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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]]... - 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)
24: ...ily]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Caroline (1752-1814), married [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies|HM Ki...
26: *[[Marie Antoinette|HM Queen Marie Antoinette of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antoni... - 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...
18: * ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' (1814) - 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... - 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]].
40: ...atened secession]] if the war was not ended. In [[1814]], the [[Treaty of Ghent]] ended the war. The [[B...
42: === Cabinet === - 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: ...ion which negotiated the [[Treaty of Ghent]] in [[1814]], and Minister to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] fro... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...e United States]] from [[1816]] to [[1817]]. He returned to Philadelphia and was appointed deputy att...
7: ...sident of the United States on the Democratic ticket in [[1844]] with [[James K. Polk]] and served fro...
9: ...adelphia, and died there. He is interred in St. Peter's Churchyard. The city of [[Dallas, Texas]] an...
11: Dallas was the son of [[U.S. Treasury Secretary]] [[Alexander J. Dallas]] and is the great-gre... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
38: | [[Harriet Lane]] (niece)
53: ...ennsylvania State House of Representatives from [[1814]] to [[1815]]. He was elected to the Seventeenth...
57: ...signed on [[March 5]], [[1845]], to accept a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Committee on F...
59: ... the northern boundary in the western U.S. No Secretary of State has become President since James Buch...
66: ...pt constitutional law as the Supreme Court interpreted it. The Court was considering the legality of r... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...m by LIFE Magazine. Apart from Gutenberg, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]] has a...
4: ...d of printing was [[block printing]], pressing sheets of paper into individually carved wooden blocks ...
6: ...of the technique is not as apparent as with alphabetic based languages. Movable type did spur, however...
8: ...y all. The other candidate advanced is the [[The Netherlands|Dutchman]] [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]].
12: ... created per day. Books produced in this period, between the first work of Johann Gutenberg and the ye... - Australia (39438 bytes)
14: ...ames = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Michael Jeffery]]<br>[[John Howard]]|
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48: ... Great Britain|British]] in 1770, and officially settled as a British colony on [[January 26]], [[1788...
50: ...bited island]], [[Boigu Island]], is about 5 kilometres from Papua New Guinea. This has led to a compl... - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ... [[Politics of Canada]], [[Geography of Canada]], etc. Thank you.}}
8: ...archy]] with [[Elizabeth II of Canada|Queen Elizabeth II]] as [[head of state]].
52: ...]]||[[Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island|Charlottetown]]
70: ...ry, Alberta]].<br> See [[List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada]], [[List of the 100 lar...
75: ...Iroquoian]] word ''Kanata'', meaning "village", "settlement", or "collection of huts" [http://www.cana... - 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]]
66: ...he [[Holy Roman Empire]] came to be the division between [[Austria]], formerly the leading state of Ge...
68: ===Restoration and revolution (1814-1871)=== - Guyana (12153 bytes)
10: ...gn="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Guyana|In Detail]])
21: | [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]]
30: ... by area|Ranked 81st]] <br> 214,970 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 8.4%
33: ...r> - 700,000 of which 230,000 live in [[Georgetown]] ([[2002]])
53: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - Nepal (22444 bytes)
1: ...ers with the [[People's Republic of China]] ([[Tibet Autonomous Region]]) and [[India]].
10: | align=center width=150 | ([[Flag of Nepal|In Detail]])
48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
60: ... in [[1857]], most of the Terai territories were returned to Nepal.
70: ...ary 1, 2005. See [[Gyanendra of Nepal]] for more details. - Spain (36498 bytes)
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48: ...up>2</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[peseta|Spanish Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, ...
58: ...e [[Iberian peninsula]] through the Pyrenees and settled throughout the peninsula, becoming the [[Celt... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
40: ...y]] established by [[Sweden | Swedes]] (led by [[Peter Minuit]]) around [[Fort Christina]] (now [[Wilm...
44: ...speninsular Line]]. Several towns on the borders between Delaware and Maryland are divided by these li...
48: ...h]]. The [[Big August Quarterly]] which began in 1814 is still celebrated and is the oldest such cultur...
67: ...he [[Delmarva Peninsula]], a geographical unit stretching far down the Mid-Atlantic coast.
71: ...delphia, Pennsylvania]] and the southern part by network stations in [[Salisbury, Maryland]]. - 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 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
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