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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He ...
2: ...Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ... time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get ...
5: ...first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of th... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
1: Presidency of Barack Obama
3: ... Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Presidency of Barack Obama
4: ...pwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the se...
5: ...licans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
6: ...Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
27: ... Kesteven" -->''', [[Order of the Garter|LG]] [[Order of Merit|OM]] [[Privy Council|PC]] [[Royal Socie...
29: ...he Conservative leadership in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom ... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...an [[United States|American]] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led ...
5: ...chester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
7: ...she herself taught in various schools. In the decade preceding the outbreak of the [[American Civil Wa...
9: ... legal equality of the two sexes, and as a public speaker and writer. From [[1868]] to [[1870]] she was the...
13: Also included in The Revolution were a number of quotes displa... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
5: ...9]], working as a domestic servant for over a decade and joining [[Elijah Pierson]] in evangelical pre...
8: ... a Woman?]]," a short but well pointed commentary delivered in [[1851]] at the Women's Convention in [...
10: ...ducation and Industry. When the association disbanded in [[1846]], she remained in [[Florence, Massach...
13: ...ued to work with former slaves. She also met President [[Abraham Lincoln]].
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...' blasted into orbit aboard the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the f...
5: ...ysician]], teacher and [[astronaut]], she has a wide range of experience in technology, engineering, a...
9: ...ldren, was born on [[October 17]], [[1956]], in [[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicago, Illinois...
11: ...B. in African and Afro-American Studies. She attended [[Weill Cornell Medical College|Cornell Medical ...
13: ... Share, (TM) an international science camp for students ages 12 to 16, that utilizes an experiential c... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rogrammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer p...
3: ... at [[Yale University]], where she received an MA degree in the same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [...
5: ...d from the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculat...
7: ...auchly]] Computer Corporation and joined the team developing the [[UNIVAC I]]. In the early [[1950s]] ...
9: ...machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fa... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She recorded several hit songs with them, including "(If You ...
8: ...bb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Or...
10: ... other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s voice and t...
12: ...iddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pablo R...
14: ...scar Peterson]], [[Count Basie]] ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), [[Joe Pass]] ("Speak love"), [[D... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...ervatory, graduating in 1954. In [[Moscow]] she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nik...
7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group w...
11: ...). The two works together form a "diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work t...
15: ...f a bond...restoring the legato of life. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occ... - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
1: ...jpg|thumb|225px|Harriet Tubman in 1880, Image provded by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
2: ...ence commander]], [[nurse]] and healer, [[revival speaker]], [[feminist]] and fundraiser, all as part of th...
5: ...eatment from her various owners, including an incident where an overseer hurled a two-pound weight in ...
9: ...e North, and again was never captured. And she guided hundreds of people trapped in slavery up to the ...
13: ...unning, daring and ruthlessness in following well developed plans for her expeditions. For instance, ... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
5: ...nold Fanck]], the director of that film, and demanded a role in his next film. He consented and Riefe...
7: ...t]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]'' (''[[Day of Freedom]]'') and is now...
9: ... in the [[1936 Summer Olympics|Olympics]] but decided to film the event instead. This material became ...
13: ...II, she spent four years in a [[France|French]] [[detention camp]]. There were accusations of her usin...
15: ...e few films she made were short and personally funded. <!--This needs a source. Her biopic and imdb li... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...rockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[a...
4: ...Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
10: ...affairs with men and women. By the end of the decade, she was one of the [[West End (of London)|West E...
12: ...Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Critics ...
16: ...he cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight f... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
5: |speakers=15 million|rank=74
9: '''Modern Greek'''
13: ...story of some 3,000 years. It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
17: ...n the armies and conquered territories of [[Alexander the Great]], but after the [[Hellenistic]] colon...
21: ...poken by approximately 15 million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in [[Greece]]. - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...''[[trumpet]]'', as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet.
4: ... varieties of [[wood]] or, in the case of some student instruments, composite material or plastic [[re...
11: ...orchestral writing. Additionally, improvements made to the fingering systems of the clarinet over tim...
12: The Bass Clarinet has a very deep and loud tone. It is often only used in large ...
20: ...e of [[ebonite]]. The instrument uses a single wooden (sometimes "fiber" or plastic) [[reed (music)|re... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ...ice President of the United States of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson]] from [[1913]] to [[1921]].
5: ... Marshall wrote later of listening to future President [[Benjamin Harrison]] present a case. Marshall...
7: ...c Party|Democratic Party]] politics, but was regarded only as a competent small-town lawyer when he wa...
9: == Vice Presidency ==
11: ...was reelected in [[1916]] and served as Vice President until [[1921]]. It is said that Marshall initi... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
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4: | order=14th President
7: | preceded=[[Millard Fillmore]]
8: | succeeded=[[James Buchanan]]
11: | dead=dead - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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10: | '''Order:''' || 16th President
15: | '''Predecessor:''' || [[James Buchanan]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]] - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...ative]] from [[Indiana]] and the 17th [[Vice President of the United States]].
4: ...]] in [[1841]]. He became a legislative correspondent for the ''[[Indiana State Journal]]''. He purc...
6: ...aving become the Republican nominee for Vice President.
8: ... of the United States on the Republican ticket headed by Gen. [[Ulysses S. Grant]], inaugurated March ...
13: ...7]], [[1863]] – [[March 3]], [[1865]];<br>[[December 4]], [[1865]] – [[March 3]], [[1869]]... - Continent (6440 bytes)
2: ...king Alexandria as a [[prime meridian]], they divided the ''oikoumene'' or habitable earth into three ...
13: Geographers and historians find it useful to define larger land masses connected with a [[land br...
18: ...ss_section_Earth2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
19: ...the Americas. These land masses are usually considered [[supercontinent]]s rather than continents, th...
21: ...inent. In the same manner, historians may subdivide Africa-Eurasia into Eurasia-[[North Africa]] and ... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ...along the [[Mediterranean Sea]] (on the west), bordered by [[Syria]] on the east and north, and [[Isra...
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11: ...lign="center" width="140" | ([[Flag of Lebanon|In Detail]])
12: ...nter" width="140" | ([[Coat of Arms of Lebanon|In Detail]])
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