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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
181: | [[1911]] — [[1916]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...d redistribute crops, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization a...
28: ...ilosophy)|Legalism]] and [[Mohism]] were founded. After further political consolidation, seven promine...
48: *[[Rafe de Crespigny|de Crespigny, Rafe]]. 1977. The Ch’iang Barbarians and the Em...
49: ...licies and Strategies of the Later Han Empire''. Rafe de Crespigny. 1984. Faculty of Asian Studies, Au...
50: ...y history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu'' by Rafe de Crespigny, in Asian Studies Monographs, New S... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s King...
56: *[[1916]] - [[Walter Cronkite]], news broadcaster
110: [[af:4 November]] - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
25: ...Forrest J. Ackerman|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
17: *[[Jack Agazarian|Agazarian, Jack]], (1916-1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
21: # [[Michael Langhorne Astor]] (1916-1979) - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
8: ...]]. As a member of the ICA she took part in the [[1916]] [[Easter Rising]] and was sentenced to death by...
12: ...Irish Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs|Minster for the Gaeltacht]].
14: ...3 and June 1927 elections. She died in July 1927 after a short illness. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
6: ... [[St Petersburg]] at the age of thirteen. There, after a revolutionary sentiment had spread across th...
9: ...er Jacob Kersner. The hanging of four anarchists after the [[Haymarket Riot]] drew the young Emma Gol...
21: ...public notoriety by the time of the accusations. After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinem...
24: On [[February 11]], [[1916]], she was [[arrest]]ed and imprisoned again for ...
29: ...ration, left'') She was imprisoned for two years, after which she was deported to Russia. At her depor... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
8: After her family moved to [[Warsaw]], Rosa attended ...
10: ...y. Her specialised subjects were ''Staatswissenschaft'' (the science of [[form of government|forms of ...
34: ...n]]s. Luxemburg herself took on the name "Junius" after [[Lucius Junius Brutus]], who was said to have...
36: ...thinks differently.) Another publication, in June 1916, was ''Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie'' (The cris...
38: ... as rulers of the new republic alongside the SPD, after the abdication of the [[Wilhelm II of Germany|... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...ed as a [[nurse]] and worked for ten years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1...
9: ...ntrol. She also separated from William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth contro...
11: In [[1916]], Sanger published "What Every Girl Should Know,...
13: ...as its president of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was le...
17: ...ilable [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
18: ...esi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple moved to [[Florence]], where A...
20: ...[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Naples]]. After her mother's death in [[1651]], Prudenzia slip...
32: ===Again in Rome and after in Venezia ([[1621]]-[[1630]])===
52: ...ty which she continued to follow for a while even after the her father's death (although there are no ...
57: ...hi, the finest wardrobe in the Europe during 600, after [[Van Dyck]]''". - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
6: ... schools in [[Amarillo, Texas]] in [[1914]]. In [[1916]] started teaching at [[Columbia College]] in [[C...
10: In [[1916]], Stieglitz arranged for O'Keeffe to move to New... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
9: ...[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public...
13: ...ful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorce in [[Janu...
25: * [[1916]]: founded "[[The Mary Pickford Corporation]]" as...
29: ...nced [[Ernst Lubitsch]] to direct her next film. After considering alternatives, they settle on ''[[R...
38: ...fe, Pickford suffered from alcoholism, which also afflicted her first husband and both of her parents.... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
10: ...ver her. She, for her part, had had a tragic love affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it...
12: ...na. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to continue until June [[1904]] ...
14: ...[[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man...
18: ...'. At around the same time, she also conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], w...
20: ...axe-like words: ''bourgeois, Junkers, leeches''". After the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|1917 Revoluti... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...the British [[Cabinet]], as [[Home Secretary]] in 1916. He was also the first High Commissioner (effecti...
8: ...l and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of...
9: ...structure of carbons. Indeed on several occasions after accepting a position at King's, but before lea...
15: ... presentations, James Watson was present. Shortly afterwards [[Francis Crick]] and Watson put together...
18: ...heir paper. In fact, she had already prepared a draft paper describing the structure as a double helix... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]].
15: ...nts, remained active with the Salvation Army, and after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this ...
19: ...m depression]] and several serious health issues. After what she described as a near-death experience ...
23: In 1916 she made a tour through the southern U.S. in her ...
