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- History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
71: *[[George Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
14: ...Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer
35: ...nnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
50: ...ilio]], (1869-1964), [[Philippines]] independence fighter - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...tance Georgine Markiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[natio...
6: ... the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
10: ...olleagues assembled in Dublin as the [[First Dᩬ|first incarnation]] of [[Dᩬ ɩreann]], a new Irish...
12: ...et rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. She held t...
14: ...e 1923 and June 1927 elections. She died in July 1927 after a short illness. - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer...
5: ...Murphy]] (the [[British Empire|British Empire's]] first woman judge);
6: ...rryat Parlby]] (farm women's leader, activist and first woman [[Cabinet minister]] in Alberta);
8: ...Kinney|Louise Crummy McKinney]] (one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]],...
11: ...of Canada|Governor General]] shall... summon qualified Persons to the Senate; and ... every Person so ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support ...
7: ...ly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] ...
9: ... and Sanger was arrested for violating the post office's obscenity laws by sending birth control infor...
13: ... many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]].
19: ...married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year struggle. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Amer...
9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and mar...
18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se...
18: ...conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], who was 9 years older than Tsvetaeva. ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...tween the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of th...
7: ...], following the death of her mother, she had the first of several [[nervous breakdown]]s. She later i...
9: ...[[civil servant]] and [[political theorist]]. Her first novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[...
13: ... ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of...
15: ...ven me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...e.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
9: ...al star, Baker also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse ...
11: ... and public persona into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stu...
19: ... show opened to rave reviews, but Baker never benefited from it. She died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]]...
25: She became the first American woman to receive French military hono... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], o...
5: ... [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson ... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...lling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Bar...
19: ...re is some disagreement over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it w...
23: ... was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner n...
25: ...hers. He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation.
27: ...uation ended poorly, perhaps because the gang was finally reduced to stealing [[mule]]s for transporta... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...reafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]], where the...
25: ...me frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed for separation. His petition for divorce, cit...
27: ...f 1918 to 1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, C...
33: ...nday]], McPherson was less a [[fire and brimstone|fire-and-brimstone]] preacher than one to endorse ch...
35: ... on [[February 6]], [[1924]], she also became the first woman to be granted a broadcast license by the... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she la...
5: ... it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...o make a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freihei...
9: ...technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the st...
13: ...f her using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in c... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: ... her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab ...
12: ...[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Critics agree that her acting was ...
14: ...vertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scar...
16: ...onders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a...
20: ...performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her the New York Screen Critics Award.... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...n a major role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling'')....
12: ...ationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was fired by MGM and returned to [[Sweden]] in [[1928]],...
17: ...nd ''[[Love (1927 movie)|Love]]'' ([[1927 in film|1927]]). The latter two she starred in with the popula...
19: ...he first time in ''[[Anna Christie]]'' ([[1930 in film|1930]]), which was publicized with the slogan "... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: ...69]]) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[figure skating|figure skater]] and actress.
4: ...er Olympics]]. She had earlier placed eighth in a field of eight at the [[1924 Winter Olympics]], at t...
6: ...nships in [[1927]] at the age of fifteen, and her first [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medal the follo...
8: ...he short skirt costume in figure skating, and the first to make use of dance [[choreographer|choreogra...
10: ...]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello, London''. She became one of the wealt... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...iva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an internationa...
3: ... the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named ''La D...
8: ...r her to compete in tennis and gain strength. Her first try at the game was in 1910, when she played o...
10: ...r her first tennis strokes, Lenglen played in the final of the [[1914 in sports|1914]] French Champion...
14: ...g in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Pansy (10101 bytes)
34: ...]]s that normally have two-year life cycles. The first year they only produce greenery; they bear flo...
51: 2 parts finely ground copper sulphate
66: Transmitted by aphids. Fine yellow veining on young leaves, stunted growth,...
113: ==Name Origin and Significance==
117: .... In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books, there is a [[fictional character|character]] named [[Pansy Parkin... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...ing of trade routes in the 17th century were significant numbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Wes...
3: ...d rug. The former indicates a covering that is affixed to a floor and the latter a floor covering tha...
16: ...orming a knot. Because of the loom structure only five colors can be used to create the design. Moquet...
34: ...rtical red stripe near the hoist side, containing five carpet guls (designs used in producing rugs).
39: ... was excavated by [[Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko]] in 1927 from a Siberian burial ground where it had been p... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[April 4]], [[1841]] - [[March 4]]...
13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler...
21: ... of Independence]], and the first to assume the office of President following the death of his predece...
25: ... aggressive handling of the South Carolina [[nullification]] issue.
29: ... (until the [[1967]] ratification of the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25... - Australia (39438 bytes)
8: official_languages =[[English language|English]]|
48: ...Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] in 1770, and officially settled as a British colony on [[January 26...
54: ...refer to the whole South Pacific region, not specifically to the Australian continent. In 1793 [[Georg...
56: ...lly accepted that the continent should be known officially as Australia.
