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- John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...h determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet to the sea. - 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) - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [...
8: ...es. She translated Strauss' ''Life of Jesus'' ([[1846]]) and began contributing to the ''[[Westminster ...
12: ...[[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[Highgate]], [[London]].
15: ...ast pendulous nose, a huge mouth full of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas'...
19: ...ealistic expectations as well as conservative society. The novel is notable for its deep psychological... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
13: In [[1846]] she visited [[Kaiserwerth]], a pioneering hospi...
17: ...ejected the marriage proposal of politician and poet [[Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton]], ...
19: ...had been [[Secretary at War]] ([[1845]] – [[1846|46]]), a position he would hold again ([[1852]] &...
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. - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
3: ...ayed with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. It was invented by [[Adolphe Sax]] in the mid-[[...
7: ...icially revealed to the public in the patent of [[1846]] (which was granted to him on [[May 17]]). He ma...
9: ... father's workshop for many years, and both clarinets and ophicleides were manufactured there. The Hun...
11: ...of Sax's patent. For the duration of the patent (1846-1866) no one except the Sax factory Paris could l...
14: ...re. There is some debate amongst players as to whether the curve affects the tone or not. - 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... - 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...
71: *'''Edward Baker Lincoln''' : b. [[March 10]], [[1846]] in Springfield, Illinois - d. [[February 1]], [... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
44: ...ves|Representative]] from [[New York]] and the nineteenth [[Vice President of the United States]].
46: ... was district attorney for Franklin County from [[1846]] to [[1849]]. He was a member of the state Asse...
48: ...ied in Malone. He was interred in Morningside Cemetery. - Nepal (22444 bytes)
1: ...ers with the [[People's Republic of China]] ([[Tibet Autonomous Region]]) and [[India]].
10: | align=center width=150 | ([[Flag of Nepal|In Detail]])
48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
60: ... in [[1857]], most of the Terai territories were returned to Nepal.
62: The Shah dynasty was cut short in [[1846]] when Jung Bahadur Rana seized control of the co... - Flag of California (3028 bytes)
3: ...g]] of the [[U.S. state]] of [[California]] is sometimes called the '''Bear Flag'''.
5: ... time in [[Sonoma, California]] on [[June 18]], [[1846]], by the "Bear Flaggers" led by [[William B. Ide...
11: ...t symbolized had a brief career. On [[July 9]], [[1846]], Commodore [[John Drake Sloat]] of the [[U.S. N...
15: ... times as it was lowered, would later write in a letter to his mother "Cuffy came down growling"--"Cuf...
24: * [http://www.fotw.net/flags/us-ca.html Flags of the World: California] - California (63989 bytes)
45: .../waisgate?WAISdocID=06487414661+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
81: ... numbers. Please see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for details.
98: ... political organization with bands, tribes, tribelets, and on the resource-rich coasts large chiefdoms...
101: ... institutions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harb...
105: California was poorly settled until modern public health eliminated the end... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 28|Dec 28]], [[1846]] |
36: ...]], having joined the union on [[December 28]], [[1846]]. The official name of the state is "State of Io...
45: ...nch explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marquette]] are believed to be the first Europeans to vis...
47: *The first white settlers officially moved to Iowa in June [[1833]]. ...
48: ...th</sup> state in the union on [[December 28]], [[1846]]. - Washington (20186 bytes)
45: ...d the land and missionaries such as the Whitmans settled there.
47: ...as by [[Spain|Spanish]] Captain [[Don Bruno de Heceta]] in [[1775]] on board the ''Santiago'', part of...
53: ...ain and the U.S. that lasted until [[June 15]], [[1846]] when Britain ceded their claims to this land wi...
55: ...the [[Northern Pacific]] railroad line reached Puget Sound, linking the region to the other states. Du...
59: ...e]] produced dense forests and the ports along Puget Sound prospered from the manufacturing and shippi... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
46: ...lement in the New World which was at [[Jamestown Settlement|Jamestown]] in the [[Virginia Colony]] in ...
48: ...eded by Virginia [[History of Washington, DC|was retroceded to Virginia]] effective [[1847]], and is ...
59: ...he Burgesses met to make laws for the colony and set the direction for its future growth; the Council ...
61: ...enant Governor''', '''Attorney General''', '''Secretary of the Commonwealth''', '''State Treasurer''',...
67: ...llowing Presidential elections (1997, 2001, 2005, etc). - 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... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...easons, some people in other parts of the U.S. sometimes mistake it for a part of Mexico. Both [[Engl...
50: ...n the Rio Grande in [[1598]], the first European settlement in the future state of New Mexico. O p...
52: ...argas Zapata]] reestablished Spanish control and returned Spanish colonists in [[1692]].
54: ...loping Santa Fe as a trade center, the returning settlers founded the old town of [[Albuquerque]] in [...
60: ...rbade them to trade. Trader [[William Becknell]] returned to the United States in [[November]] [[1821]... - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
5: ...e elevation of Santa Fe is 2,132 metres (6,996 feet), compared with 1655.4 m for [[Denver, Colorado]]...
7: ...ry houses in the city are built from lumber, concrete blocks, and other materials but with stucco surf...
9: ...iques, and [[Art gallery|galleries]] line the streets of the city center and Canyon Road.
11: ...tinuing drought conditions and a widening divide between locals and recent arrivals. Still, art and to...
13: ...en Santa Feans burn [[Zozobra]], a fifty-foot puppet also called "Old Man Gloom." - 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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