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- History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...d redistribute crops, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization a...
28: ...ilosophy)|Legalism]] and [[Mohism]] were founded. After further political consolidation, seven promine...
48: *[[Rafe de Crespigny|de Crespigny, Rafe]]. 1977. The Ch’iang Barbarians and the Em...
49: ...licies and Strategies of the Later Han Empire''. Rafe de Crespigny. 1984. Faculty of Asian Studies, Au...
50: ...y history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu'' by Rafe de Crespigny, in Asian Studies Monographs, New S... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
27: ... [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visit home, spent a year in Khios. It ...
31: ...on. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors.
33: ...] to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the P...
39: ...ing posts and later colonies along the coast of [[Africa]]. Columbus had another idea. By the [[1480s]...
43: ... landmass (for Europeans of the time, Eurasia and Africa) occupied 180 degrees of the terrestrial sphe... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
38: ...ann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853) - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
14: ...mother and her governess, during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was sc...
20: ...hat Albert's and now her own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha a...
37: ...e, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theories afflicted the country with a wave of patriotism and ...
43: ...ord's acquittal in 1840. On [[3 July]], just days after Francis' sentence was commuted, another boy, [...
46: ...Victoria was the [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary]], [[Henry John Temple, 3r... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
5: ...at the age of four, and responsibility of looking after the young girl fell to her father. She complet...
7: ...haraja Gangadhar Rao expired on [[21 November]] [[1853]], when Lakshmi Bai was 18 years old.
19: ...y advanced on Jhansi, and laid siege to the city. After two weeks of fighting the British captured the...
24: ...rmy]] created its first female unit, it was named after her.
25: ...Tambe, was captured and hanged to death, few days after fall of Jhansi. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...ombaia' in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], she was named after the city of her birth, as was her older sister...
25: On [[August 12]], [[1853]], Nightingale took a post of superintendent at t...
27: ... On [[October 21]], [[1854]], Nightingale and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses, trained by Nightin...
31: ...ers being badly cared for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. [[Medicine...
35: ...nd curtains. The carriage was returned to England after the war and subsequently given to the Nighting... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...nnes Brahms]], at age twenty, met the couple in [[1853]] and his friendship with Clara lasted until her ...
14: ...nds birthday, the three Romances were composed in 1853 and dedicated to Joseph Joachim who performed the... - Painting (4567 bytes)
48: *[[Spray paint]] ([[Graffiti]])
70: *[[Graffiti]]
98: *[[Vincent Van Gogh|Vincent van Gogh]] ([[1853]]-[[1890]]) - Wagner tuba (1858 bytes)
4: ...is instrument after a brief visit to [[Paris]] in 1853, when he had dropped by the shop of [[Adolphe Sax... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
29: ...in Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is traditionally ...
38: ...cretary of Veterans Affairs|Secretary of Veterans Affairs]].
40: ... office of President or merely act as President. After the death of [[William Henry Harrison]], howev...
51: ...ember 5]], [[1782]], was the first president born after the [[United States Declaration of Independenc...
52: ...arch 29]], [[1790]], was the first president born after the adoption of the [[United States Constituti... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
21: ...nited States]]. He was the second President born after the signing of the [[United States Declaration...
25: ...llowed his father as governor ([[1825]]-[[1827]]) after a stint in the House of Representatives. Duri...
50: *Lyon Gardiner Tyler ([[August 24]], [[1853]] - [[February 12]], [[1935]]).
54: ...ngest child, Pearl, died almost exactly 100 years after the death of his eldest daughter, Mary.
58: ...xpelled from the Whig Party in 1841, a few months after taking office, and the entire cabinet he had i... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
6: ...'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
20: ...]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[President of the United States]] and the sec...
62: ...]]. He died at 11:10 p.m. on March 8, 1874 of the after effects of a [[stroke]] with his last words a...