63: ...and 48,000 years ago{{mn|Gillespie2002|1}}. These first Australians were the remote ancestors of the c... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...ion of Ireland|Irish constitution]] the state's official name is simply '''Ireland''' (Irish: ''[[ɩre...
13: national_anthem = ''[[Amhrᮠna bhFiann]]'' |
14: official_languages = [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Engli...
58: ...ted term for the state, ''Ireland'' is used for official purposes such as treaties, government and leg...
60: ...'. Historically the state has had more than one official title. The revolutionary state established by... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom...
46: ...inority Languages]]. In each of these, the UK's official name is as follows:
52: ...>6</sup> Official estimate provided by the UK [[Office for National Statistics]]. As of April 2005, th...
54: ...untry" to "state", "nation", "union", etc, please first contribute to the extensive discussion of this...
58: ...ded Wales]] as a [[principality]]) with those of, first, [[Kingdom of Scotland]] and then [[Kingdom of... - Flag of Alaska (694 bytes)
3: ...sign was officially adopted in [[1959]]. The blue field is for the sky and the [[forget-me-not]], the ... - Flag of Kansas (1706 bytes)
2: ... the flag tells the [[history of Kansas]] and has figures representing pioneer life.
7: * Settler's cabin and a man plowing a field ([[agriculture]]) [foreground]
11: ... Astera''" - [[Latin]] : "To the Stars through Difficulties" (above the stars)
15: ...d on every and all occasions, when the state is officially represented.
19: ... [[Fort Riley]] by [[Governor]] [[Ben Paulin]] in 1927 for the troops at Fort Riley and for the Kansas [... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ... one season. His record of 60 home runs in the [[1927]] season stood for 34 years until it was broken b...
4: ...oaring Twenties]]'' as the fan base expanded significantly and triggered major expansion of nearly all...
9: ... working with him for countless hours on hitting, fielding and later, pitching.
10: ...ng front, holding up bat, in baseball uniform, on field]]
14: ... On [[April 22]], [[1914]] "The Babe" pitched his first professional game, a six-hit, 6-0 victory over... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
36: ...e state is "State of Iowa", and the [[U.S. Post Office]] abbreviation for the state is '''IA'''.
45: ... and [[Jacques Marquette]] are believed to be the first Europeans to visit Iowa. They described Iowa ...
47: *The first white settlers officially moved to Iowa in June [[1833]]. Primarily,...
49: ...he [[Union Pacific]] railroad. The completion of five major railroads across Iowa brough major econom... - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
11: OfficialLang = None |
47: ...]], Frenchman [[Jean Nicolet]] became Wisconsin's first European explorer. The French controlled the a...
51: ... censured by the Senate during the [[1950s]]. The first Socialist mayor of a large city in the United ...
53: ... mineral is [[Galena]] otherwise known as lead sulfide which reflects Wisconsin's early mining history...
56: *[[Peshtigo Fire]] - Vermont (39851 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
36: ...ion (608,827) ranks as the second smallest of the fifty states. As the only [[New England]] state not ...
48: ...everal mountains do have timberlines: [[Mount Mansfield]], the highest mountain in the state and [[Kil...
54: ...6 degrees Celsius), at [[Bloomfield, Vermont|Bloomfield]] on [[December 30]], [[1933]].
57: ...sfield 20040926.jpg|280px|thumb|right|[[Mount Mansfield]], at 4,393 feet, is the highest elevation poi... - Utah (29154 bytes)
15: OfficialLang = [[English_language|English]] |
48: Fish = [[Trout|Bonneville Cutthroat Trou...
76: ...d the [[2002 Winter Olympics]], which gave a significant boost to the state's tourist industry (especi...
87: ...on—left [[Santa Fe]] in [[1776]], hoping to find a route to the [[California]] coast. The expedi...
92: ...the capital. In [[1856]], Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital. - Oregon (26551 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
25: ...Malheur County, Oregon|Malheur County]] is in Pacific)</small> |
36: ...ited States]]' northwest, and bordering the [[Pacific Ocean]], [[California]], [[Washington]], [[Idaho...
43: ...hout losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first place. The state has pioneered some innovativ...
49: ...ritain|British]] gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company posts. - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
14: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] and [[Span...
38: ...|English]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] are officially recognized languages in the state. In [[Sp...
46:
50: ... Spain]] to his remote colony. O was made the first governor of the new [[Province of New Mexico]]...
62: ...ssouri]], for Santa Fe early in [[1822]] with the first party of traders. Wagon caravans thereafter ma... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
17: *[[Albert Uderzo|Uderzo, Albert]], (born 1927), French cartoonist of ''[[Asterix]]'' fame
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
52: ...esident of the [[Erie Railroad]] [[1901]]–[[1927]]
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]]
92: *[[Lewis Urry|Urry, Lewis]], (1927-2004), Canadian inventor - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...r]] [[demand]] and aspirations, coupled with significant changes in the [[lifestyle]]; and a series of...
3: ..., the [[Aftermath of World War I|period after the First World War]] was marked by a [[Post-WWI recessi...
