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- Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...ic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city ...
3: ...diæval Islamic rulers its status as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long dec...
19: ...[[Deinocrates of Rhodes]]. Ancient accounts are extremely numerous and varied, and much influenced by ...
23: ...nd the sea, according to a history of Alexander attributed to the author known as [[Alexander Romance|...
25: ...t became a famous tourist destination for ancient travellers. - Romania (19812 bytes)
1: ... south along the [[Danube]] River. Romania has a stretch of sea coast on the [[Black Sea]] and the eas...
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20: leader_names = [[Traian Basescu|Traian Băsescu]] <br> [[Calin Popescu-Tariceanu...
39: .../>[[13 July]], [[1878]] ([[Treaty of Berlin, 1878|Treaty of Berlin]]) |
57: ..."''Ţara Rom⮥ască''" (The Romanian Country) is the Romanian name of the former principality... - Utah (29154 bytes)
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48: ... Fish = [[Trout|Bonneville Cutthroat Trout]] |
55: Tree = [[Spruce|Blue Spruce]] |
63: Motto = ''Industry'' | - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] <small...
38: ...] ([[Sioux]]) [[Native American|American Indian]] tribe.
39: ...rth Dakota]] was admitted on the same day (see '''Trivia''', below).
41: ...]. It is one of the six states of the [[Frontier Strip]].
50: :'''[[List of U.S. state trees|State tree]]:''' Black Hills [[Spruce]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ''Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ... [[Hirschig]], 1856; [[Hercher]], 1858. There are translations in many languages; in English by [[Anth...
3: ...the ''Uranologion'' of [[Petavius]], with a Latin translation, 1630. Nothing definite is known as to t... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
100: *[[Hans von Bartels]] ([[1856]]-[[1913]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
13: ...orge Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
24: ...rdeen]], (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
25: *[[Trevor Baylis]], (1937- ) — [[clockwork radio]...
37: ... Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor of the [[transistor]] - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
11: *[[1823]] - [[Monroe Doctrine]] declared
12: *[[1823]] - Treaty with Russia
15: ...''[[Gibbons v. Ogden]]'' cements Congressional control over [[interstate commerce]]
26: *early 1830s-[[Oregon Trail]] comes into use
37: ...f the [[Second Bank of the United States]]; this struggle leads to the [[Panic of 1837]] - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
12: ...est]]'' outlines [[nullification|nullification doctrine]]. Calhoun demands that the North keep quiet a...
33: ... an eight year battle against the gag rule, demonstrating how Slavery, as a political interest, threat...
42: |The [[Webster-Ashburton Treaty]] is signed.
48: ...nufacturing, shipping, banking, and international trade in the North.
54: ... the [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]], ceding vast tracts of land to the US. Free Northern farmers do n... - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
3: ...kers on building sites around [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]], stopped work and marched from the Universi...
7: ...ommemorate the riots. But fearing that it might strengthen the socialist movement, he quickly moved i...
9: ...iday, in addition to breaking with North American tradition, could have been viewed as aligning the U....
11: ...-age [[child]]ren take it as the last chance to [[travel]] before the end of [[summer]]. A few [[teena...
13: ... worn after Labour Day. The explanations for this tradition range from the fact that white clothes ar... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
23: ...r]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
26: ...an chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: ...ert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
41: ...st, winner of the [[1950]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
19: ...opulation_note = 7,533,384 ([[metropolitan area|metro area]]) |
39: ...ar system]], the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] and the [[Transamerica Pyramid]].
42: ...ived, they found the area inhabited by the Yelamu tribe, belonging to a linguistic grouping later call...
48: ...food to the site. The first of many environmental transformations was the city's reliance on filled ma...
51: ...pulation are still present today, notably [[Levi Strauss & Co.]] clothing, [[Ghirardelli Chocolate Com... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ...ver boatmen took exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up.
21: ...en built a steamboat which underwent a successful trial in [[1787]]. The following year a second boat ...
23: ...us development of steamboats. Although plans to introduce boats on the Forth and Clyde canal were thwa...
30: ... few of which survive to the present day, most destroyed by boiler explosions or fires. One of the fe...
32: ...identally, the cartoon ''[[Steamboat Willie]]'' introduced steamboat pilot [[Mickey Mouse]] to the pub... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
9: ....jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mosaic of a [[Trireme|Roman Trireme]] in [[Tunisia]].]]
10: ...Parliament/2587/trade.html Phoenician Economy and Trade].</ref> By the 1st century BC, there were pira...
22: In the Roman province of Britannia, [[Saint Patrick]] was captured and enslaved by [[Ireland|Irish...
24: ...their [[hit-and-run tactics]] - a safe place to retreat to if the battle turned against them.
27: ...s far as the Black Sea and Persia. The lack of centralized powers all over [[Europe]] during the [[Mid... - John Hanning Speke (2178 bytes)
5: ...]. He again chose Speke as his companion. The two travelled inland from [[Zanzibar]] and discovered [[...
9: ...f it and discovered the [[Rippon Falls]]. Next he travelled to [[Gondokoro]] in southern [[Sudan]], wh... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...eat Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
14: ... of [[Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property]].
15: ...ce]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[electric chair]].
21: ...]] – [[Dachau]], the first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed.
22: ...[[Douglas MacArthur]], at [[Terowie]], [[South Australia]], makes his famous speech regarding the [[Ba... - Lincoln, Nebraska (9126 bytes)
9: founded = [[1856]] |
17: metro pop = |
19: time zone = Central|
30: ...line.jpg|left|thumb|Lincoln's, Skyline from 27th Street]]
41: ...opulation wanted to move the capital to a more central location. Since most of the population was sou... - Concord, New Hampshire (5290 bytes)
9: founded = [[1856]] |
17: metro pop = |
30: ...llowing the [[American Revolution]], Concord's central location made it a logical choice for the state...
37: ...the city has a total area of 174.9 [[square kilometre|km²]] (67.5 [[square mile|mi²]]). 166... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...n [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
42: *[[Emil Artin]] (Austria, [[1898]] - [[1962]])
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]])
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