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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
109: | [[1896]] — [[1902]], [[1909]] — [[1912]] (wi... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
19: ...tuguese found gold and diamonds in the neighbor captaincy of [[Minas Gerais]], Rio de Janeiro became m...
35: ... built in 1750 and converted to a tram viaduct in 1896 - and rambles through the hilly streets of the Sa...
123: [[pt:Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro)]] - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
15: *[[Ivar Aasen|Aasen, Ivar]], (1813-1896), linguist - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: ...hard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
47: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm]], (1896-1962), mathematician - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
16: ... Victoria became [[heir presumptive|heiress-presumptive]] to the throne. Since the law at that time ma...
25: ...hildless, Ernest Augustus was also the heir-presumptive to the British throne.
27: ... the [[Whig]] Party, which had been in power, except for brief intervals, since [[1830]]. The Whig Pri...
37: ...tributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theorie...
39: ... Eight more children would be born during the exceptionally happy marriage between Victoria and Prince... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
19: ... propose to May. George duly proposed and May accepted. Despite its being an arranged marriage, May an...
27: ...2]]<td> married [[Wallis Simpson]] ([[19 June]] [[1896]] – [[24 April]] [[1986]]); no issue.
29: ...ried Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood ([[9 September]] [[1882]] – [[23 May]] [[1947]]); and...
58: ...VII, was slow in leaving Buckingham Palace, and kept some of the royal jewels that should have been pa...
62: ...nd Albert, and her youngest son Prince John was kept away on the Sandringham Estate so the public woul... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [...
27: After a trip to Egypt in [[1910]], where she was awed by the ancient ar...
63: ...tt Mary Helene de Septeuil 1889.jpg|''Helene de Septeuil'' (1889)
69: ...tt Mary Maternal Kiss 1896.jpg|''Maternal Kiss'' (1896)
70: ... Nurse and Child 1896-97.jpg|''Nurse and Child'' (1896-97) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
13: ...owever, critics have praised her for her artful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
22: ... from the wider [[American Civil Rights Movement (1896-1954)|civil rights movement]] struggle was demons... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: '''Suzanne Valadon''' ([[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]...
18: ... but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness."
24: ...ee spirit, she would wear a corsage of carrots, kept a goat in her studio to "eat up her bad drawings"...
26: Her marriage to stockbroker Paul Mousis in [[1896]] failed, when in [[1909]] the then 44-year old V... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
39: ... of every soldier who died in the hospital. The depth of her commitment to the care of her patients in...
83: ...ty of London]]. She could not leave her bed after 1896 and died on [[August 13]], [[1910]]. The offer of... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ...[[September 13]], [[1819]] – [[May 20]], [[1896]]), wife of composer [[Robert Schumann]], was one...
9: ...] and continued her visits annually, with the exception of four seasons, until [[1882]]; and from [[18... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
8: ...the [[Kinetoscope]] production, [[The Kiss (film, 1896)|The Kiss]], became the first screen kiss in cine...
12: ...]] appearance, this time in the feature-length adaptation of [[George V. Hobart]]'s play, ''[[Mrs. Bla... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
3: ...aption><font size="+1">'''John Tyler'''</font></caption>
36: *Robert Tyler ([[September 9]], [[1816]] - [[December 3]], [[1877]]). H...
37: ...Tyler ([[April 17]], [[1819]] - [[January 26]], [[1896]]).
44: ...First Lady of the United States]] but died on [[September 10]], [[1842]]. John spent two years as a wi...
46: ...David Gardiner Tyler ([[July 12]], [[1846]] - [[September 5]], [[1927]]). - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
3: ...><font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
50: ...e [[Interstate Commerce Act]], the first law attempting Federal regulation of the railroads.
60: ...eveland also forced the [[United Kingdom]] to accept arbitration of a disputed boundary in [[Venezuela...
62: ... cover story about the removal of two bad teeth kept the suspicious press somewhat placated. Even when...
67: ...n for the Democratic presidential nomination in [[1896]], but was disappointed when his party nominated ... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
8: == First concepts ==
25: ...h a short age for the Earth. Biologists could accept that the Earth might have a finite age, but even ...
27: ...mates would prove far too short. Thomson had attempted to root the debate in one set of facts; the geo...
37: ...ident of himself, and the fact that multiple attempts to determine the age of the Earth seemed to show...
39: ...uld ultimately resolve the conflict took place in 1896, when the French chemist [[Henri Becquerel|A. Hen... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
67: ...[provisional treaty]] of peace on [[October 26]], 1896.
