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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...aval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
22: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]]) - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...f the United States]], and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform of o...
5: ...dged that Frémont became the first European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited wit...
7: ...t [[President of the United States|presidential]] candidate, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential elec...
9:
13: ...ties are also named after him, such as [[Fremont, California]] and [[Fremont, Nebraska]]. [[Fremont P... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ent of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufact...
3: ...]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power generation]].
5: ...ad throughout [[Western Europe]] and [[North America]], eventually affecting the rest of the world. Th...
9: ==Causes==
10: ...lution]] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
37: ...w Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
9: ...a period of great social, economic, and technological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the l...
14: ...[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her gove...
16: ...king was childless, the young Princess Victoria became [[heir presumptive|heiress-presumptive]] to the...
20: ...ecause like most imperial, royal, princely, and ducal families, his family did not use theirs. Victor...
25: ...anover|Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]], who became King Ernest Augustus of Hanover. As the young q... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...accurately, the launcher of women's political advocacy. She was a [[Quaker]], a [[women's rights]] pr...
5: ... Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[abolition]].
7: ...rts. [[Conscientious Objector]] status was a radical concept for that time and remains so, and the Un...
9: ...o women coming up as women's and abolitionist advocates. In the [[1830s]] she helped establish two ant...
11: ...s]], [[New York]] in [[1848]]. While [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] and [[Susan B. Anthony]] are usually ... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...n name, from [[1843]], of an [[United States|American]] [[abolitionist]] born into [[slavery]]. (late...
5: ... decade and joining [[Elijah Pierson]] in evangelical preaching on street-corners.
8: Later in life she became a noted speaker for both the [[Abolitionist]] m...
10: ...r, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern...
13: ...re she continued her advocacy. During the [[American Civil War]], she organized collection of supplie... - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ...tes|American]] [[opera]] singer, was born in [[Chicago]] and studied in [[Milan]] and [[Paris]]. She ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...own for their [[realism]] and psychological perspicacity.
5: ...private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Hen...
8: ...and was the leading journal for philosophical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a translation of F...
10: ...ic career. Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be divorce...
12: ...ss jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal on their [[wedding night]]; he survived. She d... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...;ская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia...
5: ... Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than h...
7: ...ding of [[partial differential equation]]s (the [[Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially compl...
11: ...to have stuck for when she later took calculus it came to her very quickly, as if it had always been t...
15: ...ical study, calling her "a new [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]]" in the process. - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
1: [[Image:Harmonica-bluejay.jpg|thumb|A harmonica]]
2: ...ca''' is a [[Free reed instrument|free reed]] musical [[wind instrument]] (also
6: dimension into which it can freely vibrate, thus repeatedly
10: and [[melodica]]s), the mouth harmonica lacks a keyboard. Instead,
12: ...y linearly on a [[mouthpiece]]. Each hole communicates - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...hrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
14: ...lm]], born in [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]]. Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed t...
19: ...t, while the individual who was in second place became Vice President.
21: ...residential [[oath of office]], any federal judge can administer the oath — and even judges of [...
25: ...[[Election Day (United States)|Election Day]] and campaigning across the country to explain their view... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
22: ...d Style and New Style dates|Old Style]], [[Julian Calendar]]), 1735 in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]]. H...
24: ...nspired Adams with zeal for the cause of the American colonies. Years later, when he was an old man, A...
28: ...contentiousness to be a handicap in his political career. These qualities were particularly manifested...
31: ... in London in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law''), in which he argued that the... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...[[October 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives...
5: ...tes Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] to the Tenth and to the five succeeding [[Unit...
7: ...to [[March 3]], [[1829]]. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1829.
9: ...rs]] due to his relationship with an African-American woman. He served as vice President from March 4,...
11: ...a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, but he died in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]] soon afte... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''John Tyler'''</font></caption>
17: ...t of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''</td><td>[[United States Whig Party|W...
25: ...ggressive handling of the South Carolina [[nullification]] issue.
27: ... and Tyler too" are among the most famous in American politics. He assumed the presidency upon Harriso...
29: ...at aspect of succession (until the [[1967]] ratification of the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
3: ...n><font size="+1">'''Millard Fillmore '''</font></caption>
6: ...r><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
16: ..._of_political_parties_in_the_United_States |Political Party]]:'''</td><td>[[United States Whig Party|...
20: ...150; [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[President of the United States...
26: ...York. It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate from [[New York]] would complement Taylor,... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
18: ...d States Electoral College|electoral vote]]. He became the youngest president up unto that time.
20: ...States of America|Confederacy]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[ci...
22: ...ed mind which could not cope with a changing America. In addition, Pierce was hounded by guilt, tempta...
25: ...n Pierce]], a frontier farmer who became a [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] soldier, s... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
33: ...t of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''
34: | [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
42: ... from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican Party]].
44: ...r boundaries. These events soon led to the [[American Civil War]].
46: ....S. presidential election, 1864|1864 presidential campaign]]. - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
4: ...[[St. Joseph County, Indiana]] in [[1841]]. He became a legislative correspondent for the ''[[Indiana...
6: ...enomination in [[1868]], having become the Republican nominee for Vice President.
8: ...connection with the [[Cr餩t Mobilier of America scandal]].
10: ..., [[South Bend, Indiana]]. The town of [[Colfax, California]], is named in his honor. The "Jewel of ...
14: ...:U.S. Republican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]] | before=[[Andrew Johnson]] | after=[[He... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
36: ! [[Political party|Political Party]]:
37: | [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
46: ...cted as a [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] to the Thirty-seventh [[Congress of the United...
48: ...d from public life and active business pursuits because of ill health, and died in Malone. He was int...
51: ...:U.S. Republican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Henry Wilson]]|after=[[Chester ...
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