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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
3: {| {{prettytable}}
81: | [[1828]] — [[1832]], [[1889]] — [[1891]] (wi...
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ... third voyage). However, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: le...
21: ...ni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchinetta.
29: ...portunity to sail into the Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off th...
31: ...maker in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors. - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974)
58: *[[Santos Acosta|Acosta, Santos]] (1828-1901) - 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... - 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...
32: ...presidential election, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first nominee of the [[Democratic Party ...
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... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
25: ...come to the [[New World]] in [[1631]] from the [[Netherlands]]. Martin's father was Abraham van Buren ...
27: ...ity|New York]], where he studied under [[William Peter van Ness]] ([[1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawy...
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: ... "[[Tariff of 1828|tariff of abominations]]" in [[1828]] he took no part, but voted for the measure in o... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ... was mayor of Philadelphia from [[October 21]], [[1828]] to [[April 15]], [[1829]]. Dallas was United S...
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...
14: ...eph Watson]]|after=[[Benjamin W. Richards]]|years=1828-1829}} - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
26: ...n [[Aurora, Erie County, New York |Aurora]]. In [[1828]] he served in the New York legislature. He work...
29: ...e the South. In his own words: "God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we...
37: ...re at once appointed [[Daniel Webster]] to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with t...
39: ...xtension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.
45: ...llmore's pressure from the White House to give impetus to the Compromise movement. Breaking up Clay's ... - 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...
34: Pierce began his political career in [[1828]], when he was elected to [[lower house]] of the ... - 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...
48: ...an alderman in [[Greeneville, Tennessee]] from [[1828]] to [[1830]] and mayor of Greeneville from [[183...
54: ...nt of the United States on the National Union ticket headed by Republican Abraham Lincoln in [[1864]] ... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...pic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city...
19: ...in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that the city would prosper, pa...
21: ...with exact knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frighten...
23: ...e five native villages scattered along the strip between Lake Mareotis and the sea, according to a his...
25: ...ion, Alexander left Egypt for the East and never returned to his city. His general, Ptolemy (later [[P... - Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
15: ...=center width="140px" | ([[Flag of Azerbaijan|In Detail]])
39: | '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]'''<br/> – Date
40: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[30 August]] [[1991]]
48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.az]]
56: ...cation); that it traditionally means "the land of eternal flames" or "the land of fire." Some Azeri hi... - 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 (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
14: ...]]; Adams immediately appoints Clay his new [[Secretary of State]], which Jackson calls their "[[Corru...
19: *[[1828]] - [[Tariff of Abominations]] passed
20: *[[1828]] - [[John C. Calhoun]] (Jackson's vice-president...
21: ...] becomes President, appoints his "[[Kitchen Cabinet]]"
90: ...cle Tom's Cabin|''Uncle Tom's Cabin'']] by [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]] is published for the first time - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ...y between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi...
11: |valign=center|'''[[1828]]'''
12: ...octrine]]. Calhoun demands that the North keep quiet about slavery in order to maintain peace.
15: ...denouncing the notion that Americans must choose between liberty and union. "Liberty and Union, now an...
24: ...ionism|abolitionist]] [[American Anti-Slavery Society]] is founded. - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
40: ... Canal]] in 1825, which brought large numbers of settlers.
46: .... It was a development that not only transformed Detroit and Michigan, but permanently altered the soc...
50: Since [[World War II]], Detroit's industrial base has eroded as auto companie...
56: ...Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan]], the first European settlement in Michigan - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
4: ...ish an authoritative system of [[ethics]], [[aesthetics]], and [[knowledge]]. The intellectual leaders...
6: ...n the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theo...
14: ...Baruch Spinoza|Baruch (Benedictus de) Spinoza]]'s Ethics, which expounded a pantheistic view of the un...
16: ... a coherent system of verifiable predictions and set the tone for much of what would follow in the cen... - St. Valentine's Day (9989 bytes)
1: ...r know about their love, commonly by sending [[greeting card|Valentine's cards]], which are often anon...
4: ...nge of mass-produced [[greeting card]]s. The [[Greeting Card Association]] estimates that, world-wide,...
10: ...n the calendar of [[Ancient Athens]], the period between mid January and mid February was the month of...
12: ...oat skin above their heads, touching anyone they met. Young women especially would come forth voluntar...
19: The connection between St. Valentine and romantic love is not mentio...
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