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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...
7: ...e, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
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... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...r]] of the [[Victorian era]], now best remembered because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]]...
6: ...ed, and joined the [[London Missionary Society]], becoming a minister.
8: ... was unable to make inroads into [[South Africa]] because of [[Boer]] opposition. It was during this ...
12: ...ingstone was a proponent of trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
14: ... resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...g steel. Steel with increased carbon content can be made harder and [[tensile strength|stronger]] tha...
5: ...ion is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (poun...
8: ...results in an alloy containing too much carbon to be called steel.
10: ...left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]]
11: ...[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]]. - 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
12: ...ward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
33: ...ian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
17: ...olphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
1: ...ge:Susan Brownell Anthony - Age 28 - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell ...
2: [[Image:Susan Brownell Anthony - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell ...
3: ...]] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant women t...
7: ... temperance society in America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American ...
9: ...vely to the agitation for [[women's rights]], and became recognized as one of the ablest and most zeal... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ...ash; [[May 20]], [[1896]]), wife of composer [[Robert Schumann]], was one of the leading [[pianist]]s...
7: ...Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven as well as those of Robert Schumann and Brahms.
9: ...erpretation of her husband's works, but when in [[1856]] she first visited [[England]] the critics recei...
11: ...really played like composers. Besides being remembered for her eminence as a performer of nearly all ... - Dye (6033 bytes)
1: ... [[affinity]] to the [[substrate]] to which it is being applied. The dye is usually used as an [[aqueo...
3: ...f|leaves]] and [[wood]], but only a few have ever been used on a commercial scale.
9: ...y thousands of dyes have since been prepared and, because of vastly improved properties imparted upon ...
11: ...is attributed, at least partly, to salt formation between anionic groups in the dyes and [[cationic]] ...
23: ...to allow uptake by the fibre. The dyeing rate can be significantly influenced by the choice of dispers... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...trument]] invented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to compete with the [[saxophone]] as a replacemen...
7: ...r Mind", with the sarrusophone played by [[Sidney Bechet]]. - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ...ies far less water than the mighty Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its ...
14: ...am — the Ruvyironza — is taken as the beginning and followed to the Mediterranean, the Nil...
24: ...] River. The Kagera flows for 690 km (429 miles) before reaching Lake Victoria.
26: ...azal]], itself 720 km (445 miles) long, the river beomes known as the Bahr al Abyad, or the [[White Ni...
36: ... sea. From that point north, the Nile diminishes because of evaporation. - 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 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]]...
28: ..., Adams often found his inborn contentiousness to be a handicap in his political career. These qualiti...
31: ...amp Act invalid on the ground that Massachusetts, being without representation in parliament, had not ... - 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... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ... During his time as U.S. Senator, Tyler, who had begun as a strict state-rights Democrat, grew increa...
36: ...December 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First Lady o...
38: ...ia Christian Tyler ([[May 11]], [[1821]] - [[December 28]], [[1907]]).
39: *Elizabeth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]], [[18...
42: *Tazewell Tyler ([[December 6]], [[1830]] - [[January 8]], [[1874]]). - 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...
9: ...Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, ...
14: ...f Philadelphia]]|before=[[Joseph Watson]]|after=[[Benjamin W. Richards]]|years=1828-1829}}
15: ...torney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|years=1829-1831}} - 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.
20: ...minated at the [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856 presidential election]], and was replaced by [[Ja...
22: ...n ''The American President'' what many historians believe about Pierce: that he was "a good man who di... - 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: ... defense of [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representativ...
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...
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