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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
57: | [[1867]] — [[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (constructi... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
72: *[[Walter Sydney Adams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer
94: *[[Konrad Adenauer|Adenauer, Konrad]], (1876-1967), West German chancellor - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...[[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more than six...
12: ...ingen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Pala...
14: ...n in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language o...
35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not...
39: ...tween Victoria and Prince Albert. Albert was not only the Queen's companion, but also an important pol... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: ...orced, and so he remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
23: As an author, Eliot was not only very successful in sales, but she was, and remai...
43: * ''[[Daniel Deronda]]'' (1876) - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
11: ...ight|thumb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirion ([[1876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision fro...
18: ...]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed...
33: ...nfirmed that this was based on a distortion: she only objected to being tried by pro-English clergy wh...
38: ...] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a confession and agreed to wear a d...
43: ...ree surviving members of Jeanne d'Arc's family. Unlike the original trial, the appellate process incl... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
2: '''Mata Hari''' ([[August 7]], [[1876]]–[[October 15]], [[1917]])
9: ...e the firing began. A third tale claims that not only did she fling a kiss to her killers, she flung o...
11: ...he guns were loaded properly. The tale is highly unlikely to be true, as it bears a suspicious resembl... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...French bandmaster [[Pierre Auguste Sarrus]] (1813-1876).
9: The sarrusophone is now obsolete and only used as a novelty upon occasions. It had poor in... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
19: ...nt of the United States|Vice President]] are the only two nationally elected officials in the United S...
29: ...d defend the Constitution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoo...
162: | 25 || [[William McKinley]]{{ref 6}}
163: || [[Image:Mckinley.jpg|50px]]
262: Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only President to serve more than 8 years in the offi... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
32: ...ted the form of his new name with middle initial only, never acknowledging that the "S" stood for Simp...
52: ... Unfortunately for Grant's coordinated strategy, only Sherman's advance into Georgia was making progre...
64: ...d as a member of the ring and escaped conviction only because of a presidential pardon. After the Whis...
72: ... J. Tilden|Tilden]] [[U.S. presidential election, 1876 | election controversy]] by appointing a federal ...
99: ...'[[Benjamin Bristow]]'''||align="left"|1874–1876 - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
48: ...publican ticket with [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] in [[1876]]. He was inaugurated in March [[1877]] and serv...
51: ...Arthur]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1876|1876]] (won)}} - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
16: [[William McKinley]] ([[1897]])</td></tr>
29: ...t to serve two non-consecutive terms. He was the only [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] elec...
39: ...ng|left|thumb|Grover Cleveland was the first and only President married in the White House.]]
40: ...obably assumed responsibility because he was the only bachelor among them). After Cleveland's election...
44: ... while in office (after [[John Tyler]]), and the only President to be married in the [[White House]] i... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
54: ...d formally annexed by the [[Russian Empire]] in [[1876]]. The Russian takeover instigated numerous revol...
64: ...tures and appointed a new government comprised mainly of younger, reform-oriented politicians. In Dece...
84: ...e to Kyrgyz voters, while state-controlled media only reported favorably on official candidates. Gover...
141: ...re over the age of 65. The country is [[rural]]; only about one-third (33.9%) of Kyrgyzstan's populati... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
75: ...uaid6_edited.jpg|thumb|right|160px| [[Jinnah]] ([[1876]] - [[1948]]) the founder of Pakistan]]
132: ...although (because of the [[Pressler amendment]]) only a few were eventually supplied. However, China c...
138: ...r Soviet allies, [[Libya]] and [[Syria]] are the only two middle eastern countries with whom Pakistan ...
140: ...te a [[renaissance]] and [[Age of Enlightenment|enlightenment]] in the Islamic world. Besides the OIC...
142: ...ar states|declared nuclear power]] – the only Islamic nation to have that status – als... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
109: ... regions exist, and, as their name suggests, are only used for [[Statistics|statistical]] purposes. Th...
137: ... third most forested country in Europe, after [[Finland]] and [[Sweden]]. Remnants of primeval forests...
168: ...53;eren]] (1800-1849) and writer [[Ivan Cankar]] (1876-1918). The most important Slovenian painters are ...
186: ...e well known after the mystical [[olm|proteus]]. Only one third of Kras is now covered by pine forest.... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
47: ...overnments or [[county seat]]s; rather, there is only the state government and the governments of the ...
