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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...ered by the [[United States]] to the north, and [[Belize]] and [[Guatemala]] to the southeast. It is t...
43: ...[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[1810]]<br>[[September 27]], [[1821]] |
64: ...mory of [[Aztlan], the starting point of their tribes wanderings, never thought of themselves as anyth...
66: ...heir defeat of the Mexica in [[1521]], marked the beginning of the 300 year-long colonial period of Me...
68: On [[September 16]], [[1810]], independence from Spain was decl... - 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]] - 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. - 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 - 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.... - 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... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
8: ...oes'') [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13912 Gutenberg etext of this book]
13: ...' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1367 Gutenberg etext of this book]
16: * ''Held in Bondage'' (1863) (first published with the title ''Granville de V...
31: ...(1867) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/3465 Gutenberg etext of this book]
34: ... (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13459 Gutenberg etext of this book] - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: Dr. '''Mary Edwards Walker''' ([[November]], [[1832]] – [[February 21]], [[1919]]) w...
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... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
1: ...ge:Sarah Bernhardt-Nadar.jpg|thumb|275px|'''Sarah Bernhardt''' (portrait by [[Nadar]])]]
2: '''Sarah Bernhardt''' ([[October 22]], [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) w...
4: ...own as "Youle." Her father was reportedly Edouard Bernard, a French lawyer, and she was educated in Fr...
6: ...itle, "The Divine Sarah"; arguably, she may have been the most famous actress of the [[19th century]]...
8: Although primarily a stage actress, Bernhardt made several cylinders and discs of famous... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
1: ...]], The Great [[Egyptian Pyramids|Pyramids]] have become a symbol of Cairo internationally]]
26: ...Heliopolis]], further south to [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]], and, under the [[Ptolemaic dynasty]], [[Alexa...
30: ...side the fortress, known as [[Al-Fustat]], slowly became the permanent base of the Arab forces in Egyp...
36: ...58]] heightened the importance of the city and it became the leading intellectual and artistic centre ...
45: ...tion of the [[Suez Canal]] brought significant numbers of westerners to Egypt. A network of gas lighti... - War (7002 bytes)
1: ...see [[War#Limitations on war|limitations on war]] below). War is contrasted with [[peace]], which is u...
6: ...ng armies]]. Organization and structure has since been central to warfare, as illustrated by the succe...
14: ... war is inherently immoral and no war should ever be fought. This position was forcefully defended by ...
16: ...t of civil corruption and war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?" This attitude was embra...
22: ...geting of [[civilians]], what type of weapons can be used, and when combat is allowed have all fallen ... - 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. - 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... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
24: ...essful general, he is considered by historians to be one of America's worst presidents, who led an adm...
41: ...vernor felt that a West Point man could be put to better use and appointed him [[colonel]] of the 21st...
43: ...cksburg Campaign | Vicksburg, Mississippi]], in [[1863]] is considered one of the most masterful in mili...
45: ...;on [[March 2]], [[1864]]. On [[March 12]], Grant became general-in-chief of all of the armies of the ...
48: ...licted irreplaceable losses. Grant has been described as a "butcher" for his strategy, particularly in... - 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]] |... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ...ongress]] ([[March 4]], [[1861]] - [[March 3]], [[1863]]). He was a delegate to the state constitutiona...
48: ...red from public life and active business pursuits because of ill health, and died in Malone. He was i...
51: ...ican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Henry Wilson]]|after=[[Chester A. Arthur]]|...
52: ...box|title=[[Vice President of the United States]]|before=[[Henry Wilson]]|after=[[Chester A. Arthur]]|... - 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... - Australia (39438 bytes)
9: capital =[[Canberra]]|
14: ...names = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Michael Jeffery]]<br>[[John Howard]]|
28: ...gdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 January]] [[1901]]<br>[[11 December]] [[1931]]<br>[[3 March]] [[1986]]|
48: ...e largest of which is [[Tasmania]]. Australia has been inhabited for about 50,000 years, originally by...
50: ... the south-east. The shortest border distance is between the mainlands of Papua New Guinea and Austra... - Greece (54754 bytes)
50: ...astern [[Mediterranean]] basin, feature a vast number of islands.
52: ...of the [[European Union]] since [[1981]] and a member of the [[Eurozone]] since [[2001]].
57: ...ɛˈlas/}}<!--Please note: IPA accent is written *before* the accented syllable, not after the accente...
65: ...ociated with the sea. After the internal struggle between Spartans and Athenians, all parts of Greece ...
68: ... culture would in turn conquer Roman life. Greece became a province of the [[Roman Empire]], but Greek...
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