51: ...Beach]] with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
9: ...bed on her statue in St. Martin's Place, near [[Trafalgar Square]] in [[London]].
11: After the war Edith Cavell was reburied in the groun...
13: In [[1916]], [[Mount Edith Cavell]] in the [[Canadian Rocki... - Heckelphone (1998 bytes)
3: ...'s famous orchestral suite ''[[The Planets]]'' ([[1916]]), as well as several works of [[Delius]] (''A M... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
29: ...in Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is traditionally ...
38: ...cretary of Veterans Affairs|Secretary of Veterans Affairs]].
40: ... office of President or merely act as President. After the death of [[William Henry Harrison]], howev...
51: ...ember 5]], [[1782]], was the first president born after the [[United States Declaration of Independenc...
52: ...arch 29]], [[1790]], was the first president born after the adoption of the [[United States Constituti... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
11: ...the Wilson ticket in [[1912]], was reelected in [[1916]] and served as Vice President until [[1921]]. I...
15: ...trate party unity if he kept Marshall on; thus in 1916 Wilson and Marshall became the first President an...
19: After suffering a more mild one the previous month, ...
23: ...eturned to [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]] after his term as Vice President and resumed his law...
36: ...|Governor of Indiana]] |before=[[J. Frank Hanly]]|after=[[Samuel M. Ralston]]|years=1909-1913}} - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
76: ...ing, the [[Central Asian Revolt]], occurring in [[1916]]. - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
52: ...on. Most Kyrgyz are [[Sunni Muslim]]s of the [[Hanafi]] school.
54: ...gered by the Russian imposition of the military draft on the Kyrgyz and other Central Asian peoples, c...
68: ...re was an attempt to depose Akayev in Kyrgyzstan. After the [[coup d'état|coup]] collapsed the ...
76: ...rt-time assembly—were held in February 1995 after campaigns considered remarkably free and open ...
88: ... seized the presidential administration building, after which Akayev hurriedly fled the country, first... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
48: ... It's the second largest country of South America after Brazil and the 8th largest country in the [[wo...
61: ...ative forces dominated Argentine politics until [[1916]], when their traditional rivals, the Radicals, w...
69: ...ns�government, which left office 6 months early after Peronist candidate [[Carlos Saul Menem]] won t...
75: ...enem withdrew from the [[May 25]] runoff election after polls showed overwhelming support for Kirchner...
80: ...hey are allowed to stand for a third term or more after an interval of at least one term. The presiden... - Qatar (10610 bytes)
57: ...ny new [[emirate]]s in the [[Arabian Peninsula]]. After being dominated by [[Persian]]s for thousands ...
61: ...cial standing as a British [[protectorate]] until 1916. ...
69: ... Qatar was a [[fishing]] and [[pearling]] region. After the introduction of the Japanese cultured pear...
106: ...://english.mofa.gov.qa/ Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs] - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
58: ...e. The name ''Republic of Ireland'' came into use after the [[Republic of Ireland Act]] defined it as ...
67: ...e Act 1914]]'s implementation was suspended until after the [[World War I|Great War]]. (The war at tha...
69: ... Conference, 1919]]. However it was not admitted. After the bitterly fought [[Anglo-Irish War|War of I...
75: ... battlefield. British supplies of artillery, aircraft, machine-guns and ammunition were much help to P...
161: ...as the fourth-highest GDP per capita in the world after [[Luxembourg]], [[Norway]], and the [[United S... - Flag of Indiana (917 bytes)
2: ...17]], as part of the commemoration of the state's 1916 Centennial celebration; it was the winner of a co... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
18: ...im, and he was in the majors permanently. Shortly afterwards, Ruth proposed to [[Helen Woodford]], a w...
23: ...of [[Tris Speaker]] to the [[Cleveland Indians]]. After a slightly shaky spring, he would make a case ...
25: ...sique had changed from the tall athletic frame of 1916 to a rotund shape with which he was usually assoc...
29: ... of the year, he needed an influx of cash to stay afloat. His only available source of money was his ...
39: ...aken to a hospital, Chapman died the next morning after an operation. (Chapman's death remains the onl... - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
49: After the [[American Revolutionary War]], Wisconsin ...
51: ...t, [[Daniel Hoan]], was mayor of Milwaukee from [[1916]] to [[1940]]. During both the [[2000]] and [[200...
61: ...sconsinites although the nicknames "[[Badger]]s" (after the state's nickname and school mascot of the ...
