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- Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
7: ...nty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
12: ...heeler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1872|1872]] (won)}} - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ... part of the country. It is among the poorest countries in the world.
3: ...onstitution of Afghanistan|constitution]] the country is now officially named the '''[[Islamic republi...
28: ... by area|Ranked 40th]] <br>647,500 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br>0%
33: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 38th]]<br>28,717,213 <sma...
50: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]''' - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
5: ...used for non-food products, such as cordage, basketry, or a writing surface. This latter usage finds i...
10: ...r of strips is laid on top at a right angle. The strips may have been soaked in water long enough for ...
13: To form the long strip that a scroll required, a number of such sheets...
15: ...air, but papyri are still being found in Egypt; extraordinary examples include the [[Elephantine papyr...
19: ...until it was replaced by more inexpensive paper introduced by [[Arabs]]. The reasons for this switch ... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
40: The [[state tree]] is the [[Southern live oak]] (''[[Quercus vir...
48: ...inland]] region of Georgia, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. The local [[moundbuilder]] cul...
50: ... and [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]] over control of Georgia began in earnest in about [[1670]], ...
54: ...]]''. On [[July 15]], [[1870]], following [[Reconstruction]], Georgia became the last former Confedera...
62: ... any state in the Union. For over 130 years, from 1872 to 2003, Georgians only elected Democratic govern... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
39: ...ecies]] capital of the world and is the only industrial producer of [[coffee]], and [[chocolate]] in t...
44: ...er]], [[state gem]], [[state mammal]] and [[state tree]]. Included are the two statues representing H...
46: ...the [[Union Jack]] and features eight horizontal stripes representing the eight major Hawaiian Islands...
56: ... be found on high islands located in and near the tropics has resulted in a vast array of [[endemic]] ...
64: ...edatory rivals. Warfare was endemic. The general trend was towards chiefdoms of increasing size, even... - 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]] - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: A '''comet''' is a small [[astronomical object]] similar to an [[asteroid]] but c...
9: ...d the tails can extend over 150 million km (1 [[Astronomical unit]]) or more.
11: ...appearance of Halley's Comet on the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], which records the [[Norman conquest]] of [[En...
15: ...t tend to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary surface...
17: ...electrons leading to emission of X-rays and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits]. - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e boundaries of states, countries or other administrative areas.
6: ...asured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at Gr...
31: ... [[August 23]], [[1852]], time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich ...
33: ...bserved nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitude 172? 30'...
35: ...l time until [[1900]], then vacillated between Central Standard Time, [[local mean time]], and Eastern... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
245: *[[George Catlin]] ([[1796]]-[[1872]]) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
6: ...ment ([[1860]] – [[1862]]), but upon his contracting typhoid his aunt Madame Lecadre intervened ...
8: ...ng open spaces and light painted with thick brushstrokes.
14: ...ression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant)'' ([[1872]]/[[1873]])]]
15: Upon returning to France, in [[1872]] (or [[1873]]) he painted ''[[Impression, Sunris...
24: Monet was exceptionally fond of painting controlled nature — his own garden, his [[water l... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ... flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, destroying the wings and causing Icarus to fall into th...
5: ...ings ([[Wright brothers]]). Modern planes are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that...
15: ...Leonardo, its plans were preserved and it was constructed in the late 20th century from materials that...
17: ...ake place without danger, although when the first trials are made you may have to pay for the experien...
19: ... balloon was powered by a wood fire, and was uncontrolled, that is, it flew wherever the wind took it.... - 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 (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
41: ... rules that civilians cannot be tried in military tribunals when civilian courts are available
44: *[[1867]] - [[Reconstruction]] Acts
47: *[[1867]] - [[Medicine Lodge Treaty]]
48: *[[1868]] - [[Burlingame Treaty]]
53: *[[1868]] - [[Treaty of Fort Laramie]] with [[Lakota]] nation - Wyoming (8979 bytes)
42: ...k]] became the world's first [[National Park]] in 1872 and is located in the far northwestern portion of...
44: ...lvania]], made famous by the [[1809]] poem ''[[Gertrude of Wyoming]]'' by [[Thomas Campbell]]. The nam...
46: ... the first female justice of the peace in the country. Wyoming was also the first state in the Union t...
58: ...state. The [[Big Horn Mountains]] in the north central portion are somewhat isolated from the bulk of ...
62: ...h most of [[North America]] forks in the south central part of the state. The waters that flow or prec... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
8: ...uista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surrenders.
16: *[[1870]] - Construction of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] begins.
18: *[[1872]] - [[Brigham Young]] is arrested for [[polygamy|...
19: ...879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Sydney Cricket ...
20: ...ites his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[trust]]. - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
3: ...kers on building sites around [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]], stopped work and marched from the Universi...
7: ...h marches in both [[Toronto]] and [[Ottawa]] in [[1872]]. On the other hand, socialist delegates in [[Pa...
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... - Oceanography (3841 bytes)
1: ... and their interlinked [[ecosystem]]s and [[chemistry|chemical]] and [[physics|physical]] processes. T...
4: ...ceanography]]''', which is the study of the chemistry of the ocean;
7: ...s of the ocean (such as its temperature-salinity structure, [[ocean surface wave|waves]], and currents...
13: ... institution is the [[Southampton Oceanography Centre]].
29: **Gulf Stream - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
1: [[Image:Wave.jpg|thumb|250px|The tsunami that struck [[Mal靝 in the [[Maldives]] on [[December 26]...
4: ...very long [[wavelength]] (often hundreds of kilometres long), which is why they generally pass unnotic...
10: ...ch is too small to create a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of gener...
14: ...s sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Similarly, a violent ...
18: ...er, as energy from falling debris or expansion is transferred to the water into which the debris falls...
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