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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
29: *[[Arthur Adamov|Adamov, Arthur]], (1908-1997), dramatist, author
37: ...rew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
49: ...ams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn F驮]] leader
69: ...hitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
85: *[[Cannonball Adderley|Adderley, Cannonball]], (1928-1975), saxophonist - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: ...oiseach|Irish prime minister]] and leader of [[Fianna Fᩬ]]
8: ...|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician
11: ...za Ghulam Ahmad|Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam]] ([[1839]]-[[1908]]), founder of [[Ahmadi]] sect
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
6: ...t nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
8: ...returned. Shortly thereafter she joined [[James Connolly]]'s [[Irish Citizen Army]] (ICA), and, though...
10: ...e [[First Dᩬ|first incarnation]] of [[Dᩬ ɩreann]], a new Irish Parliament. She was re-elected to...
12: ... this record until 1979 when [[Mᩲe Geoghegan-Quinn]] was apointed to the then junior cabinet post of...
14: ...cause in the [[Irish Civil War]], and joined [[Fianna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was no... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...tenberg eText 13715.png|thumbnail|right|250px|'''Annie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theo...
2: '''Annie Besant''' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[Septembe...
9: ... Theosophical Society over this in [[1906]]. In [[1908]] he was taken back into the fold through the age...
17: Annie Besant died in [[1933]] and was survived by her...
29: * Introduction to Yoga (1908) - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...nsylvania]], which is now part of [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]], she was the daughter of a w...
6: ...a Academy of the Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instr...
37: ...exander J. Cassatt]] was the president of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] from [[1899]] until his death ...
75: ... in a White Bonnet 1901.jpg|''Simone in a White Bonnet'' (1901)
77: ...h a Cat 1908.jpg|''Children Playing with a Cat'' (1908) - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ...[[January 7]], [[1839]] – [[January 25]], [[1908]]) was the ''[[pen name]]'' of the [[England|Engl...
5: ...ney well and died in poverty on [[January 25]], [[1908]], in [[Viareggio]], [[Italy]].
15: * ''Helianthus '' (1908) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After r...
23: ... "a 19th Century Republican, in her manners and manner of speech she was Victorian, socially was more ...
26: ..., a gay collaborator with the Vichy regime with connections to the [[Gestapo]].
50: ...nterly influence on Stein's work is that of [[Cezanne]], specifically in her idea of equality, what Ju...
54: ...developed a remarkable objective voice. To an uncanny degree at times, social judgement is absent in h... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
12: ...]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to seve...
14: ... Tsvetaeva studied literary history at the [[Sorbonne]]. During this time, a major revolutionary chang...
16: ...namoured of the work of [[Aleksandr Blok]] and [[Anna Akhmatova]], although she never met Blok and did...
32: ...rnak]], [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], the Czech poet [[Anna Teskova]], and the critics [[D. S. Mirsky]] and ...
34: ... in September 1937, on a country lane near [[Lausanne]]. After Efron's escape, the police interrogated... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: '''Suzanne Valadon''' ([[September 23]], [[1865]] – [...
4: ...nce]] the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon became a circus acrobat at the age of 15...
6: ...b|300px|left|''The Blue Room''. ([[1923]]). [[Suzanne Valadon]].]]
8: ...ierre-Auguste Renoir]] and [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], and she had affairs with all of them. The m...
14: Suzanne Valadon painted still lifes, floral art, and lan... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
11: In 1908 she was elected mayor of [[Aldeburgh]], the first... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...national Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: Born into a wealthy and well-connected [[Britain|British]] family at the 'Villa Col...
9: ...re for the legions of the poor and indigent. She announced her decision to her family in [[1845]], evo...
25: ...il October [[1854]]. Her father had given her an annual income of [[Pound Sterling|?]]500 (roughly $50...
83: ...st woman to be awarded the [[Order of Merit]]. In 1908 she was given the Honorary Freedom of the [[City ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...[[Canada]] she was the daughter of James Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout [[Methodism|Methodist]],...
13: ... short courtship, they were married on August 12, 1908. Shortly thereafter, the two embarked on an evang...
15: ...nd they had a son, [[Rolf McPherson|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913.
55: At about the same time, Kenneth G. Ormiston, engineer for KFSG, also disappear...
58: ...d not sell McPherson into "[[white slavery]]." Kennedy later said she tossed the letter away, believi... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: ... as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]]. ...
5: ...ress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was co...
27: ... to songwriters [[Donna Weiss]] and [[Jackie DeShannon]], and singer [[Kim Carnes]] to ask them how th... - Rhododendron (3464 bytes)
25: ...). Type: ''Rhododendron ferrugineum'' [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
30: ...endrons in Kashmir by E. Molyneux; painted before 1908]]
32: ...from central [[Nepal]] and [[Sikkim]] east to [[Yunnan]] and [[Sichuan]], with other significant areas...
34: ...each year, but during that time they provide a stunning display of massed colour. - Accordion (10069 bytes)
26: ...n" was invented in [[1822]] by [[Friedrich Buschmann]] in [[Berlin]].
27: Buschmann used it as a tool to have a reference for tuning ...
28: ...vented in [[1829]] by [[Cyrillus Damian]] in [[Vienna]]. It had the seven notes of a major [[scale (mu...
29: ...nts continue to be granted for accordion-related innovations.
37: ...aking the first recordings of the instrument in [[1908]], making the first [[radio]] broadcast of the ac... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
4: ==The Beginning==
5: ...nasties]], and date the Middle Kingdom to the beginning of that dynasty.
10: ...emhat created his son Senuseret I co-regent. In [[1908 BC]] he was presumably murdered by his bodyguard ...
14: ...alized government though) and established trade connections with Nubia and a war seems to be conducted...
16: ... ([[1842 BC]] - [[1836 BC]]) improved the trade connections with Nubia en Palestine and the Levant. - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
176: *Amenemhat I (Sehetepibre) 1937-1908
204: *Iannas (Ianassi son of Kyan)
263: *Psusennes I (Akheperre-setepenamun) 1039-991
267: *[[Psusennes II|Har-Psusennes II]] (Tjekheperre-setepenre) 959-945
278: *[[Psusennes III]] 969-945 - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...igan]] [[List of Governors of Michigan|Gov.]] [[Jennifer Granholm]], born in [[British Columbia]], [[C...
