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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]]... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
35: *[[Alvin Adams|Adams, Alvin]] (1804-1877), founder of [[Adams Express]]
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - 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: ...Parma]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Amalie (1746-1804), married [[Ferdinand of Parma|HRH Duke Ferdinand...
26: *[[Marie Antoinette|HM Queen Marie Antoinette of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antoni... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...profession'. Several years later, she managed to get some lecture notes from several courses at [[ɣol...
7: ... was so impressed by the paper that he asked to meet Le Blanc, and Germain was forced to reveal her id...
9: ...y, a friend of hers, personally ensure Gauss's safety. The general explained to Gauss that Germain had...
12: ...evertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of them, then withou...
15: ...ed mathematics]], and he stopped replying to her letters. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...es because they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
11: * ''Safety'' - it is often safer to locate the train's powe...
13: ... locomotives mean that the costly motive power assets can be moved around as needed.
14: ...ther. At some times, locomotives have become obsolete when their cars are not, or vice versa.
23: ...ical. ''Fairy Queen'', built in [[1855]]; plying between [[New Delhi]] and [[Alwar]] in [[India]], is ... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...y by the Moors. The Crusades brought Turkish carpets to all of Europe, where they were primarily hung...
3: ...ries a distinction is made between carpet (or carpeting) and rug. The former indicates a covering tha...
5: [[Image:Carpet.png|350px|thumb|Contemporary Afghan Rug]]
7: == Carpet types ==
8: ...et 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of machine-made carpet]] - 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... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ...mber of the state House of Representatives from [[1804]]-[[1806]] and again in [[1819]]. He was elected...
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}} - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[November 23]], [[1804]]
18: '''Franklin Pierce''' ([[November 23]], [[1804]]–[[October 8]], [[1869]]) was an [[Politic...
20: ...[alcoholism]] as his marriage to [[Jane Means Appleton Pierce]] fell apart. He destroyed his reputatio...
22: ...nd handsome. And he was genuinely religious. And yet he was a timid man with a shallow, rigid, old-fas...
25: Pierce was born in 1804 in a [[log cabin]] near [[Hillsborough, New Hamps... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
39: ...n by the Dutch in 1654 and incorporated into New Netherland.
41: ...h Civil War]]: [[George Carteret|Sir George Carteret]] and [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stra...
43: ... English Crown [[George Carteret|Sir George Carteret]], Jersey's Royalist Governor, was gifted a large...
45: ...es were united under a royal, rather than a proprietary, governor.
57: ...er [[Charles Cornwallis]] at the [[Battle of Princeton]]. - 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]]) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
5: ...h is prized for its lightness and strength. The methods used to control planes have advanced signific...
15: ...mic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design wou...
17: ...as to accomplish that which we can only suggest. Yet there are sufficient proofs and examples from nat...
19: ...first detailed understanding of the relationship between altitude and the atmosphere.
25: ...] to provide stability, and flew it as a model in 1804. Over the next five decades Cayley worked on and ... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
36: ...]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
40: ...Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
38: *[[1804]] - [[Twelfth Amendment to the United States Cons...
39: *[[1804]] - [[Essex Junto]]
40: *[[1804]] - New Jersey abolishes slavery
41: *[[1804]] - [[Aaron Burr]]/[[Alexander Hamilton]] duel
42: *[[1804]] - [[Lewis and Clark]] set out - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...[[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [[1752]], January 1 ...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
15: ...nce|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
18: ...reat Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]], the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to the ''[[ancien ...
23: ...e, and proposed a uniform land tax as a means of setting France's finances in order in the long term. ...
27: ...ropose new reforms, but only to prepare for the meeting of the nation's representatives.
31: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[August 8]], [...
33: ...eet according to the forms observed at its last meeting. Although it would appear that the magistrate... - 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 chemists (10401 bytes)
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemis...
15: *[[Antoine Baum]], (1728-1804), French chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
37: *[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemi...
39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966)
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