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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...arian-based Chinese an advantage over neighboring nomadic and mountain-dwelling cultures. The developm...
7: ...and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]...
14: ...torical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiographer of the [[2nd century ...
18: ...aracter]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle...
24: ...he early Zhou (successor state of the Shang), is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang. - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
19: ...ved as [[U.S.]] [[congressman]] from [[Texas]] ([[1967]]–[[1971]]), [[Ambassador (diplomacy)|ambas... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: *[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
4: ...s, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
5: ...born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
51: ...yd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
9: ...]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
25: ...cki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
56: ...ouch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
63: ...s (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist
65: ...s, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
30: ... by joint forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued...
44: ...ar and captured large areas of territory. She saw no need to seek compromise with the [[Palestinians]]...
53: ... can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."—Golda Meir, [[March...
55: ...t things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."—Golda Meir, in a speech ...
57: ... the past but nothing like the one I'm faced with now in leading the country."—Golda Meir, when ... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: '''Condoleezza "Condi" Rice''' (born [[November 14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United Stat...
29: ...[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in ...
34: ...olumbia University]], writes, "Birmingham had one notably rich black family, the Gastons, who were in ...
35: In [[1967]], the family moved to [[Denver]] when her father... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...he was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United ...
11: ... chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972]]. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...figurehead of a political philosophy that became known as [[Thatcherism]], which involves reduced gove...
31: ...ccured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher a...
33: ...ical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was chall... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...to many languages. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 millio...
8: ...tates|American]] private school, and while in Lebanon a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [...
12: Beginning in 1967, Allende was on the editorial staff for ''Paula''...
16: ...e starred [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Antonio Banderas... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3:
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the...
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
19: *O Mist鲩o do Coelho Pensante (1967)
27: *Onde estivestes de Noite? (1974) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...e_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philoso...
11: ...ational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Rand...
13: ... his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by p...
19: ...me from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she liked and adopted. The... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
7: ...al [[compiler]] work was done. The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A...
12: .... She was recalled to active duty in August of [[1967]] for a six-month period that turned into an inde...
14: ...in the 1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
20: She was laid to rest with full military honors in [[Arlington National Cemetery]].
22: ...rial park in front of her former residence and is now owned by Arlington County, Virginia. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvi...
6: ...ding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Webb]]'s band, w...
10: ...[[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[bossa nova]], [[samba (music)|samba]], [[gospel]], [[calyp...
12: ...the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
16: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Lo... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever...
6: ...n to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
8: ...went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ... notable covers of songs by [[The Beatles]] ("Eleanor Rigby"), [[The Band]] ("[[The Weight]]"), [[Simo...
14: ...1970s, her music mellowed slightly, though losing nothing of its power, and she continued the hugely s... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...bum]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
6: ...xas for [[San Francisco]] in [[1963]], lived in [[North Beach]] and in [[Haight-Ashbury]]. For a while...
8: ...s]] and recorded an eponymously titled album in [[1967]]. However, the lack of success of their early s...
16: ...[[The Dick Cavett Show]] in [[1970]], where she announced that she would attend her 10-year high schoo...
24: Janis Joplin is now remembered best for her powerful, distinctive vo... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
3: ...e hit with "Pata Pata"; in [[1987]] she achieved another peak in popularity by appearing in [[Paul Sim... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...uch as [[John Dillinger]] and [[Ma Barker]], were notorious across the nation. They captivated the att...
9: ...r 25]] [[1926]], but the pairing was short-lived. Noted for homesickness throughout her short adult li...
15: ...o cracked safes, burgled stores, and stole cars. Known primarily for robbing banks, he preferred small...
19: ...g fellow. Nobody thought it was anything special. Nobody guessed where it would lead."{{ref|knight}}
23: ... Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner named "Big Ed",... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ... movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[...
5: ...[[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of Arc]]...
9: ... for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big...
13: ...cattered with a part kept to be interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]].
15: Bergman was honored posthumously with an [[Emmy Award]] for Best A... - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...terpiece ''[[Belle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion...
6: ...film, ''[[Indochine (movie)|Indochine]]'' and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] ...
10: She was also nominated for a César Award for her roles in:
33: * ''[[Belle de jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]]), (1967)
34: ...demoiselles de Rochefort]]'' ([[Jacques Demy]]), (1967) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...uins (TV movie)|Love Among the Ruins]]'', and was nominated for four other Emmys and two [[Tony Award]...
5: ...enereal disease]] in a time when such things were not discussed, and her mother campaigned for birth c...
7: ... films such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
12: ... change his name to S. Ogden Ludlow, so she would not have to adopt the "too ordinary" name of "Mrs. S...
21: ...came the talk of New York City, and began getting noticed by [[Hollywood]]. - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
1: '''Nicole (Mary) Kidman''' (born [[June 20]], [[1967]]) is an [[Academy Award]] winning [[Australia|Au...
2: She was born in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janel...
3: ... took on a lectureship at the [[University of Technology, Sydney]].
8: ...School]], but dropped out when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, as Kidman concentrated on ...
10: ...he appeared in ''[[Dead Calm]]'' which gained her notice in the United States. - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
1: [[Image:Vivlei.jpg|thumb|Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)]]
3: ...' ([[November 5]], [[1913]] – [[July 7]], [[1967]]) was an [[England|English]] [[Actor|actress]] w...
7: ...e [[MGM]] film ''[[A Yank at Oxford]]'', but told no one until late [[1938]], when filming began. [[Pa...
11: In [[1944]], the actress was diagnosed as having a [[tuberculosis]] patch on her left... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ... illegitimate daughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Ricc...
7: ... in the early 1950s playing bit parts in mostly minor Italian films, but she had an early brush with [...
13: ...r category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English language performance.
15: ...r best-known films of this period are [[Peter Ustinov]]'s ''[[Lady L]]'' with [[Paul Newman]], [[Charl...
23: In [[1991]], Loren received an honorary Academy Award for her contribution to world c... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
3: ...]] [[actress]], [[singer]], and [[author]], best known for her starring roles in the [[musical film]]s...
5: ...econgized her rare, four octave [[coloratura soprano]] talent and enrolled her in voice lessons to dev...
9: ...[1966]]), and ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' ([[1967]]), with [[Mary Tyler Moore]] and [[Carol Channin...
11: ...nd, despite several starring roles in musical and non-musical films - including some directed by her s...
15: In the [[2000]] New Year's Honours she was made a [[Order of the British Empire|D... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...sed in [[Cowes]], [[Isle of Wight]]. She is best known as a solo long-distance [[Yachting|yachtswoman]...
12: ...04]], was specially designed by Nigel Irens and Benoit Cabaret for her to break solo records. The 75-[...
16: ...record for sailing non-stop around the world on [[November 28]], [[2004]]. During her circumnavigation...
18: ...1580]] and [[1967]]. MacArthur was also made an honorary [[Lieutenant Commander]] of the [[Royal Naval...
20: ...le]]s at an average speed of 15.9 [[knot (speed)|knot]]s. - Laura Serrano (2835 bytes)
1: '''Laura Serrano''' (born October 30, [[1967]]) almost became a boxer by default, but soon she...
3: She began boxing at the [[Universidad Autonoma Nacional]] of [[Mexico City]], where she was st...
5: ...ndercard ever held at the [[Aladdin Hotel and Casino]] in [[Las Vegas]].