25: ... the modern electoral process is concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and ...
35: ...le, including 1 million active-duty military personnel. In addition, the president has important [[leg...
55: * [[John F. Kennedy]], born [[May 29]], [[1917]], was the first pr...
56: ...ollowed Johnson in office were also born before Kennedy (in order of birth, [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]], ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
19: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[June 24]], [[1908]]</td></tr>
29: ...'' ([[March 18]], [[1837]] – [[June 24]], [[1908]]) was the 22nd ([[1885]]–[[1889]]) and 24t...
34: ..., New Jersey]] to the Rev. Richard Cleveland and Anne Neal. He was one of nine children. His father ...
36: ... carried him to the White House in three years. Running as a reformer, he was elected Mayor of Buffalo...
42: ... the comforts of the White House. "I must go to dinner," he wrote a friend, "but I wish it was to eat ... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
39: ...way]]: 44?38' E to 20?W; claimed [[1938]] as [[Dronning Maud Land]], a Norwegian territory
41: ... overlaps Argentine and Chilean claims; claimed [[1908]] as [[British Antarctic Territory]], one of the ...
60: * [[Casey Station|Casey]], [[Vincennes Bay]] ({{flagicon|Australia}} [[Australian Anta...
81: * [[Novolazarevskaya Station]], [[Dronning Maud Land]] ({{coor dms|70|46|26|S|11|51|54|E|...
109: ... SG-1]] (TV; several episodes) ([[1997]], still running) - Belgium (31774 bytes)
69: ...g market with the development of rubber tyres. In 1908, the international pressure against the cruelties...
125: ...orthwest), the central [[plateau]], and the [[Ardennes]] uplands (located in the southeast).
131: The third physical region (called the Ardennes) is somewhat more rugged than the first two. It...
133: ...singly hilly and forested in the southeast ([[Ardennes]]) region, where one can find Belgium's highest...
135: ...e 25?C / 77?F, [[winter]]s average 7.2?C / 45?F. Annual extremes (rarely attained) are -12.2?C / 10?F ... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
61: ...ness]]'' also takes place in Congo Free State. In 1908, the Belgian parliament bowed to international pr...
72: ...furic acid a few days later. In February, it was announced that he had been killed by angry villagers ...
92: ...ernment of national unity. Elections currently planned for June 2005 appear to have been put on hold a...
114: *[[Bandundu (city)|Bandundu]] (Banningville)
148: ...s terraces in the west, plateaux merging into savannas in the south and southwest, and dense grassland... - Flag of Massachusetts (1839 bytes)
5: The state flag was made official in [[1908]], but had been used unofficially since the [[Ame... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
47: ... Primarily, they were families from [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[New York]], [[Indiana]], [[Kentucky]...
63: Iowa is bordered by [[Minnesota]] on the north, [[Nebraska]] and [[South Dak...
169: Fish = Channel [[catfish]] (unofficial) |
239: ...rhaul of the current education system is being planned. One of the suggested ideas is switching from 1...
262: *[[Grinnell College]] - Kansas (21369 bytes)
42: ...nsas, as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]], was annexed to the [[United States]] in [[1803]] as [[uno...
71: ...ngressional District of Kansas|District 2]]), [[Dennis Moore]] ([[3rd Congressional District of Kansas...
73: ...d of Education]] of [[Topeka, Kansas|Topeka]]'' banned racially segregated schools throughout the U.S.
94: ...Kansas]] in 1905, and opened it up to tourists in 1908. The garden features sculptures of biblical scene...
106: ...lture Center and Hall of Fame]] is located in [[Bonner Springs, Kansas]]. - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...n the first place. The state has pioneered some innovative solutions to the nation's environmental pr...
49: ...can]] tribes, including the [[Bannock (tribe) | Bannock]], [[Chinook]], [[Klamath]], and [[Nez Perce]]...
59: ... in earnest following the construction of the [[Bonneville Dam]] in [[1943]] on the Columbia River. Th...
103: ...arty candidates was adopted in [[1904]], and in [[1908]] the [[Oregon Constitution]] was amended to incl...
117: ...[[Union]]" and "[[Confederate]]" States, Oregon banned Negroes from moving into the State in the vote ... - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
20: *[[Dennis Quaid|Quaid, Dennis]], actor
27: *[[Johann Joachim Quantz|Quantz, Johann Joachim]], (1697-1773), composer
46: *[[Mae Questel|Questal, Mae]], (1908-1998), American actress
65: *[[W. V. O. Quine|Quine, Willard V.]], (1908-2000), philosopher
66: *[[Karen Ann Quinlan|Quinlan, Karen Ann]], (1954-1985) - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
37: *[[Gebhard Ullmann|Ullmann, Gebhard]], musician
38: *[[Liv Ullmann|Ullmann, Liv]], (born 1938), Swedish-born actress
59: *[[Johnny Unitas|Unitas, Johnny]], (1933-2002), American football player
68: *[[Charles Upham|Upham, Charles]], (1908-1994), New Zealand war hero
112: *[[Johan Peter Uz|Uz, Johann Peter]] (1720-1796), German author - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
14: ...[[Linus Yale, Jr.|Yale, Linus Jr.]] (1821-1868), innovator of locks
34: *[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
73: *[[Stephen Yenser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
91: ...o Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]]
99: *[[Yoannis I of Alexandria]], ([[496]]-[[505]]), Coptic Po... - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...lose to the [[Sun]]. When a comet approaches the inner solar system, radiation from the Sun causes its...
11: ...r appearance have been noticed by humans for millennia. One very famous old recording of a comet is t...
25: ...vered in [[1869]] but became unobservable after [[1908]] due to perturbations by Jupiter, and was not fo...
33: ... year, so that Comet Bennett 1969i became Comet Bennett 1970 II (it was the second comet to pass perih...
53: ...d for most of the next century. Even after [[Johannes Kepler]] had determined in [[1609]] that the pl... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
89: *[[Balthus]] ([[1908]]-[[2001]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]]) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
26: Between [[1883]] and [[1908]], Monet travelled to the Mediterranean and paint... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
5: ... towards more compact, more powerful designs, beginning with [[steam engine]]s and ending with [[jet e...
