* 1173 – Construction of the campanile of the cathedral of Pisa ( now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa ) begins ; it will take two centuries to complete.

* 1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.

* 1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.

* 1975 – Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

* 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

* David R. MacGregor, Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775 – 1875 Naval Institute Press, 1988 ISBN 0-87021-895-6 index

* 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada ( present-day Toronto, Ontario ).

* 1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

* Construction – 6. 6 %

* Science & Technology II Renovation / Expansion – Under Renovation / Construction – 2013

* Hash Fuction Construction for Textual and Geometrical Data Retrieval Latest Trends on Computers, Vol. 2, pp. 483 – 489, CSCC conference, Corfu, 2010

* 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at.

* 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.

The research psychologist Gary Marcus's book Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind compares evolutionary kluges with engineering ones like manifold vacuum-powered windshield wipers – when you accelerated or drove uphill, " Your wipers slowed to a crawl, or even stopped working altogether.

* Eberhard Wildermuth ( FDP ) – Minister of Construction

* 19 July 1952 – Fritz Neumayer ( FDP ) succeeds Wildermuth ( d. 9 March ) as Minister of Construction.

* Viktor-Emanuel Preusker ( FDP ) – Minister of Construction

* Paul Lücke ( CDU ) – Minister of Construction

* Paul Lücke ( CDU ) – Minister of Construction

" Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792 – 1803 ".

* 2009 – Construction begins on the new Lansing City Market along the Grand River and the river trail in downtown Lansing.

* 1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

* 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins ; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.

* 1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

The quipu of the Incas was a system of knotted cords used to record numerical data, like advanced tally sticks – but not used to perform calculations.

Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.

Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

Ramstedt's two-volume magnum opus, Einführung in die altaische Sprachwissenschaft (' Introduction to Altaic Linguistics ') was published in 1952 – 1957.

In sum, the idea was that Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic form a Sprachbund – the result of convergence through intensive borrowing and long contact among speakers of languages that are not necessarily closely related.

This was not a standard in a modern technical sense – it was the social standard of " upper class " speech.

In ancient times, the sea was the birthplace of two ancient civilizations – the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenean Civilization of the Peloponnese.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.