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- 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
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
110: *[[Pete Abrams|Abrams, Pete]], cartoonist - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...ndisputed portrait of Jane Austen is a coloured sketch done by Cassandra which resides in the [[Nation...
10: ...ry life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with''.
12: ... prominent marriages, to be unliberated and disquieting; however one should bear in mind that a "good ...
14: The order in which she began and completed her novels is different from that of their publ...
16: * ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' (published 1811) - 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. - Apple (20408 bytes)
27: ... [[citrus]], apples store for months while still retaining much of their nutritive value. Winter apple...
32: ...e shape, long stem (to allow [[pesticide]]s to penetrate the top of the fruit), and popular flavor.
34: ...eners and farmers that sell directly to local markets. Many unusual and locally important cultivars wi...
49: *'[[Egremont Russet]]': Sussex, Britain (1872)
63: *'[[McIntosh]]': [[Canada]] (1811) - James Madison (15187 bytes)
18: ...ist of people known as the father or mother of something|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]...
21: ...[[1769]], he left the plantation to attend [[Princeton University]] (it was called the ''College of Ne...
35: ...Congress; in [[1801]] he became Jefferson's [[Secretary of State]].
42: === Cabinet ===
59: ...ician)|Robert Smith]]'''||align="left"|1809–1811 - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
18: ...it was his [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]], [[John Quincy Adams]], who actuall...
22: ...s Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]]) were well-to-do farmer...
28: ... Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]] veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested...
30: ..., and a Northerner, [[John Quincy Adams]], as Secretary of State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept M... - 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: He was elected to the [[Massachusetts]] State Senate in [[1802]], and was an unsucces...
28: ...ife lost to illness an infant daughter, born in [[1811]]. - 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...
43: ...overnment's finances. This first Bank lapsed in [[1811]]. It was followed by the second Bank, authorized...
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... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
13: ...f the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1st wife)<br>
25: ..., who became [[Governor of Virginia]] ([[1808]]-[[1811]]), and followed his father as governor ([[1825]]...
29: ... on [[April 6]]. The [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]] and [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congre...
33: ...ried twice, firstly to [[Letitia Christian Tyler|Letitia Christian]] on [[March 29]], [[1813]]. They h...
36: ...ecember 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First Lady of... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...Geology''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λο&g...
3: ...e]]s, such as [[oil]] and [[coal]], as well as [[metals]] such as [[iron]], [[copper]], and [[uranium]...
5: ...oon]]), ''areology'' (of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]), etc., are also in use.
7: ...y [[Richard de Bury]]. He used it to distinguish between earthly and [[Theology|theological]] jurispru...
12: ...an, summarized the knowledge of [[mining]] and [[metallurgy]] [[1556]]. - Paraguay (10959 bytes)
9: ...gn="center" width="130px"|([[Flag of Paraguay|In Detail]])
26: ... by area|Ranked 58th]] <br> 406,750 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 2.3%
32: |From [[Spain]]<br>[[May 15]], [[1811]]
43: |'''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
52: ...ng the local Spanish authorities on [[May 15]], [[1811]]. - Missouri (16086 bytes)
10: ..."Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto"'' ([[Latin]]: ''"Let the Welfare of the People be the Supreme Law"'', ...
12: ...ty]] (largest [[United_States_metropolitan_areas|metropolitan area]] is [[Saint Louis, Missouri|Saint ...
32: HighestElev = 1772 feet; 540 |
33: MeanElev = 800 feet; 240 |
34: LowestElev = 230 feet; 70 | - 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... - 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 - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...ating the [[universe]] known as the [[scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces these [...
4: ...n]] saw the inception of the modern [[scientific method]] to guide the evaluation of [[knowledge]]. Th...
6: ...nquires about other areas of knowledge, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavi...
11: ... what science ''is'', how it ''functions'', and whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. T...
13: ...re can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of investigation. - 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 - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
5: ... his name. Most of these inventions were not completely original but improvements of earlier patents, ...
7: ...le magnate lived across the street at his winter retreat (The Mangoes). They were friends until Edison...
10: ...overnment gave those who had been loyal to it. In 1811, three generations of Edison's took up farming ne...
14: From [[Port Huron]], Sam Edison moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Mila...
18: ...'. It was the first [[newspaper]] ever to be typeset and printed on a moving train. Today, the paper i...
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