25: ...-scale version of his design, first flying it unmanned in 1849, and in 1853 his coachman made a short ...
27: ...nnel]] in 1871. Members of the Society used the tunnel and were surprised, and delighted, to learn tha...
29: ... by [[Wilhelm Kress]] as early [[1877]] near [[Vienna]].
55: ...ening of the [[Spanish-American War]]. Langley planned on building a scaled-up version known as the ''... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
24: *[[John Bardeen]], (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
41: ...England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner]]
66: *[[W.K. Dickson|William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]], motion picture camera
105: *[[Johann Gutenberg]], (circa 1390s-1468), [[Germany]] &mda... - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
38: *[[1908]] - [[Ford Model T]] appears on market
39: *[[1908]] - [[Root-Takahira agreement]]
40: *[[1908]] - [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] establish...
41: *[[1908]] - [[Aldrich Vreeland Act]]
42: *[[1909]] - [[Penny (U.S. coin)|The U.S. penny]] is changed to the [[Abraham Lincoln]] design - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
11: ...t divided ten Confederate states (all except [[Tennessee]], which had been readmitted in [[1866]]) in...
38: ...al government even set up a school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in an attempt to impose the values and b...
51: ...tions to be coordinated across great distances. Innovations also occurred in how work was organized, ...
78: From the beginning, the Farmers' Alliances were political organiz...
90: ..."crucify mankind on a cross of gold," [[William Jennings Bryan]], the young Nebraskan champion of silv... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Jennifer Granholm]] |
46: ...Highland Park]] suburb of Detroit, marked the beginning of a new era in personal transportation. It wa...
55: *[[1622]] [[ɴienne Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], ...
94: ***Current: [[Jennifer Granholm]]
99: ...7--,00.html Michigan Constitutions of 1835, 1850, 1908, and 1963] - Zoology (5641 bytes)
37: ... the legendary period of the [[Middle Ages]] is connected with the name of an [[Englishman]], [[Edward...
47: * [[Arthur David Hasler]], ([[January 5]], [[1908]]-[[March 23]], [[2001]]) ([[limnology]], [[ichth...
51: * [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (father of [[systematics]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...s numbered year on [[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [...
21: ...ion of [[slave]]s into the [[United States]] is banned
30: *[[1898]] - [[New York City]] annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the ...
36: *[[1908]] - For the first time, a ball is dropped in [[Ne...
44: *[[1939]] - The [[Vienna New Year's Concert]] is first held. - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
5: ...f stairs, and water pressure could only provide running water to about 50 feet (15 m).
9: ... the end of the 19th century. [[William LeBaron Jenney]] designed the first skyscraper in Chicago, The...
18: ...per from [[1974]] to [[2004]]. Retained Highest pinnacle on a high-rise]]<br>
19: ...uilding's [[spire]] is adjudged to be a large antenna and thus excluded. This results in such rankings...
158: ...align="center"|Roof||Colspan="2" align="center"|Pinnacle||Floors|| - Dentistry (9670 bytes)
20: ...ss 002.jpg|thumb|''Farmer at the dentist'', [[Johann Liss]], c. 1616-17.]]
24: ...bworldbooks.com/articles8.htm] & [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9032043&query=Edwin%20Smi...
45: *[[Dalhousie University]] ([[1908]]) - Pope Gelasius I (4083 bytes)
12: Connected with these pressures for orthodoxy was the d...
24: *''Catholic Encyclopedia,'' 1908. - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
14: ...of grave heresy. Whether this be true or not, I cannot say." (Vasari)
20: ...Cosimo's son [[Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici|Giovanni]], were effusively described by Vasari:
24: ...rned in his characteristic generous impractical manner, unveiled the paintings, which were a revelatio...
37: ...li, painter of Florence (London: G Bell and Sons, 1908), despite the fact that it is nearly one hundred ... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...ld Series Trophy]]. The World Series has been an annual event since 1903, with the exception of 1904 a...
7: ...ding shares are distributed to the World Series winner, the World Series loser, all the other teams qu...
9: ...e is no reason to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club te...
15: ... World Cup of Baseball, to be held at least quadrennially during the Northern Hemisphere winter at a w...
75: ... a postseason series between the league pennant winners. - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
11: ...1882]], [[1885]], [[1886]], [[1906]], [[1907]], [[1908]], [[1910]], [[1918]], [[1929]], [[1932]], [[1935...
12: ...ld Series]] championships won''' (2): [[1907]], [[1908]]
18: ...he success and fame of the [[Cincinnati Reds|Cincinnati Red Stockings]] of [[1869]], baseball's first ...
24: ...provide some perspective to note that a similar winning percentage nowadays would yield 129 wins.
26: ...885]], winning 53 games as the Chicagos won the pennant. - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
5: ...seball)|Western League]]. Moved to [[St. Paul, Minnesota]], then again to Chicago in 1900 when that l...
12: :''American League pennants won'' (5): [[1901 in sports|1901]], [[1906 Wo...
17: ...[1894 in sports|1894]], then moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. When the Western League changed its name t...
19: ...rse [[Ed Walsh]], who routinely pitched over 400 innings each season in his prime.
22: ...ennant and their first World Series victory, a stunning upset over the Cubs who had won a record 116 r... - St. Valentine's Day (9989 bytes)
14: According to the ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]'' (1908), at least three different Saints Valentine, all ...
19: The connection between St. Valentine and romantic love is ...
33: ... Saint Valentynes day" which indicates that the manner of choosing was drawing lots. By the 17th centu...
42: ...the Greeting Card Association has been giving an annual "Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visi...
44: ...cards was extended to include the giving of all manner of gifts, usually from the man to the woman. S... - Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
11: ...talian Grand Prix]] is held at [[Monza]]. The beginnings of [[chess theory]] developed in Italy in 16t...
37: The Industry was born between 1903 and 1908 with three companies: the [[Roman Cines]], the [[... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
26: ...[Melvin Calvin]] (1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
37: ...]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or ... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
14: ...me was Koch. They were married in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. The family was [[Jew]]ish (and non-observan...