89: ...her tax-paying businesses with them, and leaving only the [[urban poor]] in the now impoverished Conne...
97: ...ed that industry, in all senses of the word, not only strengthened individual moral fiber, but also se...
99: ...ract from the [[secretary of war]], which led to enlarging his factory to 8,500 square feet (790 m&sup...
105: ...and [[tool]]s continue to be manufactured by [[Stanley Corporation]] in [[New Britain]], despite havin... - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers mistakenly applied the word to the people and their locatio...
66: ..., go to the [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/PP/bfp2.htm Handbook of Texas On...
70: ...ndians, see [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/II/bzi4.html Handbook of Texas O...
94: In 1845, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|internationally recogni...
122: ...rly in 1835 [[Stephen F. Austin]] announced that only war with Mexico could secure Texian freedom. - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
120: ...istory of the Democratic Party in South Carolina, 1876-1962,''' Columbia, SC, 1967 - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
276: * [[1876]]: [[Telephone]]: [[Alexander Graham Bell]]
277: * [[1876]]: [[Telephone]]: [[Elisha Gray]]
278: * [[1876]]: [[Carpet sweeper]]: [[Melville Bissell]]
279: * [[1876]]: [[Gasoline carburettor]]: [[Daimler]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
79: *[[Robert Yerkes|Yerkes, Robert]] (1876-1956), psychologist
91: *[[Arvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]] - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
1: ...[Image:SalemWitchcraftTrial.jpg|right|thumb|400px|1876 illustration of the courtroom]]
6: ...nged. The accusations spread quickly, and within only a couple of months involved the neighboring comm...
15: ...death for witchcraft; no one was found innocent. Only those who pleaded guilty to witchcraft and suppl...
17: Only one execution was not by hanging. [[Giles Corey]... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
8: ...is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in October ...
31: ...ime until [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to t...
37: ...rld by [[Canada's]] Sir [[Sandford Fleming]] in [[1876]] as an appendage to the single 24-hour clock he ...
41: ... 7.5? wide separated by a [[longitude]] of 180?. Unlike the zig-zagging land-based [[International Dat...
43: ...eas that do not have a legal standard time ([[Greenland]]'s [[ice sheet]] and all of [[Antarctica]]&md... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
146: *[[Ivan Bilibin]] ([[1876]]-[[1924]])
595: *[[Gwen John]] ([[1876]]-[[1939]])
1148: *[[Kajetan Stefanowicz]] ([[1876]]-[[1920]])
1151: *[[Eduard von Steinle]] ([[1810]]-[[1886]])
1152: *[[Théophile Steinlen]] ([[1859]]-[[1923]]) - American football (39287 bytes)
40: ...e [[American Football League]] (AFL, 1960-1969). Only the AFL survives, as it merged with the NFL in 1...
46: ...y. These plays are often referred to as "downs." Unlimited substitutions can be made between plays.
52: ...y run a single play called a '''try''' (more commonly called an '''extra point''' or '''conversion att...
56: ...e booth makes all challenges and a team is given only 2 time outs during overtime. In college football...
64: ...nge if the first two were successful. A play can only be challenged before the next one has started. - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
29: [[Image:stainlessbanner.png|100px|]]<br />
55: ...rejected secession ([[April 27]], [[1861]]), but only after the [[Baltimore riot of 1861|rioting in Ba...
71: ...ly, if not impossible, to bring about the gentlemanly compromises of the past (such as the [[Missouri ...
73: ... of slavery in the Western territories. Although only a small share of Northerners favored measures to...
95: ...ould crush the nascent rebellion, and so Lincoln only called for volunteers for 90 days. This resulte... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
77: *[[1876]] - [[National League]] of [[baseball]] founded
78: *[[1876]] - [[Centennial Exposition]] in [[Philadelphia]]
79: *[[1876]] - ''Munn v. Illinois'' establishes public regul...
80: *[[1876]] - [[Colorado]] becomes a state
81: *[[1876]] - [[Battle of Little Bighorn]] - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
13: ...nal [[Ku Klux Klan]], in 1866; but it lasted for only three years.
19: ...ection, 1876|contentious Presidential election of 1876]] was decided in favor of [[Rutherford B. Hayes]]...
32: ...lains Indians continued through the Civil War. In 1876 the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dako...
34: In 1876, after several indecisive encounters, General [[G...
