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 Timeline of fictional future events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Science fiction and other related fields of fiction are often set in the future, or at least involve events in times that have not yet occurred.
It includes some events that were set in the future when the fiction containing them was first written but which have now been overtaken by real history, becoming a form of alternate history or failed prediction in the process.
Events of Escape from L.A. The Policenauts, a group of specially-trained policemen, are formed in order to secure the colonists in Beyond Coast.
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 Charleston Metro Sports Council - Major Annual Sports Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The Rockville Regatta is one of the longest-running events in the area and the oldest Lowcountry regatta.
The event is held at one of the fine facilities operated by the Charleston County PRC.
The event which was started by the South Carolina Jockey Club is much more than a horse race, it is a social event of the season with nearly 10,000 spectators enjoying a full day of races, including exciting steeplechase and flat races.
www.sportscouncil.org /events.asp   (1993 words)

  
 Classics in the History of Psychology -- James (1890) Chapter 5
In other words, however numerous and delicately differentiated the train of ideas may be, the train of brain-events that runs alongside of it must in both respects be exactly its match, and we must postulate a neural machinery that offers a living counterpart for every shading, however fine, of the history of its owner's mind.
Mental and physical events are, on all hands, admitted to present the strongest contrast in the entire field of being.
Spencer and others have suggested that these coincidences are due, not to any pre-established harmony, but to the mere action of natural selection which would certainly kill off in the long-run any breed of creatures to whom the fundamentally noxious experience seemed enjoyable.
psychclassics.yorku.ca /James/Principles/prin5.htm   (5017 words)

  
 Events Affecting the Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
This event shocked much of the upper and ruling classes, as they realized how close the young United States came to a mass rebellion, and how ineffective the Articles of Confederation were in the quelling of such rebellion.
The Rebellion was a motivating event that ultimately led to the Constitutional Convention.
Schenck and four other members were arrested under the Espionage Act for conspiring to obstruct the draft.
www.usconstitution.net /events.html   (4048 words)

  
 AEI - Events
Others are just trying to participate in the race and maybe become a respected regional power.
And others are just in the race to become part of the nations that use the sea and do not try to compete against the top powers.
In other words, people that I know and respect who five years ago would have said well, we really don't have to be concerned about a Chinese military buildup aren't saying that anymore.
www.aei.org /events/eventID.1051,filter.foreign/transcript.asp   (17684 words)

  
 Olympic Events
There are many competitions or events which take place in the Summer Olympics.
Other ways of scoring include grappling techniques, arm locks and strangle holds to immobilise an opponent and gain submission.
Events include board sailing, single-handed dinghy, double-handed dinghy, high performance dinghy open, multi-hull open and keelboat.
www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Eilis_Faherty/events.htm   (1364 words)

  
 A Flood of Immigration Like Any Other? by Mac Johnson
However, there are many characteristics that set today’s immigration frenzy apart from others -- such as that so many immigrants are now illegal entrants, that immigrants are now mostly from the third world and entering a first world America, and that many have embraced the idea that they need not assimilate into the American culture.
But for other issues, Barone is correct that we need to look at the numbers in terms relative to the changing nation.
Were there no other differences in the character of the immigrants, and the population of the modern United States demographically similar to its population in the period of 1890-1910, then Barone would be correct that all we have done today is essentially equal the greatest wave of immigration in American history.
www.humanevents.com /article.php?id=16734   (1456 words)

  
 Los Angeles Dodgers : History : Dodgers Timeline
The moniker "Bridegrooms" was attached to Manager William "Gunner" McGunnigle's 1890 ballclub because seven of the players got married around the same time in 1888.
May 1, 1890: Third baseman George Pinckney brought his streak of 570 consecutive games-played streak with him to the National League, but it ended with an injury in a game that rain prevented from even making it to the books.
June 12, 1890: Brooklyn beats the Giants, 12-6, at Washington Park in the first game to feature a passionate dispute between the two clubs in the National League, ignited by Brooklyn third-base coach Darby O'Brien, who pretended to be a baserunner and drew a throw over to third.
losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/la/history/timeline01.jsp   (893 words)

  
 PBS - THE WEST - Events from 1880-1890
Texas purchases The Alamo from the Catholic Church to preserve it as an historic shrine.
Others see in the law an opportunity to buy up surplus tribal lands for white settlers.
The law effectively destroys the political, economic and social system by which the leaders of the Mormon church have guided and governed their society, imposing federal authority in its place.
www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/events/1880_1890.htm   (1631 words)

  
 The Experience and Perception of Time
According to this, the time of an event is not simply read off from some aspect of the memory of it, but is inferred from information about relations between the event in question and other events whose date or time is known.
In other media, time can be represented spatially (as in cartoons, graphs, and analogue clocks) or numerically (as in calendars and digital clocks).
Later events, it was suggested, cannot affect earlier ones, as a matter of mind-independent fact, and this is why we do not perceive the future, only the past.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/time-experience   (5489 words)

