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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... - Economics (30960 bytes)
1: ...social sciences)|positive]] when it attempts to explain the consequences of different choices given a ...
3: ...omics may in principle be (and increasingly is) applied to any problem that involves choice under scar...
5: Some economists use [[price]] and [[supply and demand]] to create [[Model (economics)|econo...
15: ...national income and output|national income]], [[employment]] and [[inflation]]. Note that [[general eq...
19: ...nto the macro-micro categorization. These subdisciplines include: [[international economics]], [[labou... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
17: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{biblevers...
171: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
357: | '''[[Pope Simplicius]]'''<br><small>Saint Simplicius</small>
358: | Papa '''Simplicius''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small> - Banknote (6576 bytes)
7: ...y occurs when there are restrictions in the time, place, manner or amount of exchange.
9: ...a Hours]] which are backed by the labor of the people of [[Ithaca, NY]].
11: ...ls from the monetary system, banknotes are now simply considered as money.
18: ...l capital and precious metals having a privileged place in the economy.
26: ...[[First World War]] by the [[Central Powers]] (by 1922 1 gold [[Austro-Hungarian krone]] of 1914 was wor... - Ireland (33828 bytes)
5: ...n]] of the island is approximately 5.7 million people, 4 million in the Republic and 1.7 million in No...
13: ...[[coast]]al [[mountain]]s surrounds low central [[plain]]s. The highest peak is [[Carrauntuohill]] ([[...
15: ...hern Ireland]] following Ireland's partition in [[1922]] (the remaining 26 forming present-day [[Republi...
27: ...its capital in [[Dublin]]. This state is often simply referred to internally and internationally as "I...
32: ...tional fundraising organisation, tries to help people on both sides find peace and reconcilliation thr... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...he winner was determined through a [[best-of-nine playoff]]) and is awarded the [[World Series Trophy]...
3: ..., the last being in the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
5: The first two games of the series are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three i...
7: ... shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not earning a [[wild car...
13: ...ympic tournament if the MLB agrees to freeing its players. According to the IBAF chairman, such a move... - Baltimore Orioles (15758 bytes)
32: ...hile hitting for the [[Triple crown (baseball)|Triple Crown]] (leading the American League in [[battin...
34: ...six American League Eastern Division titles. They played baseball the "Oriole Way", an organizational ...
36: ...ys grew older, newer stars emerged including multiple [[Cy Young Award]] winner [[Jim Palmer]] and swi...
40: ...n as the retooled 2005 Orioles have been in first place since early in April.
42: == Players of note == - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
14: :''See also:'' [[List of Chicago White Sox people]]
17: ...y [[Charles Comiskey]], a former major-league ballplayer who starred with the [[St. Louis Cardinals|St...
25: ...eball, banned all the accused nonetheless. As the players were leaving a hearing, a boy fan (said by s...
27: ... White Sox finished in the second division (fifth place or lower) 22 times, until the team rebuilt und...
30: ...reflected a tendency to win games through scrappy play rather than consistently strong hitting or pitc... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
18: ...e [[National Association of Professional Baseball Players|National Association]], [[National League]],...
20: The new league recruited many of its players from the existing National League, persuadin...
22: ...nk]] and [[Chief Bender|Charles "Chief" Bender]]. Plank holds the club record for career victories, wi...
24: ... traded, sold or released most of the team?s star players. In his book ''To Every Thing a Season'', Br...
26: ... finish in last place every year after that until 1922, when it finished 7th. - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
37: ...ue president [[Ford Frick]] threatened to ban any players who boycotted any games, and the boycott nev...
45: ...]]. The Cardinals, leading 1-0 at the time of the play and needing that victory to clinch the title, w...
50: The Cards reached the playoffs [[1996]], but the [[Atlanta Braves]] defeat...
54: ...ire broke the single-season home run record while playing with St. Louis in 1998</i></small>
58: ...mondbacks]] defeated the Cardinals in a five-game playoff series. - High jump (8613 bytes)
2: ...which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights.
