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  1. 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...
  2. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    2: ...ueen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
    7: ...]] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the t...
    9: ...narch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Cobu...
    12: ... I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince ...
    16: ...ion for a child monarch, Victoria would have been eligible to govern the realm as would an adult. In o...
  3. Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
    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...
    23: With prompting from Gauss, in [[1830]] the [[University of G?ngen]] agreed to award Ge...
  4. 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]].
  5. 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...
  6. John Tyler (18019 bytes)
    2: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
    27: ...[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]], Tyler was elected [[Vice President of the United States|Vice P...
    29: ...greed with Tyler that he was President and not merely [[Acting President]], and as the Constitution wa...
    36: ... - [[December 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First L...
    39: *Elizabeth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]],...
  7. James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
    4: {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
    50: ...l and the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents.htm].
    53: ...gers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Ja...
    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...
  8. 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.
  9. 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...
  10. Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
    7: | preceded=[[James A. Garfield]]
    8: | succeeded=[[Grover Cleveland]]
    10: | place of birth=[[Fairfield, Vermont]]
    14: | wife=[[Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur]]
    18: ...runtled office seeker, on July 2, [[1881]]. Garfield died on September 19th, and Arthur became [[Pres...
  11. Geology (12007 bytes)
    3: ...elements such as [[sulfur]], [[chlorine]], and [[helium]].
    5: ...lar system. However, specialised terms such as ''selenology'' (studies of the [[Moon]]), ''areology'' ...
    7: The word "geology" was first used by Jean-Andreluc in the year [[1778]] and introduced as a fixed ...
    10: ...on his observation of [[fossil]] [[animal shell|shell]]s in a geological [[stratum]] in a mountain hun...
    14: ...ind energy]], [[hydropower|hydrodynamic power]], melting cookers, transport of [[ore]]s, extraction of...
  12. Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
    1: ...t and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several millions up to about one hu...
    4: ...ation/v24/i1/belief.asp Old-earth or young-earth belief]).
    9: ... Century]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred t...
    15: ...th]] pointed out that if two layers of rock at widely differing locations contained similar fossils, t...
    17: ...construct a history of the Earth, though their timelines were inexact as they did not know how long it...
  13. Algeria (16548 bytes)
    1: ...auritania]] in the southwest, and [[Morocco]] as well as a few kilometers of its annexed territory, [[...
    2: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
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    23: ...04;&#1580;&#1586;&#1575;&#1574;&#1585;<br><small>(El Djazaﲬ Al-Jazੲ)</small><br>1,507,241 <small>(...
    25: ...[[President of Algeria|Head of State]]''' || [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]], <small>''President''</small>
  14. 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...
  15. Belgium (31774 bytes)
    1: ... Belgi맧, [[German language|German]]: ''K?reich Belgien'') is a country in [[Western Europe]], border...
    3: ...ed in its complex institutions and [[Politics of Belgium|political history]].
    4: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
    5: ...ique'''<br>'''Koninkrijk Belgi맧'<br>'''K?reich Belgien'''</big>
    7: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:c...
  16. Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
    1: ...ion]], bordered by [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Belgium]].<br>
    2: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=310 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
    5: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:c...
    44: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.lu]]
    53: ...the [[963]]. Around this fort a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a small but impor...
  17. Connecticut (28543 bytes)
    11: Governor = [[M. Jodi Rell]] |
    30: HighestElev = 725 |
    31: MeanElev = 152 |
    32: LowestElev = 0 |
    36: ...he [[New England (U.S.)|New England]] region, as well as the southernmost state in New England and one...
  18. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
    7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
    54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
    56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
    77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]]
  19. Asteroid (24334 bytes)
    1: ... are within the [[asteroid belt]], with [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)...
    4: ...[[William Herschel]] shortly after [[Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers|Olbers]] discovered the second one, [[2 P...
    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 ...
  20. 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]])

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