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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]]... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...h determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet to the sea. - 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
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
71: ...dams (footballer)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1966), athlete - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...oria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) (...
18: Princess Victoria met her future husband, [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobur...
20: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[...
25: ...t Augustus of Hanover. As the young queen was as yet unmarried and childless, Ernest Augustus was also...
29: ...y resigned his commission, allowing Melbourne to return to office. - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
5: ...[Elijah Pierson]] in evangelical preaching on street-corners.
10: ...in [[Florence, Massachusetts|Florence]], Massachusetts, where she worked with a neighbor, [[Olive Gilb...
13: ... was issued to work with former slaves. She also met President [[Abraham Lincoln]].
15: ...November 26]], 1883. She is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. In [[1983]], she was inducted...
24: ...er/ Sojourner Truth Memorial] (Florence, Massachusetts) - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...edicine until [[1880]], when [[Emily Stowe]] completed the official qualifications.
3: ...") moved with her parents to Canada in [[1847]], settling near [[Stratford, Ontario|Stratford]], [[Ont...
9: ...rio|Kingston]]. Her family traveled extensively between Florida and Ontario, and later moved to [[Los... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
2: ...urple, white, and yellow pansies]] | caption = 5-petaled pansies}}
9: {{Taxobox genus entry | taxon = ''[[Violet (plant)|Viola]]''}}
17: ...the cultivated Pansy, to the [[violet (plant)|violet]] genus ''[[Viola (plant)|Viola]]''. One or two ...
20: ...ular. By 1835, 400 varieties were available. By 1841 the pansy had become a favorite show plant.
28: ...warm climes. They are often cultivated with [[sweet alyssum]] as they produce a pleasing colour combi... - Painting (4567 bytes)
8: ...st known '''paintings''' are at the [[Grotte Chauvet]] in [[France]], dated at about 32,000 years old....
34: ...]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying time, etc.
39: *Heat-set oils
52: ... the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify an ''individual'' artist's work. ...
88: A proposed and yet-unrealised development in painting is [[four dime... - 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 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)
6: ...td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March 4]], [[1841]]</td></tr>
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... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
9: ... vice President from March 4, 1837, to March 3, [[1841]].
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}}
30: ...ears=[[March 4]], [[1837]] – [[March 3]], [[1841]]}} - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
6: ...><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[April 4]], [[1841]] - [[March 4]], [[1845]]</td></tr>
13: ...f the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1st wife)<br>
21: ...resident of the United States]], and the tenth ([[1841]]-[[1845]]) [[President of the United States|Pres...
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... - 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: ... [[epidemic typhus]]. Benjamin "Bennie" Pierce ([[1841]]–[[1853]]) died in a tragic railway accide... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...2]], [[1809]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]), sometimes called '''Abe Lincoln''' and nicknamed '''Hon...
46: ...of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his many speeches and writings wh...
48: ...ar measure which would set the stage for the complete abolition of the institution.
53: ...d land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on government land along the [[Sangamon River...
63: ... bed with [[Joshua Fry Speed]] from [[1837]] to [[1841]] in Springfield. A recent biography has suggeste... - 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: ...[1841]]. He was elected to the State Senate in [[1841]], and elected as a [[United States Democratic Pa...
54: ...nt of the United States on the National Union ticket headed by Republican Abraham Lincoln in [[1864]] ... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
4: ...ty auditor of [[St. Joseph County, Indiana]] in [[1841]]. He became a legislative correspondent for the...
8: ...sident of the United States on the Republican ticket headed by Gen. [[Ulysses S. Grant]], inaugurated ...
10: ...ounty, Minnesota]]. He is interred in the City Cemetery, [[South Bend, Indiana]]. The town of [[Colfa... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ... [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Massachusetts]] and the eighteenth [[Vice President of the Un...
5: ...e was a member of the state legislature between [[1841]] and [[1852]], and was owner and editor of the '...
7: ...nd commanded the Twenty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
9: ...ngton, DC]]. He was interred in Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick. - 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... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
3: Between the fall of the [[Taliban]] after the [[U.S. ...
13: ...enter" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Afghanistan|In Detail]])
28: ...s by area|Ranked 40th]] <br>647,500 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br>0%
48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.af]]
55: ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_name_etymologies], being the founders of modern Afghanist...
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