7: ... her legal battle, the ordinance was dropped, and now Mexico has allowed women's championship bouts to...
9: Serrano next suffered a foot injury and the subsequent s... - Retina (13061 bytes)
5: ...se [[axon]]s form the [[optic nerve]]. The retina not only detects light, it also plays a significant ...
7: ...rtline]] and [[Ragnar Granit]] won the [[1967]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for their sc...
12: ...he retina attaches the optic nerve. This spot is known as the [[blind spot (anatomy)|blind spot]] as i...
16: ...fore reaching the rods and cones. However it does not pass through the [[epithelium]] or the [[choroid...
18: ...field entoptic phenomenon]] (or Scheerer's phenomenon). - Heart (10132 bytes)
7: ...|sternum]] (breastbone). It is enclosed by a sac known as the [[pericardium]] and is surrounded by the...
13: ...) view of the opened heart. White arrows indicate normal blood flow. ([[Media:Heart.svg|SVG version]])...
28: ... beat of the heart involves a sequence of events known as the ''cardiac cycle'', which consists of thr...
35: ...rs]] can also act as a pacemaker; this is usually not the case because their rate of spontaneous firin...
38: The study of diseases of the heart is known as [[cardiology]]. Important diseases of the he... - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...mage:Karen_tribe2063c.jpg|thumb|250px|Villager in Northern Thailand. Picture provided by [http://class...
6: ...orld. It is also know that the Indian culture is known to be the richest in the world. it contain trad...
8: ...ss people such as [[punk rock]] or than the indigenous music traditions of aboriginal peoples of [[Aus...
10: ...s from those who regard themselves as cultured do not usually count as "having a different culture"; b...
12: ...rays non-[[Western culture|Western]] people as '[[noble savage]]s' living [[authenticity (philosophy)|... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...rea]] in the world. Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (30.03333, 31.21667). [http:/...
4: ... ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local dialect.
7: ...px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] highlighted.]]
14: ...nks and islands of the [[Nile|Nile River]] in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where...
24: ...incorporates an entire medi涡l section, which is now a popular neighborhood and contains important bu... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...entional Egyptian chronology]] is a type of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[Egyp...
5: ...Scholars consider the creation of an Egyptian chronology a difficult task. As Dr. Robert A. Hatch of t...
7: ...REV-Teaching/HIS-SCI-STUDY-GUIDE/0006_egyptianChronolgoy.html]
9: ...06), has properly called it "the rather fluid chronology of the [[Pharaoh]]s and the [[Hittite]]s," ad...
13: ...he previous "firm" dates cannot be supported astronomically. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[James Knox Polk]]</td></tr>
18: ...the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td> ''none'' </td></tr></table>
25: ...1808]]-[[1811]]), and followed his father as governor ([[1825]]-[[1827]]) after a stint in the House o...
27: ...logans of "Log Cabins and Hard Cider" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" are among the most famous in Amer...
29: ...xplicit on that aspect of succession (until the [[1967]] ratification of the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
12: | date of death=[[November 18]], [[1886]]
16: | vicepresident=None
18: ...Alan Arthur''' ([[October 5]], [[1829]] – [[November 18]], [[1886]]) was an [[Politics of the Un...
20: ...ly and friends. Interestingly, Chester Arthur pronounced his middle name, Alan, with the stress on th...
29: ...n [[1848]]. He became principal of an academy in North Pownal, Vt. in [[1851]]. He studied law, was ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
29: ...ted States]], and the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. He was the only [[United Stat...
31: ...ination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic problems in his second term.
34: ...ke the responsibility for the deaths himself, and not pass it along to subordinates.
36: ...rademark of office, and was later elected, [[Governor of New York]], where he worked closely with the ...
40: ...red an illegitimate child while he was still Governor of New York. Although Cleveland never admitted ... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
1: ...s, the outer [[lithosphere]] and the inner [[asthenosphere]].
3: ...ch]] formation occur along plate boundaries (most notably around the so-called "[[Pacific Ring of Fire...
5: ...e early 20th century, and [[seafloor spreading]], noticed in the 1960s. The theory itself was develope...
8: ... asthenosphere. The relative fluidity of the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plates to undergo motio...
10: ...ench]]es. The majority of the world's active volcanoes occur along plate boundaries, with the Pacific ... - Australia (39438 bytes)
7: national_motto =None (formerly Advance Australia)|
13: ...a|Queen]]<br>[[Governor-General of Australia|Governor-General]]<br>[[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime...
38: footnotes=|
44: footnotes=<sup>1</sup>There are some minor variations from these three timezones, see [[Aus...
50: ...etres; however, the [[Extreme points of Australia|northernmost inhabited island]], [[Boigu Island]], i... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...at the country's *official* name is now "Canada", not anything else. If you believe you have arguments...
3: {{editnote | Notice: This overview article is already too long an...
6: ...d north into the [[Arctic Ocean]] as far as the [[North Pole]].
8: ... through the [[British North America Acts|British North America Act of 1867]] and styled the "[[Canada...
15: ...arliament of Canada|Parliament]]. Both the [[Governor General of Canada]], who exercises the prerogati... - Economy of Afghanistan (14517 bytes)
1: ...- is one of several potential spoilers for the economy over the long term.
3: ==Economic History==
4: ...nfrastructure and disrupted normal patterns of economic activity. Gross domestic product has fallen su...
6: ...he [[International Monetary Fund]], the Afghan economy grew 20% in the [[fiscal year]] ending in March...
9: ... by an almost total dependence on erratic winter snows and spring rains for water; irrigation is primi... - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
1: ...Ilesha|Ilesa]], [[Port Harcourt]], [[Enugu]], [[Kano]], [[Kaduna]], [[Jos]], and [[Benin City]]. The c...
57: ...ry, [[Usman dan Fodio]] brought most areas in the north under the loose control of an Islamic empire c...
59: ...h, 16th and 17th centuries. [[Ife]] and Benin are noted for their prized artistic works in ivory, wood...
67: ...rms of surrender before Yakubu Gowon, Head of the Northern dominated federal government.
71: ...ny people fear the return of Babangida for he is known as the [[Idi Amin]] of Nigeria for a reason. - Jordan (20715 bytes)
1: ...rdered by [[Syria]] to the north, [[Iraq]] to the north-east, [[Saudi Arabia]] to the east and south, ...
15: ...enter" colspan="2" | <small>''[[National motto]]: none''</small>
69: ... divided the mandate by establishing the semi-autonomous Emirate of Transjordan, ruled by the Hashemit...
75: ...ank]] and all of [[Jerusalem]]. In 1988, Jordan renounced all claims to the West Bank but retained an ...
77: ...,000 from the West Bank. The period following the 1967 war saw an upsurge in the power and importance of... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...v Republic of Macedonia]], and [[Albania]] to the north; and with [[Turkey]] to the east. The waters o...
32: ...)|28th]])<br>$21,017 ([[List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita|28th]])
50: ...av Republic of Macedonia]] and [[Albania]] to the north and by [[Turkey]] to the east. The [[Aegean Se...
52: ...ven to be especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Northern Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Gr...
57: ...accent is written *before* the accented syllable, not after the accented vowel-->. This name is also ... - Saint Kitts and Nevis (6100 bytes)
26: | '''[[Governor General]]'''
59: ...n associated state with full internal autonomy in 1967. Anguilla rebelled and was allowed to secede in 1...
