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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.'... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
86: *[[Filippo Addis|Addis, Filippo]], (1884-1974), writer - 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... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...ist in the early [[1800s]] and is credited as the first "[[feminist]]", but more accurately, the launc...
5: ...he very early 1800s. Lucretia Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[aboliti...
7: ...ime and remains so, and the United States was the first country and still one of the few that allows "...
11: ...rea, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers were given cus...
13: ...ericans the right to vote. She remained a central figure in the women's movement as a peacemaker, a cr... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
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... - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: .... She had a fine [[soprano]] voice, and appeared first in opera in [[London]] under Colonel Mapleson'... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of the "Scenes of Clerical Life" in ''[[Blackw...
15: ...of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness reside...
49: She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...lievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He manag...
5: ...) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of...
11: ...aper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the s...
22: ...n Hibner Koblitz: <cite>A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
72: *Joe Filisko
85: ...Levy and some other harp player use specially modified harmonicas. To make these harmonicas, they star...
92: ...r "cross harp"): playing the harmonica in a key a fifth above its intended key. Playing just the unben...
120: ...s what the standard layout is designed for in the first place). Rather than providing the standard C m...
178: ...ruly "[[tremolo]]"; the word is more accurately defined as a kind of volume change, and the tremolo ha... - 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... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
18: ...], [[1735]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the first ([[1789]]–[[1797]]) [[Vice President of ...
24: ...assachusetts|Worcester]] and studied law in the office of [[James Putnam]]. In [[1758]], he was admitt...
31: Adams first rose to influence as a leader of the Massachus...
33: ...und guilty of [[manslaughter]]. These claimed benefit of [[clergy]] and were branded in the hand and r...
35: ... On [[October 5]], [[1775]], Congress created the first of a series of committees to study naval matte... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ...y|Democratic-Republican]] to the Tenth and to the five succeeding [[United States Congress|Congress]]e...
7: ...He was elected to the [[United States Senate]] to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[John...
9: ...37]]) He was chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and the Committee on Military Af...
15: After his first two wives died, the old [[Jacksonian Democrat]...
20: ...rces/pdf/richard_johnson.pdf Senate Historical Office: Richard Mentor Johnson Biography (pdf)] - 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... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Millard Fillmore '''</font></caption>
4: ...lspan=2><div style="float:center">[[Image:Millard Fillmore.jpg|250px|]]</div></td></tr>
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]],...
13: ...nited States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Abigail Fillmore]] (wife) <br>
14: [[Mary Abigail Fillmore]] (daughter)</td></tr> - 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...
49: ...tes Whig Party|Whig]] candidate, [[General]] [[Winfield Scott]] of [[Virginia]], whom Pierce served un...
53: ...ast presidential contest in which the Whigs would field a candidate. In [[1854]], the Kansas-Nebraska ... - 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... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
10: He was a lecturer after leaving public office, and died in [[Mankato, Minnesota|Mankato]], [[... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
12: ! Term of Office:
46: ...1867]] and [[1868]], and was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses ([[Marc...
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