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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]... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
8: ...tianity. He married in [[1844]], and his wife travelled with him for a brief time at his insistence an...
12: In the period [[1852]]–[[1856|56]], he explored the interior, di...
14: ...resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
17: ...ingstone had failed to explore on his earlier travels.
22: ...ancis Burton]], [[John Hanning Speke]], and [[Samuel Baker]] had earlier (and correctly) identified ei... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
10: * [[1852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the ...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]]. - 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
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco - 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 - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...a Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ... her similarly-named predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra was never in fact the sole ...
9: ...ollowing the deaths of her brothers she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[4...
11: ...at he seized the Egyptian capital and imposed himself as arbiter between the rival claims of Ptolemy a...
17: ... were named [[Cleopatra Selene]] and [[Alexander Helios]]. - 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... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
1: ...enberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony, aged 28]]
2: ...enberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony]]
3: ...rican]] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant wo...
7: ...mperance]] movements in New York, organizing in [[1852]] the first woman's state temperance society in A...
9: After [[1854]] she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for [[women's rights]], and bec... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
1: [[image:AdaLovelace1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ada Lovelace]]
2: ...' ([[December 10]], [[1815]] - [[November 27]], [[1852]]) is mainly known for having written a descripti...
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]] - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: .... Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ... A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Florence rebelled against the expected role for a woman of her s...
9: ...on" who followed the armies; they were equally likely to function as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Ni...
11: ...roved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], the...
19: ...htingale's pioneering work in Crimea and in the field of nursing, and Nightingale became a key advisor... - 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... - 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... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
5: ...r of the state legislature between [[1841]] and [[1852]], and was owner and editor of the ''Boston Repub...
7: ... the resignation of [[Edward Everett]]. He was reelected as a [[United States Republican Party|Republ...
9: ...g at [[Washington, DC]]. He was interred in Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick.
12: ...=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1872|1872]] (won)}}
13: ...|before=[[Schuyler Colfax]]|after=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[March 4]], [[1873]] – [[Novembe... - Romania (19812 bytes)
1: '''Romania''' (formerly spelled ''Rumania'' or ''Roumania''; [[Romanian langua...
62: ... Dragos during the 13th and 14th century respectively. In the [[Middle Ages]], Romanians lived in thre...
64: ...an Empire]] during 15th and 16th century respectively, with internal autonomy under the [[millet (Otto...
68: ... been regained by Moldova after the Crimean War [[1852]], as a swap with [[Dobrudja]]. At the end of the...
70: ... [[1946]] Treaty of Paris. In [[1947]], King Michael I was forced by the communists to abdicate and le... - California (63989 bytes)
11: ...estCity = [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] |
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84: ...ake note of the name of the footnote that immediately precedes yours in the article body. - 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]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
13: *[[Elihu Yale|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
34: *[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
45: ...es, Dornford]], ([[1885]] - [[1960]]), British novelist
48: ... W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
50: ...t)|Yates, Richard]], ([[1926]]-[[1992]]), U.S. novelist - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...bed as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[...
5: Comets are believed to originate in a cloud (the [[Oort cloud]])...
9: ...e solar wind than dust is, and follows magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. While ...
11: ... with the naked eye. Before the invention of the telescope, comets seemed to appear out of nowhere in ...
13: ...age:Cometorbit.png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]]
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