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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]]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...lle''' ([[May 23]], [[1790]] – [[May 8]], [[1842]]) was a [[France|French]] [[List of explorers|ex...
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. - 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. - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
5: ...after the young girl fell to her father. She completed her education and martial training, which inclu...
7: ...ja Gangadhar Rao, the Maharaja of [[Jhansi]] in [[1842]], and became the Rani of Jhansi. After the marri...
12: ... leave the Jhansi fort. But Rani Lakshmi Bai was determined to defend Jhansi. She proclaimed her decis...
19: ...itish assault, when she was hit by a spray of bullets while riding on the fortress ramparts. The Briti... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
6: Ada was the only legitimate child of the poet [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord Byron...
8: ...s De Morgan]]. An active member of [[London]] society, she was a member of the [[Bluestockings]] in he...
15: ... for amendment. The evidence and correspondence between Lovelace and Babbage indicate that he wrote a...
23: ...ith mathematics, and there is some debate as to whether Lovelace understood deeply the concepts behind... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ... granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[192...
6: ...agazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, ...
8: ...other minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
12: ...rally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: ...st choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]]. - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
2: ...n [[1842]] and their behavior later described in detail by [[Walther Flemming]] in [[1882]]. In [[1910...
8: ...DNA also exists as [[plasmid]]s. The distinction between plasmids and chromosomes is poorly defined, t...
13: ...ructural purposes during the chromosomal stages. Heterochromatin can be further distinguished into two...
14: ...ted around the centromere and usually contains repetitive sequences.
15: **''Facultative heterochromatin'', which is sometimes expressed. - Harmonium (4268 bytes)
5: ...ter, and it withstood the bumpy shipment by rail better. They were also used in many pioneer churches ...
9: ...nium was invented in [[Europe]] in [[Paris]] in [[1842]] by [[Alexandre Debain]], though there was concu...
22: ...has multiple reeds, its possible that the second set of reeds is tuned an octave lower and can be acti...
23: ...oniums are made with 1, 2, 3 and occassionally 4 sets of reeds. Classical instrumentalists usually us... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: ...h dynasty of Egypt|Fourteenth dynasty]], roughly between [[1986 BC]] and [[1633 BC]].
5: .... Some authorities point to cultural differences between the Eleventh and [[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|T...
10: ... Senuseret, campaigning against Lybian invaders, returned to Iljtawy with haste to prevent a takeover ...
12: [[Senusret I]] ([[1917 BC]] - [[1872 BC]]) continued the pol...
14: Senusret's successor [[Amenemhat II]] ([[1875 BC]] - [[184... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
7: ...lities. Consequently, there may be discrepancies between dates shown here and in articles on particula...
9: ...uld be noted that there is a 60 year discrepancy between the dates proposed by these two authors. Ther...
20: ...s developed by [http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/ The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology].)
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49: *Semerkhet - 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: ...rmation as [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] notwithstanding the "corrupt bargai... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
13: ...f the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1st wife)<br>
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...
38: *Letitia Christian Tyler ([[May 11]], [[1821]] - [[Dec... - 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...
36: ...from [[March 4]], [[1837]], to [[February 28]], [[1842]], when he resigned. He was chairman of the [[U.... - 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...
69: On [[November 4]], [[1842]], Lincoln married [[Mary Todd]]. President Linco... - Texas (39610 bytes)
41: * [[state flower]] — the [[bluebonnet]] (''Lupinus texensis'')
52: ...ith an area of [[1 E11 m?|690,000]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]], Texas forms the second-larges...
70: ...ckapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of Texas. For more information...
74: ...lony of [[New Spain]]; see [[Spanish Texas]] for details.
76: ...eza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas. - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
37: ... and the towns of [[Middletown, Rhode Island|Middletown]] and [[Portsmouth, Rhode Island|Portsmouth]] ...
42: ... it a place of religious freedom for [[Baptist]] settlers. Historically, the land is unique because it...
44: ... [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from [[Massachusetts]] for expressing her beliefs that people could ...
46: ...cretary. In 1643 [[Samuel Gorton]] founded Shawomet, which is now called [[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warw...
52: ... charter was used as the state constitution until 1842. - 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]]? - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
7: ...ority | author = [[Richard Owen|Owen]] | date = [[1842]]}}
16: ...[[million years ago]] (Mya) at the end of the [[Cretaceous]] period. Dinosaurs are known from both fos...
18: ...ehistoric reptile, like the [[pelycosaur]] ''[[Dimetrodon]]'', the winged [[pterosaur]]s, and the aqua...
20: ...s]], which rigorously analyzes the relationships between biological organisms, has also proved tremend...
27: ...England|English]] scientist [[Richard Owen]] in [[1842]]. The term is a combination of the [[Greek langu...
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