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- Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
62: ...lers were in the Pacific, though visiting Tuvalu only infrequently due to the difficulties of landing ...
64: ...ce Islands. The protectorate became a colony in [[1915]]. In [[1943]] during [[World War II]], Tuvalu wa...
86: ; Atolls consisting of only one island:
103: ...ough, due to the remote location of the islands, only a small number of tourists arrive annually.
145: * [http://www.tuvaluislands.com/ Tuvalu Online] - Flag of New Mexico (1805 bytes)
13: ...ornia Exposition (1915)|San Diego World's Fair of 1915]], the fair featured an exhibit hall in which all... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
38: ...ng metropolitan area, and [[Pittsburgh]], a busy inland [[river port]] and major center for educationa...
86: ...y, the Pittsburgh police magistrate court is the only true city-level court in the state.
115: Pennsylvania's saltwater "shore" line, only 89 miles by official US figures, is the shortest...
166: Pennsylvania has only one incorporated town, [[Bloomsburg, Pennsylvani...
255: ... the 15th President of the United States and the only President from that state. - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
60: ...[EPA]] as having 11 different ecoregions (one of only 4 US states to have more than 10 ecoregions). Th...
122: The "[[Five Civilized Tribes]]" were not the only ones forced to Oklahoma. Nations such as the [[D...
157: ... Black and American Indian voters (they were the only party to continue to resist [[Jim Crow]] laws), ...
175: ...a's liquor laws are still fairly unusual in that only 3.2 beer can be sold in grocery/convenience stor...
198: ...ion with 11.4% of the state's population, topped only by Alaska at 19% of that state's population. [ht... - West Virginia (24258 bytes)
46: West Virginia is the only American state formed as a direct result of the ...
48: ...particularly around the Wheeling region, and the only three counties in Virginia to vote for [[Abraham...
50: ...nment's debt. The issue was finally settled in [[1915]], when the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled...
72: ...s are essentially the same, the difference being only the naming convention of north and south, with W...
76: ...derived from mountains to the east, in a shallow inland sea on the west. Some beds illustrate a coasta... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
107: ...emical manufacturing. Although the state is certainly not defined by these activities, their existence...
112: ...rcentages of immigrants in the country (trailing only [[California]] and [[New York]] and just ahead o...
126: ...populated state in the nation, and the first and only state that has had every one of its 21 counties ...
145: ...inatra]] was born [[December 12]], [[1915]], the only child of working-class Italian-American immigran...
195: ...affic between [[Delaware]] and [[New York]]. Commonly referred to as simply "the Turnpike," it is also... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]]
395: * [[1915]]: [[Tungsten]] [[Filament]]: [[Irving Langmuir]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
66: *[[Karen Ann Quinlan|Quinlan, Karen Ann]], (1954-1985)
67: *[[Anthony Quinn|Quinn, Anthony]], (1915-2001), US actor - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ... '''women's suffrage''', led by suffragists (commonly called [[suffragette]]s), was a social, economic...
31: ... State after the [[American Revolution]], placed only one restriction on the general suffrage - the po...
33: ...e New York Legislature, though her petition bore only five signatures. She was shortly afterward join...
39: ...the right of voting to their women citizens, the only opposition being presented by the liquor interes...
41: ...it was again voted upon, and then it was lost by only one vote. - Time zone (34024 bytes)
8: ...is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in October ...
31: ...ime until [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to t...
35: ...d Time until it settled on EST by ordinance May [[1915]], ratified by popular vote August [[1916]]. This...
41: ... 7.5? wide separated by a [[longitude]] of 180?. Unlike the zig-zagging land-based [[International Dat...
43: ...eas that do not have a legal standard time ([[Greenland]]'s [[ice sheet]] and all of [[Antarctica]]&md... - History of science (41710 bytes)
40: .... Initially these universities were organized to only teach [[theology]], but people like [[Roger Baco...
78: ...eneral relativity]] proposed by [[Einstein]] in [[1915]], showed that the fixed background of [[spacetim...
91: ...ls provided a ready supply of products which not only provided energy, but also synthetic materials fo...
117: ...reciated by his contemporaries and came into use only with discoveries of British surgeon [[Joseph Lis...
146: ...ms could be self-regulating through a process of enlightened self-interest. A different type of econom... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
192: *[[Jozef Brandt]] ([[1841]]-[[1915]])
451: *[[William Gear]] ([[1915]]-[[1997]])
565: *[[MF Hussain]] ([[1915]]-)
615: *[[Tadeusz Kantor]] ([[1915]]-[[1990]])
763: *[[Konstantin Makovsky]] ([[1839]]-[[1915]]) - World War I (62979 bytes)
8: It was commonly called "The Great War" (a title previously used ...
19: ...of these nations was emphatic that victory would only be gained by striking first, and that mobilizati...
63: ...mage:1915-28.png|right|frame|[[Leuven]], Belgium, 1915]]
74: ...lle Offensive]] in the spring of 1917. Throughout 1915-17 the British and French armies suffered many mo...
77: ...ne and operating a month-long four stage system, unless an offensive was underway. The front contained... - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
10: *[[1901]] - [[William McKinley]] assassinated
66: *[[1915]] - ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' opens
67: *[[1915]] - [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] sunk - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
124: ...und on photographs dating back to [[March 19]], [[1915]]. Tombaugh was searching for a "[[Planet X]]" to...
134: Pluto is not only much smaller and less massive than every other p...
136: ...n for many decades after its discovery and could only be estimated. The discovery of its satellite [[...
142: ... may in fact be a member of the [[Kuiper belt]], only one of a large number of distant icy bodies. A s...
153: ...]. Pluto and Charon are noteworthy for being the only planet/moon pair in the solar system whose [[bar... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
133: * [[1993]] - [[Albert Hourani]], historian (b. [[1915]])
146: [[1915]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
86: ...Sweden]] and the republics of [[Austria]] and [[Finland]] are admitted into the [[European Union]].
195: ... Foss]], American politician, fighter pilot (b. [[1915]])
219: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/1 Today in History: January 1] - January 2 (10888 bytes)
118: ...h]] psychiatrist and [[Holocaust]] survivor (b. [[1915]])
136: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/2 Today in History: January 2] - History of California (38344 bytes)
86: ... San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá]] (the only Franciscan mission in all of Baja California) an...
90: ...lation "California" which had previously applied only to the Peninsula now called [[Baja California Pe...
134: ...erican War]], this grew slowly with emigration mainly from the United States. The Republic, under Pres...
143: ... north of the Bay's mouth. San Diego Bay is the only natural harbor in California south of San Franci...
148: ...cramento River]] and [[Sutter Creek]], north and inland from the sparsely-settled Spanish land-grants.... - World Series (40101 bytes)
7: ... leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their div...
9: ...rld" appellation has stuck despite the fact that only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] pa...
63: * 1896 [[Baltimore Orioles (NL)|Baltimore Orioles]]
77: ...ston AL]] defeats [[Pittsburgh Pirates|Pittsburgh NL]], 5 games to 3.
81: ... AL's [[Boston Red Sox|Boston Americans]] and the NL's [[San Francisco Giants|New York Giants]]. The G...
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