69: ... a referendum. In [[1994]], a constitution was adopted leading to Ethiopia's first multiparty election...
77: ... assembly was held in June 1994. This assembly adopted the constitution of the Federal Democratic Repu...
110: ...The normal rainy season is from mid-June to mid-September (longer in the southern highlands) preceded ...
128: ...m]] was one of the first nations to officially adopt [[Christianity]], when St. [[Frumentius]] of [[Ty... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
53: ...the [[1500]]s, when [[Portugal|Portuguese]] sea captain [[Diego Dias]] sighted the island after his sh...
57: ...r was established by military force in [[1895]]-[[1896|96]], and the Merina monarchy was abolished.
61: ...eriod of provisional government ended with the adoption of a constitution in [[1959]] and full indepen...
76: ...de margin, despite efforts by federalists to disrupt [[ballot]]ing in several coastal areas.
80: ... Sporadic violence and considerable economic disruption continued until [[July]] [[2002]] when Ratsira... - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
52: ...lonialist encroachment on their native lands in [[1896]]-[[1897]].
56: ...] economic sanctions against Rhodesia. In an attempt to distance the country from its colonial master,...
62: ...ster House Agreement|Lancaster House]] in an attempt to negotiate a settlement in the civil war.
167: *[http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/zim.html Stanford University - Afric... - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...e New Jersey General Assembly for [[March 11]], [[1896]], the buff color is due indirectly to [[George W...
5: ... of the New Jersey General Assembly for March 11, 1896] - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
43: ...constitution]], the third for Connecticut, was adopted in [[1965]]. The traditional abbreviation of th...
47: ...have a merged city-town government. The sole exception is the [[Groton (city), Connecticut | City of ...
85: ...roads/ct/index.html] for a very complete and in-depth discussion of Connecticut roadways, current, pas...
93: ... [[transportation]] equipment (especially [[helicopters]], [[aircraft]] parts, and [[nuclear submarine...
105: ...esigned the first [[flat turret lathe]], and in [[1896]] built a gear shaper which permitted the manufac... - Utah (29154 bytes)
26: AdmittanceDate = [[January 4]], [[1896]] |
54: Reptile = N/A |
110: ...f Utah was officially granted on [[January 4]], [[1896]].
139: ...However, the [[Bonneville Salt Flats]] are an exception, being comparetively flat. Most of western Uta...
151: .... Snowfall is common in [[winter]] everywhere except the southern border and the Great Salt Lake Deser... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
35: ... BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
40: * [[Cement]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
41: ... River [[boat]]s in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
157: *[[Arnold Blanch]] ([[1896]]-[[1968]])
190: *[[Louis Bouché]] ([[1896]]-[[1969]]) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...d was designed to be a cautionary tale about attempting to reach heaven, similar to the [[Tower of Bab...
9: ...eonardo1.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter body ]]
11: ...eonardo2.jpg|thumb|left|200 px| da Vinci's Ornithopter wings ]]
13: There were many early attempts to fly, covering the full range of legend to fac...
15: ... made. Leonardo also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design would not have flown. - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
48: *[[Wallace Carothers]], (1896-1937) — [[Nylon]]
162: *[[Alfred Nobel]], (1833-1896), [[Sweden]] — [[dynamite]]
211: ...provided an influential formalisation of the concept of [[algorithm]] and computation: the [[Turing ma...
242: ...–1995) was the inventor of the Bell [[helicopter]] - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
29: ...mercial application and was able to sell the concept to homes and businesses by mass-producing relativ...
40: ...formed the [[Oriental Telephone Company]]. On [[September 4]], [[1882]], Edison switched on the world'...
43: ...920s.ogg|title= Edison speech on light bulb|description= Video clip of Thomas Edison talking about the...
58: ...riments. Sprague's approach was to calculate the optimum parameters and thus save much needless tinker...
70: ...with a cylinder [[phonograph]]. In [[April]] of [[1896]], Edison and [[Thomas Armat]]'s [[Vitascope]] wa... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
10: ...hese are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
18: ...pe to observe the [[sky]]. Based on sketchy descriptions of telescopes invented in the [[Netherlands]]...
20: ...planet)|Jupiter]]. Galileo published a full description in ''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]'' in March [[1610]]....
24: ...e Sun. By contrast, the [[geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]] predicted that only crescent and new phase...
32: Galileo observed the planet [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] in [[1611]], but took no particular notice o... - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
21: * '''[[Hawaii]]''', annexed [[1896]] upon the request of a government made up mainly... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
75: *[[1875]] - [[Resumption Act]]
139: *[[1896]] - ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' 163 US 537 1896 legalizes segregation in railway cars
140: *[[1896]] - [[William Jennings Bryan]] delivers his [[Cro...
