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- Nevada (17565 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Carson City, Nevada|Carson City]] |
25: ...[[Daylight saving time|-6]]<br><small>All but 5 locations (Duck Valley Indian Reservation, Jackpot, Mo...
37: '''Nevada''' is a [[U.S. state|state]] located in the [[U.S. West|western]] [[United States]]...
39: ...ada was admitted into the union during the [[American Civil War]].
41: ...s a test of whether visitors such as presidential candidates, have informed themselves about the state... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...e there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ... Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
37: * 3500 BC: [[Carts]] in [[Sumer]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
32: *[[Yao Wenyuan]], (born 1931)
39: ...hyn|Yascheshyn, Kerri]], ([[1985]] - [[2003]]), [[cancer]] patient
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]
71: *[[Boris Yeltsin|Yeltsin, Boris]] (b. 1931) [[President of Russia]]
146: *[[Andrew Young|Young, Andrew]], (b. 1932), American civil rights activist & diplomat - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...mage:VAT74_0643_W.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a...
2: ...n buried there, too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]]...
4: ...edra]] Petri'', the episcopal throne of the basilica's namesake when he led the Roman church, but whic...
7: ...convened in the Basilica of Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernini.]]
8: ... started construction in [[324]] of a great basilica in this exact spot, which had previously been a c... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
71: *[[Frank Auerbach]] ([[1931]]-) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
6: ...o'' or compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens.
10: ...ino'' to Prince Federico Cesi, founder of the ''Accademia dei Lincei'' (in English, ''The [[Linceans]]...
12: ...ublishes ''Micrographia'', a collection of biological micrographs. He coins the word ''cell'' for the...
13: ...mproves on a simple microscope for viewing biological specimens.
14: * [[1931]] - [[Ernst Ruska]] builds the first [[electron m... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
14: ...d Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instan...
18: ...bage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
20: ...ekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]] - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...tober 18]], [[1931]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[inventor]] and [[businessman]] who developed...
10: ...ly hanged. He and his family fled to Nova Scotia, Canada, settling on land the British government gave...
12: ...l joining the [[MacKenzie Rebellion]] that sought Canadian independence. The revolt failed and, like ...
16: ... son to read and experiment. Many of his lessons came from reading the book [["Parker's School of Nat...
18: ...Some of his earliest inventions related to electrical telegraphy, included a stock ticker. - Cell (biology) (28190 bytes)
2: ...t of all [[life|living]] [[organism]]s, sometimes called the "building blocks of life." Some organisms...
5: ... room. The name was chosen by [[Robert Hooke]] because of the likeness he saw between [[cork (materia...
11: ... Each cell stores its own set of instructions for carrying out each of these activities.
15: ... depends upon its ability to extract and use chemical energy stored in organic molecules. This energy ...
16: ... workhorses of cells, such as [[enzyme]]s. A typical [[mammal|mammalian]] cell contains up to 10,000 ... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...[[Second Sino-Japanese War]]), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of [[Manchuria]]. Still others ...
6: ...ean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|Midd...
8: ...]'s [[Unit 731]] experiments in [[Pingfan]]. As a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front...
10: ...on of Japan led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic...
22: ...olonies of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, No... - Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
6: *[[1931]] - [[Empire State Building]] opens
7: *[[1931]] - [[Japan]] invades [[Manchuria]]
34: *[[1934]] - [[Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act]]
41: *[[1935]] - [[Motor Carrier Act]]
61: ...the Worlds (radio)|The War of the Worlds]]'' broadcast - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
7: ... population to the cities. However agriculture became increasingly mechanized with widespread use of ...
9: ...e United States|US President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] campaigned for the U.S. toooo join the new [[League ...
14: ...920]] the [[United States Republican Party|Republican Party]] returned to the [[White House]] with the...
16: ...o]], [[film|movies]], [[automobile]]s, and [[chemical]]s) flourished. The unevenness was also geograp...
18: ...r with the young (and was widely reviled as unmusical noise by much of the older generation). [[Dancin... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
1: ...'' is the 17th day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 348 days remaining (349 in [[l...
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
7: ...rmy at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the [[Jacobite]] ...
8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to...
9: ...arleton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]] in [[South Carolina]]. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...w Year's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]]...
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
10: ...[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
1: ...(number)|2]]nd day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 363 days remaining (364 in [[...
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
7: *[[533]] - Mercurius became [[Pope]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first po...
9: ...757]] - The [[United Kingdom]] captures [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[India]].
14: ...tus Beadle]] publishes ''[[The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette]]''. - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
3: ...tall buildings, but it tends to be applied specifically to residential buildings.
5: ...ngs of over six stories were rare. It was impractical to have people walk up so many flights of stairs...
7: ...t) tall. The other development essential to practical skyscraper development was the invention of the ...
9: ...ucted in [[1884]]-[[1885]] and was destroyed in [[1931]] for the Field's building. Another contender fo...
11: ...her buildings. Buildings up to about four stories can be supported by their walls, while skyscrapers a... - Flood (7770 bytes)
4: ...lood.jpg|thumb|right|Flooding in Asheville, North Carolina in July 1916]]
5: ...absorb water. When a [[rain]]fall does occur, it can sometimes result in a sudden flood of water fill...
7: ...al cycle of flood and farming was of great significance to many early farming cultures, most famously ...
9: == Main causes ==
10: [[Monsoon]] rainfalls can cause disastrous flooding in some equatorial countri... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
42: ...1969]]. His [[Ideology#Political_ideologies|political ideology]] is known as [[Gaullism]], which left ...
45: .... Born in [[Lille]], de Gaulle grew up and was educated in [[Paris]].
47: ...ere also more [[liberal]], influenced by [[social Catholicism]]. During the [[Dreyfus affair]] the fam...
49: ==1912–1940: Military career==
50: ... was put in solitary confinement in a retaliation camp. - Bilby (4570 bytes)
2: {{Taxobox image | image = [[Image:bilby_2.jpg]] | caption = ''Greater bilby''}}
16: ...] there were two species. One became extinct in [[1931]], the other survives but remains endangered. T...
20: ...g forelimbs and well-developed claws. A bilby typically makes a number of burrows within its home rang...
24: ...gy)|rabbit]]s. The last confirmed sighting was in 1931. - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ... to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
6: ...historically referred to as ''[[tidal wave]]s'' because as they approach land they take on the charact...
8: ==Causes==
10: ...by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
12: ...uch large vertical movements of the earth's crust can occur at [[plate boundaries]]. [[Subduction]] ea...
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