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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth...
27: ...ng unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonies. In [[Cana... - 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...
18: * ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' (1814) - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
5: ... reign to reunite Egypt, bringing an end to the [[First Intermediate Period]]. Some authorities point ...
8: ...nsition into the illusturous Twelfth dynasty. The first Pharaoh of the Twelfth dynasty (Amenemhat I), ...
10: ...t their capital remained at Thebes. Amenemhet pacified any unrest in Egypt by force and curtailed the ...
12: ...e [[Nubia]] and other territories lost during the First Intermediate Period. The Lybians were subdued.
18: ...t kingdom even more dependent on Egypt. He was deified at the end of the Middle Kingdom and worshipped... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
42: ===[[First dynasty of Egypt|1st Dynasty]] 2920-2770===
86: ===[[Fifth dynasty of Egypt|5th Dynasty]]===
104: =[[First Intermediate Period of Egypt|First Intermediate Period]]=
180: *Senuseret III (Khakaure) 1836-1817
181: *Amenemhat III (Nimaartre) 1817-1772 - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...d is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was ...
7: ...head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nation...
11: == Requirements to hold office ==
14: ...mmigrants to American society. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because ...
16: ...wo four-year terms or a maximum of ten years in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency prev... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1817]]
18: ... 28]], [[1836]]) was the fourth ([[1809]]–[[1817]]) [[President of the United States|President]] o...
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... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1817]]
18: ...]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[President of the United State...
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 ... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
18: ...]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First Lady [[Abigail Adams|Abigail Smith]].
28: ... to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] from [[1815]] to [[1817]]. During this time, Adams and his wife lost to i...
30: ... the Cabinet of President [[James Monroe]] from [[1817]] to [[1825]], during which tenure he was instrum...
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]] - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March...
14: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
22: ...n-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|English]...
25: ...[February 27]], [[1747]]–[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage...
27: ...nued in active and successful practice for twenty-five years. - 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... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...rty|Democrat]] to the [[United States Senate]] to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Isaa...
20: ...ed States]]|before=[[John Tyler]]|after=[[Millard Fillmore]]| years=[[March 4]], [[1845]] – [[Ma... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t...
53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme... - Australia (39438 bytes)
8: official_languages =[[English language|English]]|
48: ...Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] in 1770, and officially settled as a British colony on [[January 26...
54: ...refer to the whole South Pacific region, not specifically to the Australian continent. In 1793 [[Georg...
56: ...lly accepted that the continent should be known officially as Australia.
63: ...and 48,000 years ago{{mn|Gillespie2002|1}}. These first Australians were the remote ancestors of the c... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ... largest island in the world]]. It is the home of five percent of the world's [[plant]] and [[animal]]...
13: official_languages = [[Malagasy language|Malagas...
55: ... return, the island received British military and financial assistance. British influence remained str...
57: ...part of [[Tanzania]]) and as part of an overall definition of spheres of influence in the area. Absolu...
61: ...g]] was suppressed after several months of bitter fighting. The French subsequently established reform... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
9: ...emphis, Egypt|Memphis]], the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]]....
11: ... chest completely. The entirety of the Sphinx was finally dug out in [[1925]], to the great pleasure o...
22: ... approching from Memphis the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]],...
29: ...hat the nose had been broken off by a cannon ball fired by [[Napol鯮]]'s soldiers. However, this is f...
36: ...ilt no later than 6,000BC, the last time any significant volume of rain fell in Egypt. This new data, ... - Flag of Texas (2443 bytes)
2: The '''Flag of Texas''' is defined by law as follows:
4: ...that the diameter of a circle passing through the five points of the star is equal to three-fourths th...
6: ...ag was adopted on [[January 24]], [[1839]] as the final [[national flag]] of the [[Republic of Texas]]...
18: The [[flag of Chile]], first used in [[1817]], is similar to the flag of Texas. - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
6: ...lected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. On [[January 6]], [[1817]] he married Henrietta Edwards and they had four ...
14: Whitney is credited with creating the first [[cotton gin]] in [[1793]], a mechanical devic...
18: ...ted with Eli Whitney (along with other historical figures such as [[George Washington|George]] and [[M...
22: ...ing]] and the [[assembly line]], which he was the first to use when producing [[musket]]s for the U.S....
24: ... constructed individual items out of handmade and fitted pieces. Whitney's innovation consisted of mak... - Koala (10686 bytes)
15: ...r = [[Georg August Goldfuss|Goldfuss]] | date = [[1817]]}}
20: The koala's scientific name comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]]: ''...
26: ...nner fur. Queensland koalas were previously classified as the subspecies ''P. cinereus adustus'', and ...
35: ...ay, chewing them in their powerful jaws to a very fine paste before swallowing. The liver deactivates ...
37: ...e]]s, and even some exotic species, but they have firm preferences for particular varieties, which var... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
47: == Official state objects ==
57: :'''[[List of U.S. state fish|State fish]]:''' [[Walleye]]
82: ...hardly have been aware of such a transaction. In 1817, a Euro-American fur trading post was set up at p...
126: first, and the priority went unrecorded. - 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]]
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