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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
68: ...[[1821]] and the creation of the [[Mexican Empire|First Mexican Empire]].
74: ... Victoria]] as its first president, followed in office by Santa Anna. As president, in 1834 Santa Anna...
76: ...o|Quer鴡ro]]. From then on, JuᲥz remained in office until his death in [[1872]].
78: ...press]], and his insistence to be reelected for a fifth term led to massive protests. His fraudulent v... - 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... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
6: ...[[Blantyre, South Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]] and first studied [[medicine]] and [[theology]] at the [...
12: ...d Kingdom|Victoria]]). Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey ...
19: ...of the time, and Livingstone experienced great difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa...
22: ...rce, but the matter was still debated vigorously. Finding the [[Lualaba River]], which feeds the [[Con...
25: ...nley]], who had been sent in a publicity stunt to find him by the ''New York Herald'' newspaper in [[1... - 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 - 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... - 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...
31: * ''[[Romola]]'' (1863)
49: She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry. - Ouida (1938 bytes)
13: * ''Findelkind'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1...
16: * ''Held in Bondage'' (1863) (first published with the title ''Granville de Vigne'... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
6: ...[corsets]], were not healthy and advocated looser fitting clothing.
10: ...e Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U.S. Army Surgeon.
12: ...r the medal, specifically for her services at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas).
16: ...eal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own hea...
18: ...ereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary ... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
10: ...(he married a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowska, 1863-1914). Later lovers included several artists ([[...
12: ...ed ''Sarah Bernhardt ࠂelle-Isle'' ([[1912]]), a film about her daily life at home.
16: ...rious injury, her right leg was [[amputate]]d, confining her to a [[wheelchair]] for several months. ...
22: The actress La Berma, a [[fictional character]] in [[Marcel Proust]]'s ''[[In ... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...21667). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html]
4: While al-Qāhirah is the official name of the city, in local speech it is typic...
16: ...ings and modern architecture, the eastern half is filled with hundreds of ancient [[mosque]]s that act...
18: ...government buildings are located and government officials live. Bridges also cross the Nile attaching...
28: The first settlement on the location of modern Cairo was... - War (7002 bytes)
1: ... is contrasted with [[peace]], which is usually defined as the absence of war.
6: ...y states and empire in [[Mesopotamia]] became the first to employ [[standing army|standing armies]]. O...
8: ...fare have also played an important role in others fields. The continued advance of technology has led ...
14: ... be fought as a last resort. Some, known as [[pacifists]], believe that war is inherently immoral and ...
16: ...eace an element of civil corruption and war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?" This atti... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: .... This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of rivers vary over time (especia...
38: ... 1) it flows over 6 groups of cataracts, from the first at Aswan to the sixth at Sabaloka (just north ...
42: ...ediments carried eastward by currents nurture the fishing industries of the Eastern Mediterranean, or ...
46: ...Stone Age]]. Climate change - or perhaps [[desertification|overgrazing]] - about 10,000 years ago [[de...
48: ...th century]], when [[John Hanning Speke]] was the first to identify it as Lake Victoria. Various earli... - 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...
40: ... Appleton, who was born in [[1806]] and died on [[1863]], was Pierce's opposite. She came from a aristoc...
49: ...tes Whig Party|Whig]] candidate, [[General]] [[Winfield Scott]] of [[Virginia]], whom Pierce served un... - 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... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1869]] – [[Mar...
13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Julia Grant]]</td></tr>
32: ...nd although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon graduatio...
39: ...e agent in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], and finally an assistant in the leather shop owned by hi...
41: ...r|Fort Sumter]], Captain Grant arrived in [[Springfield, Illinois]], with a company of men he had rais... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ...es|Speaker of the House of Representatives]] in [[1863]]. He was not a candidate for renomination in [[...
10: He was a lecturer after leaving public office, and died in [[Mankato, Minnesota|Mankato]], [[...
13: ...heodore Medad Pomeroy]] | years=[[December 7]], [[1863]] – [[March 3]], [[1865]];<br>[[December 4]... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Greece (54754 bytes)
15: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Greek language|Greek]]
50: ...el|''Ellás''}} ([[IPA]]: [{{IPA|e̞ˈlas}}])), officially the '''Hellenic Republic''' ({{lang|el|Ελ...
65: ... Greece's [[Aegean Sea]] saw the emergence of the first civilizations in Europe, namely the [[Minoan c...
68: ... the eastern Mediterranean. When the Roman Empire finally split in two, the [[Eastern Roman Empire]], ...
82: ...ire]]. Its last emperor, [[Constantine XI]], died fighting on the walls and was buried anonymously alo...
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