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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: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
93: ...ann von Abich|Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von]], (1806-1886), German mineralogist, geologist
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - 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. - 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]] - 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...
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...
57: ...overnment considered itself weak in dealing with determined opposition by an individual state. - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ...he state House of Representatives from [[1804]]-[[1806]] and again in [[1819]]. He was elected as a [[U...
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)
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...
27: ...hip, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also met [[Calvin E. Stowe]], [[Sargent S. Prentiss]], and...
29: ...thampton, Massachusetts|Northampton]], [[Massachusetts]], studying under Governor [[Levi Woodbury]] an...
40: ... encouraged Pierce to resign his Senate seat and return to New Hampshire, which he did in [[1841]]. Th... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ... in [[1840]]. There are 10 more provinces in the Netherlands.<!--
8: common_name = the Netherlands |
9: image_flag = Netherlands_flag_large.png |
11: image_map = LocationNetherlands.png |
19: ...Dutch monarch|Queen]]<br>[[Prime minister of the Netherlands|Prime minister]] | - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[Luxembourg]], and to the east by ...
44: | [[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Cen...
46: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.de]]
64: ===Holy Roman Empire (843-1806)===
66: ...he [[Holy Roman Empire]] came to be the division between [[Austria]], formerly the leading state of Ge... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
48: ...xplorer)|Hernando de Soto]] in [[1540]], had completely disappeared by [[1560]].
50: ...olina]] colony in present-day [[South Carolina]] met the Spanish moving north from their base in Flori...
52: ...rison]]. On [[February 12]], [[1733]], the first settlers landed in the ''[[HMS Anne]]'' at what was t...
58: ...rgia General Assembly|state's legislature]] also met at other temporary sites, including [[Macon, Geor...
64: ...cutive officials who comprise the governor's cabinet are elected by the citizens of Georgia, rather th... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
36: ... Range]] - form the two boundaries of the [[Willamette Valley]], one of the most fertile and agricultu...
49: ...iver. Fort Astoria was the first permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the [[War of 1812]], the [[B...
53: ... United States and [[British North America]] was set at the [[49th parallel]]. The [[Oregon Territory]...
55: Settlement increased due to the [[Donation Land Claim...
57: In the [[1880s]], railroads enabled marketing of the state's [[lumber]] and [[wheat]], as we... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
7: *[[U Thant]], UN Secretary General
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
19: *[[Joze Udovic|Udovic, Joze]], (1912-1986), poet
33: *[[Sabine Ulibarr�libarr�Sabine]], American poet
53: *[[Sigrid Undset|Undset, Sigrid]], (1882-1949), ''Kristin Lavransdatter'' - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|thum...
4: ...in [[1840]] by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1...
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... - 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]]) - 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)
42: *[[1804]] - [[Lewis and Clark]] set out
44: *[[1806]] - [[Noah Webster]]'s first [[dictionary]]
45: *[[1806]] - [[Cumberland Road]] passed
57: *[[1810]] - ''[[Fletcher v. Peck]]'' 10 US 87 1810 marks first time [[...
65: *[[1814]] - [[Treaty of Ghent]] settles [[War of 1812]] - August (4611 bytes)
19: * On the sixth of August 1806 [[Emperor]] [[Francis II]] of the Holy Roman Empi...
27: * [[August 19]] [[1945]] [[Vietnam]] The August Revolution succeeded. - 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...
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