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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]]... - 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... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
68: *[[Niels Henrik Abel|Abel, Niels Henrik]], (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...children. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, h...
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the titl...
17: ...lisabeth of Austria|HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth]] (1743-1808)
19: ...nand of Parma|HRH Duke Ferdinand of Parma]] (1751-1802); had issue
26: *[[Marie Antoinette|HM Queen Marie Antoinette of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antoni... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...eums of madness" that served as the deserving targets for later reformers’ zeal.
6: ...stances, which led her to approach the [[Massachusetts]] legislature to obtain an official inspection ...
12: ...moved from the pressures of daily life. When she returned to the United states she brought an enthusia...
20: ... in person. The two dozen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] demonstrate the continu... - 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... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ... bar and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
24: ...[Prussia]] in [[1797]]. While serving abroad, he met [[Louisa Catherine Johnson]], the daughter of an ...
26: ...lected to the [[Massachusetts]] State Senate in [[1802]], and was an unsuccessful candidate for election...
28: ...ssador) to [[Russia]], in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]] from [[1809]] to [[1814]], a member of t... - 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...
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...
43: ...rmation as [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] notwithstanding the "corrupt bargai... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ...ia University]]. He was admitted to the bar in [[1802]], and was a member of the state House of Represe...
11: ...ing his seat. He is interred in the Frankfort Cemetery.
15: ...hinn]], whom he had inherited from his father. Together they had two daughters, Adaline Chinn Johnson ...
27: ...|before=[[Robert L. McHatton]]|after=[[Robert P. Letcher]]|years=1829-1833}} - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress...
54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|thum...
4: ...m to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/...
6: ...r system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...nd strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmosph...
10: ...teroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate man-made objects which have... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...h illuminate and are explained by the science of meteorology. Those events are bound by the variables...
5: Meteorology, [[climatology]], [[atmospheric physics]]...
7: ==History of meteorology==
8: {{seemain|timeline of meteorology}}
10: ...centered more on predicting the weather by interpreting established celestial phenomena, such as a [[H... - History of biology (3053 bytes)
3: ...maticae: Geologia, biologia, phytologia generalis et dendrologia'', published in [[1766]].
7: In the [[19th century]] the area of [[genetics]] developed, when the [[Austria]]n [[monk]] [[...
9: ...osition and support]] from different parts of society.
11: ...larified the basic structure of [[DNA]], the [[genetic material]] for expressing [[life]] in all its f...
13: ...d, with some success, but with attendant [[ethics|ethical questions]]. In particular, [[stem cells|tot... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Cloud (9947 bytes)
3: ...|atmosphere]] above [[Earth]]'s (or another [[planetary body]]'s) surface.
5: ...that, when surrounded with billions of other droplets or crystals, are visible as clouds. Clouds [[ref...
7: Clouds on other planets often consist of material other than water, depe...
11: [[Image:Clouds_114ak.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A variety of cloud formations.]]
18: ... forming and re-evaporating. This give these droplets plenty of time to re-evaporate as they fall into... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...], and Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the [[Bourbon Dyna...
5: ...0]], [[1792]], until [[November 20]], 1815, is sometimes (though rarely these days) referred to as the...
13: ...due process]] in courts, abolition of privileges, etc.) had left a mark. Even though Napoleonic rule w...
15: ... European state, and, although Napoleon's defeat set the thought of a unified Europe back over one and...
18: ...es with a large proportion of mercenaries that sometimes fought for foreign states against their nativ... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
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87: [[ABSET]] -- - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
7: ...dent of the [[College of New Jersey]], now [[Princeton University]]; his mother Esther Edwards was the...
13: ...Burr under his wing, and by his vigilance in the retreat from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire bri...
14: ...and of the lines of Westchester County, a region between the British post at Kingsbridge and that of t...
26: ...Hamilton felt Burr?s victory to be tantamount to betrayal, although some have argued that Burr did not...
30: ...an Hamilton, largely because of the [[Tammany Society]], later to become the infamous [[Tammany Hall]]... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
9: ...borough]], [[Leicestershire]] (in [[1789]]). In [[1802]], Jessop opened the [[Surrey Iron Railway]] in s...
16: ...s. Evans specified that there should be separate sets of parallel tracks for trains going in different...
22: ...]. In the beginning, [[Canal|canals]] were in competition with the railroads, but the railroads quickl...
24: ...te railway terminals, and thus became the first "Metro."
27: ...were electrified. These then became known as "streetcars," "trolleys," "trams" and "Strassenbahn."
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