66: ...], represented in St. Kitts and Nevis by a [[governor general]], who acts on the advice of the [[Prime...
68: ... Though they are referred to as Senators, they do not form a separate house of parliament, as in some ...
98: ==Economy== - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ... the west), bordered by [[Syria]] on the east and north, and [[Israel]] on the south.
8: ... [[Image:Lebanon flag large.png|125px|Flag of Lebanon]]
11: | align="center" width="140" | ([[Flag of Lebanon|In Detail]])
12: ...ign="center" width="140" | ([[Coat of Arms of Lebanon|In Detail]])
17: ...tyle="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationLebanon.png]] - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: ...ica]]. Djibouti is bordered by [[Eritrea]] in the north, [[Ethiopia]] in the west and south, and [[Som...
64: ...maliland''', governed by [[L鯮ce Lagarde]]. In [[1967]], the name was changed to the '''French Territor...
91: (Note: Arta is a recently created district.)
99: == Economy ==
100: ''Main article: [[Economy of Djibouti]]'' - Indonesia (12958 bytes)
19: leader_names = [[Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono]] |
43: time_zone_DST= not observed |
47: footnotes =
62: ...ed by [[Sukarno]], to plan for independence. Sukarno declared independence on [[17 August]].
64: ...lands acknowledged Indonesia's independence. Sukarno became the country's first president, with Mohamm... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...Sea|Mediterranean]], the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] (also known as Gulf of [[Eilat]]), and the [[Dead Sea]].
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
47: footnotes = |
60: ...Temple]]. The importance of the Land of Israel is not limited to Judaism, it is also the place where [...
68: ... Jews increased, though they were still a small minority. - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
2: ...th America]]. It is bordered by [[Brazil]] on the north and east, [[Paraguay]] and [[Argentina]] on th...
14: national_anthem = ''[[Bolivianos, el hado propicio]]'' |
41: currency = [[Boliviano]] |
49: footnotes = <sup>1</sup> La Paz is the seat of governmen...
59: ...oxos]] in the eastern lowlands and the [[Mollos]] north of present-day [[La Paz]] also developed advan... - Gabon (7342 bytes)
14: ..."center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: None''</small>
54: ...Time|UTC]] +1 ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST, yes or not]])
68: ...everal [[Bantu]] groups occupied the area that is now Gabon when [[France]] occupied it in [[1885]]. I...
70: ... Bongo]] as his vice president. When M'Ba died in 1967, Bongo replaced him as president, and has been th...
75: ...eld in 1990-91 even though opposition parties had not been declared formally legal. - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ... Europe. Portugal is bordered by [[Spain]] to the north and east and by the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the ...
5: ...century|16th centuries]], Portugal was a major economic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portugue...
7: ...[[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a cle...
15: ...th of the Douro river among some other tribes. {{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 do Territ...
17: ...tugal - A Forma磯 do Territ'', page 135, "Cronologia"}} - Togo (15373 bytes)
1: ...[[Benin]] in the east and [[Burkina Faso]] in the north. In the south, it has a short [[Gulf of Guinea...
46: | ''[[Salut à toi, pays de nos aïeux]]'' (Hail to thee, land of our forefa...
57: ...ing inland to buy slaves from the Kaby頡nd other northern tribes. [[Denmark]] staked a claim on Togo ...
59: ...olonial period, the Mina grew in political and economic influence by virtue of their coastal position ...
61: ...which has maintained its power continuously since 1967 and is loyal to Eyad魡 and his family. - Aswan Dam (6375 bytes)
5: Normally, the River Nile floods in the summer every ...
13: ...so provided technicians and heavy machinery. The enormous rock and clay dam was designed by the Russia...
18: ...rated at 175 megawatts. Power generation began in 1967. When the dam first reached peak output it produ...
23: ...ch are now used for rice crops. The delta itself, no longer renewed by Nile silt has lost much of its ...
25: ...al pollution which the traditional river silt did not. Indifferent irrigation control has also caused ... - Louisiana (26375 bytes)
12: OfficialLang = None; [[English language|English]] and [[French lang...
15: Governor = [[Kathleen Blanco]] |
45: ...s|French colonial]] heritage. While the state has no declared "official language", its law recognizes ...
49: ...in Louisiana, such as Atchafalaya, Natchitouches (now spelled Natchitoches), Caddo, Houma, Tangipahoa,...
54: ...hoctaw]]''' nation, were found in points directly north of the Chitimachas, in the parishes of St. Hel... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
12: Governor = [[Mark Sanford]] |
39: ...[USS South Carolina|USS ''South Carolina'']] in honor of this state.
42: ...Virginia. Carolina became a royal colony in 1712. North Carolina was split off in 1729. The state decl...
48: ...ive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. The Governor, elected for a (once) renewable four-year term, ...
52: ...ing exclusive jurisdiction over cases involving minors under the age of seventeen, excepting traffic a... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
12: Governor = [[Bill Richardson (politician)|Bill Richardson...
50: ... his remote colony. O was made the first governor of the new [[Province of New Mexico]]. The Nativ...
52: ...United States. Peralta built the [[Palace of Governors]] in [[1610]]. Although the colony failed to pr...
58: ...t [[Louisiana Purchase]], which extended into the northeastern corner of New Mexico, to the United Sta...
60: ...iam Becknell]] returned to the United States in [[November]] [[1821]] with news that independent Mexic... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
14: ...[Linus Yale, Jr.|Yale, Linus Jr.]] (1821-1868), innovator of locks
20: *[[Minoru Yamasaki|Yamasaki, Minoru]] (1912-1986), [[United States|US]] [[architect...
28: *[[Zal Yanovsky|Yanovsky, Zal]] (1945-2002), of [[Lovin' Spoonful]]
35: ...Yaremenko|Yaremenko, Yury]], (died 1996), USSR economist
42: *[[Yasunori Mitsuda|Yasunori, Mitsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]]... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|...
47: *[[Cristofano Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
108: *[[Jacopo Bassano]] (ca.[[1510]]-[[1592]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - Macau (16856 bytes)
11: ...n=center colspan=2 | <small>''National [[motto]]: none''</small>
20: |[[List of countries by area|Not ranked]]<br>[[1 E7 m?|27.3 km?]] <br>0%
23: |[[List of countries by population|Not ranked]]<br>451,000<br>16,521/km²
40: ...ople's Republic of China]] in [[1999]], and it is now run as a [[Special Administrative Region]] of th...
44: ... is [[Pai Gow]], a game played with [[Chinese dominoes]]. Gamblers from [[Hong Kong]] often take a one... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...carus]]. Daedalus was trapped on the island of Minos, and so built wings out of feathers and wax for ...
13: ... of early flying machines]] for a list of these. Note that there are many claims and counter-claims h...
15: ...d designs for a helicopter, but this design would not have flown.
17: ...g. Sufficiently light and powerful engines would not be available for powered flight until the [[gaso...
19: The first known human flight ever took place in [[Paris]] in [[... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
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26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
40: ... and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...of economic pressure, selective aid, diplomatic manoeuvre, propaganda, assassination, low-intensity mi...
9: ...of international relations in which the world was no longer clearly split into two clearly opposed blo...
11: ...Image:Berlinwall.jpg|thumb|right|A section of the now-defunct [[Berlin Wall]], a symbol of the Cold Wa...
12: ... far from certain that a global nuclear war would not result from smaller regional wars, which heighte...
