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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
21: * [[1922]] - In [[Egypt]], [[United Kingdom|British]] arch...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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40: *[[Lyman Abbott|Abbott, Lyman]], (1835-1922), American divine and author
98: ...p://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/090303/b05w03abplanalp.html] - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
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4: *[[Viktor G. Afanasyev|Afanasyev, Viktor G.]], (1922-1994), Russian editor - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
11: ... a [[Parliament]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge...
19: ...an arranged marriage, May and George soon were deeply in love. George never took a mistress and wrote ...
21: ...], [[St. James's Palace]], in [[London]]. The couple had six children in total, listed below.
38: ...ty, but was a favourite of George, who liked a simple life.
56: ...d Mary's coronation at [[Westminster Abbey]] took place on [[June 22]], [[1911]]. They later travelled... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...en by her mother-in-law [[Indira Gandhi]]. The couple had two children, [[Rahul Gandhi]] (born [[1970]...
11: ...hiefly the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]) constantly played up the fact of her foreign birth, her declini...
15: ...was eventually accepted by the lawmakers, despite pleas by members of the Congress party for Gandhi to...
17: ...[[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and [[Indira Gandhi]] from [[1922]] to [[1964]]). - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ... Gore-Booth''', the daughter of [[baronet]] and explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, she lived as a child at...
12: ...bour|Minister for Labour]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Ministries of the First Dᩬ|Second Min...
14: ..._general_election,_1922|Irish General Election of 1922]] but was re-elected in the 1923 and June 1927 el... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
6: ...thology reached six volumes by various writers in 1922. Stanton was also active internationally, and in...
14: ... after their marriage, became an attorney. The couple were married in 1840 and had seven children. St... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mod...
12: ...[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...er portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
17: ...ey returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored b...
23: ...liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values based in pragmatism; thu... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...n, Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that...
8: ...lane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts...
10: ...on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby (nic...
14: ...Lockheed Vega]], intending to fly to [[Paris]], duplicating [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. Howev...
16: ...," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ed personality, her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female...
8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to id...
10: ...and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get ...
12: ...t at that time in Nervi, and undoubtedly these people would have had some influence on the impressiona...
20: ...s, she came into contact with ordinary Russian people and was shocked by the mood of anger and violenc... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work...
33: *''[[Jacob's Room]]'' ([[1922]]) - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...irst [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the first black license...
10: ...ench flight school, and she learned while using a plane that had failed many times. Once, she saw a fe...
12: ..., she was admired by both blacks and whites. In [[1922]], she participated at her first air show, in [[L...
14: ...hen her plane stalled and crashed on February 22, 1922. As her notoriety grew, she was invited to make ...
16: ...chute jump and wanted to examine the terrain. The plane crashed, possibly because of a wrench that go... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...px|Photograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensat...
7: ...d a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ...been orphaned at an early age, and raised by a couple who worked with the [[Salvation Army]]. As a res...
11: ...mage:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div> - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: Deren was born in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]]. In [[1922]], after a series of anti-Semitic [[pogroms]] and...
14: ...ndover]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...]] stage, where she was to appear in over a dozen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress,...
14: ...her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...e also wonders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything appro...
18: ...h's career stalled in unmemorable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little ...
26: ...y of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further by [[emphysema]], in December 1968. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
10: From [[1922]] to [[1924]], she studied at the prestigious [[R...
23: ... Hari]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). The censors complained about her revealing outfit shown on the movi...
25: ... getting her leading man, [[Laurence Olivier]], replaced on ''[[Queen Christina (film)|Queen Christina...
33: ...ning Garbo's image and making her less exotic, complete with the insertion of a scene in which her cha...
35: ...ion. She withdrew from the entertainment world completely and moved to a secluded life in [[New York C... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
2: '''Ava Gardner''' ([[December 24]], [[1922]] – [[January 25]], [[1990]]) was an [[Unit... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...onard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an [[United States of America|American]] [...