6: ...cs, the first recorded high jump competition took place in Scotland in the early [[19th century]], wit...
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26: from:1922 till:end color:Basis - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...ze in Physics|Nobel Prize for Physics]] for his explanation of the [[photoelectric effect]] and "for h...
7: Einstein himself was deeply concerned with the social impact of scientific d...
16: ...d time later than most children, he was able to apply a more developed intellect. Another, more recent...
20: ...ind alone in Munich lodgings to finish school, completing only one term before leaving school in sprin...
22: ... finish secondary school, where he received his diploma in [[1896]] September. During this time he lod... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] |
9: date_of_death=[[August 2]] [[1922]] |
10: place_of_death=[[Baddeck, Nova Scotia|Baddeck]], [[N...
12: ...Bell Telephone Company, known as the [[List of people known as the father or mother of something|fathe...
17: ... appeared in Edinburgh in [[1868]]. In this he explains his method of instructing deaf mutes, by mean... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
7: ...woods, which were strictly out-of-bounds. He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous art...
13: ...disguised as a butterfly collector, incorporating plans of military installations into his drawings of...
17: ...s commander of the garrison. Fake minefields were planted and his soldiers were ordered to simulate av...
39: Baden-Powell was made a [[Baronet]] in [[1922]], and was created '''Baron Baden-Powell''', of G...
43: :Please call it Baden. - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
5: ...oved north to [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] in search of employment.
13: ...lude a tailoring shop that provided jobs for 32 employees. The company made coats, suits, dresses, etc...
20: ...lly when he used it to save 9 men from a tunnel explosion under Lake Erie. Garrett's bravery went unno...
27: ...patent for his own design for a traffic signal in 1922, and the patent was granted on [[November 20]], [...
40: * [http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=WTD The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - Wa... - Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
13: ...ust have to the original [[architect]]s. Building plans were probably changed on account of this. The ...
20: ...he valley also seems to have suffered an official plundering during the virtual civil war which starte...
23: ...discovery was by [[Howard Carter]] on November 4, 1922: the Tomb of King Tutankhamun. He supervised the ...
39: ...y Holt, 1981) – Covers the history of the exploration of the Valley in chronological order.
40: ...icholas Reeves and Richard H. Wilkinson, ''The Complete Valley of the Kings'' (1996, Thames and Hudson... - Italy (17022 bytes)
51: ...There are other 11 linguistic minorities (for example, [[French language|French]] is spoken in the [[A...
58: ...hole [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] area, deeply influencing European culture as well. Important ...
62: ...hip]] of [[Benito Mussolini]] that took over in [[1922]] with the [[March on Rome]], led to the alliance...
64: ... introduction of the [[Euro]] in [[1999]], thus replacing the Italian Lira.
68: ...Italia) is an ancient name for the country and people of [[Southern Italy]]. The [[List_of_country_nam... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
43: ...trait of Messina Bridge]] Project. If and when completed, it will mark the first time in history that ...
51: ...b Philipp Hackert 006.jpg|thumb|Landscape with temple ruins on Sicily, [[Jacob Philipp Hackert]], 1778...
54: ...] and [[Ragusa]] contain some of Italy's best examples of [[Baroque]] architecture, carved in the loca...
56: ...of which draw heavily on the island's [[norman people|Norman]] influence. Donkey carts are painted wi...
62: The [[autochthonous]] peoples of Sicily, long absorbed into the population, w... - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
8: ...both in the [[human body]] and in organisms (e.g. plants, animals) that humans eat.
14: ...al study very time-consuming and expensive, and explains why a proper science of human nutrition is ra...
22: ...ng also provided milk and dairy products, and sharply increased the availability of meats and the dive...
41: ...e in different species of animals, applying principles of physics in nutrition.
44: ...uble [[vitamin B]] (in 1915; now known to be a complex of several water-soluble vitamins) and names [[... - Prague (7962 bytes)
14: ...mia]], it is home to approximately 1.2 million people. (It can be derived from jobs statistics, howeve...
