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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
69: | [[1866]] — [[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wi...
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]] - 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)
3: ...e''' ([[March 19]], [[1813]] – [[May 1]], [[1873]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[missionary]] and...
8: ...tianity. He married in [[1844]], and his wife travelled with him for a brief time at his insistence an...
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... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
12: *[[Louis Agassiz|Agassiz, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]s
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
21: ...gmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]] - 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: After [[1854]] she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for [[women's rights]], and bec... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
7: ...in defiance of the [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination...
9: In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', a newspaper advocating birth control. She also...
11: ...]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''...
13: ...on was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
1: ...[Image:ElizabethCadyStanton.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot.]]
2: '''Elizabeth Cady Stanton''' ([[November 12]], [[1815]]...
6: ...ton was also active internationally, and in 1888 helped prepare for the founding of the [[Internationa...
8: ...ge:ElizabethCadyStanton-Veeder.LOC.jpg|left|thumb|Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her later years.]]
10: :: -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton. - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ... where she enjoyed considerable reputation. In [[1873]] she married E. J. Wethereil. She died at [[Sal... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ... that valued education. Her parents believed travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years o...
6: ...1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and the slow pace of her course...
8: ...copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
14: ...dow, though, she knew she was not alone in her rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten ...
18: ... painting to care for her mother and sister, who fell ill after moving to Paris in [[1877]]. Her siste... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ... 3 syllable words, and surprised her teacher by spelling "artichoke".
14: ... French, German, ancient history, philosophy and religion. Afterward, she was appointed to a job as a ...
21: ...ng the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond. Barton delivered aid to soldiers of both the North and South...
23: ...ered lectures on her war experiences, which were well received. She met [[Susan B. Anthony]] and began...
31: ... founded on [[May 21]], [[1881]]. [[John D. Rockefeller]] gave money to create a national headquarters... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hpb.jpg|thumb|right|Helena Blavatsky]]
2: ...1]] [[London]], [[England]]), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the...
5: ... of Old Russia, and apparently encouraged her to believe she had supernatural powers at a very early a...
7: ...ife, but H.P. Blavatsky continued on to Cairo herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spi...
9: ... of how they work rather than performing them herself. - 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... - 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... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
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17: ;[[Schuyler Colfax]] ([[1869]]–[[1873]])
18: ;[[Henry Wilson]] ([[1873]]–[[1875]])</td></tr>
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]]... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ...rch 4]], [[1855]]-[[March 3]], [[1869]]). He was elected [[Speaker of the United States House of Repr...
8: ...naugurated March 4, 1869, served until March 3, [[1873]]. Colfax was an unsuccessful candidate for reno...
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)}}
15: ...ears=[[March 4]], [[1869]] – [[March 3]], [[1873]]}} - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
7: ... from [[January 31]], [[1855]], to [[March 3]], [[1873]], when he resigned to become Vice President. He...
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: ...after=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[March 4]], [[1873]] – [[November 22]], [[1875]]}} - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...f the Americas]], the Spanish language remains widely spoken outside of the country, and is the offici...
58: ...settled throughout the peninsula, becoming the [[Celt-Iberian]]s.
60: ...ians]], [[Greeks]] and [[Carthaginians]] successively settled along the Mediterranean coast and founde...
66: ...[[Augustus]] after two centuries of war with the Celtic and Iberian tribes and the Phoenician, Greek a...
68: ...in Spain. The Spanish Bishops held the Council at Elvira in 306. - Iowa (24205 bytes)
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45: ...s [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marquette]] are believed to be the first Europeans to visit Iowa. Th...
46: *Iowa has been home to approximately 17 different tribes. Today, only the [[Mesquaki... - 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: U (6532 bytes)
11: *[[Paolo Uccello|Uccello, Paolo]], (1397-1475), Italian painter
26: ...harlotte]], (born 1968), British zoolologist and television presenter
49: ...Miguel de]], (1864-1936), : ''Niebla'', ''San Manuel Bueno Martir''
56: ..., Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]]
58: *[[Gabrielle Union|Union, Gabrielle]] (born 1973) United States actress
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