  
 Kingwood College Library - 19th Century - the 1890s
United Mine Workers, 1890, was begun by a merger of the Knights of Labor Trade Assembly No. 135 and the National Progressive Union of Miners and Mine Laborers.
Battle of Wouned Knee on December 29, 1890 and the subsequent surrender of the Lakotas on January 16, 1896, the
Sequoia National Park were established in 1890 to protect native species of animal and plant life.
kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /19thcentury1890.htm   (3216 words)

  
 Hall County History-1890
On this valuation a tax levy was made of 6¼ mills for State purposes, and 15 mills for county purposes, wih a land road tax of $4 per 160 acres.
In the seventy school districts existing in 1885 a 32 mill tax was levied in No. 67; but, with the exception of four other districts, the levy was under 25 mills, and in one district as low as 3 mills.
In January, 1890, Chairman Rouse was reappointed, being the beginning of his third term as chairman.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ne/county/hall/ahgp1890hist3.html   (5950 words)

  
 Mother of Dolors History
This is also the reason that the cities of Springfield, Decatur, Champaign and others in Central Illinois were founded after Vandalia.
During his tenure, the exterior of the church was tuckpointed, a new roof was installed on the church, classrooms were constructed in the rectory basement and many other improvements were made to parish property.
Architectural studies were begun to replace those beams with steel and to do other renovations to the basement.
www.motherofdolors.com /history.html   (2401 words)

  
 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre - Chronology of Events
This event is recorded in history by some who say that an Indian messiah and the Ghost Dance were born.
Summer of 1890: The Ghost Dance caught on with the Sioux because of the extreme conditions they were living under.
November 13, 1890: President Harrison directed the secretary of war to assume military responsibility on the Sioux reservations to prevent an outbreak.
www.native-americans.org /newsletters/chronology-of-wounded-knee.htm   (1669 words)

  
 The American Experience | Andrew Carnegie | People & Events | The Homestead Strike
In 1890, the price of rolled-steel products started to decline, dropping from $35 a gross ton to $22 early in 1892.
In the face of depressed steel prices, Henry C. Frick, general manager of the Homestead plant that Carnegie largely owned, was determined to cut wages and break the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, one of the strongest craft unions in the country.
It is expecting too much of poor men to stand by and see their work taken by others.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html   (1244 words)

  
 Thomas Gregg's The Prophet of Palmyra, Part 4)
A few other scenes of similar character, to some of which the ceremony of dipping was added, is all that occurred during the week, of an exciting character.
The foregoing, and numerous other quotations that might be made if necessary, are not the idle and unproven statements of Gentile enemies; but are faithful transcripts from their own authorized publications.
While his romance was in progress, he took frequent occasion to read portions of it to his neighbors and friends; and by reason of its peculiarity of style, and the names he introduced, as well as the incidents narrated, it made an impression on their memories.
www.solomonspalding.com /docs1/1890GrgD.htm   (15922 words)

  
 79(R) HB 1890 - Engrossed version - Bill Text   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The presiding officer serves at the pleasure of the board of directors and is entitled to vote on all matters before the board of directors.
The board of directors may use telephone conferences or other similar telecommunication methods for purposes of establishing a quorum, for purposes of voting, and for any other meeting purpose in accordance with this subsection and Subsection (p).
A member of the association may not directly or indirectly recover the amount of any assessment made under this subsection from additional premium charges on any insurance policy written on property that is not located within the first tier coastal counties.
www.capitol.state.tx.us /tlo/79R/billtext/HB01890E.HTM   (4618 words)

  
 1890 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Australia - Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Other topics
1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar).
January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1890   (1305 words)

  
 1890 Political/Civilian Index
events at the end of the Nineteenth Century.
This section will focus on a history of events that took place throughout the Russian Empire during the end of the nineteenth century.
Tsar Nicholas II proposes a conference with other major powers for the "preservation of general peace by disarmament".
www.russianwarrior.com /1890_polithist.htm   (1140 words)

  
 The Complete Guide To Boating Lake Tahoe: Marine Events
There is a variety of events at Lake Tahoe during the summer months that either have to do with boats or can be attended by boat.
The premier event of the boating season is, of course, the Fourth of July Fireworks Display.
The events are held in the 200-seat Valhalla Boathouse Theatre, an actual lakefront boathouse built in the 1890's and recently restored and converted for this purpose.
www.boattahoe.com /marine_events.htm   (1836 words)

