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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
81: | [[1828]] — [[1832]], [[1889]] — [[1891]] (wi...
205: ...]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...r the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [...
3: ... the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ...erde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first to reach the A...
7: ... [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the B...
9: ...[[virus]]es, [[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and beneficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato... - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
6: *[[Bernard Accama|Accama, Bernard]] (1697-1756), Dutch painter
9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
33: ...ian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833)
58: *[[Santos Acosta|Acosta, Santos]] (1828-1901) - 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...
57: ...|'''[[James Barbour]]'''||align="left"|1825–1828 - 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,...
32: ...presidential election, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first nominee of the [[Democratic Party ... - 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: ...chools and at Kinderhook Academy. In [[1796]] he began the study of [[law]], completing his preparati...
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... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...n Dallas''' ([[July 10]], [[1792]] – [[December 31]], [[1864]]) was a [[United States Senate|U.S...
5: ...1]] to [[March 3]], [[1833]], when he declined to be a candidate for reelection. He was chairman of t...
14: ...eph Watson]]|after=[[Benjamin W. Richards]]|years=1828-1829}}
15: ...torney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|years=1829-1831}}
16: ...rom Pennsylvania|U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania]]|before=[[Isaac D. Barnard]]|after=[[Samuel McKean]]|... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
26: ...ked his way up through the Whig party, eventually being selected as [[Zachary Taylor]]'s running mate....
29: ...n-American War]]. Taylor wanted the new states to be free states, while Fillmore supported slavery in ...
31: ...s death, he intimated to him that if there should be a tie vote on Henry Clay's bill, he would vote in...
37: ... Fillmore at once appointed [[Daniel Webster]] to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance...
41: ...a message to Congress recommending that [[Texas]] be paid to abandon her claims to part of New Mexico.... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[November 23]], [[1804]]
12: | date of death=[[October 8]], [[1869]]
18: ...ted States Electoral College|electoral vote]]. He became the youngest president up unto that time.
22: ...n ''The American President'' what many historians believe about Pierce: that he was "a good man who di...
25: ...overnor)|Benjamin Pierce]], a frontier farmer who became a [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary ... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
17: | '''Date of Birth''' || [[December 29]], [[1808]]
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
40: '''Andrew Johnson''' ([[December 29]], [[1808]] – [[July 31]], [[1875]]) was...
42: ...]] him in [[1868]]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently acquitted by a sin...
45: ...ded any type of school; his wife has historically been credited with teaching him to read and write. - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ...emaic dynasty|Ptolemaic]] rulers of Egypt quickly became one of the greatest cities of the [[Hellenist...
7: ...ts in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close to Kait Bey Castle]]
19: ...ced by subsequent developments. One of the more sober descriptions, given by the historian [[Arrian]],...
21: ...of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away...
23: ...re five native villages scattered along the strip between Lake Mareotis and the sea, according to a hi... - Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
4: ... Azerbaijan is a secular state, and has been a member of the [[Council of Europe]] since [[2001]]. A m...
58: ...referring to the lowland Karabakh plains situated between the [[Kura]] and [[Araks]] rivers.
60: ...ic to use it in a historical context before 1918, because, they say, the term was first introduced by ...
65: Historically Azerbaijan has been occupied by a variety of peoples, including [[P...
69: ...]]. In the [[11th century]], the [[Seljuk Turks]] became the dominant force in Azerbaijan and laid the... - 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]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadian]...
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
7: *[[1820]] - [[Maine]] becomes a state
8: *[[1821]] - [[Missouri]] becomes a state
10: *[[1822]] - [[Cumberland Road]] Bill
16: *[[1825]] - [[John Quincy Adams]] becomes President
19: *[[1828]] - [[Tariff of Abominations]] passed - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ...ry between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississipp...
9: |As Western territories begin applying for statehood, the [[Missouri Comprom...
11: |valign=center|'''[[1828]]'''
15: ...ericans must choose between liberty and union. "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparabl...
18: ...illiam Lloyd Garrison]] begins publishing ''The Liberator''. <br> - 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... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...y, superstition, and tyranny (which they believed began during a historical period they called the "[[...
6: ...nce of a supreme being. In this period, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[n...
14: ...universe where God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton thro...
18: ...me in the present-day, where belief is that human beings apprehend a truth that is more provisional, b...
20: ...tion of a "clockwork god" or "god the watchmaker" became prevalent, as many in the time period saw new... - St. Valentine's Day (9989 bytes)
1: ...be in honor of [[Saint Valentine]], are discussed below. The day's associations with [[romantic love]]...
4: ...e second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind [[Christmas]]. The association also estimates...
10: ...In the calendar of [[Ancient Athens]], the period between mid January and mid February was the month o...
12: ... voluntarily for the occasion, in the belief that being so touched would render them fruitful and brin...
19: ... The feast of St. Valentine was first declared to be on [[February 14]] by [[Pope Gelasius I]] in [[49...
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