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- Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ... transport|railways]] this became increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by ...
22: *[[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii|Hawai'i]], USA: UTC − 10 (e.g. if it is 06:00 UT...
31: ...]]'s public clocks were using GMT by [[1855]], it was not made Britain's legal time until [[August 2]]...
33: ...nutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. This standard was known as New Zealand Mean Time.
35: ...dgepodge was made uniform when Standard zone time was made legal by the [[Congress of the United State... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
146: *[[Ivan Bilibin]] ([[1876]]-[[1924]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]]) - American football (39287 bytes)
11: ...ue. Its championship game, the [[Super Bowl]], is watched by nearly half of US television households, ...
13: ...rce Academy|Air Force Academy]] player tries to thwart his progress.]]
17: ...ms. College games are widely televised and widely watched. Many institutions in lower NCAA divisions a...
19: ...r, club and youth teams (such as teams in the Pop Warner leagues). There is an [[American Football Wor...
35: * Pop warner or youth football - involves younger kids who... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
8: |Conflict||'''American Civil War'''
16: !colspan="2"|'''[[Battles of the American Civil War]]'''
50: ...tles (see the article [[Naming the American Civil War]]).
53: ... Abraham Lincoln in 1860]] – even before he was inaugurated. They were [[South Carolina]] ([[De...
55: ...d the state capital of [[Jefferson City]] when it was attacked by northern Gen. [[Nathaniel Lyon]] on ... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
1: ...re than 550,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, include these men felled during the bloody Batt...
13: *[[1861]] - [[American Civil War]] begins at [[Fort Sumter]]
19: *[[1862]] - [[Pacific Railway Act]]
28: *[[1864]] - [[Wade Davis Bill]]
34: *[[1865]] - [[United States Civil War]] ends - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...the era was capped by U.S. involvement in [[World War I]].
7: ...reconstruction, but the immense human cost of the war and the social changes wrought by it led [[Unite...
9: ...e [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden. This failure of the federal governm...
11: ...e midterm elections, the first Reconstruction Act was passed on [[March 2]], [[1867]]; the last on [[M...
13: ...ticipated in these governments were called [[scalawags]]. Republicans took control of all state gover... - Mississippi (15114 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 3,940 |
18: PCWater = 3 |
40: ...llings that mean "large waters" or "father of the waters." Other nicknames attached to Mississippi are...
42: [[USS Mississippi|USS ''Mississippi'']] was named in honor of this state.
46: ...(U.S. state)|Georgia]] and [[South Carolina]] and was later twice expanded to include disputed territo... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...2]], January 1 was called ''New Year's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth N...
24: *[[1863]] - [[American Civil War]]: The [[Emancipation Proclamation]] takes effec...
33: *[[1901]] - The British colonies of [[New South Wales]], [[Queensland]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Vict...
46: *[[1945]] - [[Bahawalpur State]] issues its first stamps.
48: **[[United Kingdom|British]] railways are [[Nationalisation|nationalised]] to form [[... - Archaeopteryx (8771 bytes)
25: ...mble those of living birds, but ''Archaeopteryx'' was rather different from any bird we know of today:...
34: ...yx'''s [[braincase]] concluded that its [[brain]] was significantly larger than that of most dinosaurs...
40: ...olnhofen limestone]] formation in [[Germany]]. It was formed in the [[Jurassic]], 150 [[million years ...
43: ...chaeopteryx bavarica'' and the Solnhofen specimen was referred to ''Wellnhoferia grandis''. Recently, ...
50: ...'''Berlin Specimen''' (HMN 1880): Discovered in [[1876]] or [[1877]] near [[Blumenberg]], Germany, and d... - Colorado (22240 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 962 |
18: PCWater = 0.36 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[August 1]], [[1876]] |
66: Waltz=Hide |
90: ...te is '''CO'''. [[USS Colorado|USS ''Colorado'']] was named in honor of this state. - National League (4871 bytes)
3: ...ues have met in the [[World Series]]. (The Series was not played in either 1904 or 1994.)
5: The National League in [[1876]] consisted of eight teams, six of which were pre...
9: ...er]] in the batting order, although this is not always the case.