  
 79(R) HB 1890 - Introduced version - Bill Text   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The presiding officer serves at the pleasure of the governor and is entitled to vote on all matters before the board of directors.
Until disbursements are made as provided by this Act and rules adopted by the commissioner, all money, including investment income, deposited in the catastrophe reserve trust fund are state funds to be held by the comptroller outside the state treasury on behalf of, and with legal title in, the department.
The plan of operation shall provide for various levels of reinsurance participation; however, reinsurance ceded to the reinsurance facility may not be less than 45 percent, and may not exceed 90 percent, of the losses from each covered event in excess of each participating insurer's retention.
www.capitol.state.tx.us /tlo/79R/billtext/HB01890I.HTM   (4374 words)

  
 The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers 1890 Costuming
The ideal evening dress for gentlemen for a ball or other formal evening activity consisted of a fl tailcoat and trousers, fl or white vest, white shirt with stand-up collar, white bow tie and fl light-weight shoes or dress pumps.
While the details of cut of a modern tailcoat differ from that of the 1890's, the differences are quite subtle, so that gentlemen will find that a modern fl tailcoat, whether rented for the evening or purchased at a thrift shop or used clothing store, will do very well.
A gentleman wearing a plain dark suit can be confident that the details of his dress will pretty much escape notice and that he therefore need not be overly concerned with the matter.
vintagedancers.org /costume_1890.html   (678 words)

  
 WTBD'03 Events
There were several events recognizing World TB day held across Canada on March 24, with the main event being held in Ottawa, the nation's capital, and attended by 50 health professionals, NGO representatives, international aid and development people and government representatives.
Other activities will son be prepared by other agencies here in Indonesia.
We will be celebrating World TB Day by inviting all our TB clients, their supporters and others for a special event to which we hope to have good press coverage.
www.stoptb.org /events/world_tb_day/2003/Events/default.asp   (3438 words)

  
 Northwest Georgia events
For complete details on these and many other regional events contact us.
Two May events have been designated as part of the Top 20 Southeastern U.S. Events: The Prater's Mill Country Fair in Dalton (Varnell), and Rome's Mayfest on The Rivers.
Other big rodeos are held in Calhoun, Cartersville and Blue Ridge.
georgiahighcountry.org /events.html   (793 words)

  
 Baseball Almanac - Year In Review : 1890 National League
On May 1, 1890, George Pinkney was spiked in a game versus Boston and had to leave the field.
On June 6, 1890, Harry Wright "watched" his Philadelphia club from the dugout.
On August 16, 1890, Bill Phillips of Pittsburgh became the first pitcher to give up two grand slams, one to Tom Burns and one to Malachi Kittridge, during the same inning.
www.baseball-almanac.com /yearly/yr1890n.shtml   (452 words)

  
 1st NY Engineer Regiment during the Civil War - NY Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
In January, 1864, 205 enlisted men of the Enfants Perdus and two officers and forty enlisted men of the 4th N. Volunteer Battery were assigned to the regiment by transfer; Company L was reorganized of men of the 4th Battery and Company M in April, 1864, from recruits in the field.
At the expiration of its term of service the men entitled thereto were discharged and the regiment continued in the service.
During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 16 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 2 officers, 8 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 5 officers, 114 enlisted men; total, 7 officers, 138 enlisted men; aggregate, 145; of whom 3, enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy.
www.dmna.state.ny.us /historic/reghist/civil/other/1stEng/1stEngMain.htm   (437 words)

  
 Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Events are subject to change, please email or call ahead.
Event also includes ski team performance, food and beverage stands, various vendors with hand-made products, 608-326-0085, www.prairiedogblues.com, ticket hotline opens May 1, 888-567-1567.
Learn how this event descends from the Dousman era when the Villa Louis was known as the Artesian Stock Farm and was home to one of the Midwest’s finest racehorse farms.
www.prairieduchien.org /first/visitor/events.htm   (6460 words)

  
 AEI - Events
As chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 to 1993, she published American Memory, a report that warned about the failure of schools to convey knowledge about America's past to the next generation.
Among her other publications are Kings of the Hill (1983), a history of the House of Representatives that she wrote with her husband, Vice President Richard Cheney, and Telling the Truth (1995), an analysis of the impact of postmodernism on the study of the humanities.
To view videos of AEI events, look for the icon and link on the upper right-hand corner of individual event pages, or browse a listing of all videos.
www.aei.org /events/contentID.20040519133403144/default.asp   (582 words)

  
 California AHGP - California Men and Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
He has simply attempted to record, in a brief and an interesting manner, a few of the many events in the days forever past.
Nearly all of the events that have been written, save from books of individual experiences, have been taken from Bancroft's, and Hittell's histories, and from Spanish and pioneer manuscripts.
He has seen the majority of hte '49ers pass on ot the land whose streets are paved with gold.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ca/state1/tinkhamtoc.html   (265 words)

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