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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...The development of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled ...
10: ...l]] are also cited as factors, as is the [[scientific revolution]] of the 17th century. But one of the...
14: ...kly from 1700 onwards, because there was a scientific and technological improvement, growth of supply ...
24: ...sed the amount of food produced and supplied a sufficient amount of food for the workers working in th...
36: ...[[Encyclopedie]]'' explained foreign methods with finely engraved plates. - 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 - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...id nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
5: ...girls of her time, and took early to writing, her first tale being begun in [[1798]]. Her life was a s...
7: While her first novel, the posthumously published ''[[Northang...
12: ...presence of women. Some contemporary readers may find the world she describes, in which people's chie...
16: * ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' (published 1811) - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
12: ...and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men to familiarize herself with these...
17: ...anks of great [[mathematicians]]. She became the first female to attend sessions at the French Academ...
19: ...described in a letter to Gauss, became quite significant as it restricted the possible solutions of [[...
21: ...mber theory]] and [[elasticity theory]]. One significant item is the concept of the [[Sophie Germain p... - Apple (20408 bytes)
39: ... fresh (dessert apples), some are cultivated specifically for cooking ([[cooking apple]]s) or producin...
63: *'[[McIntosh]]': [[Canada]] (1811)
84: ...ed strains of the parent cultivar. Some differ sufficiently from the parent tree to be considered new ...
89: ...y [[Fruit tree propagation|grafting or budding]]. First, a [[rootstock]] is produced either as a seedl...
95: Some trees are produced with a dwarfing "interstem" between a standard rootstock and th... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...fferson]]. In this capacity he became a prominent figure in [[Virginia]] state politics, helping to dr...
25: ...[[Federalist Papers]], which are considered the definitive contemporary commentary on the [[Constituti...
27: Madison wrote thirty of the eighty-five essays that comprise the Federalist Papers. His...
29: ... men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable government to control the governed; and...
31: ... federal government to form its own bank that the first political parties in the United States were fo... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
18: ...], [[1758]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[President of the U...
24: ...alist]]s in the [[Virginia Convention]] which ratified the Constitution, and in [[1790]], an advocate ...
38: ...lso Russia must not encroach southward on the Pacific coast. "... the American continents," he stated,...
42: ...ntation to pay off the debts, since then he never financially recovered. As a result, he and his wife ...
50: |align="left"|'''OFFICE'''||align="left"|'''NAME'''||align="left"|'''TE... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
18: ...]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First Lady [[Abigail Adams|Abigail Smith]].
28: ...ife lost to illness an infant daughter, born in [[1811]].
43: |align="right"|'''OFFICE'''||align="left"|'''NAME'''||align="left"|'''TE...
78: ...humb|Adams posed for this photograph in 1843, the first taken of a US President]]
84: ...tly reinterred in the [http://www.ufpc.org United First Parish Church]. - 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. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[April 4]], [[1841]] - [[March 4]]...
13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler...
21: ... of Independence]], and the first to assume the office of President following the death of his predece...
25: ... aggressive handling of the South Carolina [[nullification]] issue.
29: ... (until the [[1967]] ratification of the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25... - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...e year [[1779]]. An older meaning of the word was first used by [[Richard de Bury]]. He used it to dis...
12: ...ssils was not overturned until after the [[Scientific Revolution]]. It was translated into [[Latin]] a...
14: Georg Agricola (1494-1555) wrote the first systematic treatise about [[mining]] and [[sme...
16: ...ogic map|geological maps]]; Guettard recorded the first observation of the [[Volcano|volcanic]] origin...
18: ...ist)|William Smith]] (1769-1839) drew some of the first geological maps and began the process of order... - Paraguay (10959 bytes)
16: | '''[[Official language]]s'''
32: |From [[Spain]]<br>[[May 15]], [[1811]]
52: ...ng the local Spanish authorities on [[May 15]], [[1811]].
54: ...]], and, despite a marked increase in political infighting in recent years, relatively free and regula...
59: ...re elected on the same ticket by popular vote for five-year terms, after which the president appoints ... - Missouri (16086 bytes)
1: ...tory/slogan.asp Show-Me] State''; the U.S. Post Office abbreviation for Missouri is '''MO''' and the s...
15: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
67: ...kansas, S. E. Kansas, and N. E. Oklahoma. [[Springfield, Missouri]] in southwestern Missouri lies on t...
69: ...e focus of the great [[New Madrid Earthquake]] of 1811 - 1812.
86: ...n of the state. Missouri also ranks first or near first among the production of lime. - Oregon (26551 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
25: ...Malheur County, Oregon|Malheur County]] is in Pacific)</small> |
36: ...ited States]]' northwest, and bordering the [[Pacific Ocean]], [[California]], [[Washington]], [[Idaho...
43: ...hout losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first place. The state has pioneered some innovativ...
49: ...ritain|British]] gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company posts. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer
89: *[[Zhang Yimou|Yimou, Zhang]], (born [[1950]]), film director
91: ...rvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]] - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...estigating the [[universe]] known as the [[scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces th...
4: ...al that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosoph...
6: ...e, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavily used by the others as an external ...
11: ...owledge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-fr...
13: ...; and [[Paul Feyerabend]], who argued that scientific knowledge is not cumulative or progressive, and ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
150: *[[George Caleb Bingham]] ([[1811]]-[[1879]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
42: *[[Robert Bunsen]], (1811-1899), [[Germany]] — [[Bunsen burner]]
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]]
139: *[[Irving Langmuir]], (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...nlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]]" was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of [[mass pr...
5: ...ompany]], which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
10: ...overnment gave those who had been loyal to it. In 1811, three generations of Edison's took up farming ne...
14: ...on moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Milan, Ohio]]. That town was enjoying a...
18: ...d published ''[[The Weekly Herald]]''. It was the first [[newspaper]] ever to be typeset and printed o...
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