17: ...ropean]] powers. This race took place in many technological and military fields, resulting in many sci... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ...r>[[Image:Flag_of_North_Vietnam.gif|100px|Flag of North Vietnam]]<br><br>[[Viet Cong|National Liberati...
33: ...arty of Vietnam. In [[Vietnam]], the conflict is known as '''the American War''' ([[Vietnamese languag...
37: ...ng Thunder]]) of [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam|North Vietnam]]. ''For more details of the events du...
39: ...lly funded their own involvement. Other countries normally allied with the [[United States]] in the Co...
41: ...long with [[diplomacy|diplomatic support]] to the North Vietnamese and to the NLF, partly as support a... - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
2: ...s include the right to get redress if injured by another, the right to privacy, the right of peaceful ...
4: ... laws should not be considered legitimate, but do not explain why the case failed to declare the gener...
6: ==Related Terminology==
8: The term 'civil rights' is often used synonymously with [[civil liberties]], even though the...
10: ...property, his wife, relatives and children having no right of ownership. Similarly, the mediaeval Euro... - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
16: ...]] returns to power in [[CIA]]-orchestrated coup known as [[Operation Ajax]]
20: ...roblem-we-all-live-with-norman-rockwell.jpg|thumb|Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With," il...
64: ...[Image:Motorcade.jpg|thumb|Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963]]
72: *[[1964]] - [[Economic Opportunity Act]]
85: ...nist]] group [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW) formed - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...e European continent; but the Allied invasion did not occur until June [[1944]], more than two years a...
13: ...lled the [[Oder-Neisse Line]]. Aside from a few minor adjustments, this would be the "iron curtain" of...
17: ...ct—and even greatly strengthened from an economic perspective—was the United States, which...
18: ...international economy. The [[Soviet Union]] opted not to take part.
26: ...alized on the Cold War fears to launch massive economic reconstruction efforts, first in Western Europ... - New Year (5703 bytes)
9: ...r later than [[October 5]], when it occurred in [[1967]] and will again occur in [[2043]].
11: ...ndar]]. Because the [[Chinese calendar]] is astronomically defined, unlike the Gregorian Calendar, th...
13: ...calendar]], the new year occurs on the vernal equinox on [[March 21]], and is called Naw-R?
24: ...le of the [[Wheel of the Year]], although they do not use a different calendar that starts on this day...
31: ... [[September]] (Seventh), [[October]] (Eighth), [[November]] (Ninth), [[December]] (Tenth). Around [[7... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Jennifer Granholm]] |
42: ...dispute eventually culminated into what would be known as the [[Toledo War]] when Michigan and Ohio mi...
46: ...nd Michigan, but permanently altered the socio-economic climate of [[United States|the United States]]...
48: ...facturing. Since [[1838]], the city has also been noted for its thriving furniture industry.
55: ... [[ɴienne Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], [[France]], were probably the first white m... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...state (law)|estate]] ([[property]])—had an enormous influence on the development of [[political ...
8: ...vely during his time at Oxford, working with such noted virtuosi as [[Robert Boyle]], [[Thomas Willis]...
12: Locke's medical knowledge was soon put to the test, since Shaftesbury...
16: ... involvement in the [[Rye House Plot]]. Locke did not return to England until after the [[Glorious Rev...
18: ...lague]] and the [[Great Fire of London]]. He did not quite see the [[Act of Union 1707|Act of Union]]... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
5: ...ndar based on Venus's motion) and must have been known long before in prehistoric times, given that it...
7: ...ith [[sexually transmitted disease]]s. Some astronomers use ''[[Cytherean]]'', which comes from [[Cyt...
14: ...ion of its dense atmosphere, the temperature does not vary significantly between the night and day sid...
16: ...er to the Sun than Earth, the surface of Venus is not as well heated and even less well lit by the Sun...
18: ...oud tops, but winds at the surface are very slow, no more than a few kilometres per hour. However, owi... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
5: * [[1562]] - [[France]] recognized the [[Huguenot]]s under the [[Edict of St. Germain]].
6: ...land]]'s [[Long Parliament]] passes the [[Vote of No Address]], breaking off negotiations with [[Charl...
7: ...e Prince Charlie", defeats a [[House of Hanover|Hanoverian]] army at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately uns...
27: ...rogen bomb]]s near the town of [[Palomares]] and another one into the sea.
33: * [[1985]] - [[British Telecom]] announces the retirement of [[Britain]]'s famous [[red... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...egorian calendar as promulgated in [[1582]] did ''not'' specify that January 1 was to be either [[New ...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes pla...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered by [[Giu...
22: *[[1818]] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern...
37: *[[1911]] - [[Northern Territory]] is separated from [[South Austr... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
15: ...ry of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[Acad魩e des Sciences]...
22: ...epiece Standards in North America: [[Railroad chronometers]].
23: *[[1900]] - [[John Hay]] announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade wi...
31: *[[1935]] - [[Bruno Hauptmann]] goes on trial for the murder of Charl...
33: *[[1941]] - The U.S. government announces its [[Liberty ship]] program with a stated g... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...nt, an especially accurate one is called a [[chronometer]]. The clock in its modern form (24 hour clo...
3: [[Image:Montinari Milano.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A watch]]
11: The main purpose of a clock is not always to ''display'' the time.
14: ...h projects are developing CPUs based on [[asynchronous circuit]]s). Some computers also maintain time ...
27: The recurrent, periodic process (a [[metronome]]) is an [[oscillator]] and typically generates... - Memorial Day (4407 bytes)
2: ...many Americans use Memorial Day weekend to also honor family members who have passed away. Church serv...
4: ...lag|U.S. Flag]] at [[half-staff]] from dawn until noon local time.
6: ...ed States, while [[Labor Day]] is considered the unofficial end of the season.
9: ...nces eventually coalesced around Decoration Day honoring the Union dead and the several Confederate Me...
13: ...ch it was commemorating. Many Southern States did not recognize Memorial Day until after [[World War I... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
22: | [[November 22]], [[1890]]
28: | [[November 9]], [[1970]]
40: ...de Gaulle''' ([[November 22]], [[1890]] – [[November 9]], [[1970]]), in [[France]] commonly refe...
42: ...ogy#Political_ideologies|political ideology]] is known as [[Gaullism]], which left a major influence i...
45: ... the family was a long line of aristocracy from [[Normandy]] and [[Burgundy]] which had been settled i... - Estuary (1941 bytes)
1: ...stems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services...
2: ...names such as lagoon, ''鴡ng'' or ''laguna''. In non-tidal seas, the rivers naturally form [[delta]]s...
6: ...atia]], is often called "Lim fjord" although it's not actually caused by glaciation but by land erosio...
13: ...'' G. H. Lauf (ed.) ''Estuaries'', A.A.A.S. Publ. No. 83, Washington, D.C. - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...pionship series of [[Major League Baseball]] in [[North America]], played in [[October]] after the end...
3: ...d Sox]]. The Red Sox won the series four games to none, earning their first World Series Championship ...
7: ...s finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild card]] receive them, because th...
9: ... Japanese or Latin American leagues have, so far, not succeeded.
11: ...'New York World'' for the relevant years revealed no evidence of the supposed sponsorship. (For detai... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: :'''Formerly known as:''' ''White Stockings'', in the [[1870s]]. ...
18: ...ball's first openly professional team, led to a minor explosion of openly professional teams in [[1870...
