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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
121: | [[1815]] — [[1818]]
205: ...]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - 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]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
28: *[[David Hayes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon
29: *[[S.Y. Agnon|Agnon, S.Y.]], (1888-1970), [[Nobel]] prizewinning author
32: *[[Benjamin Agosto|Agosto, Benjamin]], (born 1982), American skater
53: *[[Ruben Aguirre|Aguirre, Ruben]], (born 1934), Mexican actor - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...ra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ...', all of her similarly-named predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra was never in fact ...
9: ... the Kings had to marry their sisters in order to be qualified to rule. Following the deaths of her br...
11: ...nd Cleopatra. (It should be noted that Pompey had been married to Caesar's daughter, who died giving b...
13: ...nd Cleopatra shored up her political advantage by becoming his lover. Egypt remained independent, but ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her life.
12: ...w Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] an...
14: ...at parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionable....
15: ...er male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's father.
17: ...Scotland. Instead, through Mary's son, it was the beginning of their reign over a united Scotland and ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: '''Jane Austen''' ([[December 16]], [[1775]]–[[July 18]], [[1817]]) was ...
5: ... she continued to live in relative seclusion, and began to suffer ill-health. It is now thought she ma...
7: ...ovel, the posthumously published ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'', pokes fun at the [[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann...
12: ...e unliberated and disquieting; however one should bear in mind that a "good marriage" was then the onl...
14: The order in which she began and completed her novels is different from tha... - Wisteria (4864 bytes)
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20: ...ite, not yellow. Flowering is in the spring (just before or as the leaves open) in some Asian species,...
22: ...ar Wistar (physician)|Caspar Wistar]] ([[1761]]-[[1818]]), a professor of anatomy at the [[University of...
37: ...wenty as in [[Chinese Wisteria]]. Maturation, can be forced by physically abusing the main [[Trunk_%28... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[October 30]], [[1735]]
18: '''John Adams''' ([[October 30]], [[1735]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was...
22: Adams was born on [[October 30]] ([[October 19]] [[Old Style and New Style dates|Old Style]]...
26: ... married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]–[[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister...
28: ..., Adams often found his inborn contentiousness to be a handicap in his political career. These qualiti... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
22: ...ts Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]]) were well-to-do farme...
24: ... sympathies for the French cause; later, with [[Robert R. Livingston]] and under the direction of Pres...
32: ...ad not yet happened. Practically every politician belonged to the [[United States Democratic-Republica...
36: ...ile acts toward the United States. Monroe did not begin formally to recognize the young sister republi... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...an era traditionally seen as dominating the years between the [[War of 1812]] and the [[American Civil...
22: ...ld carry all his life. This [[anglophobia]] would be combined with a distrust and dislike of Eastern a...
24: .... He became a colonel in the state militia, which began his military career.
26: ... was popular with his troops and was said to have been "tough as old hickory" wood on the battlefield,...
28: ...supreme court. He saw military service again in [[1818]] and campaigned in [[Florida]] against [[Spain]]... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
47: [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]] has been the sole capital of Connecticut since [[1875]]....
49: ...ristopher J. Dodd]] (Democrat) and [[Joseph I. Lieberman]] (Democrat). Connecticut currently has five ...
52: ...s an ongoing civic pride and economic competition between Hartford and New Haven, which stems back to ...
56: ..., waterfalls and a sandy shore add to the state's beauty.
65: ... derided by residents of the rest of the state as being more similar to [[New York]] than to [[New Eng... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
13: ...le|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
49: *[[Richard Yates (governor)|Yates, Richard]], (1818-1873), 19th century [[Governor of Illinois|govern...
79: *[[Robert Yerkes|Yerkes, Robert]] (1876-1956), psychologist
88: *[[Yi Sun-sin]], ([[1545]] - [[November 19]], [[1598]]), Korean admiral
176: *[[Robert Young (actor)|Young, Robert]], (1907-1998), American actor - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...han [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]]'s orbit. Often described as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largel...
5: Comets are believed to originate in a cloud (the [[Oort cloud]]...
9: ... is generally less than 50km across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and the tails can extend ove...
11: ...cle bones, it is known that their appearance have been noticed by humans for millennia. One very famo...
15: ...ing behind heavy long-chain organics that tend to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]... - 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]]) - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
3: ... of '''United States territorial acquisitions''', beginning with [[American Revolutionary War|American...
5: ...s negotiated by [[Robert Livingston (1746-1813)|Robert Livingston]] during the presidency of [[Thomas ...
7: *'''[[Red River Basin]]''', acquired in [[1818]] by treaty from Great Britain
11: ...]], [[1845]]. On [[December 29]], [[1845]], Texas became the twenty-eighth state.
13: ...o countries had jointly controlled the area since 1818 - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
6: *[[1790]] - [[Rhode Island]] becomes a state
9: ...[1791]] - [[Vermont]], formerly part of New York, becomes the 14th state
10: ...1792]] - [[Kentucky]], formerly part of Virginia, becomes the 15th state
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] - Michigan (29427 bytes)
36: ... derived from [[Lake Michigan]], which in turn is believed to come from the [[Chippewa]] Indian word '...
40: ...he [[Erie Canal]] in 1825, which brought large numbers of settlers.
42: ...The dispute eventually culminated into what would be known as the [[Toledo War]] when Michigan and Ohi...
44: ...[[lumber]], [[iron]], and [[copper]], which would become the state's most sought-after natural resourc...
46: ...gan|Highland Park]] suburb of Detroit, marked the beginning of a new era in personal transportation. I... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
25: AdmittanceDate = [[December 3]], [[1818]] |
37: ...ek]] people, a [[consortium]] of [[Algonquin]] tribes that thrived in the area. The word ''Illiniwek''...
45: ...[[Potawatomi]], [[Miami]], [[Sauk]], and other tribes.
48: ...as ceded to the new United States in [[1783]] and became part of the [[Northwest Territory]].
51: ...e [[1832]] [[Black Hawk War]], the last native tribes were driven out of northern Illinois. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... [[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [[1752]], January 1...
9: *[[1438]] - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] is crowned King of [[Hungary]]...
10: *[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
13: *[[1700]] - [[Russia]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
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