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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]] (wing added), [[1909...
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]] - 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]... - 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: 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 - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...s an [[Arequipa|Arequipa-born]] [[Peruvian]] colonel of the [[Spanish Armada]], and her mother, Anne L...
5: ...tance that brought her there, Tristᮠwrote a travel diary about her experiences in [[Peru]] during th...
7: [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], in his historical novel [[The way to Paradise]], analyzes Flora Tristan a...
9: Flora Tristan herself authored several works, the best known of which ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
1: [[Image:george_eliot.jpg|thumb|right|George Eliot]]
3: ...e novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological pe...
5: ...c scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...he was brought up with a narrowly [[low church]] religion. Charles Bray, a [[Coventry]] manufacturer,...
10: ...rried to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: Dr. '''Mary Edwards Walker''' ([[November]], [[1832]] – [[February 21]], [[1919]]) was a versat...
6: ...k]], the daughter of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which included such...
8: ...raduated as a doctor in [[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and the...
10: ...ashington, D.C.]] She also worked as an unpaid field surgeon near the Union front lines, including th...
12: ...there until [[August 12]], [[1864]] when she was released as part of a prisoner exchange. She went on... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: A '''carpet''' is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering. The term was...
14: ...ched to the warp by one of three knot types (see below) to form the pile or nap of the carpet.
16: ...design. Moquette is woven in relatively narrow panels (usually 27" or 36"). Larger works are composed...
19: ...introduced in Germany in 1804. They became extremely popular in England in the 1830s.
21: ...[Gripper Axminster]] (1890). These types were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
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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...
24: ...nd-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militia, which began his military ca... - 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... - 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: ... Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
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... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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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. - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ...rtugal#Naming of Portugal|naming of Portugal]] itself reveals most of the country's early history, ste...
15: ...ng time. The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
17: ...n in the north, the [[Lusitanians]] successfully held off the Romans, took back land and ransacked [[C...
21: [[Image:Castelo guimaraes2.jpg|thumb|right|230px|The [[10th cent...
23: ...an [[Alans]], were also present, but were both expelled or partially integrated by the [[Visigoths]]. - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
1: ...ion]], bordered by [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Belgium]].<br>
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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... - Maine (17312 bytes)
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36: ...or of the state. The state is chilly, with moderately warm summers but very few actual hot days.
38: ... capital was [[Portland, Maine|Portland]] until [[1832]], when it was moved to the more geographically c... - Texas (39610 bytes)
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57: ...States|US Southwest]]. Texas shares some cultural elements with both regions, with more similarities w...
70: ...o]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of Texas. For more information on T... - 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]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...mitic languages]], and [[Elamite]], which is an [[Elamo-Dravidian]] language.
15: ...high priestess of [[Adab]] on the occasion of her election]]
16: ...ed the [[cuneiform]] writing of Mesopotamia, and helped prepare The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western ...
18: ...1832-1901) began excavating the Sumerian site of Tello (ancient Girsu, capital of the state of [[Lagas...
24: ...fically treat a bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian text belongs to Paul Haupt (1858-1926), who published Die ... - 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]]
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