15: On her passing in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] in 1922, Russell was interred in the [[Allegheny Cemetery... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ... donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...y]], [[1938]]) was a [[France|French]] [[tennis]] player who achieved much success in the French and [...
8: ...where he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to di...
10: ...our years after her first tennis strokes, Lenglen played in the final of the [[1914 in sports|1914]] F...
16: ...arms and cut just above the calf, while all other players competed in outfits covering nearly all of t... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
56: | 1323 [[Kelvin|K]] (1050 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 1922 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
135: == Applications ==
136: ...e]]. Otherwise it has no significant industrial applications.
156: ...th effects, actinium-227 is about as dangerous as plutonium. Ingesting even small amounts of actinium-... - Bouzouki (4321 bytes)
2: ...her-of-pearl]]. The instrument is played with a [[plectrum]] and has a sharp metallic sound.
12: ...or playing melodies, usually with the two courses played together. In the two lower-pitched ([[Bass (m...
13: ...ds and bass drones (continuous low notes that are played throughout the music).
15: ...t four strings of the guitar, making it easier to play both instruments.
21: ...i' as the Greeks called it). Soon the outi was replaced by the bouzouki and the Smyrneika style fused... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
40: ...the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br />[[28 February]], [[1922]]<br />[[18 June]], [[1953]]
62: ...yramid_complex|Giza Pyramids]], the [[Karnak]] Temple and the [[Valley of the Kings]]; the southern ci...
67: ...-k3-ptḥ'' ("Hut ka Ptah"), the name of a temple of the god [[Ptah]] at [[Memphis, Egypt|Memphis]...
69: ...y and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by [[desert]]s to ...
73: Following the completion of the [[Suez Canal]] in [[1869]], Egypt bec... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
7: ...not successful in passing much of his progressive platform through the state legislature, nor in raisi...
23: ...as well as his ''Recollections'', a memoir. In [[1922]]-[[1923|23]] he served as chair of the [[Federal... - Jordan (20715 bytes)
69: ...stine|mandate for Palestine and Transjordan]]. In 1922, the British divided the mandate by establishing ...
75: ...nuing Jordanian role in Muslim and Christian holy places in Jerusalem. The U.S. Government considers t...
96: ... the ultimate authority in Jordan, the parliament plays an important role.
123: Jordan consists mostly of arid desert plateau in the east, with Highland area in the west....
132: ...ty of Aqaba was completed in 2003. The government plans to extend this pipeline north to the Amman are... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Western world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich h...
52: ...n world|western civilization]] and being the birthplace of [[democracy]], [[philosophy]], the [[Olympi...
57:
65: ...nglish/greece/living/read_greek/alphabet.html]. [[Plato]] described how the Greeks live round the Aege...
68: ...he Byzantine Empire, centered around [[Constantinople]] (known in ancient times as [[Byzantium]]), rem... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
3: ...l and linguistic diversity is reflected in its complex institutions and [[Politics of Belgium|politica...
55: ...ltic]], [[Roman Empire|Roman]], and [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] cultures having made an imprint, and...
57: ...d the Roman province of "Gallia". One of these peoples, the [[Franks]], finally installed a new kingdo...
63: ...c]] and Netherlands predominantly Protestant also played a role. In this newly independent country Fle...
67: ...any]] invaded Belgium as part of the [[Schlieffen Plan]]. The British decision to honour their treaty ... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...sh constitution]] the state's official name is simply '''Ireland''' (Irish: ''[[ɩre]]'').<!--
60: ...the state achieved ''de facto'' independence in [[1922]] it became known as the "[[Irish Free State]]", ...
65: The partition of Ireland came about because of complex constitutional developments in the early twenti...
67: ...al Assent]], the Third [[Home Rule Act 1914]]'s implementation was suspended until after the [[World W...
73: ...of public support for the settlement that the "people have no right to do wrong". They objected most t... - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
46: [[Iron Age]] [[Bantu]]-speaking peoples began migrating into the area about 2,000 years...
