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1. Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
   1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1820]] to [[1859]]'''.
   3: === [[1820s]] ===
   4: ...as-1970-1820.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1820]]
   5: *[[1820]] - [[Missouri Compromise]]
   6: *[[1820]] - [[Land Act]]

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1. 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]...
2. Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
   4: ...en carved around the year [[130 BC]]. He immediately arranged for the government of France to acquire...
3. Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
   1: ...enberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony, aged 28]]
   2: ...enberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony]]
   3: ...rican]] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant wo...
   7: ...s' children, and from the age of 17 to 32 she herself taught in various schools. In the decade precedi...
   9: After [[1854]] she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for [[women's rights]], and bec...
4. 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 granddaughter of [[Theodor Schube...
   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...
5. Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
   3: .... Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
   7: ... A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Florence rebelled against the expected role for a woman of her s...
   9: ...on" who followed the armies; they were equally likely to function as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Ni...
   11: ...roved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], the...
   19: ...htingale's pioneering work in Crimea and in the field of nursing, and Nightingale became a key advisor...
6. Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
   2: ...[[cook]], refugee organizer, raid leader and [[intelligence commander]], [[nurse]] and healer, [[reviv...
   5: ...se there are no records of her birth. Harriet herself claimed she was born around 1825. Born Araminta ...
   9: ...road "conductor") ; she made many trips South to help other slaves escape. With 19 expeditions where s...
   13: ...e area were getting suspicious of her, she would release the chickens and chase them to recapture them...
   21: ...rs after the fact. That same year she married [[Nelson Davis]], another Civil War veteran.
7. Brass instrument (5234 bytes)
   18: * [[Flugelhorn]]
   22: * [[Mellophone]]
   41: ... about 1795, and the [[French horn]] before about 1820. Natural instruments are still played in [[authen...
   55: ...rn]], [[euphonium]], [[tuba]], [[sousaphone]], [[mellophone]], and [[French horn]]. The valves are usu...
   66: * [[conch]] ([[animal shell|shell]])
8. 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]].
9. 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]].
10. 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...
11. 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...
12. Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
    4: {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
    44: ...ories, and his victory in the [[1860 presidential election]] further polarized the nation. Before his ...
    46: ...ing of the peace issue in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1864|1864 presidential campaign]].
    48: ...ugh not as a [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]]-level department), revived national banking and banks, ...
    53: ...ay have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on him for the rest of his life.
13. Printing press (12986 bytes)
    3: ==Development of the printing press==
    4: ...les" emphasized illustrations and used words sparsely. As a new block had to be carved for each page, ...
    6: ...ean style printing press was introduced in relatively recent times (thus bringing the technology full ...
    12: ... Johann Gutenberg and the year 1500, are collectively referred to as [[incunabulum|incunabula]].
    14: ...c world, where calligraphic traditions were extremely important, and also in the Far East.
14. Alexandria (28378 bytes)
    1: ...gypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
    3: ...tatus as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long decline, which by the late [[Ottoman...
    5: ...f-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
    15: ...om [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (yellow).
    19: ...yptian grain, which fed the [[Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic]] and [[Roman Empire|Roman]] world.
15. Antarctica (14761 bytes)
    2: ...ctica satellite orthographic.jpg|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of Antarctica]]
    4: ...the [[coldest place on earth]] and is almost entirely covered by [[ice]]. It is not to be confused wit...
    6: ... accepted sighting of the continent occurred in [[1820]] and the first verified landing in [[1821]]. A [...
    8: ...erage [[humidity]] of any continent on Earth, as well as the lowest average temperature.
    10: It has been assigned the [[Internet]] [[Top-level domain|ccTLD]] '''[[.aq]]'''.
16. Qatar (10610 bytes)
    4: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
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    48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
    59: ...ones of [[Bahrain]] and [[Saudi Arabia]] respectively, these clans swept through the Arabian peninsula...
    61: ...ts left Qatar with a newfound sense of political self although it did not gain official standing as a ...
17. Jamaica (16893 bytes)
    2: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
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    24: | [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]
    56: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
    67: ...oduced over 77,000 tons of sugar annually between 1820 - 1824, which was achieved through the massive us...
18. Hawaii (34434 bytes)
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    37: ...th the ''[[okina|&lsquo;okina]]'') is the [[archipelago]] of the [[Hawaiian Islands|Hawaiian Islands]]...
    39: ...ted States, it is the only state that lies completely in the [[tropics]]. As one of two states outside...
19. Maine (17312 bytes)
    24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 15]], [[1820]] |
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    31: MeanElev = 180 |
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    36: ...or of the state. The state is chilly, with moderately warm summers but very few actual hot days.
20. New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
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    36: ...tial primary|primary]] in the [[U.S. presidential election]]s, and has probably the most famous of all...
    49: ...t William and Mary]] (now [[Fort Constitution]]) helped supply the cannon and ammunition needed for th...

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