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- Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
5: | date1=[[September 20]], [[1881]]
6: | date2=[[March 3]], [[1885]]
9: | date of birth=[[October 5]], [[1829]]
12: | date of death=[[November 18]], [[1886]]
18: ...Chester Alan Arthur''' ([[October 5]], [[1829]] – [[November 18]], [[1886]]) was an [[Politics o... - Australia (39438 bytes)
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54: ...glish to use the word "Australia" was [[Alexander Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical Collection of Voy... - Saqqara (4142 bytes)
3: ...ramid]]. It is located some 30 km south of modern-day [[Cairo]] and covers an area of around 7 km by 1...
12: ...dynasty of Egypt|Third Dynasty]]. Still visible today, is the [[Pyramid of Djoser|Step Pyramid]] of th...
14: ... site, in various states of preservation or delapidation.
15: ...the earliest known example of the Pyramid Texts – inscriptions with instructions for the afterli...
18: ...g Djoser's pyramid was not uncovered until 1924 – many of these have been superbly preserved, wi... - California (63989 bytes)
16: TradAbbreviation = Calif. |
19: LandArea = 404,298 |
31: AdmittanceDate = [[September 9]], [[1850]] |
32: ...Pacific]]: [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]-8/[[Daylight saving time|-7]] |
63: ... = [[West Coast Swing]]; folk - [[Square dance]] | - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
17: LandArea = 314,590 |
25: AdmittanceDate = [[January 6]], [[1912]] |
26: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] |
46: ...542]]. Coronado camped near an excavated pueblo today preserved as [[Coronado State Monument]] in [[15...
52: ...ted Native Americans to forced labor on the haciendas and attempted to convert them to Christianity. T... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
68: *[[John James Audubon]] ([[1785]]-[[1851]]) - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
4: The Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the [[Akkadian language|Ak...
13: ...ographic meaning. When the cuneiform script was adapted to writing the [[Hittite language]], a layer ...
16: ...as written using the [[Ugaritic alphabet]], a standard Semitic style [[alphabet]] (an ''[[abjad]]'') w...
21: ... I of Persia|King Darius of Persia]] ([[522 BC]]–[[486 BC]]), they consisted of identical texts ...
25: By [[1851]], Hincks and Rawlinson could read 200 Babylonian... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
13: *[[William George Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading ...
14: ...e [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
20: ...d]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
21: ...h Baer]] - [[Germany|German]] born [[American]] — [[computer game]] - January 17 (12233 bytes)
1: ...year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 348 days remaining (349 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
9: ...]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutena...
13: ...h]] army at the [[Battle of Abu Klea]] in the [[Sudan]].
32: * [[1982]] - [[Cold Sunday|"Cold Sunday"]] in the [[United States]] sees temperatures fa... - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: {{dablink|This article covers the History of Californi...
3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied for mi...
11: ...re among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciatio...
13: ...s. Tribes in the [[Sierra Nevada (US)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] tre...
36: ...irst European to explore the coast of the present day State of California was Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo... - Pope Boniface IV (5099 bytes)
1: '''Boniface IV''' (''ca''. [[550]] – [[May 25]] [[615]]) was [[pope]] from [[608]] ...
9: ...nciliengeschichte, III, 66), questionable by [[Haddan]] and [[Stubbs]] (Councils, III, 65), and genuin...
17: ...asilica]]. His remains were three times removed — in the [[10th century|tenth]] or [[11th centur...
19: ...a saint in the [[Roman Martyrology]] on his feast day, [[25 May]].
25: * Gasquet, Francis Aidan. A Short History of the Catholic Church in Engla... - Pope Boniface V (3289 bytes)
5: ... a [[Naples|Neapolitan]] who succeeded [[Pope Adeodatus I]] after a vacancy of more than a year. Befor...
9: ... the [[pallium]] upon him and directing him to "ordain bishops as occasion should require." According ...
15: *Gasquet, Francis Aidan. ''A Short History of the Catholic Church in Eng...
17: *Hunt, William. ''The English Church from Its Foundation to the Norman Conquest''. Vol. 1. "A History ...
18: ...rum ab condita ecclesia ad annum 1198''. Berlin, 1851; 2d ed., Leipsic, 1881-88. I, 222 - Golf (35905 bytes)
4: ...he hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."'' Golf is believed to have or...
18: ...reen is not static and may be changed from day to day. This hole on the green has a flag on a pole pos...
27: ...y the course layout. On a nine-hole course, a standard round consists of two successive nine-hole roun...
54: ...sh/rules/PDF/RoG2004.pdf] are internationally standardised and are jointly governed by the [[Royal and...
77: ...amount of earth moving resulting in an affordable daily green fee and a more natural golfing experienc... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
36: *[[John Dalton]], (1766-1844), physicist
37: ...[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel ...
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
43: *[[Davorin Dolar]], (born 1921), chemist - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...cape to [[free state]]s, or as far north as [[Canada]], with the aid of [[abolitionists]]. Other route...
23: ...m to safety, where they eventually escaped to Canada.
25: Slaves escaped bondage with and without outside assistance as early as...
27: ...re. The slaveowner, in hot pursuit, remarked that Davids had disappeared as if through an "underground...
31: ...d slavery in [[1829]], and until [[1819]], [[Florida]] was under the jurisdiction of [[Spain]]. - Sloth (5489 bytes)
3: ...ng Book]] | caption = A sloth, as depicted in the 1851<br />Illustrated London Reading Book}}
6: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordata]]}}
11: '''Megalonychidae'''<br />
12: '''Bradypodidae'''
14: ...[[families]] '''Megalonychidae''' and '''Bradypodidae''', part of the [[order (biology)|order]] [[Xena... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
22: timezone = [[Pacific Standard Time Zone|PST]] |
24: timezone_DST = [[Pacific Daylight Time|PDT]] |
31: ...ates]], in terms of population. It is a [[consolidated city-county]] (the only one in California) sit...
33: ... whose population is over 7 million. U.S. census data show that San Francisco has the highest populat...
51: ...ervice the growing population are still present today, notably [[Levi Strauss & Co.]] clothing, [[Ghir... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
6: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1845]]
7: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1849]]
10: | date of birth=November 2, 1795
13: | date of death=June 15, 1849
17: | vicepresident=[[George M. Dallas]] - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: The '''American Revolutionary War''' ([[1775]]–[[1783]]), also known as the '''American War of...
12: ...r) a regular army—the [[Continental Army]]—in June of 1775, and appointed [[George Washing...
15: ...sh;American colonists who sided with the British—fielded perhaps 50,000 men during the war years...
33: ...l Patriot riders—including [[Paul Revere]]—alerted the countryside, and when the British t...
43: === Canada, 1775-76 === - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
2: ...:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|'''Jefferson Davis''']]
3: '''Jefferson Davis''' ([[June 3]], [[1808]]–[[December 6]], [[1889]]) was an [[United State...
6: ... under [[Andrew Jackson]] and receiving his commendation for bravery in the [[Battle of New Orleans]].
8: During Davis's youth, his family moved several times, in [[...
10: ...[[Lexington, Kentucky]] in [[1821]]. In [[1824]], Davis entered the [[United States Military Academy]]...
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