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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. - 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... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...kiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ...he [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. Constance and her si...
8: ...e was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...ty, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs|Minster for the Gaeltacht]]. - 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: ...s' children, and from the age of 17 to 32 she herself taught in various schools. In the decade precedi...
9: ...sexes, and as a public speaker and writer. From [[1868]] to [[1870]] she was the proprietor of a weekly ... - 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: ...he was brought up with a narrowly [[low church]] religion. Charles Bray, a [[Coventry]] manufacturer,...
10: ...rried to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans. - Apple (20408 bytes)
16: ...he family [[Rosaceae]], and is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Table apples are of the ...
23: ...ffect domestic apples, and research with it to develop new disease-resistant apples is continuing.
25: ... been used in some recent breeding programs to develop apples suitable for growing in climates unsuita...
26: ...ls-of-apples-in-apple-orchard.jpg|500px|thumb|Barrels of Apples in an apple orchard]]
27: ...ood in [[Asia]] and [[Europe]] for millennia, as well as in the [[United States]] since the [[Immigrat... - Shakuhachi (6042 bytes)
3: ...ike a [[recorder]] instead of being held transversely like the familiar Western [[transverse flute]]. ...
10: ...of the English foot) and subdivided in ten (not twelve).
14: ...e foot eight" (almost 55 centimeters) which is merely the standard length of a shakuhachi. Other shaku...
18: ...root end of a [[bamboo]] [[culm]] and is an extremely versatile instrument. Holes can be covered parti...
26: ... his own spies out in the guise of Fuke monks as well. (This was made easier by the baskets that the F... - 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... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
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29: | [[June 1]], [[1868]]
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 ... - 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: ...presentatives to [[impeachment|impeach]] him in [[1868]]; he was the first President to be impeached. He... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
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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...
43: ...e of Shiloh]], but with grim determination and timely reinforcements, Grant turned a serious reverse i... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ...]]. He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1868]], having become the Republican nominee for Vice ...
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: ...lson]] | 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... - Australia (39438 bytes)
14: ...II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Michael Jeffery]]<br>[[John Howard]]|
48: ...population grew and new areas were explored, six self-governing [[Crown Colony|Crown Colonies]] were e...
56: ...ed the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency. Governo...
63: ...]. The [[Torres Strait Islander]]s, ethnically [[Melanesia]]n, inhabited the [[Torres Strait Islands]]...
67: ...icts to Australia was phased out between 1840 and 1868. - Cuba (25106 bytes)
6: ...e colony's struggle for independence started in [[1868]] and continued during the [[19th century]] until...
10: ...ble were expanded to cover all Cubans.After some delay, a [[Constitution]] of Soviet inspiration was a...
12: ...ba was an international embarrasment to the newly elected Kennedy administration, and subsequently led...
14: ...U.S. Eventually the U.S. stopped the flow of vessels heading south and Cuba ended the exodus.
16: ...ts throughout [[Latin America]] ([[Nicaragua]], [[El Salvador]], [[Guatemala]], [[Colombia]] and [[Chi... - 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... - Flag of Florida (1749 bytes)
8: From [[1868]] to [[1900]], the flag of [[Florida]] was identi...
10: ...represent the union of [[Great Britain]] with [[Ireland]]. - Alabama (10792 bytes)
2: ...ge:Alabama-state-capital-montgomery-nickname-the-yellowhammer-state-18291.jpg|thumb|350px|right| Alaba...
12: ...llia State, The Heart of Dixie[[#Notes|¹]], Yellowhammer State |
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