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Definition: 58 |
58Adjective1. Being eight more than fifty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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To help compare sizes of different geographic regions, we list here areas between 10 km² (1000 hectares) and 100 km² (10,000 hectares). See also areas of other orders of magnitude.
See also: Orders of magnitude
- Areas smaller than 10 km²
- 10 km² is equal to:
- 3.86 square miles
- 1000 hectares
- 107 m²
- 12 km² -- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- 15 km² -- Beverly Hills, California
- 30 km² -- Hayling Island
- 40 km² -- Beaverton Oregon
- 59 km² -- Manhattan
- 61 km² -- San Marino
- 75 km² -- Arapawa Island
- Areas larger than 100 km²
External link
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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s
Years: 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 - 1558 - 1559 1560 1561 1562 1563
Events
- January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England
- July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
- April 24 - Mary I of Scotland marries Francis II of France
- November 17 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth.
Births
- Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer
- Thomas Kyd, English playwright
Deaths
- April 18 - Aleksandra Lisowska, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
- September 21 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- October 21 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, humanist scholar
- November 17 - Queen Mary I of England.
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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
Years: 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 - 1858 - 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863
Events
- January 14 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
- January 25 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, "Vicky," the Princess Royal to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St. James's Palace, London
- February 11 - The Virgin Mary is said appear to St Bernadette of Lourdes
- March 30 - Hyman Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
- May 11 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
- June 23 - kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
- July 29 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
- August 5 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts.
- August 16 - US President James Buchanan inaugurates the new trans-Atlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
- British Empire takes over powers & properties of the British East India Company (see also history of Bangladesh).
- Benito Juarez becomes constitutional president of Mexico
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
- 1858 in literature:
- Phantastes - George MacDonald
Births
- January 7 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda responsible for revival of Hebrew language
- January 10 - Heinrich Zille, illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
- January 25 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
- March 18 - Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the compression ignition engine (d. 1913)
- March 1 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher.
- April 23 - Max Planck, German physicist, inventor of the quantum mechanics
- June 16 - King Gustav V of Sweden
- August 1 - Hans Rott, composer
- August 27 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician
- October 27 - Theodore Roosevelt, later President of the United States
- December 22 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer
Deaths
- March 4 - Matthew C. Perry, American Commodore.
- April 7 - Anton Diabelli, music publisher, editor and composer
- June 3 - Julius Reubke, composer
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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 - 1958 - 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
See also:
- 1958 in film
- 1958 in literature
- 1958 in music
- 1958 in sports
- 1958 in television
- 1958 in Canada
Events
- January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957)
- January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship
- January 28 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister
- January 29 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
- January 31 - The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit.
- January 31 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt
- February 1 - Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic.
- February 5 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- February 6 - Munich Air Disaster
- February 11 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.
- February 11 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African American woman hired as a flight attendant
- February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
- March 17 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
- March 22 - Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia
- March 26 - The United States Army launches Explorer III.
- March 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union
- May 12 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
- May 13 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
- May 15 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
- May 18 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph.
- May 23 - Explorer I ceased transmission
- May 30 - The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
- July 7 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
- July 14 - Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Qassim becomes the nation's new leader.
- July 15 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there.
- July 26 - Explorer program: Explorer IV is launched.
- July 29 - The United States Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
- October 1 - NASA starts operations and replaces the NACA
- October 2 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.
- October 11 - Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
- October 28 - Angleo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII.
- November 23 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.
- November 25 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
- November 28 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- December 1 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
- BBC Radiophonic Workshop created
- During the International Geophysical Year, Earth's magnetosphere is discovered
- The United States conducts Operation Argus during August and September
Year in topic
- 1958 in film
- Gigi
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- The Defiant Ones
- Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, starring Jimmy Stewart
- 1958 in literature
- August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published.
- 1958 in music
- January 20 - Elvis Presley receives his draft notice
- 1958 in sports
- 1958 in television
- Ampex demonstrates their design for a color Video Tape Recorder
Births
- January 20 - Lorenzo Lamas, actor
- January 24 - Jools Holland, musician
- January 26 - Ellen DeGeneres, actress, comedienne
- February 11 - Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2.
- February 11 - Regina Marsikova, Czechoslovakian tennis player.
