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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.
7: ...n-American War]] in California. He served (from [[1850]] to [[1851]]) as one of the first pair of [[Unit...
21: ...|before=''(none)''|after=[[John B. Weller]]|years=1850 – 1851}} - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ... machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufacture of more prod...
3: ... [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[internal combust...
5: ... of the world. The impact of this change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Ne...
10: ...ernational [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capi...
12: ...ritain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often impo... - 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. - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
1: [[image:lucretiamott.jpg|right|]]
3: '''Lucretia Mott''' ([[January 3]], [[1793]] – [[Nove...
5: ...litionist]] movement in the very early 1800s. Lucretia Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do ad...
11: ...was Mott's mentoring of Stanton and their work together that organized the event. Mott parted with the...
13: In [[1850]] Mott wrote ''Discourse on Woman'', a book about... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
5: ...[Elijah Pierson]] in evangelical preaching on street-corners.
10: ...r, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern...
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) - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ...rable reputation. In [[1873]] she married E. J. Wethereil. She died at [[Salt Lake City]]. - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [...
8: ...ntributing to the ''[[Westminster Review]]'' in [[1850]] and became its assistant editor in [[1851]]. T...
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... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...;ская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia...
5: ...bert]] (mathematician and astronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodor...
7: ...uchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the ...
9: ...ta No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older si...
11: ... childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuck for when she later ... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
24: ...ca consists of a "comb" made of wood, plastic or metal which
26: ...de of the comb. Over the reedplates, there is a metal or plastic cover which projects the sound out o...
49: ...one full major scale available on the harmonica, between holes 4 and 7. The lower holes are designed ...
59: ...end 3 draw from a B down to a G#, or anywhere in between.
81: *Frederic Yonnet - 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 Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...grated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boy...
24: ... [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. ...
26: ...ngregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[17... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...[[October 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives...
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}} - 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)
6: ...r><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
20: ...150; [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[President of the United States...
29: ...e the South. In his own words: "God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we...
31: ...f nerve-wracking debates over the [[Compromise of 1850]]. He made no public comment on the merits of the...
37: ...re at once appointed [[Daniel Webster]] to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with t... - 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...
38: ...ew Hampshire State constitutional convention in [[1850]] and served as its president. - 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: ...] in Springfield, Illinois - d. [[February 1]], [[1850]] in Springfield, Illinois. (Named after a close ... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ...ember of the state constitutional convention in [[1850]] and an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election...
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... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
44: ...ves|Representative]] from [[New York]] and the nineteenth [[Vice President of the United States]].
46: ...49]]. He was a member of the state Assembly in [[1850]] and [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate f...
48: ...ied in Malone. He was interred in Morningside Cemetery.
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