71: ...re locked in a cycle of [[debt]], from which the only hope of escape was increased planting. This led ... - Mississippi (15114 bytes)
56: ... For 116 years, from 1876 to 1992 Mississippians only elected [[United States Democratic Party|Democra...
58: ...nor]] are elected to four-year terms of office. Unlike the federal government, but like many other U....
134: ...="Left" colspan=3>(a) Includes persons reporting only one race.
147: ... the Gulf Coast. The Jewish population is also mainly concentrated in urban areas. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
86: ...Sweden]] and the republics of [[Austria]] and [[Finland]] are admitted into the [[European Union]].
116: *[[1876]] - [[Harriet Brooks]], Canadian physicist (d. [[...
179: ...]] - [[Harriet Brooks]], Canadian physicist (b. [[1876]])
219: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/1 Today in History: January 1] - Archaeopteryx (8771 bytes)
19: ...e the discovery of a single feather in [[1860]], only seven additional specimens of ''Archaeopteryx'' ...
34: ...chaeopteryx'' could genuinely [[flight|fly]], or only hop around and [[glide]] from [[tree]]s. The lac...
36: ...wers, and the latest findings on this fossil are unlikely to be the last word.
50: ...'''Berlin Specimen''' (HMN 1880): Discovered in [[1876]] or [[1877]] near [[Blumenberg]], Germany, and d...
54: ...he [[Pal䯮tologische Museum M?]] in [[Munich]]. Only specimen with a breastbone ([[sternum]]). May be... - Colorado (22240 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[August 1]], [[1876]] |
94: ...]], [[1861]] and Colorado attained statehood in [[1876]] (earning it the moniker the "Centennial State")...
122: ...e vegetation grows. The Rockies are snow-covered only in the winter; most snow melts by mid August wit... - National League (4871 bytes)
3: ...Clubs,''' the older (founded on [[February 2]], [[1876]]) of the two leagues constituting [[Major League...
5: ...he National League in [[1890]]). Of these teams, only the White Stockings (now the [[Chicago Cubs]]) a...
23: The NL Central Division is the only division in either league to have six teams; the...
40: ==NL Presidents 1876-1999==
42: *[[Morgan G. Bulkeley]] [[1876]]-[[1876]] - World Series (40101 bytes)
7: ... leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their div...
9: ...rld" appellation has stuck despite the fact that only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] pa...
43: * 1876 Chicago White Stockings
63: * 1896 [[Baltimore Orioles (NL)|Baltimore Orioles]]
77: ...ston AL]] defeats [[Pittsburgh Pirates|Pittsburgh NL]], 5 games to 3. - Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
5: ...kings]] of [[1869]]-[[1970]], baseball's first openly professional team. When the N.A. formed, Red Sto...
20: ...e season, winning 34 of their last 44 games. Not only did they finish first, but they ended up 10.5 ga...
37: ..., threw three complete game victories, giving up only two earned runs.
40: ...pt by the "Miracle [[New York Mets|Mets]]" in the NLCS. They would not win it again until [[1982]], u...
42: ...ell under the pressure. The next season, it was only a matter of time before he set a new record. On... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
4: ... Became a charter [[National League]] member in [[1876]].
11: :'''League pennants won''' (16): [[1876]], [[1880]], [[1881]], [[1882]], [[1885]], [[1886...
18: ...professional team, led to a minor explosion of openly professional teams in [[1870]], each with the si...
24: ... cruised through the N.L.'s inaugural season of [[1876]]. The Chicagoans went on to have some great seas...
55: ...drum after their early 1900s Glory Years, broken only by their pennant in the [[World War I|war]]-shor... - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
21: ... a charter member of the [[National League]] in [[1876]], but was expelled from the league later, in par...
23: ...ccounts, the AA team folded the same year the new NL team started, and the new team simply signed many...
29: ... then new manager [[Pat Moran]] led the Reds to a NL [[pennant]] in [[1919]]. The 1919 team had hittin...
35: ...ees]] in four straight. In 1940, they repeated as NL Champions and for the first time in 21 years, the...
39: ... cut short his career. [[Ted Kluszewski]] was the NL home run leader in 1954. The rest of the offense ... - Computer (32773 bytes)
20: ...standing the important idea that the computer is only a machine, and cannot "think" or "understand" th...
29: ...d afford them and were considered so exotic that only a handful would ever be required to satisfy glob...
51: ... such as [[differential analyzer]]s, are not commonly included in such lists. Other classification sch...