24: ...Vyšehrad]] in 1883, and at the beginning of 1922, another 37 municipalities were incorporated, rai...
35: * Various places connected to [[Franz Kafka]]
103: * [[Clementinum]] (complex of libraries) - Olympia (2033 bytes)
1: ...ympia]]. Due to its fame, a number of cities and places in other parts of the world have been named a...
18: *[[Olympia (PBEM)|Olympia]], a play-by-email game
23: ...[[protected cruiser]] in service [[1895]]–[[1922]], and presently a [[museum ship]] in [[Philadelp... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Denison, Texas]]
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
24: ..., and John Sheldon David Doud Eisenhower (born [[1922]]). [[John Eisenhower]] served in the [[United St...
30: ...o Captain in [[1917]] and Major in [[1920]]. In [[1922]] he was assigned as executive officer to General...
38: ...w]], and then succeeded Gerow as Chief of the War Plans Division. Then he was appointed Assistant Chie... - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
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10: | place of birth=Near [[Blooming Grove, Ohio|Blooming ...
13: | place of death=[[San Francisco]], [[California]]
20: ...died suddenly three years into his term due to complications from [[pneumonia]] and possible food pois...
23: ...he newspaper business. Harding's education was completed at [[Muskingum College|Ohio Central College]]...
25: ...ing city. Harding converted the paper's editorial platform to support the Republicans and enjoyed a mo... - National Football League (30340 bytes)
4: ...me "National Football League" in [[1922 in sports|1922]].
6: ...the most popular version of American football was played collegiately. The NFL's greatest spurt in pop...
10: ...d neutral site. One week later, selected all-star players from both the AFC and NFC meet in the [[Pro ...
31: ...on, the Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions each play a game on [[Thanksgiving]] day.
34: *Each team plays every other team in their division twice: once... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...St. Louis]] in the 1920s.<!--What does this mean? Please clarify.-->
10: ...ian.JPG|thumb|right|The Spirit of St. Louis on display at the Smithsonian.]]
11: ...]]-[[May 21]], [[1927]] in his single-engine [[airplane]] ''[[Spirit of St. Louis|The Spirit of St. Lo...
13: Lindbergh's accomplishment won him the ''[[Orteig Prize]]'' of $25,00...
22: ...9. He taught her how to fly and did much of the exploring and charting of air-routes together with her... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...] [[1940]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[explorer]] and [[medical doctor|physician]], noted for...
13: .... A fellow crew-member was [[Norway|Norwegian]] explorer [[Roald Amundsen]], with whom he established ...
17: ===The Arctic Club and The Explorers Club===
19: ...1908 Cook served as the second President of The Explorers Club.
24: ...map's accuracy, even his camp trash — though samples of all such evidences are found short of the Ga... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
8: ... city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indians. Marcos was s...
10: ...[[Hernando de Alarcón]] who would be shipping supplies for Coronado. [[Pedro de Tovar]] was sent nort...
12: ...n as [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]) were no rich people at all, the village consisted mostly of thatched...
14: ...e back with him. Although the expedition was a complete failure, he remained governor of New Galicia u...
28: ...stañeda and translated by George Parker Winship, 1922 publication, hosted by the [http://texashistory.u... - Photography (18493 bytes)
5: ...c paper, without the use of a camera. And one can place objects directly on the glass of a scanner to ...
17: ...-related, for example brightness is aperture multiplied by shutter speed, and varying the focal length...
20: ...nterested by this aspect but have also tried to explore other avenues than the photo-mechanical repres...
32: ...tor [[Nic鰨ore Ni鰣e]] on a polished [[pewter]] plate covered with a [[petroleum]] derivative called...
34: ...e had invented a process using silver on a copper plate called the [[Daguerreotype]]. A very similar ... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
20: *[[1922]] - In [[India]], [[Mohandas Gandhi]] is sentence...
21: ...]], [[Illinois]], and [[Indiana]], killing 695 people.
22: *[[1937]] - The [[New London School explosion]] kills three hundred, mostly children.
