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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.
9: ...val from command in the West on [[November 2]], [[1861]]. He was re-appointed to a different post (in [[... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
11: * [[1861]] - The [[University of Washington]] opens in [[S...
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat. - Eleonora di Arborea (2091 bytes)
11: ...n Sardinia until [[Italy|Italian]] unification in 1861. - 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. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...he Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fello...
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... - 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... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: '''Clarissa Harlowe Barton''' (better known as '''Clara Barton''') ([[December 25]],...
6: ...to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Massachusetts]]. Her father, Captain Stephen Barton, was a fa...
8: As a child, Clara was a shy and retiring little girl, but at the age of 11, when her ...
12: ...need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the st...
14: ...Clinton, New York, where she studied analytic geometry, calculus, astronomy, mathematics and natural s... - 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... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...itionist]], [[Prohibition|prohibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]], [[Surgery|surge...
6: ...ay, which included such binding clothing as [[corsets]], were not healthy and advocated looser fitting...
8: ... medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practice in [[Rome, New York]]. The p...
10: ...t Battle of Bull Run]] (Manassas), [[July 21]], [[1861]] and at the Patent Office Hospital in [[Washingt...
16: ...oldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has also endured har... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...'' ('''Helen Louise Leonard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an [[United States o...
5: ...lbert and Sullivan|Gilbert and Sullivan's]] [[operetta]] ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]''. This would serve as ...
11: ...[[The Grand Duchess]]''. She performed with a variety of [[opera company|opera companies]] including t...
15: ... 1922, Russell was interred in the [[Allegheny Cemetery]] in [[Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania]]. - 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... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...shed power even though some others wanted him to retain that power for life (as [[monarch]]s and [[dic...
33: ...and showed coolness under fire in organizing the retreat. In Virginia, Washington was acclaimed as a h...
40: ...uel Leutze]], 1851, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum]]]]
41: ...l Army]] on [[June 15]], [[1775]]. The [[Massachusetts]] delegate [[John Adams]] suggested his appoint...
43: ...of Long Island]] on [[August 22]] but managed to retreat, saving most of his forces. However, several ... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
18: ...ist of people known as the father or mother of something|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]...
21: ...[[1769]], he left the plantation to attend [[Princeton University]] (it was called the ''College of Ne...
35: ...Congress; in [[1801]] he became Jefferson's [[Secretary of State]].
42: === Cabinet ===
59: ...ign="left"|[[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]||align="left"|'''[[Robert Smith (U.... - 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: ...sident of the United States on the Democratic ticket in [[1844]] with [[James K. Polk]] and served fro...
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...
21: ...anan]]|after=[[Charles Francis Adams]]|years=1856-1861}} - 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... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
14: | [[March 4]], [[1857]]–[[March 4]], [[1861]]
38: | [[Harriet Lane]] (niece)
50: ...[June 1]], [[1868]]) was the [[15]]th ([[1857]]-[[1861]]) [[President of the United States|President]] o...
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... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]])
42: ... and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President of the United State...
44: ...on. Before his [[inauguration]] in [[March]] of [[1861]], seven Southern [[slave state]]s [[secession|se...
46: ...of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his many speeches and writings wh... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
30: ...y moved to the village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]], where Grant spent...
32: At the age of 17, Grant received a cadetship to the [[United States Military Academy]] at ...
39: ...eracruz]]. He was twice [[brevet (military) | brevet]]ted for bravery: at [[Battle of Molino del Rey |...
41: ...he 21st Illinois Infantry (effective [[June 17]], 1861). On [[August 7]], Grant was appointed a [[brigad...
43: ...ton]] at the [[Battle of Shiloh]], but with grim determination and timely reinforcements, Grant turned...
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