54: ...inority government in Southern Rhodesia (known simply Rhodesia from [[1964]]) demanded independence, b...
60: ...Zambia in [[1975]], and the [[Zimbabwe African People's Union]] (ZAPU), led by [[Joshua Nkomo]]. With ...
66: ...nt with Joshua Nkomo, head of Zimbabwe African People's Union. In the free elections of [[February]] [...
68: ...ghting was marked by a genocide of the Ndebele people by ZANU's infamous [[Zimbabwean Fifth Brigade|Fi... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...and it is a [[Jewish state]]. Israel was the birthplace of [[Judaism]] in the [[17th century BCE]] and...
60: ... Israel is not limited to Judaism, it is also the place where [[Christianity]] was born, and contains ...
73: ...he region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]].
78: ...ted, but the [[White Paper of 1939]] policy was implemented well into the end of [[WW2]], and enforced...
83: ...bly, the Palestinian Arab leadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and l... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
53: ...non" and "the Sudan") and partly because of its implication that Ukraine is merely a region rather tha...
55: ...o cut" (krayaty), indicating the land the Rus' people (or Ruthenians or Ukrainians) carved out for the...
60: ...erritory of Ukraine was populated by [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] nomads called [[Scythian]]s. The King...
64: ...he southern part of the first Eastern [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] state, [[Kievan Rus']]. Its capital wa...
66: ...[[Khazars]] (a [[Turkic]] semi-[[nomad|nomadic people]] from [[Central Asia]] who adopted [[Judaism]])... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ...[[European Union]] and [[NATO]]. Usually known simply as the '''United Kingdom''' or the '''UK''', it ...
58: ...United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]) in 1922 to form an independent state (in which, until 194...
64: ...) has been proposed, but is little used outside diplomatic circles.
69: ...land was on the brink of economic ruin and was deeply unpopular with the broader Scottish population.
71: ..., was predominantly due to security concerns. In 1922, after bitter fighting which echoes down to the c... - Thoth (5655 bytes)
7: ...appeared as the main character in a tale where he plays [[dice]] with the moon itself, winning 1/72nd ...
20: ... online community environment oriented towards people interested in the arts & sciences [[Thothica]] d...
22: The name of the main Orbital Frame in the Playstation 2 game "The Zone of the Enders" is calle...
28: ...ast Revelation. Central to the teachings is the explanation of the 7 seals as described in the Book of...
41: *Boylan, Patrick. 1922. ''Thot, the Hermes of Egypt: A Study of Some Asp... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...umber One in its list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
4: ... he changed the nature of the game itself. His exploitation of the "power game" compelled other teams...
9: ... [[Roman Catholic]] priest, and the school's disciplinarian, became the major influence on his life, t...
12: ...ked the position because he was involved in every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe...
15: ...or cash, and sold Ruth's contract, with two other players to [[Joseph Lannin]], owner of the [[Boston ... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
38: ...or the [[Native American]] [[Iowa tribe|Iowa]] people.
45: *French explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marquette]] a...
49: ...minus for the [[Union Pacific]] railroad. The completion of five major railroads across Iowa brough m...
55: ...[[washing machine]]s, [[fountain pen]]s, [[farm implement]]s, and food products that are shipped aroun...
67: The topography of the state is gently rolling [[plains]]. [[Loess]] hills lie along the western bord... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
31: * [[Plough]]s in [[Mesopotamia]]
35: * 3500 BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
80: * [[600]]: Mouldboard [[plough]] in [[Eastern Europe]]
162: * [[1797]]: [[Cast iron plow]]: [[Charles Newbold]]
201: * [[1831]]: [[Multiple coil magnet]]: [[Joseph Henry]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
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3: == People named U ==
14: *[[Mo Udall|Udall, Morris King "Mo"]] (1922-1998)
45: ...aga, Tana]], (born 1973), New Zealand rugby union player
59: ...|Unitas, Johnny]], (1933-2002), American football player - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
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4: ...nothopoulos, Callistus]], patriarch of Constantinople
6: ...|Xanthopoulos, Isidore]], patriarch of Constantinople
8: *[[Iannis Xenakis|Xenakis, Iannis]], ([[1922]]-[[2001]]), Greek composer
17: ...nus|Xiphilinus, George]], patriarch of Constantinople - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
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12: ...xander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
31: ...ional Basketball Association|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
128: *[[Mike York|York, Mike]], ice hockey player
139: *[[Samuel Youd|Youd, Samuel]], (born [[1922]]), author - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...rated [[consumer]] [[demand]] and aspirations, coupled with significant changes in the [[lifestyle]]; ...
