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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... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
32: *[[William Abbot|Abbot, William]], (1798-1843), British actor
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 - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...caba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
34: ...rich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
62: *[[Loren Acton|Acton, Loren]], (born 1936), US astronaut - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...f India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than...
9: ...l change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successo...
41: ... from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) to Bishop's Bridge, near [[Paddington]] (in ...
55: ...arty, described this decision as having proved disastrous to the monarchy and British rule in Ireland.
57: Victoria paid her last visit to Ireland in [[1900]], when she came to ap... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...ialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
3: <table align=right><tr><td>[[Image:NancyAstor.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...ncy Lancaster]], became famous as a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of the influential British de...
6: ...1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of [[John Jacob Astor III]].
8: ...Parliament constituency)|Plymouth Sutton]]. Nancy Astor then became the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conse... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
5: ..., the situation of Flora and her mother changed drastically from the high standards of living they were...
7: ... Tristan and her grandson [[Paul Gauguin]]'s contrasting quests for the ideal life through their experi...
9: ...s in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Union'' (1843). - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...]–[[1883]]) was the self-given name, from [[1843]], of an [[United States|American]] [[abolitionis... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
15: During a nine-month period in 1842-1843, Ada translated for Babbage Italian mathematician...
17: ... in her own right as a traveller in the [[Middle East]] and a breeder of [[Arabian horse]]s. - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
6: ...ty]] [[jail]] in [[East Cambridge, Massachusetts|East Cambridge]]. Feeling guilty about her obsessive "...
16: In [[Rhode Island]], in [[1843]], for example, she was invited by the [[humanita...
18: ...e ambitiously overreached herself, she was always astute in dealing with the male power brokers across ...
22: ... Outliving her friends and family, she spent her last years living as a guest in the [[New Jersey State... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
32: ...ually unopposed for re-election, but one elector cast his ballot for Adams, allegedly to ensure that [[...
63: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[John McLean]]'''||...
78: ...s1st.jpg|thumb|Adams posed for this photograph in 1843, the first taken of a US President]]
121: ...es Leonard Hodges]]| after=''(none)''| years=1833-1843}}
122: ... Barron Calhoun]]| after=[[Horace Mann]]| years=[[1843]]-[[1848]]}} - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
71: The last year of Tyler's presidency was marred by a freak ...
73: Tyler's last act in office was perhaps the most significant: h...
89: ...'''[[Daniel Webster]]'''||align="left"|1841–1843
91: ...ign="left"|'''[[Abel P. Upshur]]'''||align="left"|1843–1844
97: ...'''[[Walter Forward]]'''||align="left"|1841–1843 - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
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]]''...
131: ...ove]] | after=[[William A. Moseley]] | years=1837-1843}} - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
27: ...r [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], with whom he formed a lasting friendship, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]...
40: ...infancy and Frank Robert Pierce ([[1839]]–[[1843]]) at the age of four from [[epidemic typhus]]. B...
53: The election of 1852 would be the last presidential contest in which the Whigs would fie...
56: ...("Bennie") was crushed to death in the [[train disaster]]. Grief-stricken, Pierce entered the presidenc...
60: ...nterests along part of the [[Central America]]n coast, and even more when he tried to persuade [[Spain]... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
32: | [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
50: ...t overall and the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents...
53: ...itted to the bar in [[1812]] and practiced in Lancaster. He was one of the first volunteers in the [[W...
57: ...er 6]], [[1834]]; was reelected in [[1837]] and [[1843]], and resigned on [[March 5]], [[1845]], to acc...
86: ...He was interred in Woodward Hill Cemetery, in Lancaster. "Wheatland" should not be confused with the [... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
48: Lincoln had a lasting influence on U.S. political and social institu...
70: *[[Robert Todd Lincoln]] : b. [[August 1]], [[1843]] in Springfield, Illinois - d. [[July 26]], [[19...
89: In addition, Lincoln worked in at least one criminal trial in [[1857]] when he defended [...
93: ... sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Many eastern Republicans had urged the nomination of Dougla...
95: ...[Jesus]] in Matthew 12:25.) The speech created a lasting image of the danger of disunion due to slavery... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
48: ...to the four succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1843]] to [[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of ...
86: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[William Dennison]]...
111: ...n the resolution and the trial before the Senate lasted three months. Johnson's defense was based on a...
137: ...ens Arnold]]|after=[[Brookins Campbell]]| years=[[1843]] – [[1853]]}}
140: ...essee]]|before=[[Isham G. Harris]]|after=[[E. H. East]]| years=[[1862]] – [[1865]]}} - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
32: ...od for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class of 39. At the academy,...
43: ...ppi]], in [[1863]] is considered one of the most masterful in military history; it split the Confederac...
48: ...w general called "that of a bulldog". Although a master of combat by out-maneuvering his opponent (such...
50: ... which the destruction of an enemy's economic infrastructure that supplied its armies was as important ...
62: ...y of 3,012,833 out of a total of 5,716,082 votes cast. - Printing press (12986 bytes)
12: Previously, books were copied mainly in [[monasteries]], or (from the [[13th century]]) in commerc...
14: ...ns were extremely important, and also in the Far East.
27: ...pe the technological and communication edge over Eastern countries in the end, one of the major questio...
40: ...e (typography)|ligatures]], was passed down from master to apprentice. In Germany, the art of typesetti...
53: ...inuous feed allowed the presses to run at a much faster pace. - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
53: ...urg]] begins with the construction of Luxembourg Castle in the [[963]]. Around this fort a town gradual...
81: Luxembourg's eastern border is formed by three rivers, the [[Mosell...
83: ...[[Echternach]], against the German border in the east.
96: ...hemicals, rubber, and other products. During the past decades, growth in the [[financial sector]] has m...
107: The law of [[July 26]], [[1843]] reinforced bilingualism by introducing the teac... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
1: ...eroon]] on the north, [[Gabon]] on the south and east, and the [[Gulf of Guinea]] on the west, where th...
91: ...report, as to Equatorial Guinea, showed that at least $35 million were siphoned off by Obiang, his fami...
112: ...between the 17th and 19th centuries brought the coastal tribes and later the [[Fang]]. Elements of the ...
113: ...th America ([[Treaty of El Pardo]]). From 1827 to 1843, Britain established a base on the island to comb...
120: In addition, there are coastal tribes, sometimes referred to as "Playeros": [[...
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