5: ...nd [[dancing]], in defiance of the horrors of the First World War, which were still present in peoples...
11: ...w products on the market on which to spend it. At first, the cessation of wartime production caused a ...
17: ...les became common throughout North America. By [[1927]], [[Henry Ford]] had sold 15 million [[Model T]]... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
40: *[[Pierre Alechinsky]] ([[1927]]-)
56: *[[Michael Peter Ancher]] ([[1849]]-[[1927]])
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
138: *[[Emerik Bernard]] ([[1927]]-)
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadian]] Departmen...
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]]
139: *[[Irving Langmuir]], (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
3: ... The treaty with the United Kingdom in [[1783]] defined the original borders of the [[United States]].
11: ...pansion, won the presidency, but before he took office, Congress approved the annexation of Texas on [...
27: ...Islands inhabitants became American citizens in [[1927]]. - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...was popularized by the U.S. political adviser and financier [[Bernard Baruch]] in April 1947 during a ...
5: ... War]]. After the balance of power in Europe were firmly established, proxy battles in the Third World...
12: ...ple around the world almost as much as the actual fighting did.
17: ...ticularly revolutionary advances were made in the field of [[rocketry]], which led to the [[space race...
20: Other fields in which arms races occurred include: - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
16: *[[1902]] - First [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game played
20: *[[1903]] - First [[World Series]]
89: *[[1920]] - First [[radio]] broadcast in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylva...
104: *[[1927]] - [[Sacco and Vanzetti]] executed
105: *[[1927]] - [[Charles Lindbergh]] makes first trans-Atlantic [[flight]] - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circle]].
12: * [[1873]] - [[First Battle of the Stronghold]] in the [[United Sta...
15: ... takes possession of [[Wake Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
19: ...| character]] created by [[Elzie Crisler Segar]], first appeared in a [[newspaper]] [[comic strip]].
23: ... [[1946]] - The [[UN Security Council]] holds its first session. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...uary 1 was to be either [[New Year's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England beg...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], pr...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered b...
22: ...ein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published. - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ... won the series four games to none, earning their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the ...
5: ...l All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] is given the home field advantage in the World Series.
7: ...dings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not ...
9: ...to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club team outside [[Ma...
13: ...nificant minority are from [[Puerto Rico]], which fields its own teams in international sports competi... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
18: ...Shibe had a ?white elephant on his hands," Mack defiantly adopted the [[white elephant]] as the team m...
20: ...eague, persuading them to ?jump? to the A.L. in defiance of their N.L. contracts. The Athletics as we...
22: ... in 1914. The team was known for its ?$100,000 Infield,? consisting of John "Stuffy" McInnis (1b), [[...
26: ...t place every year after that until 1922, when it finished 7th.
28: ...est team in baseball history, even surpassing the 1927 Yankees. - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
6: ...r]] from his previous club in [[1891]], they were first called ''Pirates''. The name stuck. Over the y...
10: :'''Official mascot:''' [[Pirate Parrot]]
13: ...1901]], [[1902]], [[1903]], [[1909]], [[1925]], [[1927]], [[1960]], [[1971]], [[1979]]
17: In its early days, the club benefitted three times from mergers with defunct clubs. ...
19: ...strong team over the next few years and got their first World Series title in [[1909]], defeating the ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
10: *[[Svante Arrhenius]], (1859-1927), Swedish chemist and physicist
48: *[[Manfred Eigen]], (1927-), German chemist, winner of the [[1967]] [[Nobel...
56: *[[Hermann Emil Fischer]], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
57: *[[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]]
58: *[[Hans Fischer]], German organic chemist, [[1930]] [[Nobel ... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...ited States|American]] society. He was one of the first to apply [[assembly line]] manufacturing to th...
6: ...pelled vehicle, a steam powered thresher, for the first time.
8: ...gan|Detroit]] to work as an apprentice machinist, first with James F. Flower & Bros., and later with t...
15: ... this success, the famous race driver [[Barney Oldfield]], who named this new Ford model "999" in hono...
18: ...in races, finishing first (although later disqualified) in an "ocean-to-ocean" (across the [[United St... - Philo Farnsworth (6489 bytes)
5: ...ed an early interest in [[electronics]] after his first [[telephone]] conversation with an out-of-stat...
11: .... By 1928 Farnsworth had developed the system sufficiently to hold a demonstration for the press. In ...
19: ...never became wealthy. The [[cathode ray tube]] configuration developed from Farnsworth's work was used...
25: ...sion systems, which slowly heat a magnetically confined [[plasma]], the fusor injects high temperature...
27: ...ts, development into a power source has proven difficult. Nevertheless the fusor has since become a pr... - Airline (29546 bytes)
2: ...ces with other airlines for reasons of mutual benefit.
11: ...ernment owned or supported to independent, for-profit public companies. This occurs as regulators perm...
15: ... lower fares and sometimes dramatic spurts in traffic growth. The U.S., Australia, Japan, Brazil, Mexi...
17: ...ars is generally low, in the range of 2-3% net profit after interest and tax. It is in this time that ...