3: ...on accelerated as [[Great Britain]] was wholly supplanted as Canada's main economic partner. At the mi...
5: ...e First World War, which were still present in peoples minds.
17: ...technology. Most of the devices that became commonplace in this decade had been developed before the w...
19: ...odern day. Without the self-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audie... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
10: Please use the new section editing feature if your b...
17: ...s/List_of_mis|11,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_people_by_name:_Zz|12,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_tel...
29: **[[Lists of people]]
63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
90: *[[Classification of finite simple groups]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
82: *[[Albert Baertsoen]] ([[1866]]-[[1922]])
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
283: *[[Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo|Corneille]] ([[1922]]-)
341: *[[Richard Diebenkorn]] ([[1922]]-[[1993]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
20: ...3) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scientist
77: ...Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple arch dam
80: ...6-1971) — [[vacuum tube]] [[television]] display - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
2: ...e and sometimes protected by [[government]]s. Examples of rights and liberties include the right to ge...
4: ...privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this se...
10: ... society and means that civil rights attach to people by virute of their [[citizenship]] of a [[state]...
12: ...r of rights and freedoms, which are [[value]]d deeply and are closely associated to the modern concept...
14: ...much broader. [[Jurist]] [[Karel Vasak]], for example, discusses a right to peace and the right to a c... - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
13: *[[1901]] - [[Platt Amendment]]
16: ...902]] - First [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game played
22: *[[1903]] - [[Big Stick Diplomacy]]
44: *[[1909]] - [[Robert Peary]] plants [[American flag]] at [[North Pole]]
47: *[[1909]] - Taft implements [[Dollar Diplomacy]] - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: ...n [[ancient Greek]] [[philosopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two...
8: ...gh Plato and a few other writers. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of [[Ancient philo...
10: ...ge has ethical as well as scientific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[ideali...
12: Aristotle, by contrast, placed much more value on knowledge gained from the ...
21: ...The surviving works are known and respected for a plain and unadorned (though not easy) style; not one... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: ...73]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circle]].
14: * [[1893]] - American [[sugar]] planters led by the [[Committee of Safety (Hawaii)|C...
20: ...oviet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Warsaw...
22: * 1945 - [[Sweden|Swedish]] diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]] disappears in [[Hungary]...
36: ...r second full-length album, [[Kerplunk (album)|Kerplunk]]. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...'' refers to the order in which the months are displayed, [[January]] to [[December]]. The first day o...
7: ...known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
15: ...vet Island]] is discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
17: *[[1797]] - Albany replaces New York City as the capital on New York.
18: ... Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - January 2 (10888 bytes)
15: *[[1860]] - The discovery of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [...
30: ...- [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] agree on a plan to preserve [[Niagara Falls]].
41: ...ard]] performs the second successful [[heart transplant]].
49: ...ring factions in [[Bosnia]] meet to discuss peace plans.
51: ...7mm) at [[Chicago]]. In [[Chicago]], temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C), and 68 deaths are r... - Anthropology (23191 bytes)
1: ...with anthropological methods now being commonly applied in single society/group studies.
14: ...nderstanding how it fits into other academic disciplines.
16: ... the culture concept which is central to the discipline.
18: ...world is becoming smaller and more integrated, people's experience of the world is increasingly atomiz...
20: ...ion the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and se...
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