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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...ch as the [[supernatural]]ist philosophies and [[religion]]).
12: ...ic School|Eleatics]] [[Parmenides]] and [[Zeno of Elea|Zeno]] (All is One and change is impossible), t...
14: ...e subjects and methods of debate became highly developed.
18: ...age:schoolofathens.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Raphael's ''The School of Athens'' (1509) with Plato and ...
20: ...cy, blaming it for the defeat of Athens in the [[Peloponnesian War]] - he attributes the indecision of... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...(mainly in [[textile]] [[manufacturing]]). The development of all-metal machine tools in the first two...
3: ... engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power generation]].
5: ... to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomad...
7: ...l ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in the second ha...
10: ...on]] of the 17th century with the accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[f... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ... which is tied into the bag and which the pipe itself plugs into. The bag usually consists of leather,...
18: ...ters with a cylindrical bore will produce a very mellow [[oboe]]-like sound, while chanters with a con...
23: ...tten by an unknown Romantic. However, it seems likely they were first invented in pre-Christian times....
25: ...[Britain]] and [[Ireland]] is debatable, though Ireland has references going back to the [[Dark Ages]]...
27: ...als of high-ranking civilian public officials as well. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
9: *[[Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist
17: ...e|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...ada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing h...
7: ...om|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ds of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, ...
14: ...lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929,...
15: ...n Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary respectively. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...iukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He managed to conv...
5: Her mother was [[Elizaveta Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was...
7: ...ing solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormou...
13: ...red her uncle [[Pyotr Vasilievich Krukovsky]], a self-taught eccentric with especial fondness for math... - Rose (15436 bytes)
2: ...7_10a.jpg|240px]]| caption = ''Rosa arvensis'' (Field Rose)}}
21: ...ometimes trailing plants, reaching 2-5 m tall, rarely reaching as high as 20 m by climbing over other ...
25: ...yellow or red. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals.
27: ...ost species are red, but a few (e.g. ''Rosa pimpinellifolia'') have dark purple to black hips. Each hi...
29: ...gosa'' and ''R. pimpinellifolia'' though have densely packed straight spines, probably an adaptation t... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
5: In the clavichord the strings run transversely from an anchorage at the left-hand end to tuning...
7: ...hey are usually chosen so that notes which are rarely heard together (such as C and C#) are on the one...
9: ...rded as organ repertoire were in fact more accurately written for the pedal clavichord.
11: ...tian Bach|J. S. Bach]]'s son [[Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach]] was a great proponent of the instrument.
15: ...ock and roll|rock music]]—is essentially an electric clavichord which uses a magnetic pickup to ... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...s a [[metropolitan area]] population of approximately 15.2 million people. Cairo is the [[List of metr...
6: ...destroyed in attempts to invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], C...
12: ...ge of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]]
14: ...ks into three branches into the low-lying [[Nile Delta]] region.
16: ...o the Nile. These western areas, built on the model of [[Paris]] by [[Ismail the Magnificent]] in the... - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
6: ...l keys. The sound is projected outward by the [[bell]].
8: ...er" mouthpieces are used to ease playing of extremely high register passages. Mouthpieces also vary w...
10: ==Relationship to other brass instruments==
11: ...e are also rotary-valve, or German, trumpets, as well as bass, alto and [[Baroque]] trumpets. The mode...
15: ...eed to transpose and produces a brighter, more lively sound than its cousin keyed in B♭. - Accordion (10069 bytes)
6: ...d instruments ("Maultrommel", Jews' Harp) were likely precursors.
10: ...is made by a thin metal ribbon, a reed, which is held at one end and free at the other, like a ruler o...
16: *Reed tone pitch is given by the reed itself and not through a resonator tube (as opposed to ...
20: ...haracteristics were first used in Europe around [[1800]] AD for organs. People used their knowledge and ...
22: .... It is thought that a traveler to China in the [[1800s]] brought this idea back to Europe. However, the... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: ... establishment of the [[Eleventh dynasty of Egypt|Eleventh dynasty]] to the end of the [[Fourteenth dy...
5: ...een the Eleventh and [[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|Twelfth dynasties]], and date the Middle Kingdom to th...
7: ==The Twelfth dynasty==
8: ...urous Twelfth dynasty. The first Pharaoh of the Twelfth dynasty (Amenemhat I), is according to some so...
10: ...e reign. The co-regencies lasted throughout the Twelfth dynasty and provided great stability. - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
9: ...CE. Archeologists may suggest solutions to ultimately settle many of these questions while others may ...
13: Reliable absolute dates, astronomical or other, are l...
15: ...t four Egyptian rulers, although there was absolutely no doubt for Egyptologists that [[Ramses I]] rei...
21: ...in a tomb of [[Dorak]], near [[Constantinople]], tells E. Bacon, ''Archaeology; Discoveries in the 196...
23: ...]]s)." In the same book he dated a building at [[Belize]] to about 1900 BCE, equating it with 1550 BCE... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
7: ...ernment in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[...
14: ...ates Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Madeleine Albright]], born in [[Czechoslovakia]]; and [...
18: ==Presidential elections==
19: ...es (provided that such a number was a majority of electors) became President, while the individual who...
21: ...ffice on [[January 20]] of the year following the election, an event called [[Inauguration Day]]. Alt... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events a...
28: ...of popular leadership of his second cousin, [[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through h...
31: ...ism and corporate authority; in December 1765 he delivered a speech before the governor and council in...
33: ...ular side in this case resulted in his subsequent election to the [[Massachusetts House of Representat...
44: ... first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] and Samuel Adams. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
20: .... President [[John F. Kennedy]] welcomed 49 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]...
25: ... and civil culture. The [[Continental Congress]] delegated task of writing the Declaration which inclu...
27: ...]; it included automatic [[door]]s, the first swivel [[chair]], and other convenient devices invented ... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
18: ...er been a member of the [[Virginia]] plantation [[elite]], or had been named [[Adams]]. Jackson, nickn...
22: ...islike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favor and emula...
24: ...nd-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militia, which began his military ca...
26: ...e been "tough as old hickory" wood on the battlefield, which gave him his nickname. The war, and parti... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
2: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
14: ...f the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
25: ... capital]]. His great-great-great-grandfather Cornelis had come to the [[New World]] in [[1631]] from ...
27: ...lawyer and later [[Aaron Burr]]'s second in the duel with [[Alexander Hamilton]]. Van Buren made the a...
29: ... of these groups. Van Buren, who early allied himself with the Clintonians, was surrogate of [[Columbi... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
2: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
9: ...><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[January 7]], [[1800]]</td></tr>
20: .... Fillmore served out Taylor's term and was never elected to the presidency in his own right. He was t...
26: ...r of New York. It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate from [[New York]] would complemen...
29: Nevertheless, the two men came to a head on the [[slavery]]...
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