20: In [[1894]], following the failure of Hermann's electrochemical business, the Einsteins moved f...
22: ...d [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughter Anna.{{an|1}} Einstein subsequently enrolled at the '...
29: ...00px|Einstein, in [[1905]], when he wrote the "''Annus Mirabilis Papers''"]]
39: ...ilis Papers]]''" (from [[List of Latin phrases|''Annus mirabilis'']], [[Latin]] for 'year of wonders')... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
4: ...[[Scientist]], [[inventor]] of the telephone and innovations in aviation and hydrofoil technology |
27: ...nferred on him the decoration of the [[L駩on d'honneur]] (Legion of Honor), the [[Acad魩e fran硩se]...
29: ...[[1922]] and is buried alongside his wife atop Beinn Bhreagh Mountain overlooking [[Bras d'Or Lake]]. ...
45: [[Johann Philipp Reis|Philipp Reis]], a German self-taught...
70: ... were four young men, American [[Glenn Curtiss|Glenn H. Curtiss]], a motorcycle manufacturer who would... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
17: ...and much of this is attributable to some of the cunning military deceptions instituted at Baden-Powell...
19: Baden-Powell did most of the reconnaissance work himself and built up a team of nativ...
27: ...uts]] was held at [[Crystal Palace]] in London in 1908, at which Baden-Powell discovered the first [[Gir...
33: The Scouts of England each donated a penny to buy B-P a wedding gift - a Rolls Royce. - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
2: ...h he used his hood to save workers trapped in a tunnel system filled with fumes.
5: ...arm. While in his teens, he moved north to [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] in search of employment.
7: ...r, and continued his studies while living in Cincinnati.
15: In [[1908]], Morgan helped found the Cleveland Association ...
20: ...xplosion under Lake Erie. Garrett's bravery went unnoticed because of his race. Fire Departments aroun... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
8: ... [[1888]] Ford supported himself by farming and running a sawmill.
18: ...://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]In [[1908]], the Ford company released the [[Ford Model T|M...
29: ...utomobiles. Subsequently, the company adopted an annual model change system similar to that in use by ...
35: ... a seat on the board and was responsible for personnel, labor relations, and public relations.
40: ...e, and, importantly, conducted their lives in a manner of which Ford approved. The company established... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
19: ... into the water, gaining more propulsion. For beginners, increased strength brings only small improvem...
26: ...]]. Written references date back up to [[2nd millennium BC|2000 B.C.]], including [[Epic of Gilgamesh|...
28: ...d by Richard Cavill, using the flutter kick. In [[1908]], the world swimming association [[FINA|Federati...
50: ...ps, Natalie Coughlin, Kaitlin Sandeno, and Kara Lynn Joyce will be able to hold off the Australians ju...
52: ...0, or long distance swims across the [[English Channel]], or circumnavigating [[Manhattan Island]]. Th... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
20: *[[Giovanni di Balduccio]]
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
68: *[[Marie-Anne Collot]]
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
119: *[[Paolo di Giovanni]] - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Fitzgerald Kennedy
14: ...cqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy]]
20: ...alked behind the casket at [[Funeral of John F. Kennedy|his funeral]].
22: ...s the youngest ever to ''serve'' as president), Kennedy was also the youngest ever to die. [[As of 200...
27: ...e School]], a boarding school in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]]. Before enrolling in college, he attende... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[John F. Kennedy]]
9: | date of birth=[[August 27]], [[1908]]
19: ...[[1969]]) after [[John F. Kennedy assassination|Kennedy's assassination]].
22: ... born in [[Stonewall, Texas]] on [[August 27]], [[1908]] in a small farmhouse in a poor area on the [[Pe...
57: ...n manager, [[John Connally]], was thought to be connected with 202 ballots in [[Jim Wells County]] tha... - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
53: ...exceeded the low expectations many had at the beginning of his administration, and developed a reputat...
56: [[Image:yHSTruman.PNG|left|thumb|Truman in c.1908]]
61: ...at Ft. Sill he was given the additional duty of running the camp canteen (to provide candy, cigarettes...
68: ... works projects, including the series of 12 [[Madonna of the Trail]] monuments to pioneer women dedica...
94: ... the election, on [[January 7]], [[1953]] Truman announced the development of the [[hydrogen bomb]]. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
32: ...o shoot, to row and to play [[polo]] and [[lawn tennis]]. Frequent trips to Europe made him fluent in ...
36: ...had six in rapid succession: [[Anna E. Roosevelt|Anna]] ([[1906]]–[[1975]]), [[James Roosevelt|J...
46: ...ation such as the Secretary of State, [[William Jennings Bryan]]), and founded the Navy Reserve to pro...
64: ...for public office again. (The [[Encyclop椩a Britannica]], for example, says that "by careful exercise...
70: ...ept on as Parks Commissioner and head of urban planning. When the [[Wall Street Crash]] in October ush... - Calvin Coolidge (18374 bytes)
25: ...1907]]-[[1908]]. In 1905, Coolidge married Grace Anna Goodhue. They were complete opposites personalit...
35: ... Calvin, Jr., contracted a blister from playing tennis on the White House courts. The blister became i...
39: ...t persons who complained about his silence as a dinner partner never really tried to get beyond trivia...
41: ...ally, he would flip through the entire stack and announce, "I have no questions today." The reporters ...
55: Coolidge did not seek renomination; he announced his decision with typical terseness: "I do ... - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...ibuted greatly to India's cultural landscape. Beginning around [[180 BC]], a series of invasions from ...
14: ...mic invasions in the beginning of the second millennium, much of India was ruled by the [[Delhi Sultan...
20: During the middle of the second millennium, several European countries, including the [[P...
26: ...sts in [[1998]]. Significant economic reforms beginning in [[1991]], have transformed India into one o...
32: ...rished even as far back as the [[9000 BC|9th Millennium BCE]]. - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
12: ...d the formula for drag) was wrong, had a [[wind tunnel]] built by their employee, [[Charlie Taylor]], ...
17: ...braced. The warping was then controlled by wire running through the wings, which led to sticks the fly...
