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  1. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
    7: ...expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
    11: ...]]). [[Garcia Lopez de Cardenas]] was sent out to find this river, and found himself
    12: ... Mexico]]). During his wintering he suffered from fierce attacks by the Indians.
    18: Men from his expedition were the first Europeans to see the [[Grand Canyon]].
  2. Steel (28384 bytes)
    3: ...on, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with ...
    5: ...carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that c...
    8:
    11: ...dy-centered cubic to a [[face-centered cubic]] configuration, called '''[[austenite]]''' or '''γ...
    13: ...cally [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the strength of ferrite. Martensite has ...
  3. Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
    23: ...nown Romantic. However, it seems likely they were first invented in pre-Christian times. [[Nero]] is ...
    25: ...arity seems to have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by [[Robert Burns]] for "[[Scots W...
    27: ...at the funerals of high-ranking civilian public officials as well.
    42: ... was often termed the [[Irish Warpipes]]. This configuration can also be found having been played in S...
    45: ... birls. These are used for emphasis on, say, the first beat of a bar, or just as a more musical way t...
  4. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
    14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
    16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
    21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
    22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]].
  5. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
    15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
    22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
    99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure
    103: ...rahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
  6. Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
    2: ...nd [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarc...
    5: ...herine became involved with other prominent court figures. She soon became popular with several powerf...
    13: ...veral drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]]...
    21: ...ndence from the Ottoman Empire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-T...
    25: ...s, and 12,500 men. The Russian ships had some difficulty aiming their guns in the rough waters, a pro...
  7. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    3: ...[[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active sup...
    5: ...]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive...
    9: ...marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost...
    11: Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed. They descended from [[C...
    15: ...ok returned and lived in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
  8. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Amer...
    9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
    11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
    13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and mar...
    18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|...
  9. Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
    1: ...n in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous [[n...
    4: ...in and taught [[Chinese language|Chinese]], the official language of the court, while females were tau...
    10: ...025 and 1031, when she would have been in her mid fifties, which was quite old by Heian standards.
    12: A fictionalized biography of Murasaki called ''The Tal...
  10. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    7: ...ioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family an...
    10: ...so recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is ...
    23: ..., experimental, and substantially longer than the first two albums, it garnered mixed reviews. The err...
    27: ...ternal to [[Atlantic Records]], called Igloo. Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "...
    30: ...ed '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, the "Five and a Half Weeks" tour with [[Alanis Morissette...
  11. Sunflower (5784 bytes)
    18: ...to the [[Americas]], and were domesticated around 1000 B.C. [[Francisco Pizarro]] found the [[Tahuantins...
    23: ... and the number of right spirals are successive [[Fibonacci number]]s. The disc florets mature into "...
    29: Most flowerheads on a field of blooming sunflowers are turned towards the ...
    40: Scientific literature reports, from [[1567]], that a 12 m (...
    44: Image:Sunflower opening 1-KayEss-2.jpeg|1. The first stage of the flower formation
  12. Cootamundra wattle (1558 bytes)
    15: ... Fabaceae]]. The Cootamundra is but one of nearly 1000 species of ''Acacia'' found in [[Australia]].
  13. Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
    8: ...fe conditions for trade and manufacture, and a unified cultural and educational milieu of far-ranging ...
    19: ...d were sometimes mutually contradictory). The benefit of feudalism however, was its resiliency, and th...
    21: ...uered by [[Belisarius]], but this was a political fiction under Lombard rule and became strongly dispu...
    23: ... a first European "identity," [[Christendom]], unified until the separation of [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Or...
    30: ... previously pagan regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation o...
  14. Medieval art (6359 bytes)
    3: ...rt''' covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of [[art history]] in [[Western art history...
    17: ...t is called the [[Hiberno-Saxon]] style, and then finally late in the period some Viking inspirations ...
    29: ...ppear untill around 1200 (this date has many qualifications), when it diverged from Romanesque style. ...
  15. Glass (26176 bytes)
    1: The materials definition of a '''glass''' is a uniform [[amorphous s...
    5: ...der of this article will be concerned with a specific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses...
    9: ...ak into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely, with the addition of...
    22: ...ections doped with [[Erbium]], which [[Fiber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emis...
    30: ...compound, which lowers the melting point to about 1000 ?C. However, the soda makes the glass water-solub...
  16. Jewellery (4234 bytes)
    7: ...e of [[Christianity|Christians]] wearing a [[crucifix]] in the form of jewellery, or, as is the case i...
    14: This is a jewellery [[timeline]] from the first uses of [[metal]] in [[history]] to the [[Rena...
    23: * [[2000 BC]] - First signs of the ''swagging'' technique
    35: * [[1000 BC]] - [[Iran|Persian]] sheet [[bronze]] work 0.0...
    36: * 1000 BC - The start of true [[engraving]].
  17. Greek language (35285 bytes)
    17: ... in the city of [[Rome]] and Koine Greek became a first or second language in the [[Roman Empire]]. Th...
    19: ...reek]] during medieval [[Greek history]] as the official and vernacular language of the [[Byzantine Em...
    32: ... alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications, is still used today.
    34: ...century|20th]] centuries. Demotic Greek is the official language of the modern Greek state, and the m...
    38: ...n]] words, the foundation of international scientific and technical vocabulary. See ''[[English words...
  18. Imhotep (3367 bytes)
    3: ...#7717;tp'') was a [[vizier]], [[wizard]], and the first [[architect]] and [[physician]] known by name ...
    5: ...C but may perhaps go back to texts written around 1000 years earlier.
    7: ...and [[Amenhotep son of Hapu]], who was another deified architect.
    13: ''Imhotep'' is also the name of a [[fictional character]] played by [[Boris Karloff]] in...
  19. Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
    18: ... lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associated with one of the origi...
    22: ...When he refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the irate redcoat slashed him with a sword, g...
    26: ...ave been "tough as old hickory" wood on the battlefield, which gave him his nickname. The war, and par...
    32: ...lection, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first nominee of the [[Democratic Party (United Stat...
    34: ...John Adams. Jackson's election represented a significant break from that past.
  20. Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
    8: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>
    21: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (siste...
    25: ...], [[List of leaders who died in office|died in office]])<br>
    36: ...c Office is a Public Trust" as his trademark of office, and was later elected, [[Governor of New York]...
    39: ...d_wedding.png|left|thumb|Grover Cleveland was the first and only President married in the White House....

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