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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
10: ..." His most noted students were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[Anaximander]] ("All is air").
14: ... winning debates led to wealth, the subjects and methods of debate became highly developed.
16: ... sophistry, interchangeably, was destroying the piety and moral fiber of the city.
20: ...on for them being more appropriate in running society.
22: ...herefore, some B are C." This syllogism fails if set A is empty. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ... machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufacture of more prod...
3: ... [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[internal combust...
5: ... of the world. The impact of this change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Ne...
10: ...ernational [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capi...
12: ...ritain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often impo... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ... has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air from returning via the supply. Every bagpipe has a [[chant...
18: ...or the Zampogna, and cylindrical bores for the Musette and Scottish Small Pipes). In general, chanter...
20: ...s too easy and thus the chanter is overblown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to ...
23: ...tion device seems to have originated with various ethnic groups in the Roman empire. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...er father was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Pol...
5: ...bert]] (mathematician and astronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodor...
7: ...uchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the ...
9: ...ta No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older si...
11: ... childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuck for when she later ... - Rose (15436 bytes)
21: ...y thorny [[shrub]]s or [[liana|climbers]], and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2-5 m tall, rarely ...
23: ...) 5-9 (-13) leaflets and basal stipules; the leaflets have a serrated margin, and often a few small th...
25: ...red. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals.
29: ...ooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it. Some species such as '...
31: ... including [[Emperor Moth]], [[Common Marbled Carpet]], [[Engrailed|The Engrailed]] and [[Coxcomb Prom... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ...e), the last instruments built were up to seven feet long with a six octave range.
7: ... 18th century, clavichords were often built ''unfretted'', with a separate pair of strings for each ke...
9: ...er, and there is speculation that some practice [[etude]]s labelled ''organ'' by the composers and now...
11: ...e played on the clavichord; however, it is too quiet to use in any but the smallest ensembles. [[Johan...
13: ...modern copies have been made by makers including Peter Bavington, Martin Kather, Joris Potvleighe, Kar... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...tan areas by population|thirteenth most populous metropolitan area]] in the world. Cairo is located at...
6: ...t Mars during the foundation of the city. The planet Mars, asssociated with destruction was called "Al...
28: ...rt]], built about [[150|AD 150]], built near the settlement known as [[Babylon-in-Egypt]], which lay c...
32: ... the city Al-Qahirah after the planet [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] which was rising on the day the city was ...
38: ...in [[1517]], but the ruling [[Mameluks]] quickly returned to power as nominal vassals to the Ottoman S... - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
1: [[Image:USAFE Band trumpeter.jpg|frame|right|Trumpeter performing with the United States Air Forces in...
2: ...umpet is called a ''trumpeter'' or simply, ''trumpet player''.
5: ...-01.jpg|thumb|250px|left|A standard B♭ trumpet]]
6: ...tch of the instrument. Three valves make the trumpet fully [[chromatic]], allowing the player to play ...
8: ...es. Mouthpieces also vary with regard to rim diameter and shape. - Accordion (10069 bytes)
6: Simple metal or wood reed instruments ("Maultrommel", Jews' ...
10: Sound is made by a thin metal ribbon, a reed, which is held at one end and fr...
14: *Metal frame and metal tongue
20: ...haracteristics were first used in Europe around [[1800]] AD for organs. People used their knowledge and ...
22: ...both directions, which is more similar to a clarinet than a modern free-reed instrument. - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: ...h dynasty of Egypt|Fourteenth dynasty]], roughly between [[1986 BC]] and [[1633 BC]].
5: .... Some authorities point to cultural differences between the Eleventh and [[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|T...
10: ... Senuseret, campaigning against Lybian invaders, returned to Iljtawy with haste to prevent a takeover ...
12: [[Senusret I]] ([[1917 BC]] - [[1872 BC]]) continued the pol...
14: Senusret's successor [[Amenemhat II]] ([[1875 BC]] - [[184... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
9: ...many of these questions while others may last for eternity.
13: ... arbitrarily established lengths of co-regencies between rulers and even overlapping dynasties. The po...
15: ...F. Brug ([[Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary]]) in his detailed and important article has observed that Theo...
17: ...allit I]] and [[Akhenaton]] were contemporaries, yet if the era's dating is maintained, their contempo...
23: ...: 114), "...dating to perhaps 2100-2200 BCE (1700-1800 BCE in [[radiocarbon year]]s)." In the same book ... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...es. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world,...
12: ...stitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to become President. The president must ...
14: ... remove or amend this requirement, but none have yet been successful.
16: ...orge W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
21: ...ary. Since 1933, with the ratification of [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Amen... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...grated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boy...
24: ... [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. ...
26: ...ngregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[17... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
23: ...& Mary]] — where he was a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] — before founding his own...
25: ...]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare th...
27: ...nitive book on the original buildings, or [http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/grizzard Academical Vil...
29: ...ght|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]]
30: ...mon practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. Instead, he cut a wedge out of th... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...n era traditionally seen as dominating the years between the [[War of 1812]] and the [[American Civil ...
22: Born in a backwoods settlement in the [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws ar...
24: ... family. He came to [[Tennessee]] shortly after [[1800]], as a young lawyer. Since he was not of a disti...
51: ...gle, Jackson succeeded in destroying the Bank by vetoing its [[1832]] recharter by Congress and withdr...
55: ...the issue, which developed into a bitter rivalry between the two men. Particularly famous was an incid... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
25: ...come to the [[New World]] in [[1631]] from the [[Netherlands]]. Martin's father was Abraham van Buren ...
27: ...ity|New York]], where he studied under [[William Peter van Ness]] ([[1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawy...
29: ...entrance into politics. New York politics after [[1800]], the year of the election of [[Thomas Jefferson...
33: ... Jackson|Jackson's]] [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]] in [[1829]].
39: ...suffrage]]. His course in the Senate was not altogether consistent, though in this respect he is not t... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
9: ...><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[January 7]], [[1800]]</td></tr>
20: '''Millard Fillmore''' ([[January 7]], [[1800]] – [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteent...
29: ...e the South. In his own words: "God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we...
37: ...re at once appointed [[Daniel Webster]] to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with t...
39: ...xtension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.
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