19: ...o achieve higher economies of scale and greater efficiencies. - Venice (22017 bytes)
6: ... other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pisa]], and [[Amalfi]]). Its strategic position at head of the Adriati...
10: ...r west as the [[Adda River]], were known as "Terrafirma", and were acquired partly as a buffer against...
12: ...]], symbol of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the men, supplies, and (especial...
16: ... [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] peers to resign the office and retire into [[monastery|monastic]] seclusio...
24: ...that Venice became perhaps the most elegant and refined city in [[Europe]], greatly influencing [[art]... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
95: *[[Mino da Fiesole]] (c.1429 - 1484)
96: *[[Steve Fiorilla]]
97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-)
278: *[[Imogen Stuart]] (1927 - ) - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
1: ...gnosticism is not to be confused with a view specifically opposing the doctrine of [[gnosis]] and [[Gn...
14: ... nature can trouble himself about ''a priori'' difficulties. Give me such evidence as would justify me...
22: ...I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel. I cannot see one shadow or tittle of evidence...
28: ...lerical intolerance was trying to suppress scientific discoveries which appeared to clash with a liter...
30: ...but a definition of [[honesty]]. Huxley's usual definition went beyond mere honesty, however, and he i... - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
4: ...can be caused or alleviated by changes in diet. Deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in diet can prod...
5: ...nutrition attempts to understand how and why specific dietary aspects influence health.
10: ..., except in the unborn fetus, participates in the first step which makes the different chemical compou...
14: ...ation]] is very high. This makes [[science|scientifically]] valid nutritional study very time-consumin...
20: ...ily [[vegetarian]] with infrequent game meats and fish where available. - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
13: ...age is not unique to cable cars, as electric cars fitted with [[regenerative braking]] offer the same ...
16: ...rlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the [[...
19: ...sign work by [[William Eppelsheimer]], and it was first tested in [[1873]]. The success of these grips...
21: ...ed in [[Dunedin]], [[New Zealand]] and became the first such system outside San Francisco. For Dunedin...
25: ...2]] and went on to become the largest and most profitable cable car system. As with many cities, the p... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
29: In [[1927]], at age 16, Reagan took a summer job as a [[lif...
31: ... the wire went dead. Reagan smoothly improvised a fictional play-by-play (in which hitters on both tea...
35: ...''. Reagan was kidded widely about the last named film because his co-star was a chimpanzee. He has a ...
37: ...n 1952. Nancy Reagan became a powerful background figure in Ronald Reagan's rise and roles as governor...
38: ...my Air Force]], which made training and education films. He remained in Hollywood for the duration of ... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
24: In [[1927]] Johnson enrolled in [[Texas State University-Sa...
27: ...a close friend to one of Texas's rising political figures, Congressman [[Sam Rayburn]]. In [[1931]] L...
33: ...st enabled him to use the powers of government to find educational and job opportunities for young peo...
36: Johnson received his first degree in [[Freemasonry]] on [[October 30]], [...
41: ...hman congressman. He also worked for rural electrification and other improvements for his district. In... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
3: | image name=Eisenhower official.jpg
26: ...was active in the sect from 1895, when Dwight was five years old, until she died. Eisenhower's father ...
30: ...ning]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], until [[1927]].
34: ...ashington, D.C.]], and then served as executive officer to General [[George V. Moseley]], Assistant Se...
38: ... It was his close association with Marshall which finally brought Eisenhower to senior command positio... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
19: ... administration of [[Lyndon Johnson]] — his fifth successor.
21: ... Branch, Iowa|West Branch]], [[Iowa]]. He was the first President to be born west of the [[Mississippi...
23: ...over boarded a [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]] train headed west to [[Oregon]]. Sewn into his...
26: ...cott]]. ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'', the story of another orphan cast into the...
34: ...cts for employment. But from this college in a hayfield he had derived much more than a degree in geol... - Calvin Coolidge (18374 bytes)
7: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[August 3]], [[1923]] - [[March 3]...
14: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Grace Coolidge]]</td></tr...
21: ...dent of the United States]], succeeding to that office upon the death of [[Warren G. Harding]].
25: ...is usual seriousness, Calvin answered, "No, but I find it mighty handy."[http://www.drafthorsejournal....
33: ...erosene lamp; Coolidge was resworn by a federal official upon his return to Washington. - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
18: ...for [[public speaking]] before entering politics, first in the [[Ohio Senate]] ([[1899]]–[[1903]...
20: ... leanings were conservative, his record in both offices relatively undistinguished. At the conclusion ...
25: ...ved to unseat the ''Marion Independent'' as the official paper of daily record, his actions brought th...
29: ... DeWolfe]], a divorcee and the mother of one son. Five years older than Harding, she had pursued him p...
31: ...sense, and turned the Marion Daily Star into a profitable business. One of the Hardings' paperboys at ... - Ionosphere (19365 bytes)
6: ...agnetic force, but they are too energetic to stay fixed together in an electrically neutral molecule.
10: ... the Earth and interacts with its [[geomagnetic]] field.