24: ...pective to note that a similar winning percentage nowadays would yield 129 wins.
26: ...cade, and were replaced by other strong pitchers, notably [[John Clarkson]]. Much has been written abo...
35: ... victories in [[1906]] (in a 154-game season) has not been broken, though it was tied by the [[Seattle... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
3: ...or League Baseball]] team based in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. They are in the Central Division of the [[A...
5: ...], as the [[Sioux City, Iowa]] franchise in the minor [[Western League (U.S. baseball)|Western League]...
6: :''Formerly known as:'' Sioux City Cornhuskers, 1894. St. Paul, ...
7: ...llular Field]], Chicago. (This park, originally known as New Comiskey Park, was opened in 1991; the o...
10: :''Wild Card titles won'' (0): ''none'' - Cincinnati Reds (19835 bytes)
6: ...from 1954 to 1960, when the term "Red" carried connotations of [[communism]].
10: :'''Wild Card titles won''' (0): ''none''
21: ...oston, and founded the Boston Red Stockings, now known as the [[Atlanta Braves]].) The Red Stockings w...
25: ...s so not to be confused with the Boston AL entry, now shortened to Red Sox) had hitting stars like [[S...
35: ...her in major league history to throw back-to-back no-hitters in [[1938]]. Thanks to Vander Meer, [[Pau... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
5: ... the [[Indianapolis, Indiana]] franchise in the minor [[Western League]]. Moved to [[Philadelphia, Pe...
6: ...01]]-[[1954]]), Kansas City Athletics ([[1955]]-[[1967]])
20: ...d Broncos (now the [[Cleveland Indians]]) and did not set foot on Pennsylvania soil until the National...
22: ...11 and 1912, and 99 games in 1914. The team was known for its ?$100,000 Infield,? consisting of John ...
24: ...t least "laid down", perhaps in protest of Mack's notorious thriftiness. Mack himself alluded to that ... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
8: :'''Formerly known as:''' St. Louis Brown Stockings ([[1882]]), S...
9: ...ch Stadum (III) with [[BP Village]] -(Also to be known as "Busch Stadium") from [[2006]] on
11: :'''Logo design:''' One or two [[Northern Cardinal|cardinal]]s perched on a [[basebal...
12: ...bird]], an [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphized]] Northern Cardinal
16: ...1942]], [[1943]], [[1944]], [[1946]], [[1964]], [[1967]], [[1968]], [[1982]], [[1985]], [[1987]], [[2004... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
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21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
26: ...] (1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - Mellotron (7426 bytes)
3: ...s of playing time; playback heads underneath (but not directly underneath) each key enable performers ...
8: ...le and later instruments were sold under the name Novatron. A small number of the instruments were ass...
10: ...ademark sound of the era's progressive bands. The novel characteristics of the instrument attracted a ...
12: Mellotrons were normally pre-loaded with string instrument and orche...
14: ...eavy, bulky and fragile. The tape banks were also notoriously prone to breakages and jams and those gr... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
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30: *[[Arnold Henry Bergier]]
51: *[[Antonio Canova]] (1757 - 1822)
52: *[[Ludovico Cardi]] (also known as ''Cigoli'')
53: *[[Agostino Carlini]] (1718 - 1790) - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
19: population_note = 7,533,384 ([[metropolitan area|metro area]]) ...
29: footnotes = |
31: ...ty]] (the only one in California) situated at the northern tip of the [[San Francisco Peninsula]] that...
44: ...name of [[Yerba Buena]] in [[1822]], when what is now the downtown area was first settled by William R...
48: ... Buena Cove, granted to the city by military governor [[Stephen Watts Kearny]] in 1847. - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Tampico, Illinois]]
19: ...nor of California|Governor]] of [[California]] ([[1967]]–[[1975]]). Reagan was also a broadcaster,...
23: ... was born in [[Tampico, Illinois|Tampico]], [[Illinois]], the second of two sons to John "Jack" Reagan...
25: ...Dixon, and in [[1924]] he began attending Dixon's Northside High School. Reagan always considered Dix...
29: ...eople from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none of them ever thanked him. - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
19: ...81]]), and 83rd ([[1971]]–[[1975]]) [[Governor of Georgia]].
21: ...aken inside the American embassy in [[Tehran]] on November 4, 1979 by [[Iran|Iranian]] [[revolutionary...
23: ...nce democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
26: ...ce]]; he was disappointed to find that there were no [[cowboy]]s or [[native americans|Indians]] in th...
28: ...r Stapleton]] ([[1929]]-[[1983]]), became a well known [[Christian evangelist]]. He grew up in nearby ... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
6: | date2=[[November 22]], [[1963]]
12: | date of death=[[November 22]], [[1963]]
20: ...ohn F. Kennedy assassination|assassination]] on [[November 22]], [[1963]] are remembered in vivid deta...
22: ...ted States)|Democratic Party]] candidate from the North to be elected president, and the last presiden...
27: ... of Economics]] for a year, studying political economy. In the fall of [[1935]], he enrolled in [[Pri... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
5: | date1=[[November 22]], [[1963]]
31: ... and Lucy Baines, born in [[1947]]. It should be noted that Johnson loved to give everything his own ...
33: ...rk on weekends; he worked as much as they did, if not more.
41: ... in a special election against the sitting [[governor of Texas]], [[radio]] personality [[W. Lee O'Dan...
51: ...t Commander Johnson, in order to obtain personal knowledge of combat conditions, volunteered as an obs... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
26: Eisenhower was raised in the religion now known as [[Jehovah's Witness]]es.{{fn|1}} His mother ...
36: ...]. Although his administrative abilities had been noticed, on the eve of the U.S. entry into [[World W...
43: ...NATOUSA. After the capitulation of Axis forces in North Africa, Eisenhower remained in command of the ...
45: ...rn Front (WWII)#1944 – 1945|Western Front]] north of the Alps.
47: ...Stalin]]. Eisenhower was offered the [[Medal of Honor]] for his leadership in the European Theater but... - National Football League (30340 bytes)
15: <tr><th>East</th><th>North</th><th>South</th><th>West</th></tr>
23: <tr><th>East</th><th>North</th><th>South</th><th>West</th></tr>
31: ...e per week being played in [[Sunday]] night, and another game being played on [[Monday]] night. In ad...
35: *Each team plays the four teams from another division within its conference on a rotating ...
37: ... in the two same-conference divisions the team is not scheduled to play that season. The second-place,... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...]] [[aviator]] famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1...
11: ... the crew of the [[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] later t...
13: ... 21]], [[1929]] he was presented the [[Medal of Honor]] for his historic trans-Atlantic flight.
15: ...ng range by decreasing fuel consumption. These innovations are the basis of modern intercontinental a...
18: ...escription= Lindbergh's flight to Belgium to be honored after his trans-Atlantic flight.|format=[[Theo... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
17: ...e Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in [[1912]]).
20: *[[1939]] - [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)]]: The [[Battle of Nanch...
21: ... is officially opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
23: ...niversity of California, Berkeley]] researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "...
31: ...nd injures 242 at the [[Israel]]i embassy in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]]. - March 21 (10586 bytes)
14: ...rgh]] is presented the [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]...
21: ...Italy]] singing "Non ho l'etuot; (I'm not old enough).
27: ... the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] announces a [[United States]] [[boycott]] of the [[198...
