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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]... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
7: ...] candidate, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
11: ...to [[1881]]. He died of [[peritonitis]] in a [[hotel]] in [[New York City]].
21: ...|before=''(none)''|after=[[John B. Weller]]|years=1850 – 1851}}
22: ...er=[[Abraham Lincoln]]| years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] (lost)}} - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - 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... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...ited as the first "[[feminist]]", but more accurately, the launcher of women's political advocacy. Sh...
5: ...rk]] in the early [[1800s]]. She moved to [[Philadelphia]] and became a Quaker minister in [[1821]]. S...
7: ...their equal treatment of women compared to other religious and social groups in America since its foun...
9: ...and abolitionist advocates. In the [[1830s]] she helped establish two anti-slavery groups.
11: ...eneca Falls]], [[New York]] in [[1848]]. While [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] and [[Susan B. Anthony]] ar... - 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 [[...
10: ...r, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern...
27: ...http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html The Narrative of Sojourner Truth]'' - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ...era company known by her name, and toured extensively in the [[United States]], where she enjoyed cons... - 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: ...ntributing to the ''[[Westminster Review]]'' in [[1850]] and became its assistant editor in [[1851]]. T...
10: ...rried to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...;ская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia...
3: ...iukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He managed to conv...
5: Her mother was [[Elizaveta Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was...
7: ...ing solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormou...
13: ...red her uncle [[Pyotr Vasilievich Krukovsky]], a self-taught eccentric with especial fondness for math... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
6: dimension into which it can freely vibrate, thus repeatedly
10: and [[melodica]]s), the mouth harmonica lacks a keyboard. I...
11: lips and tongue are used to select one or a few of the several holes
15: mouthpiece hole often may be selected further by choice of breath
26: ...metallic blow and draw reedplates are riveted (rarely screwed) onto either side of the comb. Over the... - 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)
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...
44: ... first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] and Samuel Adams. - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...[[October 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives...
5: ... [[1804]]-[[1806]] and again in [[1819]]. He was elected as a [[United States Democratic-Republican P...
7: ...[[1829]]. He 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...
11: ...a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, but he died in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]] soon afte... - 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: ...beth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]], [[1850]]) - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
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6: ...r><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
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]]... - 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. - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ...rch 4]], [[1855]]-[[March 3]], [[1869]]). He was elected [[Speaker of the United States House of Repr...
8: In [[1868]] he was elected Vice President of the United States on the R...
10: ...ax, California]], is named in his honor. The "Jewel of the Midwest", Schuyler, Nebraska, is also name...
14: ...fter=[[Henry Wilson]] | years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1868|1868]] (won)}} - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
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7: ...lspan=2 | [[Image:Vpww.gif|Photo of William A. Wheeler]]
44: '''William Almon Wheeler''' ([[June 30]], [[1819]]–[[June 4]], [[1...
46: ...nal conventions in [[1867]] and [[1868]], and was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeedi...
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