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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
81: | [[1828]] — [[1832]], [[1889]] — [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909...
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]] - 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 - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ... 7]], [[1803]] in [[Paris, France]] - died [[November 14]], [[1844]] in [[Bordeaux, France]], was one ...
5: ...living they were accustomed to, prompting them in 1832 to go to [[Arequipa]], to claim her paternal inhe...
9: Flora Tristan herself authored several works, the best known of which are ''Peregrinations of a Pariah... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...ge Eliot''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[noveli...
5: ...riter of romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public...
8: ... Christianity'', and it was at that time that she began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extr...
10: ... was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be divorced, and so he remained married to her in na...
15: ...nd, as I ended, in falling in love with her. Yes behold me in love with this great horse-faced bluest... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: Dr. '''Mary Edwards Walker''' ([[November]], [[1832]] – [[February 21]], [[1919]]) was a versat...
6: ...rk]], the daughter of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which included suc...
8: .... She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practice in [[R...
10: ...he Army of the Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U.S. Army Surgeon.
12: ...Sherman]] and [[George Henry Thomas]]. On [[November 11]], [[1865]], President [[Andrew Johnson]] sig... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...de routes in the 17th century were significant numbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europ...
3: ...home improvement industries a distinction is made between carpet (or carpeting) and rug. The former i...
14: ...ached to the warp by one of three knot types (see below) to form the pile or nap of the carpet.
16: ...ral stripes sewn together. Moquette carpets have been used on floors, tables, as furniture upholstery...
18: ...s of berber carpet.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of Berber carpet]] - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
16: | vicepresident= [[John C. Calhoun]] (1829-1832) [[Martin Van Buren]] (1833-1837)
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,... - 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... - 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 ... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ...War]] and as a result, he is widely considered to be the worst president in [[U.S. History]]. In a sur...
53: ... Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
55: ...ationship began at the time and have periodically been revived by historians, but there isn't any deci...
57: ...nation of William Wilkins. He served from [[December 6]], [[1834]]; was reelected in [[1837]] and [[1...
59: ...ary in the western U.S. No Secretary of State has become President since James Buchanan. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
8: [[Image:Lincoln.jpg|Abe Lincoln]]
42: ...called '''Abe Lincoln''' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Ema...
44: ...idential election]] further polarized the nation. Before his [[inauguration]] in [[March]] of [[1861]]...
46: ...omatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congre...
48: ... social institutions. The most important may have been setting the precedent for greater centralizatio... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...located on the west and southwest parts of the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in southwestern [[Europe]], and i...
5: ...reek language|Greek]] and [[Latin]] name meaning "Beautiful Port". During the [[15th century|15th]] an...
15: ...ived north of the Douro river among some other tribes. {{Inote | ''Hist de Portugal - A Forma磯 d...
17: ...and ransacked [[Conistorgis]], the Conii capital, because of their alliance with Rome. [[Viriathus]], ...
23: ...vaded the Iberian peninsula, set up kingdoms, and became assimilated. The [[Vandals]] ([[Silingi]] and... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
1: ...nion]], bordered by [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Belgium]].<br>
53: ...autonomy to Luxembourg, the country was disputed between [[Prussia]] and the [[Dutch kingdom]].
57: ..., the [[United Nations]]. In [[1957]], Luxembourg became one of the six founding countries of the [[Eu...
64: ...zens appointed by the Grand Duke, advises the Chamber of Deputies in the drafting of legislation.[http...
77: ...the Belgian province of [[Luxembourg, province of Belgium|Luxembourg]], which is (at 4,443 km?) nearly... - Maine (17312 bytes)
38: ... capital was [[Portland, Maine|Portland]] until [[1832]], when it was moved to the more geographically c...
45: ... Maine Senator [[Edmund Muskie]]. Maine has since become a left-leaning [[swing state]], but has voted...
47: ...kport]], and in [[1996]], Maine was again Perot's best state.
49: ...te won nine percent of the vote in the [[2002]] gubernatorial election, more than in any election for ...
64: ...ince of [[Canada]]. The Canadian province of [[Quebec]] is to the northwest. Maine is the northernmost... - Texas (39610 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 29]], [[1845]] |
36: ... States|United States of America]] as its 28th member [[U.S. state|state]] in [[1845]]. It has the [[U...
70: ... Tribes of Texas, the [[Kickapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of Te...
76: ...panish [[conquistador]] [[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas...
80: ...er [[Mexico|Mexican]] independence in 1821, Texas became a part of Mexico. See [[Mexican Texas]]. - 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]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ... spoken language around 2000 BC, but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial and scientific langu...
16: ..., but Rawlinson's volumes contain little Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets from [[Akkadia...
18: Ernest de Sarzec (1832-1901) began excavating the Sumerian site of Tello (ancient...
20: The University of Pennsylvania began excavating Sumerian [[Nippur]] in 1888.
24: - 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
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