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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: ...e, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
9:
13: ...ties are also named after him, such as [[Fremont, California]] and [[Fremont, Nebraska]]. [[Fremont P... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...] of the [[Victorian era]], now best remembered because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] w...
6: ... of Glasgow]]. While working in [[London]], he became attracted by the example of another Scot, Rober...
8: ...one made the one convert that he ever made in Africa. Within 6 months, they had rejected Christianity....
12: ...ade and missions to be established in central Africa.
17: ...igable past the [[Kabrabasa rapids]], a series of cataracts and rapids that Livingstone had failed to ... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...th higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...d alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...ults in an alloy containing too much carbon to be called steel.
11: ...ub>3</sub>C. Cementite forms in regions of higher carbon content while other areas revert to ferrite a...
13: ...t cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires extremely lit... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...ba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
4: *[[Patriarch Acacius|Acacius, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Consta...
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world ti...
6: *[[Bernard Accama|Accama, Bernard]] (1697-1756), Dutch painter
7: ...irk Acevedo|Acevedo, Kirk]] (born 1974), Puerto Rican actor - 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
17: ...olphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant women the ri...
7: ...1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]].
9: ...ognized as one of the ablest and most zealous advocates of the complete legal equality of the two sexe...
13: ...s health and lives, opposed [[abortion]] on practical and moral grounds and hoped that greater equalit...
15: ...ganization in [[1869]] until [[1892]], when she became president. - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ..., she also met violinist [[Joseph Joachim]] who became one of her frequent performance partners. Schu...
9: ...erpretation of her husband's works, but when in [[1856]] she first visited [[England]] the critics recei...
11: ...o | pianoforte]] music, at a time when such technical ability was considerably rarer than in the prese...
14: ... the three Romances were composed in 1853 and dedicated to Joseph Joachim who performed them for King ...
19: [[Category:1819 births|Schumann, Clara]] - Dye (6033 bytes)
1: A '''dye''' can generally be described as a [[colour]]ed substan...
3: ...t only a few have ever been used on a commercial scale.
9: ...thousands of dyes have since been prepared and, because of vastly improved properties imparted upon th...
11: ...ormation between anionic groups in the dyes and [[cationic]] groups in the fibre. Acid dyes are not su...
13: '''[[Basic dye]]s''' are water-soluble cationic dyes that are mainly applied to [[acrylic f... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...trument]] invented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to compete with the [[saxophone]] as a replacemen...
5: ...le subsitute for the contrabassoon, so that it is called for in, for example, [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[...
9: ...is now obsolete and only used as a novelty upon occasions. It had poor intonation and a sound less cle... - Nile (13738 bytes)
2: ...5|1 134|2 830|3 400 000|[[Africa]]|the [[Mediterranean]]||[[Uganda]] - [[Sudan]] -...
4: ...;نيل ''an-nīl''), in [[Africa]], is one of the two longest [[river|rivers]] on ...
12: ...s far less water than the mighty Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its ha...
18: [[Image:Nile_boat.jpg|thumbnail|left|East Africa, showing the course of the River Nile]]
20: ... the East African Rift, which is the southern African part of the [[Great Rift Valley]]. - 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... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
3: ...on><font size="+1">'''Martin van Buren'''</font></caption>
14: ...he United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
17: ...t of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''</td><td>[[United States Democratic P...
25: ...south of [[Albany, New York|Albany]], the [[state capital]]. His great-great-great-grandfather Corneli...
27: ...obtained in the common schools and at Kinderhook Academy. In [[1796]] he began the study of [[law]], ... - 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... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...o [[March 3]], [[1833]], when he declined to be a candidate for reelection. He was chairman of the Co...
7: ...o Russia from [[1837]] to [[1839]], when he was recalled at his own request. He was elected Vice Pres...
9: ...Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, ...
18: ...ia]]|before=[[John R. Clay]]|after=[[Churchill C. Cambreleng]]|years=1837-1839}}
19: ...:U.S._Democratic_Party_vice_presidential_nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Richard Mentor Johnson]]|after=... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
3: ...n><font size="+1">'''Millard Fillmore '''</font></caption>
16: ..._of_political_parties_in_the_United_States |Political Party]]:'''</td><td>[[United States Whig Party|...
26: ...York. It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate from [[New York]] would complement Taylor,...
29: ...ories taken from [[Mexico]] in the [[Mexican-American War]]. Taylor wanted the new states to be free s...
37: ... political shift in the administration. Taylor's Cabinet resigned and President Fillmore at once appo... - 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... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
32: | [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
43: ...t of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''
50: ...survey conducted by [[C-SPAN]] that ranked [[American presidents]], a [[panel]] of [[historians]] rate...
53: ... Judiciary (Twenty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1830]]. Buchanan se...
55: ...]] relationship began at the time and have periodically been revived by historians, but there isn't an... - 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]].
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