19: ...glider. Their last glider applied many important innovations in flight, and the brothers made over a t...
25: ... inaccurately. Only one other newspaper, the Cincinnati Enquirer, printed the story the next day.
35: The brothers became world famous in [[1908]] and [[1909]] when, weary of continuing doubt, t... - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
9: ...s in his vast property. So successful were these innovations that Santos-Dumont's father gathered a la...
11: ...he magnificent skies of [[Brazil]] in the long, sunny afternoons at the plantation.
52:
68: ...ry goes that in [[1904]], while celebrating his winning of the [[Deutsch Prize]] at [[Maxim's Restaura...
70: ...[1979]] at the [[Paris Air Museum]] next to the [[1908]] ''[[Demoiselle (aircraft)|Demoiselle]]'', the l... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
6: place_of_birth = [[Braunau am Inn]], [[Austria-Hungary]] |
20: ...as born on [[April 20]] [[1889]] at [[Braunau am Inn]], [[Austria]], a small town 90 km (55 miles) wes...
22: ... he began using the name of his stepfather, [[Johann Georg Hiedler]], after visiting a priest responsi...
24: ... either Johann Georg Hiedler or his brother [[Johann von Nepomuk Hiedler]]. There have been rumours th...
29: ===Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich=== - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...of having reached the [[North Pole]] on April 21, 1908, a year before [[Robert Peary]] claimed to, April...
19: ...3) and The Explorers Club (1904-present). In 1907-1908 Cook served as the second President of The Explor...
29: ...d north, eventually crossing [[Nares Strait]] to Annoatok on the Greenland side in the spring of 1909,...
31: Cook and his two companions were gone from Annoatok for 14 months, and their whereabouts in that...
35: ...r village and there was insufficient manpower at Annoatok for a second sledge for the onward 700 mile ... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
28: ...om the Pole, Amundsen's success was not publicly announced until [[7 March]] [[1912]]. Amundsen recoun...
38: ...t the North Pole -- by [[Frederick Cook|Cook]] in 1908, [[Robert Peary]] in 1909, and [[Richard Byrd]] i... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
17: ...fe Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in [[1912]]).
23: ...University of California, Berkeley]] researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name ...
52: *[[1908]] - [[Brigitte Helm]], actress (d. [[1996]])
77: *[[1954]] - [[Lesley-Anne Down]], actress
80: *[[1956]] - [[Patrick McDonnell]], cartoonist - March 18 (10594 bytes)
6: *[[37]] - The [[Roman Senate]] annuls [[Tiberius]]' will and proclaims [[Caligula]] ...
19: ...]]. Despite the recent Polish successes, Soviets annex [[Ukraine]] and [[Belarus]]. Government of [[Uk...
25: ...lf Hitler]] and [[Benito Mussolini]] meet at [[Brenner Pass]] in the [[Alps]] and agree to form an all...
29: *[[1961]] - In [[Cannes]], [[France]], [[Jean-Claude Pascal]] wins the ...
51: ...eland]], [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1908]]) - March 20 (10075 bytes)
11: ...,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
18: *[[1914]] – In [[New Haven, Connecticut]], the first international [[figure skatin...
28: *[[1969]] – In [[Gibraltar]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] get married.
29: ...r Royal Highness [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]] and her husband [[Captain Mark Phillips]] in [...
60: *[[1904]] - [[B. F. Skinner]], behavioral psychologist (d. [[1990]]) - March 21 (10586 bytes)
22: ...[[Ranger 9]] which is the last in a series of unmanned [[Moon|lunar]] [[space probe]]s.
27: ...f the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] announces a [[United States]] [[boycott]] of the [[19...
35: ...2005]] - In [[Red Lake, Minnesota|Red Lake]], [[Minnesota]], [[Red Lake High School massacre|10 are k...
38: *[[1685]] - [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], German composer, (d. [[1750]])
66: ...[[Ingrid Kristiansen]], Norwegian long distance runner - March 22 (9294 bytes)
9: *[[1638]] - [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Ba...
34: ...- [[Pat Summitt]], coach of the [[University of Tennessee]] Lady Vols (women's [[college basketball]])...
47: *[[1908]] - [[Louis L'Amour]], author (d. [[1988]])
55: *1924 - [[Bill Wendell]], American broadcast announcer (d. [[1999]])
80: *[[1949]] - [[Fanny Ardant]], French actress - March 23 (10340 bytes)
24: ...he then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the [[All India Muslim L...
27: ...[London]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Grethe & J? Ingmann]] win the eighth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for ...
31: ...]] - [[Stanley Pons]] and [[Martin Fleischmann]] announce [[cold fusion]] at the [[University of Utah]...
63: *[[1929]] - Sir [[Roger Bannister]], runner
71: *[[1951]] - [[Corinne Clery]], French actress - Springfield, Illinois (6768 bytes)
32: ...er Party]], a group of pioneers who resorted to cannibalism while snowbound in the [[Sierra Nevada (US...
36: ...heast side of the city. It is also home to the Bunn Company, known for the manufacture of coffee-make... - Lansing, Michigan (6961 bytes)
29: ...Michigan|Lansing Charter Township]]. It has also annexed adjacent tracts of land in [[Delta Charter To...
50: ..., which became a [[General Motors]] division in [[1908]].
78: ...Cities, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Jackson, Flint, Ann Arbor, and Battle Creek. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
53: *[[Paul Bachmann]] (Germany, [[1837]] - [[1920]])
74: *[[Johann Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1667]] - [[1748]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
27: *[[Hannes Alfv鮝] ([[Sweden]], [[1908]] – [[1995]])
64: *[[Benjamin Banneker]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1731]] – [[...
66: *[[Johann Bayer]] ([[Germany]], [[1572]] – [[1625]])
73: *[[Ludwig Biermann]] ([[Germany]], [[1907]] – [[1986]])
78: *[[Johann Elert Bode]] ([[Germany]], [[1747]] – [[182... - Dollhouse (4191 bytes)
23: One of the most famous and well planned dollhouses is [[Queen Mary's Dolls' House]] whi...
