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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
81: | [[1828]] — [[1832]], [[1889]] — [[1891]] (wi...
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...in]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could r...
3: ...ated by [[Washington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the ea...
5: ... the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...iversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
9: ...Scandinavians, Columbus's voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting recognition of the ex... - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
29: *[[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
32: ... Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
47: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm]], (1896-1962), mathematician - 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]]. - 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... - 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... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...nate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Pennsylvania]] and the eleventh [[Vice President of the United States|Vice ...
5: ...[1833]], when he declined to be a candidate for reelection. He was chairman of the Committee on Naval...
7: ... when he was recalled at his own request. He was elected Vice President of the United States on the D...
9: ...m [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, and died there. He is interred in St. Peter...
11: ...great-granduncle of [[U.S. Senator]] [[Claiborne Pell]] of [[Rhode Island]]. He is also the uncle of ... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
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20: .... Fillmore served out Taylor's term and was never elected to the presidency in his own right. He was t...
26: ...r of New York. It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate from [[New York]] would complemen...
29: Nevertheless, the two men came to a head on the [[slavery]]...
37: ...ed and President Fillmore at once appointed [[Daniel Webster]] to be Secretary of State, thus proclaim... - 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... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
25: | '''Wife:''' || [[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
28: | [[Martha Patterson]] (daughter)<br />[[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
33: ...[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]<br/>(elected on National Union ticket)
42: ...his conciliatory policies towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroil... - 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. - Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
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48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.az]]
56: ...ch means "the land of the brave Az people" or "an elevated place for the wealthy and exalted."
60: ... clear ethnic identification and referred to themselves primarily as "Muslims." - 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 (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
1: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events fro...
14: ... election, 1824|election of 1824]]; Adams immediately appoints Clay his new [[Secretary of State]], wh...
19: *[[1828]] - [[Tariff of Abominations]] passed
20: *[[1828]] - [[John C. Calhoun]] (Jackson's vice-president...
37: *[[1832]] - Jackson re-elected amid struggle with [[Nicholas Biddle (1786-1... - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
1: This is a timeline of significant events leading to the [[America...
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11: |valign=center|'''[[1828]]'''
15: |[[Daniel Webster]] delivers a memorable ''Reply to Hayne'' on January 27...
27: | + Anti-Slavery "debates" are held at [[Lane Theological Seminary]] in [[Cincinnati... - 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... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...mmonwealth|Polish]] [[Constitution of May 3]] as well as leading to the rise of [[capitalism]] and the...
6: ...ce of a supreme being. In this period, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[na...
12: ... Enlightenment cover much of the 17th century as well, though others term the previous era "[[17th cen...
14: ...is goal in the Age of Reason, which was built on self-evident axioms, reached its height with [[Baruch...
18: ...m overreaching to some in the present-day, where belief is that human beings apprehend a truth that is... - St. Valentine's Day (9989 bytes)
1: ...e in honor of [[Saint Valentine]], are discussed below. The day's associations with [[romantic love]] ...
4: ...tion also estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.
10: ...id January and mid February was the month of [[Gamelion]], which was dedicated to the sacred [[marriag...
12: ... come forth voluntarily for the occasion, in the belief that being so touched would render them fruitf...
17: ...rica (province)|North Africa]], about whom little else is known.
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