orchestras, in terms of sheer audible volume. Many acoustic guitars ar...
    123: ...gy to produce a strong sound, can not do so by themselves because they are too small and thin: air me...
  17. Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
    4: ...ublicanlogo.png|200px|"Republican Party Elephant" logo]] |
    48: ...cipated in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves positions in ...
    58: ... party that continued to oppose [[New Deal]] reforms and continued to champion [[isolationism]]. [[Tho...
    66: ...y considered by the Congress, although not all items passed. Democratic President [[Bill Clinton]] op...
    75: ..., two groups shrinking in relative demographic terms, while Democrats tend to win healthy majorities a...
  18. Computer mouse (29399 bytes)
    24: ...hose invented by [[Steve Kirsch]] of [[Mouse Systems Corporation]], could only be used on a special me...
    37: ... with less image processing power also have problems tracking extremely fast movement, though high-end...
    51: On systems with three buttons on the mouse, pressing the cen...
    70: ...le-click on a single press. Modern operating systems allow users to set the maximum interval in which ...
    103: ... faster. Many feature designs, or may feature the logo of a company. Specialized hard mousepads are made...
  19. Cusco Region (4142 bytes)
    3: image = [[Image:Cusco_region_coat_of_arms.png|Logo of the Cusco region, Peru]]|
    27: ...as Vilcabamba which defines the hydrographic systems of the [[Urubamba river|Urubamba]] and [[Apur�c...
  20. Borzoi (4195 bytes)
    58: The most common health problems are rogressive retinal atrophy and gastric torsio...
    68: ...rs. [http://www.randomhouse.com/publishers/images/logo_kpg.gif]

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