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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...um|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince of Leininge...
16: ...queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the R...
20: ... royal, princely, and ducal families, his family did not use theirs. Victoria asked her staff to dete...
27: ...it was growing unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonie...
33: ...ight|A likeness of Queen Victoria appears on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stam... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
4: ...r technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no longer a dream, ...
6: ...s of aircraft. The [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] museum in [[Huntsville, Alabama]] next to [[Redstone Ars...
24: ...ed in December 1990. The agency is led by its president, who reports to the Minister of Industry.
47: On [[July 29]], [[1958]], President Eisenhower signed the [[National Aeronautics a...
56: ...e stating that the money could have been used to aid the Third World countries and the betterment of t... - Computer (32773 bytes)
14: ...dern ''digital'' computers possible, was formally identified and explored by [[Claude E. Shannon]].
16: ...solve all mathematical problems. [[Alan Turing]] identified which problems could and could not be sol...
20: ...often have difficulty understanding the important idea that the computer is only a machine, and cannot...
24: ...who performed the arts and this usage is still valid (although it is becoming quite rare in the [[Unit...
29: ...arch organizations could afford them and were considered so exotic that only a handful would ever be r... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
31: ...tates]], in terms of population. It is a [[consolidated city-county]] (the only one in California) si...
33: ...ghest population density of any major U.S. city aside from [[New York City]].
35: ... [[Spain|Spanish]], in [[1776]]. The city grew rapidly due to the [[California gold rush]] starting in...
39: ...[Golden Gate Bridge]] and the [[Transamerica Pyramid]].
44: ... [[1776]] and established the sites for the [[Presidio of San Francisco]] and [[Mission San Francisco ... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...under the general supervision of the sculptor [[Phidias]], who also had charge of the sculptural decor...
13: ...ast and west ends, and of 110 millimetres on the sides.
19: ...t is not known what was depicted on the northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]]...
21: ...stival honouring Athena. On the fourth, eastern, side was a frieze showing all the gods of the Greek [...
31: ... of war they were willing to demolish them to provide materials for walls and fortifications. A [[mina... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
4: ...Republic. The dramatic [[assassin]]ation on the [[Ides of March]] was the catalyst for a second set of...
15: ...tor in relenting on Caesar’s proscription said, "He whose life you so much desire will one day b...
17: Despite Sulla's pardon, Caesar did not remain in Rome and left for military service ...
21: ...ight)|talents]], he laughed at them, saying they did not know whom they had captured. Instead, he ord...
23: In [[69 BC]], Caesar became a widower after Cornelia's death trying to deliver a st... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
13: ...people, including 6 million [[Jew]]s, in a [[genocide]] now known as [[the Holocaust]].
15: ... the war, [[Hitler's death|Hitler died]] by [[suicide]] in a [[Berlin]] [[F?unker|bunker]]. His intend...
24: ...pecially for the proponent of a [[racism|racist]] ideology. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler, the ...
27: ..., [[1903]], at age 65, Adolf Hitler's schoolwork did not improve. At the age of 16, Hitler left school...
31: ...s paintings to merchants and tourists (there is evidence he produced over 2000 paintings and drawings ... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ...h American colonies]]. The war, which eventually widened far beyond [[British North America]], resulte...
10: ...lar" or "standing" army). Each colony instead provided for its own defenses through the use of local [...
15: ...stimates, total British strength in the colonies did not exceed 20,000 men at any one time.
19: ...tion and sent no troops to America to fight alongside the Americans. The Netherlands entered the war l...
23: ...erican militias from the outset, but this was forbidden in the South, where slaveowners feared arming ... - Boise, Idaho (9777 bytes)
4: state = Idaho |
6: flag = BoiseID.jpg |
7: seal = BoiseIDseal.gif |
8: map = IDMap-doton-Boise.PNG |
10: county = [[Ada County, Idaho|Ada County]] | - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
26: ...Image:Indiana_state_map.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
29: ... the Governor's mansion. It was used as a market commons for over six years. Although an expensive Governo...
31: ...he waterway was too sandy for trade. Through the mid-1800s, a horse-drawn barge canal by-passed the ri...
37: ...ed to dwindle in popularity in Indiana and nationwide, and the national organization officially disban...
39: ...dianapolis was the only major city where rioting did not occur. - Salt Lake City, Utah (41550 bytes)
4: ... lake's shore by [[marsh]]es and [[mudflat]]s. Residents are known as "[[List of famous Salt Lakers|Sa...
5: [[Image:Utah_state_map.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
6: The city is considered one of the most historically important cities...
20: ...ax occurred in [[1857]] with [[James Buchanan|President James Buchanan]] declaring the area in rebelli...
22: ...n [[1869]] at [[Promontory Summit]] on the north side of the [[Great Salt Lake]]. A railroad was conne... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
15: ... Lennon]] and the 14th [[Dalai Lama]]. He often said that his values were simple; drawn from tradition...
20: ...] in [[1887]], and joining Samaldas College. He did not stay there long, however, as his family felt ...
25: ...ficer. In his autobiography, he describes this incident as a kind of unsuccessful lobbying attempt on ...
29: ...mannered, diffident, politically indifferent individual. He had read his first newspaper at age 18 an...
31: ... alike with statements of Indian grievances and evidence of British discrimination in South Africa. G... - Native American (42651 bytes)
17: ===The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory===
19: ...logy|anthropological]] and [[genetics|genetic]] evidence, scientists generally agree that most Native ...
21: ...s in this theory — in particular, growing evidence of human presence in [[Brazil]] and [[Chile]]...
23: ...nia earlier and followed a coastal route, thus avoiding the ice-covered interior.
25: *The crossing of the Bering Land Bridge may have occurred during the previous [[ice age... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...838]]. Fully aware of the likely reaction, he confided only in close friends and researched to meet an...
19: ...assist with the collections of the [[Royal Museum|Museum of Edinburgh University]], then one of the larges...
21: ...o well", enrolled him at [[Christ's College, Cambridge]] in [[1827]] on a BA course to qualify as a cl...
22: ...ime when a "living" as an [[Anglican]] parson provided a comfortable income and when most naturalists ...
24: ...rsity of Cambridge|Cambridge]] Charles preferred riding and shooting to studying, and along with his c... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
8: ...mb|left|A large artificial [[Christmas tree]] outside a shopping mall in [[Hong Kong]]]]
10: ...tmas-like festivities even though they do not consider themselves Christians. Many customs, including ...
12: ... and [[Macau]] designate Christmas as a public holiday on December 25. Both are former [[colony|coloni...
20: ...n language|Korean]], Local radio stations play holiday music on Christmas Day and a few days before, w...
22: ...cially enjoy the fellowship these observances provide; after the Christmas Eve services, for example, ...
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