37: ...me]] in [[Russia]] 50 persons were killed at an explosion of a [[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2M]] rocket on i...
42: ...eaks off while en-route to [[Turkey]] causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board. This lea... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
15: ...ectional Facility|Sing Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[ele...
18: ...ternational [[figure skating]] championship takes place.
20: *[[1922]] – The [[USS Langley|USS ''Langley'']] is ...
21: ... the first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed.
26: *[[1965]] – In [[Naples]], [[Italy]], [[France Gall]] wins the tenth [[... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
11: ...ley]] began his trek to find the missionary and explorer [[David Livingstone]].
23: ...1965]] - [[Martin Luther King Jr]] leads 3,200 people on the start of the 3rd and finally successful [...
29: *[[1985]] - [[Canada|Canadian]] [[paraplegic]] [[athlete]] and [[humanitarian]] [[Rick Han...
30: ...ted]]'' reports allegations that tie [[baseball]] player [[Pete Rose]] to [[baseball]] [[gambling]].
54: *[[1922]] - [[Russ Meyer]], [[film]] director, producer (... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
10: ...with a sword, then [[strangle]]d, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
11: ... Purchase]] and reaching the [[Pacific Ocean]], explorers [[Lewis and Clark]] and their "Corps of Disc...
18: ...eir invention of one of the first successful [[airplane]]s after much hard work.
44: *[[1749]] - [[Pierre Simon de Laplace]], French mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1...
61: *[[1922]] - [[Marty Allen (comedian)|Marty Allen]], Ameri... - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
1: {{Template:US City infobox |
29: ...many|German]] architect [[Bruno Schmitz]], was completed on the site in [[1901]].
31: ...owntown Indianapolis with the village of Broad Ripple to the north was ever operational.
33: ..., as in most American cities, caused a suburban explosion. With automobile companies as [[Duesenburg]...
35: ...turing. However, the natural gas deposits were depleted by [[1915]], and this contributed to an abrup... - Lincoln, Nebraska (9126 bytes)
1: {{Template:US City infobox|
27: ... large cities of Nebraska not located along the [[Platte River]] or the [[Missouri River]]. Lincoln i...
41: ...f Lancaster was chosen, in part due to the salt [[Playa|flats]] and [[Marsh|marshes]] nearby.
43: ... [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] cause. The ploy did not work, as Lancaster was renamed Lincoln ...
55: ...ram Grosvenor Goodhue]] and constructed between [[1922]] and [[1932]]. The building has an unusual appea... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
368: *[[Edwin Thompson Jaynes]] (USA, [[1922]] ? [[1998]])
371: *[[Camille Jordan]] (France, [[1838]] - [[1922]])
385: *[[Alfred Bray Kempe]] (England, [[1849]] - [[1922]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
82: ...n Gatenby Bolton]] ([[England]], [[Australia]], [[1922]] – [[1993]])
95: ...ooks]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1844]] – [[1922]])
313: ...us Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
318: *[[Johannes Kepler]] ([[Germany]], [[1571]] – [[1630]])
346: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1827]]) - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
8: ... into being under the treaty of union in December 1922, which was signed by Russia and three other union...
10: ...es, and Russian branches of trade unions, for example. As the titular nationalities of the other fourt...
12: ...ecutive office, the presidency, following the example of Gorbachev, who had created such an office for...
16: ...by Yeltsin, combined with the irresolution of the plotters, caused the coup to collapse after three da...
18: ...ed full independence, and they quickly received diplomatic recognition from many nations. Gorbachev's ... - Latvia (12041 bytes)
59: ...ary]] 15th, [[1922]]. It acknowledged that the people were, themselves, sovereign, and provided for th...
120: ...ost of the country consists of fertile, low-lying plains with some hills in the east, the highest poin...
131: ... the previous two years. Privatization is much completed, except for some of the large state-owned uti...
140: [[Latvians]] are the indigenous people of Latvia. Only a little more than 60% of the po... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Porbandar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]...
10: place_of_death=[[New Delhi]], [[India]]
15: ...lai Lama]]. He often said that his values were simple; drawn from traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] belie...