48: *[[1901]] - [[Karl Arnold]], politician, (d. [[1958]])
51: ...r)|Jim Thompson]], the "Silk King" (death date unknown) - March 22 (9294 bytes)
6: ...n a peace treaty with [[Massasoit]] of the [[Wampanoag]]s.
12: ..., [[William Woods Holden]] becomes the first governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be removed from office by...
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a bill legalizing the ...
30: ...former secretary, begins two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
55: *1924 - [[Bill Wendell]], American broadcast announcer (d. [[1999]]) - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...ance]] make substantial concessions to the [[Huguenots]].
29: ...peacekeeping mission]] along the [[Blue Line (Lebanon)|Blue Line]].
30: ...eagan]] makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
31: ...] - [[Stanley Pons]] and [[Martin Fleischmann]] announce [[cold fusion]] at the [[University of Utah]]...
37: ...001]] - The ''World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'' (now [[World Wrestling Entertainment]]) purchases riv... - Denver, Colorado (21161 bytes)
18: |population_note = 2,685,466 ([[metropolitan area|metro area]])
28: |footnotes =
36: ...el. (The elevation is 5,431 ft <nowiki>[1,655 m]</nowiki>, as surveyed at the [[Denver International A...
38: Denver has also been known historically as the '''Queen City of the Plains...
40: ...ave been named [[USS Denver|USS ''Denver'']] in honor of the city. - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
33: ..._Railroad|Western and Atlantic Railroad]], while another claims that the name is a variation of Martha...
36: ...was a critical point in the Civil War, giving the North more confidence, and leading to the re-electio...
38: ...h," by which he meant a diversification of the economy away from agriculture and a shift from the "Old...
43: ...ietta]] helped boost the city's population and economy. Shortly after the war in 1946, the Communicabl...
47: ...or the [[1996 Summer Olympics]]. Following the announcement, Atlanta undertook several major construc... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
34: *[[Apollonius of Perga]] (Asia Minor, [[265 BC|265 B.C.]] - [[170 BC|170 B.C.]])
41: *[[Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd]] ([[1937]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
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16: *[[Agrippa]] ([[Greece|Greek]], ''unknown'' – [[92]])
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1695]])
69: *[[Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky]] ([[Russia]], [[1883]] – [[1... - Amusement park (17293 bytes)
12: ...parks for the next half-century, including those known as [[trolley park]]s.
21: ...midway, concessions, and sideshow attractions in another. The idea of theme parks caught on and, by t...
25: ...rk still in operation is 'Bakken' at Klampenborg, north of [[Copenhagen]]. It was founded in 1583.
26: ...with Mr. Lincoln, "it's a small world", and the dinosaurs of Primeval World — were built by Disn...
32: ...ned, and in [[1971]], Six Flags Over Mid-America (now [[Six Flags St. Louis]]) opened near [[St. Louis... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...fic Revolution in the Western World. He is also known for inventing the Cartesian coordinate system u...
4: ...]]—divine or natural—in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute ...
6: ...ley|Berkeley]] & [[David Hume|Hume]]. Leibniz, Spinoza, and Descartes were all versed in mathematics a...
14: ...doned the study of letters. Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that which could be found in mys...
16: ...interest in mathematics and the new physics. On [[November 10]] [[1619]], while traveling in Germany a... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: '''[[Philosopher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philoso...
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5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
7: *[[Nicola Abbagnano]], (1901-1990)
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - July 24 (8660 bytes)
18: *[[1929]] - The [[Kellogg-Briand Pact]], renouncing [[war]] as an instrument of [[foreign polic...
22: ...mericans]] by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed ...
26: *[[1967]] - During an official state visit to [[Canada]],...
28: ...imously rule that President [[Richard Nixon]] did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed [[Whit...
53: *[[1916]] - [[John D. MacDonald]], novelist, (d. [[1986]]) - List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
26: *[[Boris Becker]] ([[1967]]-) - ([[West Germany]]/[[:Category:German tennis...
37: *[[Norman Brookes]] ([[1877]]-[[1967]]) - (Australia)
38: *[[Jacques Brugnon]] ([[1895]]-[[1978]]) - (France) - one of the "F...
53: *[[Andrei Chesnokov]] - ([[1966]]-) - ([[USSR]] / [[:Category:Russ...
60: *[[Jimmy Connors]] ([[1952]]-) - (United States) - New Deal (82408 bytes)
2: ...lief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the [[Great Depression]]. Dozens of "al...
5: ... New Deal had three components: direct relief, economic recovery, and financial reform; this was also ...
7: ...work relief programs have been praised by most economists in retrospect, including Milton Friedman who...
9: ...That did not necessarily mean 1929, which many economists considered an artificially inflated bubble.)...
11: ...e depression was the natural resilience of the economy and WW2." <ref>Friedman, Milton. [http://www.ri... - Kelvin (3722 bytes)
16: | colspan=3 align=center | Note that for temperature intervals rather than temp...
18: ...f [[water]]. The [[Celsius]] temperature scale is now defined in terms of the kelvin, with 0 ?C corres...
24: ...itten '''°K'''; the "degree" was dropped in [[1967]] (13th CGPM, Resolution 3, CR 104).
26: Note that the symbol for the kelvin unit is always a...
28: ...code page]]s in certain Oriental languages; it is not recommended for use any more. In all languages,... - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ...a''') are those peoples [[indigenous people|indigenous]] to the [[Americas]], living there prior to [[...
5: ...and genetic commonality with other arctic peoples not native to the American continent, such as those ...
7: ...y exclude the [[Inuit]] and [[Inuvialuit]] in the north, although these are included in the terms "[[F...
11: ...slanders]] including: [[Native Hawaiians]] (also known as Kanaka Māoli and Kanaka 'Oiwi) in the [...
21: ...ter53/luzia/luzia.htm]. Thus other possibilities, not necessarily exclusive, have been suggested: - Walrus (6653 bytes)
12: ...axobox_section_binomial_parens | color = pink | binomial_name = Odobenus rosmarus | author = [[Carolus...
18: ...]s that live in the cold [[Arctic]] seas of the [[Northern Hemisphere]]. Two subspecies exist: the [[A...
22: ...apparently a folk-etymology inversion from an Old Norse form resembling ''hrosshvalr'', a kind of whal...
24: ...' ([[Greek language|Greek]] for "tooth") and ''baino'' (Greek for "walk"), based on observations of wa...
30: ...angel Island]], in the [[Beaufort Sea]] along the north shore of [[Alaska]], and in the waters between... - State of Palestine (7675 bytes)
2: ...did not fulfill the typical requirement of an autonomous [[state]] — being in possession of sove...
25: | [[15 November]] [[1988]]
31: ...ization]] delegations). The State of Palestine is not recognized by the [[United Nations]] or by any [...
33: ...erpreted to have recognized Israel within its pre-1967 boundaries, or was at least a major step on the p...
54: ...[[Iran]], [[Iraq]], [[Jordan]], [[Kuwait]], [[Lebanon]], [[Oman]], [[Qatar]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Unit... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...main goals many alchemists sought for. The most renowned goal of alchemy is the [[transmutation]] of ...
8: ... therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and have been later connected with ancie...
11: ...round the edges of [[mysticism]] and [[magic (paranormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their end...
13: ...s]] or [[chemistry]]. To the alchemist, there was no compelling reason to separate the chemical (mater...
