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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: Ad (7741 bytes)
46: ...vangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...ohn Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
72: ...ams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer
78: *[[Amandus Adamson|Adamson, Amandus]], (1855-1929), Estonian sculptor
79: *[[James Adamson|Adamson, James]], (1946-), 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... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
33: ...tance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly improved conditions for the wounded and by Apri...
39: ...are of her patients in Crimea earned her the everlasting respect and affection of the common soldier.
53: On [[November 29]] [[1855]], a public meeting to give recognition to Floren...
83: ...in the graveyard at [[St. Margaret Church]] in [[East Wellow]], England.
85: Florence Nightingale's lasting contribution has been her role in founding the... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
8: ...ical College where she graduated as a doctor in [[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, ... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive motive power resources. Separate loco...
23: ...onomically practical. ''Fairy Queen'', built in [[1855]]; plying between [[New Delhi]] and [[Alwar]] in ...
29: ...eum]] for diesel fuel. India has switched in the last decade from steam-powered trains to electric- and... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ... to the six succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1855]]-[[March 3]], [[1869]]). He was elected [[Speak... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
7: ...] and [[1871]], and served from [[January 31]], [[1855]], to [[March 3]], [[1873]], when he resigned to ... - Australia (39438 bytes)
48: ...iginal]] and [[Torres Strait Islander]] peoples. Eastern Australia was claimed by the [[Kingdom of Grea...
50: ...the north-east, and [[New Zealand]] to the south-east. The shortest border distance is between the mai...
54: ...ny of New Holland'', in which they wrote of "the vast island, or rather continent, of Australia, Austra...
62: ...ight|Lieutenant [[James Cook]] charted the East coast of Australia on the HM Bark ''Endeavour'' claimin...
63: ...rossings from present-day [[Southeast Asia|south-east Asia]]. Most Indigenous Australians were [[hunter... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
1: ...[Tanzania]] on the north-east, [[Malawi]] on the east, [[Mozambique]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Botswana]], and ...
39: time_zone = [[Eastern European Time|EET]] |
51: ...onaries, and traders. [[David Livingstone]], in [[1855]], was the first European to see the magnificent ...
55: ... crisis that characterized the federation in its last years. At the core of the controversy were insist...
63: ...ndependence in accordance with the [[1979]] [[Lancaster House Agreement]], but Zambia's problems were n... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
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49: ... in [[1867]]. Council Bluffs was designated the eastern terminus for the [[Union Pacific]] railroad. ...
63: ...south, and [[Wisconsin]] and [[Illinois]] on the east.
65: ...owa)|Spirit Lake]], [[West Okoboji Lake]], and [[East Okoboji Lake]] in northwest Iowa (''see [[Iowa Gr...
67: ...hese are several hundred feet thick. In the northeast along the Mississippi River is a section of the [... - Kansas (21369 bytes)
44: ... waystop and outfitting place. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kan...
61: *'''[[State motto|Motto]]:''' ''Ad astra per aspera'', or "To the stars through difficul...
82: ...y [[Nebraska]] on the north, [[Missouri]] on the east, [[Oklahoma]] on the south, and [[Colorado]] on t...
89: ...iver]] forms nearly 75 miles of the state's northeastern boundary. The Kansas River, formed by the jun...
95: ...to the [[Grassroots Art Center]] [http://home.comcast.net/~ymirymir/index2.htm]. The museum features m... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
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25: ...]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] <small>(eastern)</small><br/>[[Mountain Standard Time Zone|Mou...
41: ...h Dakota]], to the south by [[Nebraska]], to the east by [[Iowa]] and [[Minnesota]], and to the west by...
82: ...lation of eastern Dakota Territory tripled. The last major incident in this struggle occurred on Decem... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
46: * the use of [[yeast]] for:
54: ...el [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
79: * [[4th century|300s]]: [[Stirrup]] in [[Jin Dynasty (265-420)|China]] - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
15: *[[Ettore Ximenes|Ximenes, Ettore]], ([[1855]]-[[1919]]), Italian painter - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...sh by [[Anthony Hodges]], 1638, and [[R. Smith]], 1855.)
3: ...', and a treatise ''On the Sphere''. Part of the last is extant under the title of ''An Introduction to... - Alcman (1163 bytes)
3: ...ily of Agesidas, by whom he was emancipated. His mastery of Greek shows that he must have come very ear...
7: ...siderable being part of a ''Parthenion'' found in 1855 on an [[Egypt]]ian [[papyrus]]; some later discov... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
6: ...measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at G...
8: ... the last Sunday in October and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in March. For the remainder of the year lo...
31: ...eat Britain]]'s public clocks were using GMT by [[1855]], it was not made Britain's legal time until [[A...
33: ...to do so. It was based on the longitude 172? 30' East of [[Greenwich]], that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahe...
35: ... Central Standard Time, [[local mean time]], and Eastern Standard Time until it settled on EST by ordin... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...y related to, but distinct from [[science]] (at least in the modern conception). [[Technology]] concern...
29: Many ancient civilizations collected astronomical information in a systematic manner throu...
40: ... and is known as the philosophic school of [[scholasticism]]. The rise of [[Christianity]] saw a strang...
48: ===The Middle Ages: Eastern World===
52: ...8th]] centuries, a period of Islamic scholarship lasted until the [[14th century]]. This scholarship wa... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
118: *[[Cecilia Beaux]] ([[1855]]-[[1942]])
143: *[[Henryka Beyer]] ([[1782]]-[[1855]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
806: *[[Frederick McCubbin]] ([[1855]]-[[1917]])
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