22: ...ENTION!! Before changing the following paragraph, please note that "practise" is the correct spelling ...
23: ... London's vegetarian restaurants. Rather than simply go along with his mother's wishes, he read about... - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
11: ...en dominant in the early [[Middle Ages]] (to be replaced by Abélard's [[Conceptualism]], or by [[Nomi...
13: ...ectures of Anselm at [[Laon]]. His triumph was complete; the pupil was able to give lectures, without ...
22: ...had helped her run away, wanted to be rid of her, plotted revenge. He and some others broke into Abél...
25: ...and he was finally allowed to leave. In a desert place near [[Nogent-sur-Seine]], he built himself a ...
29: ...ems to be some dissent as to their actual resting place. - Confucius (21352 bytes)
30: ...agator of Culture Ultimate<br>Sage and Great Accomplisher" (</small>大成至聖&#...
37: ...us' thoughts have been changed into a vast and complete philosophical system known in the west as [[Co...
39: ...s a short collection of his discussions with disciples, compiled posthumously. These contain the gist ...
50:
52: ...of his life teaching an increasing number of disciples, trying to share his experiences with them and ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
261: *[[James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce]], (1838-1922){{fn|R}}
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
456: *[[Albert Venn Dicey]], (1835-1922){{fn|R}}
583: *[[Hans Frei]], (1922-1988){{fn|R}}
696: *[[Charles Hamblin]], (1922-1985) - Quran (41479 bytes)
14: ...'Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Islamic Arabic; others say that they wer...
16: ...r. Partly in response to the religious need to explain the Qur'an to poorer speakers, [[Arabic gramma...
18: ...that when the book is published, it must never simply be entitled "The Qur'an." The title must always...
26: ...e story of Adam) in the Qur'an. Muslim scholars explain these repetitions as emphasizing and pointing ...
38: or, to give a less loose example, the whole of surat [[al-Fil]]: - Legislature (5480 bytes)
5: ...nicameral]]''. A unicameral legislature is the simplest kind of law-making body and has only one house...
11: ...ills put before it by other institutions. For example, the legislatures of many Communist states were ...
43: ...22)|Dᩬ]] — [[Irish Republic]] ([[1919]]-[[1922]]) - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
11: ...adjective when referring to the beliefs of the people or the artifacts they left behind.
26: The Inca people began as a tribe in the Cuzco area around the [[...
30: ...st accepted the rule of the Inca as a ''fait accompli'' and acquiesced peacefully. The ruler's childre...
36: ...uyu was a patchwork of languages, cultures and peoples. The components of the empire were not all unif...
42: ...have easily wiped out his party. However, many people joined Pizarro's army on the way, increasing the... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
20: | [[Istanbul|İstanbul]] ([[Constantinople]]/[[Asitane]]/[[Konstantiniyye]] )
45: ...en referred to as the ''[[Sublime Porte]]'' or simply as ''the Porte'', from the [[French language|Fre...
47: ... [[Fall of Constantinople|captured]] [[Constantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the ...
53: ...sultan]] (king). With the capture of [[Constantinople]] in [[1453]], the state became a mighty [[empir...
55: ...e. In Aceh, the Ottomans built a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[... - Ur (11926 bytes)
3: ...and by the settlement mound. The ziggurat is a temple of [[Nanna (Sumerian deity)|Nanna]], a [[deity]]...
15: ... [[21st century BC|2094 BC]]. During his rule, temples, including the ziggurat, were built and [[agric...
33: ...mes, owing to its sanctity, Ur became a favourite place of [[sepulture]], so that after it had ceased ...
35: ...sidered rich in remains, and relatively easy to explore.
37: ...and E-hur-sag (a temple building). Outside the temple area many houses used in everyday life were foun... - Galen (5904 bytes)
10: ...ociate") of the god [[Asclepius]] in the local temple for four years. After his father's death in [[14...
14: ...s. His exact date of death has traditionally been placed around the year [[200]], based on a reference...