79: ...'[[Millard Fillmore]]'''||align="left"|1850–1853
87: ...'''[[Edward Everett]]'''||align="left"|1852–1853 - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1853]]
18: ...[President of the United States]], serving from [[1853]] to [[1857]]. Pierce was a [[United States Democ...
20: ...ection]], and was replaced by [[James Buchanan]]. After losing the Democratic nomination, Pierce conti...
22: ... her aristocratic, nervous ways and show her true affection. He was one of the most popular men in New...
29: ...its and graduated in [[1824]] third in his class. After graduation he in [[1826]] entered a [[law scho... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
55: ...to whom Buchanan was once engaged died a few days after she broke off the engagement, and Buchanan the...
61: ...853]] to [[1856]], during which time he help to draft the [[Ostend Manifesto]] which proposed the purc...
82: ...ance from Fort Sumter, it turned back to New York after suffering minor damage. As a result of the op...
156: ...trict of Pennsylvania| before=[[Jacob Hibshman]]| after=[[John Phillips]]| years=[[1821]] – [[18...
157: ...ct of Pennsylvania| before=[[James S. Mitchell]]| after=[[William Hiester]]| years=[[1823]] – [[... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
48: ...ral government reverted to its customary weakness after Reconstruction and the modern administrative s...
50: His [[assassination]], shortly after the end of the Civil War, made him a [[martyr]...
53: ... of economic difficulty in Kentucky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indian...
59: ... New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writing after being elected by his peers that he had not had...
61: ...itical ventures, and failed at them all. Finally, after coming across the second volume of [[Sir Willi... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
48: ...ngresses ([[March 4]], [[1843]] to [[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of the Committee on Public E...
51: ...f Tennessee. He was Governor of Tennessee from [[1853]] to [[1857]], and was elected as a Democrat to t...
109: ...for which Stanton had Thomas arrested. Three days after Stanton's removal, the House passed a resoluti...
137: ...r=[[Brookins Campbell]]| years=[[1843]] – [[1853]]}}
138: ... B. Campbell]]|after=[[Isham G. Harris]]| years=[[1853]] – [[1857]]}} - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
7: ...irs and the Militia and the Committee on Military Affairs. In [[1861]] he raised and commanded the Tw...
12: ...l nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Schuyler Colfax]]|after=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[U.S. presidenti...
13: ...of the United States]]|before=[[Schuyler Colfax]]|after=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[March 4]], [[18... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
48: ... It's the second largest country of South America after Brazil and the 8th largest country in the [[wo...
57: ...stablished, and the constitution promulgated in [[1853]].
69: ...ns�government, which left office 6 months early after Peronist candidate [[Carlos Saul Menem]] won t...
75: ...enem withdrew from the [[May 25]] runoff election after polls showed overwhelming support for Kirchner...
80: ...hey are allowed to stand for a third term or more after an interval of at least one term. The presiden... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
85: ...a, Arizona|Yuma]], and [[Flagstaff, Arizona|Flagstaff]]. Besides the [[Grand Canyon National Park|Gran...
96: ... the end of the [[Mexican War]] in [[1848]]. In [[1853]] the land below the [[Gila River]] was acquired ...
100: ... war camp during [[WWII]]. The site was purchased after the war by the Maytag family, and is currently...
134: ...orado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of [[sediment]] as the [[Colorado Platea...
138: ...int:'' [[Humphreys Peak]] - 12,633 ft. near Flagstaff - California (63989 bytes)
89: ...t [[Economy of California|economy]] in the world (after the rest of the U.S., [[Japan]], [[Germany]], ...
101: ...ly dissolved and abandoned. For a quarter century after the achievement of Mexican independence in 182...
109: ...tant upper California numbered around 4,000. But after gold was discovered, the population burgeoned ...
113: ...ental Railroad|first transcontinental railroad]]. After this rail link was established, hundreds of th...
126: ...852–1853), [[Benicia, California|Benicia]] (1853–1854), and [[San Francisco, California|San ...
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