14: [[Image:Ionosphere e profile.gif|right|thumb|350px|Electron density from sol...
41: ... E region which, with the [[horizontal]] magnetic field, forces ionization up into the F layer, concen...
51: ... The protons spiral around and down the magnetic field lines of the Earth and penetrate into the atmo... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...on-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1927]].
6: ...[[United States Army Air Corps]]. After finishing first in his class, he worked as a civilian [[airmai...
8: ==First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean==
11: ...rst by the crew of the [[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] l...
13: ...n 5th Avenue in [[New York City]] on [[June 13]], 1927.[http://roynagl.topcities.com/lindbergh2.htm] Hi... - Richard E. Byrd (4114 bytes)
5: ...aft the [[NC-4]] completed the trip; becoming the first ever transatlantic flight.
9: ...ator and explorer [[Bernt Balchen]] has cast significant doubt on their claim. Nonetheless, this trip ...
11: ==First Antarctic expedition, 1928-1930==
12: ...ole and back in 18 hours, 41 minutes. They had difficulty gaining altitude, and had to dump empty gas ...
21: ...ary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd'', 1925–1927]. - March 18 (10594 bytes)
16: ...s a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham radio]] operator.
28: ... for [[Hawaii]]an statehood, which would become official on [[August 21]].
31: ...st]] for [[France]] singing "Un premier amour" (A first love).
32: ...cecraft [[Voskhod 2]] for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to [[Extra-vehicular activity|walk in s...
36: ...Oil embargo crisis]]: Most [[OPEC]] nations end a five-month [[oil]] [[embargo]] against the [[United ... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
8: ...[[City Bank of New York]] becomes the site of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ...
9: *[[1861]] - The [[First Taranaki War]] ends in [[New Zealand]].
12: ... [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]] is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
13: ...anes take off in pursuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the first [[United States]] air-combat mission in histor...
15: ...the [[Treaty of Versailles]] for the second time (first time was on [[November 19]], [[1919]]). - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and...
11: ...nalist [[Henry Morton Stanley]] began his trek to find the missionary and explorer [[David Livingstone...
14: ...nted the [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] flight.
18: ...d]] presents the [[Moondog Coronation Ball]], the first [[rock and roll]] concert, in [[Cleveland, Ohi...
19: ...e in Sharpeville]], [[South Africa]]: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demon... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
8: ... - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the [[Firth of Forth]].
10: ...] is struck with a sword, then [[strangle]]d, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Mich...
11: ...the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and reaching the [[Pacific Ocean]], explorers [[Lewis and Clark]] and their...
12: *[[1839]] - First recorded use of "[[Okay|OK]]" as an abbreviati...
13: ...ffe]]'' arrives at [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish settlers for [[Dunedin, New Zealand|D... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
25: ... with an economy based on education, health care, finance, and high technology. Its nicknames include ...
27: ...fifteenth in the Americas, and the one of the top-fifty largest in the world.
38: ...ding ports, exporting products such as [[rum]], [[fish]], [[salt]] and [[tobacco]]. It was chartered ...
41: ...97]], the [[Tremont Street Subway]] opened as the first underground [[streetcar]] subway in [[North Am...
43: On [[August 23]] [[1927]], [[Italy|Italian]] [[anarchism|anarchists]] [[S... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
62: ...t|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
124: *[[William Burnside]] (UK, [[1852]]-[[1927]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
41: ...vante Arrhenius]] ([[Sweden]], [[1859]] – [[1927]])
121: ...incenzo Cerulli]], ([[Italy]], [[1859]] – [[1927]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]]) - Amusement park (17293 bytes)
1: ...Flags New England]], an amusement park in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]].]]
12: ...go, Illinois]]. The 1893 [[World's fair]] was the first to have a [[Ferris wheel]] and an [[arcade gam...
14: ...lone [[roller coaster]] at Steeplechase Park in [[1927]] marked the beginning of the roller coaster as o...
16: ...he era was wooden. In [[1911]], Dreamland was the first Coney Island amusement park to completely burn...
25: ... different theme parks within their confines. The first such built park still in operation is 'Bakken'... - Roller coaster (14862 bytes)
3: ...k]]s. [[LaMarcus Adna Thompson]] [[patent]]ed the first roller coaster on [[January 20]], [[1885]]. I...
9: ...omes [[kinetic energy]] as the cars race down the first downward [[slope]]. Kinetic energy is converte...
17: ...ith 2 trains, is to hold train #1, which has just finished the ride, right outside the station, releas...
21: ...operated a gravity track in Paris from 1812. The first loop track was probably also built in Paris fr...
23: ...t [[Coney Island]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]] in [[1927]]. Like [[The Cyclone]], all early roller coaster... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
18: ...iving beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance between members of va...
20: ...o continue the family tradition of holding high office in Gujarat. Unhappy at Samaldas College, he le...
25: ...t he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian firm to a post in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], ...
29: ... first class to third class while travelling on a first class ticket. Later, travelling by stagecoach...
