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- David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...orian era]], now best remembered because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise ...
6: ...r married, and joined the [[London Missionary Society]], becoming a minister.
8: ...ts – although she was pregnant – but returned to [[England]] with their children.
14: ... At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
17: ...ailments. The Zambesi river turned out to be completely unnavigable past the [[Kabrabasa rapids]], a s... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
75: *[[John Abercrombie|Abercrombie, John]], (1780-1844), musician
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: 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. - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...mother, Anne Laisney, a Frenchwoman. Her parents met in [[Bilbao, Spain]] during her father's stay the...
13: ...ttp://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/Tristan.htm Complete Biography] - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: '''Mary Stevenson Cassatt''' ([[May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United ...
8: ...or her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[1871]] when the archbishop of...
16: She met [[Edgar Degas]] in [[1874]], and he invited her t...
21: ... portrayed in intimate relationship and domestic settings.
29: ...he stopped painting because of near blindness. Nonetheless, she took up the cause of [[women's suffrag... - 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: ...n confined in a cage for 30 years. In [[April]] [[1844]], she wrote an account of Simmons in the [[Provi...
20: ... in person. The two dozen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] demonstrate the continu... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
11: In [[December]] [[1844]], in response to a pauper's death in a [[workhou...
17: ...ejected the marriage proposal of politician and poet [[Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton]], ...
19: ...bert]], a brilliant politician who had been [[Secretary at War]] ([[1845]] – [[1846|46]]), a pos...
25: ...c.edu/nsa/nightingale.html] in Upper [[Harley Street]], London, a position she held until October [[18...
33: ... She sent many letters to Herbert, to facilitate better medical care. - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: ... commanded a [[pirate]] fleet and fought in a [[Vietnam]]ese rebellion on the side of the [[Tay-son]]....
4: ...arried him, cementing the family's hold on the fleet.
6: ...o be given by anyone except the leaders of the fleet. That was considered a capital offense along with...
8: ...tion, while Ching Shih died at the age of 60 in [[1844]], running a [[brothel]] and gambling house in [[... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
5: ...ucation]] and [[health]] (she also advocated [[vegetarianism]]). She was a [[leader]] who emphasized [...
7: During her lifetime she wrote more than 5,000 periodical articles ...
9: ...men and women. Considered by some to be the prophetess for the end-times, through the Holy Spirit, sh...
11: Ellen G. White, though, is considered as a prophet only by Seventh Day Adventist believers and not a...
17: ...he was unable to return to school, and never completed any further formal education. - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
1: [[Image:Harriet_Tubman_pic.jpg|thumb|225px|Harriet Tubman in 1880, Image provded by [http://classroo...
2: '''Harriet Tubman''' (born [[1820]] in [[Dorchester County, ...
5: ... took the name Harriet after her mother. Around [[1844]] she married John Tubman, a free man. She endur...
9: ...to follow. On her way she was assisted by sympathetic [[Quaker]]s, members of the [[Abolitionist]] mo...
11: == Methods == - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
2: '''Sarah Bernhardt''' ([[October 22]], [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|...
4: ...was sponsored into the ''Conservatoire de Musique et D飬amation'' by the [[Duc de Morny]] in [[1859]]...
10: ... Dor靝 and [[Georges Clarin]]) and actors ([[Mounet-Sully]] and [[Lou Tellegen]]). She married Greek...
11: [[Image:Sarah Bernhardt.png|thumb|right|Sketch of Sarah Bernhardt]]
12: ...resses, debuting as [[Hamlet]] in ''Le Duel d'Hamlet'' in [[1900]]. (Technically, this was not a silen... - 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... - 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: ...sidential election, 1844|presidential campaign of 1844]]. - 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... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...e United States]] from [[1816]] to [[1817]]. He returned to Philadelphia and was appointed deputy att...
7: ...f the United States on the Democratic ticket in [[1844]] with [[James K. Polk]] and served from [[March ...
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...
19: ...Butler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1844|1844]] (won)}} - 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: ... encouraged Pierce to resign his Senate seat and return to New Hampshire, which he did in [[1841]]. Th... - 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]]?
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