29: ...rated [[Titania's Palace]], which he created in [[1908]]. The house itself is built in 1/12th scale and ... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
15: ... story of my experiments with truth" reveals his inner persona and reflections on his early life.
23: ...iving him valuable experience in organising and running institutions. Some of the vegetarians he met w...
29: At this point in his life, Gandhi was a mild-mannered, diffident, politically indifferent individua...
33: ...ulation. At a mass protest meeting held in [[Johannesburg]] that [[September]], Gandhi adopted his pl...
35: ...ter_to_a_Hindu| Letter to a Hindu]," written in [[1908]] in response to aggressive Indian nationalists. ... - Thomas Aquinas (12692 bytes)
3: ...esota)|St. Thomas University]] in Saint Paul, [[Minnesota]], are named for him, as is Aquinas College ...
9: ...ght back to his parents at the castle of San Giovanni, where he was held a captive for a year or two t...
14: ...at an important chapter of his order at [[Valenciennes]]. At the solicitation of [[Pope Urban IV]] (th...
16: ...why he had stopped writing, Aquinas replied, "I cannot go on...All that I have written seems to me lik...
18: ...d, with a large head and receding hairline. His manners showed his breeding; he is described as refine... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
18: *[[H. B. Acton]], (1908-1974)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}}
78: *[[Anniceris]], (fl. 300 BC){{fn|C}}
94: *[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - July 24 (8660 bytes)
8: *[[1832]] - [[Benjamin Bonneville]] leads the first [[wagon train]] across th...
11: *[[1866]] - [[Reconstruction]]: [[Tennessee]] becomes the first [[U.S. state]] to be rea...
16: *[[1923]] - The [[Treaty of Lausanne]], settling the boundaries of modern [[Turkey]],...
19: ...fire at a home for aged people in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] kills 48 people.
29: ...]] against the [[New York Yankees]], has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".... - List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
1: ..., quarterfinalists or better in a [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] tournament, or medalists at the [...
5: ...re Agassi]] ([[1970]]-) - ([[:Category:American tennis players|United States]])
6: *[[Pieter Aldrich]] - [[:Category:South African tennis players|South Africa]] - doubles specialist
8: ...exander]] ([[1951]]-) - ([[:Category:Australian tennis players|Australia]])
10: ...onso]] ([[1895]]-[[1984]]) ([[:Category:Spanish tennis players|Spain]]) - Sense (11343 bytes)
15: ...ception and results from tiny hair fibres in the inner [[ear]] detecting the motion of a membrane whic...
19: ...0 (see [http://www.nature.com/neuro/press_release/nn0200.html]). The umami receptor detects the [[amin...
25: ...obelprize.org/medicine/laureates/2004/index.html announced] [[4 October]] [[2004]]) was won by [[Richa...
35: ...d is related to cavities containing fluid in the inner ear. There is some disagreement as to whether o...
43: ...actory receptors on their [[Antenna (biology)|antennae]] and sound receptors on their wings. [[Ctenoph... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
25: * Winning the [[War on Terror]]
27: * Building an Innovative Economy to Compete in the World
52: ...orld, and McKinley outspent his rival [[William Jennings Bryan]] by a large margin. This emphasis on b...
54: ...nother term in [[U.S. presidential election, 1908|1908]], instead endorsing Secretary of War [[William H...
56: ...d with the 1896 Democratic Candidacy of William Jennings Bryan) [[Warren G. Harding]], [[Calvin Coolid... - Native American (42651 bytes)
1: ...traditional dress including [[war bonnet]], about 1908]]
5: ..."Amerindian" relates to a mega-group of people spanning the Americas that are related in culture and g...
23: ...nts may have crossed the land bridge several millennia earlier and followed a coastal route, thus avoi...
41: ...ch that humans were created in America at the beginning of time and have continuously occupied the are...
95: ...ost tribes, especially small ones such as the [[Winnemem Wintu]] of [[Redding, California]], feel that... - Phasmatodea (2538 bytes)
17: **Family ''Korinnidae'' G?, 1953
18: **Family ''Aschiphasmatidae'' Brunner, 1893
23: **Family ''Tropidoderidae Brunner'', 1893 ~
26: **Family ''Eurycanthidae'' Brunner, 1893
28: **Family ''Platycranidae'' Redtenbacher, 1908 - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
1: ...rs to confuse Iran with Iraq; so in 1959 Pahlavi announced that both Persia and Iran can be used inter...
11: ...e, the [[Scythian]]s. The region of Parsuash was annexed by Sargon of Assyria around 719 BC. Eventuall...
17: Cyrus' son, [[Cambyses II]], annexed [[Egypt]] to the Persian Empire. The empire t...
19: ...ad]] by improving ancient trade routes, thereby connecting far reaches of the empire. He moved the adm...
41: ...I]]'s military leadership kept Parthia from overrunning Persia itself, but his successes alarmed the b... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
25: ...ingle [[Maltese falcon]], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicil...
29: ...oman Emperor|Charles V]]). The Ottomans were outgunned, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the...
36: ... by the [[King of Prussia]] in [[1812]]. The "JohanniterOrden" was restored as a Prussian Order of Kni...
50: ...ley Brandenburg des Ritterlichen Ordens Sankt Johannis vom Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues u...
61: ...''Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta'''''. They are... - Sword (24928 bytes)
10: ...blades became possible, from the early [[2nd millennium BC]]. The hilt at first simply allowed a firm ...
34: ...d [[1300]], in concert with improved [[armour]], innovative sword designs evolved more and more rapidl...
36: ...ver increasing sword sizes (mostly due to the beginning of the decline of plate armor and the advent o...
44: .... The [[France|French]] [[martial art]] ''[[la canne]]'' developed to fight with canes and swordstick...
49: ...ted a completely new design of cavalry sword in [[1908]], almost the last change in British Army weapons... - Helium (36603 bytes)
132: ... easily but through which non-superfluid helium cannot pass. If the interior of the container is heat...
152: ...[rocket]]s (see below) and in supersonic [[wind tunnel]]s.
168: ...ium to a similar amount of cooling as Kamerlingh Onnes but at 25 standard atmospheres of pressure.
179: ...a 425-mile pipeline from [[Bushton, Kansas]] to connect those plants with the government's [[Cliffside...
