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- American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ...t a time, were generally reluctant to go very far from home, and would often come and go as they saw f...
15: ...f these ever set foot in America. The war was far from Britain's greatest concern at the time. [[Loyal...
19: ...cisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing army at the time is estimated to h...
23: ...lack slaves used the war as a chance to escape to freedom.
31: ...regiment]]s of British regulars (about 4,000 men) from his headquarters in Boston, but the countryside... - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
29: ...ew capital city. Ralston was an apprentice to the French architect [[Pierre L'Enfant]], and he helped ...
31: ...ed in 1836, but Indiana went bankrupt in [[1839]] from the loans taken out under the aforementioned bi...
33: ...Chicago]], [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], [[Cincinnati]], [[Columbus, Indiana|Columbus]] and [[St. Louis...
35: ...in the [[1890s]]. The state government offered a free supply of [[natural gas]] to factories that wer...
37: ...social organization in the city during the period from [[1921]] through [[1928]]. The Klan continued ... - Columbus, Ohio (27104 bytes)
4: ... ranks 24th in the country with 1.84M, behind #19 Cincinnati (2.05M) and #14 Cleveland-Akron (2.95M).
6: ...is the [[county seat]] of [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin County]]. It also extends into [[Delaware C...
20: county = [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin]], [[Delaware County, Ohio|Delaware]],<br> ...
35: ... in Delaware, [[Capital University]] in Bexley, [[Franklin University]], the [[Columbus College of Art...
48: ...wn that resembles jumbled blocks, or a train yard from overhead. The convention center was designed b... - Roller coaster (14862 bytes)
9: ... lower as some mechanical energy is lost due to [[friction]]. Then the train goes down again, and up, ...
15: ..., it uses whatever method is available to keep it from entering. This can cause a [[cascade]] effect w...
17: ...es regarding when to release a newly-loaded train from the station. One common pattern, used on rides...
21: ...first loop track was probably also built in Paris from an English design in 1846, with a single-person...
23: ...of the "lift hill." By [[1912]], the first [[underfriction]] coaster was developed by [[John Miller (e... - Doric order (6699 bytes)
3: ...reek Doric order was the earliest of these, known from the [[7th century BC]] and reaching its mature ...
5: ...th [[capital (architecture)|capital]] that flared from the column to meet a square [[abacus (architect...
9: ...'guttae'' that appear as if they were hammered in from below to stabilize the post-and-beam ("[[trabea...
15: ... the columns are centered under a triglyph in the frieze, except for the corner columns. The plain, un...
19: ...art of the basic vocabulary of trained architects from the later [[18th century]] onwards, shows how t... - Troy (22846 bytes)
10: ... [[Turkey]]). Troy is known for its riches gained from port trade with east and west, fancy clothes, i...
12: ...est Libyan tribe who said that they are descended from the men of Troy, according to [[Herodotus]]. Th...
18: ...s law was adopted by King [[Dunvallo Molmutius]] (from [[Brutus]]) in his code and is still in effect ...
20: ..., where the Greek gods watched the [[Trojan War]] from, where [[Hera]] distracted [[Zeus]] with her se...
24: ...e of the ancient city today is some 15 kilometers from the coast, but the ancient mouths of Scamander,... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
1: ...ers of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] traveled from [[1846]]-[[1857]]. Today the Mormon Trail is a...
14: ...ons demanding that the Latter-day Saints withdraw from Nauvoo by May 1846. A few days later, the Cart...
17: ...e year. On April 5th, the wagon train moved west from Winter Quarters toward the Great Basin.
19: ...[Pueblo, Colorado]] and a group of Church members from Mississippi. At this point, the now larger com...
23: ...g and several other members of the party suffered from a fever, generally accepted as a “mountain fe... - Hank Aaron (72330 bytes)
19: ...major league debut and went 0-for-5 against the [[Cincinnati Reds]]' [[Joe Nuxhall]]. In the same game, Aaron...
23: ...best moment of his career. Aaron drilled a pitch from the [[St. Louis Cardinals|Cardinals]]' [[Billy ...
28: ...st productive day as a hitter. Against the [[San Francisco Giants]], he hit two-run home runs in the ...
30: ...me. Aaron and Mathews went back to back off of [[Cincinnati Reds|Reds]]' pitcher [[Jim Maloney]]. Adcock and...
34: ...ron's home run output increased due to the hitter friendly park – later nicknamed "The Launching... - Billy Martin (4203 bytes)
1: [[Image:TN_baseball.jpg|frame|125px|Baseball Clipart provided by [http://cla...
2: '''Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin,''' a.k.a. Alfred Manuel Pesano, "The Brat," "Billy the Kid," ([[...