18: ...]]s. He created his own theories from those principles. In turn, he mainly ignored Latin writings of [...
22: ...ars could accept his views. His fundamental principle of life was ''pneuma'' (air, breath) that later ...
28: ...so assumed that [[rete mirabile]], a blood vessel plexus of [[ungulate|ungulates]], also existed in th... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
11: ...context of their times. They were attempting to explore and investigate nature before many of the most...
13: ...sical insight would have been as partial and incomplete as a metaphysics devoid of physical manifestat...
23: ...of 1989. None of those claims could be reliably duplicated. In either case, the required conditions w...
25: ...e [[New Age]] movement. Even some physicists have played with alchemical ideas in books such as ''[[Th...
27: ...of the intellectual connections between that discipline and other facets of Western cultural history, ... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political u...
7: ...he two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given at the be...
12: ...mania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[S...
19: ... the whole map of Europe. The Eastern Germanic peoples destroyed the Western Roman Empire, but the sta... - Ernest Shackleton (9537 bytes)
11: ...[Ireland|Irish]]-born [[British]] [[exploration|explorer]], now chiefly remembered for his Antarctic e...
18: ...." (Some historians have claimed that this ad was placed, although they do not all agree on when or wh...
21: ...itish expeditions, food was foolishly in short supply; the personnel on long treks were usually underf...
28: Accomplishments of the expedition included the first asce...
40: ...y set out across the Ross Ice Shelf to lay the supplies regardless. In December 1916, Shackleton emba... - Lion (11511 bytes)
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20: ... [[jungle]]", the lion is an animal of the open [[plain]]s, and can be found throughout [[Africa]]. It...
29: ...ing; their white color can give away their hiding place.
38: ...s, hippopotamuses, and elephants) can deliver crippling or killing blows by kicking or stomping. - Elijah McCoy (4371 bytes)
7: ...ose had been patented previously; one is the [[displacement lubricator]] which had already attained wi...
9: ...eral substantial lubricator manufacturers in multiple countries.
13: ...he city celebrated Elijah McCoy Day, as officials placed a historic marker at the site of his home. Th...
15: ...t in EL Ahrons' ''Lubrication of Locomotives'' ([[1922]]) which does refer to several other early pionee... - Tutankhamun (15224 bytes)
4: ...culation on what might have been contained in the plundered tombs of far more significant Pharaohs.) H...
6: ...ng king's tomb, excavated by [[Howard Carter]] in 1922. The mask appears in the background of the Nation...
8: ...t common estimates are in this range), that would place his birth around [[1342 BC]]-[[1340 BC]], and ...
10: ...n the old [[pantheon]] of [[god]]s and their [[temple]]s was lifted, the traditional privileges restor...
23: ... discovered from the same X-ray analysis. Some people have mistaken this visible bone fragment for the... - Gabby Hartnett (4450 bytes)
1: ...[catcher]] and [[manager (baseball)|manager]] who played nearly his entire career with the [[Chicago C...
3: ...cable sore arm limited him to one game behind the plate and 24 games as a pinch-hitter as the Cubs won...
7: ...Game|All-Star]] for the first six games that were played (1933-38), Hartnett was catching when pitcher...
9: ...e middle of the [[1938 in sports|1938]] season, replacing [[Charlie Grimm]].
11: ...omer in the Gloamin'". The Cubs were now in first place, culminating a tremendous 19-3-1 September run... - Baseball (36464 bytes)
1: ...Image:Busch Stadium.jpg|thumb|275px|A view of the playing field at [[Busch Stadium]] in [[St. Louis, M...
3: ...d a [[baseball (ball)|baseball]]. Scoring is accomplished by the batter running and touching a series ...
7: ==Gameplay==
10: ... base is a pentagonal rubber slab known as ''home plate''. The field is divided into two main sections...
12: ...ne players of the home team play the field, while players on the visiting team come to bat one at a ti... - Babe Adams (10141 bytes)
3: ...9 in sports|1909]] [[World Series]], winning 3 complete game victories including a shutout in Game 7; ...
