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| x Battle of Stalingrad |
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 17 July 1942 and 2...
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| x Battle of Jutland |
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The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle of World War I (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak) and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on May 31–June 1, 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, the...
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| x Computing |
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Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and developing computer technology, computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the...
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| x Mechanical sequence control invented |
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| x Exxon Mobil |
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The Exxon Mobil Corporation, or ExxonMobil, is an American oil and gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company, and was formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil.
ExxonMobil is the...
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| x Operation Barbarossa |
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Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km (1,800...
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| x Vietnam War |
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a Cold War military conflict that which may be said to have occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from September 26, 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist...
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| x Attack on Pearl Harbor |
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The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, Operation Z, as it was called by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...
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| x Battle of the Somme |
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On the Western Front, French forces under General Joseph Joffre had born the brunt of the 1914 German offensive into Belgium and France, only managing to halt the wheeling advance well inside French territory. In support of their Allies, the British...
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| x Hue |
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Hue is one of the main properties of a color, defined technically (in the CIECAM02 model), as “the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow,” (the unique...
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| x Festival of Britain |
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The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain in May 1951. The official opening was on 3 May. The principal exhibition site was on the South Bank Site, London of the River Thames near Waterloo Station....
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| x Ho Chi Minh City |
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) (Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh pronunciation (help·info) is the largest city in Vietnam. It was known as Prey Nokor (Khmer: ) before being annexed by the Vietnamese in the 17th century. Under the name Saigon ...
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| x War on Terrorism |
War of Terror is a pun used in protest or criticism of the United States policy called the War on Terrorism, also known as the War on Terror. It is also used to show the lack of universality (philosophy) of the term terrorism.
The pun is used by...
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| x Second Battle of the Marne |
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The Second Battle of the Marne (French: 2e Bataille de la Marne), or Battle of Reims (15 July to 6 August 1918) was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during World War I. It failed when an Allied counterattack led by French...
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| x Battle of Craonne |
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The Battle of Craonne was fought on March 7, 1814, and resulted in a French victory under Napoleon I against Russians and Prussians under General Blücher.
Craonne is a village on the Chemin des Dames, in the département of Aisne.
Marshal Blucher had...
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| x First Battle of the Marne |
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The Battle of the Marne (French: 1re Bataille de la Marne) (also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a First World War battle fought between the 5th and 12th of September 1914. It resulted in a Franco-British victory against the German Army under...
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| x Third Battle of Kharkov |
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The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of offensive operations on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, around the city of Kharkov (Russian: Харьков; Ukrainian: Харків), between 19...
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| x Eastern Front |
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The Eastern Front of World War II (German: die Ostfront 1941–1945 , der Rußlandfeldzug 1941–1945 (Russian campaign) or der Ostfeldzug 1941-1945 (Eastern Campaign)) was a theatre of war between the European Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy,...
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| x Battelle Memorial Institute |
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The Battelle Memorial Institute is a private nonprofit applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Battelle is a charitable trust organized as a non-profit corporation under the laws of the State of Ohio and...
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| x First Battle of Ypres |
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The First Battle of Ypres, also called the First Battle of Flanders (French: 1re Bataille des Flandres), was the last major battle of the first year of World War I (1914); actually a series of battles, starting on 19 October and ending, according to...
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| x Second Battle of Ypres |
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The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in World War I and the first time a former colonial force (Canadians) pushed back a major European power (Germans) on European soil, which...
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| x Second Battle of Kharkov |
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The Second Battle of Kharkov, so named by Wilhelm Keitel was an Axis counteroffensive against the Red Army Izium bridgehead offensive conducted from May 12 to May 28, 1942, on the Eastern Front during World War II. Its objective was to eliminate the...
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| x Battle of Lenino |
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The Battle of Lenino was a tactical World War II engagement that took place from 12 October to 13 October 1943 as part of the Spas-Demyansk offensive operation in the Duki-Ilovets direction near the town of Dribin, north of the village of Lenino in...
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| x First Battle of the Aisne |
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The First Battle of the Aisne (French: 1re Bataille de l'Aisne) was the Allied follow-up offensive against the right wing of the German First Army (led by Alexander von Kluck) & Second Army (led by Karl von Bülow) as they retreated after the First...
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| x Third Battle of the Aisne |
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The Third Battle of the Aisne (French: 3e Bataille de L'Aisne) was a battle of the German Spring Offensive during World War I that focused on capturing the Chemin des Dames Ridge before the American Expeditionary Force could arrive in France. It was...
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| x Battle of Verdun |
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The Battle of Verdun was one of the most important battles in World War I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French armies from 21 February to 18 December 1916 around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France. It remains one...
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| x Fourth Battle of Kharkov |
The Fourth Battle of Kharkov was part of Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev, the Red Army's counter-offensive following the Battle of Kursk.