141: *[[1896]] - [[Gold]] discovered in the [[Yukon]]'s [[Klon...
142: *[[1896]] - [[Utah]] becomes a state - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
11: ...tion Act divided ten Confederate states (all except [[Tennessee]], which had been readmitted in [[186...
13: ...ly perceived as being motivated by graft and corruption, while locals who participated in these govern...
15: ...admission to the Union, they were required to accept it (or the fifteenth after passage of the fourtee...
21: ...Rights Act. ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' 163 US 537 1896 went even further, providing that state-mandated ...
30: ...ers and other Indian tribes. They were equally adept and highly elusive, fighting in their environs of... - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
18: ...ist, international economy. The [[Soviet Union]] opted not to take part.
51: The Soviet Union was not alone in its attempts to influence other nations. The United States t...
55: ...region due to sheer prudence, out of fear that Egyptian leader [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]'s standoff with ...
65: ...ducts, for which advertisers were increasingly adept at creating demand. Affluent Americans in the [[1...
77: ...s such as ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' 163 US 537 [[1896]] further eroded African American civil rights. - August (4611 bytes)
6: ...e it is because that's when [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra]] died. Before Augustus renamed August...
26: ...5]] [[1947]] [[Bharat]] became independent and adopted the name India.
43: ... of the Philippine Revolution on [[August 23]], [[1896]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
7: ...]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the [[papacy]].
9: *[[1757]] - The [[United Kingdom]] captures [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[India]].
31: *[[1935]] - [[Bruno Hauptmann]] goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lin...
34: *[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: [[Manila]] is captured by [[Japan]]ese forces.
58: ...[[1777]] - [[Christian Daniel Rauch]], German sculptor (d. [[1857]]) - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...e. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have t...
10: ... such as an [[earthquake]], [[volcano|volcanic eruption]], [[landslide]] or [[meteorite impact]]. Howe...
12: ...namis can be generated when the [[sea floor]] abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying ...
14: ...floor. Similarly, a violent submarine volcanic eruption can uplift the water column and generate a tsu...
21: ...g.png|thumb|right|300px|There is a common misconception that tsunamis behave like wind-driven waves or... - World Series (40101 bytes)
1: ...has been an annual event since 1903, with the exception of 1904 and 1994. The New York Yankees have th...
3: ...ng in the [[1918 World Series]], completed on [[September 11]], [[1918]].
7: A portion of the gate receipts from the World Series - and, from [[1969]] onwar...
9: ...challenges have been made by other leagues. Attempts to pit the [[North America]]n champions against ...
63: * 1896 [[Baltimore Orioles (NL)|Baltimore Orioles]] - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
18: ...e and colors, and it happens that the Chicagos adopted white as their primary color. After a summer of...
30: ...the better part of twenty seasons, the team was captained and managed by first baseman [[Cap Anson|Adr...
57: ...935 when they won a record 21 games in a row in September, and 1938 when they won a crucial late-seaso...
62: ..."The Kissing Bandit", ran onto the field and attempted to plant one on [[Ryne Sandberg]]. She was thwa...
323: *'''Stolen bases''': Bill Lange, 84 (1896) - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist
94: ...[[Friedrich August Kekul頶on Stradonitz]], (1829-1896), German organic chemist
126: *[[Robert S. Mulliken]], (1896-1986), [[United States|American]] physicist, chem...
209: *[[Ahmed H. Zewail]] (born 1946), [[Egyptian]], [[1999]] Nobel Prize Winner for his work on... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
16: ...ass]], and Einstein realized that something in "empty" space acted upon the needle; he would later des...
22: ...hool, where he received his diploma in [[1896]] September. During this time he lodged with Professor J...
24: In the spring of [[1896]], the [[Serbia]]n [[Mileva Maric|Mileva Mari...
26: ...''Eidgen?sche Technische Hochschule'' and was accepted as a Swiss citizen in [[1901]]. During this tim...
31: ...ence of applications despite sometimes poor descriptions, and was taught by the director how "to expre... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
3: ...tockholm]], [[Sweden]] – [[December 10]], [[1896]], [[San Remo]], [[Italy]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedis...
5: ...turning to Sweden with his father after the bankruptcy of their family business, devoted himself to th...
7: ...rinted when he was dying, and the whole stock except three copies was destroyed immediately after his ...