65: ...state Progressive Party]] establishment soon thereafter, Wisconsin and in particular, Madison, have of...
125: *5.7% [[African American|Black]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
182: * [[1816]]: [[Davy lamp|Miner's safety lamp]]: [[Humphry Davy]]
228: * [[1849]]: [[Safety pin]]: [[Walter Hunt]]
260: * [[1869]]: [[Vacuum cleaner]]: [[I.W. McGaffers]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
174: *[[James Young|Young, Paraffin]], (1811?1883), Scottish chemist
198: ...ents of Argentina|President]] of [[Argentina]] ([[1916]]-[[1922]], [[1928]]-[[1930]]).
203: *[[Yuan Shikai]], ([[1859]]-[[1916]]), alleged mastermind behind assassination of [[... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
35: ...e May [[1915]], ratified by popular vote August [[1916]]. This hodgepodge was made uniform when Standard...
415: *[[Central African Republic]]
477: *[[South Africa]]
527: *[[Afghanistan]]
607: ...o means that on the short (76 km) frontier with [[Afghanistan]], the official time change is 3 hours a... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
39: *[[Kazimierz Alchimowicz]] ([[1840]]-[[1916]])
200: *[[Louis le Brocquy]] ([[1916]]-)
255: *[[William Merritt Chase]] ([[1849]]-[[1916]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...[list of scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[invento...
52: ...rell]], (1910-1999;) (1886-1972) — [[Hovercraft]]
158: ...an-American Inventor of the [[gas mask]], and [[traffic signal]].
168: ...is]] — passenger elevator and concommitant safety device
194: *[[Claude E. Shannon]], (1916-2001) — information theory - World War I (62979 bytes)
1: ...cinity of the [[Battle of Passchendaele]]. Battle aftermath. Remains of the Chateau Wood]]
2: ... the days of the [[Crusade]]s, all fell during or after the war.
16: ...developed between the various [[Europe]]an powers after the defeat of France and formation of the Germ...
22: ...ated in the "''[[Ausgleich|Ausgleich of 1867]]''" after Austria was defeated by [[Prussia]]. As agreed...
26: After the assassination of [[Franz Ferdinand]], after nearly a month of debate, the government of Au... - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
43: *[[1909]] - [[William Howard Taft]] becomes President
47: *[[1909]] - Taft implements [[Dollar Diplomacy]]
68: *[[1916]] - US acquires [[Virgin Islands]]
69: *[[1916]] - [[Jeannette Rankin]] elected
70: *[[1916]] - [[Louis Brandeis]] appointed to [[Supreme Cou... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...he civil rights laws that were passed immediately after the end of the war were quickly abandoned. In...
7: ...ploitive economic policies in the defeated region after the war, caused lasting bitterness among South...
9: ...enforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
11: After solid [[United States Republican Party|Republi...
13: ...and were widely perceived as being motivated by graft and corruption, while locals who participated in... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
14: ...of Safety (Hawaii)|Citizen's Committee of Public Safety]] overthrow the government of Queen [[Liliuoka...
16: ...con Scott]] reaches the [[South Pole]], one month after [[Roald Amundsen]].
17: * [[1916]] - The [[Professional Golfers Association of Ame...
28: * [[1966]] - [[Carl Brashear]], the first [[African American]] [[United States Navy]] diver, is ...
63: *[[1914]] - [[William Stafford]], poet and essayist (d. [[1993]]) - Flood (7770 bytes)
4: ...ght|Flooding in Asheville, North Carolina in July 1916]]
31: ...ion years ago. It had previously become a desert after continental movement had closed the [[Strait o...
39: ...002 European flood]] was a flooding disaster that affected many states including [[Czech Republic]], [...
40: ...ousands, leaving the country devastated for years afterwards. - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
23: ...worked the text of the Declaration until a little after eleven o'clock, July 4th, when twelve [[colony...
43: ...izes and types allowed, but [[Smuggling|illicit traffic]] brings some of the more powerful [[firecrack...
45: ...ork City]], which supposedly started on July 4, [[1916]] as a way to settle a dispute among four immigra... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
47: ...d by [[social Catholicism]]. During the [[Dreyfus affair]] the family distanced itself from the more c...
50: ...ded at the gruesome [[Battle of Verdun]] in March 1916, and left for dead on the battlefield. Alive, he ...
