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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... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...ce of [[President of the United States]], and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run...
5: ...s generally acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He ...
7: ...] the new Republican Party nominated him as their first [[President of the United States|presidential]...
15: ...dard [[Binomial nomenclature#Authorship in scientific names|botanical author abbreviation]] '''Frém.'... - 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]]. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: '''Annie Besant''' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [...
4: ...cialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific writer and a powerful orator.
7: ...osophical Society]] she went to [[India]] for the first time (in [[1893]]). Thereafter she devoted muc...
13: ...ts from that moment on, with a subsequent lawsuit filed by his father. - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
3: '''Millicent Fawcett''' ([[June 11]], [[1847]] – [[August 5]], [[1929]]) was a British [...
9: ...the sister of [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], the first English female doctor, and the mother of [[Phi... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...t to nursing, a career with a poor reputation and filled mostly by poorer women. Traditionally, the ro...
11: ...ading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[C...
19: ...ightingale's pioneering work in Crimea and in the field of nursing, and Nightingale became a key advis...
27: ...ts began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On [[October 21]], [...
31: ... for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short sup... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ... when [[Emily Stowe]] completed the official qualifications.
3: ... '"Jenny'") moved with her parents to Canada in [[1847]], settling near [[Stratford, Ontario|Stratford]]... - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...vements are being increasingly recognised as significant in themselves.
3: Born in [[Hamburg]], Fanny benefited from the same [[music]]al education and upbrin...
9: ...holars nowadays believe it was actually Fanny who first worked in the genre.
11: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel died in [[Berlin]] in 1847 of complications of a [[stroke]] suffered while r... - 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: ...st [[Court (judicial)|court]] in New York until [[1847]]. - 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... - 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... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
3: ... official name, avoids choosing one of the four official languages. The abbreviation is similarly used...
13: official_languages = [[German language|German]], [[Fr...
46: ...lects this state, listing the eight "Old Cantons" first, with the city states preceding the founding c...
48: ...lity acquired during the earlier wars, suffered a first setback in [[1515]] with the Swiss defeat in t...
57: In [[1847]], a civil war broke out between the Catholic and... - Flag of Utah (450 bytes)
5: ...7]] represents the year [[Brigham Young]] led the first Mormons into the state. - Virginia (23198 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
36: ... the [[Mid-Atlantic_States|Mid-Atlantic]]. Its official name is the '''Commonwealth of Virginia'''; i...
40: ...n]] and [[Zachary Taylor|Taylor]] died while in office.)
46: ...n [[1607]]. Its Second Charter was officially ratified on [[May 23]], [[1609]].
48: ...ton, DC|was retroceded to Virginia]] effective [[1847]], and is now [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arling... - Utah (29154 bytes)
15: OfficialLang = [[English_language|English]] |
48: Fish = [[Trout|Bonneville Cutthroat Trou...
76: ...d the [[2002 Winter Olympics]], which gave a significant boost to the state's tourist industry (especi...
87: ...on—left [[Santa Fe]] in [[1776]], hoping to find a route to the [[California]] coast. The expedi...
92: ...the capital. In [[1856]], Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital. - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
13: ...nnual Fiesta when Santa Feans burn [[Zozobra]], a fifty-foot puppet also called "Old Man Gloom."
54: ...anta_fe_nm_1846_47.jpg|thumb|300px|Santa Fe, 1846-1847]]
60: ...ian]], 0.08% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 15.29% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|oth... - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
18: He identified the active intellect (''nous poietikos''), thro...
21: ...n the Metaphysica by [[H. Bonitz]], [[Berlin]], [[1847]]. [[J. Nourisson]] has treated of his doctrine ... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region t...
6: ...e zones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as ...
24: Note: The time zone adjustment for a specific location may vary due to the use of [[daylight s...
31: ... About [[August 23]], [[1852]], time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Gree...
33: ...me to be observed nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitud... - 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]]
156: *[[Ralph Albert Blakelock]] ([[1847]]-[[1919]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
339: *[[Edouard Detaille]] ([[1847]]-[[1912]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
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