196: ...ion m³ (3.5 billion ft³) were produced annually with 80% of production from the [[United Sta... - Radon (12616 bytes)
137: ...rnst Dorn]], who called it radium emanation. In [[1908]] [[William Ramsay]] and [[Robert Whytlaw-Gray]],...
171: *[[Johann Radon]] - Silicon (13233 bytes)
17: {{Elementbox_vaporpressure_katpa | 1908 | 2102 | 2339 | 2636 | 3021 | 3537 | comment= }} - Technetium (32113 bytes)
220: ...ut it was determined to be [[yttrium]]. Then in [[1908]] the Japanese chemist [[Masataka Ogawa]] found e...
233: ...[uranium-238]]. This discovery was made by B.T. Kenna and P.K. Kuroda. {{inote | ''LANL Periodic Table...
241: ...p to 1994, about 49,000 T[[Becquerel|Bq]] (78 [[tonne|metric ton]]) of technetium was produced in nucl... - Siberian Husky (8100 bytes)
31: |[[American Kennel Club|AKC]]: || Working
34: |[[Australian National Kennel Council|ANKC]]: || Group 6 (Utility)
37: |[[Canadian Kennel Club|CKC]]: || Group 3 (Working)
39: |[[Kennel Club (UK)|KC(UK)]]: || Working
40: |[http://www.the-kennel-club.org.uk/discoverdogs/working/w873.htm Stds] - Golden Retriever (8646 bytes)
22: |[[American Kennel Club|AKC]]: || Sporting
24: |[[Australian National Kennel Council|ANKC]]: || Group 3 (Gundogs)
26: |[[Canadian Kennel Club|CKC]]: || Group 1 - Sporting Dogs
28: |[[Kennel Club (UK)|KC(UK)]]: || Gundog
30: |[[New Zealand Kennel Club|NZKC]]: || Gundog - Greater Swiss Mountain Dog (4930 bytes)
13: |Grosser Schweizer Sennenhund
33: |[[American Kennel Club|AKC]]: || Working
36: |[[Canadian Kennel Club|CKC]]: || Miscellaneous Class
38: |[[United Kennel Club|UKC]]: || Guardian Dogs
48: ...ional Swiss [[herding dog|herding breeds]], the Sennehunds, a grouping in which the [[Bernese Mountain... - Sealyham Terrier (2092 bytes)
17: |[[American Kennel Club|AKC]]: || Terrier
20: |[[Australian National Kennel Council|ANKC]]: || Group 2 (Terriers)
23: |[[Canadian Kennel Club|CKC]]: || Group 4 - Terrier
25: |[[Kennel Club (UK)|KC(UK)]]: || Terrier
26: |[http://www.the-kennel-club.org.uk/discoverdogs/terrier/t896.htm Stds] - Robert Goddard (scientist) (7533 bytes)
7: ... the rest of his life he observed October 19 as "Anniversary Day", a private holiday.
11: ...ree from [[Worcester Polytechnic Institute]] in [[1908]], he was a Fellow in Physics at [[Clark Universi...
21: Most notable however was the, retrospectively funny, response of ''[[The New York Times]]'' to Godda...
53: *[[Hermann Oberth]] - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
15: *[[1837]] The first German railway line connects [[Leipzig]] with [[Althen]] near [[Wurzen]], ...
22: ... to negotiate tighter curves in the track. This innovation proves rare for steam locomotives but is t...
32: *[[1908]] [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]] op...
40: *[[1970]] [[Penn Central]] goes bankrupt, the United States' large... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
1: ...ight|For months before the '''Olympic Games''', runners relay the [[Olympic Flame]] from [[Olympia, Gr...
15: ...d the celebration was spread over several days. Winners of the events were broadly admired and were im...
19: ...ion of the achievements of the human body. Upon winning the games, the victor would get not only the p...
27: ...890]] he attended the [[Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games|Wenlock Olympian Society]]. Coubertin al...
29: In a congress at the [[Sorbonne]] University, in [[Paris]], held from [[June 16]... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
3: ...n Bach, [[1748]] portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann]]
5: '''Johann Sebastian Bach''' ([[March 21]], [[1685]] <small>...
7: ...n Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[Johann Christian Bach]] became important musicians and c...
11: ...]{{an|birthplace}} in [[1685]]. His father, [[Johann Ambrosius Bach]], was the town piper in [[Eisenac...
13: ... by the moonlight. This went on nightly until Johann Christoph heard the young Sebastian playing some ... - Woodrow Wilson (31322 bytes)
46: ...government at home. In his last scholarly work in 1908, "Constitutional Government of the United States"...
48: ...on delivered an oration at Princeton's sesquicentennial celebration ([[1896]]) entitled Princeton in t...
54: ...ent of Princeton proved among the most important innovations in the field of higher education. He inst...
61: ...d States Republican Party|Republican Party]] by running against each other, allowing Wilson's victory.
63: ...eryone was on [[Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC|Pennsylvania Avenue]] watching the parade. - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
27: ... first formed at age seven upon seeing a dead [[Pinniped|seal]] at a local market. After obtaining the...
34: ... his propensity toward natural history. Fraulein Anna, a tutor of [[German language|German]] and [[Fre...
45: He also found time for boxing and was runner-up for the Harvard boxing championship, losing ...
50: ...or [[Benjamin Harrison]] in the Midwest. After winning the election President Harrison appointed Roos...
56: ...epublican leaders in New York advanced him as a running mate for William McKinley in the [[1900]] elec... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]
18: ...s]] before being nominated for president in the [[1908 Republican National Convention]] with the backing...
20: ...ings Bryan]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1908|presidential election]], and during his presidenc...
25: ...organization]]. After college, he attended [[Cincinnati Law School]] and began his political career in...
35: ... help, Taft handily defeated Democrat [[William Jennings Bryan]]. Throughout his presidency, Taft cont... - Hannibal Hamlin (5219 bytes)
1: ....jpg|200px|thumb|right|Photographic portrait of Hannibal Hamlin]]
2: ...tes|Vice President]] as [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[running mate]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 18...