17: ...nd providing some of the fundamental [[empirical knowledge]] of the fields of chemistry and modern [[m... - Leone Battista Alberti (5967 bytes)
3: Alberti was born in [[Genoa]] as an [[illegitimacy|illegitimate son]] of a f...
10: * In [[art]], He is best known for his treatise ''De pictura'' (On painting) (...
12: ...nerotomachia Poliphili]]'', a strange [[fantasy]] novel, whose typographic qualities and illustrations...
13: ...an]]ists of the age. He held the appointment of canon in the metropolitan [[church]] of [[Florence, It...
14: ...as the family palace in the Via della Scala, now known as the [[Palazzo Strozzi]]. He wrote an influen... - Hyksos (23575 bytes)
2: ...f Egypt, (ca. 1674-1548 B.C.E. See [[Egyptian chronology]]), ruling Lower and Middle Egypt for over on...
4: ... introduced new tools of warfare into Egypt, most notably the [[composite bow]], the horse, and the ho...
6: ...s. The names of the Fifteenth Dynasty Hyksos are known from Egyptian monuments, scarabs and other smal...
9: ...nasty are to properly be called "Hyksos", because not only do they bear Egyptian royal titles, but the...
13: ...person. This period of Egyptian history is a chronological nightmare that only additional datable arc... - Samaria (7953 bytes)
1: ... '''Shomron''' is a term used for the mountainous northern part of the [[West Bank]]. In modern times,...
4: ...(the [[Jerusalem]] mountains). Samarian hills are not very high, seldom reaching the height of over 80...
9: Samaria was taken by Israeli forces during the [[1967]] [[Six-Day War]] from [[Jordan]]. Jordan withdre...
14: ...act much attention, although nothing definite is known regarding them. (compare [[Book of Micah|Micah]...
16: It may be noticed that the distance between Samaria and [[Jeru... - Virus (17572 bytes)
1: ...ound outside of a host cell, viruses consist of genomic [[nucleic acid]], either [[DNA]] or [[RNA]] (d...
3: ...coprotein]]s. Importantly, viral [[genome]]s code not only for the [[protein]]s needed to package its ...
7: ...tin]] ''virus'' referring to [[poison]] and other noxious things. Today it is used to describe the bi...
9: ...orms as ''viri'' (which actually means ''men''). (No plural form appears in ''any'' extant Latin manus...
11: ==Viruses: non-living or alive?== - Caesium (11026 bytes)
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124: | [[xenon|<sup>134</sup>Xe]]<br>[[barium|<sup>134</sup>Ba]...
141: ...perature and pressure|STP]] are used except where noted.</font> - Copper (13595 bytes)
46: | <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Argon|Ar]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>3d<sup>10</sup>4s<sup>1</sup>
69: | 7.11 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre per ...
130: ...perature and pressure|STP]] are used except where noted.</font>
136: ...5;κός). In Roman times, it became known as ''aes Cyprium'' (''aes'' being the generic L...
138: ...rs old. A copper pendant was found in what is now northern [[Iraq]] that dates to 8700 BC. By 5000 BC ... - Dubnium (4200 bytes)
13: ...enter bgcolor="#ffc0c0" | <font color="black">'''Known properties'''</font>
25: | unknown; probably metallic,<br /> silvery white or gray
28: | [[1 E-25 kg|<nowiki>[262]</nowiki> amu]]
31: ...probably <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[radon|Rn]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>5[[f-orbital|f]]<sup>14</sup> 6d<sup>3</sup> ...
43: ...of the chemical elements|first synthesized]] in [[1967]] at the [[Joint Institute for Nuclear Research]]... - Lawrencium (5210 bytes)
5: <tr><td colspan="2" align="center">[[nobelium]] – '''lawrencium''' – [[ruther...
12: ...=center bgcolor="#ffc0c0"><font color="black">'''Known properties'''</font></th></tr>
20: ...earance]] </td><td>unknown; probably metallic,<br> silvery white or gray</...
22: ... </td><td>[[1 E-25 kg|<nowiki>[ 262 ]</nowiki> amu]]</td></tr>
24: ...probably <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[radon|Rn]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>5[[f-orbital|f]]<sup>14</sup> 6[[d-orbital|d]... - Jim Abbott (6907 bytes)
1: ...bbott''' (born [[September 19]], [[1967 in sports|1967]] in [[Flint, Michigan]]). Despite being born wit...
7: ...the sixth-place Angels. In 1992 Abbott was also honoured with the [[Tony Conigliaro Award]].
9: ... while pitching for the Yankees, Abbott threw a [[no-hitter]] against the [[Cleveland Indians]]. - Hank Aaron (72330 bytes)
1: ...of the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]. Aaron is best known for setting the record for most [[home run]]s i...
4: ...t was a poor area of town populated mostly by [[minorities]]. His family later moved to a better part...
6: ... out for the [[Brooklyn Dodgers|Dodgers]] but did not get to show his abilities to the scouts there. H...
8: ... But with the promise to finish high school, on [[November 20]], [[1951 in sports|1951]] he was signed...
11: ===Minor Leagues=== - Bobby Abreu (5113 bytes)
50: ...er since outfielder [[Tony Gonzᬥz]] hit .339 in 1967.
74: * In [[May]], Abreu was honored as the '''Player of the Month''' in the Nation...
79: ... converted in the only member of the quartet with no family connection to Barry, his dad Bobby, or his... - Ondes Martenot (2090 bytes)
2: ...rument is especially known for its eerie wavering notes produced by the [[thermionic valve]]s that pro...
4: ...es Martenot has been used by many composers, most notably [[Olivier Messiaen]]. He used it in many of ...
7: ... Arabia]]'' (1962), ''[[Billion Dollar Brain]]'' (1967), ''[[Am鬩e]]'' (2001), and ''[[Bodysong]]'' (20...
11: ...20anglais/homepage.html Christine Ott: Ondes Martenot musican] - Vice President of the United States (33884 bytes)
1: ...gin: 0 0 0.5em 1em; text-align:center; background:none;"
16: ...lect. Unlike the President, the Constitution does not specify an oath of office for the Vice President...
21: ...ates Senate|U.S. Senate]] that the Vice President not use his position as President of the Senate to i...
23: ...ty, only four Vice Presidents have been able to announce their own election to the Presidency: [[John ...
29: ... who received the highest number of votes but was not chosen President would become Vice President. If... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
3: ...ntury]]. The '''Games of the Olympiad''', better known as the [[Summer Olympics]], have been held ever...
13: ...]] was in [[776 BC]], although this was certainly not the first time they were held. The Games were th...
15: ..., and the period between two celebrations became known as an [[Olympiad]]. The Greeks used Olympiads a...
19: ...ody. Upon winning the games, the victor would get not only the prestige of being in first place but al...
25: ...ece, but these were all small-scale and certainly not international. The interest in reviving the Olym... - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ... [[Bolivia]] to the northeast and [[Peru]] to the north.<!--
13: national_anthem = ''[[National anthem of Chile|Himno Nacional]]'' |
48: ...r Island]] and [[Isla Sala y Gómez]]; does not include 1,250,000 km² of claimed territory ...
56: ... another meaning attributed to ''chilli'' is the onomatopoeic ''cheele-cheele''—the Mapuche imit...
61: ...]s briefly extended their empire into what is now northern Chile, but the area's remoteness prevented ... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
2: ...; circa [[120 BC]]) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[astronomer]], [[geographer]], and [[mathematician]]. The ...