7: ... was released days later after joining a group of players who requested that former manager [[Fred Cla...
26: 1922 Pirates 40 8 11 .421 27 19 12 0 ...
49: 1922 Pirates 1 10.05 11.05 2.05 0.79 2.60 ...
85: COMPLETE GAMES 5TH 24; - Major League Baseball (14783 bytes)
3: ...e Baseball''' ('''MLB''') is the highest level of play in professional [[baseball]] in the world. Mor...
7: ...gue baseball]]. This is due in large part to a [[1922]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supre...
11: ...s from early April through the end of September. Players and teams prepare for the season in [[spring...
15: ... [[American League]] ("AL"). Each has its teams split into three divisions grouped generally by geogr...
17: ...]] Major League Baseball introduced [[interleague play]], which was criticized by the sport's purists ... - Brown Bear (9756 bytes)
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29: Being [[omnivore]]s, they feed on a variety of plant parts, including berries, [[root]]s, and
41: ...nic beauty of the area has caused an influx of people moving into the area. In addition, because ther...
58: ...isappeared from the state of [[California ]] in [[1922]] when the last one was shot in [[Tulare County, ... - Broccoli (4962 bytes)
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14: ...Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen| plural_taxon = [[Cultivar|Cultivar Group]]}} - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political u...
7: ...he two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given at the be...
12: ...mania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[S...
19: ... the whole map of Europe. The Eastern Germanic peoples destroyed the Western Roman Empire, but the sta... - History of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars (9742 bytes)
18: ...rom abusing their extremely large powers (for example, senators were not elected but chosen by the kin...
24: ...orld War I]] Italy remained neutral, since the Triple Alliance had only defensive purposes, and the wa...
28: ...nt. After several years of struggle, in October [[1922]] the fascists attempted a coup (the "Marcia su R...
34: .... Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III criticized the plan to take Albania as an unnecessary risk.
38: ...erlaci and soon absorbed Albania's military and diplomatic service into Italy's. - Culture of Russia (14552 bytes)
1: ...ic culture]]. Modern Russian Culture is highly complex and has changed under [[Czarist]] and [[Soviet]...
9: ...ussia are unique because they are made to help people with prayers instead of idolizing the figure in ...
13: ... by El Lissitzky 1919.jpg|left|Thumb|150px|An example of Russian avant garde art by El Lissitzky in 19...
14: ...pproximately [[1890]] to [[1930]] - although some place its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as ...
18: ...], gained negative attitude of Vladimir Lenin, by 1922 declined considerably, and was eventually disband... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ... the past few centuries. In antiquity, the few people who were able to engage in natural inquiry were ...
9: ... publishing process, as well as the internal disciplinary limitations to the scientific publication pr...
11: ...ed the first scientific community; founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[Giambattista della Porta]]. The...
13: The Academia Secretorum Naturae was replaced by the [[Accademia dei Lincei]], founded in [...
25: ...to remember memorable events more easily. For example, the [[Chinese]] [[generation name]]s are taken ... - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
31: * [[Wheel]] and [[plough]] both invented in ancient Mesopotamia
32: * Around [[5100 BC]] – [[Temple#Religion|Temple]]s founded in South [[Mesopotamia]]
38: * c. [[4000 BC]] - first examples of [[Sumerian]] [[writing]] in Mesopotamia
87: * Completion of the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]]
129: ...d philosophical viewpoints are created, further explored or codified - Kickball (1492 bytes)
1: ...ech Republic]] in about [[1922]]. It is typically played on a [[softball]] diamond with a 10- to 16-[[... - Alamosaurus (2138 bytes)
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14: ...rus sanjuanensis | author = [[Gilmore]]| date = [[1922]]}}
17: ...aceous]] period. It was named by [[Gilmore]] in [[1922]] after partial skeletons were found and was the ...
19: ...ew Mexico]], [[Texas]] and [[Utah]], though no complete [[skull]]s have been found. The animal had a l... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
16: ...component carried the bulk of the expedition's supplies, and traveled by sea under the leadership of H...