- February 13 - Pernilla August, actress
- February 16 - Ice-T, singer, songwriter, actor
- February 21 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, singer
- February 24 - Sammy Kershaw, musician
- March 3 - Miranda Richardson, actress
- March 5 - Andy Gibb, singer (d. 1988)
- March 10 - Sharon Stone, actress
- March 14 - Prince Albert of Monaco
- March 20 - Holly Hunter, actress
- March 21 - Gary Oldman, actor
- April 3 - Alec Baldwin, actor
- April 21 - Andie MacDowell, actress
- May 16 - Amp Fiddler, musician (P Funk)
- May 20 - Ron Reagan, dancer, talk show host, son of former President Ronald Reagan
- May 23 - Drew Carey comedian, actor
- May 27 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
- May 27 - Wayne Williams, murderer in Atlanta
- July 28 - Terry Fox, cancer activist
- August 7 - Bruce Dickinson, English heavy metal musician
- October 5 - Bernie Mac. Actor, comedian.
- October 14 - Thomas Dolby, English rock musician
- October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
- December 6 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator
Deaths
- January 11 - Edna Purviance, actress
- January 30 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist
- February 4 - Henry Kuttner, science fiction author
- February 13 - Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette
- March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer
- March 22 - Michael Todd, producer
- March 28 - W.C. Handy - Blues composer
- May 19 - Ronald Colman, actor
- August 14 - Frédéric Joliot, scientist
- December 15 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, physicist
Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
- Chemistry - Frederick Sanger
- Medicine - George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
- Literature - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- Peace - George Henri Pire
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Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd centuryDecades: 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s - 50s - 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s
Years: 53 54 55 56 57 - 58 - 59 60 61 62 63 Events
Births
- The Ficus Ruminales begins to die (see Rumina)
- Start of Yongping era of the Chinse Han Dynasty.
- Roman emperor Nero is also a Roman Consul.
- The friendship between Nero and Otho ends when they both fall in love with Poppea Sabina.
Deaths
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Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st centuryDecades: 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC - 50s BC - 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC
Years: 63 BC 62 BC 61 BC 60 BC 59 BC 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC 55 BC 54 BC 53 BC Events
Births
- First year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars: June - Caesar defeats the migrating Helvetii in the Battle of the Arar.
- July - Caesar decisively defeats the Helvetii in the Battle of Bibracte.
- September - Caesar decisively defeats the forces of the Germanic chieftain Ariovistus near modern Belfort
Deaths
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Nièvre is a French département, number 58, named after the Nièvre River.Préfecture (capital): Nevers
Sous-préfectures: Château Chinon, Clamecy and Cosne Cours sur Loire.
See also: Communes of the Nièvre département
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Synonyms: 58Synonyms: fifty-eight (adj), lviii (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: 58 |
| English words defined with "58": Bishop's length ♦ Eocene, Eocene epoch ♦ Paleocene, Paleocene epoch ♦ Speculum metal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "58": ALGOL 58, Altaschith ♦ back dive, back dive layout, backward dive, BARRELS PER DAY EQUIVALENT ♦ Gastrolators ♦ IAL, Immunoglobulins, alpha-Chain, International Algebraic Language, Iron Isotopes, Ishbosheth ♦ throttle butterfly. (references) |
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Screenplays | He once played the Minute Waltz in 58 seconds (Airport; writing credit: Arthur Hailey; George Seaton) Is the atomic weight of cobalt 58.9 (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Imágenes del deporte Nº 58 (1973) Rijksweg 58 (1969) 58 másodperc (1964) 58.2/B (1958) Grenzstation 58 (1951) | |
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 | "A Section of the Seattle Waterfront". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 58. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Anchorage Naas Bay. Salmon Cove Observatory Inlet, B. C. In: Pacific Coast Pilot Alaska Part I 1883. P. 58. Library call number VK943 .N3 1883. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | An icy beach in Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands, a glacier front to right. 62 10 S Latitude 58 25 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 58. Naturel de Nouka-Hiva. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | Plate XVI. 57. Xenodermichthys nodulosus, Gunther. Gunther, Challenger Report , Vol. XXII. 58. Aleposomus socialis, (Vaillant), Goode and Bean. From Vailla nt, "Exped. Scient. du Travailleur et du Talisman." Microstoma rotundatum, (Ris so), Gunther. From Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire Natur. des Poissons de la France." Harpodon macrochir, Gunther. Gunther, Challenger Report, Vol. 22. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Plate XXVI. 97. Notoscopelus quercinus, Goode and Bean. From off St. Pierre et Miquelon. 98. Notoscopelus margaritiferus, Goode and Bean. From N. Lat. 44.2, W. Lon. 58.0, in 300 fathoms.99. Lampadena speculigera, Goode and Bean. From off Newport R. I. in 16 1/2 fathoms. 100. Collettia Rafinesquei, (Cocco), Goode and Bean. From ALBATROSS at N. Lat. 37.2, W. Lon. 69.6, in 2949 fathoms. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Analyzing samples in the chemistry laboratory. Plate 58. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 58. Albert sounder. The idea of Cardinal Cusanus, mentioned in the previous figure, was re-examined by the Italian architect Leo Battista Alberti and subsequentlydescribed by Giuseppe Biancani in 1635. The design was even simpler than Puhler's device. A simple rule of three was devised to derive the depth from the travel time to the bottom and return of the float. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Diagram of orbital path of TIROS satellite after launch. First orbit is to the right and increase to most recent orbit on the left. Note that inclined orbit only takes TIROS satellite to approximately 50 North Latitude and 58 South Latitude. Each orbit took approximately 117 minutes. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Chart by Walter A. Lane, published in "The Soldier in our Civil War", Volume II. The positions of 58 ships are represented on the chart. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "58" by Bjarte Kvinge Tvedt Commentary: "58. sign.. ." |