56: ...mplementation technologies is not exhaustive; it only covers the mainstream of development. Historical...
73: ... Originally [[computer storage|memory]] was used only for intermediate values but in the [[1940s]] it ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
41: *[[Otto Diels]], (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of the [[1950]] [[...
174: *[[Wendell Meredith Stanley]], (1904-1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [...
177: *[[Alfred Stock]], (1876-1946) - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
23: ...rom his American father-in-law, on [[March 7]], [[1876]], the [[United States Patent and Trademark Offic...
25: ... range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the eighteen patents granted in his n...
39: ...otice of a patent application) of a similar kind only 2 hours after Bell had filed for his patent.
55: ...[decibel]] (dB), equal to 0.1 B, became more commonly used.
62: ...art. The sender consisted of a mirror directing sunlight onto the mouthpiece, where the light beam was... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ...g Emmanuel]] (1831-1888), by whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfred, returning to Sweden with his fa...
7: ...act that Alfred Nobel was also a playwright. His only play (''[[Nemesis (Nobel)|Nemesis]]'', a prose t...
14: ...ting gelatin]], as it was called, was patented in 1876, and was followed by a host of similar combinatio... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
11: In [[1876]], Baden-Powell joined the 13th [[Hussars]] in [[...
67: ... urge for "self-abuse." He subscribed to the commonly held turn-of-the-century opinion that the practi...
103: [[nl:Robert Baden-Powell]] - Ship (18843 bytes)
12: ...il the [[Samuel Plimsoll|Merchant Shipping Act of 1876]], ship-owners could load their vessels until the...
27: ...t safety and waste disposal. It has become usual only in large [[aircraft carrier]]s and in [[submarin...
30: ...on]]s or [[flotilla]]s. [[Convoy]]s of ships commonly occur.
52: ...zontal surfaces in the ship's general structure. Unlike flats, they are a structural part of the ship.
117: ...with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost. - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
27: * [[Falkland Island fox|Falkland Island Fox]] (1876) - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
40: *[[Constantin Brancusi]] (1876 - 1957)
85: *[[Raymond Duchamp-Villon]] (1876 - 1918)
123: *[[Paul Granlund]] (1925 - 2003) - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
40: ...9 US 3 ([[1883]]), that the Fourteenth Amendment only gave Congress the power to outlaw public, rather...
58: <td>[[November 28]], [[1876]]</td>
65: <td>[[January 4]], [[1876]]</td>
122: <td>[[November 28]], [[1876]]</td> - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
20: ...is' niece and third wife. Of these six children, only Adolf and his younger sister [[Paula Hitler|Paul...
22: ... his mother's surname, '''Schicklgruber'''. In [[1876]], he began using the name of his stepfather, [[J...
37: ...World War I]] in August [[1914]], he immediately enlisted in the [[Bavaria]]n army.
45: ...efers to Hitler's experience at the front as his only education and suggests he did have at least some...
52: ...he war, Hitler remained in the army, which was mainly engaged in suppressing [[socialist]] uprisings b... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ... use of local [[militia]]. Militiamen served for only a few weeks or months at a time, were generally ...
23: ...er shortages, Washington lifted the ban on black enlistment in the Continental Army in January 1777. A...
59: ... and [[Manhattan]], thus allowing Howe to engage only one half of the American army at a time.
71: ...it for duty, and would be reduced to 1,400 after enlistments expired at the end of the year. Spirits w...
97: ...-the-scenes maneuvering, laid the whole matter openly before Congress. His supporters rallied behind h... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
12: ...nizing radiation because his investigations were only for a short time and he was one of the few pione...
38: *[http://members.chello.nl/~h.dijkstra19/page5.html The Cathode Ray Tube sit... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
3: ...n Pierce]]. He is most famous for serving as the only [[President]] of the [[Confederate States of Ame...
12: ...ssippi watershed)|Red River]] for the repair and enlargement of the fort. Later the same year, he was...
68: In [[1876]], he promoted a society for the stimulation of U... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
11: *[[1871]] - Journalist [[Henry Morton Stanley]] began his trek to find the missionary and exp...
44: *[[1876]] - [[John Tewksbury]], American athlete (d. [[19...
131: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/21 Today in History: March 21] - March 22 (9294 bytes)
14: *[[1894]] - The first playoff game for the [[Stanley Cup]] starts.
41: ...ate States of America|Confederate]] general (d. [[1876]])
124: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/22 Today in History: March 22]
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