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- 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. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marria...
2: '''Marie-Antoinette''', Queen of [[France]] and Archduchess of [[Au...
4: ...cial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
7: ...he Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most bri...
9: ...ess's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...born-[[19 November]] [[1835]]- died [[18 June]] [[1858]]), the queen of [[Jhansi]], a [[Maratha]]-ruled...
5: ...after the young girl fell to her father. She completed her education and martial training, which inclu...
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... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...) was one of the founders of the British [[suffragette]] movement. It is the name of "Mrs Pankhurst",...
5: ...rtyr", [[Emily Davison]] and the composer, Dame [[Ethel Smyth]]. She was joined in the movement by he...
7: ...ns as many of the imprisoned working-class suffragettes; however, she did experience force-feeding aft... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [...
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...
23: ...ll balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise. Her commentaries are... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Mat...
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 ... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
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.
35: ...h waterproof hood and curtains. The carriage was returned to England after the war and subsequently gi... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ... - [[May 8]], [[1891]] [[London]], [[England]]), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame B...
5: ...sian Empire]]), the daughter of [[Colonel|Col.]] Peter Alexeivich von Hahn and Elena Fadeev. Her mothe...
7: ... herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spirite for [[occult]] phenomena with Emma Cutti...
11: ...piritualist]] phenomena. Soon they were living together in the "Lamasery" (alternate spelling: "Lamast...
13: ...e was not consummated either. She separated from Betanelly after a few months, and their divorce was l... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ... considered the longest river in the world, but whether the Nile is actually longer than [[South Ameri...
20: ...m equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile, from Ethiopia. Both branches formed on the western flank...
24: [[Lake Victoria]], which lies between [[Uganda]], [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]] is con...
30: ...u; the rest of the year the great rivers draining Ethiopia to the Nile (Sobat, Blue Nile, and Atbara) ...
36: ...tary is the [[Atbara River]], which originates in Ethiopia north of Lake Tana, and is approximately 80... - 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...
81: ...orship of the [[Oregon]] Territory. He declined, returning instead to [[Springfield, Illinois]] where,... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
44: ...ves|Representative]] from [[New York]] and the nineteenth [[Vice President of the United States]].
46: ... [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate from [[1858]] to [[1860]]. He was elected as a [[United Stat...
48: ...ied in Malone. He was interred in Morningside Cemetery. - Flag of Minnesota (1701 bytes)
2: ...93]], the year the original flag was adopted. Nineteen stars ring the wreath, symbolizing the fact th...
4: ... motto. The years 1819 (settlement of Minnesota), 1858 (statehood) and 1893 (adoption of the first state... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
82: ...uth Dakota after a dispute between Euro-American settlers in northern and southern regions over the lo...
120: between the northern and southern territories
124: his [[Secretary of State]] [[James Blaine]] to shuffle
128: ... roughly, by population. 11-67 are numbered alphabetically.
130: ...]], in the [[Black Hills]], is the highest point between the [[Rocky Mountains]] and the French [[Alps... - 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... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[May 11]], [[1858]] |
36: ...tates]], having joined the Union on [[May 11]], [[1858]].
39: ...s the [[Upper Midwest]]. The most significant [[metropolitan area]] is known as the [[Minneapolis-St....
49: ...vities, which changed over time as [[Europe]]ans settled in the area and further exploited the state's...
51: ...r]], though many histories focus on the military settlement that took place farther west. [[Fort Snel... - 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]]? - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
13: ...antong|Xuantong, Qian]], ([[1887]]-[[1939]]), phonetician
29: ...rancis Quarles|Quarles, Francis]], (1592-1644), poet
30: ...Quarrie|Quarrie, Don]], (born 1951), Jamaican athlete
38: *[[Harry Quelch|Quelch, Harry]], (1858-1913), socialist politician and trade unionist
40: ...een|Queen, Ivy]], born (1972), "The Queen of Reggaeton" - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress...
54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...ater editions by [[Hirschig]], 1856; [[Hercher]], 1858. There are translations in many languages; in Eng...
3: ...lished in 1567, then in the ''Uranologion'' of [[Petavius]], with a Latin translation, 1630. Nothing d...
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