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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: ...e, 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: ...m California]]|before=''(none)''|after=[[John B. Weller]]|years=1850 – 1851}}
22: ...ncoln]]| years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] (lost)}} - 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, discovering [[Vic...
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... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ... [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with up to 5.1 percent [[...
5: ...is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (...
7: ==Iron and steel== - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
12: ...ward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
29: *[[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
32: ... Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...olphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
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 - 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: ... temperance society in America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American ...
9: After [[1854]] she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for [[women's rights]], and bec... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ...ist]]s of the [[Romantic music|Romantic era]] as well as a composer.
7: ...ncluding those of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven as well as those of Robert Schumann and Brahms.
9: ...ium]] at [[Frankfurt am Main]], a post which she held until [[1892]], and in which she contributed gre...
11: ...or of her husband's works for [[Breitkopf and H䲴el]].
14: ...ge V of Hanover, Germany who declared them a "marvelous, heavenly pleasure." - Dye (6033 bytes)
9: ...d by [[William Perkin|William Henry Perkin]] in [[1856]]. Many thousands of dyes have since been prepare...
11: ...in the fibre. Acid dyes are not substantive to [[cellulosic]] fibres.
13: ...ually [[acetic acid]] is added to the dyebath to help the uptake of the dye onto the fibre. Basic dyes...
23: ...In some cases, a dyeing [[temperature]] of 130 [[celsius|?C]] is required, and a pressurised dyebath i...
29: ...rmes]] and [[cochineal]] (mordant dyes) and [[techelet]]. - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...trument]] invented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to compete with the [[saxophone]] as a replacemen...
5: ...at it is called for in, for example, [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[L'heure espagnol]]'' (1907) and [[Arrigo ...
9: ...arrusophone is now obsolete and only used as a novelty upon occasions. It had poor intonation and a so... - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...ma;υπτος), which itself is the source of the name "Egypt".
14: ...mately 5584 km (3470 miles). It drains approximately 2.8 million to 3.4 million km² (1.1 million...
24: ...o be the source of the Nile, although the lake itself has feeder rivers of considerable size from the ...
26: ...the Bahr al Jabal with the [[Bahr el Ghazal]], itself 720 km (445 miles) long, the river beomes known ...
32: ...[:Image:Nile River and delta from orbit.jpg|Nile delta]])]] - 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. - 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]],... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...nate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Pennsylvania]] and the eleventh [[Vice President of the United States|Vice ...
5: ...[1833]], when he declined to be a candidate for reelection. He was chairman of the Committee on Naval...
7: ... when he was recalled at his own request. He was elected Vice President of the United States on the D...
9: ...m [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, and died there. He is interred in St. Peter...
11: ...great-granduncle of [[U.S. Senator]] [[Claiborne Pell]] of [[Rhode Island]]. He is also the uncle of ... - 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.
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