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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
30: ... several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other pla... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...ediæval]], and [[modern]]; [[Eastern hemisphere|Eastern]] and [[Western hemisphere|Western]]; [[religi...
20: ...res less prominently, and the Theory of Forms is cast in doubt; more directly ethical questions become ...
42: ...author might write from the perspective that 1600-1800 is essentially one continuous evolution, and ther...
44: ... rise of empiricism and humanism in place of scholastic tradition. [[17th-century philosophy]] is domin...
52: ==Eastern philosophy== - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
38: ...ufacturing and technology began to appear in the last decade of the 18th century, and a number regularl...
55: ...filing, scraping and perhaps grinding with emery paste, was very laborious and costly.
83: ...ade great strides with using coke to fuel his [[blast furnace]]s at Coalbrookdale 1709, although this w...
96: Until about 1800, the most common pattern of steam engine was the ...
101: ...ansport was by navigable rivers and roads, with coastwise vessels employed to move heavy goods by sea. ... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...ers, particularly Highland pipers. In the Middle east, and the Balkans, a whole goatskin is used, cured...
40: ...e [[Biniou Brahz]], meaning Great Biniou, in contrast to the [[biniou]], the small traditional Breton b...
42: ...n Ireland before the [[1700]]s, but in the late [[1800]]s a number of Irish pipers revived it in Ireland...
47: ... slow airs, and more. It dates largely from the last two centuries, being either Scottish or Irish fol...
72: ...he bagpipe used in [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], [[Asturias]] and northern region of [[Portugal]]. It h... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
36: ...bott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
46: ...rahman III]], (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain
70: ...鬡rd|Ab鬡rd, Pierre]], (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher
71: ...e Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
23: ... [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had been evacuated...
29: ...h Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast to the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwe...
55: ...he first British monarch since the [[Act of Union 1800|Act of Union]] in 1801 to be out of the country a...
60: ... be her home. She also spends time at [[Balmoral Castle]] in [[Scotland]] and at [[Sandringham House]] ...
64: ...literacy, Queen Elizabeth has witnessed over the past 50 years a gradual transformation of the British ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...er father was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Pol...
5: ... [[Fyodor Ivanovich Schubert]] (mathematician and astronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences... - Rose (15436 bytes)
23: ...e [[deciduous]], but a few (particularly in southeast [[Asia]]) are [[evergreen]] or nearly so.
29: ...(both the two species cited grow naturally on [[coast]]al [[dune|sand dunes]]). Despite the presence of...
65: ...ent. Many wild and "old-fashioned" roses, by contrast, have a strong sweet [[scent]]. A few cultivars, ...
78: ...s of Portland]] who received (from [[Italy]] in [[1800]]) a rose then known as ''R. paestana'' or 'Scarl...
110: ...refer to the [[House_of_Lancaster|red rose of Lancaster]], and the [[House of York|white rose of York]]... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ...4 x 1 x 1/3 feet and four octaves in range), the last instruments built were up to seven feet long with...
11: ...se in any but the smallest ensembles. [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]]'s son [[Carl Philipp Emmanue...
13: ...cordings of the instrument have been made in the past 70 years. Leading modern exponents of the instrum... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ... Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (30.03333, 31.21667). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/...
16: ...overnment buildings and modern architecture, the eastern half is filled with hundreds of ancient [[mosq...
18: ...ter systems have also allowed the city to expand east into the desert. Bridges link the Nile islands o...
20: ...mids]], including the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] (last surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the Wor...
26: ...es, Egypt|Thebes]], and, under the [[Ptolemaic dynasty]], [[Alexandria]]. - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
28: ...larly after the addition of valves (after about [[1800]]), and its use and instruction became much more ... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
20: ...haracteristics were first used in Europe around [[1800]] AD for organs. People used their knowledge and ...
22: .... It is thought that a traveler to China in the [[1800s]] brought this idea back to Europe. However, the...
37: ...ent in [[1908]], making the first [[radio]] broadcast of the accordion in [[1921]] and the first sound ...
64: ...erred for classical music, and is very common in Eastern Europe whereas the C layout is common in the w... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
1: {{Egyptian Dynasty list}}
2: ...f the [[Fourteenth dynasty of Egypt|Fourteenth dynasty]], roughly between [[1986 BC]] and [[1633 BC]].
5: ...te the Middle Kingdom to the beginning of that dynasty.
7: ==The Twelfth dynasty==
8: ...lfth dynasty. The first Pharaoh of the Twelfth dynasty (Amenemhat I), is according to some sources the ... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...es assigning beginnings and endings to various Dynasties. The [[conventional Egyptian chronology]] is a...
7: ...of assigning beginnings and endings to various Dynasties, and 2) externally, the problem is reconciling...
9: ... settle many of these questions while others may last for eternity.
13: ... so the previous "firm" dates cannot be supported astronomically.
15: This Menophres Era can be tied to at least four Egyptian rulers, although there was absolute... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
12: ... time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a resident of the ...
35: ...utive branch of the federal government — a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, in...
53: ...01 marked the first year of the 19th century, not 1800.
264: ...ents have died in every decade except four: the [[1800s]], [[1810s]], [[1950s]], and [[1980s]].
291: ... Secret Service until the President's death. The last President to have lifetime Secret Service protect... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
48: ...s]] to the fisheries along the British-American coast should be recognized. Eventually the American neg...
57: ...kney]], the other Federalist in the contest (at least in part so that Jefferson would not become vice p...
61: In [[1800]], Adams ran again as the Federalist presidential...
64: ... Adams died at Quincy, after uttering the famous last words "Thomas Jefferson still survives." (Unbekno...
88: ...[[Timothy Pickering]]'''||align="left"|1797–1800 - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
27: ...e of his collection (the Library was founded in [[1800]]; Jefferson sold his third library to the Congre...
35: ...gricultural nation of [[yeoman]] farmers, in contrast to the vision of [[Alexander Hamilton]], who envi...
39: ...Aaron Burr]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1800]]. It was resolved on [[February 17]], [[1801]] w...
102: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]...
178: ...rson, or a close relative, may have fathered at least one of Hemings' children [http://www.samsloan.com... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
22: ...lined to favor and emulate their former colonial masters. Jackson admired [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] for hi...
24: ... family. He came to [[Tennessee]] shortly after [[1800]], as a young lawyer. Since he was not of a disti...
32: ...ad been robbed by the corrupt aristocrats of the East. He won a solid victory in his [[U.S. presidentia...
34: ...ection represented a significant break from that past.
48: * it favored Northeastern states over Southern and Western (now Midweste... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
29: ...entrance into politics. New York politics after [[1800]], the year of the election of [[Thomas Jefferson...
49: ...ans who acted as Jackson's advisers, and won the lasting regard of Jackson by his courtesies to Mrs. Jo...
59: ...several states. Calhoun, bitterly hostile to the last, objected to the usual vote of thanks to the reti...
63: ... state elections of [[1837]] and [[1838]] were disastrous for the Democrats, and the partial recovery i...
71: ...rhook at 2:00 a.m. on [[July 24]], [[1862]]. His last words were: "There is but one reliance..." - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
9: ...><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[January 7]], [[1800]]</td></tr>
20: ...d to the presidency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whi...
62: ...4 of the after effects of a [[stroke]] with his last words alleged to be, upon being fed some soup, "t...
64: To this day Millard Fillmore remains the last U.S. president who was neither a [[United States ...
95: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Nathan K. Hall]]''...
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