31: ...ers convinced him to remain in Durban to continue fighting against the injustices levied against India... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}} - July 24 (8660 bytes)
8: *[[1832]] - [[Benjamin Bonneville]] leads the first [[wagon train]] across the [[Rocky Mountains]]...
11: ...] - [[Reconstruction]]: [[Tennessee]] becomes the first [[U.S. state]] to be readmitted to the [[Unite...
13: *[[1910]] - [[James MacGillivray]] publishes first account of [[Paul Bunyan]] in the [[Detroit Ne...
16: ... other countries that fought in the [[World War I|First World War]].
17: *[[1927]] - The [[Menin Gate Memorial|Menin Gate]] war me... - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ...England in the late 19th Century, the game spread first throughout the English-speaking world, particu...
18: ...oated asphalt to wooden gymnasium surfaces to artificial grass similar to Astroturf ® .
20: ...elatively high and more slowly, making it more difficult for a player to hit an unreturnable shot. Ha...
30: ... this is a ''let service'', which is void. If the first service is otherwise faulty in any way, the se...
32: ...nd bounces in the court on the opposite side. The first player or team to fail to make a legal return ... - List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
1: ...o the open era, in the top few in doubles, quarterfinalists or better in a [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand...
91: *[[Wojtek Fibak]] ([[1952]]-) - ([[:Category:Polish tennis pla...
108: *[[Spencer Gore]] - (England) first [[Wimbledon championships|Wimbledon]] ([[1877]...
263: *[[Marat Safin]] ([[1980]]-) - (Russia)
271: *[[Frank Sedgman]] ([[1927]]-) - (Australia) - List of Governors of Wisconsin (3807 bytes)
23: <tr bgcolor=#FFE8E8><td>19<td>[[Edward Scofield]]<td>Republican<td>1897 - 1901
28: ...>24<td>[[John J. Blaine]]<td>Republican<td>1921 - 1927
29: ...><td>25<td>[[Fred R. Zimmerman]]<td>Republican<td>1927 - 1929 - Homo erectus (3723 bytes)
21: ...s predecessors. One theory is that ''H. erectus'' first used tools of the [[Oldowan]] style and then l...
23: ...', was learning to master his environment for the first time.
25: ...n at least be surmised that the controlled use of fire was atypical of ''Homo erectus'' until its decl...
30: * [[Peking Man]] (1927)
31: * [[Turkana Boy]] (1984; also classified as ''[[Homo ergaster]]'') - Ankara (15129 bytes)
8: ... the streets are narrow. There are, however, many fine remains of [[Architecture of Ancient Greece|Gre...
15: ...y the [[Gaul]]ish race [[Galatia]]ns who were the first to make Ankara their capital. It was then know...
26: ...ers, shopping malls, and high-rises. Government offices and foreign embassies are also located in the ...
28: ...ausoleum]] of Kemal Atat?ne of the most important figures in [[twentieth century]] history, is also lo...
36: ...alat Pasa Boulevard, in Ulus district. There is a fine collection of folkloric as well as Seljuk- and ... - Tower of Babel (13111 bytes)
11: ...rpose of all this unusual enterprise. The self-confidence and unity of the people were everywhere prom...
19: ...rojects destined to end in confusion. Images of unfinished buildings reaching towards the sky can be f...
23: ... as the [[Chaldean]]s, the priests of this god, affirm, is chosen for himself by the deity out of all ...
38: ...uild, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the bricks served them for stone, and the ...
44: The building of the Tower was meant to bid defiance not only to God, but also to [[Abraham]], who... - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
1: ...rn Sheep]], [[Coyote]], and the [[Death Valley Pupfish]] - a survivor of much wetter times.
3: ...nor local bonanzas of gold. The only long-term profitable ore to be mined, however, was [[borax]]; a m...
5: ...[Basin and Range]] landform we see today. Valleys filled with sediment and, during the wet times of [[...
8: [[Image:Wpdms shdrlfi020l death valley.jpg|frame|left|Death Valley and ...
9: ...nd of [[Basin and Range]] topography with one modification: there are parallel [[strike-slip fault]]s ... - Antalya (20816 bytes)
5: ...can still be seen. Also Antalya museums house the finds belonging to historic ages of [[Anatolia]].
10: ...autiful piece of land on earth; he wanted them to find "heaven on earth". After a long search all over...
14: ...n caves 30 km to the north of Antalya city. Other finds dating back to Neolithic times and more recent...
16: Records from the [[Hittite]] period (when the first recorded political union of Anatolian cities w...
27: ...ng those of the Venetians and Genoese, before its final occupation by the Ottoman Turks under [[Murad ... - Cadmium (10755 bytes)
45: | [[Electron configuration]]
69: | 13.00 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre ...
88: | [[Specific heat capacity]]
175: *Due to a low [[coefficient of friction]] and very good fatigue resistan...
176: *6% of cadmium finds use in [[electroplating]]. - Protactinium (7744 bytes)
44: | [[Electron configuration]]
68: | 15.18 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-3</sup> [[cubic metre ...
87: | [[Specific heat capacity]]
153: ... no uses for protactinium outside of basic scientific research.
