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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]... - 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
39: ...evens Cabot Abbott|Abbott, John Stevens Cabot]], (1805-1877), American writer
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...humb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
5: ...lso examining [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the au...
7: ...as educated by the [[Jesuits]], and became a bookseller in [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette...
10: ...plementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
14: ... of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any subject that he approached, th... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...tands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and d...
5: ...e]], the cause of which was then unknown. She travelled to [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winchester]] to see...
7: ...orthanger Abbey]]'', pokes fun at the [[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann Radcliffe]], Austen is most famous fo...
9: Her novels were fairly well received when they were published, with [[Sir Wa...
10: ...has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to m... - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...ng increasingly recognised as significant in themselves.
5: ...Berlin]] in the very popular concerts which were held there.
7: ...debut at the piano came in 1838, when she played Felix's piano [[concerto]] No. 1.
9: ...Felix Mendelssohn, though many scholars nowadays believe it was actually Fanny who first worked in the...
11: ...mber of [[Compact disc|CD]]s being released on labels such as [[Hyperion Records|Hyperion]] and [[CPO]... - History of Egypt (1881 bytes)
4: ...araonic Egypt was for so long an independent and self-contained state.
6: ...] and [[United Kingdom|British]]. When [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] ([[President of Egypt]] 1954–1970)...
13: *[[History of Ottoman Egypt]]: [[1517]] to [[1805]]
14: ...[Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors]]: [[1805]] to [[1882]] - 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 ... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ...]. [[Lesotho]] is an independent [[nation]], entirely surrounded by South African territory.
3: ... after a long struggle by the black majority, as well as many white, coloured and Indian South African...
5: ...of South Africa]] is the largest and most well-developed of the entire [[Africa]]n continent, with mod...
9: ... [[Swati language|Swati]], [[Ndebele language|Ndebele]], [[Sesotho language|Southern Sotho]], [[Northe...
11: ...rmined that these languages are prevalent. Nevertheless, their populations are not as such that they r... - Idaho (13962 bytes)
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42: ...s later revealed Willing had made up the name himself, and the original Idaho territory was re-named [... - Washington (20186 bytes)
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36: ...2000]] census, the state population was approximately 5.9 million and the state work force numbered ab...
45: ...whale]] hunting. In the east, nomadic tribes travelled the land and missionaries such as the Whitmans... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
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38: .... The state capital is [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Ver... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
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43: ...to balance this with the desire to support the development needed to support its increasing population...
49: ...Columbia River. Exploration by Lewis and Clark ([[1805]]-[[1806]]) and Britain's [[David Thompson]] ([[1... - 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]] - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
12: ...h policy of benign neglect which permitted the development of an American spirit and culture which was...
17: ...[[American Revolutionary War]] and established itself as the United States of America with 13 States.
26: Following the 1805 destruction of the French navy at the [[Battle of...
28: ... such as cotton, indigo, and sugar were not as widely avaliable.
30: ...g British interference with American shipping as well as British aid to Native Americans in [[Canada]]... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...bed as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[...
5: Comets are believed to originate in a cloud (the [[Oort cloud]])...
9: ...e solar wind than dust is, and follows magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. While ...
11: ... with the naked eye. Before the invention of the telescope, comets seemed to appear out of nowhere in ...
13: ...age:Cometorbit.png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events fro...
11: *[[1793]] - [[Eli Whitney]] invents [[cotton gin]]
13: ...rgia]]'' 2 US 419 1793 paves way for passage of [[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution...
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
18: *[[1795]] - [[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
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36: ...e Great Lakes, Michigan has the longest state shoreline in the continental United States, and more rec...
42: ... and Ohio militia maneuvered in the area. Ultimately, Congress awarded the "[[Toledo Strip]]" to Ohio... - Coal mining (4145 bytes)
13: ... hydraulic roof supports known as "chocks" or "shields". These supports are placed in a line (up to 40...
17: ...in particular is the world leader in coal mining related deaths, with official estimates of around 600...
21: ...ry has been subject to sometimes violent [[labor relations]] in the U.S. (for example, see [[Ludlow Ma...
23: ...knit with a strong sense of community spirit and religious faith. They also tend to be [[stronghold]]s...
25: ...south Wales valleys. This colliery was started in 1805 and at the end of the 20th century it was bought ... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...as]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]], a holiday when gifts were exchanged. ...
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
18: ...f [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]]
22: *[[1818]] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Pr...
25: ...laim under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
7: ...ohn II]], the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the [[papacy]].
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[County Durham]].
20: *[[1882]] - [[John D. Rockefeller]] unites his oil holdings into the [[Standard ...
27: *[[1921]] - The first religious [[radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in [[Pitts...
32: ...Bombing During World War II|German bombing]] severely damaged the [[Llandaff Cathedral]], built in [[1...
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