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- Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
5: ...h century)|American Association]] in [[1884]] and transferred to the National League in [[1890]].
7: ...14]] through [[1931]]) and the ''[[Trolley dodger|Trolley Dodgers]]'' -- originally a pejorative term ...
8: ...Avenue in Brooklyn. [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Dodgers/dodgers.html Part of the wall...
10: ...:''' a cursive "Dodgers" superimposed over a red streaming baseball
16: :'''Manager''': [[Jim Tracy]] - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
12: ... (15): [[1902]], [[1905]], [[1910]], [[1911]], [[1913]], [[1914]], [[1929]], [[1930]], [[1931]], [[1972...
13: ...] championships won''' (9): [[1910]], [[1911]], [[1913]], [[1929]], [[1930]], [[1972]], [[1973]], [[1974...
18: ...Sox]], [[Cleveland Indians|Cleveland Blues]], [[Detroit Tigers]], [[Baltimore Orioles|Milwaukee Brewer...
20: ...rceable in the state of Pennsylvania. Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland Broncos (now the [[Cleveland...
22: ...), winning the [[World Series]] in 1910, 1911 and 1913. They won over 100 games in 1911 and 1912, and 9... - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...enience of the solver, although in many widely distributed American crosswords such as the ''[[New Yor...
8: ...ain]] and [[Australia]], have a [[lattice]]-like structure, with a higher percentage of black squares,...
10: ...the grid should have 180-degree rotational [[symmetry]], so that its pattern appears the same if the p...
12: ...' crosswords have simple designs and are not symmetric.
14: ...f. In both cases, no two puzzles are alike in construction, and the intent of the puzzle authors is to... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
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]]
48: ...st, winner of the [[1967]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
5: ...was raised by his mother, [[Henrietta Grace]], a strong woman determined her children would succeed, o...
7: ...e also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist of some talent, and enjoyed acting. Hol...
13: ...rred to the British secret service. He frequently travelled disguised as a butterfly collector, incorp...
15: ...uits. Using this and other methods he was able to train them to think independently, to use their init...
17: ...g (non-existent) barbed wire while moving between trenches. - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...ates and the rest of the world, but also had such tremendous influence over modern culture that many s...
8: ...This led to his being hired by [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]] company to service t...
12: ... formed the [[Detroit Automobile Company]]. The Detroit Automobile Company went bankrupt soon afterwar...
15: ...ocomotive of the day, took the car around the country and thereby made the Ford brand known throughout...
18: ...rgrounds in [[1911]] with driver Frank Kulick. In 1913, Ford attempted to enter a reworked Model T in th... - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
1: ... pyramid]], published in [[2005]], is a general nutrition guide for recommended [[food]] consumption.]...
2: ...[[health]] and [[disease]]. Absence of adequate nutrients may cause disease or death.
4: ...al health and death from [[starvation]] or [[malnutrition]], there is an array of disease states that ...
5: The science of nutrition attempts to understand how and why specific ...
8: ...uitously occur in the form of [[salts]] and [[electrolytes]]. All of these chemical compounds and elem... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[July 14]], [[1913]]
18: ...ss in 1948 from [[Michigan's 5th congressional district]].
20: ...Vietnam]]; Ford did not intervene, but did help extract friends of the U.S. At home, the economy suffe...
22: After experiencing health troubles and being admitted to the hospital four tim...
27: ...s they signed a petition to enforce the [[1939 Neutrality Act]]. This petition was circulated nationa... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
27: ...rced to leave during [[Christmas]] break after contracting [[jaundice]].
28: ...Kennedy was erroneously prescribed steroids to control his [[colitis]], which only heightened his medi...
33: ...rned the rank of [[lieutenant]], commanding a [[patrol torpedo boat]] or ''PT boat''.
35: ...JFKPT109.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Jack on his navy patrol boat, [[PT 109]].]]
36: ... was thrown across the deck, injuring his already troubled back. Still, Kennedy somehow towed a wounde... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[January 9]], [[1913]]
19: '''Richard Milhous Nixon''' ([[January 9]], [[1913]] – [[April 22]], [[1994]]) was the thirty-...
