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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - 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
65: ...ederick Augustus Abel|Abel, Frederick Augustus]] (1827-1902), chemist
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
5: She escaped to [[Canada]] in [[1827]]; after [[New York]] state abolished slavery, sh...
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourne...
26: * [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1044&pt=S... - 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) - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ...en Gould White''' (nee Harmon) ([[November 26]],[[1827]] – [[July 16]],[[1915]]) was co-founder of...
5: Ellen White was a prolific [[writer]]. She is said to be the most translate...
19: ...es, she felt that she was a guilty sinner and was filled with terror about being eternally lost. She d...
23: ...tment]] of [[1844]] that Ellen started having her first visions. At random times, often when in church...
27: The first vision was a depiction of the [[Millerites|Adv... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
34: ...]]s that normally have two-year life cycles. The first year they only produce greenery; they bear flo...
51: 2 parts finely ground copper sulphate
66: Transmitted by aphids. Fine yellow veining on young leaves, stunted growth,...
113: ==Name Origin and Significance==
117: .... In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books, there is a [[fictional character|character]] named [[Pansy Parkin... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...ossible after [[Robert Brown]] had established in 1827 the existence of truly naked ovules in the [[Cyca...
18: ...of these with the [[Vascular plant|Cryptogamia]], fixed the position of Gymnosperms as a class distinc...
22: ...direction of the establishment of a vegetation of fixed habit and adapted to the vicissitudes of a lif...
24: ...million years ago). Fossil plants with some identifiable angiosperm characteristics appear in the Jura...
26: == Classification == - 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...
32: ...sorbs [[infrared]] energy, such as heat absorbing filters for movie projectors, while [[cerium]] can b... - 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]...
27: ...nued in active and successful practice for twenty-five years.
29: His practice made him financially independent, and paved the way for his e... - 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... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[Millard Fillmore]]
18: ...illiam R. King]] won in a landslide, beating [[Winfield Scott]] by a 50 to 44 percent margin in the po...
22: ...easy and good at the political game, charming and fine and handsome. And he was genuinely religious. A...
31: ...ord, New Hampshire|Concord]], New Hampshire, in [[1827]].
49: ...tes Whig Party|Whig]] candidate, [[General]] [[Winfield Scott]] of [[Virginia]], whom Pierce served un... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ...d had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
7: [[Image:Alexandria_egypt_6.jpg|thumb|right|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close...
21: ...act knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the...
23: ...t of fishermen and pirates. Behind it there were five native villages scattered along the strip betwe...
51: ...erated him that he completely demolished its fortifications, although he seems to have spared the live... - 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... - Peru (12264 bytes)
2: ... and south, [[Chile]] to the south, and the [[Pacific Ocean]] to the west. Peru is rich in cultural a...
18: | '''[[Official language]]s''' || [[Spanish language|Spanish]...
48: ... and fought against Chile in the [[War of the Pacific]]. After the war (and with the loss of the provi...
55: ...ue in that it doesn't belong to any of the twenty-five regions. The city of [[Lima]] is located in thi...
97: ...in Western [[South America]], bordering the [[Pacific Ocean]], between [[Chile]] and [[Ecuador]]. It a... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
70: Equatorial Guinea became officially independent from Spain on [[October 12]], [...
76: According to a March 2004 [[BBC]] profile [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/351658...
78: ...%255E2703,00.html] named [[Mark Thatcher]] as the financial backer of a March 2004 attempt to topple O...
87: Forestry, farming, and fishing are also major components of GDP. Subsistenc... - Kansas (21369 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
44: ...[Missouri]] invaded Kansas during the territory's first election and forced the election of a pro-[[sl...
46: ...e war. On [[February 19]], [[1861]] it became the first U.S. state to prohibit all [[alcoholic beverag...
61: ...d astra per aspera'', or "To the stars through difficulties"
73: ... the highest standards in the nation. Kansas was first among the states to ban the concept of [[separ... - 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]] - 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)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
155: *[[William Blake]] ([[1757]]-[[1827]])
164: *[[Arnold Böcklin]] ([[1827]]-[[1901]])
197: *[[Jules Breton]] ([[1827]]-[[1906]])
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