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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]] - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...evada, it is generally acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view [[Lake Ta...
9: ...mont's removal from command in the West on [[November 2]], [[1861]]. He was re-appointed to a differen...
15: ...tion]] '''Frém.''' is applied to plants he described.
21: ...lifornia|United States Senators from California]]|before=''(none)''|after=[[John B. Weller]]|years=185...
22: ...publican Party presidential nominees|candidate]]| before=''(none)''| after=[[Abraham Lincoln]]| years=... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
97: *[[Cl魥nt Ader|Ader, Cl魥nt]], (1841-1925), French engineer and inventor
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...han that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of the [[United Kingdom of G...
9: ...onarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Cob...
12: ...er of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] an...
14: ... her governess, during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was schooled in ...
16: ...rovision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been eligible to govern the realm as would an adult.... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...f her birth is uncertain, but is usually taken to be 1797.
8: Later in life she became a noted speaker for both the [[Abolitionist]]...
10: ...tts, where she worked with a neighbor, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Na...
15: ...her home in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], on [[November 26]], 1883. She is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery i... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...[1921]]) was the first woman in Canada legally to become a medical doctor, and was the only woman in C...
9: ...ario|Kingston]]. Her family traveled extensively between Florida and Ontario, and later moved to [[Lo... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox begin | color = lightgreen | name = Pansy}}
3: {{Taxobox begin placement | color = lightgreen}}
17: ...rt of the common name of a number of wild flowers belonging, like the cultivated Pansy, to the [[viole...
20: ... varieties were available. By 1841 the pansy had become a favorite show plant.
30: Pansies are edible and have been used to dye mordanted fabric. - Painting (4567 bytes)
1: ...a Lisa.jpg|thumb|The [[Mona Lisa]] is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the [[Western world]...
2: ...guage. Artistic painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the [[art]] forms.
34: ... by the medium that the pigment is suspended or embedded in, which determines the general working char...
52: ...out contemporary painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts.
105: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...erson on Earth, and is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], ...
12: ...s adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.
14: ...move or amend this requirement, but none have yet been successful.
16: ...on]]. Incumbent President [[George W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current t...
19: ...ent, while the individual who was in second place became Vice President. - 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)
6: ...td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March 4]], [[1841]]</td></tr>
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... - 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...
9: ... vice President from March 4, 1837, to March 3, [[1841]].
11: Johnson was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, b... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
6: ...><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[April 4]], [[1841]] - [[March 4]], [[1845]]</td></tr>
21: ...resident of the United States]], and the tenth ([[1841]]-[[1845]]) [[President of the United States|Pres...
25: ... During his time as U.S. Senator, Tyler, who had begun as a strict state-rights Democrat, grew increa...
29: ...the death of President Harrison on [[April 4]], [[1841]], and took the [[President of the United States ...
36: ...December 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First Lady o... - 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 ... - 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... - 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. - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
4: ... an interest in the ''[[South Bend, Indiana|South Bend]] Free Press'' and changed its name in [[1845]]...
6: ... a candidate for renomination in [[1868]], having become the Republican nominee for Vice President.
10: ...a]]. He is interred in the City Cemetery, [[South Bend, Indiana]]. The town of [[Colfax, California]]...
13: ...[[1863]] – [[March 3]], [[1865]];<br>[[December 4]], [[1865]] – [[March 3]], [[1869]]}}
14: ...an Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]] | before=[[Andrew Johnson]] | after=[[Henry Wilson]] |... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ...Wilson''' ([[February 16]], [[1812]]–[[November 22]], [[1875]]) was a [[United States Senate|Sen...
5: ...e was a member of the state legislature between [[1841]] and [[1852]], and was owner and editor of the '...
7: ...]], to [[March 3]], [[1873]], when he resigned to become Vice President. He was Chairman of the Commi...
12: ...ican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Schuyler Colfax]]|after=[[William A. Wheele...
13: ...eler]]|years=[[March 4]], [[1873]] – [[November 22]], [[1875]]}} - 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... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...an]] in the south and east, [[Turkmenistan]], [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Tajikistan]] in the north, and [[Pe...
3: Between the fall of the [[Taliban]] after the [[U.S....
55: ...pedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_name_etymologies], being the founders of modern Afghanistan. The remain...
60: ...es, the region today known as ''Afghanistan'' has been occupied by many forces including the [[Persia...
64: ...urrani upon the accession of [[Ahmad Shah]]. They belonged to the Saddozay segment of the [[Popalzay]]...
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