8: ...is party's endorsement of that repeal at the Cincinnati Convention two years later, he withdrew from t...
21: ...ine state [[attorney general]] from [[1905]] to [[1908]].
29: *Hamlin, Charles E. ''Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin''. Cambridge, Mass.: 1899. - Adlai E. Stevenson (3193 bytes)
11: ===The beginning===
15: ...in [[1900]] and for [[governor of Illinois]] in [[1908]]. - James S. Sherman (2788 bytes)
7: ...oward Taft]]. He was elected Vice President in [[1908]] and served from March 4, 1909, until his death....
12: * [[U.S. presidential election, 1908]]
16: ...Butler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1908|1908]] (won), [[U.S. presidential election, 1912|1912]... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
8: ...ibuted greatly to India's cultural landscape. Beginning around [[180 BC]], a series of invasions from ...
14: ...mic invasions in the beginning of the second millennium, much of India was ruled by the [[Delhi Sultan...
20: During the middle of the second millennium, several European countries, including the [[P...
26: ...sts in [[1998]]. Significant economic reforms beginning in [[1991]], have transformed India into one o...
32: ...rished even as far back as the [[9000 BC|9th Millennium BCE]]. - Angel Shark (6012 bytes)
26: * ''[[Squatina africana]]'' <small>Regan, 1908</small> ([[African angel shark]]), 80 cm [http://...
37: * ''[[Squatina squatina]]'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>, 183 cm [http://www.fishbase.o... - Crane bird (6009 bytes)
26: ...e, performed a crane dance that was captured in [[1908]] in a photograph by [[Arnold Genthe]]. In [[Kore... - United States Republican Party (30737 bytes)
24: * Winning the [[War on Terror]]
26: * Building an Innovative Economy to Compete in the World
51: ...orld, and McKinley outspent his rival [[William Jennings Bryan]] by a large margin. This emphasis on b...
53: ...nother term in [[U.S. presidential election, 1908|1908]], instead endorsing Secretary of War [[William H...
55: ...d with the 1896 Democratic Candidacy of William Jennings Bryan) [[Warren G. Harding]], [[Calvin Coolid... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
32: ...o shoot, to row and to play [[polo]] and [[lawn tennis]]. Frequent trips to Europe made him fluent in ...
36: ...had six in rapid succession: [[Anna E. Roosevelt|Anna]] ([[1906]]–[[1975]]), [[James Roosevelt|J...
46: ...ation such as the Secretary of State, [[William Jennings Bryan]]), and founded the Navy Reserve to pro...
64: ...for public office again. (The [[Encyclop椩a Britannica]], for example, says that "by careful exercise...
70: ...ept on as Parks Commissioner and head of urban planning. When the [[Wall Street Crash]] in October ush... - Ankylosaurus (3822 bytes)
31: ... made more difficult by the row of short spikes running down their sides.
35: ...agniventris'', was named by [[Barnum Brown]] in [[1908]]. [[Fossil]] remains have been found in [[Albert... - Hadrosauridae (5111 bytes)
38: ... (''Edmontosaurus annectens'') was recovered in [[1908]] by the fossil collector [[Charles Hazelius Ster...
40: ...atics were a mess until [[1942]], when Richard Swann Lull and Nelda Wright proposed the genus ''[[Anat... - Edmontosaurus (4846 bytes)
15: ''E. annectens'' <br/>
20: ...ight was in the region of 3.5 [[metric ton|tonnes]], making it one of the largest hadrosaurids.
23: ...92]], but this has now been reclassified as ''E. annectens''. Likewise, [[Charles Hazelius Sternberg|C...
29: The [[1908]] discovery in [[Wyoming]] was especially remarka...
37: ...sted in the same place and time period as ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' and one specimen on display in the... - Hadrosaurid (5111 bytes)
38: ... (''Edmontosaurus annectens'') was recovered in [[1908]] by the fossil collector [[Charles Hazelius Ster...
40: ...atics were a mess until [[1942]], when Richard Swann Lull and Nelda Wright proposed the genus ''[[Anat... - Duck-bill (5340 bytes)
38: ... (''Edmontosaurus annectens'') was recovered in [[1908]] by the fossil collector [[Charles Hazelius Ster...
40: ...atics were a mess until [[1942]], when Richard Swann Lull and Nelda Wright proposed the genus ''[[Anat... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
14: * [[1855]] - The [[Pennsylvania State University]] is founded.
15: ...ens its first national meeting in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]].
16: * [[1865]] - [[Tennessee]] adopts a new [[constitution]] that abolish...
35: ...1997]] - In [[Roslin]], [[Scotland]], scientists announce that an adult [[sheep]] named [[Dolly the sh...
37: *[[2004]] - Ralph Nader announces his intention to run as an independent cand... - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
23: ...ctor. Most people who knew him through dealings connected with performances spoke of him as polite, co...
25: ...tual and professional life in the USA. When he planned to write an opera with [[W. H. Auden]], the nee...
47: ...", to the classical music of [[Mozart]] and [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] and their contemporaries. ...
53: The pinnacle of this period is the opera ''[[The Rake's Pr...
65: ==Influence and innovation== - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
50: ...nother attraction — the nine drawbridges spanning the Neva. Tourists flock to see the [[bridge]...
74: ...ailors lost at sea. The church of Sts Simeon and Anna (1731–1734), St Sampson Cathedral (1728&nd...
78: ...ly Stasov]]. Smaller churches include the Konyushennaya (1816–1823), also by Stasov, the "Easter...
106: ...the greatest masterpiece of the French-born [[Etienne Maurice Falconet]], the statue figures prominent...
110: ... by [[France]] in [[2003]] and installed on the Sennaya Square. - Timeline of aviation (3479 bytes)
9: ... - [[1907 in aviation|1907]] - [[1908 in aviation|1908]] - [[1909 in aviation|1909]] - Ferdinand von Zeppelin (2659 bytes)
11: ..., ironically, after the Zeppelin LZ4 crashed in [[1908]] at Echterdingen, sparking a wave of helpfulness... - Judge (10187 bytes)
156: |[[Alfred Denning, Baron Denning | Baron Alfred Denning]]
169: |( [[1908]] – [[1993]] )
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