52: ...ed, he remained in the military, serving on the staff of Gen. [[Maxime Weygand]] and then Gen. [[Phili...
56:
59: ...he [[1920s]] and [[1930s]] due to his bold views. After the German breakthrough at [[Sedan, France|Sed... - Ireland (33828 bytes)
32: ...) in Dublin, while others in Northern Ireland are affiliated with the [[Trades Union Congress]] (TUC) ...
44: ...years. [[Stone age]] inhabitants arrived sometime after [[8000 BC]], with the culture progressing from...
82: ...biggest "red light districts" known as [[Monto]] (after its focal point, Mountgomery Street, on the no...
84: ===1916 to 1922: Partial severance of Union; partial inde...
90: ... made to gain independence for Ireland with the [[1916]] [[Easter Rising]], an insurrection largely conf... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...all]] in [[North America]], played in [[October]] after the end of the regular season between the penn...
13: ...agrees to freeing its players. According to the IBAF chairman, such a move would do more for populariz...
15: ...ly scheduled to follow the [[2005]] season. The IBAF has already organized thirty-five editions of the...
75: After 2 years of bitter competition and player raidi...
87: == List of World Series after 1904 == - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
24: ... the four teams contracted by the National League after the [[1899]] season.
25: ...was transferred to [[New York City]] in 1903 and, after some early struggles, eventually became baseba...
26: ... won several league championships, including 1944 after they had lost their home field [[Oriole Park(s...
89: *25 [[Image:Cuba_flag_large.png|20px]] [[Rafael Palmeiro]] - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: ...anager [[Cap Anson]]. ''Remnants'', in [[1901]], after a number of players deserted the team for the ...
18: ...he Chicagos adopted white as their primary color. After a summer of individually arranged contests amo...
22: After the [[1875]] season, Chicago acquired several ...
28: ...which went on to join the National League in 1892 after the A.A. folded, continues to be a perennial r...
32: After the Chicagoans' great run during the 1880s, th... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
25: ...pitching of [[Eddie Cicotte]] and [[Red Faber]]. After an off-year in the war-shortened season of [[1...
39: ... all of these games despite a mediocre pitching staff led by [[Mike Sirotka]]. Frank Thomas nearly won...
275: *Triples: [[Shoeless Joe Jackson]], 21 (1916) - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
6: ...n as:''' Brooklyn Dodgers, [[1932]] to [[1957]], after which the team moved to Los Angeles for the [[...
7: ...batic troup popular at the time), the ''Robins'' (after Wilbert Robinson, manager from [[1914]] throug...
14: ...ants won''' (21): [[1890]], [[1899]], [[1900]], [[1916]], [[1920]], [[1941]], [[1947]], [[1949]], [[1952...
23: ...oklyn club's history were clouded in uncertainty. After their first year they joined the [[American As...
27: ...or their distracted, error-ridden style of play. After his removal as club president, Robinson return... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
7: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[McAfee Coliseum]], Oakland
18: ...mateur" days of the national game, in the 1860s. After [[John McGraw (baseball)|John McGraw]] told re...
24: After the heavily favored A?s lost the [[1914 World ...
26: .... The team would finish in last place every year after that until 1922, when it finished 7th.
28: After that, Mack began to build another winner. In ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
44: *[[Rembrandt Bugatti]] (1884 - 1916)
169: *[[Georges Lacombe]] (1868 - 1916)
193: *[[Antonin Mercié]] (1845 - 1916) - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
53: ...mittee of Vigilance relinquished power both times after it decided the city had been 'cleaned up'.
64: ...ar to that of the later [[Battle of Dunkirk]] to safety across the Bay saved thousands. With the cente...
69: ...s than a decade after the Earthquake. On July 22, 1916 a bomb exploded on Market Street during a [[Prepa...
73: ...ablished peaceful relations with [[Japan]], was drafted and signed there six years later in [[1951]].
75: ... which ultimately turned out to be seismically unsafe. In 1959, the Board of Supervisors voted to halt... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
25: In [[1920]], after years of moving from town to town, the family ...
27: ...her Neil, with parents Jack and Nelle Reagan. (c. 1916-17)]]
38: ...the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] in [[1935]]. After the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] he was activate...
48: ...says in his autobiography, he eventually gave in, after countless sleepless nights.
60: ...n's victory. That the hostages were released just after his taking the oath of office is alleged by so...
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