19: *[[Washington Nationals]] (Montreal Expos through 2004)
28: *[[Milwaukee Brewers]] - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...mined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]]. The World Series...
3: The [[2004 World Series]] was played from [[October 23]] until [[October 27]],...
5: ...[[2003]], the team given the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League ...
7: ...ipts from the World Series - and, from [[1969]] onward, the other rounds of postseason play preceding ...
13: ...ntations. At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] the USA was not represented, since its minor-leaguer team di... - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
5: ...er of the [[National League]] in [[1876 in sports|1876]] and has remained in the league without a break ...
6: ...s|1941]]-[[1952 in sports|1952]]), [[Milwaukee|Milwaukee Braves]] ([[1953 in sports|1953]]-[[1965 in s...
8: :'''Ownership:''' [[Time Warner]]
11: ..., [[Philadelphia Phillies]], [[New York Mets]], [[Washington Nationals]]
20: ...ing ball better than any other in the league, and was ready to catch New York. From there came a romp ... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
4: ... Became a charter [[National League]] member in [[1876]].
5: ...r the [[American League]]. The nickname ''Cubs'' was coined in [[1902]] when manager [[Frank Selee]] ...
11: :'''League pennants won''' (16): [[1876]], [[1880]], [[1881]], [[1882]], [[1885]], [[1886...
18: ...ranged contests among the various teams, the time was right for the organization of the first professi...
20: ...shing second in the N.A. just 2 games behind, but was compelled to drop out of the league during the c... - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
21: ...ember of the [[National League]] in [[1876]], but was expelled from the league later, in part for viol...
23: ... of the AA team's star players. The Red Stockings wandered through the remainder of the [[1890s]] sign...
25: ...nd [[Cy Seymour]]. Seymour's .377 average in 1905 was the first individual batting crown won by a Red....
29: ...sh]] and [[Heinie Groh]] while the pitching staff was led by [[Hod Eller]] and [[Harry Sallee|Harry "S...
31: ...ks to the [[Great Depression]], and Redland Field was in a state of disrepair. - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...art of a system. If a computer configured in this way is given appropriate input data, then it can aut...
10: ...electron flows might be used to model the flow of water in a dam. Such ''[[analog signal|analog]]'' c...
14: ...which made modern ''digital'' computers possible, was formally identified and explored by [[Claude E. ...
20: ...successfully emulate human comprehension or self-awareness. See [[artificial intelligence]].
24: ...ists the year [[1897]] as the first year the word was used to refer to a [[mechanical calculating devi... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
41: *[[Otto Diels]], (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of the [[1950]] [[...
42: * [[Edward Doisy]], (1893-), American biochemist, winner o...
134: *[[Wilhelm Ostwald]], (1853-1932), [[1909]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemi... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
12: ...his work in [[telecommunications]] technology, he was responsible for important advances in [[aviation...
17: His family was associated with the teaching of [[elocution]]: h...
19: ...ity of Edinburgh]]. From [[1866]] to [[1867]], he was an instructor at Somersetshire College at [[Bath...
21: ...ing the system of visible speech. The elder Bell was invited to introduce the system into a large day...
23: ...rom his American father-in-law, on [[March 7]], [[1876]], the [[United States Patent and Trademark Offic... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
3: ... Prize]]s. The [[synthetic element]] [[Nobelium]] was named after him.
5: ...g Nobel|Ludvig Emmanuel]] (1831-1888), by whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfred, returning to Swede...
7: ...rviving edition (bilingual Swedish-[[Esperanto]]) was published in Sweden in 2003. The play has not ye...
12: Nobel found that when [[nitroglycerin]] was incorporated with an absorbent, inert substance ...
14: ...in]], as it was called, was patented in 1876, and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modi... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
2: ...y 22]], [[1857]] – [[January 8]], [[1941]]) was a soldier, writer and founder of the world [[Sco...
5: ...rry Baden-Powell]] died when he was three, and he was raised by his mother, [[Henrietta Grace]], a str...
7: ...t-of-bounds. He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist of some talent, and enjoy...
11: In [[1876]], Baden-Powell joined the 13th [[Hussars]] in [[...
13: ...ches]]. His skills impressed his superiors and he was soon transferred to the British secret service. ...
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