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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
121: | [[1815]] — [[1818]] - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
21: ...gmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...a Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ... her similarly-named predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra was never in fact the sole ...
9: ...ollowing the deaths of her brothers she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[4...
11: ...at he seized the Egyptian capital and imposed himself as arbiter between the rival claims of Ptolemy a...
17: ... were named [[Cleopatra Selene]] and [[Alexander Helios]]. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and w...
17: ... Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and...
22: Mary was crowned as Queen of Scots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[154...
24: ...y Lord Livingston in solemn procession to the Chapel Royal. Inside, Lord Livingston brought Mary forwa...
26: ...rd of State was presented by the [[Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll|Earl of Argyll]], and the Ca... - 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... - Wisteria (4864 bytes)
20: ...rnum]]'', but purple, violet, pink or white, not yellow. Flowering is in the spring (just before or as...
22: ...e is sometimes given as "''Wistaria''", but the spelling ''Wisteria'' is conserved under the [[Interna...
35: ... poor--quality soils but prefers fertile, moist, well-drained ones. It thrives in full sun to partial ...
37: ...phate but not nitrogen. Finally, wisteria can be reluctant to bloom because it has not reached maturit...
39: ..., wisteria should not be planted near a [[house|dwelling]]. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events a...
26: ... married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]–[[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister...
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... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia]]
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
16: | vicepresident=[[Daniel D. Tompkins]]
22: ...]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]]) were well-to-do farmers.
24: ... direction of President [[Thomas Jefferson]], he helped negotiate the [[Louisiana Purchase]]. - 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... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
11: Governor = [[M. Jodi Rell]] |
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36: ...he [[New England (U.S.)|New England]] region, as well as the southernmost state in New England and one... - 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]]
49: *[[Richard Yates (governor)|Yates, Richard]], (1818-1873), 19th century [[Governor of Illinois|govern... - 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.]] - 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]]) - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
7: *'''[[Red River Basin]]''', acquired in [[1818]] by treaty from Great Britain
13: ...o countries had jointly controlled the area since 1818 - 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... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
10: ...Capital = [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] |
25: AdmittanceDate = [[December 3]], [[1818]] |
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33: LowestElev = 85 | - 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]].
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