22: ... in [[Yorba Linda, California]] on [[January 9]], 1913, to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhous. He was rai...
24: ... "Quaker saint." Nixon's early life was marked by tragedy in the deaths of two of his brothers, one fr...
34: ...the same..." Although Nixon's allegations were untrue, they succeeded and Voorhis was booed by the cr... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Harry S. Truman]]
16: ...N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
18: ...cted President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. Born to wealth...
26: ...way. The Roosevelt family (see [[Roosevelt family tree]]) had lived in New York more than 200 years: [...
30: ...ly. Franklin was her only child, and she was an extremely possessive mother. Since James was a rather ... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
6: place_of_birth = [[Braunau am Inn]], [[Austria-Hungary]] |
20: ...ndication that Alois Hitler treated his son more strictly than was usual for that time and place.
22: ...fter visiting a priest responsible for birth registries and declaring that Georg was his father (Alois...
24: ...ponent of a [[racism|racist]] ideology. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler, the leader of the [[anti...
31: ...nherited some money from an aunt. He worked as a struggling painter in Vienna, copying scenes from pos... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
13: ...n of 1897-99 led by [[Adrien de Gerlache]]. He contributed greatly to saving the lives of the crew whe...
19: ...f two New York-based clubs: the Arctic Club (1894-1913) and The Explorers Club (1904-present). In 1907-1...
24: ...readings, his route-map's accuracy, even his camp trash — though samples of all such evidences are f...
29: ...they traveled north, eventually crossing [[Nares Strait]] to Annoatok on the Greenland side in the spr...
31: ...orth Pole". For example, the route the two Inuit traced on a map goes right over both the Pole of Col... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
10: ...[1673]] - [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton]] sells his part of [[New Jersey]] to the [...
15: ... the [[United States]] granting exclusive [[trade|trading]] rights.
16: ...]] - [[Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[h...
17: *[[1913]] - [[George I of Greece]] is [[assassin]]ated.
21: *[[1925]] - The [[Tri-State Tornado]] hits the Midwestern states of [[... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
10: ...ttle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
15: ...20]] - The [[United States Senate]] rejects the [[Treaty of Versailles]] for the second time (first ti...
20: ...nd communications facilities in [[Germany]] be destroyed.
26: ...irl from Ipanema]]'', sung by [[Astrud Gilberto|Astrud]] and [[Jo㯠Gilberto]].
27: ... [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] sign a friendship [[treaty]]. - 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]].
17: *[[1913]] – [[Sung Chiao-jen]], a founder of the Ch...
21: ...]] – [[Dachau]], the first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed. - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves mo...
11: ...] - Journalist [[Henry Morton Stanley]] began his trek to find the missionary and explorer [[David Liv...
14: ...he [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] flight.
17: ...]] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]]
19: ...e on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180 - March 22 (9294 bytes)
6: ... [[Pilgrims]] of [[Plymouth Colony]] sign a peace treaty with [[Massasoit]] of the [[Wampanoag]]s.
18: ...]'s [[Grand Coulee Dam]] begins to generate [[electricity]].
25: ..." releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, [[Bringing It All Back Home]].
30: ...gins two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
31: ...featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ [[Million instructions per second|MIPS]], and a 64 bit data path.... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
4: ...[capital]], largest [[City|city]] and largest [[metropolitan area]] in the state of [[Arizona]], [[Uni...
6: * the 14th largest metropolitan area of the United States, with a populat...
8: * the eighth-fastest growing metropolitan area in the U.S. (2000 census)
11: ...ounty]] and the principal city of the [[Phoenix metropolitan area]].
32: metro pop = 3,251,876 | - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
14: |population=(city) 416,474<br />(metropolis) 4,247,981
22: ... totaled 4,708,297, making it the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the [[United States]]. Atlanta is...
24: ...h century]] as a railroad hub. It was largely destroyed by Union forces during the [[American Civil W...
31: ...ry. After these tribes were deported along the [[Trail of Tears]] to [[Oklahoma]] by the Federal gove...
33: ...ge of Terminus grew up in expectation of railroad traffic. Besides Decatur, several other suburbs of ...
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