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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]]... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
32: *[[William Abbot|Abbot, William]], (1798-1843), British actor
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
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: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
34: ...rich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
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) - 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. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...of railroad tycoon [[Chiswell Dabney Langhorne]] (1843-1919) and his wife, [[Anne Witcher Keene]]. Her s...
10: ...e Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
12: ...stic song to the tune of the haunting [[Marlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...mother, Anne Laisney, a Frenchwoman. Her parents met in [[Bilbao, Spain]] during her father's stay the...
9: ...s in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Union'' (1843).
13: ...ttp://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/Tristan.htm Complete Biography] - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...]–[[1883]]) was the self-given name, from [[1843]], of an [[United States|American]] [[abolitionis...
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... - 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... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...eums of madness" that served as the deserving targets for later reformers’ zeal.
6: ...stances, which led her to approach the [[Massachusetts]] legislature to obtain an official inspection ...
12: ...moved from the pressures of daily life. When she returned to the United states she brought an enthusia...
16: In [[Rhode Island]], in [[1843]], for example, she was invited by the [[humanita...
20: ... in person. The two dozen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] demonstrate the continu... - 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... - 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... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
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 ...
48: *Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her. - 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: ...infancy and Frank Robert Pierce ([[1839]]–[[1843]]) at the age of four from [[epidemic typhus]]. B... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
38: | [[Harriet Lane]] (niece)
53: ...[April 23]], [[1791]] to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear. He moved to Mercersburg with his parents...
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... - 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...
70: *[[Robert Todd Lincoln]] : b. [[August 1]], [[1843]] in Springfield, Illinois - d. [[July 26]], [[19... - 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: ...to the four succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1843]] to [[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of ...
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: ...od for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class of 39. At the academy,...
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 ...
43: ...ton]] at the [[Battle of Shiloh]], but with grim determination and timely reinforcements, Grant turned... - 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... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
8: | width="130px"| ([[Flag of Luxembourg|In Detail]])
40: | [[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Cen...
44: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.lu]]
53: ...utonomy to Luxembourg, the country was disputed between [[Prussia]] and the [[Dutch kingdom]].
62: ...power is exercised by the Grand Duke and the cabinet, which consists of a prime minister and several o... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
10: ... width="140px" | ([[Flag of Equatorial Guinea|In Detail]])
33: ...y area|Ranked 141st]] <br /> 28,051 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br /> Negligible
61: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
72: ...eaties and calling legislative elections. Obiang retains his role as commander in chief of the armed f...
76: ... the country are currently dominated by tensions between Obiang's son Teodorin, and other close relati...
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