21: ...and his brothers, Ludvig and Robert Hjalmar (1829-1896), took a leading part, he amassed an immense fort...
25: ...y). He died of a [[stroke]] on [[December 10]], [[1896]] at [[San Remo]], [[Italy]]. - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
11: Morgan married Madge Nelson in [[1896]]; they were divorced in [[1898]]. - George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
9: ...cause of a [[lynching]] of a black person. He promptly left, but still carried scars from this inciden...
11: ...is High School in [[Kansas]]. In 1887, he was accepted to [[Simpson College]] in Indianola, Iowa. He ...
13: ...and as a trainer for the athletic teams. He was captain, the highest student rank, of the campus milit...
15: ...is excellence in botany and horticulture that prompted professors Joseph Budd and Louis Pammel to enco...
17: ...icles on his work and gained national respect. In 1896, he completed his master's degree and became the ... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
8: ...Dearborn to work on the family farm and became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engi...
10: ...ustion engines. These experiments culminated in [[1896]] with the completion of his own self-propelled v...
12: ...pany]]. The Detroit Automobile Company went bankrupt soon afterward because Ford continued to improve ...
18: ...11]] with driver Frank Kulick. In 1913, Ford attempted to enter a reworked Model T in the Indianapolis...
20: ...idea, contemporary sources indicate that the concept and its development came from employees Clarence ... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
9: The torso and the legs should be kept as much as possible parallel to the surface of th...
19: ... (minimise drag and lengthen water-line) are not optimal.
26: ...i Sora (or Sura) in the southwestern part of [[Egypt]]. Written references date back up to [[2nd mille...
28: ...t a variant of [[Breaststroke]], until it was accepted as a separate style in [[1952]].
33: ...trictions on what action the competitors use, except during the freestyle portion of medley swimming. ... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
52: ...from [[Catania]]), as well as the [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Tommaso Geraci]].
76: ...enstaufen]] dynasty which ruled from [[1194]], adopting Palermo as its principal seat from [[1220]].
96: A common presumption about the peopling of Sicily has been as follo...
100: ...ih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9686481&itool=iconabstr], ''De...
127: *[[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa]] ([[1896]]-[[1957]]) - writer, poet - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
1: This is a partial list of [[sculptor (artist)|sculptor]]s.
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
55: *[[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]] (1827 - 1875)
116: *[[John Gibson (sculptor)|John Gibson]] (1790 - 1866)
121: *[[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]] (1938 - ) - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
1: ...al nutrition guide for recommended [[food]] consumption.]]
4: Between the extremes of optimal health and death from [[starvation]] or [[mal...
5: The science of nutrition attempts to understand how and why specific dietary aspec...
10: ...lood|bloodstream]]. The [[digestive system]], except in the unborn fetus, participates in the first st...
27: ...[[Book of Daniel]]. Daniel and his friends were captured by the king of [[Babylon]] during an invasion... - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
8: ...ction Act divided ten Confederate states (all except [[Tennessee]], which had been readmitted on [[Jul...
14: ...s like the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. The Republicans attempted to assist newly freed slaves by the establishme...
18: ...admission to the Union, they were required to accept it (or the fifteenth after passage of the fourtee...
36: ...gun to form in the South. In exchange for its acceptance of reintegration into the Union, the South wa...
40: ...ination. ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' 163 US 537 ([[1896]]) went even further, announcing that state-manda... - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
9: ...ging the car to cable speed too quickly and unacceptably jarring the [[passenger]]s.
16: Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable c...
21: ... car. Both of these innovations were generally adopted by other cities, including San Francisco.
27: ...t the cars into and out of the terminals. After [[1896]] the system changed to one where a motor car was...
29: ...ay]], the first underground cable car system in [[1896]]. ([[London]]'s first deep-level tube railway, ... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
24: ...r married [[Mamie Eisenhower|Mamie Geneva Doud]] (1896–1979), of [[Denver, Colorado]] on [[Saturda...
30: ...Maryland]] and other places. He was promoted to Captain in [[1917]] and Major in [[1920]]. In [[1922]]...
36: ... Texas. He was promoted to Brigadier-General in September [[1941]]. Although his administrative abilit...
51: ...ld do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
53: ...they could be compelled to serve as unpaid conscript labor. An unknown number may have died in custody... - Otto Lilienthal (1728 bytes)
3: ...l''' ([[23 May]] [[1848]] – [[10 August]] [[1896]]), the [[German people|German]] "'''Glider King'...
8: ...each low speeds and altitudes. On [[9 August]] [[1896]], a gust of wind fractured his wing and he fell ...
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