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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
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
9: ...]]). He eventually learned her true identity in [[1806]], when [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] was invading [[Pru...
12: ...elf with these thorny researches, succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating...
17: ... [[Ernst Chladni]]'s study on [[vibration]]s of [[elastic]] surfaces. After failing twice she finally ...
21: ...s]] were in the fields of [[number theory]] and [[elasticity theory]]. One significant item is the con... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: A '''carpet''' is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering. The term was...
14: ...ched to the warp by one of three knot types (see below) to form the pile or nap of the carpet.
16: ...design. Moquette is woven in relatively narrow panels (usually 27" or 36"). Larger works are composed...
19: ...introduced in Germany in 1804. They became extremely popular in England in the 1830s.
21: ...[Gripper Axminster]] (1890). These types were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s... - 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... - 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)}} - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ...54 to 42 in the [[United States Electoral College|electoral vote]]. He became the youngest president u...
20: ...s his marriage to [[Jane Means Appleton Pierce]] fell apart. He destroyed his reputation by declaring ...
22: ...ming and fine and handsome. And he was genuinely religious. And yet he was a timid man with a shallow,...
27: ... a lasting friendship, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also met [[Calvin E. Stowe]], [[Sargent ...
29: ...r Governor [[Levi Woodbury]] and later Judges Samuel Howe and Edmund Parker in [[Amherst, New Hampshir... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...rders the [[North Sea]] to the north and west, [[Belgium]] to the south, and [[Germany]] to the east. ...
13: national_anthem = ''[[Wilhelmus van Nassouwe]]'' |
25: ...6,297,196[http://www.cbs.nl/nl/cijfers/bevolkingsteller/popclocknl.asp] |
32: Religion = [[Christianity]], [[Islam]], [[Hinduism]] ...
55: ...rlands ranked fifth on the [[2004]] [[UN Human Development Index]], behind [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[A... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Switzerland]], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[Luxembourg]], an...
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25: |'''[[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]]''' || [[Gerhard Schr?]]
46: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.de]] - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
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38: ...]], ''[[Georgia on My Mind]]'' by [[Hoagy Carmichael]] was originally written about a woman of that na...
48: ...lorer)|Hernando de Soto]] in [[1540]], had completely disappeared by [[1560]]. - 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: ...River. Exploration by Lewis and Clark ([[1805]]-[[1806]]) and Britain's [[David Thompson]] ([[1811]]) pu... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
11: *[[Paolo Uccello|Uccello, Paolo]], (1397-1475), Italian painter
26: ...harlotte]], (born 1968), British zoolologist and television presenter
49: ...Miguel de]], (1864-1936), : ''Niebla'', ''San Manuel Bueno Martir''
56: ..., Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]]
58: *[[Gabrielle Union|Union, Gabrielle]] (born 1973) United States actress - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ... are within the [[asteroid belt]], with [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)...
4: ...in [[1840]] by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1...
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... - 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]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ..., [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadia...
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]] - 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... - August (4611 bytes)
4: ... constellation of [[Cancer]] and ends in the constellation of [[Leo]].
8: In the [[neopaganism|pagan]] [[wheel of the year]] August begins at or near [[Lughnasa...
10: ...one of the [[public holidays in the Republic of Ireland]].
14: ...Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''elokuu'', meaning "month of reaping".
17: * In the [[neopaganism|pagan]] [[wheel of the year]] August begins at or near [[Lughnasa... - 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...
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