It was fought on in the morning of August 23, 1943 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By 12:00 the...
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| x World War I |
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World War I (abbreviated as WW-I, WWI, or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, the World War (prior to the outbreak of the Second World War), and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the...
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| x Battle of the Dardanelles |
The naval Battle of the Dardanelles took place on 10-11 May 1807 during the Russo-Turkish War (1806-12, part of the Napoleonic Wars). It was fought between the Russian and Ottoman navies near the Dardanelles Strait. The Russians were victorious.
As...
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| x September 11, 2001 attacks |
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The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger...
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| x New Zealand's "mainstream" religions declining in popularity |
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Membership in "mainstream" religions did not keep pace with growth in New Zealand's population. Anglicans fell by 29,868 and Presbyterian decreased by 30,102. While Catholic numbers increased by 22,797, this was less than the total population...
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| x First Battle of Kharkov |
The 1st Battle of Kharkov so named by Wilhelm Keitel was the 1941 tactical Wehrmacht battle for the city of Kharkiv (Ukrainian SSR) during the final phase of Operation Barbarossa by the German 6th Army of the Army Group South on October 20, 1941....
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| x OSCON 8 |
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of open source software, such as Linux, MySQL, Perl and Python. It is organized by the publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States.
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| x Argentina's Fertility Rates Decreasing |
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Based on projections from the United Nations, Argentina's fertility rate will decrease between 2005 and 2050. The speed at which the fertility rate drops will slow between 2005 and 2040, and will stabilize between 2040 and 2050.
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| x American Fertility Rates Increasing |
Based on projections by the United States Census Bureau, the fertility rate in the United States will increase between 2005 and 2050. The trend will slow slightly between 2005 and 2035 and then hold steady from 2035 through 2050.
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| x American Life Expectancy Increasing |
Based on projections by the United Nations, life expectancy at birth in the United States will increase between 2005 and 2050.
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| x Global population will be 9.4 billion by 2050 |
The United States Census Bureau issued a revised forecast for world population that increased its projection for the year 2050 to above 9.4 billion people (which was the UN's 1996 projection for 2050), up from 9.1 billion people. The future of world...
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| x Allied forces invade German Togoland |
On 7 August, French and British troops invaded the German protectorate of Togoland. Togo was captured with the surrender of German forces on 26 August 1914.
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| x Abacus invented |
The abacus, the first known calculator, was invented by the Babylonians as an aid to simple arithmetic around this date. This laid the foundations for positional notation and later computing developments.
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| x First known use of zero |
First known use of zero by mathematicians in ancient India around this date.
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| x Grammar of Sanskrit formulated |
Indian grammarian Panini formulated the grammar of Sanskrit (in 3959 rules) known as the Ashtadhyayi which was highly systematised and technical. Panini used metarules, transformations, and recursions with such sophistication that his grammar had...
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| x Binary number system described |
Indian mathematician/scholar/musician Pingala first described the binary number system which is now used in the design of essentially all modern computing equipment. He also conceived the notion of a binary code similar to the Morse code.
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| x Abacus invented |
The Chinese invented the suanpan (Chinese abacus) which was widely used until the invention of the modern calculator, and continues to be used in some cultures today.
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| x BlogHer |
BlogHer refers to a group blog and online community, and to an annual blogging conference for women. Three of the 2005 conference organizers, Elisa Camahort, Jory des Jardins, and Lisa Stone, began a company, Blogher LLC, which in 2006 also began a...
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| x First operational use of jet fighter aircraft |
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The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") was the world's first operational turbojet fighter aircraft. It was produced in World War II and saw action starting in 1944 as a multirole fighter/bomber/reconnaissance/interceptor warplane for...
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| x Genetic-based medicines will cure many diseases by 2006 |
Genetics-based medical treatments will cure or mitigate the effects of various human diseases and disorders, including pharmaceutical treatments for osteoporosis, MS, cystic fibrosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, and Alzheimer's.
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| x "Personalized" computers will recognize, obey owner's voice commands by 2006 |
Home and office personal computers will be replaced by powerful "personalized" computers that recognize an individual's voice and follow voice commands. These computers will security and service tools to...
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| x New generation of TVs will be in use by 2006 |
Television sets will be large, flat, and hang on the
wall much like a large painting and will be a digital, high-definition model
with clarity approaching that of a movie screen. This TV it will also be used as a computer monitor...
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| x Global water crisis threatens access to water | ||
| x Rapid climate change will have global impacts |
Global
warming is likely to have broad impacts during the 21st century and beyond.
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| x OSCON 1 |
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of open source software, such as Linux, MySQL, Perl and Python. It is organized by the publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States.
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| x Artificial uterus developed |
An artificial womb as described in science fiction such as
'Brave New World' is a device to support the life and maturation of a
human embryo, replacing normal natural pregnancy and childbirth. It may
eventually be less risky for both mother and...
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