156: Protactinium was first identified in [[1913]], when [[Kasimir Fajans]] and [[O. H... - Genetics (12654 bytes)
1: ...riation]] of [[organism]]s. The word genetics was first applied to describe the study of inheritance a...
5: ... many instances, do not completely determine, the final [[phenotype]] of the organism.
12: It was not until [[1865]] that [[Gregor Mendel]] first traced inheritance patterns of certain traits ...
14: ...ne'', whilst the term ''allele'' now means a specific variant of a particular gene.
16: The significance of Mendel's work was not understood until ea... - Golden Retriever (8646 bytes)
16: !Classification
38: ...m/search?q=cache:VFO9NaHYR2EJ:www.fci.be/uploaded_files/111gb99_en.doc+site:www.fci.be+%22111+/+29.+01...
50: ...d fun-loving but also exceptionally patient, as befits a dog bred to sit quietly for hours in a [[hunt...
52: ...ogs]]. While they might not do quite as well in [[field trial]]s as Labrador Retrievers, they are exce...
63: ... Retriever Club was founded. The breed name was officially changed to Golden Retriever in 1920. - Octopus (12952 bytes)
12: 14 in two suborders, see [[Octopus#Classification|text]].
17: ...n the less familiar [[Cirrina]] suborder have two fins and an internal shell, making them a little les...
19: ...mimic other, more dangerous animals such as [[lionfish]] and [[eel]]s.
21: ...lized, the female lays roughly 200,000 eggs (this figure dramatically varies between species). The fem...
23: ...North Pacific Giant Octopus]], may live for up to five years if they do not reproduce. However, reprod... - Boxing (29727 bytes)
2: ...ves seen here are not used in professional boxing fights]]
4: ...opponent. Boxing is also called Pugilism and prizefighting.
8: Fighting with the fists for sport and spectacle is probably as old as ...
10: ...merous participants, there are some references to fights between women during the 18th century, and wo...
14: ... called after a set period, and the length of the fight was predetermined. Wrestling throws were also ... - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...rip between the [[Andes]] mountains and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. It shares borders with [[Argentina]] to...
14: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]] |
56: ...s and the few survivors of [[Diego de Almagro]]'s first Spanish expedition south from Peru in [[1535]]...
64: ...rro]]'s lieutenants. Although the Spanish did not find the extensive gold and [[silver]] they sought, ...
72: ...hilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, which was greatly in... - Alben W. Barkley (3817 bytes)
2: ...Senate|Senator]] from [[Kentucky]] and the thirty-fifth [[Vice President of the United States]].
6: ...election, 1944|1944]], and served from March 4, [[1927]] until his resignation on [[January 19]], [[1949...
8: ...ommencement address, an occasion which became the first Emory event ever televised. - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
6: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - Culture of Ireland (27885 bytes)
8: ...sland, north and south, only just approaches this figure.
12: ...o often has its clearest expression on the sports field.
21: ... Catholic|Roman]] diocesan church structures, the first cathedrals, such as the Viking-founded and Nor...
23: ... towards their particular character. Another significant factor was the fact thar the [[Industrial Rev...
27: ...[[1980]]. The average age of mothers having their first child was 30 and the fertility rate is an aver... - Grunion (11544 bytes)
17: ...[[fish]] in the Atherinopsidae [[Scientific classification|family]] of [[New World]] [[silverside]]s, ...
25: ..., ''Leuresthes tenuis'', is found along the [[Pacific Coast]] from Point Conception, California, to Po...
27: ...], in that they lack the [[trout]]-like [[adipose fin]]. They inhabit the nearshore waters from the su...
29: ...y during the spawning season. Consequently, adult fish grow only during the fall and winter. This grow...
33: ...he whole event can happen in 30 seconds, but some fish remain on the beach for several minutes. (The G... - Philippine Eagles (3923 bytes)
25: ...eagle was not discovered before [[1896]], and the first nest was found in [[1963]]. They feed mainly o...
29: ...ergh]], best known for crossing the Atlantic in [[1927]], was fascinated by this eagle. As a representat...
37: ...ng businessmen in league with corrupt political officials prevent a genuine effort in protecting the P... - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
4: ... centuries ago with the [[Native American]]s, the first people to populate [[North America]]. These i...
8: ...kraine|Ukrainian]] and [[Poland|Polish]] [[fiddle|fiddling]], [[music of Scotland|Scottish]] and [[mus...
10: ...he end [[1940s]], jazz had grown into such varied fields as [[bebop]] and [[swing music|swing]], while...
17: The first musicians anywhere in North America were [[Nat...
24: ... distinctly African traits. [[Work song]]s and [[field holler]]s were popular, but it was [[Spiritual... - Rosalynn Carter (3139 bytes)
3: ... Smith Carter''' born August 18, 1927 is a former First Lady of the United States. On July 7, 1946, sh...
7: ...gia Regional Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia and for five years was honorary chairperson for the Georgia ...
15: ...f Habitat for Humanity, Inc. Her autobiography, ''First Lady from Plains'', was published in May 1984....
