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- Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
8: In [[1826]] he was sent to the Pacific, surveyed the coasts...
12: On his return in [[1840]], he was made [[rear admiral]].
14: ... Zealand]]) were named after him. There is a street in Paris, Rue Dumont d'Urville, in the 8th distri...
16: ...near [[Meudon]], France. He is buried in the [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]], [[Paris]], France. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
64: *[[Clarke Abel|Abel, Clarke]], (1780-1826), English surgeon and naturalist
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 - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
3: *[[Pieter van der Aa|Aa, Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
4: *[[Andrew Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
10: *[[Kjetil Aamodt|Aamodt, Kjetil]], (1971-), Norwegian skier - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
54: *[[John Adams|Adams, John]], (1735-1826), second President of the United States
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - 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]]
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1826]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
18: ...' ([[October 30]], [[1735]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the first ([[1789]]–[[1797]]) [[Vice...
22: ...grated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boy... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1826]]
18: ...''' ([[April 13]], [[1743]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the third ([[1801]]–[[1809]]) [[Pres...
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... - 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: ...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: ...died under [[William Peter van Ness]] ([[1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawyer and later [[Aaron Burr]]'s ...
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: ...e improvement of judicial procedure, and in May [[1826]] joined with [[Thomas Hart Benton (senator)|Bent... - 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... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
33: ...y|Democratic]]<br/>(elected on National Union ticket)
42: ...ory policies towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a b...
45: ...ilor, but ran away to Greeneville, Tennessee in [[1826]], where he continued his employment as a tailor....
54: ...nt of the United States on the National Union ticket headed by Republican Abraham Lincoln in [[1864]] ... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
30: ...y moved to the village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]], where Grant spent...
32: At the age of 17, Grant received a cadetship to the [[United States Military Academy]] at ...
34: Grant married [[Julia Boggs Dent]] ([[1826]]–[[1902]]) on [[August 22]], [[1848]]. The...
39: ...eracruz]]. He was twice [[brevet (military) | brevet]]ted for bravery: at [[Battle of Molino del Rey |...
41: ...ernor felt that a West Point man could be put to better use and appointed him [[colonel]] of the 21st ... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
37: ... by area|Ranked 64th]] <br> 329,750 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 0.3%
60: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
69: ...ers.JPG|thumb|300px|Kuala Lumpur's landmark, the Petronas Twin Towers, one of the tallest buildings in...
80: ...the attacks only stopped in [[1641]], when the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] (allied to the Sultanate of Johor...
82: ...later the Straits Settlements were formed. These settlements were collectively ruled from the [[Britis... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...easons, some people in other parts of the U.S. sometimes mistake it for a part of Mexico. Both [[Engl...
50: ...n the Rio Grande in [[1598]], the first European settlement in the future state of New Mexico. O p...
52: ...argas Zapata]] reestablished Spanish control and returned Spanish colonists in [[1692]].
54: ...loping Santa Fe as a trade center, the returning settlers founded the old town of [[Albuquerque]] in [...
60: ...rbade them to trade. Trader [[William Becknell]] returned to the United States in [[November]] [[1821]... - 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 delegate from [[New York...
54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ...''', led by suffragists (commonly called [[suffragette]]s), was a social, economic and political [[ref...
13: ...ted women's suffrage in the latter half of the nineteenth century, starting with [[South Australia]] i...
33: ...Mary Fuller]] became active in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], the latter being the author of the bo...
43: ...tates to ratify, in the summer of 1920. The [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|...
47: == Suffragists and suffragettes == - 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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