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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]... - 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... - 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 - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...lso see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Loui...
4: ...[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]]. Sh...
6: ..., Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia'' was the eldest daughter of [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|...
8: ...s, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to th... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ... hospital|asylums]] for the [[insane]]. Unfortunately for her legacy, these state hospitals grew into ...
6: ...ided to go to the jail to see if she could be of help to those in need. There she found a number of in...
8: ...a student of the [[Unitarian]] reformer [[William Ellery Channing]], and began her career as a [[teach...
12: She was quick to see the parallel between the circumstances of her recovery and the...
14: ... visiting [[almshouse]]s and jails where the [[homeless]] were confined. She then lobbied state legisl... - 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 ... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
16: | vicepresident=[[John Caldwell Calhoun]]
22: ... from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then ...
26: ...1808]], when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the ...
30: ...egotiated the [[Adams-On�Treaty]] and helped develop the [[Monroe Doctrine]], which warned European ...
32: ...nanimously chosen by the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral college]]. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
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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... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ... [[1804]]-[[1806]] and again in [[1819]]. He was elected as a [[United States Democratic-Republican P...
7: ...[[1829]]. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1829.
9: ...l [[U.S. Electoral College|electors]] due to his relationship with an African-American woman. He serve...
13: ...s, and, in the case of Robert Ward, a Senator as well.
29: ... election, 1836|1836]] (won), [[U.S. presidential election, 1840|1840]] (lost)}} - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
13: *[[Elihu Yale|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
34: *[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
45: ...es, Dornford]], ([[1885]] - [[1960]]), British novelist
48: ... W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
50: ...t)|Yates, Richard]], ([[1926]]-[[1992]]), U.S. novelist - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ... are within the [[asteroid belt]], with [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)...
4: ...[[William Herschel]] shortly after [[Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers|Olbers]] discovered the second one, [[2 P...
8: ...rough [[Earth's atmosphere]] and strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally br...
14: ...ted orbits, 99,906 asteroids had been calculated well enough to be given official numbers and 12,345 o...
16: ...e diameters of ~500 km. 4 Vesta is the only main belt asteroid that is sometimes visible to the naked ... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
8: {{seemain|timeline of meteorology}}
10: ...edicting the weather by interpreting established celestial phenomena, such as a [[Halo (optical phenom...
12: ... [[thermometer]] in [[1607]], followed by [[Torricelli]]'s invention of the [[barometer]] in [[1643]]....
16: ... of machines with rotating parts, such as waterwheels.
18: ...turning point however was the invention of the [[telegraph]] in [[1843]] that allowed exchange of weat... - History of biology (3053 bytes)
3: ...itself appears in the title of Volume 3 of [[Michael Christoph Hanov]]'s ''Philosophiae naturalis sive...
7: ...the field by the independent work of [[Alfred Russel Wallace]].
9: ...for [[evolution]]. Implications of evolution on fields outside of pure science have led to both [[Soci...
13: ...ental object of study for the understanding of developmental biology, and for medical therapies.
15: *[[Timeline of biology and organic chemistry]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Cloud (9947 bytes)
5: ...ible as clouds. Clouds [[reflect]] all visible wavelengths of light equally and are thus white, but th...
18: ... capable of keeping small droplets suspended. As well, conditions inside a cloud are not static: water...
22: ...e crystals, which precipitate from the cloud and melt as they fall. This process typically takes place...
24: ...ions convection dominates, creating vertically developed clouds. Stable air produces horizontally homo...
28: ... This system was proposed by [[Luke Howard]] in [[1802]] in a presentation to the [[Askesian Society]]. - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...asion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in ...
5: ...il [[November 20]], 1815, is sometimes (though rarely these days) referred to as the [[Great French Wa...
12: ...y made it the most powerful commercial nation as well.
14: ...European history forever. It was the force that spelled the beginning of some nations, and the end of ...
18: ... of Napoleon, European states had employed relatively small armies with a large proportion of mercenar... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
2: ...]], [[Computer science topics]], [[List of terms relating to algorithms and data structures]]
133: [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] --
137: [[Binary symmetric channel]] --
144: [[Bourne shell]] (sh)
145: [[Bourne-Again shell]] (bash) - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ident]] under [[Thomas Jefferson]] as for his [[duel]] with [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and a...
9: ...enedict Arnold]], [[George Washington]] and [[Israel Putnam]].
13: ...l never quite trusted Major Burr. However, [[Israel Putnam]] took Burr under his wing, and by his vig...
14: ...his study of law. Burr did perform occasional intelligence missions for Revolutionary generals such a...
18: ... Aaron Burr and his first wife were married for twelve years, until her death from [[cancer]]. - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
6: ...only practical overland mechanized transport for well over 100 years.
9: ...borough]], [[Leicestershire]] (in [[1789]]). In [[1802]], Jessop opened the [[Surrey Iron Railway]] in s...
11: ... locomotive power until [[Richard Trevithick]] developed the high pressure steam engine in the 1800s.
14: ...k died in poverty, with his achievement being largely unrecognized.
16: ...ified that there should be separate sets of parallel tracks for trains going in different directions.
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