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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]... - 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
32: *[[William Abbot|Abbot, William]], (1798-1843), British actor
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco - 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)
34: ...rich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - 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... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ... [[Gibson Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, w...
8: ...member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Marki...
10: ...her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband had p...
12: It is generally believed that it was Nancy Astor who, during a [[Worl...
21: # [[Michael Langhorne Astor]] (1916-1979) - 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: ...s in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Union'' (1843). - 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 [[... - 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]] - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ... hospital|asylums]] for the [[insane]]. Unfortunately for her legacy, these state hospitals grew into ...
6: ...ided to go to the jail to see if she could be of help to those in need. There she found a number of in...
8: ...a student of the [[Unitarian]] reformer [[William Ellery Channing]], and began her career as a [[teach...
12: She was quick to see the parallel between the circumstances of her recovery and the...
14: ... visiting [[almshouse]]s and jails where the [[homeless]] were confined. She then lobbied state legisl... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
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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]]. - 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]],... - 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... - 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... - 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. - 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... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
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32: ...od for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class of 39. At the academy,...
34: ...nt Grant]], Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr., Ellen (Nellie) Grant, and Jesse Root Grant.
39: ... bravery: at [[Battle of Molino del Rey | Molino del Rey]] and [[Battle of Chapultepec | Chapultepec]]...
41: ...uld be put to better use and appointed him [[colonel]] of the 21st Illinois Infantry (effective [[June... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
3: ==Development of the printing press==
4: ...les" emphasized illustrations and used words sparsely. As a new block had to be carved for each page, ...
6: ...ean style printing press was introduced in relatively recent times (thus bringing the technology full ...
12: ... Johann Gutenberg and the year 1500, are collectively referred to as [[incunabulum|incunabula]].
14: ...c world, where calligraphic traditions were extremely important, and also in the Far East. - 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... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
1: ...ere the capital, [[Malabo]] (formerly [[Santa Isabel]]), is located. Its post-independence name is sug...
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31: | [[Miguel Abia Biteo Boric|-
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