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- Switzerland (22270 bytes)
3: ...ages. The abbreviation is similarly used; for example, it is used as Switzerland's [[country code top-...
59: ...ution]] in [[1848]], amending it extensively in [[1874]] and establishing federal responsibility for def...
63: ...II]], and although a German intervention was both planned and anticipated, it ultimately didn't occur....
65: ...population and the cantons voted in favor of a completely revised federal [[constitution]].
67: ... in May 1992. Switzerland has not advanced this application since the rejection, by referendum, of the... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
56: ...wo name forms is exactly the same as with for example [[Germany]] vs. Federal Republic of Germany or [...
65: ...ritorial expansion under King [[Svatopluk I|Svätopluk]].
73: ...ols and [[Matica slovenská]] were closed down in 1874-1875.
93: ...groups include [[Roma (people)|Roma]], [[Czech people|Czech]]s, [[Rusyns|Ruthenians]], [[Ukrainians]] ...
95: ...e is much lower); the second-largest group are people without confession (12.96 %). About 6.93 % belon... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...sh constitution]] the state's official name is simply '''Ireland''' (Irish: ''[[ɩre]]'').<!--
65: The partition of Ireland came about because of complex constitutional developments in the early twenti...
67: ...al Assent]], the Third [[Home Rule Act 1914]]'s implementation was suspended until after the [[World W...
73: ...of public support for the settlement that the "people have no right to do wrong". They objected most t...
75: ... to overwhelm them on the battlefield. British supplies of artillery, aircraft, machine-guns and ammun... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
84: ...its Settlements. Finally, the [[Pangkor Treaty of 1874]] paved the way for British expansion; and by the...
88: ...mergency|communist insurgency]]. Post-war British plans to form a "Malayan Union" were scuppered by st...
111: ... [[lower house]] (''Dewan Rakyat'', literally "People's Hall"). All 69 Senators sit for 6-year terms; ...
120: ...ines and two-year prison terms, while Malaysian employers face up to a year in jail and a fine of up t...
122: ... use. Administered with a thick rattan stick, it splits the skin and leaves scars. - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
38: ...h Dakota''' is a [[U.S. state|state]] in the high plains of the northern Middle West. It is named af...
52: ...te slogans|State slogan]]:''' "Great Faces. Great Places."
82: ...settler population of eastern Dakota Territory tripled. The last major incident in this struggle occu...
128: South Dakota [[license plate|license plates]] are numbered by county, with the first digi...
130: ...ns]] and the French [[Alps]]. More than 70,000 people hike to its 7,242 foot summit each year. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
31: * [[Plough]]s in [[Mesopotamia]]
35: * 3500 BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
80: * [[600]]: Mouldboard [[plough]] in [[Eastern Europe]]
162: * [[1797]]: [[Cast iron plow]]: [[Charles Newbold]]
201: * [[1831]]: [[Multiple coil magnet]]: [[Joseph Henry]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
3: == People named Q ==
47: *[[Adolphe Quetelet|Quetelet, Adolphe]], (1796-1874), Belgian astronomer
71: ...nn, Niall]], (born 1966), Irish football (soccer) player
88: *[[Quo Tai-chi]], (1889-1952), diplomat representing [[Republic of China|Nationalist ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
142: *[[Elsa Beskow]] ([[1874]]-[[1953]])
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
436: *[[Frederick Carl Frieseke]] ([[1874]]-[[1939]])
465: *[[Maksymilian Gierymski]] ([[1846]]-[[1874]]) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
4: ..., he met [[Eug�ne Boudin]], who taught him [[en plein air]] (outdoor) techniques for painting, rathe...
6: ...ned to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at a university.
15: ...ressionist]] exhibition in [[1874]] and is now displayed in the [[Mus�e Marmottan]], Paris. From the...
19: ...rny]], [[Eure]], in [[Haute-Normandie]], where he planted a large garden which he painted for the rest... - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...t least the [[4th millennium BC]]. Sumerian was replaced by [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] as a spoken...
26: ...ris-based orientalist, Joseph Halevy, argued from 1874 onward that Sumerian was a secret code, and for o...
40: .... Some Sumerian logograms were written with multiple cuneiform signs. These logograms are called dir...
47: Sumerian is a [[split ergativity|split ergative]] language. In an ergative language th...
48: Example: ''lugal-e e2 mu-du3'' "the king built the house... - American football (39287 bytes)
5: ...an football''', known in the [[United States]] simply as '''football''', is a competitive team [[sport...
11: ...onally, top players in the league are selected to play an annual [[all-star game]], the [[Pro Bowl]], ...
13: ...ited States Air Force Academy|Air Force Academy]] player tries to thwart his progress.]]
17: ...opular, with many major colleges and universities playing NCAA ([[National Collegiate Athletic Associa...
19: ...y "semi-pro" teams, where the players are paid to play, but at a small enough salary that they general... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...l]] story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...s are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, su...
15: ...esign, with modern knowledge of aerodynamic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo also sketched desig...
17: ...d examples from nature that such flights can take place without danger, although when the first trials...
19: The first known human flight ever took place in [[Paris]] in [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre ... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
20: ...3) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scientist
77: ...Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple arch dam
80: ...6-1971) — [[vacuum tube]] [[television]] display - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of [[mass production]] to the process of [[inve...
5: ...patents, and were actually made by his numerous employees. Edison was frequently criticized for not sh...
20: Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote record...
24: ...e invention enjoyed popularity. The "gramophone", playing [[gramophone record]]s, was invented by [[Em...
27: ...marily supervised the operation and work of his employees. - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
56: *[[1869]] - [[Golden spike]] nailed in, completing the [[First Transcontinental Railroad (North...
73: *[[1874]] - [[Red River Wars]]
105: *[[1885]] - [[Washington monument]] completed
139: *[[1896]] - ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' 163 US 537 1896 legalizes seg...
145: *[[1897]] - [[Boston subway]] completed - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ... economic power and well on its way to taking its place among the imperial powers of the age. This ec...
7: ...nment. [[Abraham Lincoln]] had endorsed a lenient plan for reconstruction, but the immense human cost ...
11: ...that had been established under Abraham Lincoln's plan were abolished; the first Reconstruction Act st...
21: ...thus repealing the [[1875]] Civil Rights Act. ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' 163 US 537 1896 went even fur...
23: ...In Title II of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] ''Plessy'' was formally reversed. This Act, along with... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...ize and bulk composition. Although all planets' [[planetary orbit|orbits]] are [[ellipse|elliptical]],...
9: ...|Korean]], and [[Japan]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five El...
14: ...5 km/h). Winds in the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the hea...
16: ...site is actually true. The cloud cover keeps the planet much cooler than it would be otherwise. The ...
18: ...[sulfuric acid]] droplets and cover the planet completely, obscuring any surface details from the [[Op... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: ...73]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circle]].
14: * [[1893]] - American [[sugar]] planters led by the [[Committee of Safety (Hawaii)|C...
20: ...oviet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Warsaw...
22: * 1945 - [[Sweden|Swedish]] diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]] disappears in [[Hungary]...
36: ...r second full-length album, [[Kerplunk (album)|Kerplunk]]. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...'' refers to the order in which the months are displayed, [[January]] to [[December]]. The first day o...
7: ...known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
15: ...vet Island]] is discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
17: *[[1797]] - Albany replaces New York City as the capital on New York.
18: ... Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...he winner was determined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]...
3: ..., the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
5: The first two games of the series are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three i...
7: ... shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild car...
13: ...ympic tournament if the MLB agrees to freeing its players. According to the IBAF chairman, such a move...
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