23: title=[[First Ladies of the United States|First Lady of the United States]]| - September 23 (7397 bytes)
7: *[[1459]] - The [[Battle of Blore Heath]]. The first major battle of the English [[Wars of the Rose...
9: *[[1642]] - First commencement exercises occur at [[Harvard Univ...
10: ...ard]]'', commanded by [[John Paul Jones]], wins a fight against the British ships of war ''[[Serapis]]...
13: ...Lewis and Clark]] return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.
14: ...1845]] - The [[Knickerbocker Baseball Club]], the first professional [[baseball]] team, is founded in ... - American Association for the Advancement of Science (8017 bytes)
1: ...AS is also the publisher of the well-known scientific journal ''[[Science_(journal)|Science]]''.
5: ...to increase the resources available to the scientific community through active advocacy of science.
7: ...[[1866]], [[Frederick Barnard]] presided over the first meeting of the resurrected AAAS at a meeting i...
9: ...he AAAS permitted all people regardless of scientific credentials to join. The AAAS did, however, ins...
15: ...n for the Advancement of Science#Presidents|The Office of the President]] - February 22 (10772 bytes)
12: ...of Florida|Florida]] to the [[United States]] for five million [[United States dollar|U.S. dollars]].
15: ...tes Republican Party|Republican Party]] opens its first national meeting in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
18: ...[Utica, New York]], [[Frank Woolworth]] opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
21: * [[1920]] - In [[Emeryville, California]], the first [[dog race]] track to employ an imitation [[ra...
22: * [[1923]] - The [[United States]] begins the first transcontinental [[air mail]] route. - North Pole (13759 bytes)
3: ...t's North Pole. [[Earth]]'s Pole, however it is defined, lies in the [[Arctic Ocean]].
5: ==Defining North Poles in astronomy==
6:
8: ...ames are decided upon by the direction that their field lines emerge or enter the planet's crust. If t...
14: ... point which is furthest along Io's orbit (best defined as the point most removed from the plane forme... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ...1099;}} and ''[[The Firebird|L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird)]]'' {{lang|ru|Жар-П...
12: ...hka's'' emphasis on [[polyphony|bitonality]], and finally to the savage [[polyphony|polyphonic]] disso...
14: ...ella'', 1920), [[Jean Cocteau]] (''Oedipus Rex'', 1927) and [[George Balanchine]] (''Apollon Musagete'',...
19: ...t double-life, spending some of his time with his first family and the rest with Vera. Katerina soon l...
21: ...rom ''The Firebird'' onwards was written for specific occasions and paid for generously. - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ...granary). In 1329 the [[Cortes Generales|Cortes]] first assembled in Madrid to advise [[Ferdinand IV o...
16: ...uilt the city and established himself safely fortified outside its walls in El Pardo. The grand entry...
18: ...e Court to Madrid in 1561. Although he made no official declaration, the seat of the Court was the ''...
22: ...sion that would lead to yet another revolt, the [[First Spanish Republic]], the comeback of the monarc...
28: Befitting from the prosperity it gained in the 1980s, ... - Timeline of aviation (3479 bytes)
11: ... - [[1926 in aviation|1926]] - [[1927 in aviation|1927]] - [[1928 in aviation|1928]] - [[1929 in aviatio...
23: *[[First flying machine]] - December 9 (7837 bytes)
6: ...[[1793]] - [[New York, New York|New York City]]'s first daily [[newspaper]], the ''American Minerva'',...
9: *[[1851]] - First [[YMCA]] in [[North America]] established in [...
12: *[[1872]] - [[P. B. S. Pinchback]] becomes the first serving [[African American]] governor of a U.S...
25: *[[1960]] - ''[[Coronation Street]]'' first airs on televisions across the [[United Kingdo...
29: *[[1987]] - [[First Intifada]] begins in the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[... - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (7198 bytes)
12: ...e [[sniper]]s, seemingly unafraid, even when an officer three feet from him was dropped by a Confedera...
18: ...ng precedence over the former. He was one of the first to recognize workers' right to organize [[trad...
26: ...Darwinian theories that emphasized struggle for a fixed amount of resources.
28: ...citation|274 U.S. 200]] ([[1927]]), where he justified [[compulsory sterilization]] of the retarded wi...
30: ...'[[Schenk v. United States]]'', the first notable First Amendment "freedom of speech" opinion in the C... - List of HIV-positive people (8891 bytes)
8: *[[Emile Ardolino]] ([[1943]]-[[1993]]), filmmaker (''[[Sister Act]]'', ''[[Dirty Dancing]]''...
9: *[[Howard Ashman]] ([[1950]]-[[1991]]), film songwriter
22: ...itish actor and star of the film (''[[Chariots of Fire]]'') (1981)
35: ...[[Leonard Frey]], ([[1938]]-[[1988]]), Acted in [[Fiddler on the Roof]] on Broadway and in the movie
45: ...udson]], ([[1925]]-[[1985]]), [[Hollywood]] star, first major American celebrity whose AIDS diagnosis ...
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