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Epicurus | 58. We must release ourselves from the prison of affairs and politics. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In 1995, we gave this newly identified condition a name - ALPS. By August 1999, we diagnosed ALPS in 58 individuals from 35 families. (references) | |
Business | Almost 58 percent belong to the commercial sector. (references) | |
In 1998 58 percent was exported and in 1999 it held at around 56 percent. (references) | ||
In 1996, the franchisers had 58,625 outlets grossing US$4 billion in sales. (references) | ||
Children | Nigeria | The literacy rate for men is 58 percent but only 41 percent for women. (references) |
Ethiopia | Of the 94,508 students in grade 12 who took the exam, 37,375 students passed; of the 106,334 students in grade 10 who took the exam, 58,507 passed. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | According to 1998 statistics, 58 percent of the teachers in Jewish schools had university degrees compared with 39 percent of the teachers in Arab schools. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ethiopia | There are 58 organized political parties; 8 are national parties, and the remainder operate only in limited areas. (references) |
Korea | Seven Christian men, ranging in age from 15 to 58 years, were killed in April 2000, according to an unconfirmed report. (references) | |
Lithuania | During the year, 3 persons received refugee status, 266 were granted residence permits, 58 applications were rejected, and 97 cases were terminated. (references) | |
Economic History | Bermuda | Area: 58.8 sq. km. (22.7 sq. mi.). (references) |
Ethiopia | Population (1997 est.): 58 million. (references) | |
Russia | Health: Life expectancy--(1996) 58 yrs. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hong Kong | Since 1998 58 laws have been amended to encompass the State specifically. (references) |
Italy | The prison system has a capacity of 42,775 but holds almost 58,000 detainees. (references) | |
Korea | While Amnesty International has listed 58 political prisoners by name, the total number of political prisoners being held is much larger. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | In July 2000, a total of 55 of the 58 Pemon communities affected by the power lines signed an agreement with the Government that pledged to establish a commission for the demarcation of native lands and to create a development fund for indigenous people. (references) |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | In June 58 tombstones were damaged in a Jewish cemetery that was declared a cultural heritage site, in the town of Levice. (references) |
Political Economy | Ukraine | Wage arrears began to decrease in 2000, and by November had decreased by approximately 58 percent. (references) |
Political Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Sub-national government entities exist on several levels, and include 19 regions, 58 departments, 230 sub-prefectures, and 196 communities. (references) |
Cameroon | The President also has the power to appoint important lower level members of the 58 provincial administrative structures, including the senior divisional officers, the divisional officers, and the district chiefs. (references) | |
Trade | Bulgaria | Article 58 allows entry of samples and products for trade exhibitions. (references) |
Travel | Thailand | Thailand has coastlines on the Gulf of Thailand and on the Andaman Sea with 58 sea channels, 40 operational seaports and 90 fishing trawler piers . Out of 6,000 kilometers of navigable inland waterways, 1,750 kilometers can be used as transportation routes for bulk cargo . Thailand offers the advantages of low-priced handling, cheap labor and inexpensive storage costs. (references) |
Women | Saudi Arabia | They constitute over 58 percent of all university students, but are excluded from studying such subjects as engineering, journalism, and architecture. (references) |
Belarus | Women make up approximately 58 percent of workers with a higher education and approximately 66 percent of workers with a specialized secondary education. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Estonia | The largest trade union is the Central Organization of Estonian Trade Unions (EAKL): it is wholly voluntary and has 58,000 members. (references) |
Hong Kong | In 2000 there were 58,092 occupational accidents, of which 33,652 were classified as industrial accidents, 43 of which involved fatalities. (references) | |
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| "58" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "58" is used about 784 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Cardinal Number | 100% | 784 | 8,824 |
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Expressions using "58": algol 58 ♦ atomic number 58. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)35 38 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00110101 00111000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)5 8 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0035 0038 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)2326 |
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