6: ...n was raised by his mother, who doted on her son, frequently calling him "bella," or "beautiful" in It...
10: ...e second inning after receiving a brushback pitch from [[Chicago Cubs]] pitcher Jim Brewer. Martin thr...
12: ... to the [[Texas Rangers]], where he took the club from last place to second place in [[1974]], but was... - Slavery (26455 bytes)
6: ...av</i>, which originally meant landless [[serfs]] from [[Eastern Europe]], including parts of [[Rome|t...
8: ...ll forms of slavery and similar labour systems. Unfree labour is now the preferred term of many schola...
10: ... accepted that payment of a [[wage]] signifies "[[free labour]]", with quite different disadvantages e...
16: In sweatshop labor cases, unfree labourers are often told that they are working ...
18: ...rous abuses are reported to the authorities which frequently turn a blind eye. In all countries, peop... - Major League Baseball (14783 bytes)
1: [[Image:MajorLeagueBaseball.png|frame|MLB logo]]
11: The Major League season generally runs from early April through the end of September. Play...
17: ...f 162 games, a duration established in [[1961]]. From [[1898]] to [[1960]], a 154-game schedule was p...
21: ...revious NL [[World Series]] team, against players from the AL, similarly managed, in an exhibition gam...
25: ... the regular season, the three division champions from each league, together with the non-division cha... - Anna Harrison (3660 bytes)
7: ...id not want his daughter to face the hard life of frontier forts; but eventually, seeing her happiness...
9: .... His service in Congress as territorial delegate from Ohio gave Anna and their two children a chance ...
11: ...oving Anna said simply: "I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contente... - Rutherford B. Hayes (9651 bytes)
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Fremont, Ohio]]</td></tr>
24: ...sumed the practice of law. He was city solicitor from [[1857]] to [[1859]]. He was commissioned a ma...
26: ...ngress. He was again elected Governor and served from January [[1876]] to [[March 2]], [[1877]], when...
36: ...t one Southerner and he withdrew all Union troups from the South, then he would become president. This...
95: ...m length to six years. He died in [[Fremont, Ohio|Fremont]], [[Sandusky County, Ohio]], [[January 17]]... - Benjamin Harrison (11469 bytes)
26: ...n [[1852]]. He studied law in [[Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati]] then moved to [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapo...
28: ... to the [[United States Senate]], where he served from [[March 4]], [[1881]], to [[March 3]], [[1887]]...
40: ...liam McKinley]] and Senator [[Nelson W. Aldrich]] framed a still higher tariff bill; some rates were i...
42: ...with the Treasury surplus, the tariff was removed from imported raw sugar; sugar growers within the Un...
132: ... United States Senators from Indiana|U.S. Senator from Indiana]]|before=[[Joseph E. McDonald]]|after=[... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]
18: ...n]] with the backing of his predecessor and close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].
25: ...rnal organization]]. After college, he attended [[Cincinnati Law School]] and began his political career in Oh...
27: ... [[Treaty of Paris (1898)|1898 Treaty of Paris]]. From [[1901]] to [[1903]], Taft served as the first ...
29: ...act, it was said that an aide blacked out "pudgy" from his morning newspaper. - Hannibal Hamlin (5219 bytes)
2: ...uly 4]], [[1891]]) was an [[American politician]] from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Maine]]. Hamlin served ...
6: ...n the [[United States House of Representatives]], from [[1843]]-[[1847]]. He was elected to fill a Sen...
8: ...incinnati Convention two years later, he withdrew from the Democrats and joined the newly organized Re...
10: ...)|Democrat]], Hamlin supported the candidacy of [[Franklin Pierce]] in [[1852]]. However, he broke wit...
12: ...overnorship, and was again a member of the Senate from 1857 to January 1861. - Charles G. Dawes (3139 bytes)
5: ...ege]] in [[1884]] and from the [[Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati]] Law School in [[1886]]. He was admitted to the...
7: ...n, [[United States War Department]]. He resigned from the Army in [[1919]], and upon the creation of ...
11: ...tional Bank and Trust Co., [[Chicago, Illinois]], from 1932 until his death in [[Evanston, Illinois]]....
17: ...ton Historical Society], headquartered in the lakefront Dawes house - Tobacco (28162 bytes)
14: ... whose roots are unclear; it is thought to derive from the [[Native American]] word "tabago," for a Y-...
16: ...f of a cigar or three cigarettes; however, only a fraction of the nicotine contained in these products...
26: ...e Americans]], and also soon led to the use of [[African slaves]] for cheap labor.
28: ... the colony's first black slaves as well as women from England in [[1619]].
39: ...ed with branches to protect the young plants from frost damage. These plants were left to grow until a...
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