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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')...
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