21: ....<ref>Winship. P. 60</ref> Once the scouting and planning was done, Coronado led the first group of s...
23: ... described. Instead, it was just a complex of simple [[pueblo]]s constructed by the [[Zuni]] Indians....
30: ...o the [[Hopi]] territory to acquire scouts and supplies that could be used to find this river. Members...
38: ==Exploration of the Colorado River== - Vampire (17166 bytes)
7: ...dily fluids of other creatures. This term also applies to mythic animals of the same nature, includin...
11: ...nt. In [[Homer|Homer's]] ''[[Odyssey]]'', for example, the [[ghost|shades]] that [[Odysseus]] meets on...
23: ...rs using [[arrow]]s or [[crossbow]] bolts made completely of wood to attempt to strike the monster's h...
25: ...come to be seen as the absolute surest way to completely destroy a vampire. Previously western vampi...
33: ...by tradition with some stories having vampires simply turning into a bat and flying over when faced wi... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
13: ...lark Expedition|Lewis and Clark]] return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.
15: *[[1846]] - Discovery of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] by French astronomer [[Urbain Le V...
20: *[[1922]] - [[Gdynia]] Seaport Construction Act passed by...
36: *[[480 BC]] - [[Euripides]], playwright (d. [[406 BC]])
38: ...1158]] - [[Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany|Geoffrey Plantagenet]], [[Duke of Brittany]] - February 22 (10772 bytes)
6: ...he sun's rays fall each year in [[Abu Simbel]] temple.
9: ...95]] - King [[Charles VIII of France]] enters [[Naples]] to claim the city's throne.
21: ..., California]], the first [[dog race]] track to employ an imitation [[rabbit]] opens.
31: ... to [[China]], the [[United States]] and the [[People's Republic of China]] agree to establish liaison...
63: * [[1903]] - [[Frank Plumpton Ramsey]], mathematician (d. [[1903]]) - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
7: ...Time magazine]] as one of the most influential people of the century.
14: ... displayed an inexhaustible desire to learn and explore art, literature, and life. This desire manifes...
23: ... of him as polite, courteous and helpful. For example, [[Otto Klemperer]], who knew [[Arnold Schoenber...
25: ...lectual and professional life in the USA. When he planned to write an opera with [[W. H. Auden]], the ...
35: ...ylistic periods. Most of his compositions can be placed in one of the three. - Timeline of aviation (3479 bytes)
11: ... - [[1921 in aviation|1921]] - [[1922 in aviation|1922]] - [[1923 in aviation|1923]] - [[1924 in aviatio... - December 9 (7837 bytes)
23: ...ral Electric]] announces that all [[Communist]] employees will be discharged from the company
64: *[[1922]] - [[Redd Foxx]], comedian and actor (d. [[1991]...
74: *[[1938]] - [[Deacon Jones]], American football player
77: *[[1942]] - [[Dick Butkus]], American football player
81: * 1947 - [[Steve Owens]], football player - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (7198 bytes)
24: ...ve due process cases. Holmes' judicial philosophy played a major role in shaping American [[Legal Real...
32: ...al League]],'' [[court citation|259 U.S. 200]] ([[1922]])) that professional [[baseball]] could not be s...
34: ...hesitantly requested that he step down, and he complied. He died in [[Washington, D.C.]] in [[1935]], ...
36: ...] ''[[The Magnificent Yankee]]'' was based on a [[play]] about his life. - List of HIV-positive people (8891 bytes)
15: *[[Amanda Blake]], ([[1929]]-[[1989]]), played Kitty Russell (saloon owner, Miss Kitty) (''[...
31: *[[Denholm Elliott]], ([[1922]]-[[1992]]), distinguished British actor
33: ...ppeteer (''[[Wayland Flowers and Madame, Madame's Place]]'')
38: *[[Kevin Peter Hall]] ([[1955]]-[[1991]]), played the title role in ''[[Predator (movie)|Predat...
52: ...o passed away due to an open-heart surgery and complications with AIDS
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