4: ...eserved by later copyists. As a consequence, we know comparatively little about Hipparchus.
8: Most of what is known about Hipparchus comes from [[Ptolemy]]'s ([[2n...
14: ...exandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it is not known if and when he visited these places.
16: ...nd and 3rd centuries [[coin]]s were made in his honour in Bithynia that bear his name and show him wit... - Woodrow Wilson (31322 bytes)
20: ...45th state [[List of Governors of New Jersey|Governor of New Jersey]] ([[1911]]-[[1913]]) and later th...
23: ...ish]] going back to [[Strabane]], in modern-day [[Northern Ireland]]. Wilson grew up in [[Augusta, Geo...
32: ...cutive and Legislature closer together? Should we not, on the one hand, give the individual leaders of...
34: ...f claimed "I am pointing out facts, - diagnosing, not prescribing, remedies.". (Congressional Governme...
38: :"...how is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping? ... Power and stri... - John Nance Garner (5903 bytes)
3: ...[November 22]], [[1868]] – [[November 7]], [[1967]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives...
9: ...r of the United States House of Representatives|minority floor leader]] for the Democrats in [[1929]],...
11: ...was re-elected to the Seventy-third Congress on [[November 8]], [[1932]], and on the same day was elec...
13: ...ribed the office of the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm [[piss]]" (at the time re...
19: ...Democratic voters, presuming that Roosevelt would not run for a third term. - Spiro Agnew (8986 bytes)
3: ...lspan="2" align="center"| [[Image:Agnew.jpg|200px|none|Spiro Humphrey]]
18: | [[November 9]], [[1918]]
33: | [[Governor of Maryland]] <!-- uh.. -->
42: ...ore Agnew''', born '''Spiro Anagnostopoulos''' ([[November 9]], [[1918]] – [[September 17]], [[19...
45: ...come a Baltimore Democratic ward leader and well known in the local Greek community. His mother was f... - Jane Goodall (4250 bytes)
1: ...hologist]] and [[anthropologist]], probably best-known for conducting a forty-year study of [[chimpanz...
3: She received an honorary doctorate degree in science from [[Syracuse U...
10: ...mpanzees of [[Gombe Stream National Park]] (then known as Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve) in July, 19...
14: ...74. Their son, Hugo, known as 'Grub', was born in 1967. She then married Derek Bryceson, (a member of Ta...
26: ...d chimpanzees, their differentiation from the [[bonobo]], and the inclusion of both species along with... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
1: ... Not all of these events were military, some were not even violent, but together they delineate the re...
39: *[[Military action in Lebanon|Lebanon Peacekeeping]] (1982–1984)
48: **[[Iraqi no-fly zones|Iraqi No-Fly Zones]] (1991–2003)
66: *[[Northwest Indian War]] (1785–1795)
73: *[[Seminole Wars]] (1817–1818, 1835–1842, 1855&... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
1: ...; circa [[120 BC]]) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[astronomer]], [[geographer]], and [[mathematician]]. The ...
3: ...eserved by later copyists. As a consequence, we know comparatively little about Hipparchus.
7: Most of what is known about Hipparchus comes from [[Ptolemy]]'s ([[2n...
13: ...exandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it is not known if and when he visited these places.
15: ...nd and 3rd centuries [[coin]]s were made in his honour in Bithynia that bear his name and show him wit... - Cluster analysis (8802 bytes)
3: ...'', ''automatic classification'', ''numerical taxonomy'', ''botryology'' and ''typological analysis''....
21: ...rged the two closest elements ''b'' and ''c'', we now have the following clusters {''a''}, {''b'', ''c...
40: ...he basic structure of the algorithm (J. MacQueen, 1967):
46: ...h allows it to run on large datasets. Yet it does not systematically yield the same result with each r...
47: ...e, but does not ensure that the solution given is not a local minimum of variance. - Wonders of the Ancient World (11560 bytes)
3: ...even Wonders of the Ancient World]] is the first known list of the most remarkable man-made creations ...
8: ...ly lists of Seven wonders but their writings have not survived, except as references. The seven wonder...
20: ...dle Ages]]—by which time many of the sites were no longer in existence. Today, the only ancient wor...
24: ...enment]]-era, and the concept of a Middle Age did not become popular until the 16th century. Brewer's ...
26: ...ames such as Wonders of the Middle Ages (implying no specific limitation to seven), Seven Wonders of t... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
11: ... States|America]]n soldiers exposing [[Benedict Arnold]]'s treason
13: ...s and Clark]] return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.
15: ...mer [[John Couch Adams]]; verified by German astronomer [[Johann Gottfried Galle]]
29: ...ht champion ever to come from [[Africa]] when he knocks out defending [[WBA]] champion [[Michael Dokes...
31: *[[1999]] - [[NASA]] announces that it lost contact with the [[Mars Climate... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
24: ... passes the [[Platt amendment]], limiting the autonomy of [[Cuba]] as a condition for the withdrawal o...
40: ...r League Baseball]]), is formed in [[Chicago, Illinois]].
50: *[[November 9]] - [[George V of the United Kingdom | Pr...
52: ...rie|Marie Curie]] receives doctorate. The first [[Nobel Prize]] ceremony is held in [[Stockholm]].
55: ===Unknown dates=== - February 22 (10772 bytes)
19: ...t]] [[Grover Cleveland]] signs a bill admitting [[North Dakota]], [[South Dakota]], [[Montana]] and [[...
23: ...ist [[Esteban Terradas i Illa]], as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organi...
35: ...997]] - In [[Roslin]], [[Scotland]], scientists announce that an adult [[sheep]] named [[Dolly the she...
36: * [[2002]] - A [[MH-47E Chinook]] [[helicopter]] crashes into the ocean near th...
37: *[[2004]] - Ralph Nader announces his intention to run as an independent candi... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
4: ... a wide range of national, religious, and socioeconomic groups. The section called the "Old City" is s...
6: ...otherwise functions as capital. Many countries do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over some or all o...
18: This city has known many wars and various periods of occupation. A...
20: .... Near the end of the reign of King Solomon, the northern ten tribes split off to form the [[Kingdom ...
24: ...701 BCE]], unlike [[Samaria]], the capital of the northern [[Kingdom of Israel]], which had fallen som... - Timeline of aviation (3479 bytes)
15: ... - [[1966 in aviation|1966]] - [[1967 in aviation|1967]] - [[1968 in aviation|1968]] - [[1969 in aviatio... - December 9 (7837 bytes)
6: ...]], the ''American Minerva'', is established by [[Noah Webster]]
9: *[[1851]] - First [[YMCA]] in [[North America]] established in [[Montreal, Quebec]]
12: ...comes the first serving [[African American]] governor of a U.S. state
18: ...tish Army]] attacks [[Italy|Italian]] forces in [[North Africa]]
23: *[[1953]] - [[General Electric]] announces that all [[Communist]] employees will be dis... - Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution (10692 bytes)
5: ...searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no [[warrant (law)|Warrants]] shall issue, but upon ...
10: ...d technological advancement and evolving societal norms, the preservation of personal privacy and prot...
14: ...searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, su...
20: ...ries-old amendment in an era defined by rapid technological advancements.
27: ...hat there was no expectation of privacy (and thus no search) where officers hovered in a helicopter 40...
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