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- 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]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...lle''' ([[May 23]], [[1790]] – [[May 8]], [[1842]]) was a [[France|French]] [[List of explorers|ex...
4: ...en carved around the year [[130 BC]]. He immediately arranged for the government of France to acquire... - 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... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...e queen of [[Jhansi]], a [[Maratha]]-ruled [[princely state]] of northern [[India]], was one of the gr...
5: ...d responsibility of looking after the young girl fell to her father. She completed her education and m...
7: ...ja Gangadhar Rao, the Maharaja of [[Jhansi]] in [[1842]], and became the Rani of Jhansi. After the marri...
17: ...tish left the fort, they were massacred by the rebels. Although the massacre probably occurred without...
19: ... a man, strapping her adopted son Damodar Rao closely on her back. She regrouped loyal soldiers in the... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
1: [[image:AdaLovelace1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ada Lovelace]]
2: '''Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace''' ([[December 10]], [[1815]] - [[November 27]...
6: ...hose Annabella. On [[January 16]], [[1816]], Annabella left Byron, taking 1-month old Ada with her. On...
8: ... art at an early stage of her life. She was privately schooled in [[mathematics]] and [[science]]; one...
10: [[Image:Ada Lovelace.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Ada Lovelace]] - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ... granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[192...
10: ...|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: ... [[Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Criti...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establi...
16: ... that she was too old (at 34) for Scarlett's antebellum scenes (One also wonders if the cynical Bankhe... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
2: ...irst observed by [[Karl Wilhelm von N䧥li]] in [[1842]] and their behavior later described in detail by...
5: ...he chromosomes are special structures called ''[[telomere]]s''. DNA replication begins at many differe...
17: ...osome.png|frame|none|'''Figure 2:''' Different levels of DNA condensation. (1) Single DNA strand. (2) ...
19: ...ort arm of a chromosome can be extended by a [[satellite chromosome]] that contains codes for [[riboso...
37: <td>[[Drosophila melanogaster|Fruit fly]]</td> - Harmonium (4268 bytes)
3: that uses a pressure bellows.
5: ...antage of the expressive capacity of varying the bellows pressure using the feet. It was also common i...
7: ...g been replaced by the piano, the pipe organ, and electronic organs. Many harmoniums were shipped over...
9: ...lexandre Debain]], though there was concurrent development of similar instruments.
13: ...ny genres of [[Music of India|Indian music]], as well as being commonly found in Indian homes. - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: ... establishment of the [[Eleventh dynasty of Egypt|Eleventh dynasty]] to the end of the [[Fourteenth dy...
5: ...een the Eleventh and [[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|Twelfth dynasties]], and date the Middle Kingdom to th...
7: ==The Twelfth dynasty==
8: ...urous Twelfth dynasty. The first Pharaoh of the Twelfth dynasty (Amenemhat I), is according to some so...
10: ...e reign. The co-regencies lasted throughout the Twelfth dynasty and provided great stability. - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
5: ...ent Egypt]], taking into account well accepted developments during the 20th century but not including ...
7: ...r rulers. Often there are also several possible spellings of the names.
9: ...remove this in the combined chronology presented below, which is the “Conventional Chronology...
17: ...m Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relation to the Bronze Age", in Astrom (ed) ''High, M...
20: ...uk/ Digital Egypt for Universities], which was developed by [http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/ The Petrie M... - 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... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
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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]],... - 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... - 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. - 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... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
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37: ... Island leads some out-of-staters to erroneously believe that the entire state is an island, while it ...
42: ...d the site Providence and declared it a place of religious freedom for [[Baptist]] settlers. Historica... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
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43: ...to balance this with the desire to support the development needed to support its increasing population...
49: ...Passage]]. The [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] travelled through the region during their expedition to ... - 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]] - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
7: ...ority | author = [[Richard Owen|Owen]] | date = [[1842]]}}
16: ..., and "soft tissues, including blood vessels and cells lining them [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/...
18: ... to describe any prehistoric reptile, like the [[pelycosaur]] ''[[Dimetrodon]]'', the winged [[pterosa...
20: ...of [[cladistics]], which rigorously analyzes the relationships between biological organisms, has also ...
27: ...England|English]] scientist [[Richard Owen]] in [[1842]]. The term is a combination of the [[Greek langu...
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