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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...roperties]] vary regularly across the table. Each element is listed by its [[atomic number]] and [[che...
3: ...lements|other methods for displaying the chemical elements]] for more details or different perspective...
6: ...similar configurations of their [[valence shell]] electrons, which gives them similar properties.
9: ...lied Chemistry]] (IUPAC). The IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral systems a...
14: ==Other methods for displaying the chemical elements== - 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 - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...Baumfree'''). Other sources list her name as "Isabella Van Wagener". The year of her birth is uncertai...
5: ...r a decade and joining [[Elijah Pierson]] in evangelical preaching on street-corners.
8: ...a Woman?]]," a short but well pointed commentary delivered in [[1851]] at the Women's Convention in [[... - 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]... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
6: ...d instruments ("Maultrommel", Jews' Harp) were likely precursors.
10: ...is made by a thin metal ribbon, a reed, which is held at one end and free at the other, like a ruler o...
16: *Reed tone pitch is given by the reed itself and not through a resonator tube (as opposed to ...
22: ... mouth-blown instrument. It is thought that a traveler to China in the [[1800s]] brought this idea bac...
25: ...s a Querhammerfl?ith Aoline, made by Kasper Schimmelbach and K?shafen Bayern, circa [[1815]] (MIM Kat.... - Concertina (3686 bytes)
2: ...s travel ''perpendicular to the direction of the bellows''.
6: ...rtina of a different system may feel like an entirely new instrument.
10: ...although it is used in other musical contexts as well. George Jones is often credited as the inventor...
13: ...d the other. The English concertina is typically held by placing the thumbs through thumb straps and t...
16: ...e notes pushing and pulling. The instrument is held in the same manner as an Anglo concertina. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
7: ...ernment in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[...
14: ...ates Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Madeleine Albright]], born in [[Czechoslovakia]]; and [...
18: ==Presidential elections==
19: ...es (provided that such a number was a majority of electors) became President, while the individual who...
21: ...ffice on [[January 20]] of the year following the election, an event called [[Inauguration Day]]. Alt... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
18: ... President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]).
24: ...to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events a...
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... - 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 ... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Montpelier]], [[Virginia]]
16: ...[[George Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]; [[Elbridge Gerry]]
21: ... politics, helping to draft their declaration of religious freedom and persuading [[Virginia]] to give...
23: ...onvention]], and his overall influence at [[Philadelphia]] in [[1787]] has led some historians to call...
29: ...ed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1829]]
16: | vicepresident=[[John Caldwell Calhoun]]
18: ...ebruary 23]], [[1848]]) was the sixth ([[1825]]-[[1829]]) [[President of the United States|President]] o...
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 ... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1829]]
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
16: | vicepresident= [[John C. Calhoun]] (1829-1832) [[Martin Van Buren]] (1833-1837)
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... - 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... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ... [[1804]]-[[1806]] and again in [[1819]]. He was elected as a [[United States Democratic-Republican P...
7: ...e 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.
26: ... Crittenden]]|after=[[George M. Bibb]]|years=1819-1829}} - 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 ... - 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... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
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50: ...l and the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents.htm].
53: ...epresentatives from [[1814]] to [[1815]]. He was elected to the Seventeenth and to the four succeedin...
55: ...nd speculation that the two had a [[homosexual]] relationship began at the time and have periodically ...
57: ...io. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congres... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[James A. Garfield]]
8: | succeeded=[[Grover Cleveland]]
9: | date of birth=[[October 5]], [[1829]]
10: | place of birth=[[Fairfield, Vermont]]
14: | wife=[[Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur]] - Australia (39438 bytes)
14: ...II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Michael Jeffery]]<br>[[John Howard]]|
48: ...population grew and new areas were explored, six self-governing [[Crown Colony|Crown Colonies]] were e...
56: ...ed the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency. Governo...
63: ...]. The [[Torres Strait Islander]]s, ethnically [[Melanesia]]n, inhabited the [[Torres Strait Islands]]...
67: ...ontinent (present-day [[Western Australia]]) in [[1829]]. Separate colonies were created from parts of N... - Greece (54754 bytes)
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29: ...[Ottoman Empire]]<br/>[[25 March]] [[1821]]<br/>[[1829]]
44: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.gr]]
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