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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic ...
30: ... ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, trave...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] explorer
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] explorer
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]] - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...dominated by industry and machine manufacture. It began in [[England]] with the introduction of [[stea...
10: ...d to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]efficient and less labor-intensive, for...
12: ...e presence of a large domestic market should also be considered an important catalyst of the Industria...
14: ... trade. The number of deaths decreased and the number of births increased. As there were more people, ...
16: ...trialists to produce more products quicker and of better quality, so they invested in the production o... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
13: === Abba - Abbe ===
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
16: ...ge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
23: *[[Ernst Abbe|Abbe, Ernst]], (1840-1905), physicist
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: ...] and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy R...
6: ...ath ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...ngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, heir apparent to t...
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the tit...
15: ...man Emperor]] (1741-1790), married HRH Infanta Isabel of Spain (1741-1763), then HSH Princess Marie Jo... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1802]]–[[July 17]], [[1887]]) (not to be confused with the journalist [[Dorothy Dix]]) was...
4: ... psychiatrist, beginning her career as a reformer before the first woman graduated from a U.S. [[medic...
6: ...be of help to those in need. There she found a number of insane inmates in disgusting circumstances, w...
8: ...arian]] reformer [[William Ellery Channing]], and began her career as a [[teacher]] and [[writer]].
10: ...so much on her career, it is plausible to see her becoming depressed as she perceived the limited oppo... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: ...e [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
20: ...tion of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible ...
23: ... a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] — before founding his own vision of higher education a...
25: ...[[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimo...
30: ... discipline then in its infancy. He has sometimes been called the ''"[[List of people known as the fat... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
22: ...niversity]] in [[1787]], and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then was admitted to t...
26: ...], [[1808]], when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with...
28: ...|St. Petersburg]] from [[1809]] to [[1814]], a member of the commission which negotiated the [[Treaty ...
30: ...e "Lone Wolf" for his positions during this time, because he often did not go with everyone else's opi...
71: * [[Robert Trimble]] - [[1826]] - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</td></tr>
22: '''Martin Van Buren''' ([[December 5]], [[1782]] – [[July 24]], [[1862]]), ni...
27: ...e study of [[law]], completing his preparation in 1802 at [[New York City|New York]], where he studied u...
29: ...entered the state Senate, and he also became a member of the [[Court for the Correction of Errors]], t...
33: ...y-general, an office which he held, still as a member of the Senate, until [[1819]], when he was displ... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...Johnson''' ([[October 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United States House of R...
5: ...was admitted to the bar in [[1802]], and was a member of the state House of Representatives from [[180...
7: ...enden]], and was reelected and served from [[December 10]], [[1819]] to [[March 3]], [[1829]]. He was...
11: Johnson was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, b...
13: ...e House of Representatives, and, in the case of Robert Ward, a Senator as well. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into ...
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
48: ** [[Fermentation]] to produce [[beer]] in [[Sumeria]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
53: * [[Rubber]] in [[Mesoamerica]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
13: ...le|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
79: *[[Robert Yerkes|Yerkes, Robert]] (1876-1956), psychologist
88: *[[Yi Sun-sin]], ([[1545]] - [[November 19]], [[1598]]), Korean admiral
165: *[[John Young|Young, John]], (1802-1852), American politician
176: *[[Robert Young (actor)|Young, Robert]], (1907-1998), American actor - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...pposite end. Features as small as 35 m across can be seen.]]
4: ...eorg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1937), the egypto...
6: ...and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...ulder]]-sized or smaller. The distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive passag...
10: ...up in solar orbits, such as the [[Mariner IV]] probe. - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
10: ...ron'' refers to things "high in the sky", that is between [[Earth]] and the realm of the stars, while ...
12: ...[[wind speed]] was constructed in [[1667]] by [[Robert Hooke]], while [[Horace de Saussure]] completed...
14: ...pressure]] which lead to [[thermodynamics]] and [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s kite experiments with [[lightn...
18: ...ntroduced their systems for classifying clouds ([[1802]]) and wind speeds ([[1806]]), respectively. The ...
20: ...gy)|front]]s, that is, sharply defined boundaries between air masses. - History of biology (3053 bytes)
3: ... by [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] (''Hydrog鯬ogie'', 1802). The word itself appears in the title of Volume ...
9: ...''[[On the Origin of Species]]'' ([[1859]]) describes [[natural selection]], the primary mechanism for...
13: ...[[stem cells|totipotent stem cell]]s have come to be recognized as a fundamental object of study for t... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey]] ([[1852]]-[[1911]])
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Cloud (9947 bytes)
18: ... re-evaporate as they fall into in the warmer air beneath the cloud.
22: ...vercome air currents in the cloud and the updraft beneath it and fall as rain. As a droplet falls thro...
28: ... This system was proposed by [[Luke Howard]] in [[1802]] in a presentation to the [[Askesian Society]].
32: ... composed of [[ice crystal]]s. The clouds tend to be wispy, and are often transparent.
48: These develop between 6,500 and 16,500 feet (between 2,000 and 5,000 m) and are denoted by the pr... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...uering]] most of Europe; the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]]...
5: ...warfare from [[April 20]], [[1792]], until [[November 20]], 1815, is sometimes (though rarely these da...
11: ...s no longer a dominant power in Europe, as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis ...
14: ..., and the end of others. The map of Europe was to be re-drawn in the next hundred years following Napo...
15: * On the other hand, another concept had been brought about — that of Europe. Napoleon ... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
131: [[Befunge]] --
132: [[BeOS]] --
133: [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] --
134: [[BETA programming language]] --
193: [[Computer numbering formats]] -- - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]. He is remembered not so much for his tenure as the third [[Vice...
9: ...r|Revolutionary War]], in which he served under [[Benedict Arnold]], [[George Washington]] and [[Israe...
13: ...for a short distance during the retreat from [[Quebec]]. Burr's courage earned him a place on Washing...
14: ...r at [[Albany, New York|Albany]] in [[1782]], and began to practice in [[New York City]] after its eva...
18: ...]], born in [[1783]], became widely known for her beauty and accomplishments. She married [[Joseph Als... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
9: ...] - arguably, the world's first public railway, albeit a horse-drawn one.
14: ... Trevithick died in poverty, with his achievement being largely unrecognized.
16: ...sport of goods. Evans specified that there should be separate sets of parallel tracks for trains going...
20: ...ailway Company's first line was opened on [[September 27]] [[1825]]. Stephenson himself drove [[The L...
22: ...that was needed for [[industrialization]]. In the beginning, [[Canal|canals]] were in competition with...
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